Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Hyder
Chamber of Commerce
Incorporated
Regular Meeting Second
Wednesday of the Month ,
THE BARGAIN COUNTER
If you wish to sell some useful sec
ond hand commodity or wish to buy
something, we will list your wants in
this classified colum at the low rate
of 10 cents per line. Watch this col
umn for bargains.
1 Baby Ben Alarm Clock .$1.00
1 Large Butcher knife, new ..60
1 3-blade Remington pocket knife .50
1 14 lb. sledge hammer .1.50
2 hand axes, each ....■.75
1 Iron Cot and Spring, only $4.00
2 dozen steel mink traps, only 2.50
Salmon trolling spoons, each .no
1 Dlston Hand Saw, cutoff only $1
40 gal. gas. pressure tank.
Large Fyre-Fyter fire extinguisher.
Small cook stove
Iron heating stove.
Hand force pump
Iron laundry stove
Full bed and spring.
S-4 bed and spring.
2 3-4 bed mattresses. ,
1 wood door • •
Large e'lectric lamps—100-150 watt.
. Faftbanks-Morse 1-2 h. p. motor and
J. K. force pump, heavy duty, slightly
used-bargain.
Also several plain chairs, shovels,
saws, axes, tools, cooking and table
utensils, straight razors, scissors, and
numerous other good and useful art
icles at give-away prices. No matter
what you want, see us, we may have
it or can get it for you.
Cardboards, in varied grades
and colors at the Herald office,
Phone 82.
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RADIO PROGRAM
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Sunday, December 10.
7:00 Chevrolet Motor Co,
7:30 To be announced
7:45 Metropolitan Bldg. Co.
8:15 Walter Winchell.
8:30 Death Valley Days.
9:00 To be announced.
9:15 Pioneers.
9:45 Crazy Crystals Program.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Musicale.
10:30 Washington Hour.
Monday, December 11.
7:00 Carnation Company.
7:30 Demi Tasse Revue.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Ben Tipp program.
8:30 Stars of the West.
9:00 Sealed Power Side Show.
9:30 Male Quartet.
9:45 Manhattan Echoes.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Arion Trio NBC
Tuesday, December 12.
7:00 Lives at Stake.
7:30 Ralston Purina Co.
7:45 Beauty That Endures.
8 :00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Memory Lane.
8:45 Adventures in Health.
9:00 Blue Ribbon Orchestra.
9:30 Winning the West.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 The King’s Men
10:30 Club Viator Orchestra.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch.
Wednesday, December 13.
7:00 Corn Cob Pipe Club.
7:30 Ben Tipp program.
7:45 Crazy Wells Hill Billies.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 To be announced, NBC.
8:30 One Man’s Fafnily.
9:00 Stars of the West.
9:30 Musical Mannequins.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 General Harmonizers
10:30 Club Vicitor Orchestra.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch
Thursday, December 14.
7:00 Whiteman’s Orchestra.
8 :00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Standard Symphony.
9:15 To be announced, NBC.
9:30 Crazy Wells Water Co.
9:45 Male Quartet.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
10:30 Club Victor Orchestra.
11:00 C'lub Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch.
Friday, December 15.
7:00 The First Nighter.
7:30 Montag Fireside Hour.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Gilmore .Circus, NBC.
9:15 Fisher Flouring Mills
9:45 Ben Tipp Program.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 The King’s Men
10:30 Club Viator Orchestra.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin
Saturday, December 16.
7:00 Dancing Program.
8:00 Caswell Coffee Concert.
8:15 Happy Tunes NBC
8:30 Fisher Half Hour.
9:00 30 Minutes of Music.
9:30 To'tem Broadcasters.
10:00 Totem Broadcasters.
10:30 Club Victor Orchestra.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Slumber Hour
Wanted—An
Uncle
By VIRGINIA GAY
©. by McClura Newspaper Syndicate.
WND Service
OIX-YEAR-OLD Peggy dug her bare
brown toes Into the cool green
dampness of the grass where the dew
was beginning to gather. “Auntie Jo,
whyn’t you get. you a husband?" she
asked of the woman who was reading
on the porch above her. "If you did
I could have a really truly uncle like
the rest of the girls and boys In our
crowd. Didn't you ever know any
body that wanted to be your husband?
Didn't you ever think about getting
married ?”
Josephine Luwlor came down to
where her niece was playing In the
grass, to stem the tide of eager ques
tions.
"Peggy, of course there are men I
would like to marry. Don't you worry
about getting an uncle. Maybe some
day I’ll surprise you. And now there
are some good cookies In the big stone
Jar In the kitchen," she said, "don't
you want some?" The handful of
cookies succeeded In diverting the
thoughts of Peggy with regard to her
aunt's amorous adventures, and when
she returned with the cookies, she
curled up In the porch hammock and
soon was off to sleep. But she had
started the train of forbidden mem
ories for her aunt
In the lot at one side of the house
a baseball game was in progress; but
as darkness fell It resolved Into blind
man’s buff, crack the whip and a gen
eral melee. I.lghts appeared in the
windows of the other houses on the
street and In the little church across
from Miss Lawlor’s home, the choir
had met for practice for the Sunday
services.
Josephine could hear the voices sing
ing a familiar hymn—‘‘My Redeemer
und My Lord.” Through the open
windows of the church came the fa
miliar strains and she listened rev
erently as she took her small niece
In her arms. Then the spell was brok
en by a voice from across the street.
Peggy’s mother called for her daugh
ter.
Josephine's voice was carefully
pitched as she answered her sister's
call—"Let her stay with me tonight.
She’s asleep now.” She held the warm
little body close and gave herself up
completely to the memories that some
times would not be denied. Swiftly
before her eyes was unfolded that
pageant of long-gone dreams. Once
she had thought about a husband and
about marrying. About holding her
own child as she now held her niece.
No wonder Peggy had asked. For
Peggy had uever known that gay tad
whose gray eyes laughed Into Aunt
Jo’s darker ones. Peggy had never
heard that deep and tender voice that
had sounded as none other In Joseph
ine Lawlor’s ears. Peggy did not know
what it meant to find one’s heart's de
sire—only to lose it.
Over and over again the choir sang
the familiar lines of the anthem.
Vaguely Miss I.awlor noted the con
stant repetition, but she did not know
that the song was being repeated at
the request of a stranger who had
dropped Into the rehearsal with the
choir director and professed a special
pleasure In that particular song.
Through years of waiting in the In
evitable shlftings of the sands of time.
Through ciiange of scene and loss and
gain in friends and family, Josephine
I.awlor had stayed—waiting. Not she
to forget, to find solace in a lesser love
even If the best were gone forever.
Though the long-ago sweetheart knew
not where to find her now, she still
waited for him. And kept her light
burning In the window. Even six-year
old Peggy knew the oddity of Aunt
Jo's lamp thnt was always the first
to flash through the twilight of eve
ning.
The choir voices rose to a Inst cre
scendo—“With my lamp well trimmed
and burning!" The organ rumbled
out the final chord. The lights flick
ered out as the choir members slipped
through the vestry and out to the
porch and walk.
The stranger strolled into the street
and stood looking about. A gleam of
orange light slanted from the house
next door and struck across Ids face.
“Who lives there?” he Idly asked his
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“Queer sort of dame," was the reply.
"Sorta cracked, most everybody thinks.
Came here to live near her brother
several years ago; Just after the war, I
guess. I don't remember just when, as
It’s been some years back and 1 wasn't
home at the time. She has a funny
habit of lightiug her lamp every night
sooner than anyone In the neighbor
hood. Harmless, she Is at that May
lie I shouldn't have called her that.
Jim Hargraves, her brother-in-law.
would break every bone In my body
if he heard me—”
“Hargraves!”—the stranger leaped
the hedge at a bound, and sped across
the grass, now wet and sparkling In
the moonlight with the heavy dew, to
where a woman sat In the radiance of
the yellow lampshade, a half-awake
child sliding from her lap.
"Mummle." said Peggy, as she crept
ni> the steps of her own porch a few
minutes Inter, "I bet Aunt Jo's going
to get a husband. There’s a man over
to her house, an' he’s got her in his
arms an' site’s laughin' an’ cryin' like
everythin', nil at once. He'd be an
uncle for me, wouldn't he?”
Emerald Bigger Than Diamond
An emerald weighing a carat Is big
ger than a diamond of the same
weight
a flask.
Cinnabar (the ore cf mercury)
is compared of 86.3 per cent
mercury and 13.7 per cent
sulphur. The metallurgy ior
treatment is indeed simple
when compared with the var
ious processes required for a
high ratio of recovery of other
metals, such as lead, zinc and
copper. For thi3 reason a re
duction plant does not call for
a great variety of equipment.
Germany is the leading con
tinental market for quicksilver,
and taking increased amounts
of the metal. Great Britain
imports nearly as much as the
United States. Neither Great
Britain nor Germany is a pro
ducer of mercury.
Pensioners Of 2000 A. D.
This is only 1933, but if hist
ory repeats itself there will be
veterans of the World War
still alive and drawing pensions
in the year 2000.
Daniel F. Bakerman, last
survivor of the Revolutionary
War, lived until April 5, 1869,
or 86 years after the war end
ed. Hiram Cronk drew a pen
sion as a veteran of the War
of 1812 until his death on May
13, 1905, at the age of 105
years. Five soldiers of the
Mexican War were still on the
pension rolls 80 years after the
close of that war.
In this connection it is inter
esting to note that twto mothers
of Civil War veterans were
still drawing pensions up to
four or five year.-: ago. They
were Samantha Button of West
McHenry, 111., and Samantha
Farrer, a negro woman of Ath
ens, Ala.
Although the Civil War end
ed in 1865, it is quite probable
that a veteran or two who fol
lowed Grant may be alive in
1950. Considering the vastly
greater number of those who
fought with Pershing in France
it is not unreasonable to sup
pose that some of them will
still be in the land of the liv
ing in the year 2000. A
youngster of 17, who enlisted
in 1917 would be 100 years
old then. And with 'the great
span of life which modern
science is making possible,
■there will doubtless be many
to attain that age.
IN THE COMMISIONER’S COURT,
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, HYDER
PRECINCT. IN PROBATE.
In the matter of the Estate of David
McVay, Deceased.
No. 44 Probate
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF
PROVING WILL AND HEARING PE
TITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF
EXECUTOR.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That
Arthur O. Moa has filed in this Court
an instrument purporting to be the
last will and testament of David Mc
Vay, Deceased, together with his pe
tition praying for the appointment as
executor of said will; that Monday,
the 8th day of January, 1934, at 2
o’clock in the afternon of said day, at
the United States Commissioner’s of
fice in Hyder, Alaska, has been ap
pointed as the time and place for
proving said will and for hearing said
petition; when and where all persons
interested may appear and be heard.
Dated at Hyder, Alaska, this 29th
day of November, 1933.
Chas. F. Sandford.
United States Commissioner and ex
cfficio Judge of Probate.
Publish December 2. 9. IB, 23. 1933.