The
McC ARTHY
Weekly News
Entered as second class matter. Scptem
her 17th, 11)18. at the tost Office, at
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act of
March 15. 1871).
Subscription Rates
Single Copies $ 25
Three Months 1 .25
Six Months 2 .50
One Year 5 .00
Payable In Advance
C. F. M. COLE. Manager
M. M. COLE Editor
McCarthy, Alaska
Saturday August 7th 1020
WELCOME VISITORS
This month will he a gcod one
for this section of the country.
The first of the hunting parties
ai l ive t( dfj , ai d n ary others
will follow, making McCarthy
their outlittirg headquarters
and their place of embarkation.
By means of these visitors
our town is advertised all over
the Union when these travellers
return home, and generally the
things we think small make a
lasting impression. Now, if we
extend the glad hand to these
visitors and show we are real
glad to have them come to our
part of tiie Northland; they‘will
appreciate it, and in recounting
their experiences when they
return home to Texas or Maine
as the case may be, will give
our town good advertising.
“Brehmer Drug Doings” is
the name of the new monthly
journal devoted to the dessim
ation of information about the
Brehmer Drug Stores of Cor
dova and McCarthy. It is a
bright newsy paper of 8 pages.
PATHFINDER’S ANNUAL
NUMBER
The annual number of the
Pathfinder will be issued on Oct
ober 18th, Alaska Day. It will
be a 52 page book, twenty-five
thousand copies.
Says the Pathfinder:— “Ella
Higginson, the great authoress
and traveller of the Pacific coast
once said, “Alaska is the most
wonderfully m i s u n d e r s tood
country in the world.’’
Let’s get better acquainted
with the big outside world Let’s
tell them who we are and what
our resources are. Tell them
that we are their old neighbors
who lived just across the road,
or on the opposite side of the
st.reetjn the city, before coming
to Alaska.
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If we will give them correct
information concerning the
great Northland so that they
can ‘better understand,” there
will be millions of dollars to
invest
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Our wonderful Mining oppor
tunities will be investigated
more closely and they will stand
the test.
Oilr fishing industry will be
operated with more care and
more sanely guarded.
Our Pulp products will amaze
| the world, and the revet ue de
! rived therefrom will build a road
in every community.
Our Tourist travel will increase
an hundred fold and each tour
ist will be a booster for Alaska.
Our Oil prospects will rival
those of Texas; and our Farm
ing and stockraising industries
will be built up to that point
that, will make Alaska self-sus
taining.
To summarise, ‘‘Let’s all go ”
Every town in Alaska has the
opportunity to get into this big
annual number of £5,000 copies
receiving a write-up of one page
for each thousand copies taken
| at twenty cents per copy.
A woman who complained to
the Willesdon magistrate that
her husband refused to give
her money, said she had just
discovered his worst act of
meanness. He had given her
a brass wedding ring.Exchange
“Your personal business interests would be bettered by a
bank connection. We believe that this bank can serve you
advantageously.”
BANK OF ALASKA
Capital $170,000.00
Alaska's Branch Banking System
Cordova Skaoway Wrangell Anchorage
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 6th, 1919.
The following schedule will be put into effect.
Trains leave Cordova for Chitina Monday and
Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday and
Friday.
Trains leave McCarthy for Chitina, Sunday and
Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesday and
Fridays
The above schedule subject to change without notice.
CALEB CORSER Supt. F. W. SOMMER Agent
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
Motary Public Real Estate
Transactions of all Kinds
Legally arranged.
Cordova, Alaska
A RT1C BROTHERHOOD
CAMP 33
Meets every Monday evening
at A. B. Hall. Visiting members
cordially invited to attend these
meetings.
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1st.
Initiation Fee $10.
Monthly Dues 50 cents.
J. W. Nickell A. C.
McCarthy, Alaska
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