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Ketchikan Merc. Co.
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Distributors,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
Salmon River Stage Line
Leaves Stewart and Hyder for the
PREMIER MINE
vionday - Wednesday - Saturday
Special Trips and Party Trips Arranged.
i Felix Seppi W. R. McDonnell
Phone 2 Long—2 Short
Modern Ship ‘‘Prince of Wales”
U. S. MAIL BOAT
Freight and Passengers
Leaving Ketchikan for Hyder every Tuesday.
R. L. COLE, Master.
Fred Dorey, Ryder Agent.
Crawford Transfer Co.
Pack Horses - - - Saddle Horses
Freighting of all Kinds
COAL - - - Auto for Hire
‘The Red Barn” Premier avuiue, Hyder, Alaska.
For Messenger
DAY OR NIGHT
Ring
City Messenger Service
From Any Public Place
Touring Cars
and
Trucks
Telephone
1 long, 2 short
Launches
and
Scows
BATHS
Steam aau shower $1
Tub and Shower 75c.
Shower only 50c.
II. J. SCOTT.
ALASKA GRILL
MEALS AT ALL HOURS
. BOB’S PLACE
Our Coffee a Specialty
Oh** Ui i Trid • * R. W. KEITH
HYDER ALASi A i- -ER
W. R. Hull --Editor
A newspaper whose purpose is to teJl
the world about the newest and bus
iest town in the northland, and the
native resources which are responsible
for its existence.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered as second class matter Nov
ember 4, 1919, at the post office at
Hyder. Alaska, uuder the Act of i
March 3, 1879. |
Sent anywhere for $5 a year.
! Advertising rates on application.
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; HYDER, ALASKA, Dec. 20. 1922
: _
I IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
j It is the same eternal question.
And how often will it be asked!)
Just as long and as often as Christ-!
mas comes. You will be asked,
and thousands more, and little
children will be answered and re
assured and made happy just as
was the little girl who put her
question to the great editor, Charles
A. Dana. She sought high author
ity when someone had caused her
faith in childhood's patron saint to
fall, and this is what the famous
editor wrote her.
"Virginia, your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected
by the skepticism of a skeptical
age. They do not believe except
they see. They think that nothing
can be which is not comprehensible
to their little minds. All minds,
Virginia, whether they be men’s or
children’s, are little. In this great
universe of ours m,,n is a mere in
sect, an ant, in his intellect, as
compared with the boundless world
about him, as measured by the in
telligence capable of grasping the
whole of truth and knowledge.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa’
Claus. He exists as certainly as
love and generosity and devotion
exist, and you know that they
abound and give to your life its
highest beauty and joy. Alas! how
dreary would be the world if there
were no Santa Claus. It would be
as dreary as if there were no Vir
jginias. Thr re would be no child
liKe faith then, no poetry, no ro
mance, to make tolerable this ex
istence. We should have no enjoy
ment except in sense and sight.
The eternal light with which child
hood fills the world would be ex
tinguished.
“Not believe in Santa Claus?
You might a; well n it believe in
fairies! Yeu might get your pap?,
to hire men to watch in all the
chimneys on Christmas Eve to
catch Santa Claus, but that is no
sign that there is no Santa Claus, j
The most real things in the world
are those that neither children nor
men can see. Did you ever see
fairies dancing on the lawn? Of
course not; but that’s no proof that
they are not there. Nobody can
conceive or imagine all the won
ders there are unseen and unsee
able in the world. You may teari
apart the baby’s rattle and see!
what makes the noise inside, but
there is a veil catering the unseen
world which not the strongest man
nor even the united strength of all
the strongest men that ever lived,
could tear apart. Only faith, fancy,
poetry, love, romance, can push
aside that curtain, and view and
picture the supernal beauty and
glory beyond. <
“Is it real? Ah, Virginia, in all
this world there is nothing else
real and abiding. No Santa Claus?
Thank God! he lives, and he lives
forever. A thousand years from
now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten
thousand years from now, he will
continue to make glad the heart
of childhood."
Ernest Blue
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Notary Public
HYDER, ALASKA.
Dr. Hedger
-DENTIST
n International Avenue
FOR SHORT TIME ONLY
H. P. CROWTHER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
(Established 1905.)
P. O. liox 391, Ketchikan. Alaska.
Estimates furnished:
('orrespondence solicited.
>._ _/
PORTLAND
CANAL
LODGE
Loyal Order of Moose
Meets Every Monday Night,
MOOSE HALL. HYDER
C. S. Baker
ASSAYER
Stewart, B. C.
Patent Surveys
Metcalf (81 Grefe
Civil and Mining Engineers
U. S. Mineral Surveyors
Juneau, Alaska.
CLEANING & PRESSING
Sewing & Alterations
pearl &Unt?
Main Street - - Forest Reserve
C. H. SUNDMACHER
^ATTORNEY AT LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
HYDER, ALASKA
Split your next shipment skin for skin
grade for grade. Send one half to the
house you’ vc been shipping to and the
other half to Fouke at once. See how
much more you get from Fouke. Let
to the checks tell the story. You
will get a whole lot more for
the furs you ship to Fouke,
you can bet your bottom dol
lar on that. “Prices don’t
mean nuthin”—it’s the grading that
counts and Fouke grading alwayo
makes your fur checks bigger.
SHIP NOW! Order traps and bah* now. Send cou
pon below at once, for lowest prices on trappers sup
plies. get free samples NOXENT (kills human scent)
and REMOV-A-SMEL (destroys skunk smells in
stantly . Get free Tfapper’s Pardner showing all
kinds of traps and new paste baits, game laws, how
to trap and grade furs. YVe keep you posted on fur
market all season. ALL FREE! Send
name and address on coupon today to
Fur Co. building
ST. LOUIS. MO.
......FOUKE FUR COMPANY—— -
317 Fouke BuHdinjk St. Louis, Mo.
8etu! me samples of NOXENT and PIZMOV-A
SMEL/'Trapper’a Pardner.” and tag*. Keep me
posted on the fur market all season. All FREE.
State
R.F.D.
Box
CHAS. H. COSGROVE
Attorney-at-Law
Notary Public
New Bank Building Ketchikan
Electric
Laundry
Ketchikan, Alaska.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
See Fred Dorey for shipping
instructions:
VICTORIA APARTMENTS
Furnished
634 Kingsway,
Hyder, B. C.
Mrs. Anna Miller, Prop.
Telephone 2 long.
Johnson’s ™'E':
LAUNDRY—Best of work at moderate prices.
BATHS—Showers and Tubs. New, Neat, Modern
Jim Johnson, Prop.
Second Street, Hyder.
Just Five Short Miles To the
‘Cincften Knn”
a,
At Fish Creek
A Moonlight Ride,
A Party Dance,
A Chicken Supper
Salmon Valley Phone Line Three Short Rings
We also have comfortable quarters and m^al» f ' ttn wayfarer
4¥lr0. $rtrn Bril #lrs. €lmrr m. Smtith
The Joker
Now Open For
Dressmaking and Repair Work
SPECIAL! Shirts made to or: er!
Louise L. Moore.
Under new management
the
Hyder Bath Horn e
Second street, near A.
Open Day and NigSit
HYDER
TRANSFER
COMPANY
H. L. Reid - Louis Legg ,
Saddle and Pack Horses
COAL and WOOD
DELIVERIES MADE
ANYWHERE - ANYTIME
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