The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL. 2.
McCarthy, alaska. Saturday, October 25th 1919
NO. 51
SCHOOL NEWS
Honor Hull for in mth on I
ing Oct. 24.
Dorothy Lubbe
Dora MacPoanell.
Mary MacDonnell
Eliz i beth M urie
Marian Wilis
Laura May Fry
Laurence Barrett
Leo Laurie
Victor Marshall
Art hur Mac Donnell
Walter MacDonnell
Frank Wills
To3 bays ha 1 but one diy’s
absence for two mouths, 1 n 1
not any tardiness during t.iis
time.
The girls were perfect in att
endance, but four girls were
tardy duriny; tins month.
Victor M irsh ill r inks Ivg i-i
est in 14th Grade Arjtnn ‘tic.
his average being 94 per cent !
Miry Mi -D >n.i dl, highest in
spelling 100 per cen ..
nnnr. nnnnnnon
A COMPLETE LINE of
ndies suits, dresses, waists &
1 winter coats. Also child
ren’s yodels in ; «
Mail orders given immediate
attention.
Doughe rt.\ ‘s, ('01 dovr,
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Mantles, chimneys etc for
Alladin. Lunas at Cost Office
store.
New magazines at the Post
Office Store. We will tal e
orders for subscriptions.
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“Mare Nostrum” (Our Sen)
a novel of the Meditteranean by
Ibanez just arrived at the Po*t
Office library, also the newest
work on spiritualism ‘ Raymond”
his life and death, by Sir Oliv
er Lodge.
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Cap Hub rick retu Tied from
his hunting trip this week, hav
!ng visited the coast town s on
his way home His party ' was
highly pleased with the hunt as
every specimen desired was
wars secured.
NEWS ABOUT PEJ?L3
The proprietors of the McCar
thy garage, Ardciscn r,i d Sny
der, are live wires in the auto
mobile service, and starting to
day will run a daily service t •
Kennocott.
They have purchased the Mother
Lode car, so will have three cars
They h ive the support of the
business people and should re
ceive libei si patronage at both
places.
Ed Bissett i < in in town fora
few days from Nlzina, visiting
Ins friends,
airs. Amber left Thursday,
to join Mr. Amber it Lent near
Se title.
Ered Laboo hast ikon a poa
itact at ixennec >it and lei t for
tne Jumbo on Wednesday.
Ben Jackson, wiio has been
lb montos .it (he Jumbo, is en
joying a vacation in town,
W. H Sli npert, \v 10 s noil
the summer in the interior, pros
peedngnnd minting, returned to
town last week, he will spent'
tiie winter at Kemueott, lor
which place tie lel't on Tuesday.
Dr. Luis Woltr arrived in Ken
m m*tt on Tuesday. and will
pra ise dm tist.ry there, he is
equipped with every modern
apph ince and eh*cmc .ittings,
wide,, are now being installed.
‘‘Fat‘ 1 annlton. : n old time
Valdez resident and h i some
e i i s connected with the Uo id
Commission; has accepted a pi s
ition with the Kennecott Coppe
Corpora no n.
A FREAK QALF
On the morning of the 20ch
a c tlf was born at Kennecott. It
was noticed to have considerable
difficulty in obtai ling its first
lunch. The barn boss, upon
investigating, found that i s low
er jaw was fully an inch short
er than the upper. It Ins since
mastered the details of feeding,
but may lind it hard to eat hay
! ater on.
TELEGRAPHIC
PRES1DENT RECOVERING
!
Washington, Oct. 23 Special
to the News. — The President J
h is sufficiently recovered to ■ e'
able to dictate state papers.
During the week he dictated
long letters to the Induct ojay
conference.
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PROHIBITION ENFOREj -
WENT ACT
Washington, Oct 24. Specia to
the News. - The war time pro
hibition enforcement act was to
ll ?y sent to tiie President for
i sign at u re.
LABOR LEADERS
WITHDRAW
Washington Oct 24. Special to
I News — lie it solution for
i
'collective bargaining was voted
| down at the National Industrial
| Conference. As a result Gomp
ers and all labor leaders have
withdrawn from the Conference
MOTHER and SON
ACCUSED OF MURDER
Seattle, Oct. 24. Special to the
News. — Mrs. Robert Nemitz,
and William Fry Early, mother
J and son, luive been arrested in
I connection with the murder of
! Mrs Elizabeth Bryan.
| The robbery , of 84,000 in cash
appears to have been the motive
for the crime.
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Starting with this issue,we
have arranged lor tele^iaphic
news to be sent by special cor
respondent for the benefit of
our readers.
In the “News” you will read
“outside” news every Saturday
especially that of interest to Al
askans
aCANY WOMEN PLAN VIS IT
Tj ALASKA
The Alaska “sourdough:” the
old timer of the North, unde r
stands a stampede. He can tell
you everything about it from
iscovery creek” to the re
treating army of disappointed
hopes. But there is a new form
of stampede that has him guess
ing, bewildered and helpless.
It is not a quest for gold by
grimy, upstanding men; it is a
j stampede of women northward.
Girls from every state in the
union recently have flooded the
! Alaska bureau of the Seattle
I Chamber of Commerce and Com
mercial Club with inquiries a
bout Alaska They write that
! they intend to go north to try
i their luck. They want to know
i
'all about the opportunities for
i employment and general cond
itions, They will arrive next
spring in the volume of a stamp
ede.
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Are the tremendous resources
of the empire to toe north res
ponsible for this awakened inter
est? Or can it be that a recent
article in a leading magazine, ex
plaining the shortage of wives
in Alaska, had somethin., to uo
with it?
(Seattle P. I
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McCarthy has also received
enquiries as to conditions < r
I women Here. Two young la .. >
i of Washington, D. O. have writ
ten to the postmaster this mail
asking for inform ition concern
ing this disttrict, and what chan
ces are there here for women
who have to m ike toon- own
way.
The Rev. Mr. Shriver announc
ces that' lie will be in McCarthy
next Wednesday evening Oct.29
and will conduct service in the
schoolhouse at o, J_.. m.