THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter. Septem
ber 17th, 1918. at the Post Office, a
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act o
March 3. 1879.
C. O. Mar wood Editor
H. Marwood Circulation Manager
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Saturday, May 30, 1925
The small country town
has always furnished good mat
erial for humor to the larger
points. Here is a story that will
stand re-telling:
A wholesale firm had
made a shipment of goods to a
country merchant and in spite
of repeated demands for pay
mem received no word and no
remittance. At length they wrote
the local post master enquiring
about the merchant’s responsib
ility but received no reply, then
becoming angry they legistered
a letter to the local barrister re
questing him to make collection
of the money. Imagine their
astonishment upon receiving the
following reply:
Gentlemen,
I, the undersigned, who
am a barrister of this town, ack
nowledge receipt of your letter
to collect an account from the
merchant of this town. As post
master, 1 acknowledge receipt
of your enquiry concerning the
said merchant. As the one mer
chant of tuis town I acknowied
ge receipt of your repeated dem
ands for payment of a shipment
winch was never ordered by the
sain merchant and moreover nev
er received. Furthermore, if the
In the Probate Court, McCarthy Pre
cinct, Third Judicial Division, Territory
of Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of
Austin E. Trim, deceased.
No. 70
Notice to Creditors
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly and regularly
appointed administratrix of Austin E.
Trim, deceased, by said court on the
6th day of May 1925, and has qualif
ied as such administratrix. That the
creditors and all persons having claims
against the said estate are requested to
present the same, with proper vouchers,
within six months after the publication
og this notice, to the undersigned at
her place of residence and business in
the town of McCarthy, Alaska.
Dated at McCarthy, Alaska this 6th
day of May, 1925.
Bessie G. Trim
Administratrix of the estate of
Austin E. Trim, deceased.
undersigned were not also the
local presbyterian minister of
this town, he would tell you to
go to Hell.
SPLENDID PROSPECT
FOUND AT SKAGWAY
!
Late wor.l from Snag way is
to the effect that a mineral pros
pent in the vicinity of Snriugg ;
I
lers’C°ve, which is just across
the Skagway river at its confl
uence with Lynn Canal, is show j
ing up in excess of all previous!
expectations in that numerous!
assays taken from it show an
average of per ton in gold
and is increasing .is depth is
attained.
The prospect is the property I
of E. M. Larue and his partner, j
Bledsoe, the latter an old timer
who lias spent all the profits of
a mercantile business in Skag
way in prospecting for mineral
for neaily a quarter of a cent
ury aiid whose faith has not
been dimmed by suceessive fail*
ures. Larue is immigration agent
at Skagway and all his time
outside of office hours has been
spent for several years as has
been that of his partner.
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