CROSS
MATCHED
By MARTHA M. WILLIAMS
«S> by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
GWEN flung up her arms, yawning,
whereupon Elise asked: “How’s
the book? Any good?”
Gwen yawned again. “Deadly stu
pid, writer-man hasn’t got a tiling to
suy—and keeps on saying it in all
the moods and tenses."
“You shock me deeply!” Elise flung
back rising. “A gift book, too. What
ever shall we say to the author-send
er?”
“Write him straight off—soy we
can’t wait to thank him till after
reading," Gwen counseled.
“But you don’t Intend to tell him
what you think?” from Elise.
Gwen sighed saying: “Truth's not
merely brutal but unpopular. Why
hurl large chunks of it at a poor soul
who never did you the least bit of
harm?”
“You forget—” from Elise. “He in
sisted on sitting out all four dunces
he had written himself down for at
the Valentine party—when the music
was making my feet dance in spite
of me.”
The two were real friends, in spite
of being kinswomen, and doomed to
live in the same wide plantation,
miles from everywhere, but in auto
reach of almost anywhere a well-con
ditioned fancy might choose to stray.
Elise was statuesque, Gwen roguishly
pretty. They were neither exactly
rich nor poor. Elise herself was bidding
her time, being the sort that wears
well, and reaches full blow around
thirty. Long before that time Gwen
would marry somebody—somebody
other than Newell Blair whom she
had teased and flouted since the era
of short frocks, In spite of his money,
and his pedigree. Both were exactly
what Elise had set her mind on—
therefore she waited.
Charles Joseph Seaforth had seemed
manna from heaven—he was good
looking, had an air of distinction.
Elise hud done her best to make him
see in Gwen an enchantress, but had
had her trouble for nothing. His book
had come to her, the first copy olt
the press he wrote, with a florid in
scription that was yet prudently
vague. Craftily she had given Gwen
the first reading, hoping by doing so
to quicken her interest in the book’s
writer.
Gwen had turned the tables by In
sisting that Klise was In courtesy
bound to acknowledge the gift at once.
Frowning Elise set herself at the
task, but stopped short after the date
line to stare at a resplendent car purr
ing to a halt at the front steps. Sea
forth and Newell Blair sprang from
it and rushed Inside almost without
knocking. Elise held out both hands
to them as she rose, crying: “Buck In
deed! Saves me a hard job—trying
to tell you all we think of TITE BOOK
in writing, I've only part of an opin
ion now. Gwen hasn't let me read
more than snatches—says she can't
eat nor sleep until she knows how It
all turns out."
“Mighty kind of her,” from Sea
forth.
Blair scowled—hard. “Maybe I can
break the spell," he growled, making
for the back piazza. Gwen’s special
happy haunt. In a minute he was
back, book In hand, Gwen tucked pos
sessively under his arm. “I am taking
her fur u drive in the new car, so
she shan't pester you two any more,”
he said, tossing the book to Elise.
“Mighty glad to see you—but real
ly this Is ‘so sudden,’ ” she smiled at
Seaforth.
“I simply had to come—to know
what you thought—nothing else mat
ters—nothing in nil the world.” he
said huskily. “Somehow the book Is
Relllng amazingly—or I shouldn’t have
dared—it is all I have, you know—
except hope—and I-love."
Elise felt herself profoundly shaken,
but completely dazed.
"How can you like me? A plain
country girl, when you have seen so
much of cities?”
“Because you are my dream. What j
I hoped for and never thought to !
find," he suid stepping back a pace,
the better to look Into her eyes. “You
know—I shouldn’t be here, hut for
Blair—the noblest fellow alive. You
see, I wrote him asking whether he
was my rival—that was my black
dread—he had so much, I, almost
nothing. He answered me, man to
man: ‘To me there is just one possi
ble wife In all the world, ner name
is Gwendoline Trevor—unless she
comes to me of her own good will, I ;
shall be a lone man all my life.’ And
then actually he came for me—brought
me to his home two days back—
rested me there, and heartened me
for—the crisis of my fate. Funny—
he says you are the finest woman Ilv
tng—much too fine for the general
I run of men—out ne couia not love
yon, even If he had never seen Owen."
| KUse choked—silently she held out
her hand to him. He laid his cheek
upon It, reverently as one might touch
I an altar. A little silence fell between
' them, then as the purring motor
sounded distantly, Elise put her oth
er hand upon the adoring lover’s
J head, saying: “I will do ray best to
give you back your love."
The double wedding six months
later was, of course, a social event.
Looking on acidly the Widow Martin
said: "Cross-matched teams if ever
1 saw ’em," whereupon Squire Burgess
chuckled: “Glad you think so Susan.
Cross matches were the best teams
ever I drove—and I’ve been at the
business full fifty years.”
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Hyder, Alaska
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ALASKA INTERESTS AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
By Will. A. Steel
Washington, D. C,.
July 25, 1932.
Mildred Hansen, of Ketchi
kan, was in Washington last
week soliciting subscriptions,
largely from members of Cong
ress, for various magazines, in
an effort to win the $1,000 first
prize offered by the Periodical
Service Co. for the one having
the largest number of points
when the contest ends in Sept
ember.
In the allotment of $42,315,
392 for river and harbor im
provements throughout t h e
country, under the provisions
f the Army Appropriation Act,
$16,500 is for improvement of
Nome harbor. There is still an
unalloted balance of $17,684,
008, to be alloted later when
bids for contemplated work
have been received.
A Congressman suggested to
the Department of the Interior
that it might be a matter of
great economy if the Alaska
Railroad were closed down
from November 1 to March 1G.
The idea was not favored by
Secretary Wilbur, but he took
it up with General Manager
Olson and he also reported ad
versely on the proposition, so it
is expected to operate as usual.
Although Congress did not
make appropriations for the
maintenance of agricultural ex
periment stations in Alaska,
Guam and the Virgin Islands,
it did appropriate $30,000 for
Do You Buy From
Home Town
Merchants?
HELP STIMULATE PROGRESS
In legal parlance there Is a term, “caveat emptor,” which means "let
the buyer beware." And that does not single out any class of buyers.
There are people in Hyder who buy everything at home and from
home-town merchants. And then again there are people is this commun
ity who buy very little at home, thoughtlessly spending their money out of
town where it is lost to the community. Those who buy at home benefit
their community by keeping the money at home and reap the rewards of
buying from business enterprises that depend for their very existence upon
their reputation for fair dealing.
The home-town merchant gives his patrons and his community the
fruits of his industry and his community’s patronage.
There never has been a time in the history of this comunity when
patronage of the local merchants and other business institutions was
as vitally necessary to community welfare and prosperity than at present.
With business at the lowest ebb in our history, the local dealer stands in
imperative need of all the patronage the camp can provide in order to re
main in business.
The same principle which urges people to patronize the local merch
ant who has his money invested where it serves them most should also urge
the merchant to advertise in the community newspaper. This paper is
the camp’s best advertisement and its principal means of letting the world
know why and for what Hyder is in existence. Day in and day out it is
working for the community's progress and prosperity. It is a fixture with
a heavy investment and like the merchant is dependent for its existence
as a booster upon the patronage of the community.
Merchants advertise in newspapers primarily to increase their busi
ness. Consumers read newspaper advertisements that they may buy with
the least expense of time and effort and to the best advantage with re
spect to price and quality. Both advertiser and buyer often forget that
this advertising makes possible the newspaper that brings them the news
of the day and provides one of the chief stimulants to community growth
and betterment.
The Hyder Weekly Herald
(salaries, wages and other ex
penses connected with the care
of the properties in the locali
ties mentioned, until they were
transferred or sold.
For the enforcement of the
Alaska game laws the sum of
($103,566 was appropriated.
I For investigations, experiments
1 and cooperation in connection
with the production and utiliz
ation of fur-bearing animals
laised for meat and fur, in the
United States and Alaska,
$62,455 was appropriated. A
further sum of $102,500 was
designated for biological in
vestigations and for investigat
ions and experiments in the se
tablishment, improvement and
increase of the reindeer indust
ry and of musk oxen and
mountain sheep in Alaska. For
the employment of forest sup
ervisors, rangers, guards, main- i
tenance of nurseries, etc., in ,
the national forest regions of
Alaska $133,284 was appropri-,
ated.
Continuation of the investi
gation of the mineral resourc
es of Alaska has been provided
for in an appropriation of $60,
000.
For the care and custody of j
Alaska insane the sum of
$156,000 has been provided,
but no contracting institution is
to receive more than $564 per
capita per annum for the care
and maintenance of insane per
sons from Alaska during the
present fiscal year.
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RADIO PROGRAM
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FISHERS BLEND STATION, INC.
Metropolitan Center, Seattle Wn.
(Owing to poor reception during the
earlier part of the day in Hyder, the
programs printed below will include
only such broadcasts as occur after
6 P. M.
Sunday, August 7.
6:15 The Old Singing Master
6:45 Sunday at Seth Parker’s
7:15 P. S. P. & L. Program.
7:30 Schwabacher Program.
8:00 Stoess Orchestra, NBC.
8:30 Readers Guide, NBC.
0:00 On Wings of Music, NBC
9:30 St. Francis Orchestra.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Paul Carson, Organist.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, August 8.
j G:00 National Radio Forum.
! G:30 Demi Tasse Review.
7:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
7:15 Maxwell House Program
7:30 Voice of Firestone, NBC.
8:00 G. Washington Program.
8:30 Best Foods Program.
8:45 Fisher Mills Quartet.
9:00 Nomads & Olympians.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Musical Highlights, NBC
il:00 Globe Trotter News.
11:10 Fisher Mills Organ Rec.
11:30 The Rytham Vendors.
12:00 Silent.
Tuesday, August 9.
G:00 Lucky Strike Dance Or.
7:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
7:15 Memory Lane, NBC.
7:45 Famous Foods Parade.
8:00 Rainbow Harmonies.
8:30 Paul Whiteman Band.
8:45 John and Ned, NBC.
9:00 Rainbow Harmonies.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 P. S. P. & L. Program.
10:30 Bluebird Melodies, NBC.
11:00 Globe Trotter News.
11:10 St. Francis Orchestra.
11:30 Hotel Marimar Orch.
12 :00 Silent.
Wednesday, August 10.
6:00 Corn Cob Pipe Club.
6:30 Vacation Land Review.
7:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
j 7:15 Maxwell Tune Blenders.
7 :,80 Wesson Oil Co. Program
S :00 One Man’s Family, NBC.
8 :30 Best Foods Program.
8:45 Fisher’s Male Quartet.
9:00 Schwabacher Program.
9:15 Goodyear Program.
9:15 Millie Montague, NBC.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Anson Weeks Orch.
11:00 Globe Trotter News.
11 :10 St. Francis Orctestra.
11:30 Hotel Marimar Orch.
12:00 Silent
Thursday, August 11.
6:00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC.
7 :00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
7:15 Caswell Coffee Concert.
7:30 P. S. P. & L. Program.
7 :45 Famous Foods Parade.
8 :00 Fisher Mills Co.Program
8:15 Standard Symphony.
9:45 Terrace Gardens Orch.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Anson Weeks Orch. NBC
11:00 Globe Trotter News.
11:10 St. Francis Orchestra.
11:30 Hotel Marimar Orch.
12:00 Silent
Friday, August 12.
6:00 Paul Whiteman Band.
6:30 Vacation Land Review.
7 :00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
7:15 Maxwell House Program
7:30 Gilmore Circus, NBC.
8:00 Rythmatic Shadows.
8:30 Best Foods Program.
8 :45 Fisher’s Male Quartet.
9:00 Totem Broadcasters
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
'ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
Alaska’s salmon pack up to
July 16 aggregated 2,388,618
cases of all varieties, according
to bureau of fisheries figures.
George Marks Wells, an old
time resident of Ketchikan,
died there a few days ago at
the age of 55 years.
Charles Rogers, an old timer
of the Interior, has uncovered
good pay on Ketchum Creek,
three miles from Circle
Springs, according to word re
ceived in Fairbanks.
William (Cyclone) Thomp
son, resident of the north since
he gold rush days, ended his
life July 20 by shooting him
•elf through the head in a cab
in on the Loop highway near
Anchorage. He had previous
ly fired one shot through his
body in an effort to kill him
self.
Thea Francis, who is reported
walking from San Francisco to
Alaska, was seen recently on
the old Cariboo trail about 150
miles north of Vancouver. She
planned to walk to the Alaska
boundary and then embark on
a boat for Juneau, where she
will deliver a letter to Govern
or Geo. A. Parks.
Wilson Mizner, former Alas
ka, widely known as a promot
er, wit and author, who partic
ipated in the Klondike and
Nome gold rushes, was lately
reported critically ill with
pneumonia in Los Angeles.
A scientific party which
climbed Mt. McKinley recently
found the extreme temperature
on the mountain so low as to
be almost unbelievable. A
thermometer placed on the
-ummit was found on examin
ation to have gone to the very
bottom, or 90 degrees below
zero. The actual minimum
temperature is said to have
been below that point at least
ten degrees at the time, mak
ing the real temperature 100
degrees. The cold on the
mountan was reported as ex
tremely penetrating, 30 below
stinging much worse than 60
below on the lowlands. Tem
peratures as low as 90 degrees
are not uncommon at several
points in Siberia and Green
:and but this is believed to be
he coldest ever recorded.
10:15 P. S. P. & L. Program.
10:30 Schwabacher Program.
11:00 Globe Trotter News.
11:10 St. Francis Orchestra.
11:30 Hotel Marimar Orch.
12 :00 Silent
Saturday, August 13.
6:00 Lucky Strike Program.
7 :00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
7:15 Male Quartet.
7:30 Kenneth Spencer, NBC.
8:00 Totem Broadcasters.
8:30 Spotlight Review.
10:00 Mona Lowe.
10:30 Anson Weeks Arch.
11:00 Globe Trotter News.
11:10 St. Francis Orchestra.
11:30 Hotel Marimar Orch.
12:00 Silent