The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL:* VIII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, August 29,1^5.
No. 35
I SEE BY THE
PAPER THAT:
Herman Hoim had the mis
fortune to cut his arm severely
with an axe while chopping wood
this week
J. B. O’Neill and family mot
ored to the Nizina and spent a
couple of days this week testing
the excellent swimming in Balto
ff Lake and teasing tin
Mrs. Jas. Gaskill and James
Junior departed today to make
connections with the Yukon
southbound. The destination is
Los Angeles.
C. P. Pugh is attending the
Masonic convention in Cordova
this week.
Harry and Mrs. Boy den ret
urned from the Chisana mail
trip yesterday.
Tom Nestor of Cordova is
relieving C. P. Pugh as agent
for a few days.
K. L. H. Marshall went to
Cordova Thursday to attend the
Masonic convention.
Howard Poster and Axel
Waist tom are in from the
West over.
Lawrence Barrett will leave
tomorrow for Seattle there he
will commence his final year at
High School.
Train schedules have no
particular meaning for Mr. Denn
is Steacy who strolled in from i
Valdez this week and reports'
the walking fine. ,
MINSTREL SHOW
GOES OVER BIG
The long awaited Minst
rel Show by the Kennecott art
ists was given last Saturday
night to a large audjence in
Kennecott hall and proved to be
worth waiting for.
It was a howling success1
|fr.>m the opening curtain and
| throughout the entire perform
| a nee kept the capacity hour'e
J in fits of laughter and applause
Much credit is due Mrs. E. J.
McConnell for her woi k in tin
ning out such a finished*'p-rf
oi-mance and it is to be hoped
that it will not be the last of
her efforts in this line.
It was “Back in Ole V' g
inie” that the au lienee found
themselves amongst the motley
crew of “cullohed folks” that
occupied the stage and their;
powers of imitation were perf
ect.
Many from McCarthy att
ended and are loud in their j
praises.
RENALD AND MELOY
BACK FROM WHITE
Fred Ren aid and Joe Meloy
returned with Harry Boyden
yesterday from the White River
where they have been doing ass
essment work on the Sulzer
property.
Jack Meloy and Billie Trim j
remained to strike camp and,
take the remainder of thesuppl
ies into the Shushanna. They will
be in town in the course of a
few days.
Mrs. Pugh accompanied C. F. ;
to Cordova this week.
I
I
Mrs Jack Jones has taken
over ihe McCarthy baths former
ly under the management of Mrs !
No rah Moore.
A. L. POWELL
PASSES AWAY
AT HOSPITAL
The sad death occnred at
Kenneco’t hospital earlv Sunday
morning of Arthur L Powell,
well known and deeply respected
old timer of McCarthy and dis
trict.
Mr. Powell sufferer! from a
; double fracture of the skal*
when he was hit on the head by
a falling rock at his mining1
claim on Hex Creek on Tuesday
i of last week. It was some thirty
hours before he could be got to
the hospital for proper medical
treatment and it was feared at
that time that his condition was
most critical but his st -r-ng con
stitution fought hard and for
several days everyone waited
and hoped for his recovery but
in vain. At three o’clock he pass
ed away having only regained 1
consciousness for a few seconds
at a time since the accident.
Mrs. Powell was with him to
the end.
Mr. Powell was so well
known in the community as to
be a landmark and bis genial
disposition had marked him as a
friend to all. He was typically
an Alaskan and has been in
most of the stampedes through
out the country and his excess
ively energetic disposition lias
done much to developing the
north country.
Internment was under the
direction of the local order of
Elks and took place Tuesday
afternoon last in Kennecott cem.
©try after a short but impress
ive service and attended by a
host of life long friends. The
casket was covered in a mass of
floral offerings and he rests
where he would wish among the
lofty mountains of his loved
Northland.
TRIBUTE PAID
A. M. TAYLOR BY
MT. LOGAN MEMBER
In an interview to the
Ottawa ‘ Citizen”, Mr. H L. Lam
ba.ri, ol that ehy and one of the
Mount Logan party pays a high
tribute to the work of Andy
| Taylor as guide of the party. It
| is all the more striking in that
Andy is himself a native of
()ttawa.
^ Mi-. Lambart says: “His
j experience was absolutely inval
uable to the party, and I believe
the final attainment of the sum
mit, was in a large measure due
to his help. We all liked him and
admired his hardihood, his
ability to pic.k out the trail, his
sterling character and his com
radeship. Withought him, I
doubt if the expedition would
have been the success it turned
out to be.”
ELKS WIN AT LAST
Another of the Kennecott'
Elks and McCarthy baseball
exhibitions was played Thursday
evening at McCarthy when the
B. P. 0. E.’s took the measure of
the local boys 6—3.
McCarthy had only four of
its regulars and was forced to
use substitutes who proved
rather weak at bat.
However, as usual, everyone
seemed to enjoy the lack of
baseball and all went home
happy.
After the game an improm
ptu dance was held in the Pion
eer Hall which, while not crowd
ed, was well attended and was
very enjoyable to the followers
of Terpischore.
The sympathy of the comm
unity far and wide goes out to
the widow and infant child who
survive him.