The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter
at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March
3, 1879.
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The Navy Program
Some details of the plan to
.strengthen the American Navy
in accordance with recent leg
islation have ibeen made public
by Secretary Swanson. Stated
briefly, they are as follows:
A total of 32 new vessels
will be built during the next
three years, including two 15,
000-ton aircraft carriers, four
10,000-ton cruisers, four 1,850
ton destroyer.?., sixteen 1,500
ton destroyers, four 1,400-ton
submarines and two 2,000-ton
gun-boats.
For this program $238,000,
000 will be made available and
the work will be divided be
tween government and private
shipyards, as is customary. It
1 ?■ estimated b y Secretary
Swanson that 8S per cent of
the sum to be expended for
new warships will go to labor.
It will directly affect some 16
major industries and more than
10 0 different mechanical
trades.
Lest it be thought by some
that we are setting a bad exam
ple at a time when effort? for
general reductions of arma
ments are being made, it may
be said that even with the ad
dition of these 32 new ships
the United States will still be
far behind the strength per
mitted by the London treaty,
while Great Britain and Japan
have built up to approximately
treaty strength.
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Canadian Girl Pioneer
In these day.;* when appar
ently no limit is set on the am
bitions of women looking for a
“career,” it is not surprising bo
find them engaged in unusual
activities in unusual places.
Among those who have left the
beaten path seeking adventure
and fortune, few have dis
played greater pluck and en
thusiasm than Miss Kathleen
Rice, a native of St. Mary’s,
Ontario.
Miss Rice, an honor graduate
of Toronto University, found
school teaching too pro
saic and about four years ago
set out for northern Manitoba,
400 miles north of Winnipeg,
where ,? h e homesteaded a
quarter-section farm, cleared
land and built her own cottage.
Later she took to prospecting
for minerals and has staked
a number of promising claims,
with apparently great potential
wealth in gold, copper, nickel,
and vanadium. She now lives
on an island in Herb Lake,
seven miles from the nearest
community, where .she traps
and hunts in winter and pros
pects in summer. No phase of
active pioneering is foreign to
her experience.
From which it appears that
if Miss Rice’s object was to get
away from the monotony of be
ing comfortable in the com
monly accepted sen-e of that
term, she has certainly ac
complished her purpose, in ad
dition to displaying an enor
mous. wealth of resourcefulness
and energy.
Just for Fun
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A man will ask for your opin
ion when all he wants you to
do is agree with him.
Remember, friends, that the
locomotive whistle makes a
big noise, but it doesn’t pull
the train.
It takes a stern parent to re
sist the sales talk of a boy of
fourteen who wants to see a
movie.
A Hyder man has named his
dog Mars because from all in
dications he appears to be in
habited. •
“So your husband is lazy, is
he Mandy,” asked the caller.
“Lazy?” said Mandy, “Ah’ll
says he’s lazy. Dat man has
been out back of de bahn sow
in’ wood all mornin’ jest to get
out ob goin’ to de stoah to get
me a loaf o’ bread.”
There is no telling how long
Methuselah might have lived
if he had had his appendix,
teeth and tonsils out, used the
right brand of tooth paste and
smoked coughless cigarettes.
“Bridge shin” is said to be a
newly discovered disease. It is
contracted by a husband sitting
across from his wife and for
getting what trumps are.
A farmer was passing the in
sane asylum with a load of fer
tilizer. An inmate’ called
through the fence, “What are
you hauling?”
“Fertilizer,” replied t h e
farmer.
“What are you going to do
with it?”
“Going to put it on my straw
berries.”
“And we put cream on ours,
and they say we’re crazy,” the
I inmate countered.
TEI YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
December 21, 1923.
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Eddie Hambleton, Daly Alas
ka Mining Company director,
left for Vancouver after a visit
of several days.
Work was resumed this week
on the Daly Alaska, a contract
being let by the company to
Charles Lund to extend the
crosscut tunnel 150 feet. Five
men are employed.
An old landmark of the Hy
der piling disappeared last
week when the original Alaska
Cafe building, belonging to
Bob Keith, caved in under the
weight of snow, leaving a total
wreck.
Mrs. J. J. Morley has taken
over the duties of matron at the
Stewart General Hospital, suc
ceeding Mrs. Hawkins, who re
cently resigned.
—
Wallace Huston, well known
local carpenter who left here
recently to work at the Outsid
er mine at Maple Bay, was fat
ally injured there by a fall
! from the new ore bunkers and
j died ten minutes later.
Chas. M. Ridley has taken
over the management of the
Ocean View Hotel in Hyder, B.
i C. under a lease.
INTERESTING NOTES
Founded by Spaniards in
1519, Panama City claims to be j
the oldest white settlement in j
the Americans.
Operated by compressed air,
a plastering machine which ap
plies and mixes plaster to the
walls has been invented.
U. S. government coinage
mints are located at Philadel
phia, Pa., Denver, Colo., and
San Francisco, Calif.
A medical association of 400
physicians, who plan to furnish
medical care for SI a week,
has been formed in New York, j
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! Electric light and power are |
are available to every town in j
the United States of 5,000 or i
more population and 97 per
cent of the smaller ones are
supplied with current.
Featured by a spring friction
hinge, a rack has been invented
that enables a map or chart to
be reversed without removal
from a wall.
The number of books pub
lished last year in England
broke all records, there being
9,907 new books and 5,486
new editions, translations and
pamphlets.
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU . ALASKA
* Hyder
Methodist Episcopal
* Church
* Rev. F. Bushfield, Pastor.
* Hyder Methodist Episcopal Church
* Sunday School at 10:30 a. in.
* Evening Service at 7:30 p. m.
* Everyone is cordially invited to
* the services.
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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