Kitchen Tasks
This week, you are given the oppor
tunity of buying kitchen utensils at
prices that we ourselves would have
been happy to pay a year ago.. Sur
round. yourself, with, bright, new
things.
Real bargains in aluminum ware
Modern Grocery
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Interior Yukon Minks
Your Selection from 200 pairs—Kits or proven breeders.
$40 per pair before August, 1931
Minks can make you MONEY. Let us show you how! Your
inquiries will be answered promptly.
Martin and Pointer,
Box 238, Petersburg, Alaska
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Is the Open Door To the Merchat’s Esta
blsihment! One telephoe oder to-day
means more in the future,
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160 Acres Deeded Land
For Sale.
On Farm Island, 30 acres under cultivation; 40 acres, hog
fenced. .All easy clearing. One span of horses, all necessary
machinery .some hogs; 5 acres *n spuds; 2 houses, barns;
cellar which holds 1,000 sacks of spuds. Outside range for
sheep or cattle—PRICE $7,000, half cash, balance on easy
terms.
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W. S. Binkley,
WRANGELL, ALASKA
Call in at oar shop and inspect the New Tudor
Ford Sedan for The American Legion. You may
win this beautiful car for a dollar - - Otherwise we
will sell you one just like it for - - - $691.50
Fryer Machine Works
Authorized Ford Agents
The New yorl<
Pool Billiard And Card Room
Diek Kuwata, Prop.
> l and game law insofar as it was
; invoked by the fish and game
\' commission to prohibit ship
I ment of salmon caught outside
| the three-mile limit into San
> Francisco and other bay cities
| over water m which there was a
[closed season. The Ifigner
II court affirmed the lower court
[ decisions.
| Now, don’t wax sarcastic and
| start making applications!
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By J. R. JUSTICE
| In Seattle Star
| Both the Alaska Legislature
j and the Illinois Legislature
j would lend aid and comfort to
> the bootlegger. Bills were pass
; ed by each law making body to
; abolish state enforcement of the
Volstead Law. In Illinois the
governor vetoed the bill. The
i Alaskan effort at annulment
must have the approval of Con
gress. In each case, therefore,
tne bootlegger gets sympathy;
but no aid.
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PRIEST BEATS DEATH IN
LONG TREK OVER ICE
How the Rev. Father Bernard
R. Hubbard, internationally
known as the “Glacier Priest,”
! battled death in many forms
during a lone mush over 1,600
miles of Alaska’s worst winter
trails, was told recently in one
of Seattle’s daily papers, from
cables sent out from Holy Cross (
on the Yukon. Father Hubbard!
was recuperating there after his
thrilling adventure.
I The message from Holy Cross
was the first news of the noted'
Priest in the middle of Febru
ary.
Raced With Thaw
His face blackened and cracked
by exposure until he was hard
ly recognized, Father Hubbard
stumbled into Holy Cross, win
ner by but a few days in a ter
rific race against the spring
thaw, which would have made
the trails impassable and ma
rooned him in the Arctic wastes
to die.
Hardly able to realize his vic
tory over death, the priest, sob
bing, clasped his faithful dogs
and submitted to the tender
ministrations of the residents of
the little town. Many of the
seasoned.1 old-time Alaskans,
marveled at his hardihood.
On special leave of one year'
from Santa Clara University,
California, Father Hubbard left
Seattle last January on his fifth |
annual trip of exploration in
Alaska. His special purpose was
to make motion pictures of
primitive life among the natives
and depict the hardships of the
i missionaries in the Northern
* Territory.
J Through all the Terrible ex
perience on the long mush, he
managed to preserve his pre
vious pictures and arrived in
Holy Cross with 20,000 feet of
film.
For most of the 1,600 miles,
Father Hubbard was forced to
mush ahead of his dogs, fight
ing his way through storms
blown over Bering Sea, and of
ten caught out in the open tun
dra in subzero weather at night
while blizzards howled.
From Nulato the daring priest
mushed on over Kaltag portage
to Unalakleet, filming the Eski
l rnos in the sealhunts and in
such primitive pursuits as mak
ing fire by friction and fishing
through the ice.
JOSEPH O. RUDE,, M. D
[PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over People’s Drug: Store
Office Phone 61
Home 66
Dr. A. B. Kearsley
Physician & Surgeon
Wrangell - - Alasla
It. W. Benson M. D
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Office in
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$ DAIRY BUILDING
t PHONE 5 0
Despite his own condition and!
the fact he was racing against!
the thaw, tne priest halted time!
and again to minister consola
tion to inhabitants of the epi
demic-stricken villages.
He will remain in Holy Cross
until the end of May, then plans
to fly south to meet a party of
students. j
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Wear an American Legion Aux-1
iliary poppy.
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. .The tattler who tattles to you
also tattle sto the other fellow. |
..Old hens are mighty flighty,
but they can’t fly.
.. A sneer is the devil’s smile...
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The supreme court recently
held valid the California fish
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Here’s to cold and troubles; may
most of them be in your head.
A flask on the hip has brot many
a lie to the lip.
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The Open Forum
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May 18, 1931 [
Editor The Alaskan:
The Point Agassiz dairy and
produce problem is looming up
somewhat large. It seems that
with Seattle to draw from, for
those who would choke to death
every local enterprise that does
not originate right in the town!1
of Petersburg, it will not take 1
so much produce to fill a market ;
that is already glutted with Se
attle goods. There are some in j
Petersburg who should be taken '
to task by that body they call 1
the Commercial Club for the 1
practice of making exorbitant
charge s for commodities that ;
are at this time down from 40
to 50 per cent from where they
were when the present local
price levels were established.
Take for example scratch feed
and egg mash, oats and rolled
wheat. Go and find what they
are asking for it now and com
pare them with the prices ask
ed a year ago; then compare
the Seattle price of a year or
more ago with the price in Se
attle today. Then anyone can
easily figure out where the lo
cal dealer stands.
The Point Agassiz farmers
have for years taken 7 cents per
quart for their milk. To this is
added 3 cents for transportation
and the Dairy Grocery has add
ed from 75 to 100 per cent for
merely bottling and retailing it.
Then some people wonder why
the town does not use more
milk. The reason is obvious.
The price is too high; the gap
oetween the producer’s and the
consumer is too large and also
i he milk is below par as in many
nstances the milk is dumped into
cans and rushed to the boat
while warm and the lid on tight.
The writer on many an occasion
helped to unload cans that were
still luke-warm when it had ar
rived in town. Likely they were
shoved into the cooler and for
gotten till bottling time came
around. If the milk turned sour
before that, just send it back to
the farmers and let them take
the loss. Another thing against
this way of handling, is that the
milk when bottled after several
hours in that can is not uni
form—some of it being way be
low standard as the mixing is
not properly done and there’s
too much chance for using a
cream • ladle before the milk is
bottled. And so the product
does not meet with the approval
of the public and the Agassiz
farmers are blamed for deliver
ing blue milk. In other words
they are blamed for a wrong
which they did not commit. It
is the dealer who must be blam
ed and no one else. I know the
farmers and their milk, both.
That is why we are bottling our
own milk at home and putting
it on the market at a fair price,
and thereby giving our patrons
a first-class quality product at
a price unheard of in Petersburg.
We are out to do business with
honest people in an honest way.
Anyone wishing to prove us to be
in the wrong are welcome to
start anytime. The good cows
are getting better at Point Agas
siz.
Yours Truly,
Edvard R* instead.
KETCHIKAN
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Deputy Marshal William H.
Caswell returned to Ketchikan
on the Alameda, after trans
ferring McDonald to McNeil’s
Island. McDonald was convict
ed of the murder of George Mar
shal last October.
Carl R. Carlson, teacher here
for the past two years, has been
elected as principal of the Kay
hi to succeed George V. Beck,
elected principal of the Peters
burg High school.
Crowning his years of work,
Henry Haldane, native artist is
painting a picture in the Salva
tion Army Citadel Though
partially blind he has done
much fine painting.
Andy Engstrom who recently
came here from Petersburg, is
righf up to his neck in halibut.
He is buying for Melchoir, Arm
strong and Dessau.
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JUNEAU
David Waggoner makes a bet
ter skypilot than automoble pi
lot for he has had better success
in the former than the latter.
Recently Rev. Waggoner left for
;ne States to attend the Gener
il Assembly of thet Presbyteri
m Church at Pittsburg. He got
lim a car and was enjoying thej
>ights around Seattle when hej
aimed his machine killapie-and
,hereby Mrs. Waggoner broke a
*ib, another woman in the car
lad her collarbone broken andj
i man in the car had several,
)usted ribs. It is believed that
Fohn Brown of Hydaburg was
;he other passenger. Rev. Wag-1
joner had planned on going east
n his car but he abandoed his!
flan and went by rail.
The Taku mining bubble has
seen badly busted and opera-j
ions are mostly individual pros-j
Decting. Capt. Bill Strong has
:cnt his riverboat Jeanne, Capt.
Eddie Kalkins in command, to|
i;he Stikeen River where it will
try to compete with the Bar-|
rington fleet. “Gentleman Un
afraid” is a worthy competitor.
Governor Parks fired the first
baseball of Juneau’s ball season.
Attorney General John Rust
gard left for Anchorage from
whence he will proceed to Fair
banks to give the commence
ment address at the College ex
ercises. Incidentally John is
building up political fences for
future elections.
The halibut men were offered
7%-4% cents, new grading, take
it or leave it and most of ’em are
taking it.
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YAKUTAT
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There is plenty of local labor
to take care of the needs of Ya
kutat. Like the Juneau Cham
ber of Commerce, we are invit
ing labor to stay away.
The Ashing season opened on
the 15th. Thank O’Malley from
whom all Alaska blessings flow.
The Retriever and motorship
Washington arrived and are now
ready to operate.
Yakutat now has a Chamber
of Commerce. We just had to
follow Klawock, Hydaburg and
Craig to learn what it’s all
about. When some white men
come to us with words of love,
and pats on the back and then
begin to organize us, we wonder
just what kind of an ax we have
to grind and whose neck it is to
cut off.
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KAKE
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E. E. Murray, superintendent
of the A. P. S. Corporation can
nery here went to Juneau and
brought himself back a brand
new bride. If he only had to go
fishing now to support that wife
of his, perhaps he would try to
be more generous in his terms
to the fishermen.
King salmon have been run
ning a bit better lately and some
hard earned dollars are begin
ning to And their way to Pe
tersburg Wrangell and Juneau.
No siree, you don’t hear of any
of ’em turning our money down
but they don’t give us any sup
port when we call for help to
make more.
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HAINES
Louis Shotridge arrived here
find lifts been taking care of
personal matters.
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The trappers are all turning]
fishermen now and chasing after
those pieces of silver with the
picture of Liberty on one side
and the Eagle on the other. And
to think there is a bounty on the
eagle.
Only one of our canneries will
operate this year. Tough to be
a little fellow but when the lit
tle fellow refuses to stand by
other little fellows, what can
they all expect?
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WRANGELL !
A new building to replace the.
Presbyterian Church, destroyed
by fire last winter, will be con
i
structed this summer at a cost I
of $15,000. Bids will be opened
'une 23rd when the contract isj
to be awarded. The building,!
37x70, will have rooms for the
•Sunday School, social parlors
and kitchen, and a main audit
orium.
Mrs. William Tamaree, who.
recently returned here from Pe-'
tersburg had a fall and strained
her ankle. She is up and about
ber duties again.
George Bottler, contractor ar
rived last week and work on the
new school house commences
very soon.
The commissioner handed
fines of $10 each to Willie and
Charles George and Isaac Ka
taz; $40 each to Harold Huff and
Homer Bradley and $25 to Joe
Johnson. He sent Agusto Casi
ong, Filipino to Morningside
Sanitarium.
Oscar Wikstrom, after being
»n Petersburg for several years
returned to his old stamping
grounds and will fish with Clyde
^heldon.
Paul Owens has delivered his
first load of sand for the new
school house.
Rev. Pederson left for the
General Assembly, Pittsburg.
The Chamber of Commerce
is taking up the matter of wages
on road work and they are writ
ing to different towns to estab
lish a standard wage scale.
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