so
-x
We are not responsible for
this col-yum. We picked up the
following items from a tickety
tack tack ding. Mechanical
talking, singing and writing al
ways did puzzle us.
On Tuesday evening Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Allen were host and
hostess for a supper party at
their home in honor of the
birthday of Miss Hedvig Mjorud,
popular cashier at the Variety
Theatre. A sumptious repast, a
little music and everyone enjoy
ed a pleasant evening and wish
ed the young lady many happy
returns.
-o
All the men folk may not know
it. but, Gene Wheeler, promising
young future tooth and bridge
mechanic is again pacing up and
down behind Dads counters with
his usual good humor waiting
on the trade and keeping the
Victrolas and new records strut
tin’ their stuff.
Jimmie Wheeler, Jr., the boy
who can make a sighing, sob
bing, moanin’ Saxophone start
your feet to itchin’ for the light
fantastic, is again following his
pleasant smile around behind
the counters at the Wheeler
Drug Store. Jimmie tells us he
Is the guy that put the muuuoo
ir> music. We are willing to take
his word for it.
The ladies know the men all
read The ALASKAN.
WRANGELL INVESTS
In two new Cheverolet gravel
trucks which they plan to use
replacing plank streets with
gravel. Perhaps they may loan
’em to us for a few days to fill
in the two-foot mudholes in our
Ten Thousand Dollar Highway,
and thereby avoid traffic tie-ups.
-x
Yes, the honeymoon is over
when the bridegroom sleeps on
board his ship all night after it
arrives in port about midnight.
-x
The new small size bills have
made their appearance in town,
and they are just as hard to get
a hold of as the large size ones,
and just as easy to let go of and
hard to hang on to.
In our hunt for local news
items we inquired of a local
housewife the husband’s name
and she said “Well, when he’s
full of Petersburg moonshine he
thinks he’s Gene Tunney, but
when I get hold of him, he’s just
plain Ola.’
-x
The Saturday night dances at
“The Devil’s Thumb” formerly
Worth’s, are proving popular
with the young folk and should
prove interesting to all who en
joy dancing on a nice smooth
floor, to good music.
-x
The offices formerly occupied
by the Drs. Standard, are being
renovated and put in shape for
immediate occupancy. Doctor T.
Runnals, physician and surgeon
for Pacific American Fisheries
at Squaw Harbor the past sev
eral years is expected to arrive
and practice here in a few days.
He will help keep us in proper
physical trim.
-x
The Lenore, Capt. Mathisen
brought in a fare of 12,000 lbs.
of halibut and sold to local fish
buyers. “We would have had
more,” says Jack Olson, “but
that ornery Lars De Lure fed us
so well we overate three times
a day. That’s the trouble with
these new cooks.”
-x
Several residents in North Pe
tersburg are taking advantage
of the weather replacing obso
lete sewers and renewing rust
ed out pipes. And the proper
time to get such work done is
right now.
-o
Frank “Boots” Booth passed
thru port Wednesday enroute to
Ketchikan after the elusive fin
ney friends of the deep. He
stopped over in port long enough
to tell us how it feels to be an
aged granddaddy. Little girl
born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs.
David Phillips. Both mother
and little one getting along very
nicely.
We haven’t seen David to call
him “daddy” but suppose he is
so proud we can’t touch him
with a forty-foot pole.
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INFORMATION AND TICKETS:
Ed. Locken. Agent.
Petersburg - - . Alaska
Mrs. C. Samuelson, “Sanie” is
caking a well earned vacation
for a few days at the Loseth
Ranch over at Brown’s Cove.
A recent arrival remarked that
•‘that new Chev Sedan taxi must
be a money maker. But it was
no taxi ’tall ’tall’ tall. It was
only Bert Cornelius busy taking
prospective buyers on a little
demonstration ride. Judging
from the interest shown in this
car, duplicates should soon start
to arrive.
-x
When the yacht Gloria Dal
ton hove to abreast of the Citi
zen’s Wharf, the skipper sang
out, “Is there water enough to
lay in?” “Sure, replied a pa
tient hand troller near by, “un
less you want to roll clean ov
er.”
-x
In spite of present rainy spell,
local strawberries are ripe, de
licious and sizeable, running
about a dozen to the box. As old
man Skra Tobak says, “they are
the berries.”
Word from Warm Springs Bay
says that Ed Walwick, local
blacksmith, is not making
much headway, on the pathway
back to health. But he is opto
mistic and hopes. So do we all
of us.
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“Somebody ought to pass an
ordinance or law” to stop this
betting business, put in Ellery
Carlson, big Pumperknickle and
Butterhorn moulder at the Mod
'el Bakery. How come, we in
quired, all the need for same?
Fer instance, sez he, lately I
have made an even hundred
bets on small things and lost
ninety-nine, and, indicating a
small package under his arm,
this goes to the lucky winner of
my last guessing match. So you
see, such a regulation will have
to be passed or I’ll be passing
,the hat or passing out.
Andy Morrison, skipper of the
troller “Togo” came to port this
week from Warren Island. Fish
ing so far as the trollers are con
cerned is the bunk says Andy.
| Many a troller is going to have
j hard scratching ahead of him
i next winter to even get enough
to eat.
-o
At the Arctic hotel during
the week: Mrs. Rose M. Egley. R.
Wadsein, Don Melldrum, Her
man Papke, T. Ersber, J. Had
land, C. D. Jensen, Fred Cripe,
Hans PreuschofT, B. Brackney,
Niels Anderson, S. W. Case.
-x
The gasboat Sydney after be
ing completely overhauled, re
caulked, deck and stern chang
ed, new fo’cas’l and pilot house
put on by Jack Mattson, is lay
ing at the Citizen’s Wharf get
ing final touches by its owner
Mr. McKee. She is a trim look
ing craft now.
Pet Behrs is in from his fox
ranch near Keku Straits this
week.
C. D. Jenson, representing the
Washington Fish Company of
Seattle, was a passenger on the
steamer to Wrangell.
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Mrs. Chris Gronseth and Mrs.
Chris Olsen took passage on the
steamer Alameda for Ketchi
kan where they expect to make
a brief visit.
-x
RETURNS TO HIS HOME
-x
Charley Cripe accompanied
by and in the care of his brother
Fred, is a passenger on board the
Alameda headed for Eureka,
California. Charley, popular
logger and contractor of Peters
burg for some time, had a stroke
of paralysis a little over a month
ago from which he has not re
covered. At times he showed a
slight improvement but would
suddenly have mental aberra
tion and would have consider
able difficulty conversing on a
subject. Little hope is held for
a complete cure. But friends
all wish for him the best that
life can bring.
Enlousefant—This prehistoric
mastadon is reported by some of
the boys as appearing early in
the morning's along the scenic
highway down the Narrows. Now
B. V. D.’s reports like this would
be put down to alcoholism so we
are sending the devil down the
road on his bike to investigate.
—-x
Dr. Rude’s Oldsmobile sedan is
a fine addition to the fleet of
automobiles in town.
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Petersburg Lutheran, Rev. W. J.
Maakestad, Pastor
There will be no Sunday School
and no services. Sunday School
vacation during the remainder
of July and part of August.
The pastor will conduct ser
vices at Point Agassiz this Sun
day.
JOSEPH O. RUDE
Physician and Surgeon
Telephone: Office, 11
Home 66
Over People’s Drug Store 1
C. H. 5untlmacher I
Attorney at Law
Arctic Hotel Petersburg
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