Seward Seaport Record
Published each Tuesday and Friday
Seward Alaska
John M. Coleman .Editor and Publisher
Mildred Kirkpatrick .Managing Editor
Subscription rates Per month. $8 per year
MRS. WRIGHT WRITES FROM
SITKA
Mrs. Myrtle Wright, former
house mother at Jesse Lee, wrote
to friends this week about her
trip South.
She was accompanied by Mrs.
Fannie Kirch, who had engaged
the same stateroom on the Bar
anof unknown to Mrs. Wright
until they were on the ship.
She had kept the knowledge of
her room mate as a surprise for
Mrs. Wright.
The Indies were met at Sitka
by Mr. Harry Brandt, .adminis
trative director, Sheldon-Jack
son school. He took them on a
tour of the institution and other
sights in Sitka. Rev. and Mrs.
Skidmore, formerly of Seward,
were to meet the ladies in Ket
chikan. They must be having a
pleasant trip.
CRAWFORD'S SON IN CALIF.
Mrs. E. A. Craw'ford reports
that her son Ben Crawford and
v/ife attended the Bankers Con
vention at Fairbanks last week.
They went from there to San
Francisco. I
Ben is president of the City
Bank of Anchorage.
UNIVERSITY OF SEWAFD
Seward, Alaska
College Instruction
In Most Lines.
Dr. Galen Hunt (Dean)
Box 946. Seward, Alaska
LENTEN SERVICES A1
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Ash Wednesday, which marks
the beginning of Lent, will be
observed at Seward Lutheran
Church with the first of a series
of Devotional Services centered
about the Passion Story of Christ
as recorded in the Gospel ac
cording to St. Matthew. Each of
the Wednesday night Devotional
Services will begin at 7:30 and
will last about 50 minutes.
Lent begins early this year,
beginning February 7th and
lasting until Easter, March 25th.
Each Wednesday, except during
Holy Week, there will be De
votional Services, with short
messages. The choir will meet
immediately following the serv
ices. During Holy Week, there
will be services on Maundy
Thursday with Holy Commun
ion. and on Good Friday. The
series will culminate with an
Easter Sunday Service marking
the Resurrection of Christ from
the dead. The public is invited
to all of these services, as well
as to the regular Sunday morn
ing services at 11:00.
EPISCOPAL SERVICES
World Day of Prayer service
8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 9. St. Peter's
Episcopal Church.
Father Russell Clapp also an
nounces Ash Wednesday serv
ices with Holy Communion at
7 and 9 a.m. There will be a
service each Wednesday at 8
p.m featuring instruction in the
Holy Scriptures to which the
public is invited.
Inlet Bus Company
HOMER, ALASKA
Iv. Homer: Mon., Wed., Fri., — 9 A.M.
ARRIVE SEWARD — 4:30 P.M.
Lv. Seward: Tues., Thurs., Sat. — 9 A.M.
ARRIVE HOMER — 4:30 P.M.
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BUS STOPS: Ir.let Inn, Homer - Terminal Cafe, Kenai
Van Gilder Hotel, Seward, and all way points.
OURDOUGt
TRANSFER
Day or Night Service
For Service Call
GEORGE EVERITT
406 Wash. St.
MADISON 93
When in Seward It’s
The New Seward Hotel
Oscar Dahl, owner
FROM SEWARD
SS DRNALI
Feb. 8 for
Valdez Wrangell
Juneau Ketchikan
Petersburg Seattle
SS BARANOF
Feb. 15 for
Sitka Ketchikan
Juneau Seattle
SS DENALI
Feb. 22 for
Cordova Wrangell
Juneau Ketchikan
Petersburg Seattle
SS BARANOF
March 1 for
Sitka Ketchikan
Juneau Seattle
Freighter Sailings from Seattle
Susiina
Fob. 8 Nadina .Feb. 13
WALTER W. SIPPRELL, Gen. Agent - Phone Main 125
The
★ ★
By Mildred Kirkpatrick
For several years now, we
have been told that the greatest
and most lucrative industry in
store for the Kcnai Peninsula
is the tourist trade. Seward and
surrounding country is a “na
tural” for that industry, and
only needs promotion.
Promotion means advertising,
a great deal of advertising. This
is not something that someone
is going to do for us. We must
do it. Being the point of entry
and departure by ship, a certain
amount of interest is naturally
to be focused on Seward. But,
because greener pastures, more
spectacular entertainment and
grander scenery is advertised as
being located in the Interior
cities, Seward gets but a glance
in passing (a quite rapid passing)
through to those much touted
places.
Which leads back to the first
claim—we must advertise. It
has often been argued that there
is no possibility of tourist trade
in Seward until there are larger
hotel accommodations, and the
same people making this argu
ment will state in the next
breath that no one is going to
invest in hotel property until
there is a call for it. So there
we stand.
It seems to me that if the need
for accomodations is going to be
predicted upon the amount of
tourist traffic—then the tourists
must be induced to stay over in
Seward, so that we can build a
hotel to house them—etc.
The finest medium of adver
tising is being offered us this
summer without any effort on
our part to attract it. That is the
convention tour of the National
Editorial Association. About 250
editors, owners and publishers
of Stateside newspapers will
make the tour, taking over the
entire facilities of the SS Aleu
tian for their purposes. 150 of
them will go to Fairbanks, An
chorage and Mt. McKinley,
100 or more of them will remain
in Seward. If one hundred news
paper men enjoy themselves in
Seward, what are they going to
say about the town when they
return to their papers? What
will they say if they find the
city people cold toward them,
disinterested or indifferent? We
can get over a million dollars
worth of free publicity—adver
tising—either favorable or ad
verse. It is up to Seward.
Ironically, this year, our
greatest asset, the fishing
streams and favored spots on
the Peninsula will be difficult
to reach because of the road
work. Consequently, some other
means of entertainment must be
devised.
A committee has been ap
pointed in the Chamber of Com
WSCS PLANS SMORGASBORD
A smorgasbord dinner with a
wide variety of Swedish dishes
will be given under the auspices
of the Woman’s Society of
Christian Service in the Metho
dist Church social hall Friday,
March 2, as announced by Mrs. j
Troy Bogard, president of the (
group.
Dinner will be served from
6:30 till 8:00 p.m. and the menu
will provide a choice of many
appetizers, entrees and deserts.
Tickets will be on sale in the
near future. , j
Plans are also going ahead
for the Spring Fair to be held
at the church on March 17. i
Luncheon and a bake sale will j
feature the Fair, but faneywork
and other items familiar to j
Fairs will also be on hand.
A short business meeting of \
WSCS was held in the church j
parlor last Thursday evening j
at which activities to be held,
during the spring months were |
discussed. Mrs. Tom Jones led j
the group in devotions for the
evening. The next meeting will j
be a social gathering at the home:
of Mrs. Tom Howell, February
22. I
All members are requested to j
bring copies of favorite recipes j
to be compiled in booklet form.
NURSES ENJOY DRIVE
TO HOMER
Miss Dc-lia Gabriel, nurse at
Seward General Hospital, took a
group of six nurses on a trip to
Homer over the week end. The
group included Mrs. Kathryn
Olson and her daughter, Mary
Alice, who is returning to Scl
dovia after a brief visit in Sew
ard and Moose Pass.
Ideal weather w i t h bright
sunny sky and crisp cold air
brought many rhapsodus ex
clamations from the ladies see
ing the country for the first
time. They particularly men
tioned the “glorified” frost
flowers on all twigs and bushes:
and the exceptional color to be j
found in Cook Inlet sunsets.
Forty-two moose in one field j
proved facination. A man walk-j
ed into the field to take pictures. |
“We were amazed for we feared j
they would attack him,” Miss
Garrett said, “but they only,
stood calmly watching him ap-|
proach. interested in what he1
was doing.”
merce to plan four days for,
these important visitors. They i
ARE IMPORTANT, don’t let us
lose sight of that for a minute.
Let’s make the best of a God
given opportunity and make
these editors welcome. When the
committee calls upon you for
assistance, be prepared to give
it, whether it is for the loan of
historic photographs, museum
items, paintings, cars, beds, or
what-have-you.
This is Seward’s big chance
to advertise, let's make the best
of it! j'
The Inlet Inn
in Horner
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NEW AND MODERN
ACCOMMODATIONS
Carl F. Gulley, Owner
P.O. Box 8 Homer, Alaska I
Expart—
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and
ENGRAVING
C. E. Orlander
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Established 1916
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