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Curio and Jewelry Store
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Brunswick Phonograph and Records
Drop in and try our new Records
Bumble Bee, Lulu Lu, Valencia and many
other good records.
We have a new shipment of
records next week
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Petersburg, Alaska
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General Machine Work
ATWATER-KENT IGNITION
Agents for SCRIPPS And REGAL ENGINES
Sunbeam Pine and Pipeless Furnace—Sunbeam Cabinet Heater
FRYER BROS.
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no matter how served, the first
taste makes one exclaim—“Delic
ious"—and there are 31 ways of
bringing this delicious flavor to
your table.
Baked Ham! served hot, its
plump, golden brown, dove
dotted surface just crackling and
bubbling with goodness — the
sweet tangy smell of the Ham
i mingling with the spicy aroma of
the cloves. “Delicious!"—you’ll
say so. That’s one way. There are
f 30 others, and each one proves
that Frye’s "Delicious" Brand
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Frye's “Meat Guide”
will direct you to 187
wholesome dainty
dishes. Every one test
ed. There are no iunch
or dinner time disap
pointments where
Frye’s cooking instruc
tions are followed.
Send 2c for a copy.
Frye 8 Co., Seattle
ECHO OIL SCANDALS
Secretary of Navy Wilbur report-1
that arrangements have been com-j
pleted for the recovery of the Panj
American Petroleum and Transport1
Company’s holdings in the Elk
Hills Oil Reserve whereby $350,
000,000 in royalties will be paid in
to the Government the fore part of
this month and $250,000 a month
thereafter. The Government pe
titioned the court regardless
of the outcome of pending litiga
tion betweenthe oil company and
the government, this money be
longed to the Government.
The PanAmerican was under the
control of E. L. Doheny, acquired
control of oil leases in the Elk
Hills Reserve from former Secre
tary of Navy Denby. Findings of
the Senate Investingating Commit
tee instituted proceedings in the
District Court at Los Angeles.
This Court declared that the leases
should be invalidated but that the
company should be reimbursed in
the sum of $12,000,000 for money
expended in drilling wells and con
structing storage tanks..
Both the government and the
company appealed to the circuit.
Court. Now the Court upholds the
the lower court in ordering the
cancelling of the leases but revers
ed the ruling that the company
should bo reversed. Meanwhile re
ceivers are operating the wells and
impounding the money to protect
both parties to the suit. The mon
paid over to the government was
due under the original leases and
accrues to the Treasury whether
the Government wins or loses in
the Supreme Court.
SEINING SEASON FAILURE
The press Is full of reports of
the wonderful run of salmon this
yea.r Large packs are being re
ported from all districts. But the
press does not report that fisher
man are not earning their salt this
year.. Up to the end of last week
a crew operating out of Wrangell
nad caught less than 500 salmor.
vhis season. Seiners are putting up
their seines. The Petersburg
Packing company operating 20
traps laid off their crews for a
while this week. They offered trap
number 8 to Mountain Point Pack
ing Company.
Gill netters are not buying new
gear. Men who have for years earn
ed their living with the set are now
planning to go to go to Florida and
California to spend the fortunes
they got from Alaska in more pro
; fitable ventures. In the meantime
| cost of our government will be
; met by the pulp industry Juneau
i has been hatching this long while.
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1 The Americ will start shrimping
i operations at th© Wrangell planl
i very shortly. The pickers are nol
I getting enough shrimp their at the
| present to keep them busy.
| Ladies early fall felts at the
Linen Shop.—adv.
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New Eastmsn Kodaks
Especially servicable in local
lighting conditions.
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Eastman Films
For Good Negative
You will want to keep your good prints, arrange them in a snap shot book using white ink
»and art corners to make it artistic
Wheeler Drug and Jewelry Company
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Sodas satisfy. Fifteen flavors at
the Totem Pole.
The Alameda discharged 6,000
cases of cans at the local cannery.!
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Harry Appleton has been ap
pointed temporary extra guard at
the Federal jail.
The Presbyterian mission boat
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Princeton was on the gridiron this
week getting a new coat of paint.!
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Work on the cold storage is pro-j
grossing rapidly. Most of the raft
ers of the first unit are in place.
Fifteen boxes of shrimp and five!
boxes of crab meat we reshipped
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from the Cooperative dock this!
week.
William Worth, Republican can
didate for the legislature and local
business man left on the Alameda
for a business trip to Seattle.
Sam Allen arrived in port with
the Tyee cannery tender. We have
special reason to be interested in
Tyee this season.
* Oscar Nicholson, supt. of the lo
cal cannery had his speed boat in
the Fryer Brothers shop for re
| pairs this week. i
Not a danger sign at the street
I intersection at the Hogue and Tve
. ten corner. A narrow street, four
i corners without clear view, passing
1 automobile.r unning child, funeral,
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Bob Allen is touching up his
new home this week and getting
i it in shape for occupancy. A few
j more more spirit and less lip faith
and tre town will grow faster.
Somebody will pay.
A native fisherman on the Nel
son, Capt. Chester Worthington is
j reported as having fallen over
I toard and drowned. The accident
i happened between Gut and Red
Bluff Bays.
The Brookdale, under charter to
t the Pacific Steamship Company,
took on 30,000 cases of salmon
from the loc£l cannery. She pro
ceeded to Kake where she will take
j on additional cargo.
! Major, engineer in charge of the
! dredging operations is intown this
i week inspecting the work of the
big dredge. The work is nearly
completed. The Narrows will be
open to traffic at all times in a
very short while.
It is supposed that he lost his
balance while on the turn table and
fell overboard. He evidently grab
bed the seine to save himself for
' when the crew came on deck it was
gone. When the net was picked
uq he was found still clinging to
' the cork line.
' The street repair gang is putting
in a new street at the north end of
town. One will pe able to out to
the qoint when this is completed
without danger of going thru the
street or being run over by auto
mobile. A couple of other bad
spots should be given attention.
In time of war, Big Business
doesn’t want you to think of any
thing but bayonets, blood and guts’
In time of peace it doesn't want
you to think at all.
There was a treaty adopted at
Washington, in 1921, for the limi
tation of armament. By using a
raetal-compounds of aluminumn
and duralumin—lighter than steel,
the United States is crawling
around the agreement which it had
signed on the dotted line. However
it' isn’t al one sided for Great Bri
tain and Japan are up to the same
trick. Just a scrap of paper after
all. Whoopee
Hire’s Root Beer on ice at the
Totem Pole.
Variety Theatre
Saturday and Sunday
"The Man Next Door"
A screen adaptation of Emerson
Hough's famous novel of the same
name. A girl reared like a boy on
a ranch in the boundless prairie
suddenly flung into the luxories of
city life. Her struggle to find
love! Picturized by the great novel
ist of the West. Alice Calhoun
THE MEN’S SHOP
OFFERS
One of the Largest Assortments
of Men's and Youths Clothing ever
Shown in Alaska--More than a
Thousand pure Wool samples
Ranging in Price from $25.00 & up
A Try on Fitting Insures a Fit
For Refreshments, Cool drinks and all flavors of
Velvet Ice Cream
Up-to-date Sanitary Soda Fountain and Ice Cream Container
Everything New, Clean and Good
Make Worth’s your Do-drop-in
FURNITURE DEPARTMENT
Stocked complete with new and attractive designs in house
furnishings. Call and look things over.
Wm. E. Worth
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STOLL’S
General Repair Shop
Battery Charging House Wiring
Installing of refrigerating, steam, gas and electric machinery.
We repair anything from a steam engine to a sewing machine,
and from an auto to a baby carriage. NO JOB TOO BIG OR
TOO SMALL. We charge your battery while you wait. No re
moving from the boat. Use your lights while the battery is
being charged.
STEAM FITTING AND PLUMBING EXPERT WORK ON IGNITION SYSTEM
AGENT FOR THE WORLD DATTERY
Shop and office on Trading Union Dock. Always on the Job.
H. J. STOLL & SON
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ATTENTION!!
Boat Owners
We can take care of general repair in wood and caulking
and all the blacksmith work on any boat up to 100 feet in
length at
Petersburg Marine Ways
J. C. Holton & Ed. Walwick
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