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In the Spotlight
A. O. Heimdahl is still confin
ed to his home with a strained
back. .
Mrs. B. Welde and Teddy
Hunsbeth took passage on the
Alameda for Juneau.
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John Stears of Point Aggassiz
remarked the other day that
his sons received $11 per pelt for
a shipment of coast minks.
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Teddy Andreanoff returned on
the Alameda from Oregon where
he has been visiting for the past
year.
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Warren Gartley of Wrangell
j passed thru Petersburg enroute
j to Juneau when the Alameda
jwas in port.
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The Princeton, Rev. David
j Waggoner, left on Wednesday
for Kake where the Presbyter
Man Mission work will be taken
[care of by Rev Waggoner.
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Frank A. Boyle, representa
tive elect was a passenger re
turning to Juneau from Seattle
on the Alameda.
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Hank Grinrod, admiral of the
shrimp fleet has been laid up
with the mumps. This swell or
der just refuses to be done away
with.
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Oscar Wikstrom who has
been watchman at the Wrangell
Narrows Packing Company’s
plant at Scow Bay has left the
•!job and taken on another.
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Edward Duvall, son of C. O.
Duvall, arrived from Shelton,
Washington on the Alameda
this week. The young man will
make his home here.
Mrs. John Steears returned to
her home at Point Agassiz last
Teusday after a two months
visit in Portland and central
Oregon.
Dan Hocson, Filllpino, was
arrested in Petersburg Tuesday
by Prohi Chidester and charged
with operating a small still. He
was given four months in the
calaboose by Commissioner
Clausen.
Tom Goodman, proprietor of
Goodman’s Men’s Furnishings
Store, returned to Petersburg
frem Seattle after & visit in the
Queen City of several weeks.
O. B. Lien, Petersburg baker
returned to Petersburg from
Tacoma where he has been
spending the winter.
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Rachel Peratrovich who has
been in the Cushman hospital,
Tacoma, returned to Petersburg,
on the Alameda.
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Nick Bez, superintendent of
the Peril Straits cannery of the
Alaska Pacific Salmon Corpora
tion passed thru Petersburg
during the week, enroute to Peril
Straits.
-x
Mrs. G. L. Metcalf of Juneau
was among the passengers re
turning to Juneau from Seattle
Uiis week on the Alameda.
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Mrs. Lilly Lewis of Wrangell
who has been in Tacoma for
medical treatment returned to
her home this week.
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E. A. Baker, butcher at the
Trading Union Meat Market,
took passage this week to Ju
neau.
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Mrs. Peter Roberts of Kla
wock left on the Alameda for
Juneau where she will enter the
hospital.
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Hans Wick, U. S. Deputy Mar
shal took Charles Anderson and
Clarence Langton to Juneau
where the latter two men will
‘^wait a hearing before the
Grand Jury on a criminal
charge.
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The famous ‘Three Deuces”
former rumrunner operated by
Roy Olmstead on Puget Sound
and now operated by the pro
hibition department of Alaska,]
struck an iceberg and was put
on the gridirons in Petersburg
ior repairs this week.
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A Junior Christian Endeavor
Society has been organized in
the Presbyterian Church with a
hne large membership. Julia Joe
and Helen Marks are directing
the work of the C. E. among the
little tots who are taking a lot
of interest in the work.
One hundred pickers are on
fhe pay roll in the shrimp can
nery these days and a supply of
shrimp is being put up to tide
the company’s affairs over the
closed season. The cannery will
close down for the annual close
season on the 15th of March.
-x
Mrs. David Phillips who went
on the Alameda to Juneau has
wired her husband that she will
undergo an operation Monday
ior removal of the appendix.
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Jimmie and Bobby Cawthon
who were seriously burned a
bout the face and eyes by an ex
plosion of gunpowder on Janu
ary 18th are now able to be out
again. It was feared at first that
they might suffer some impair
ment of sight. Fortunately, this
has been avoided.
Mr. Wayne Walther, local
buyer for New England Fish Co.,
returned Sunday morning from
a short trip to Juneau. Mr. Wal
ther and his crew have been
busy this week packing frozen
halibut. All of the fish held by
this company in the Petersburg
Cold Storage will be boxed and
shipped, forthwith.
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The Wrangell town team came
over last Saturday night and
gave the Petersburg Merchants
a fancy trimming, the final
score standing 18-44 in favor of
the pirates from the Stikine. It
isn’t' everybody that can do that
but this is the second time the.
pride of Petersburg has been
snagged on this Wrangell outfit
and the Merchants are looking
for blood.
-x
Clyde Shearn, erstwhile opera
tor at the MacGregor Theatre
is leaving for Ketchikan on the
first boat where he expects to
take charge of the operating
room for the new Dream Thea
tre.
-x
Leth Meadows, Meritt Custer,
end Jack Hartley who are oc
cupying the Stenslid cabin atj
Sandy Beach this winter, alsoi
Messrs. Cotton and Protzman |
occupying Charles Grennaa’s
cabin are making an appreci
able improvement at that resort.
Objectionable logs have been re
moved from the beach, danger
ous leaning trees have been fell
ed and the board walk across
the muskeg from town has been
lepaired. Picnic parties and j
summer campers will find the
beach a pleasanter place this
summer and according to Gree
naa’s report the sand will be
more sandier.
The goldurnest. lowdownest.
sneakingest galoot in eleventeen
states has turned up in Peters
burg. And since it is not known
just which one it is, every moth
er’s son of us is under suspicion.
While Miss Myrtle Cornelius
was in Juneau last week on a
business trip some black hearted
scoundrel went and shipped her
dog, “Larry,” off to Seattle on
the Northwestern without her
consent, yea, without even ask
ing her consent. Myrtle thinks it
was a put up job and a dirty
trick and she doesn’t give a
Ihang who knows it. Hawkshaw,
give ’em the works!!
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IS MURDER JUSTIFIED ?
Is one human being ever just
ified in taking the life of an
other is an unforgettable dra
matic screen dialogue feature
“Her Private Affair” which will
be shown at the Coliseum on
Saturday night.
Ann Harding, beautiful stage
ctar plays the leading role and
is the storm center around
which this story revolves.
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HIGH SOCIETY BLUES
William Collier, Sr., veteran
stage star, one of the greatest
after dinner speakers,*is now in
audible pictures. His wit is tra
ditional and before coming to
Hollywood, announcement that
he would speak at some New
York dinner was certain to
bring a record turn-out. Actors
especially attended and many a
“wise-crack” later heard in
various comedy productions orir^
ginated in his nimble brain.
Collier is featured in the cast
of “High Society Blues” a musi
cal romance and Janet Gaynor
and Charles Farrel along with
other prominent actors are sup
porting him in the cast.
“SEVEN FACES”
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A powerful yet whimsical dra
ma of a Parisian wax worker is
interwoven with a beautiful ro
mance in “Seven Faces” an all- j
talking production which will be
shown at the Coliseum Tuesday j
and Wednesday.
Paul Muni who enacts seven
character roles in this produc
tion supplies the whimsical
touch in his portrayal of Papa
Chibou, caretaker of the Musee
Pratouchy, who fairly worships
the wax effigy of the Emperor
Napoleon. Muni’s artistry is
said to make the love of the old
man for the heroic statue con
vincing, and keeps it a thing of’
dramatic beauty, according toj
< those privileged to see it.
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