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Model 91 - $147.50
We have a fine -
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Run 3000 miles.
For Sale at a great saving.
Hogue & Tveten Co.
In the Spotlight
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Steve Chermoff of Shakan
brought in Mr. and Mrs. George
Smith, watchman and wife at
the Northwestern Fisheries Can
nery, Shakan.
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Mrs. John Peterson and
daughter Helen who have been
visiting with Miss Myrtle Cor
nelius, returned to their home
in Washington Bay.
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Mr. and M’s. A. 3. Ari'T' n
of Wrangell spent Sunday in Pe
tersburg.
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The Sons of Norway are plan
ning a social at the hall for
February 7th.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rayner
are in from their fox ranch on
Walter Island.
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Father Monroe came over
from Wrangell to spend Sunday
n Petersburg.
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Bob Lee, genial salesman for
“Carnation” and Albers Bros.
Co., products, has been pepping
i p sales of his products to local
merchants.
Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman, of
Irothers Island fox farm, left
for the states on the Northland
'his week. They expect to re
turn about March 1st.
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The first real snow of the win
*er fell yesterday and continued
until there was about four in
ches of a white coat over the
ground. We were just on the
point of suggesting that Andrew
Johnson run a lawnmower over
his lawn when the snow came.
The grass on this lawn was long
enough to cut and it was a pret
ty sight to behold.
BOAT ON FIRE
! The trolling boat T-141, while
lying at the Trading Union
float yesterday morning, with
her engine running, caught fire
in some unexplained manner on
the outside. Mr. Holly, the own
er, was inside the boat and no
:iced through the window that
the boat was enveloped in
fiames. The fire was soon ex
tinguished by use of hand fire
extinguishers but the paint was
scorched off one entire side of
the hull and cabin.
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John Loseth reports he re
ceived $9 each for local mink
rkins he shipped recently.
I W. H. Caswell of Ketchikan,
representing the U. S. Marshal’s
, office, spent the past few days
in Petersburg on official business.
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H. A. (Heinie) Dahl, who re
cently sold his interest in the
Swanson and Dahl corporation,
left for Seattle on the Northland.
The family remains in Peters
burg.
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Chet Johnson spent a few
lays in town this week looking
after the interests of the Na
tional Grocery Company.
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N. A. McEachram. salesman
for Schwabacher Bros., was a
oassenger for Wrangell on the
Northland.
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A large and enthusiastic
crowd is planning to leave for
Wrangell tomorrow to attend
t.he Legion doings in our neigh
boring city.
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While employed in moving
• ome heavy machinery parts at
+he Anderson Bros, shipyard
Wednesday, Chris Odegaard was
painfully injured when the
handle of a winch slipped from
his hands and struck him on the
head inflicting a severe scalp
wound. The extent of the injury
is to be determined by X-ray.
WRANGELL
Thomas Jefferson Case of
| Wrangell has passed his 82 mile
stone in life. A number of his
old cronies, friends and two of
his comrades were i a party at
his home to wish him many more
birthdays. Tom is one of those
pioneers who came to Alaska in
the early Ws. He was no spring
chicken then.
The h. c. 1. in Wrangell is'
-.ausing no end of discussion a-!
mog the towns people and the'
business men themselves. A ra
pid Are discussion arose when
come of the business men denied
the assertion. Perhaps the Club
had better look ito the cost of
high living! These wealthy fish
ermen just can’t save their
money, dori’cher know. j
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DOUBLE BILL AT
THE MacGKEGOR
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Tonight and tomorrow night
i double bill is being presented
for the entertainment of the
movie fans. Lloyd Hughes and
Mary Astor are the principals in
i story of modern youth where
n the bride to be escapes from
ler wedding on the eve of its
ceremony—fleeing the unknown.
This is a front page story of
modern youth and love and it
las a message that every moth
er and daughter should ponder.
The inimitable Buck Jones as
the “Lone Rider” is the second
half of this program. He will
veep you in suspense with the
daring stunts that he pulls off
itop his horse and you will en
ioy the marvels of the Western
scenery.
Sunday and Monday—“The Big
House” a truly wonderful picture
.vill be seen at the MacGregor.
The ‘‘big house” in the criminal
world means the penitentiary
and that is where the scene of
this picture is laid. This picture
las created no end of comment
;n the moving picture world and
he critics have given it an en
viable place among the big pic
ures of the year. Heart-throbs
,riewing with other human pas
ions housed in the beings of
over 3,000 men doing time in
‘The Big House.”
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COMMERCIAL CLUB DOINGS
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In response to a request from
.he Petersburg Commercial Club,
.he Juneau office of the Bureau
jf Fisheries has stated that the
•eason for the prohibition in the
new regulations against the use
of wire spillers in salmon traps
is that the wire spillers waste
the fish; that many dead salm
on are Seen in the bottom of the
spillers and that many other
fish are bruised and scarred.
That the Bureau has no objec
tion to the use of wire outer
walls for protective purposes but
that it would require web to be
used in the bottom of the spil
lers. The communication also
points out that webbing is not
more costly than wire when the
length of possible usage is con
sidered. This matter had been
brought up in a previous meet
through a request from the
Ketchikan Commercial Club for
endorsement of its protest a
gainst the regulation. The com
munication from Ketchikan was
tabled.
The secretary was directed to
request Commissioner Flory of
the Forest Service to authorize
a survey of the proposed exten
sion of the highway from Moun
tain Point to Blind Slough.
A communication form Com
i missioner Charles E. Hawkes
worth of the Office of Education
stated that the request of the
Club for the appointment of a
nurse to work among the native
people of Petersburg could not
be granted at this time, adding
that other outlying distriit?
were probably in greater need.
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iwHO FILLS OREGON’S BREAD
BASKET?
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We picked up a Sunday Ore
gonian last fall and there our
! attention was riveted to the
question “Who Fills. Oregon’s
Breadbasket? The question im
mediately arose in our minds:
Who Fills Alaska’s breadbasket?
We skimmed down thru the
! article and this is what we found
j—“Lumber, fir, pine, spruce, ce
dar and hemlock lumber. Trees
in the woods; logs in the ponds;
lumber in the yards, in the
freight cars, in the ships; drafts
in the banks; payrolls to the
men; purchases in the stores;
provisions on the tables, Oregon’s
breadbasket.”
Here is the list ot Oregon’s
resources:
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Fruit crop.$24,500,000
Wheat crop. 25,500,000
Tourist crop. 30,000,000
Ilay crop (tame-wild) 31,000,000
Livestock, poultry, etc. 72,000,000 J
Lumber. 111,000,000]
Oregon’s income trom Its tim
ber resources equals that of its
hay, tourist, wheat and fruit
crops. In a normal year the an
nual timber cut is just under 4,- ;
000,000 feet in the fir districts
and 1,225,000,000 feet in the
pine area. This 5,000,000,000
feet accounts for 65 per cent of
all manufacturing operations in
the state and the utilization of
25,000 persons directly in the in
dustry.
Toledo, Oregon, in 1920 had a
population of 678 persons. In
1930 it had a population of 2,131
persons, an increase almost en
tirely due to the lumber indus
try. “The Toledo economic cir
cle radiates like ripples in a
pond. Stimulated by the large
annual payroll in the mil and in
the camps, the ripples extend in
purchases of food, clothing, a
musement—a thousand com
i modities thruout the county. The j
; taxes go for roads, for schools!
and for administration. Still;
j widening, these ripples extend j
to comercial houses in Corvallis
I and other valley cities, and fin-!
ally to Portland, the state’s
I trading center, where practically
all the thousands of economic
nipples from similar centers
eventually converge.”
Looking for New Industries
For a number of years the1
Demv-Reps and other sycophan- •
lie members of Juneau’s Federal
Brigade, have been midwifing!
the pulp and paper industry in
Alaska. Each year about election
time the corporations that are
“coming” are just on the verge
cf doing something. But some
how, they always manage to
stave off their appearance an
other two years. In the mean
time this same brigade of high
binders are helping to starve to;
death the timber industry of
Alaska. There is not one healthy
sawmill in Alaska. The larger!
logging outfits are already
squealing because of the pinch
ing of governmental red tape
which forbids sale of round logs!
in foreign (state or European) i
markets; because of regulations
(which virtually make impossible
successful operation of logging
camps. The cutting regulations
are such that too many culled
logs are forced upon the sawmills
and these companies in turn are
unable to market culled lumber,
m competition with outside mills
must depend upon local con
sumption. Local consumption in
turn depending upon the fish
eries Tor their earning power are
unable to purchase anything
more than toothpicks so that the j
mill companies are slowly butj
surely being strangled to their j
economic death.
If the Juneau-Ketchikan poli
ticians made as much effort to!
develop the lumber industry in1
Alaska as they are in trying to
secure the pulp and paper in-,
dustry, it will mean a healthier
condition for the logger and mill
companies. At present by bureau
fiat thp Alaska logger is forbid
den to export any lumber; the
mill man may ship out only the
cut timber. Paper boxes are eli-'
minating the Alaska wood boxes
and that market is taken away
from the logger and millman. It
will not be long now when there
will not be much use for any of
the mill and logging companies!
to operate.
But what’s the odds? Isn’t the
federal brigade going to bring us,
the pulp and paper industries
and aren’t they going to bring
us population and a new era of
prosperity?
The People’s Drug Co.
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RAISINS
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CELERY
Crisp Stalks 10
GRAPE FRUIT
Florida’s 10
NUT-OLA
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MALTED MILK
Thompsons 55
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OATS 45
CRYSTAL WHITE
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BUTTER
Fresh Creamery 33
CORN ON COB
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HONEY
10 lb. pail 69
SHAKER SALT
2 for 23
ROCKDELL SYRUP
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