ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER
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Entered In the Anchorage Postofflce June 5, 1915, as second class matter
under the Act of of March 3. 1873.
For President—Charles Evans Hughes.
For Delegate to Congress—James Wickersham
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, TUESDAY,
AUGUST 29, 1916.
ANCHORAGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The fast-increasing number of children of school age in
Anchorage renders it necessary to increase the teaching stall
to six, instead of four, teachers, as employed last term. A cen
sus taken under the auspices of the townsite authorities reveals
the fact that there are some 200 children of school age in this
district. Hence, it will be readily seen that four teachers will
he entirely inadequate to properly handle the situation.
The Times lias been a consistent advocate of the very best
school facilities possible to obtain for Anchorage. We realize
that if we are to have a home town, we must provide adequate
school facilities for the little folks. Most parents desire to give
their children a good education. It is their duty to do so. They
may be unable to endow their children with worldly goods in
the way of money or property, but they can provide their chil
dren with a good public school education, and if they do this,
in addition to rearing healthful, clean-minded progeny, their
duty will have been well performed, alike to the children and
to the country.
The school board of Anchorage is fully alive to the grow
ling necessities.of the public schools and we are persuaded that
the members will leave nothing undone to attain a high stand
ard for the local schools. If good facilities are afforded here,
there will he no reason for families leaving for the states on the
ground that they cannot give their children proper schooling.
The Times is informed that the school board lias under
consderation a commercial course in connection with the
schools. This would he a step in the right direction and we
hope that the board will be able to undertake the plan.
CAN GROW SUGAR BEETS.
One of tlie pioneer settlers in the' Wassilla valley, the gar
den spot of the Matanuska valley, informs The Times that his
experiments prove beyond a doubt that sugar beets will thrive
in that region and iie is firmly convinced that in the not far
distant future a beet sugar refining industry will come as a
logical outcome of the raising of this profitable product.
This same settler sent out a sample of soil from the Was
silla valley to the Washington State university to-have a test
made. A relative to whom he sent the soil,.and who in turn had
the analysis made, was informed that the soil was much richer
than any that had been analyzed in the state of Washington.
And yet there are some people who doubt the agricultural
possibilities of the Matanuska valley,
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Indications point strongly to the presence of oil-bearing
lands in the Matanuska valley. Shale and sandstone are es
sentially oil formations and both are native to certain parts
of the valley. Close proximity to the coal fields is another in
dication. It is not generally known that oil has been struck on
the west side of Cook inlet. Years ago, one of the big oil com
panies, said to be the Standard Oil company, did some consid
erable work in that region and encountered an oil well. The
well was capped, patent secured to the ground and work dis
continued. The same condition maintains on the Alaska pen
insula, still further to the west. A big company has thousands
of acres of oil lands, held under patent from Uncle Sam.
A noted clairvoyant conveys the very gratifying informa
tion that the world war will end on or before September 7.
But we wouldn’t advise any patron of this "papty- to lay any!
wagers to this effect. These clairvoyants are long on predic
tions, because that’s their business. But it is not given to mere I
man to raise the veil of the future. Man has his limitations,,
and one of these limitations is that he cannot see a minute
ahead, clairvoyants and like fakers to the contrary notwith
standing. Clairvoyants may guess, and anybody can do that.
Frank J? Cotter, Alaskan sourdough, the writer of the
famous jingles and poetic gems that have won him wide popu-1
larity, is “wasting his fragrance on the desert air” by hiding
his ability in the northland. While we do not wish to lose
this genial writer, we do think that his efforts are worth
coarse money on the great Outside. Many *!t man of lesser
ability in this line is living on the fat of the land in the centers
of population.
Commenting on The Times’ editorial with reference „to a
pulp mill in the Matanuska valley, a pioneer settler of that re
gion says there is a tine cottonwood forest on Cottonwood creek
that would supply a pulp mill for years. The growth is so
dense that little difficulty would be experienced in getting the
fallen timber to the mill. *
Hon. .1. C. Cotton, attorney for the Alaskan Engineering
Commission, and personal representative of Secretary of the
Interior Lane, is the biggest man, in point of ability, that has
visited Anchorage to investigate the government rdilway pro
ject. Mr. Cotton is what is termed a business lawyer.
“The Store That Has What You Want—When Yon Want It.“
Loussac’s Daily Gossip
TUESDAY, AUGUST •_'!), 1!)16.
Vol. 1. No. 36. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
4th and D
JUST RECEIVED
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to the comfort and convenience of your bathroom, on display in our show
window, including:
Soap Dishes
Water Glass Holders.
Combination Glass and Tooth Brush Holders.
Metal Towel Racks and Hangers.
Glass Bar Towel Racks, etc.
ANSCO CAMERAS—
The new model Ansco V. P. No. 2 is a dandy. Equipped with an Anas
tigmat Lease working at F. 7.5 and mifcrometer focusing device with Extra
speed Bionic Shutter it makes the most desirable pocket camera on the mar
ket. The size of the picture is 214 x 314 and the camera weighs only one
pound and is extremely well constructed.
The very low price for this high-grade camera, $17.50, puts it within
the reach of everyone who wants a light, compact, high-grade pocket camera.
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The store that has what you want when you want it.
Agents and Distributors
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Augustine & Kyer’s Chocolates.
Ansco Cameras
Jbby’s Cut Glass.
Imported Perfumes
Thermos Bottles
Stationery and Office Supplies
R. Service’s poems and
Rex Beach’s novels of Alaska Life.
HOTEL ALLEN
Matanuska,
First-Class
JUST OPENED.
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Commissioner J. E. Coffer of Hot
Springs, has tendered his resignation
and will be succeeded by J. C. Moody,
of Iditarod.
Walter B. Scheffer, a former resi
dent of Fairbanks, was recently killed
by falling 175 feet over a cliff in the
Olympic mountains.
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