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<• VOLUME 20. NUMBER 166
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
Debutantes Must Harken
to the Lord Chamberlain
LONDON. July 3 <yp)—Frocks worn
at court functions at Buckingham
Palace must not be too flimsy, accord
ing to a special ruling on the sub
ject recently by the lord chamber
lain’s office which has charge of so
cial affairs for King George and
Queen Mary. The ruling was prompt
ed, it was explained by the tightness
of dresses, but in this connection the
lord chamberlain let it be known that
there had been no ban on narrow
skirts so long as they were full enuf
to permit the curtesy to be gracefully
carried out by the wearer.
With regard to the flimsy frocks
the lord chamberlain said it appeared
from reports in his hands that some
of the debutantes at last year’s court
did not wear sufficiently substantial
undergarments and consequently, in
some instances, even knees were vis
ible, which was not to the liking of
certain officials. As the outcome of
the lord chamberlain’s order a new
material has been brought into use
by modistes to meet the occasion. It
is a very heavy crepe de chine and
made into specially designed slips to
be worn under court gowns.
HOLY YEAR VISITORS TAX
ROME’S ABLEST LINGUISTS
ROME, July 2. (/P)—The linguistic
attainments oi policemen, taxi-chauf
feurs. hotel employes and other work
ers who have to cater to the needs
of Italy’s vast tourist population have
been severely taxed this year—some
times beyond the breaking point—by
the influx of Holy Year visitors.
Hotel managers, porters and val
ets who once were able to satisfy
their clients by a passing acquaint
ance with Italian, English, French
and German now are frequently re
duced to conversation by eloquent
gestures. Hotel notices and other
tourist information posters which un
til this year had been printed in
three or four languages, now in*
some cases boast as many as six
or seven.
Recently taxicabs and cabs were
provided with booklets setting forth
the scale of prices in Italian, French,
German, English, Spanish and Polish.
And even the expert philologists
who boast of being able to make
themselves understood in Russian,
Serbian, Rumanian, Hungarian and
all the other Central and Northern
Europeans languages are often con
*
fronted with a more bailing difficul
ty by the presence here of peasants
from remote sections of their native
lands, particularly Italy and Germa
ny, who know no tongue other than
their respective regional dialects.
CALIFORNIA CLUB USES
U, S. MAILS EXTENSIVELY
LOS ANGELES, July 3. (/P>—Ap
proximately 3,000,000 pieces will con
stitute the outgoing mail of the Au
tomobile Club of Southern Califor
nia this year, it was indicated in
statistics released recently by the
headquarters of the organization.
The figures were based on the amount
of mail matter sent during 1924.
First-class letter postage of the
motoring organization averages 3,500
letters a day. In addition 2,000
pieces of second-clas3 mail matter
and some 150 parcel post packages
are sent, totaling for the daily out
going mails an average of 5,650
pieces. The figures, allowing 300
working days in the year, revealed
that the club sends out annually 1,
695,000 pieces of mail.
However, this is but a fraction
more than 50 per cent of the total
outgoing mail, for the organization
sends out approximately 1,200,000 cop
ies of its monthly magazine.
In addition some 100,000 letters and
packages are carried to 30 branch
offices by the highway patrol fleet
which the club maintains.
VETERANS OF KANSAS NEGLECT
COLLECT BONUS FROM STATE
TOPEKA, Kan., July 3. (^—Scat
tered all over the globe are some 5,
000 World War veterans entitled to
share in the $2,500,000 remaining in
the Kansas soldier bonus fund, but
ignorant of the fact that the money
belongs to them.
“Sadder still,” remarked Leslie E.
Edmunds, state bonus director,
“those veterans, who probably need
the money, will not be able to get a
cent of it after June 30. The state
legislature has extended the time
once, but will not do so again.”
About 1,000 claims have been paid
by the state since the legislature ex
tended the time for considering ap
plications. Most of these were paid
to veterans in other states, or in
foreign countries, who had just
learned that Kansas was paying a
bonus to men who were bona fide
residents of the state at the time
of enlistment or conscription.
The huge dock at Unalaska is said
to he the finest and largest wharf
o the Alaskan coast and is of suffi
cient size to dock any seagoing ves
sel with ease.
Many local citizens had planned
to spend the Fourth of July down
at Russian river but as the day of
the Big Celebration approaches the
most of them are beginning to change
their minds, deciding to stay and be
one of the merry-makers.
In a recent mail from the South,
Len Olson of Urbach’s store, receiv
ed word from his boss from Los An
geles. Mr. Urbach stated in his let
ter he was awaiting in Los Angeles
the arrival of Mrs. Urbach from New
York. He did not say when they
would be coming home.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold McCutcheon,
former Seward residents, who left
for California last winter, are resid
ing in Los Angeles. They took: in
the recent Shriners’ Convention and
met a number of friends from Alas
ka.
Miss Mate Long, former private
secretary to R. J. Wier, engineer in
charge of the Seward division of
the Alaska Railroad, is now employ
ed in the purchasing department of
the railroad, at Seattle.
Dick Windle and Robert Monroe,
former construction engineer, sta
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I now
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in my vest pocket.”
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tioned in Seward for many months
by the Alaska Engineering Commis
sion, are now engaged in States’
highway work in Nevada. Both de
parted from .Seward for the States
about three years ago.
Miss Barrett Willoughby, Alaskan
girl, whose story, “Rocking Moon”
just concluded in the American, and
since has blazed forth in book form,
and who is rapidly forging ahead in
the world of 'literary art, writes Jack
McCord in Seward from San Fran
cisco, that she is homesick for the
North and anticipates making a trip
to Alaska this year.
Mr. Torksberg, a former newspa
per man of Anchorage is now a mem
ber of the editorial staff of the Seat
tle Post-Intelligencer, according to
recent arrivals in Seward.
Join the Chamber or Commerce.
FORMER SEWARD RESIDENT
AND EMPLOYE OF A. E. C.
IS NOW LIVING IN ’FRISCO
Eugene S. juaccard, former official
in the engineering department of the
Alaska Engineering Commission, now
the Alaska Railroad, is now located
in San Francisco and doing well, ac
cording to arrivals in this city who
visited with him a short time ago.
Mr. Juaccard resided in Seward for
a number of years, leaving here for
California in 1919.
Governor Nellie T. Ross of Wyo
ming has become a member of the
business and professional women’s
club at Cheyenne.
Five cities in the United States
have hospitals with staffs composed
[entirely of women.
Today
men of judgment
are measuring cities and towns by
their Chambers of Commerce.
In any survey of an American town
or city, it is impossible to name a
live, growing community, which
does not have a virile Chamber of
Commerce that numbers in its
membership every successful busi
ness and professional man and wo
man in the community.
The
Seward Ghamber of Com
merce
welcomes you to the big 4th of July Celebration.
Welcome to Seward
and to "Sylvia’s”
Where ICE CREAM, the kind you like, is made daily.
Thirst-quenching soft drinks.
Box and bulk CANDIES of all sorts.
SYLVIA’S
IN THE SEXTON HOTEL BUILEftHG ' -■ :
A full and beautiful assortment of Alaskan photographs
and curios. Pictures framed. Expert Developing.
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