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GOOD PLAY ON AT
LIBERTY THIS EVENING
The screen version of “The Beauti
ful and Damned,” will certainly not
cause less of a stir than the book
itself. In relating the story of the
love and marriage of Anthony Patch,
and the vivid beauty Gloria, it reveals
with devastating satire a section of
American society which has never be
fore been recognized as an entity—
that wealthy, floating population,
which throngs the restaurants, cabar
ets, theatres and hotels of our great
cities—people adrift on a sea of lux
ury, without the anchors of homes and
the rudders of responsibility—people
without roots or backgrounds.
The photoplay shows in particular
two young people cast upon this shin
ing sea and floating toward that aw
ful whirlpool that r/iy destroy the
soul and leave only the body. This is
done with so effective a succession of
scenes and incidents ,that this floating
society, in all its glitter and color, is
brought before your very eyes. It re
veals a significant phase of modern
life hitherto unrealized.
Alaska copper is the metal from
which was made the Harding memor
ial tablet placed on the porch at the
Governor’s house from which the
President spoke on his visit to Ju
neau and the rest of Alaska, last sum
mer. The metal was donated for the
plate by the Kennecott Copper Co.,
and was shipped in a raw state from
the Tacoma smelter. The inscription
on teh tablet reads: “Warren G. Hard
ing .President of the United States,
spoke from this porch on July 10,
1923.”
Suits macre to measure. See Urbach.
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FOR SALE
At Grant Lake, sawmill, buildings,
boats, tools too numerous to men
tion, etc. Terms cash to highest
bidder, on August 1st, 1924.
Will receive bids mailed and seal
ed, as in person. Owner reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
AL SOLLERS,
Grant Lake, Alaska.
WHAT’S AT MILE VA
The prettiest spot in Alaska; a lake
and river and the best sand beach In
the Nort.•’arid; end best on the map
for the sportsman. A camp meeting
ground and a dance floor, and the
music is always wound up. ice cold
lemonade, fruits and sandwiches al
ways on hand for the auto'st or fisher
man. Play Mile 7*2 and don’t miss
it or you haven’t st?u Alaska if you
oo.
CAN USE A FEW MORE CUS
TOMERS AT THE O. K .BARBER
SHOP.
HARDWARE AND FURNITURE
POWDER
Doors and Windows.
Plumbing & Tinning
Coal Stoves
Air Tight Stoves
Oil Stoves
Gas Engine Supplies
Evinrude Engines
Iron Roofing
Roofing Paper
CAPS
Building Paper
Gasoline and Oils
Paints and Varnishes
Canvas and Tents
Lamps and Lanterns
Window Glass
Crockery & Glassware
Rugs and Linoleum
Ship Chandelry
FUSE
Anchors
Rope and Twine
Hay and Oats
Chop Feed
Chick Feed
Egg Mash
Bran and Midlings
Fire Arms
Ammunition
J. L. CRAEF TELEPHONE MADISON 87
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Ordinance No. /8 of the Town of Seward, en
titled an Ordinance to Establish and Regulate
Rates, etc., provides that all electric current in
the Town of Seward shall be sold through me
ters after September 1, 1924. The maximum
rates fixed by said Ordinance are as follows:
For Lighting and Domestic Purposes:
12 l-2c per k. w. for first 100 k. w. hours.
10c per k. w. for the second 100 k. w. hours.
8c per k. w. for all over 300 k. w. hrs.
For Power the rates are: One horsepower
and more, the rate shall not exceed Six Cents
per k. w. hour.
The Ordinance also fixes a flat rate for in
stalling meters including connecting and discon
necting at $1.50 each. Consumers should make
application promptly to the Seward Light and
Power Company for meters specifying that ap
plications are made under Ordinance No. 78
and the rates fixed by said Ordinance.
By Order of the Town Council
By Wm. H. Whittlesey, Town Clerk
Dated at Seward, Alaska, July 14, 1924.
Golfornia
WILL MARTIN CRESSY, a noted actor
and sketch writer, recently entertained
a group of people in Fresno, at the Com
mercial Club, with a clever essay on Cali
fornia. No matter how much we love
California, we can all appreciate Cressy’s
survey of our state.
Along about 1840 California really began to advance,
A couple of fellows by the names of Lewis and Clark
began running cheap excursions out over the Union Pacif
ic Railroad.
The Barbara Coast was made an open port.
Joaquin Miller and Bret Harte began writing poetry
about the climate.
But the state did not really get its start until a fel
low by the name of Marshall started a gold cure up near
Sacramento; inside of a year there were 6,000,000—of both
sexes—working there.
Thus we see that California was discovered by the
Spanish, fought for by the Irish, settled by the Yankees,
built by the Chinese, owned by the Jews and run by the
Native Sons.
With the Spanish in the south, the Yankees in the
north and tourists all over it, California has had a mar
velous growth. In fact, it grew so fast they had to divide
it into two parts, Northern and Southern California. And
had to place two deserts and a mountain range in between
them to keep the two from fighting.
The capital of the Northern part was called San Fran
cisco. That of the Southern portion was called Los An
geles. “San” means “Saint”—“Angeles” means “Angels”
—but that was quite a long time ago .
San Francisco, including Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda,
Richmond, Petaluma, Sausilito, Mill Valley, Alcatrez Is
land, and the Farrallones, is the largest city on the coast.
Los Angeles, including all the rest of California, is
larger.
San Francisco is bounded on the north by Alaska, on
the east by Utah, on the south by Hollywood, on the west
by the Hawaiian Islands, and on the top by Heaven; that
is, by daylight. After dark it has no limits.
The Mount Tamalpais Railroad and the San Francis
co City Hall are the two crookedest things on earth.
San Francisco has more restaurants named after dogs
than any other city in the world. Seal Rocks and the St.
Francis Hotel are renowned for the number of seal skins
to be seen there on any sunny afternoon.
The rest of the world dates its time before and after
the Birth of Christ. San Francisco dates hers before and
after the fire.
The name of Los Angeles is Spanish. There are
twenty-two way of pronouncing it, all wrong.
It is inhabited by emigrants from Iowa and New
England, tourists, real estate agents and movie actors.
Los Angeles is a seaport—situated eighteen miles from
the sea. The only wonder in this is that they did not
get it through to the Atlantic. Nothing stops Los An
geles.
They were short on water so they ran a subway some
where up into Canada and tapped the Arctic Ocean. Then
they had so much water they did not know what to do with
it so they annexed another country to use up the water.
Owing to these various annexes Los Angeles is now the
largest city in point of farm acreage in the world.
One of the greatest assets of Los Angeles, although
it is never mentioned by the inhabitants, is the climate.
There are two kinds of climate in Los Angeles—perfect
and unusual.
Owing to the fact that all Los Angeles dwellers are
either rich or hopelessly broke, it is a great city for
amusements; golf, polo, baseball and bringing charges
against the Mayor, being the most popular'.
There are more beautiful women in Los Angeles than
any other city in the world. They all come from some
where else to go into the movies.
Hollywood is a suburb of Los Angeles, and is called
the “City of Happy Homes,” this being caused by the
fact that husbands and wives there always occupy Separ
ate houses.
The imports of Southern, or Cafeteria end of the
State are rubes, boobs, malt and actors. Their exports
are oranges, films, cancelled checks and raisins. Califor
nia leads the world in hotels, good roads, diversity of
beautiful scenery, wonderful press agents, climate, mov
ing pictures, automobile owners, flowers, hospitalities and
local jealousies.
Oh, but I love California! Love it as only a na
tive son of New, England can love it! Love its lakes and
rills, its mountains and hills, its desert and seashore. But
best of all I love its soil. Those lots I own in Los An
geles. I have an attachment for those lots I shall never
lose. That is, it does not look now as if I ever would.
The man who sold them to me said I could sell them some
time at a profit. But he was a poor prophet. I just no
ticed the other day that the deed reads; “To Have and to""
Hold.”
But the great dream of my life is sometime to settle
down there in my own little bungalow, on my own little
ranch and there, in the golden sunlight and the silvery
moonlight of California, dream hours away, seeing visions
of other places and other times. And where can you
find more to recall visions than on a California Ranch ?
You wake in the morning to the music of a Connec
ticut alarm clock; you button your Bostoh garters into
your Paris socks, your Baltimoi'e suspenders to your Du
luth overalls, put on your Lynn shoes-and your Danbury
hat and you’re up for the day. You sit down to your Grand
Rapids table and eat your Hawaiian pineapple and your
Quaker oats and your Aunt Jeremiah flap-jacks swim
ming in New Orleans molasses.
Then you go out and put your Concord, N. H. harness
on your Missouri mule, hitch it to a Moline, 111., plow and
plow up a couple of acres of land covered with Ohio mort
gages . At noon you dine on Cincinnati ham, cooked in
Chicago lard, on a Detroit stove, burning Wyoming oil.
And then, as twilight falls, you fill up your Pride of De
troit with Mexican gasoline and dash out to the beach, and
while sitting in a . Greek restaurant, smoking a Boston
made cigar, you watch a New York girl dance the Mem
phis shimmy to the music of a New Orleans jazz band.
And then you go home, eat a Mexican tamale, smoke
a Turkish cigarette, read a chapter of the Bible printed in
London, England. Say a prayer written in Jerusalem,
put on your Chinese pajamas, climb in between your Fall
River sheets and fight all night with the fleas, THE ONLY
NATIVE PRODUCT OF YOUR WHOLE DAMN RANCH!
BECK & WHITE
High Grade Line of
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, &
CANDIES’
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Located in Harriman Bank Bldg,
until permanent quarters are
completed in Tecklenberg building.
DR. J. A. BAUGHMAN
Physician and Surgeon
Chronic Diseases a Specialty
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska.
HUGH DOUGHERTY
Furnished Houses for Rent
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
Adams* 152
Residence Phone. Madison 58
AARON E. RUCKER
Attorney at Law
Office in Arcade Building
'PHONE ADAMS 121
SEWARD, ALASKA
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
SEE
MORFORD
YVM. D. COPPERNOLL
LAWYER
Seward, Alaska
RAY & DAVID
Attorneys at Law
SEWARD & ANCHORAGE
Seward Office:
Harriman Bank Building
8EWARD PU’ST. NO. FIVE
AMERICAN LEGION
Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays
A. E. RUCKER, Commander
J. P. HANNON, Adjutant
I. O. O. F.
Resurrection Lodge
No. A.7.
Meets Thursdays at 8 p. nv Visiting
Brothers welcome. Frank Lagerqulst,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, See
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Seward Chapter No. 10.
ORDER EASTERN
STAR
Meets 2nd and 4th Mon
days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
VIOLA T. SWETMANN, W. M.
CLARA PERRY, Secretary.
Seward ReDekah
Lodge No. 6-A,
i. o. o. f:
Meets 1st and Jrd
Monday's of Each
Month, 8 p. m. Visit
Ing members welcome
MRS. A. H. THODAY N. G.
come.
Seward Lodge No. 21®.
F. A A. M.
Stated communication!!
1st and 3rd Wednes
days of each month
visiting Brethern wei
H. V. HOBEN, W. M.
W. O. Perry, Secretary.
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IGLOO NO. NINE.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday at
Odd Fellow’s HalL
F. B. MOORE. Pres.
C. A. M’DOUGALL, Sec'y.
Seward Grill
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Pleasant Surroundings
Courteous Treatment
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
GOOD QUICK
EATS SERVICE
Alaska Cafe
Private Dining Rooms
F. J. FINN, Prop.