THE GIFT BEAUTIFUL FOR CHRISTMAS
ratlin
Sets started now can be built up piece by piece until
the entire set is completed. Step in and see our display
of this beautiful toiletware.
“TRY THE DRUG STORE FIRST”
ENGLISH OF 2100 WILL BE
FULL OF STRANGE SOUNDS
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LONDON, Dec. 13.—English as it
will be spoken 500 years from now
will not have much in common with
the present day abuses of the lan
guage, according to Daniel Jones,
professor of phonetics at the Uni
versity of London. In the faraway
future generation Scotchmen will
talk like Englishmen, while the
general tongue of the highly cul
tured people will be “super-cockney
with a little Scotch accent.”
^ Professor Jones’ idea is that the
language of today was cockney to
Shakespeare, and that the speech of
southern England is now getting
nearer to the cockney. In some
places the cockney has already the
upper hand and there is a decided
trend in others to adopt the accent
in words which contain the letter
“a”. The wide difference in the
dialect of the English provinces ac
celerates this tendency, the profes
sor says, as the various dialects
weaken the common language and
destroy its roots after a few years
of use.
Within 500 years, Professor Jones
predicts, the Gaelic language will
have nearly disappeared and the na
tive Irish (Esse) will be heard no
more. Of this group of languages
only Welsh will remain.
The best example the lecturer
knows of the English of the future
is to take the word cart and pro
nounce it “ca-r-r-t.”
BAD STORM AT MOOSE PASS
The worst storm in many years oc- j
rcured at Moose Pass last night j
Agent Sweek reports that the train J
was four hours late.
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Suits made to measure. See Ur
bach. tf.!
Prohibition Milk!!
WHAT IS THAT?
A Milk with no kick in it from the customer
Brand
10c per can $4.80 per case
p. c. McMullen
Telephone Main 34
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SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home**
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
Frye’s "Delicious” Brand
HAMS AW BACON
Telephone Main 94
W. A. WECKWERTH, Manager
Frye-Bruhn Company
APOLOGIES TO OUR READERS
Owing to the discontinuance of
power during the present cold snap
the Gateway is hard pushed to get
out. We wish to apologize to our
readers lor the lack of news in this
issue, and trust that any delinquen
cies will be overlooked until things
get normal again.
Park Reed, a well known engineer
of the Valdez section arrived on the
steamship Alaska, and will leave on
the next train for the interior. Mr.
Reed has been working the past sum
mer for the Fairbanks Exploration
company.
Chris Petiovich arrived on the Alas
ka from Latouche and will leave on
one of the next trains for the inte
rior.
Frank McCafferty, chief of trans
portation for the Alaska Road Com
mission, arrived on the Alaska on his
way to Anchorage. Mr. McCafferty
has been stationed at Chitina the
past summer. lie will go from Anch
orage to Fairbanks.
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The cold weather recorded today is
at Fairbanks, wrhere it was 62 below
yesterday. The cold wTave is moder
ating in the Interior and warmer
wmather is expected on the coast to
morrow or next day.
LIGHT PLANT AFFECTED
Owing to the extreme cold weath
er the local light company wTas com
pelled to shut down its plant to pre
vent its pipe lines from freezing up.
The power will be turned on again
wTien the weather moderates.
An old proverb exhorted people to
“look before you leap," but in this
day and age people are getting so
they don’t even look before they
shoot.
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This Christmas will appreciate beautiful
Hand-Colored Scenes
and Photos at 50 Cents and Up
Shaeffer’s Lifetime Fountain Pens
Eversharp Pencils, Pens in Sets,
Kodaks and Supplies
Alaska Birch Bark Xmas Cards,
Pyralin Ivory Sets and Novelties,
Engraved Christmas Cards,
Imported Perfumes and Toilet
Articles,
We Pack Framed Pictures for
Mailing,
The Alaska Shop
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LIGHTS ON TOMORROW
S. M. Graff, manager of the light
plant, states that the electric lights
will be on tomorrow (Monday), morn
ing as the weather has moderated
sufficiently to eliminate all danger
of the pipes freezing. The last few
days has given us an appreciation
of the lights and power a,s never
before. The Gateway has probably
been more inconvenienced than any
other firm as it has depended on a
small gas engine in getting out this
issue. Something which has to be
used to be appreciated as a nuisance.
Mr. B. Van Pressley, manager of!
the Latouche Mines corporation, ar- j
rived on the steamship Alaska.
Manager Burns announces that the
show at the Liberty tonight will be
an especially fine one. Do not fail
to see it.
METHODIST CHURCH
There were a few people who for
got to attend church Sunday night.
We missed you.
The services this week will be help
ful.
Mr. Sheriff will favor us with a
violin solo.
There will be good music by the
croir.
The sermon subject will be: “A
Venture In Faith.”
Service at 7:30 p. m.
Ladles’ ana Gems' Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
The steamship Redondo arrived in
port tonight from the westward. She
brought 3,000 barrels of herring from
Halibut Cove. Her passenger list
will be published in Monday’s pa
per.
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and Home Made Mince Pies for Christmas
A
from the
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SEWARD NEWS COMPANY
GEORGE PHELPS, Proprietor
BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
Plumbing, Steamfitting, Cxyacetaline Welding
R. F. TILLMAN, Next to Crawford’s Shop