Gifts That Last
For permanence, for ultimate heirlooms,
there is nothing like jewelry that is so ab
solutely satisfying. Here are the sort of
gifts that will be with the recipient thru
an entire lifetime—always cherished, al
ways desired.
Diamond Rings as Low
as $25.00
WRIST WATCHES
Dependable and Guaranteed Timekeepers
Plain White Gold—also with Diamonds
in Case.
GENT’S POCKET WATCHES
In the many popular makes
HOWARD, HAMILTON, WALTHAM
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ORLANDER’S
Scout Basketball Team
Defeats School Five
The Seward school lads and the
Ptarmigan troop, Boy Scouts, Basket
ball teams, played their first game
last Friday night with the Scout five
winning the game 28-8. In the first
half the school team held the scouts
even, 6-6, but in the latter half the
Scouts ran away with them. Com
prising the school team were the three
Nickeroff Bros., Nick, Peter and Paul,
also Paul Peterson, Edward Manthey,
Wm. Burns and Barton Stanton.
The scouts were represented by
Shellhorn, Manthey, H. Seferovitch,
J. Rosness, R. Manthey and B. Hor
ton.
Tickets On Sale for the
Firemen’s Ball Tomorrow
Tickets for the Firemen's Annual
Masque Ball, to be held New Year’s
Eve, will be placed on sale tomorrow.
With respect to the masqueraders it
appears some citizens are under the
wrong impression with regards to ap
pearing on the floor without be
ing masked. It is stated that masks
will be worn until the grand march,
or about 10 or 11 o’clock, at which
time masks will be taken off. How
ever, up to this period, no one will Be
permitted to dance unless they are
masked. After the unmasking anyone
may get out on the floor.
H. S. Balderston, vice president of
the Bank of Seward left yesterday
for Anchorage on a brief business
trip.
TRAIN OUT AT 7:30 A. M.
According to local railroad head
quarters at 3 o’clock today the de
layed passenger train for Anchorage
and Interior points will depart in the
morning at 7:30 o’clock.
J. A. Ramsey, division inspector
of the General Land Office, Depart
ment of the Interior, left Seward on
the Alameda for Cordova on official
business. Mr. Ramsey arrived in Sew
ard from the Anchorage office Satur
day evening.
Happiness prevails about the Pio
neer Club once more for Joe Eamon,
the champion solo player of this dis
trict has returned from Knight’s Isl
and where he has been in charge of
the cook house at the tie camp for
some months.
Official Snowfall Report
from Railroad Headquarters
Girdwood 16 inches, Moraine 3 ft.;
Tunnel 3 ft.; Grandview 4 to 6 feet;
Hunter 2 feet; Moose Pass 15 inches;
Divide 26 inches; Woodrow 2 feet.
The thermometer rose at Grandview
last night from 8 below zero to 28
above this morning.
Yesterday morning the thermometer
registered 2 below zero. This morn
ing at 6 o’clock it read 10 above and
at 10 o’clock 30 above. Barometer
readings at noon today indicated un
settled weather.
The Alaska Transfer put out a team
of six horses this morning pulling &
snow plow clearing away the streets
permitting town traffic to resume.
President of Alaska
Dirigible Co., in Town
With practically a sufficient amount
on hand to order the dirigible, the first
for the proposed Alaska airship serv
ice, James C. Langley, president of
the corporation, returned to Seward
Saturday from a few months spent in
the Fairbanks district. Mr. Langley
will take care of the remainder of his
local business this week and depart
next Saturday for Seattle en route to
the East. He is making his head
quarters in the Tecklenburg building,
room six.
Sigrid Wallstedt, district deputy and
supreme dictator of the Loyal Order of
Moose arrived in Seward Saturday
from the Interior and departed for
Latouche on the steamer Alameda.
Mr. Wallstedt is making a trip thru
Alaska in connection with organiza
tion work.
Mrs. Charles A. Sheldon, wife of
the local postmaster, who has been
ill for the past week, is reported to be
much improved. •
The ladies’ calisthenics class will be
held tomorrow night at the S. A. C.
gymnasium.
MANILA, Dec. 14 (jP)—Cholera is
spreading in all provinces bordering
on Manila Bay.
BANDITS GET 25 Y£ARS
CHICAGO, Dec. 14 (£>)—Sentences
of 25 years each for the mail bandits
were affirmed by the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals here today.
DR. SILVERMAN
DIES PORTLAND
Word was received in Seward on the
last boat that Dr. Joseph A. Silver
man had passed away at a Portland
hospital, following an operation for
cancer of the stomach. Dr. Silverman
in 1923 was located at Kodiak, Alaska,
where he performed signal service dur
ing the panic attending the eruption
of Mt. Katmai. In 1917 he removed
to Valdez where he practiced medicine
for several years, later removing to
Portland. He left a wife.
MEETING OF MEMBERS OF
JESSE LEE HOME AUXILIARY
A meeting of the Jesse Lee Home
Auxiliary will be held Wednesday aft
ernoon at 3:00 o’clock at the home of
Mrs. Wayne Blue for the purpose of
making plans for Christmas for the
youngi orphans of the Home. All mem
bers and those interested are request
ed to attend.
The auxiliary believes that it is a
most appropriate time for our citizens
to show a Holiday spirit toward the
orphaned children at the Home.
Community Christmas
Tree Committee Busy
Over $50 was collected today by
Mrs. P. Anderson and Mrs. Charles
Krefting, a committee of two from
the local Pioneers of Alaska organiza
tion for the Community Christmas
trees which as in past years, will be
held this year under the auspices of
the Pioneers. A large amount is need
ed in order that the plans outlined at
last week’s meeting be carried out in
full. This includes a present for ev
every child in Seward as well as bags
of nuts, candy and fruit.
The committee will call at every
business house and residence during
the week, and regardless of how small
the donations are they will be grate
fully received. The list of donors
will be published from day to day.
TRAIN DEPARTS TOMORROW
Today’s regular passenger train for
Interior points was cancelled today
owing to storm conditions and the
heavy fall of snow according to E. L.
Sweek, local agent for the Alaska
railroad. It was thought this morn
ing that the train wrould be able to
get away at noon today but transpor
tation headquarters decided later in
the day to attempt to get a train thru
tomorrow morning.
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EASTERN STAR TO ELECT
The annual election of officers of
the Seward Order of Eastern Star will
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o’clock at Odd Fellows' hall. Every
member of the organization is partic
ularly requested to attend.
SCRUB GAME IS PLAYED
In a scrub game of indoor baseball
held yesterday afternoon at the S. A.
C. gym., the Reds defeated the Blues
by the close score of 9 to 8. Bud
Dyer and Hopkins composed the bat
tery for the Reds, and Snyder, Mc
Laughlin, Tinkler and Shellhorn for
the Blues. Tom Dyer acted as um
pire.
Miss Vivienne Hamilton of Fair
banks, daughter of the well known In
terior residents, arrived in Seward Sat
urday en route to Los Angeles where
she will attend school.
Mrs. Romeo Hoyt, wife of the gar
age owner of Faairbanks left Seward
Saturday on the steamer Alameda for
Seattle where she will spend a few
months visiting with her folks.
The weekly business meeting and
luncheon of the Seward Chamber of
Commerce will be held tbmorrow at
noon at the Grill. It is requested that
a good sized attendance be present.
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FUR INDUSTRY IS
©ROWING STEADILY
Fur farming in the United States
and in Alaska i8 steadily developing,
says the biological survey of the
United States department of agricul
ture, and certain phases of the in
dustry are becoming a permanent ad
dition to agricultural production. For
the year 1924 there were approxi
mately 2,000 fur farmers in the Unit
ed States and Alaska, the majority of
whom were raising silver and blue
foxes. The total investment in the
business is somewhere between 15
million dollars and 18 million dollars.
Dr. Haverstock, in charge 6f the
Anchorage hospital, arrived in Sew
ard Saturday. Dr. Haverstock is reg
istered at the Hotel Van Gilder.
E. L. Bedell, resident and former
business man of Anchorage, left Sat
urday for Portland on a six weeks'
business trip.
Steamer Trunks, Urbach’s. 323
Professional cards
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
Gas Launch
KENA1
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ke Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA’S
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