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If you were the only person in town that traded with
mail order concerns—it would hurt some—but it wouldn't paralyze the
prosperity of the community.
The greatest injury would be in the influence your out
of-town-trading exerted over others. Other people might follow in your
foot-steps, of foreign trading and that following would prove detrimental to
home business development and betterment of public welfare.
Set a good example. Be a home buyer. Take pride in
your community. Feel that money spent here at home is playing an
important part in building up the town. Know that it buys the goods
you want and goes towards some public good. That it helps increase the
efficiency of schools — puts down .better street crossings—erects better
libraries—brightens the town’s lights—makes the parks more attractive—pays
for better police protection, etc.
Instead cf fostering the mail order habit—fight it openly.
Teach the truth of home trading. Preach home patronage. Show mail
order buyers the error of their Ways—and go out of your way to do it.
Local merchants handle the highest grade merchan
dise. They carry advertised brands. They sell at a proper
price—makes of goods that bear the stamp of honest manufacturers.
They deal open-handedly. They don’t cover up questionable quality
with private labels. They offer you the latest and most dependable
lines—in all lines of merchandise. Their stores are conveniently at hand. You
can reach them in a few short seconds—over the phone—or step right into their
places of business—give or leave your order—and have the goods delivered
straight to your home—all in a few minutes time.
They willingly accommodate you. They take particular
pains to give you just what you want right when you want it. You
don’t have to buy in big quantities to save freight or express charges. You can
spend less at a time—and save considerable sums in cash, to say nothing cf the
great saving of time and trouble.
Advocate those advantages. Do mail order traders a
good turn by turning them away from away-from-home buying—liven
up local business, and by so doing speed the town along the road of progress.
Spend your money where it will in turn be spent for
local improvements instead of sending it away to fatten business and
better conditions of ^^communities. Support the community that supports you.
The Cak^ct Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.
ALASKAN FOX SOLD IN
EAST BY M’CULLAGH
Taking with him for sale thirteen
pair of silver fox, Keith McCullagh,
Cook Inlet fox farmer, who has been
in Seattle for several weeks, depart
ed for the East from Seattle the oth
er day. It is safe to say that this
shipment of fox from Alaska is the
finest that ever came out of the terri
tory. as every animal in the thirteen
pair, or twenty-six foxes, is a picked
animal. They were raised by Mc
Cullagh and other Cook Inlet fox
farmers. They should bring at least
a thousand dollars a pair. After dis
posing of the foxes—an easy matter,
as the sale is already arranged for—
Mr. McCullagh will return to Seattle
and start a fox farm at some point in
the Puget Sound district.
“I am about to bring to fruition
a plan that I have had in mind
ever since I have entered the fox-rais
ing industry some seven years ago,”
said Mr. McCullagh, “but until now
the time never seemed quite propi
tious. Now, however, the fox-raising
industry is getting firmly established
and is certain to be one of the import
ant industries of Alaska. My plan is
to establish a fox farm in the vicinity
of Seattle and make of it a clearing
house for foxes raised as breeders.
Besides the foxes owned by myself, I
will be able to care for animals sent
to me by other fox raisers in Alaska,
or elsewhere, for that matter, and will
be able to find a market for them.
Pending the time such market can be
found, the animals will have a good
place to live.”
Previous to going into the fox-rais
ing business, Mr. McCullagh, for
many years, was in the forest service
of Alaska, assigned to duty in the
Cook Inlet section. He has seen this
industry grow from a small beginning
in the inlet country, until now it is
on a fine and prosperous basis.
Mrs. Jennie Ross, who was a player
in the Ford theatre the night Presi
dent Lincoln was shot, died recently
i in Philadelphia from accidental as
| pliyxiation.
An old trick of stuffing sponges in
the nostrils of a race horse was re
vived recently at New Orleans and
the favorite nearly collapsed on the
track.
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from
Seattle
Feb. 4th
Mar. 4
Arrives
Seward
Feb. 12th
Mar. 12
South from
Seward #
Feb. 15th
Mar. 15
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Pacific Coastwise Service
^ADMIRAL LINE
H.F.ALEXANDER. PRESIDENTn®Hftftw«!w««
STEAMSHIP STARR
STEAMSHIP STARR WILL SAIL FEBRUARY 1
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San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON. Agent
PHONE MADISON 13*. SEWARD, ALA8KA 1
VIEWS IN BRIEF
Among the heroic characters who
carried white civilization into the
New World, Fathers Breboeuf and La
lement, martyred pioneer priests in
Canada, hold a high place. Their can
onization has been decided upon, ac
cording to a recent announcement.
The story of their labors among the
Huron Indians and their subsequent
torture and murder hy the Iroquois
is a thrilling incident in colonial his
tory. It is said that when Brebeouf
endured the fiendish tortures of his
captors and died without uttering a
cry, the Indians ate his heart in the
hope of acquiring his great courage.
Surgeon General Gumming declares
that the average span of life in Am
erica is now fifteen years longer than
it was in 1870, being now about 55
years. In the seventh century an av
erage lifetime was only about 25 years
due to the tremendous infant mortal
ity, while it was only 35 years a cen
tury ago. If the appalling toll of
death from accidents and crime could
be reduced, several more years might
be added to the average lifetime of
this generation.
Natives of some Eskimo tribes have
a novel and physically harmless way
, of settling their disputes. The tw'o op
ponents meet wijth their families and
friends and each party chants or sings
i in turn making insulting rough verses
! reflecting on the other. Old men of
the village act as judges and the side
which can condense the most insult
I ing language into the best and most
I noisy verse wins. This may sound
! foolish, but it is about as sensible as
I some of the argument we hear in
this country—in Cnngress, for in
stance.
Christmas was celebrated by a bri
gade of “Christian” Chinese by round
ing up 1,125 soldiers charged with
looting and shooting them to death
on a railroad bridge, their bodies fall
ing into the river 30 feet below. These
Chinamen are showing almost as
much culture as ways exhibited by
white Christian nations during the
world war.
Joseph P. Story, of New York,
predicts that his provincial homes vil
| lage will have 30 million inhabitants
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in 100 years from now, with skyscrap
ers 100 stories high and a net work
of underground streets. Maybe he is
entirely correct, -but it is only fair
to our readers' to add that he js a real
estate man.
David Toomey is one of a dozen or
more incurable patients at the Red
Cross Lodge, Montreal, victims of the
I World war awaiting the last call of
j the “taps.” He is almost completely
I paralyzed, but has learned to use his
j toes to tune his radio set, from which
j he and the others derive much pleas
ure. His is a wonderful example of
fortitude and courage in a situation
; which he knows to be without hope
| of betterment.
Greece Would Restore
Patriarch To Turkey
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 3.—The Greek min
ister of the Interior, Kondilis, accord
ing to an Athens dispatch in an ex
change telegram, urged before the
cabinet of Greece that the only way
to obtain the satisfaction of Turkey is
by restoring the Patriarch to Constan
tinople even at the cost of war.
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Thz Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route
Scheduled Scheduled
\ essel Lv. Seattle Ar. Seward
Alameda January 31 February 7
Alaska February 7 February 14
\ ukon February 14 February 21
Alameda February 21 February 2S
ALASKA Feb. 2Sth. Mar. 7th.
Yukon March 7 March 14
Schedule
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
Mar. 7th.
March 14
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle Feb. 5, and
will call at Seward if sufficient business is offered.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125_ SEWARD, ALASKA
AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
McKinley park route
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices