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If you were the only person in town that traded with
mail order concerns—it would hurt some—but it ivouldn’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 of 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 of 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.1*
Spend your money where it will in turn be spent for
local improvements instead of sending it away to fatten business and
better conditions cf other communities. Support the community that supports you.
The Calumet Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.
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MacMILLAN EXPEDITION BACK IN AMERICA
The crew of the Bowdoin, at Wiscasset, Me., on its return from an
Arctic sojourn of 333 days getting scientific data. Front, left to right—
Donald Mix, radio operator; John Jaynes, engineer; Captain Donald Mac
Millan^ R. P. Robinson, chief assistant; Wm. A. Lewis, cook. Back—R. H.
Goddard, scientist; Dr. A. T. Thomas, representative of Governor Baxter
of Maine; Thomas McCue, chief mate.
Hymn Broadcast For
Mother—She Smiles
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—During the
broadcasting from station WEAF here
last night by the Federation Quartet
listeners-in were astonished to hear
a sharp rapping of Director Arthur
Hunt’s w’and, which brought the song
to a sudden halt. Then without ex
planation, the quartet started an old
ballad, “In the Homeland.”
When the last srains of the compo
sition died away the announcer made
an explanation. The interpolation had
been made, he said, because a tele
phone message was received at the
station irom a man who said he was
sitting at the bedside of his mother,
who had been at the point of death
“She is delirious,” the voice over
the telephone explained, “and all day
long there has been running through
her head the refrain of a favorite
song, ‘In the Homeland.' If you could
sing that I would be forever grate
ful to yom”
Did the quartet know that song?
Absolutely, word for word. The quar
tet sang it too, with a world of feel
ing.
Again the voice on the telephone:
“Mother is sleeping now. There’s a
smile on her face. I don’t know how
to thank you for indulging an old wo
man’s whim.”
The director and quartet said they
appreciated this more than any com
pliment ever paid them.
INFANT SAVED AFTER
WILD NIGHT RIDE BY
AN OREGON DOCTOR
EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 12.—A wild
ride by a doctor down the McKen
zie highway, through ice and snow,
resulted in saving the life of an eigh
teen-months-old boy who had swal
lowed a quantity of ant poison. The
child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Calcolm
Hall, of McKenzie Bridge, fifty-five
miles from Eugene, survived, after
the physician had spent half the
night over him. Firstaid treatment
of soda and hot water, applied by
the mother in her mountain home,
was really the means of saving the
child’s life, the physician said.
EXTINCTION OF THE
JAP ABORIGINES IS
PREDICTION MADE
TOKIO, Feb. 12.—The death of
the Ainu race, a group of people
said to be the aborigines of Japan,
is forecast by Dr. John Bachelor,
well-known archdeacon of the church
of England, who has spent nearly
half a century among them in their
habitat, in the Hokkaido. Dr. Bache
lor is a recognized authority on
the history of this obscure people.
He declares there are less than
16,000 of them alive today, and
that, through assimilation with the
Japanese and because of ill health,
particularly among the women, they
are rapidly dying out and soon will
be extinct.
Dark Rings Under Eyes
For the relief of dark rings and
bloodshot eyes there is nothing bet
ter than simple camphor, witchhazel,
hydrastis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik
eye wash, "he quick action is sur
prising. L. „ cup free.—Seward Drug
Company.
Labor Head Advocates
Sale Wine and Beer
BOSTON, Feb. 11.—An invention to
further the cause of organized labor
in America without resort to revolu
tionary plans or projects was express
ed here by William Green, President
of the American Federation of Labor,
at a meeting conducted in commemo
ration of Samuel Gompers. Mr. Green
advocated the sale of light wines and
beer and lauded the immigration law
as the best ever enacted.
Organized labor, Mr. Green said, will
not enter politics again.
“Because I never took a drink of
liquor 'I have been classified as a
radical dry. When I was a young
man I decided that I could not do my
work with liquor in my system, so
I stayed away from it. But I be
lieve in the American Federation of
Labor, and will do all I can to have
its recommendation for a modifica
tion of the Volstead Act adopted.’’
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WATER DAMAGES ELKS’
BUILDING AT JUNEAU
A bursted water pipe on the third
floor of the Elks’ club at Juneau
flooded the floor and the entire two
lower floors, doing damage estimated
at $1500.
The greatest damage was to the
fine bowling alleys which were flood
ed with water and plaster from the
ceiling. Carpets, furniture and fix
tures were soaked.
INCOME TAX RETURNS ARE
NOW DUE AND PAYABLE
TACOMA, Feb. 12.—Those taxpay
ers who are accustomed to putting off
until the last minute the making up
of their income tax returns, and then
asking Burns Poe, collector of inter
nal revenue, to give them thirty days’
extension, are doomed to pay for be
ing lazy this year.
Extensions may now be granted
only by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue at Washington, D. C., and
the application therefor must be made
before the date prescribed by law
for filing returns.
Any persons residing in Alaska who
files a return after the due date pre
scribed by law should, according to
the Collector, attach to such return
an affidavit explaining fully the rea
son for failure to file on time—unless
a specific extension has been granted
him.
Swedish Bureau Reports
On Business During 1924
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 12.—Healthful
stability of Swedish economic con
ditions in general, contrasted with
the hampering effect of the dispro
portion between industrial wages and
market conditions, are the keynotes
of the fourth official quarterly report
of the Royal Board of Trade.
The balancing of accounts for the
fiscal year 1923-24 shows a budget
sui plus oi $11,041,000, the principal
sources of this excess revenue being
the import duties and the earnings
of various state enterprises, such as
the state railways. The total foreign
trade is increasing rapidly, with the
exports gaining faster than the im
ports.
The Swedish iron ore industries
had a prosperous year, Graengesberg,
the principal mining company, declar
ing a dividend of 10 per cent for 1924
as against 5 per cent the previous
year. During the year ended Sep
tember 30, 1924, this company ex
ported 4,350,000 tons of ore, an in
crease of about 750,000 tons over the
preceding year.
The iron and steel and machine in
dustries are depressed, owing to the
fact that the prices obtainable in the
market scarcely cover the cost of pro
duction. A process of wage read
justment is now going on, which, it
is hoped, will restore a fair margin
of profit and encourage enterprise.
Swedish lumber sales during 1924
amounted to about 90 per cent of
the total production. By the end of
December more than 100,000 stand
ards had also been sold for delivery
in 1925, which is 43 per cent more
than the corresponding figure a year
earlier. The total exports of Swed
ish wood pulp during the first nine
months fo 1924 reached 924,289 tons,
as compared with 637,441 during the
corresponding period of 1923. Among
the buyers of Swedish woodpulp,
ranked according to sums paid, the
United States now takes the lead.
PRETTY IRISH GIRLS USED
BY SMUGGLERS ON BORDER
BELFAST, Feb. 11.—Young and
pretty girls are playing a big part in
the smuggling campaign now being
actively prosecuted on the Ulster bor
der.
The gils are being used by men to
take goods of all kind into the Irish
Free State and in consequence are
causing great trouble to the excise
officers.
Several girls recently stopped by the
officers were found to be smuggling
across dancing and evening shoes, all
kinds of perfumes and cosmetics,
while some of them were found to be
carrying revolvers strapped to their
legs.
Women are also helping the excise
officers
Borrowing a car from his sweet
heart to go for a marriage license,
Joseph Gerow, of Concord, N. H.,
abandoned it in the street and was
later arrested for theft.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
''J^ufand third Wednesdays of each.
/yr\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
£**^*08:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows'
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION, SEWARD
POST NO. FIVE
Meets the second and Fourth
Tuesdays of each month,
at the Fire Hall. Visiting
members are always wel
S. Bogart, Commander; L.
Adjutant.
come. J.
W. Olson,
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
_ :ome; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
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