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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
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Sar.tiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
MOORE & BEAULIEU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
FRESH MILK AND
CREAM—
and all
Dairy Products
Our Motto:
“THE BEST”
SEWARD DAIRY
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TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
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
Curtis R. M or ford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 10S - - - Seward, Alaska j
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Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
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Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM OSBO
Residence—Madison 123
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OVERLAND
Clean, Comfortable
Rooms and Baths
HOTEL
Furnace Heat
Mrs Hilda Wanamaker
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD'S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
riOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHl., Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
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Mrs. Gutheridge has accepted a
position as nurse at the Cordova
general hospital, taking the place of
Miss “Billie” Wilson who returned
to /the states on the last boat.
Dept. Commander Taylor of Cor
dova reports that everything is go
ing fine with the Post in his home
town. The boys are busy building
a log house out the road 7 miles
for a summer home. The size of it
will be 25x40 feet in the main room,
with a kitchen in addition, which
will make an attractive and commo
dious place.
The Gateway has received word
that Comrade Dalton L. Barr, of Cor
dova, will attend the American Le
gion National Convention at Omaha,
Nebraska. Barr is finance oficer of
the John W. Jones Post No. 8, Cor
dova, Alaska and was selected at the
recent Department Convention held
at Fairbanks as Delegate from Al
aska to the National convention. He
advises that lie will leave Cordova
in September en route to Omaha.
George John, an Indian sein boat
fisherman, recently pleaded guilty
to illegal fishing before the U. S.
Commissioner in Juneau and was
fined $100 and costs by the Judge.
The Indian was charged with fish
ing in a small salmon stream on the
mainland near Dundas Bay 1st Au
gust. It was reported that he had
taken about 10,000 fish when dis
covered.
Frank Hermit, local Japanese, says
the Juneau Empire, was couvicted
of violating the Alaska Bone Dry
law in a trial without a jury before
the Juneau commissioner. He was
sentenced to 90 days in jail and
paid a fine of $200 and costs. Hermit
was arrested several weeks ago in
a cabin occupied by him in a raid
by him in a raid by Prohibition Di
rector A. G. Means. Some alcoholic
liquor and a number of containers
were seized in the raid.
Discontinuance of two branch sta
tions of the U. S. customs was an
nounced by Collector of Customs J.
C. McBride. One was located at
Hidden Inlet, in Porttand Canal and
the oither at Kodiak. The Hidden
Inlet Station is a summer station
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
and third Wednesdays of each
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
w^^wSiOO p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
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.
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SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. 0. 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, JZ- CL
1 only, it was said. The Kodiak sta
tion was opened for the convenience
of the North Pacific fishing fleet at
a time several months ago when it
was thought that the New England
Fish Company was going to open a
cold storage plant there. With the
failure of that project tg materialize,
thecontinuance of the station was
not justified, it was said.
Frank Burns, son of Mrs. Billy
Burns, had a narrow escape from
injury last week as the result of
falling from a car on which he was
riding near the Burns claim on El
dorado creek in the Fairbanks dis
trict. His left hand fell on the
track and one of his fingers was
badly mashed. He came to town to
have the injury treated.
Bringing in to Cordova the four
blades of the propellor of the wreck
ed Shinkoko Maru from Montague
island was the difficult feat per
formed the other day by Damon Hal
ferty, who has been scrapping the
vessel betw.een fishing seasons. The
blades are of bronze, weighing about
a ton apiece, and had to be hoisted
on the cannery tender Jean with the
aid of a pile driver.
Charged with having in his pos
session a fox skin taken out of
season, Otto Smith, a mechanic em
ployed by the Copper River and
Northwestern Railroad, was arrested
in Cordova recently. He was re- j
leased on his own recognizance and
appeared before United States Com
missioner S. P. Harwood. The case
has been held over until Assistant
United States Attorney H. G. Mc
Cann returns from Valdez to the
Copper City.
Notice was received from the light
house service headquarters in Ket
chikan informing mariners that the
diaphone at the Cape Hinchinbrook
light station was reported disabled
on September 7, air siren operating.
This will be restored as soon as
practicable.
Another lot. of beaver for ship
ment by the Biological Survey to
Kodiak Island, arrived in Cordova
recently. The creatures arrived too
late to make connection with the
last Admiral Watson for Kodiak,
which carried the main aggregation
to the westward.
Miss lola Quast who was a mem
ber of the faculty of the Wrangell
public schools during the term of
1922-23, was married on August 16
to a soldier in the U. S. Army. In
chronicling the happy event the Ju
neau Empire prints the following:
Miss lola Quast and Mr. Frank
Hoffman were married aboard the
steamship Admiral Rogers Sunday
evening when it was in port, Rev.
Richard D. Decker reading the ser
vice. Mrs. Frank Heller of Juneau
was the only attendant of the bride
and Capt. Frank Landstrom, master
of the Admiral Rogers was best man.
The ceremony wras attended by a
few intimate friends of the couple.
Miss Quast taught public school
at Haines last year and was a pas
senger from Seattle on the Admiral
Rogers, returning north after spend
ing the summer in the States. Mr.
Hoffman came south from Haines to
meet his bride. He is a member of
the U. S. Army and is stationed at
Chilkoot Barracks where he and Mrs.
Hoffman will be at home after a
visit in Skagwav.
Frank Richardson Pierce, a well
knowrn wrriter of fiction who^ stor
ies have appeared in the American
Magazine and other publications of
general circulation, arrived from
the States in Juneau recently. He
will leave on a boat soon for Wran
gell where he will take the Hazel B
No. 2 fro the gold diggings in the
vjassiar where he expects to get
color for another northern story.
While in Wrangel it was stated, Mr.
Pierce had the pleasure of meeting
an old schoolmate, J. L. MacKechnie,
Deputy Forest Supervisor.
Announcement is made by the
postoffice department of the theft
of 1,170 money order forms from the
postoffice at Cartersville, Mont., on
June 29 last and the public is warn
ed that these orders are now being
forged and cashed in sums ranging
from $20 to $50. The cashing of
these orders began early in July.
From Denver the operators passed
on to Oklahoma City, thence to
Omaha and finally ot Seattle, the
last city reporting. The warning is
sued by the post office department
says the orders were cashed by a
man, presumably H. C. Hill, and a
woman. The victims were drug
stores and stores dealing in women’s
apparel. Saturdays were selected for
the operations and days immediate
ly preceding holidays. No attempt
is being made to cash the orders at
postoffices.
John Frame, pioneer Alaskan
newspaper man, is in Seattle a
guest of the New St. James hotel.
Mr. Frame was the republican pri
mary choice for national committee
man, but the controversy over this
position has not, as yet, been ad
justed.
“Doc” Burton, whom everybody
in the Valdez country knows and
likes, is now with the Marion Drug
Company, First avenue and Marion
street, Seattle. “Doc.” lived for
many years in Valdez.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Mejer, who
have been running Meier’s roadhouse
on the Richardson Highway, went
to Cordova recently to sail for the
States. Their establishment recent
ly burned out, leaving a long gap
between meals for tourists going
thru. Mr. Meier has sold his road
house site.
H. H. Hungerford, who has been
investigating salmon spawning
streams tributary to the Copper
River for the government, expects
to leave on the Yukon for Latouche
to meet the Prospector, the Bureau
ol Fisheries boat. He plans to make
the rounds of the herring packing
plants on Prince William Sound be
fore the season is over.
Silver salmon are running poorly
in Bering River, according to Row
land E. Davis, superintnedent of the
Pacific American Fisheries cannery
there, who was in Cordova on the
Northland over last week end. The
plant is preparing to close down for
the season next Saturday night, by
which, time, Mr. Davis said, the sil
ver pack will have probably reached
only around 7,000 cases.
The Libby cannery at Taku har
bor, in southeastern Alaska, will op
erate during the fall fishing season,
according to Capt. E. C. Ahues, the
superintendent. The regulations for
the current season permit fishing
with gill net after September 6.
Miss Alice Gunderson who recent
ly returned to Juneau from a visit
to her parents and former home in,
Norway, and Harry M. Sabin were
married at the Capital City by Dean
C. E. Rice of the Holy Trinity Ca
thedral. Both of the people are
well known in Juuneau, the bride hav
ing an uncle, John Enge, and the
groom being educated there and is
at the present time employed by
the Juneau Motor Company.
Miss Edythe Davison of Nome is
the first Alaskan girl to graduate
from the Mooseheart school, the en
terprise maintained by the Moose
lodge for orphaned children. Miss ’
Davisbn completed her course at
Mooseheart during the spring and
is now attending the normal school.
She and her three sisters were or
phaned in Nome several years ago
and thru the endeavors of the Moose
lodge in that city they were sent
to Mooseheart.
Twenty automobiles, loaned by
Juneau citizens, -were drawn up in
front of the school building the
other day to convey the teachers
and instructors attending the Teach
ers’ Institute, on a trip to Menden- ‘
hall Glacier. The cars were to leave
the building at 3:30 o’clock, return
ing before 6 o’clock the same day.
The trip was arranged by the Ju
neau Chamber of Commerce Enter
tainment committee, appointed to
provide for entertainment of the
visitors. It was first planned to
make the trip the days after but
they took advantage of the excellent
weather prevailing and went out a
Jays preceding the scheduled one.
E. H. Mack, formerly of Valdez
where he was at one time Deputy
Clerk of Court, and who for some
rears has resided in Fairbanks,
where he has been engaged in the
real estate business, is at present
i patient in the Fairbanks hospital
undergoing treatment for an attack
M paresis, which has affected his
speech and memory. He will go
autside shortly to undergo special
treatment.