BANK NOTES
NOW BEING
CALLED IN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20.—
The Treasury begins the retirement
of approximately $118,000,000 in four
per cent bonds of 1025. used by the
national banks to secure their own
note circulation.
Thus the first actual step will be
taken in a program that provides for
the ultimate extinction of the long
used national bank notes and their re
placement with federal reserve notes
which, under the policy of to give the
nation the maximum in elesticity of
currency.
Retirement of the $118,000,000 in
federal securities will mean the re
tirement of an equal amount of na
tional bank notes. Other national
bank notes will be retired as the gov
ernment bonds bearing the circulation
privilege, matures in 1930, 1930, and
193S, unless other arrangements are
made by Congress.
The public was notified of the course
proposed by the Treasury in an an
nouncement of the program last July.
That was done, Secretary Mellon said,
to discourage speculation. The legal
requirement of a notice three months
in advance of the date on which the
bonds werq called for redemption was
met in the latter part of September,
and the Treasury’s necessary financ
ing to meet the maturing securities
was cared for in the December fiscal
operation.
The called bonds are already being
turned into the federal reserve bonds
which are forwarding them here for
destruction. The interest ceased on
February 10, but, nevertheless the de
partment expects the bonds to come
in slowly.
With the retirement of the 4 per
cent bonds of 1925 there still will re
main an outstanding two per cent con
solds of 1930 amounting to $599,724,
050; two per cent Panama Canal loan
of 1916-1936 of a value of $48,954,180,
and two per cent Panama Canal loan
of 191S-193S, aggregating $25,947,400,
all bearing the circulation privilege.
An exchange quotes me following
from the argument of a lawyer for a
farmer who sued a railroad company
1'or killing his cow. “If the train had
been run as it should have ran, or if
t’e.e bell had been rung as it should
have rang, or if the whistle had been
blowed as it should have blew, both
of which it did neither, the cow
would not have been injured, when
she was killed.” All of which is
sad but true.
Charged with assault, Herbert Stin
nett, a coal miner of Chatham, 111.,
acted as his own lawyer and was ac-1
quitted.
NOTICE or REGISTRATION.
NOTICE Is Hereby Given, that at
the hour of nine o’clock A. M., on the
second day of February, 1925, the reg
istration books of the Town of Sew
ard, Alaska, will be open at the office
of the Municipal Clerk in the Seward
Bank Building for the purpose of reg
istering all qualified electors, twenty
one years of age or over, who are citi
zens of the United States and w'ho
have resided continuously one year
next preceding the date of the elec
tion in the Territory of Alaska, and
six months next preceding the date of
the election within the corporate lim
its of the Town of Seward. All elec
tors must before voting register their
names and qualifications with the
Registration Officer.
Registration books will be open
every day except Sundays and holi
days, beginning February 2, 1925, dur
ing the following hours:
Until the Friday next preceding the
first Tuesday in April:
From 9:00 o’clock A. M. to 12 noon.
From 2:00 o’clock P. M. to 5:00
P. M.
On Friday and Saturday next pre
ceding the first Tuesday in April:
From 9:00 o’clock A, M. to 12 noon.
From 2:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M.
From 7:00 o’clock P. M. to 10:00
o’clock P. M.
That said Registration Books will
be closed for such election at 10:00
o’clock P. M., Saturday, April 4, 1925.
That said election will be held on
the first Tuesday in April for the pur
pose of electing Town Officers and
Member of the School Board of the
Seward School District.
The officers of the Town to be elect
ed are as follows:
Mayor.
Three Members of the Seward Com
mon Council.
One Member of the Seward School
Board, a Chairman.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, February
2 1925.
WM. H. WHITTLESEY,
Municipal Clerk.
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NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO UNITED STATES
Emile Daeschner, New French Ambassador to the United States with
his wife and two daughters, Antoinette and Irene. M. Daeschner suc
ceeds Jules Jusserand, Dean of the Washington Diplomatic Corps.
REINDEER STEAKS MAKE
A HIT WITH PORTLANDERS
Reindeer steaks will feature the
fare of many families today, according
to the proprietors of some 17 markets
which observed reindeer day recently,
says the Portland Oregonian. Altho
a large supply of meat was shipped
most of the markets reported the de
sirable cuts were gone soon after
noon.
The prevailing retail price was 50
cents a pound for steaks, 40 cents for
shoulder cuts and 30 cents for stew
meats. In most cases all except the
stew meats were taken during the day.
The promoters declared the reindeer
meat was sweeter than venison. They
said that the steers were used for
slaughter and that the preparation
was carried on in extensive packing
and freezing plants in Alaska. The
meat was brought to Seattle under
refrigeration.
Prohibition officers declare that
rum-runners off the Atlantic coast
are using a submarine in their oper
ations.
Albert Lebreque and his sister, Mrs.
Rosalie Currier, were happily re-unit
ed at Lawrence, Mass., after each
had heard the other was dead.
NO ONE
BARRED
Sign up with
Chamber of Commerce
Modern Women Are
Superior To Mothers
DOCTOR IN LONDON DENIES
THEY ARE DEGENERATING
PHYSICALLY, AS CHARGED BY
COLLEAGUE
LONDON, Feb. 18.—The women of
today are far superior to those of a
quarter of a century ago.
Professor Winifred Cullis, of the
London School of Medicine for Wom
en, defiantly made this reply to Sir
William Arbuthnot Lane, the eminent
surgeon, who declared in public that
modern woman is “physically degen
erate.”
“Modern woman is far better physi
cally than the hysterical, fainting, un
derfed grandmothers of a few de
cades ago,” replied Professor Cullis.
“It is nonsense to say that the
woman of today is degenerating phy
sically, or in any other way.
“Our woman are progressing to
wards the truest and fullest woman
hood. In every way my experience
as a physiologist testifies to that
fact.
“For instance, those bad cases of i
anaemia, which were so frequent a
few years ago have almost entirely
disappeared. The principal reason for
this is that women have learned to
lead more natural and healthy lives.
Their clothes are more sensible, too,
in spite of what Sir Arbuthnot Lane
says about rubber corsets.
“Our grandmothers used to strug
gle about inside high steel corsets,
which gave them an amazingly nar
row waistline, and, incidentally inter
fered with their breathing. Faintings
and hysterics were exceedingly com
mon among women. How often do
you hear of that sort of thing occur
Pacific Coastwise Service
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iH.F.ALEXANDER. PRESIDENT^aSS^feK2^-s®l
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from
Seattle
Arrives
Seward
South from
Seward
March 4
March 24
March 12
March 31
March 14
April 7
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
STEAMSHIP STARR
STEAMER STARR WILL SAIL MARCH 1
San Jnan Fishing and Packing Co.
6. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 18t. 8EWARD, ALA8KA
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[ring among women today?
“If there be any deforming influ
ences in the articles of attire worn
by the women of today—and I seri
ously doubt it—they are nothing like
as serious as they were twenty
years ago. Rubber corsets do not
interfere with respiration. Breath
ing is a vitally important point. The
modern girl could not play tennis
or hockey if she could not breathe.
“Another point is that the girl of
today eats more than her grand
mother did. In the old days it was
considered ‘not nice’ for a girl to eat
heartily. Yet how can you expect
an engine to go if you don’t put
fuel into it?”
Professor Cullis took a parting
shot at Sir Arbuthnot Lane.
“Men should do their best to in
spire women to be human beings,”
she said, “and this over-emphasis
that they are women should be avoid
ed. In this direction I find a more
enlightened and unprejudiced atti
tude among young men than among
the older ones. This is a good sign.”
A Boy scout mayor and city com
missioners will run the city of Mo
bile for eight days, beginning Febru
ary 8, while the regular officials are
off on a boosting tour in Florida. It
is safe to say that the boys will be
on the job and Mayor Hartwell seems
to think so, for he said: “I’ll bet they
will run the old town better than
we are doing it.”
A stone used as a paper weight
for years by an official in India has
been found to be the world’s largest
sapphire, worth $35,000.
LET’S GO !
Let Morrison Fix it for you
Next to Crawford’s Shop
W. C. T. U. Starts On
Active Campaign In U. S.
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CHICAGO, Feb. ID.—Total absti
nence, law observance and pledge
signing are features of the Youth’s
Year program of the National W. C
T. Uj Four young women have start
ed on a speaking tour of the country
which will cover 42 states in the first
six months. They will devote their
efforts to the enlistment of young
men and women in total abstinence
work. A goal of one million children
signers is the figure set.
Education is social morality on the
basis of the single standard of mor
als; education is loyal citizenship, in
cluding the enlistment of first voters
and foreign born citizens; creation of
a sound public sentiment for world
peace, and border conferences as an
aid to stamp out rum-running from *
Canada and Mexico are other features
of the program.
Oklahoma University defeated the
A. & M. College in a cross-word
puzzle contest by the score of 84 to
74.
Brunswick Phonographs and Re
cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
The 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
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
ALAMEDA
YUKON
ALASKA
ALAMEDA
YUKON
ALASKA
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
February 17
February 21
February 2S
March 7
March 14
March 21
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
February 23
February 28
March 7
March 14
March 21
March 28
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
February 23
February 28
March 7
March 14
March 21
March 2S
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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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
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