If You Are Doing Business
With Mail Order Concerns
If you are sending your cash out of town—doing business
with mail order concerns—keep mum about the growth—the indus
tries—the advantages or beauty of the town. You have no boast coming. It
is a good town not because of you, but in spite of you,
If you are not a Home Trader You are a
Traitor to the Best Interests of the Town
This community is made up of individuals. Its prosperity
depends on individual effort. If you send your money away for goods
that can be purchased here, you injure the town—and yourself
When you buy from a mail order concern—your money is
gone for good. Not one red cent of it ever comes back. None of
it pays for taxes. None of it pays store rent, clerk hire—or does a blessed
one of the dozens of things accomplished by home-spent money.
Suppose everyone in this city sent away for their mer
chandise. The town would go to rack and ruin. You wouldn’t be
able to give property away. There would be little employment for labor.
Schools—churches—everything of a public nature would be stripped to poor
house poverty. There’s no reason why anyone should deal with mail order
concerns. Your home town merchant carries the best grades of merchandise
on the market. They are goods of recognized merit. They are sold at
practically one price the world over. You know you are getting full value in
quality. The biggest manufacturers in the country insure that with their
trademarks. Your purchases are protected. There is no buying dissatisfaction
—long waits—long distance return costs—or delivery charges.
Your dealer appreciates your patronage. He puts forth
every effort to hold your trade. He becomes intimately acquainted
with your likes and dislikes—consequently can serve you in the most satisfac
tory manner. And to top off all of these important advantages—your local
merchant can save you money.
By all means talk up your town—but first win the right to
speak by spending your money at home. It is the solid worth of home
spent money — not words that establishes the public wealth and welfare
of the community.
Donate to the gooa of the town by trading IN town—and get the greatest value for your dollars*
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fleets Ail Boats and Trails
VERSATILITY IS
MIDDLE NAME OF
FOREST RANGERS
Men Who Guard the National Forests
Have Little or No Time for
“Loafing on the Job.”
| Work of the United States Forest
j Rangers goes on, twelve months in
the year, and while on the “outside”
people have contented themselves to
settle down before comfortable fires
during long winter days, Uncle
Sam’s forest officers continue their
vigil over timberlands. Snow is the
vinter enemy of forest trails, bend
ing and breaking trees across the
mountain byways and sending mam
moth slides of timber, earth and
stone across their courses. To some
extent the more remote trails are
left until spring for “swamping
ors to keep the trail open to travel
country the Forest Service endeav
ors to keep the train open to travel
even in the dead of winter. '
Tasks of forest rangers vary.
Down in the Puget Sound country
few of the trails are kept open after
late October or November. In some
sections, however, where transpor
tation and travel is necessary the
year around, rangers are occupied
with constant clearing away of
obstructions that usually present
themselves with the first heavy
snowfall. Telephone lines strung
through mountainous country also
require the ranger’s attention and
demand more surveillance than
trails, for telephone communication
must be kept open at all cost.
In mining districts, like in Alaska,
where men work in winter months as
well as summer, the need of open
trails and phone lines in perfect work
ing order is apparent. It is not all
sitting around the hearthside with the
ranger. His crew of summer men
has been suspended, probably early
in September or October. The chanc
es are good that the ranger, station
ed in some remote section of the for
est, will not have the benefits of a
crew’s assistance until the following
May or June. The ranger, usually,
is the act man over the summer built
trails and telephone lines, often mak
ing the final trip on snowshoes and
picking up, along the route, tools
and other equipment that must be ov
erhauled and repaired for next year’s
work.
Forty or fifty axes that need grind
ing, a dozen or two crosscut saws,
badly in need of filing, grubhoe han
dles, pick handles and shovel han
dles—that probably figured disas
trously in some recent fire fighting
—all in need of repair. A good deal
of the ranger’s time during the win
te ris spent in the capacity of black
smith, the care of pack horses and
mules and their equipment included
in the lot assigned to ranger to make
fit for use when spring thaws out the
snow.
In case of accident in the mines,
sickness at some far flung road
house, or death wherever it may be
in the far reaches of America’s na
tional forests, the ranger is the man
who “does his stuff’’ and stories of
the heroic efforts of the nation’s for
est police are not lacking in narra
tives that lend an atmosphere of bra
very and valorous service, and more
than one ranger has tossed his life
into the discord in an effort to per
form a needed service. He assumes
the role of coroner at times, yes occa
sionally the role of undertaker, grave
digger and preacher. The trails of
x\laska pass more than one grave
where the ranger has performed the
final ritual, alone and unassisted. His
diary, or daily log, contains the ac
count of grim death as well as the
records of commonplace events. He’s
the jack of all trades, finer arts in
cluded. There is romance in the For
est Service, but construed to include
hard and disagreeable work as well
as pleasurable tasks.
Royalists Like To
Be Photographed
LONDON, Jan. 14.—“Royalty are
the best sitters in the world. No
commoner whom I know shows such
consideration of a photographer as do
those of royal blood.”
So said Richard Speaight, and he
ought to know, for during the past
twenty-five years he has had occa
sion to photograph members of al
most every royal family in Europe.
The mode of living among those
to the manner born has changed
almost as much as has that of the
man in the street, thinks Speaight.
“The austerity and discipline which
surrounded the royal family of
Great Britain in days gone by has
Deen displaced by a very charming
democratic spirit,” he says. “For
instance, many years ago when I
was doing my first work for them
I had to remove my paraphenalia
from the room in which I had first
been told to ‘set up,’ because Queen
Victoria wished to pass through that
particular room. How different my
reception a few weeks ago when I
was photographing the youfigest
child of Princess Mary. On this
occasion Lord Lascelles stood by and
held the hand of his son, so that
he could not interfere with my
work.”
Among his other experiences
Speaight, while taking some pic
tures at a royal baptism, was once
mistaken for the organist and con
gratulated by a short sighted and
deaf old Duchess because of the
beautiful music which he had ren
dered for the occasion.
Getting smiles at the proper mo
ment is one of the greatest trials
of every photographer. Two ways
have been used by Speaight to get
the Prince of Wales into the right
Mood. Once, when the prince was
only a baby, he carried a number
of toys which had the desired re
sults. On another occasion not so
long since he carried with him a
friend whom the prince had not seen
for a long time. Keeping this friend
in the background until all was set.
he was able to get a real and natu
ral smile when the friend was pro
duced.
Royalty also likes to take photo
graphs it seems from another ex
perience of Speaight. “Once, while
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FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
JL Stated communications first
'^Mf'and 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
C^=^8:00 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 Fisher’s Cafe. Visiting
members are always wel
come. J. S. Bogart, Commander; L.
W. Olson, Adjutant.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
iay nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
?all, 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
come; 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.
photographing the eldest daughter
of the Queen of the Belgians, it was
necessary for me,” he says, ‘‘to
mount a step-ladder to get just the
right effect. Imagine my surprise
and consternation when i heard the
click of another camera just be
hind me immediately following the
click of my own. The Queen had
caught me in the very undignified
position; and seemed to be very
happy about it.”
EAT FATS IS ADVICE OF
PROMINENT PHYSICIAN
‘‘Eat a variety of foods and plenty
of fats,” is the latest advice of Dr. W.
D. Richardson, Chicago. I)r. Rich
ardson warns against food faddism
and tells us that in the United States
at least, we need not worry about not
getting enough vitamines. He says:
“What is the best advice that a
physician could g^e the average man
as a result of all this work of scien
tific men specializing in nutrition? In
broad, general terms the answer is
simply this; That for the best de
velopment of the human organism, a
varied diet is desirable, such a diet
as would be afforded by consumption
of meat and fats, green leaves, fruits
and vegetables, cereals and dairy pro
ducts.
Darrow Would Shape
Education of Youth
(By Associated Press)
GREELEY, Colo., Jan. It.—If he
could organize his own schools he
“would teach boys and girls to read
well enough to read newspapers and
then not nag at them untli they
showed desire for more education,”
Claience Darrow, noted Chicago at
torney, told students at Colorado
State Teachers’ College.
“It is wrong to shape boys to fit
education,” he said. “Education
should be shaped to fit boys and
not to educate them all to the same
pattern.”
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
U. S. Non-Mineral Survey .,
No. 1420.
Serial No. 054? 8
^ Alaska^^8 ^an(* ^*ce» Anchorage,
n-3.tter of the application of
VVilbur J. Erskine, for leave to en
ter as a Soldier s Additional Home
stead a tract of land situated on the
north-east shore of the north-east
arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island,
territory of Alaska, and containing
21.03 acres.
t N£tic,e-is hei‘eby given that Wilbur
J. Erskine, a citizen of the United
States, whose Post Office address is
Kodiak, Alaska, as assignee of James
M. Wynck, a beneficiary under Sec
tion 2.506 or 2307, United States Re
vised Statutes, has filed application
to enter the lands embraced in U. S.
Non-Mineral Survey No. 1420, which
are situated on the N. E. shore of the
N. E. arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Is
land, m the Territory of Alaska, Lat.
o7 deg. 46 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 153
deg. ^ 23 min. 30 sec. W., containing
21.03 acres, and more particularly des
cribed as follows, to-wit:
(Mag. Var. 23 deg. 45 min. EL)
“Commencing at Corner 1, whence
U. S. L. M. No. 1420 bears S. 41 deg.
20 min. 16 sec. E. 9.96 chs., thence me
andering mean high tide line N. 75
deg. 17 min. W. 1.29 chs., N. 87 deg.
12 min. W. 4.74 chs., N. 53 deg. 47 min.
W., 1.39 chs. N. 36 deg. 40 min. W.
3.27 chs., N. 84 deg. 50 min. W. 4.98
chs., N. 52 deg. 58 min. W. 2.61 chs.
N. 22 deg. 48 min. W. 1.78 chs, to
Cor. 2; thence N. 7.57 chs. to Cor. 3,
thence E. 16.72 chs. to Cor. 4; thence
S. 15.27 chs., to Cor. 1, the place of
beginning.
Any and all persons claiming any
portion of the above described tract
are required to file in the United
States Land Office, at Anchorage, Al
aska, their adverse claim or claims
during the period of publication, or
within thirty (30) days thereafter.
Dated this 1st day of May, 1924.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register U. S. Land Office.
First publication Nov. 14, 1924.
Last Publication Jan. 27, 1925.
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