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 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 t;o 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.
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 other communities. Support the community that supports you.
The Calumet Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
U. S. Non-Mineral Survey ..
No. 1420.
Serial No. 054? 8
United States Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska.
In the matter of the application of
Wilbur 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.
Notice is hereby given that Wilbur
J. Erskine, a citizen of the United
States, whose Post Office address is i
Kodiak, Alaska, as assignee of James j
M. Wyrick, a beneficiary under Sec
tion 2306 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, in the Territory of Alaska, Lat.
57 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. E.)
“Commencing at Comer 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. 43 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
baginning.
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.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
• No. 22.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE SELDOVIA PREt ~OT 3RD
DIVISION, TERRITORY JF AL
ASKA, AT SELDOVIA.
In the matter of the estate of James
E. Hill, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned has been appointed
and has qualified Executrix of the
estate of James E. Hill, deceased. In
accordance with an order duly made
therefor, Notice is hereby given to the
icreditors of and all persons having
jclaiinms against said deceased, to ex
hibit such claims, with the necessary
vouchers, within six months from the
date of this notice to the said Execu
trix at her place of residence at Sel
dovia, Alaska.
Dated at Seldovia, Alaska, this 1st
day of January, 1925.
MINNIE LOUIS HILL,
Executrix of Estate of James E.
Hill, Deceased.
Published,, Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31, Feb.7.
Mystery of Disappearing
Governors Is Explained
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TEXAS CAPITOL EQUIPPED WITH
SECRET CHAMBER TO ENABLE
EXECUTIVE TO DODGE PER
SISTENT CALLERS.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 28.—Disap
pearing Governors, hidden stairways,
locked rooms and the unfathomable
mystery of a secret chamber ic the
Texas capitol!
Sounds like stuff for a drama of
intrigue and dark statecraft!
But it’s only the story of liow
Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson of Tem
ple, the State’s first woman Gov
ernor, may eclipse from the madding
crowd, which before her time had
driven men to cover.
Long has it been something of a
mystery how Texas Governors could
so artfulljf disappear while apparent
ly busy in their office. Visitors sit
ting in the outer room might see the
Governor enter by one of two outside
doors and then, presto, when it came
the callers’ turn tc enter the inner
sanc+um, the Governor could not be
found, though he had escaped by
neither exit.
Frequently has the secretary usher
ed a persistent caller into the Gov
ernor’s deserted office to prove that
the executive was not there. And
since the Governor could not escape
by the usual methods without being
seen, there was something spectral
about the thing. The secretary has
been perfectly innocent because the
plan works with no one “in” on it
save the Governor.
This gubernatorial magic has mys
tified many an office seeker as well
as others who came merely to con
sume valuable time. It has been
employed less by Gov. Neff perhaps
than others, because callers general
ly find a ready welcome and an easy
approach in Gov. Neff’s office.
But at last the mystery is solved.
It must be told: The Governor has
access to a secret chamber !
Many of Mrs. Ferguson’s prede
cessors of supposedly the stronger
sex, weary with burdens of state have
used this same system; and perhaps
one who lays no claim to masculine
endurance, by a similar device, may
find escape from heavy labors.
Few knew of this chamber, and
still fewer have ever seen it. Only
the Governor and a porter, who cleans
'the office, have admission to it.
Leading up from the executive of
fice to the second floor of the Capi
tol is a small, iron stairway, almost
hidden in a nook of what might be
called the outer section of the inner
office. It enters a room above the
Governor’s office.
This little-known compartment is
divided into two rooms, furnished
with desks, chairs, books and all
equipment for study. Fine rugs,
easy chairs and a couch afford means
for rest and relaxation from the day’s
work. The rooms are kept secluded
and as quiet as possible and are nev
er used except as the Governor wish
es.
Great state papers, messages to the
Legislature, pardons and executive
problems have been written and pon
dered over in the quiet of these small
rooms.
Within these walls many of the
great thoughts of Texas Governors
have been first put to paper and
from them have emanated perhaps
more far-reaching pronouncements
than from any other rooms in the
whole comonwealth.
It is said that here the great Gov
Hogg framed his measures for the
creation of the Texas Railroad Com
mission, considered one of the most
constructive laws on the statute
books. Gov. Neff, himself, has thot
out some of his messages in the quiet
of these rooms. And Gov. James E.
Ferguson may come back to these
rooms after “totin’ the wood and wa
ter for Ma,” as he describes his con
nection with the new State regime.
There is only one other entrance
to the rooms besides the iron stair
way. This other door, which is al
ways locked, enters what is called
the Governor’s reception room on the
second floor of the Capitol. The re
ception room is fully furnished as a
parlor, having been used at one time
for State formalities, but which now
has little use except to draw the cu- j
riosity of visitors.
INDIAN HAS PASSED,
DEPARTMENT VERDICT
WASHINGTON, I). C„ Jan. 29.—
“The Indians are all civilized; the
wild redskin is no more.
“The tepee, most necessary of all
the furnishments of the traditional
abrogine, has vanished,” the Indian
bureau of the department of the in
terior announces.
Battleground of Geronimo, fiercest
of the white man’s antagonists, were
the scene of the last stand of Indian
life. The announcement says:
“Plans have been inaugurated for
the erection of houses to replace the
tepees occupied by the Apaches of
Arizona, this tribe being the last to
give up their aborginal mode of liv
ing.”
NURSE FILES $100,000
DAMAGE ACTION AGAINST
CLIFF DURANT, AUTO MAN
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.—Charg
ing that she was severely beaten by
R. C. (Cliff) Durant, wealthy auto
mobile manufacturer and sportsman
of California, and Miss Lea Gapski,
a guest, while aboard Durant’s yacht
in Honolulu harbor last October, Mrs.
Martha Fuller, a nurse, filed suit for
$100,000 damages in superior court
here yesterday.
In the complaint the woman
alleges that Durant and Miss Gapski
participated in the attack upon her
after she had remonstrated with
Miss Gapski for violating instruc
tions of her physicians as to diet.
Mrs. Caroline Becker, of Detroit,
has been pardoned after serving ten
years of a life sentence for killing a
woman neighbor. She is 73 years old
and the mother of 17 children.
Sheaffer’s Life Time Pens, at the
Alaska Shop. tf
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CHILI MILL
The mill that takes the pros
pector off the labor market.
Cheaper than an trastra, more
efficient than a stamp mill.
MADE IN SIZES FROM
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DAILY CAPACITY
Priced $150 to $1989
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NELS HAGEN
ALASKA AGENT
Write for information to
P. O. Box 1105
SEWARD. ALASKA
Howard Carter, the Englishman,
who discovered King Tut’s tomb, has
resumed work there. The Egyptian
government will pay him for his work.
With the beginning of 1925 the as
tronomical day, which heretofore be
gan at noon was changed to midnight
so as to conform to the civil day. The
difference between the two has caused
much confusion in the past and com
plications in the computations of nav
igators especially.
Albert B. George, said to be the
first negro judge in a court of record
in the United States, took office in
Chicago recently.
William Harris dropped dead when
a Detroit audience applauded his
vaudeville act for a fourth encore.
Los Angeles police recently demon
strated a motorcycle with a side car
cell, in which traffic violators are
transported to jail.
Snow Shoes, $9.50 per pair, at
Graef’s. tf
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
^^S&fand third Wednesdays of each
/\r\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
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
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
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
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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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Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
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POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
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