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21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
HOTEL ST. CHARLES
When in Seattle, make the
Hotel St. Charles your head
quarters.
Strictly Modem and
Fireproof
And Managed by an old
Alaskan
J. A. FARNHAM.
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
ing members
welcome.
ERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
SL Stated communications first
third Wednesdays of each
/Nr\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
at
Meets every Thursday
18:00 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 EA8TERN 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, V G.
Movies Fluctuate like
Figures Stock Market
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NEW YORK, Dec. 11. (J-P)—Feeling
the pinch of industrial disputes and
the seasonal vagaries of the weather
the number of motion picture thea
ters in the United States fluctuates
much as do the figures on the stock
market.
The show houses of the industry
have been counted, however, and the
Motion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors of America placed the No
vember total at 20,415. At the same
time, figures were released showing
that upwards of twenty million people
visit these theaters daily.
The.tabulation of movie houses was
first attempted and exceeds by nearly
four thousand the estimates that va
riously. have been made. A signifi
cant fact noted in the count was the
increase in the number of small
houses.
A guide book will be prepared from
the data, making available to the
patron an index of the picture thea
ters of the country.
The situation in the anthracite re
gion adversely affected the movie
(business, as disclosed in a decrease
in numbers. Across the country in
Montana, however, the activity about
the Anaconda mine operations brot
the number to a new high figure.
Approach of winter weather caused
the closing of a large number of
coast and resort amusement houses,
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the season for reopening.
Passing o»f daylight time and the
end of long summer evenings, in
ducements for the airdome and open
air theater, were additional factors.
The distributors have concluded af
ter a consideration of all seasonal
features in the business that there
is a balance in movie exhibitions and
patronage.
Taking the seating capacity of the
theatres as a basis and figuring con
servatively on a filled house twice
daily, the report on attendance was
compiled principally from a report
made by H. M. Richey, general man
ager of the Michigan Motion Picture
Theater Owners Association.
A tendency toward the building of
large theaters in the cities was not
ed, presumably to increase seating
capacity and thereby lower admis
sion prices. In towns, however, the
aters are being erected on a smaller
scale. Architectural and utility beau
ty was shown in the building plans of
all modern theaters.
Gus Manthey, local resident, return
ed yesterday from Knight’s Island,
where he was in charge of the big
barge Lawrence which has been used
in conveying railroad ties to this port
from the island.
Bean’s Shupaks, Urbach’s.
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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
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
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VAN GILDER HOTEL
hot and cold water in every room
•TEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
FIREMEN TO HOLD
ANNUAL MASK DANCE
AT ATHLETIC CLUB
Reversing their decision to hold the
annual firemen’s masquerade ball at
Odd Fellows’ Hall £Jew Year’s Eve,
at the regular monthly meeting of the
Seward Volunteer Fire Department,
held last evening the S. A. C. gymna
sium (formerly the Dreamland dance
hall) will be the scene of the big
event. The change was made on ac
count of the larger floor space at the
S. A. C. gym in comparison with the
Odd Fellows’ hall which will make
the affair a greater success for in
past years the hall has always been
overcrowded and many couples un
able to dance at all.
Permission to use the S. A. C. gym
has been granted by the officials of
the athletic organization and, accord
ing to present plans it is the inten
tion to work remodeling the inte
rior of the gym, about a week before
the dance. Earl Mount and Charles
Cooper, interior decorators who spent
considerable time in the gym last
evening following the firemen’s meet
ing, outlining the decorative scheme.
Mr. Cooper reported with respect to
the music that in all probability there
will be a six piece orchestra. This will
include Miss Elsie Leslie, marimba;
Miss Cecil Leslie and Mr. Anderson,
saxophones; Mrs. Anderson, piano;
L. Tinkler, drums; Mr. Sheriff, violin.
H. L. Lien, a former member of the
department, was reinstated. D. E.
Valade, who was admitted at the last
meeting, made his first appearance on
the scene last night.
The following bills were read and
upon regular motions were ordered
paid: Seward News Company, $3.45;
Schallerers, $1.20; Seward Gateway,
$6.00. In conclusion the monthly sti
pend to the members was distributed.
LIVE STOCK CAN BE RAISED
SUCCESSFULLY IN ALASKA
Live stock can be raised successfully
in many parts of Alaska, market con
ditions being the only drawback. In
case a good market was provided mil
lions of head of cattle and sheep from
the rich grazing lands on Kodiak Isl
and and islands to the westward could
be poured into Seattle, as well as
thousands of tons of wool of a staple
and texture far superior to 'that raised
Outside. Hay can be cut in great
quantities and the soil is rich and
productive.
Horses may be taken into the White
River valley, or placed on the open
range of Kodiak Island and emerge
rolling fat in the spring*, so rich are
the dried grasses and so temperate
the climatic conditions.
Many of these islands are large
enough to support immense herds,
and but few buildings would be ne
essary, as the cattle roam at large and
bed down where night overtakes them.
At Unalaska the Aleutian Live Stock
Company under the management of
Mr Snrnffl Viovr/-v
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head of sheep from which a heavy
woolclip was made last year. These
animals were landed on Unalaska Isl
and in the fall of 1923 and had no
time to become acclimated before
winter set in, yet but few sheep were
lost during the winter months. The
wool from these sheep was free from
dirt, brush or burrs, and brought a
high price in the Outside markets,
fi Between Lake Mantast and Eagle
stretches a vast rolling prairies of
hundreds of thousands of acres, with
grass up to a horse’s sides as one
‘ rides through. Col. J. C. Gotwals, who
| rode through the country a few years
ago expressed his conviction that it
would support 200,000 head of cattle
and would in time be covered with
herds.
Send this paper to your friends.
Hank Russel returned to town yes
terday after spending a few weeks in
the woods tie cutting.
E. Larssen, Seward jailer who left
town last week for Valdez with two
prisoners, returned yesterday on the
steamer Alameda.
Ed Crawford, a Seward resident, re
turned home yesterday from a brief
business trip to Latouche.
E. M. Culbertson, in charge of the
passenger and freight sheds for the
Alaska Railroad at Anchorage, return
ed yesterday on the steamship Alame
da from a brief visit Outside.
ALASKA BROWN BEAR
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Monday—President Coolidge ad
dressed the Farm Bureau Federation
today stating “the surplus lands of
the country were exhausted and the
industrial population is outstripping
the farm population in manufactur
ing centers. I propose actively and
energetically to assist the farmers
promote their welfare thru coopera
tive marketing.”
Charles B. McQuire, head brake
man was killed and engineer John
Harrington injured near Donner Fer
ry, Idaho, when a Westward freight
train on the G. N. Ry., crashed into
a rock slide.
The Supreme Court at Washington
upheld the law (imposing a graduated
excise tax on the Alaska canning in
dustry.
Loening amphibian planes will be
used in the Alaska mapping expedi
tion by naval aviators. The base
will be at Ketchikan.
Herbert Hoover approved the new
salmon regulations for the Alaska
coast, effective January 1, 1926, re
quiring a distance of at least a mile
between fish traps in Alaska waters
south of 58 degrees of latitude and
in north latitude to 76 degrees. Clos
ed regions embrace 23 areas includ
ing a certain portion of the Kusko
kwim river, portions of Bristol Bay,
the waters adjacent to Shumigan and
■Sanak Islands and traps are prohi
bited in False Pass.
Steamer Starr departs for the
merce and Labor disputes in labor
disputes; encouragement of coopera
tive marketing as an aid to agricul
ture, and vigorous enforcement of
prohibition.
Road and 'trail construction in Al
aska should be speeded up so as to
get the maximum benefit from the
work already accomplished, the Boarcf
of Road Commissioners for Alaska
stated in its annual report submitted
to Congress. The Board asks for $1,
750,000 for the fiscal year of 1927, be
ginning June next.
A. A. Burglin, Seldovia fox farm
er, passes tlbru en route to the In
terior to purohase silver foxes.
Dennis Hurley, general manager
and president of the Alaska Hills
Mines Company, leaves for Seattle.
In the spring he will return wtih a
fifteen-ton ElMs Bali mill which will
be installed on the Nuka. Bay Mines
-company property, which adjoins
almost the Alaska Hills Mines. Mr.
Hurley is a stockholder in both.
North American Fisheries packed
about 10,000 barrels of herring the
past season, said VV. P. Studdert,
manager of 'the company, who depart
ed for the south.
Wednesday—The Coolldge budget
estimated expenditures of the govern
ment for the coming fiscal year be
ginning July 1, at $3,896,000,000. This
is an increase of $160,000,000 over
the current year.
Representative Hawley of Oregon
introduced a bill in Congress creat
ing a fund from the revenues of
STANDARD OIL RIG AT COLD BAY
westward.
T. W. Hawkins, member of local
firm of Brown and Haw-kins Corpor
ation, leaves for 'the States on a two
months’ buying trip.
Steamer Alaska departs with many
interior mining people who will spend
the holidays in the States. '
Ed. Brooker, Kodiak business man,
will spend this winter prospecting
the beaches of Raspberry Island. Be
lieves the beadles of Kodiak Island
may rival Nome’s.
Annual report of Governor George
A. Barks is released for publication.
In part the Governor states: Alaska
has continued to progress industrial
ly during the past year. Wlhdle the
advancement has been slow, as in the
past two years, it is nevertheless
steady.
Charles Johnson, pioneer of Inte
rior Alaska died at Fairbanks.
John R. Parkin, oldtimer of the
Fairbanks and Circle districts, pass
ed away at his Fairbanks home.
Tuesday—Special election to be
held in Seward January 9 for the
purpose of excluding certain land
ifirom the town proper on which is
located the Jesse Lee Home.
President Coolidge’s message to
Congress suggested tax reduction
along the lines suggested by th© Way
and Means committee; outlined ad
herence to the World Court; con
tinued efforts to strengthen aviation;
curtailment of th© Shipping Board’s
powers; increased authority for the
President in the Departments of Com
fnibilor Islands to be administered
by the Department of Commerce and
used to develop the fur seal industry,
fishing and fox raising in Alaska. A
portion of the fund would b© used
to provide the atives with necessities.
Admiral Watson arrives from the
Westward southbound, with quite a
good size passenger list; also with
the last of the Westward herring
pack on board, nearly 3,000 barrels.
Thursday—Mrs. Andy Simons, who
has been ill for some months, is much
improved, stated Mr. Simons during
his recent visit here from their Lake
Kengd home.
Railroads of the Northwest spend
ing millions advertising the Northwest
and Alaska. In ten national publica
tions full page ads are being carried
this month.
Friday—Eight Alaskan delegates
to the mid-year meeting of the West
ern Division of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce convention discussed the
formation of aan All-Alaska Chamber
of Commerce body. Alaska’s voice
at Washington is weak declared
Judge Schofield of Noe.
The Republican Committee on com
mittees swept the House of Republi
can insurgents 'with the exception of
Cooper Of Wisconsin, from all im
portant committees.
Sixity-ono coal miners lost their
lives in the gas explosion in the Ala
bama Fuel and Iron company, at Bir
mingham, Ala.