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21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
HOTEL ST. CHARLES
When In Seattle, make the
Hotel St. Charles your head
quarters.
Strictly Modern and
Fireproof
And Managed by an eld
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
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
kmonth; 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 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
j month in Odd Fellows’
'Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
_ ;ome; 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
Ro8neE8, ?T G.
Almy Opening Law Office
Seldovia First of Year;
Dr. Smith Now Established
Yesterday arrivals in town from
Seldovia report that Carl Almy, at
torney, will open a law office at Sel
dovia after the first of the year. Dr.
L. C. Smith, who passed thru Sew
ard a few weeks ago, is Smith was
formerly located at Anchorage.
Officers of Masonic
Lodge Installed Last
Night; Banquet Held
The new officers for the ensuing
year of Masonic Dodge No. 219, were
installed last evening before a large
gathering of local and a few visit
ing members. Following the meet
ing the members ' adjourned to Fish
er’s Cafe wiiere in the large and
'specially decorated banqueting hall,
a bounteous repast was served. Nu
merous dinner speeches rounded out
one of the most enjoyable lodge meet
ing of the year.
A number fo Seward residents
journeyed out to Woodrow last nite
and enjoyed the big Christmas tree
program which was conducted under
the auspices of the school.
Worry makes thin people thinner j
land fat people fatter.
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Large assortment or line box sta-.
tionary—Alaska Shop. tfj
Show Cards,
Posters,
Movie Slides,
Cartoons,
Advertising,
Publicity.
E. F. JESSEN,
SEWARD, ALASKA
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
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
VAN GILDER HOTEL
mot and cold water in every room
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
vvwwgu^ lr
^S. "CV6T0N* VIEW CO., NEW van*
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A MAN WHO KNOWS RUSSIA
SPEAKS.
Count Wlademar Kobovtzoff Was
Finance) Minister of Russia from 1904
1914 and Prime Minister from 1911
1914. No man lias watched more
closely the working out of the Bolshe
vist regime. In a recent review he
makes these statements: “When the
war broke out Russia was in full eco
nomic growth—Eight years of Bolshe
vism have severely shaken the .bases
of Russian industry. Her army of spe-!
cialists has been decimated. The ex- i
treme impoverishment of the popula
tion, the development of primitive do
mestic industry among the peasants,
who could no longer obtain objects of
first necessities in the towns; the!
rise of prices, the total absence of ad- j
ministrative and judicial stability and
personal security have restricted mar
ket outlets. Industrial stocks are ex
hausted and machinery, left unrepair
ed and unrenewed, has been to a
great extent annihilated.
It is said that bootlegging sleighs
along the Canadian border may be
fitted with rum runners.
Photo Albums, $1 to $9—Alaska
Shop. tf
From the looks of some of them
it is hard to believe that no auto
mobile is more than a quarter of a
century old.
KOHL EJt
AUTOMATIC
"Power £t» Light
Capable, economical
“city” electrical
power and light
!No Storage Batteries
Uses 110 volt, standard
“city” appliances.
Let us demonstrate it—
you’ll say it is the best
lighting and power system
for rural homes in existence.
Price $595
including 55-gallon gasoline
storage tank. Easy pay
ments can be arranged.
Telephone us (number).
CARLE
ORLANDER
AGENT
SEWARD, ALASKA
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VOLSTEAD ACT
HAS FAILED,
| SAYS REPORT
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. (#)— The
conclusion that “the Volstead Act has
failed utterly to accomplish its pur
pose to promote temperance and so
briety” has been reached by the
Moderation League, Inc., on the ba
sis of a suryey of conditions in sev
eral hundred representative cities.
The League, composed of men from
every walk of life, is incorporated un
der the laws of New York state for
the announced abject of “Restoration
of Temperance.” Its survey collect
ed statistics dealing with prohibition
during the last eleven yeans from ev
ery city or town of more than 5,000
populaton.
On the basis o/f this data, the
League declares, “drunkeness gener
ally has increased to virtually the
pre-prohibition levels and certain
classes of intoxication cases, among
automobile drivers and minors, es
pecally, have increased far above
anything ever known before in this
country.”
“Since conditions nave become
worse, not better, each ' year,” the
report concludes, “and with the next
generation drinking as never before,
there seems to be no hope that the
Volstead Act in its present drastic
form will accomplish it3 purpose in
the long run.
“From the experience, before na
tional prohibition, of the states which
had restrictive laws, from the expe
rience of the whole country during
the restrictive period of 1918-1919,
and from the experience of the Can
adian provinces, we believe that a
greater degree of importance can be
attained by a wise restrictive law
than by a bone-dry law which does
not command the respect of a large
part of the people.”
In replies from 350 places which
kept records of intoxication arrests
ifrom 1914, the report states that
arrests on this charge in these com
munities during 1914 had totalled
506,737. In the same places, the toi
tal for 1920, the year after the Vol
stead Act became effective had drop
ped to 226,070, but in 1924 it had
arisen to a total of 498,752.
A corresponding increase "was not
ed in the replies from 457 communi
ties where records of arrests for
dnunkeness had been kept only since
1920, the report continues. In 1920,
the total for these places was 258,
974, while in 1914 it was shown to
have risen to 565,026.
“A noteworthy feature,” the re
port comments, “is that during the
1918-1919 restrictions (which amount
ed to semi-dryness, not bone-dry
ness), there was an enormous de
crease in drunkenness in spite of !
of the business hoom of those years; ■
and that thereafter, during the se-;
vere bone-dry years of the Volstead I
Act, there was such an astonishing
increase than drunkenness just about
reached the level of the old saloon1
years by 1924.”
Free Dance, Odd Fellows
Hall Tomorrow Night
The regular dance generally giv
?n on Saturday nights by Odd Fel
ows orchestra has been cancelled for
omorrow evening owing to the of
ri>cer personnel of the steamer Starr
presenting their dance in the hall.
Featuring the dance will be the new
nur-piece orchestra composed of
numbers of the Starr crew. The af
'air is free to the general public and
ill are extended a cordial invitation
:o attend.
Probably a lot of senators are try
ing to think up something nice to
;ive Mr. Dawes for Christmas. Also,
probably not.
Admitting that the price of suc
cess is high, it should not be over
ooked that the price of failure is
nuch higher.
We sometimes wonder how it is
hat so many nice people know so
nuch about the naughty magazines
hey want to suppress.
An optimist is one who believes
hat the static will disappear pres
ntly.
METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL
CHRISTMAS TREE.
As the big Community Christmas
Tree is to be this evening it has
i teen decided to have the Sunday
! Christmas tree at 2 o’clock Saturday
j afternoon in the basement of the
church. There will be a short pro
gram, "Treats” for the children, and
a little party for them. This will be
“something differentand we feel
sure that they will have a happy
time.
Rev. Graham.
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM 0S60
Residence—Madison 123
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Sanitary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prices
Keep Us Busy.
LANDERS & SWANSON
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billu Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
WHEN YOU THING ABOUT IN
STALLING YOUR HEATING
PLANT CALL ME UP AND LET
ME GIVE YOU THE CHEAP
EST AND BEST WAY TO IN
STALL IT.
R. F. TILLMAN.
Back of Brown & Hawkins
PHONE ADAMS 80
LAUNDRY DONE ON SHORT
NOTICE
Special Care Taken of Silks and of all
woolens
AMANDA’S LAUNDRY
Next Door to the Belmont Hotel.
PHONE MADISON 126.
SEWARD CLUB
Under New
MANAGEMENT
OLD AND NEW
FRIENDS INVITED
ED ERICKSON
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Alaska Interior - Silver
Black Foxes, a limited'
number of 1925 pups will1
be sold this season. If you
wish good foxes to start
your ranch with. Let me
furnish you your breeders
Price $500 per Pair f. o. b.
Kasilof, Alaska
Kasilof Silver Fox Ranch
Louis Nissen, Propr.
Kasilof, Alaska