AT THE HOTELS
Van Gildeer—John Natoli, Wm. C.
Steinmtz, Frank Knight, F. C. Cheat
ham, all from Anchorage.
Hotel Sexton—E. Rogers, Bob Man
they, W. B. Lawing and wife.
Hotel Overland—D. J. McDougall,
Livengood; Jas. H. Cratty, Seward;
M. H. Lynch.
Seward—O. Schilter, Axel Olsen |
and wife, Miss Julia Thorsen, Miss |
Jennie Thorsen, C. N. Banks, Hugh
Moor.
W. C. Stenmetz, electrician for the
Alaska railroad, was a guest of the !
Van Gilder overnight.
F. C. Cheatham, a Standard Oil
employe from Kanatak, arrived from
Anchorage on last night’s train and
will sail tonight on the Starr.
W. B. Lawing and wife, of Mile 23, I
arrived in town today to make bond ;
for their position as postmaster at j
Lawing, the new postoffice named at
that place. Considerable mail has
been handled in the past at Mile 23
and the need for a postoffice there
has been urgent.
D. J. McDougall, a resident of Liv
engood, is a guest of the Overland.
Miss Julia and Jennie Thorsen will
sail for westward points on the Starr
tonight.
Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn Swetmann will
leave on the next boat for the States
for a business and pleasure trip to
Pacific coast cities. The drug store
will be left in care of Mrs. O. A. Jo
hansen. W. O. Bremner, a register
ed pharmacist, and Dr. J. A. Baugh
man, will be in charge of the pre
scription department.
It is reported that Jack McCord,
who has been visiting in Washington,
D. C., New York, Chicago, Denver,
Los Angeles, and San Francisco, will
sail for Alaska about the first of Feb
ruary.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ellsworth will
be unable to leave on Saturday’s boat
on account of taking inventory. They
will probably leave on a well earned
business and vacation trip on one of
the next boats.
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FACES OF VICTIMS OF
WAR BEING MADE OVER
BY BRITISH SURGEON
LONDON, Jan. 7.—Great Britain
has repaired almost all the broken
faces brought back to “blighty” by
Tommies wounded at the world war
fronts.
Only a few more than a hundred
veterans will look out on another
New Year’s day from faces so bad
ly disfigured more than six years
ago that complete restoration has
not yet been possible. They are,
however, progressing favorably.
Plastic surgery has already been
successfully applied in reconstruct
ing the maimed heads of 221 offi
cers and 3,228 of other ranks. The
Ministry of Pensions has been treat
ing such cases at the Queen’s hos
pital. Sidcuij, Kent, since March,
3920. Many a man has been admit
ted with half his face blown away,
or a mere scar where his nose used
to be, or minus his lower jaw as a
result of high-explosive destruction.
Repairing a broken face involves a
series of operations. The face is lit
erally built up afresh. The victim
leaves the hospital with a complete
and presentable set of features, not
wax work or thelike, but flesh and
blood, bone and muscle, all func
tioning normally.
To supply what is missing from
an injured face, the surgeons take
a piece of flesh or bone from some
other part of the body. The trans
fer of flesh has to be effected by
stages because it must at no time be
completely detached.
At one stage a “pedicle,” as the
surgeons call it, is still attached at
one end to the place where it ori
ginally belonged—the abdomen or the
hip, for instance—while the other
end is growing on to the patient’s
arm. In due course, the lower end
is cut, and the "pedicle” is switched
round to another intermediate site,
or to the face itself.
A considerable interval for healing
and growth must elapse between
each operation and the next. Alter
the transfer is completely finished,
minor “touching up” operations fol
low.
Realistic plaster casts are kept in
the hospital museum to indicate the
ghastly ruin presented by some of
the faces before treatment.
Some of the veterans have been
in the plastic surgeons’ hands for
seven years. The Ministry of Pen
sions bears the expenses, and the
dependents of the pensioners receive
a regular allowance. The patients
themselves are allowed about a dol
lar a week pocket-money.
2,500 AFRICAN LIONS
OWNED IN AMERICA
CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—How many
African lions are in the United
States? The plan of the Pacific
Coast Sportsmen’s club, recently in
corporated, to stock a hunting pre
serve in California with lions and
tigers and other game, has given
the questions a certain interest.
“It will doubtless surprise most
people to know that, according to
the most reliable estimate, there are
about 2,500 lions in this country,”
said an old-time animal man con
nected with the club. “They are
distributed among zoological gar
dens, circus menageries and profes
sional animal dealers. If all lions
were exterminated in Africa, the
United States has enough lions to
re-stock Africa in a few decades.”
BRIGHTER DAYS FORCAST
FOR BRITISH SHIPMEN
LONDON, Jan. 7—A hint of bet
ter things in store for the ship
ping trade was given at the recent
annual dinner of the Institute of
Mariine Engneers by Sir Ernest
Glover, president in 1923 of the
Chamber of Shipping.
There were indicatons, the speak
er said, that shipowners were near
ing the end of the slump. Laid-up
tonnage today, he said, was a great
deal less than at any time during
the last 18 months, and “we are on
the road to establishing equilibrium
between the amount of tonnage
available and the amount of cargoes
to be carried.” —
Ed Rogers arrived on last night’s
train and will remain in Seward.
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REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
THE BANK OF SEWARD
Located at Seward, Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on
the 31st Day of December, 1924
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts ----$190,193.90
Overdrafts- 672.43
United States Bonds and Securities---15,000.00
Other Bonds and Warrants - 38,463.34
Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures--- 15,400.00
- Other Real Estate Owned- 2,003.00
Checks on other Banks and other Cash Items__ 48.20
Cash on Hand and Due from Banks--- 74,894.13
Total _$336,675.00
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid in and Surplus ____$ 35,000.00
Undivided Profits less expenses paid _ 4,619.02
Demand Deposits _ 297,055.98
Total _ $336,675.00
United States of America, Territory of Alaska, Third Judicial Divi
sion, ss.
I, C. C. Hinde, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
C. C. HINDE, Cashier.
Correct Attest: CHAS. E. BROWN, Director.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this) 5thj day of January, 1925.
(Notarial Seal) AARON E. RUCKER,
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My Commission expires Nov. 21, 1925.
A1 Peel arrived on last night’s train
from Mile 20, where he has been put
ting in preliminary practice for the
big tournament at the Northern. Mr.
Peel reports Ed Fredericks and Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. P. Hubbard, who are
spending the winter on the lake shore
as well and prosperous.
Joe Burns, manager of the Liberty
theatre, left for Fairbanks and Ne
nana on a business trip this morning.
He expects to return next Wednesday.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that on Fri-1
day, January 16, 1925, a special elec
tion will be held for the Town of
Seward under the provisions of Chap
ter 97, Session Laws of 1923, Territory
of Alaska, to vote upon the following
question:
Shall the Town of Seward, Alas
ka, constituting the Seward School
District, request permission from
the Congress of the United States
of America to issue bonds, not to
exceed One Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($100,000.00) for the purpose
of erecting a school house for the
public schools of said district.
The polls for said election will be
situated in the Town Hall and will be
open from 8:00 o’clock on the morn
ing of Friday, January 16, 1925, until
7:00 o’clock on the evening of Friday,
January 16, 1925.
Qualified electors are those who are
citizens of the United States and who
have resided continuously in the Town
of Seward, for the period of one year
preceding the day of election.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, January
5, 1925.
WM. H. WHITTLESEY,
Municipal Clerk.
Ladles’ ana Gents' Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
Picture Framing at the Alaska
Shop. tf
Parker’s Duofold Fountain Pens, at
the Alaska Shop. tf
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