With Home Town Buying
X°u ^!i You,make use of the public benefits of this
i*1 ^ep }ov t^iem—and make it possible to increase
municipal improvements. '
You can't do it by sending your dollars out of town. Every
cent you send away to mail order concerns represents so much dead
iosstothe community and no gain whatever to you on good purchased.
YTri^lerseU? standard goods of the highest Quality—
nn? V jei? at honest Prices. Merchandise of greater merit can
not be had for any amount of money—and certainly not for less
-l5 ca^ in?pect g°°ds before purchasing—a big advantage
over mail order buying. You can see what you are getting. You can
an/ nhfS,raa - Quantltie? you wish, or you can purchase in large lots
and obtain price concessions granted bulk buyers The eoods vou hnv an*
Md7r« orddive?yfecosS!nUteS purchase is made-riglt into your hLe
If you are not satisfied with purchases—or desire to
MdcOTveni?nt^S fOT ^ reaSOn whatever—you lnay do so quickly
These are a few of the buying advantages to be had
nght here at home that can not be offered by any mail order concern
in creation. You benefit yourself—then you benefit the dealer.
You enable him to continue in business. By giving him
bigger business you enable him to give you better bargains.
The profit he makes—a legitimate one—is spent right here
at home. Some of it is turned over to other dealers. Some of it goes
k°r*i!r^ ^or Clerks’ salaries. Some of it for taxes. It assists in
t ie e.ntl/e advance property values. It contributes
^eCefn}ent of schools—which your children or your neighbors’ children
Put down better side-walks—and put up better public build
ings,. It pays you actual dividends in development of the town —your town.
It makes the town in which you live a better town for you to live in
thatnprTOpe?ity.lderS t0 here‘ Ii: booms Prosperity-and you share in
It is your plain duty —to yourself — your family — your friends
>our town — to spend your dollars with local dealers. Do it.
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A
I FEMININE NOVELISTS
ARE PRODUCING OVER
HALF OF BEST BOOKS
Women novelists have risen with
in the past two decades from s
position of no importance to the
prolific output of more than hall
of the substantially good wTorks de
dares H. L. Pangborn in the Decern
ber International Book Review.
“Some years ago at a gathering
in an author’s club,” states Mr
Pangborn, “the quotation of a solemr
reference to ‘those eminently femin
ie pursuits—art and literature’ near
ly caused a fit.
"In fact, in 1900 we were not sc
far from the time when Gilbert was
justified in adding the “lady novelist'
to the catalogue of those who 'never
would be missed,’ but the last twe
or three decades have changed that,
and a fair appraisal of British and
American fiction this century would
rather show more than half of the
substantially good to be that of wo
men.
“There is also a great gain here
beyond that of quantity and variety,
for perhaps the most valuable
quality in the best novels by wo
men is precisely the feminine way of
looking at life. The woman’s way of
looking at life is, indubitably, as
important as the man's, but it is
only within dur own ear that it has
begun to find any adequate room.
“There is, of course, as much
variety among different women in
their approach to any given problem
as there is among men; but there
remains a fundamental element in
common; more markedly so than the
corresponding masculine fixed among
men. Not to either is it ever given
to see the whole of life, save, per
haps to a Shakespeareor—at an in
terval of two thousand years—a Eu
ripides. To emphasize the feminine
quality of women novelists is in no
way derogatory.”
1 UNIVERSE IS 100
BILLION YEARS OF
AGE, SAYS SAVANT
LONDON, Jan. 8.—This old uni
verse of ours is a hundred thousand
times older than anybody has so far
ever believed it to be, says Dr. Jas.
Hopwood Jeans, secretary of the Roy
al Astro ' mical soc*€t}\
Dr. Je<m> has icv. concluded In
vestigations which indicate that the
sun, for instance, is by no means
the youngster most people think. It
has taken the sun a hundred billion
years to evolve from its hottest and
whitest stage to its present form,
according to this scientist, and not
a thousand millions years as has
been hitherto believed.
He is convinced that the produc
tion of the solra system involved the
close approach of the sun and ‘‘ano
ther star”—an occurrence not likely
to take place more than once in
about a thousand million years. For
that reason, he says, the solar sys
tem known to Earth’s inhlbitants
is almost unique, if not absolutely
so.
Dr. Jeans is also inclined to be
lieve that at least one in every ten
stars is itself a sun at the center
of a system of planets.
A baby girl was found alive in a
Brooklyn ash can, with a cat sitting
on her chest* and another crouched
nearby. The child was sent to a
hospital.
Peter McClelland of Waco, Tex.,
died two weeks after winning an in
heritance of ?300,000 in a lawsuit
that lasted 38 years.
Pope Is Good Landlord;
Rents Are Never Rasied
ROME, Jan. 7.—Pope Pius XI is a
landlord and, by all standards of good
landlords, is a perfect one. He never
raises the rent.
Italian rents have quintrupled and
sextupled during the past years.
Tenants occupying any of the build
ings under the administration of the
Holy See, however, have suffered
nothing from rent increase. They
pay the same rent as before tthe war.
The sums are nominal when com
pared to present-day prices.
There are tenants occupying small
apartments who pay as low as two
or three dollars a month. For the
same places today, judging by other
prices on the market, they would
pay twenty or thirty dollars a
month. Nevertheless, they continue
unaffected either by the deflation of
Itailian currency or by the general
rise in prices prevalent all over the
world.
Recently, the great and historic
palace of Propaganda Fide was sold.
Tenants had occupied this palace for
decades. A number of stores also
were rented. The new landlords as
the first act of taking possession in
creased the rent five to six times
what it had been. In other palaces
divided into living apartments under
the jurisdiction of the prelates, the
rent continues on the old basis, but
the poor tenants who suffer a
change of landlords enjoy no more
the benefits of papal beneficence.
The tenants of Propaganda Fide
are faced with a serious problem,
j They have lived for years on meager
incomes, but forced to seek houses
on the open market find themselves
unable to cope with the rent prob
lem. The storekeepers of the palace
also consider going out of business.
Italian rents had been kept at the
pre-war level for four years after
the war. The government prevented
any raising of rents by law. Under
the Mussolini administration, a de
cree was passed restoring open
prices on rents and tenants forth
I with had their rents- raised, but
i papal tenants continue to enjoy
| papal beneficence.
Expert horseshoe pitchers from
; 32 states will take part in a tourna
I ment at Lake Worth, Fla., this win
| ter.
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Sharp blasts from a fire whistle
ended a three-days spell of hiccoughs,
which had nearly killed K. A. God
win of Salem, N. J.
Harold Lester of East Dubuque,
la., angrily threw his gun against
a tree when he missed a rabbit and
the weapon was discharged, killing
him.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Jk Stated communications first
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
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
;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
Rosness, N. G.
Japan Gets Luxuries
1 But Pays Big Taxes
TOKIO, Japan, Jan. 8.—The en
forcement of the so-called luxury tar
iff bill in Japan since July 31 ap
parently is not having the desired ef
fect of encouraging thrift and econ
omy, as the originally intended by
the lawmakers.
The goverment has been making
every effort to encourage these qual
ities in the Japanese people since that
time, but the public seems to be tak
ing an indifferent attitude toward this
national policy.
The importation of goods specified
j as luxuries is increasing each month.
The tax is a 100 per cent uniform
tariff on items declared to be lux
uries.
During October the customs at
! Yokohama, chief port in Japan, ob
tained nearly $150,000 on this tax
| alone. This compared with other
j months before the tax was put on
I shows that the volume of goods is
! virtually unchanged, or, if anything,
j slightly increased in the last few
j months.
The government hopes that con
sumption of ‘luxuries” throughout
Japan would be curtailed seems to
be in vain, and the futility of the law
in this regard, at least, is gradually
being realized.
While it had been rumored the
next diet might revise the bill, it
is understood by officials at the for
| eign office that no change is con
templated.
Melvin Wright, a Kentucky school
teacher whipped his wife, who was
also his pupil, for talking back in
class. He was sent to jail.
Rats at Ayden, N. C., ate a cat
caught in a trap set for the rodents.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION
U. S. Non-Mineral Survey ..
No. 1420.
Serial No. 054.18
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,
lerritory 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
Kodiak, Alaska, as assignee of James
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, ami more particularly des
cribed as follow’s, 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
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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