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SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
"Good Water a Necessity in Every Borne"
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santiary Bath#, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prce#
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
MOORE & BEAULIEU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
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ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
FRESH MILK AND
CREAM—
and all
Dairy Products
Our Motto:
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TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Or. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in 'All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. M or ford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108-Seward, Alaska
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM OSBO
Residence—Madison 123
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OVERLAND
HOTEL
Clean, Comfortable
Rooms and Baths
Furnace Heat
Mrs Hilda Wanamaker
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
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
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PROHIBITION IS
COSTING BIG SUM
SAY STATISTICS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2. (/p)_
Failure to apply adequate remedies
to curt) diversion of industrial al
cohol and manufacture of “high-pow
ered” beer was laid at the door of
the Federal government last night
by the Research and Education De
partment of the Federal Council of
Churches in making public an addi
tional section of its report on the
social consequences of prohibition.
“There is no visible reason why
the illicit removal of alcoholic beer
from ‘breweries’ cannot be effectu
ally controlled,” said the report.
“The beer problem would seem to
be wholly soluble, although it has
been one of the scandals of the pro
hibition regime.
“The diversion of industrial alco
hol presents at present the hardest
task of enforcement. Yet there is
no excuse for the abuses that have
developed, and there is no reason
why the government cannot, with
reasonable diligence, control the sit
uation.”
Discussing at length otner enrorce
anent problems, the report declared
that smuggling continued to present
many difficult aspects, although the
total amount thus being brought into
the United States at-present “is not
great enough to make it more than
a minor phase of the enforcement
problem,” that the homebrew indus
try had been virtually eliminated that
“statements with reference to the
growth of an illicit wind industry
have been much exaggerated;” that
small scale manufacture of bootleg
whiskey still “is extremely preva
lent in some section” and that an
nual -withdrawals of liquor from bond
ed warehouses have been reduced
to “inconsiderable quantities.”
The report also contained a com
pilation of costs of prohibition en
forcement placing the total for the
present fiscal year which ends next
July at $19,319,817. This figure in
cluded Coast Guard expenditures oc
casioned by the operations against
rum running. The expenditures of
the prohibition officials themselves,
including operations against both li
quor and drug offenders, were list
ed as having climbed from $2,059,
774 on 1920 to a high water mark of
$8,135,842 in 1923 and were givei
as $7,509,146 for 1924 and $6,631,213
for the first nine months of 1925.
In a foreward, the report cited sta
tistics as to the effect of prohibi
tion already made public, and con
tinued:
“The common and plausible an
swer to all these statistical state
ments is that prohibition has pro
duced limited results because we
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
month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
—rfsasw. Meets every Thursday at
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
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, '!■ G.
have had only a very limited pleas
ure of enforcement—that the inef
fectivei^jpS of the prohibition re
gime, insofar as it is ineffective, is
due to a lack of forcible administra
tion of the law. It is needless to
dwell upon the extent of non-en
forceanent of the prohibition laws.
Its more serious aspects are well
known and freely admitted. It woilld
be idle to contend of course, that
anything like the amount of liquor
is consumed in the United States
that was consumed prior to 1920. No
statistics are necessary to warrant
the assumption that with scores of
thousands of saloons closed so far
as the free and public sale of liquor
is concerned,—and the vast major
ity of them closed altogether—the
liquor traffic has been enormously
reduced. Frequent attempts have
been made to estimate the percen
tage of such reduction, but there
no valid or authoritative basis for
such estimates.
“Moreover, the challenge of the
present situation is independent of
the relative extent o' post-prohibi
tion and pre-prohibiiion drinking.
The problem is chieriy a moral pro
blem, arising out cf the widespread
violation of the law. It is notewor
thy that even in those inland areas
where there is evidence of growing
success in the enforcement of the
law the characteristic evils arising
out of its violation are iound in dis
quieting measure. From conserva
tive, fairly homogeneous communi
ties of the West and South come
tales of persistent violations. The
seizures of liquor stills in southern
states reach as astonishing figure,
and even the smai'est communities
are not free from the illicit business
or the social and political effects
■hat universally f’ow iron? it The
evil ejects of the continuing traffic
stem 10 be away out of proportion
to its actual quantity.
“The situation in New York City is
perhaps theworst in the country trom
the view of the administration of the
law. The new United States district
attorney has been obliged to sweep
out of his office ail such minor cas
es in order to make any progress at
Smiling.
WALLS./
TRULY, walls can smile
or frown. See that yours
cheer and soothe by har
monious colors and clean
surfaces. Apply Fuller
Washable Wall Finish. It
can be wiped clean with a
damp cloth—makes home
keeping easier—saves re
finishing.
Also, ask for booklet, “Color
Harmony in the Flome”—all
about painting or finishing
floors, woodwork, walls, etc.
It’s free.
•'r-TT’T-* carry a full line of Fuller
W J—/ Paints and Varnishes and
can supply your needs.
Brown &
Hawkins Corp.
W. P. FULLER & CO.
301 Mission Street San Francisco
25 Branches in Pacific Coast Cities
FULLER
PAINTS S|| VARNISHES
PIONEERWHITE LEAD
2725
s
all with the business 0/ enforce
ment. 1
"The cities of Indiana present a
different picture. Thor? the federal
court calendar is well up to date
and the district attorney has no
complaint to make, although he has
a very limited force. Indiana has
prohibited problems, plenty of them,
but there the prohibition policy would
at least seem to be firmly establish
ed.
"Neither New York nor Indiana is
typical, and the average conditions
of the country presumably lie3 some
where between.”
MRS. RALPH REED
NOW PRESIDENT
WOMAN'S CLUB
OFFICERS ENSUING YEAR SEW
ARD WOMAN’S CLUB ELECT
ED OFFICERS AT MEET.
At yesterday’s meeting of the Sew
ard Woman’s Club, held in the apart
ments of Mrs. Ed. Kurtz, and at
which meeting the election of offi
cers for the ensuing year was held,
Mrs. Halph Reed, was elected as
president, Mrs. George Schmidt, sec
retary and Mrs. Ed. Kurtz, treasur
er. Mrs. Leon Urbach, retiring pres
ident, following the election, turned
the meeting over to the new offi
cers.
It was decided to hold two meet
ings each month, thruout the win
ter season, one of which will be a
social meeting and the other, on bus
iness matters. As has been the cus
tom in the past these meetings will
be held at the various homes of the
members of the organization. The
suggestion was made, and unan
imously accepted that every lady in
Seward be invited to join the club.
It was also planned that on Fri
day evening, October 9, a reception
be tendered to the teachers of the
Seward schools. Mrs. E. Swetmann,
Mrs. Leon Urbach and Mrs. O. E.
Johansen were appointed to the re
ception committee.
City Dads Ask Residents
To Aid Miss A. M, Wright
—
The residents of Seward are ask
ed by Miss A. M. Wright, who came
to Seward on the last train in con
nection with a crusade for extermi
nation of rodents, thru the City
Council for all assistance possible.
The request handed in by the Com
mon Council of the Town of Seward
follows:
“To the residents of Seward:
“It is requested that all assistance
possible be given Miss Anna M.
Wright.
“Miss Anna M. Wright, at present
in this city, carrying on a campaign
for the extermination of rats and
mice, has the cooperation of the
United States Public Health Serv
ice, and the endorsement of the De
partment of Agriculture.
“It is requested that all possible
aid be rendered her, during her stay
here, as the extermination of these
pests will add to the health of the
community.
“Committee on Public Health,
Common Council,
Town of Seward, Aaa.”
One way to live to a ripe old age
is to avoid being so infernally rot
ten while young.
It isn’t very difficult to carry on •
a conversation if you know how to
pronounce psycho-analysis.
Much Driving Hurts Eyes
After a long drive always wash
your eyes with simple camphor, witch
hazel, hydrastis, etc., as mixed in
Lavoptik eye wash. This removes
dust and germs and counteracts ef
fects of wind and sun. Stops dryness
and burning.—Seward Drug Company.
Join Urbach’s Circulating Library,
15c to read a late book. tf
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.