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F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING. and PAINTING
TINTING
GAS BOAT
ROLFE NO. 1
Pete Sather, Captain
Three scheduled trips each
month to Nuka Bay and Way
Points. Leaving Seward on the
10th, 20th and 30th.
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
STUCCO WORK AND
PLASTERING
GERHARD JOHNSEN
Phone Adams 60
P. O. Box 1423
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HOTEL HORACE
F. I. Reed, Proprietor
Strictly Modern
Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat—Good Service
Bus meets all trains and boats.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
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THE GEM CAFE
BUSINESS
Tom Walker
Chef and Boss.
REMINISCENCE OF OLDTIMER
BRINGS TO MIND MANY
EARLY-DAYERS
By SOURDOUGH BILL
Let’s see, Terminated the Oldtimer,
it was just 20 years ago that Randall
H. Kemp was the editor and publish
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
Wednesday and Saturday
At 7:00 P. M.
And On Sunday, at 2:15 P. M.
TRAINS DEPART SEWARD
Monday and Thursday
7:30 A. M.
And On Sunday at 8:00 A. M.
This new schedule becomes effective
Sunday, May 30. 1926.
FfllUEBli: ORDERS
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows Hall; F. B.
Moore, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
1 retary.
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; Dorothy Urbach,
W. M.; E. L. Sweek, 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 8:06
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. Gust Peter
son, N. G., Sigrid E. Merritt, sec’y.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
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Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
ing members
we’come.
PETER N. 'ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
>«Af,and third Wednesdays of each
/Nr\month; visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyn
Swetmann, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday i
^■^0 8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellow
Hall, next to the postoffiee. Visitihg
brothers welcome. Ludvig Larsson,
N. G., Charles Lechner, secretary.
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FOR SALE
Fox Island—Includes a complete
equipment, big warehouse, good
stock of foxes, one sow, two goats,
34-foot gas boat with 16 h.p. Frisco
Standard engine. Box 132, La
touche, Alaska.
SEATTLE
Rooming Honse
Over Liberty Theater
CLEAN
STEAMHEATED
ROOMS
Baths In Co
on
Mrs. W. E. Dewitt, Prop.
er of The Gat way. The Seward Com
mercial Compaq; was running full
blast then and was caller' the WMte
House on the levee. Then there was
W. A. McPherson, scenic photograph
er who did a rattling good business.
Cameron A Wilkes were the paint
ers of the town and the Moose Cab
in Cafe was a popular eating house
and a bakery. The Commerce, then
owned by Peterson A- Brown, was a
regular rooming house where the m:
ner and prospector could get honest
weight for his dust. The Northern
saloon was owned by E 1*. Whitte
more. The Board of Trade was an
other popular public place where one
could Quench their their thirst as only
the choicest of liquors were sold. F
V. Thomas owned it. P. H. Karsted:
was Seward’s watchmaker. The Lake
side dairy was operated by J . T>. John
ston and the milk was just as good
as now. Chas. Crawford die g-neral
blacksmithing, the same as he is do
ing today. Walter L,. Whire ran the
Seward News Co. Small A Glas
brenner conducted the Bay City mar
ket. The Coleman House was own
ed by H. N. Coleman. Wallace 4
Thomson were the proprietors of the
Ashland House and the Bank saloon
The Northwestern Steamship Com
pany carried the T. S. mails it those
early days with the fas: express
steamer Santa Clara tit St:. Bora and
the Str.Excelsior. E. R. Gray was the
agent for the line. Then there was
the Alaska Commercial Co., with the
steamers Bertha and Portland. Brown \
A- Hawkins was the company's local I
headquarters. Among the profession
al men were Dr. C. T. Daggett. Dr. C.
L. Hale, H. H. HiM*eth. and E R
Gray, notary publics. Cecil M Gleet:,
a rising young attorney O. Lascy.
Frank H. Lascy. mineral and land sur
veyors. Crary £ Ogden were attor
neys-in-law. and Gould and Connor ran
a barber shop. The Square Deal res
taurant was owned by M. C Kidder
and was located on Washington St.
W. A. Bell conducted a smoke shop
and A. J. Carlson ran the Troy laun
dry. Brown £ Hawkins had a large
store even in those early days, as also
did J. L. Graef. Richards £ Co. had
a furniture store, and the Commerce
cafe was then run by W. Levin and
William Johnson. There were numer
ous other places but it is so far back
it is hard for me to remember them
Mr. and Mrs. A. X. Connell, promi
nent Easterners, were among the
round trippers on the 5. S. Alaska,
who enjoyed their day and a half stay
in Seward. Mr. Connett :> report '.red
as being one of the most noted power
plant constructors in the Eniied
States.
Garden seeds and onion sets at
Brown & Hawkins Corporation..
“The best Tn the north” The
Seward Weekly Gateway. 5S.0C a
year and worth it.
FRESH MILK ANT
CREAM
We ought to drink
some milk each day for
would surely make us
healthy,
and after we get old
and grey our health
would make us wealthy.
SEWARD DAIRY
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VEGETABLE TIME j
the telephone. mty depend on
os to pay as strict attention and ci'e as
much care to yoor phone order as if yon
were shopping pecsonaRv.
SEWARD TRADING CO. |
TELEPHONE MAIN 1S5
P«r PnwfK Oliver*
JOE STANTON. Mjct. i
SEWARD SEWS COMP AST
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VAN GILDER HOTEL
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t~EA«P HEAT
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL. Prop.
HOMEY. COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Cw.'Totcn'. to Depot and Dock
OVHtLAND HOTEL
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lf*» C. X IMAmem *<*£ So*> I*-***.
Clean. Comfortable and Warm Room*
ON THE MAIN STREET
THE ANNUAL
SUN EXCURSION
TO FAIRBANKS
Will Leave Seward on Sunday. June 20th
SPECIAL REDUCED RATES—
—SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICE
A further announcement embodying all de
tails connected with the Midnight Sun Excur
sion, including rates to be in effect and the Spe
cial Entertain::*.ent Features to be offered at
Fairbanks during the Midnight Sun Festival,
will be made in a few days.
WATCH THIS SPACE
For Further Announcement
DEMUtTMCWT Of THE **TEIOOH
The Alaska Railroad
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