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Seward Post, American Legion, met
last night in the spacious club rooms
recently fitted up by the Ladies Aux
iliary. A large attendance was noted,
with a sprinkling of visitors present.
Comrade P. J. Hussey is working
an four oil paintings which will be
presented to the Legion and hung in
the club rooms.
Legion members are negotiating
with the Empress Circuit to put on
the great American Legion picture,
“The Lost Battalion,” at some time
in the near future. The Cordova Le
gion is running this picture to pack
ed houses this week.
After the meeting a luncheon was
served, consisting of fruit salad, cock
tails of the prohibition kind, and cake.
Sheaffer’s Life Time Pens, at the
the Alaska Shop. tf
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Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
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Next to Crawford’s Shop
ARONERICSON
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You enjoy your meals
AT
THE FISHER CAFE
Seward, Alaska Chas. Fisher, Prop.
Bread—two loaves for 25c
NEWS OF THE WEEK j
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Among the many changes being J
made at Fisher’s Cafe, is the addition J
of a fine dance room, the only one in J
connection with a restaurant in the j
town. Four boxes are being built
which lead into the dance room, and i
all will be curtained off and elab- !
rately furnished, and when the room (
is needed for a banquet hall, the por- |
table partitions can be removed, add- J
ing greatly to the room. The steam ij
tables and serving counter are being j
moved forward about 18 feet, which )
will eliminate many needless steps i
in serving patrons. Cal Brosius and I
Charles Lechner are the contractors i
on the carpentery work, while Frank (
Moore is attending to the painting J
and decorating. J
Mr. Fisher expects to reopen the
Cafe Saturday.
Alex Bolam and P. J. Hussey have
opened up a machine shop in connec
tion with Ogle’s Garage, and expect
the shipment of new machinery or
dered to be here Saturday. This will
give them facilities to do all sorts of
repair wrork on automobiles doing
business with the garage.
Mrs. Gordon Shea left for Anchor
age on Saturday morning’s train in •
response to a message from Mrs.
Claude Shea, stating that she and her
two children were ill. A message re
ceived by Mr. Gordon ShSea yester
day stated the patients were improv
ing and that Mrs. Shea would return :
at an early date.
In a letter received by Leonard :
Olsen, who is managing Urbach’s
store during the latter’s absence, it
was stated that Mr. Urbach was in :
Kelso, Washington, assuming tempo
rary duties for a friend. He said busi
ness was fair in Kelso, and that the ;
Milwaukee railroad is planning the
construction of a line from Lewiston.
Idaho, to connect with the continental
road.
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, April 30.—
James E. Wilson, pioneer freighter of
Dawson, Fairbanks, Valdez and An- 1
chorage, dropped dead at Pittman
yesterday while hauling supplies to
the Willow Creek mines.
James E. Wilson was born in Wick
low, Ireland, and came to America
when but a young lad. After working
a short time in the East he drifted
west and later joined the stampede
to the Yukon. Here he engaged in
the freighting business, making and (
losing considerable money., later go- 1
ing to Fairbanks, where he engaged
in freighting for a time. Mr. Wilson
then went to Valdez where he lived
for many years.
Mr. Wilson was a member of the ,
town council of Valdez and was promi- ,
nently identified with the growth of
the city, having at one time forty or
fifty head of horses and a large quan
tity of equapment, as well as large
barns, etc., there. While in Valdez
Jim, as he was known, became Road
Commissioner for the Third Division,
and laid out many trails in this part
of the Territory. The Nash road
at Seward was laid out by Mr. Wilson
during his term of office.
Mr. Wilson was a hard worker and
underwent many hardships while on
the trail. When things grew slack in
the Valdez section, during railroad
construction days, Mr. Wilson remov
ed to Anchorage and engaged in
freighting at Matanuska and other
points, also doing considerable -work
around McKinley. The past winter
he was engaged in a tie contract at
Indian, but a few weeks ago purchas
ed a number of horses from the Alas
ka railroad and went back to the bus
iness he knew best.
Mr. Wilson leaves an Uncle and a I
niece, who visited him in Anchorage
last summer. He was a man about
55 years of age.
Some very excellent paintings, emu
lating the landscape variety are be
ing oiled in beautiful colors by C. E.
Johansson, of Seward, who is making
his home at the Skagway House
where he maintains his studio in
connection.
Mr. Johansson is an oldtimer of
the territory having come to Alaska
during the “rush days,” settling in
Skagway and later following the elu
sive paystreak into the city of Daw
son. Ever since arriving in the
north Mr. Johansson has studied Na
ture’s handiwork, knows the color of
every tree and busli, whether dead
Attention, Car
Owners!
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Storage Battery Service
OGLES GARAGE & FILLING STATION
P. OGLE, Proprietor
Agent for Overland and Willys-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
to handle all necessary Auto repairs
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
HUSSEY & BOLAM, Meehanics
>r in its green, and with this opague
nsion the hues blended onto his
ianvass seem truly realistic.
In an interview with Mr. Johans
son the other day the reporter was
shown some very splendid work,
some reproduction of photos and
some original. Some of his paint
ngs are displayed in his studio in
;he Skagway House, and in the very
tear future the entire collection will
ie on display at the Hotel Seward,
vhere many of his paintings are now
idorning the walls of the spacious ;
■eception room of that popular hos-1
elry.
While pictures are pictures and
nothing more to the average person,
hose done up in oil by Mr. Johans
son appear to carry a true interpre
tation of life. His imagery vision j
m the Alaska dog team, with their j
ibstinateness is portrayed distinct-;
y. The expression carried by this !
earn of malamutes on canvass is ,
claimed by the artist to be one of j
lis best productions.
Some years ago, not many, while
\Ir. Johansson was making his home
n Fairbanks, doing odd jobs with
lis brush and easel in hand, a won- j
lerful picture was brought to light. !
rhe picture consists of a beautiful
andscape, and a cabin with a tiny
fellow light blinking lazily from the
vindow in the foreground, and the
nountains, snow-capped in the back
ground, enhanced by the rays of an
ever-shifting Aurora Borealis. The
picture in question, an original of
Mr. Johansson’s works was purchas
ed by a wealthy Californian who was
i lover of art, and taken to the ‘
States. The purchase price was $50. i
It was later learned that when the 1
picture was displayed in the home of j
the purchaser he was offered sev-;
eral times $1500. All of the paint- •
ings of Mr. Johansson’s sell at the
above figure. A reproduction in pho
tography of the above mentioned pic
ture with its magnificent, northern
lights was printed on the cover of
the March issue of the Fairbanks
Collegion, which was printed in one
color by The Gateway.
Mr. Oscar Dahl, proprietor of the
Hotel Seward has purchased three of
the artsit’s works and has them hang
ing in his parlor. Two of the paint
ings are scenes depicting Alaska’s
vastnesses and another of life. One
of them was made in Cordova, and
carries a lake in the foreground with
moose grazing leizurely near the
foothills of the mountains in the
background. This picture is of ex
ceptional value and is cherished by
Mr. Dahl. The frames for the paint
ings hanging in the Seward hotel
were made to order from Cal M. Bro
sius, local contractor.
At a later date an announcement
will be given The Gateway when th*
paintings of Mr. Johansson’s will be
on display for the general public.
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