The New Howard-Jesson
Coal—Try It.
Healy Lump, Nut or Mine
Run
Evan Jones Lump or Mine
Run
Nanimo Range Coal
In Sack or Bulk
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND
GRAIN
Transferring — Teaming
ALASKA
TRANSFER
Telephone, Main 17
ARCADE BUILDING
H. V. Hoben. A. F. Davis
Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA'S
Phone Adams 128
i PIONEER CLUB
!; John Nash, propr.
• SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
: CIGARS AND FRUITS
I CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
■ Meets All Boats and Trains
F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
THE PALACE
i John Mattich, Prop.
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S POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
s Phone Main 55
THE SURROUNDINGS
Service and Food are the best at
FISHERS’ CAFE
PRIVATE BOOTHS DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
John Nelson, Mgr. Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Building. Phone Main 17
When things Look
BLACK Phone the
Seward Steam Laundry
Telephone Main 148
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Approximately four billion feet of
timber was used last year to
replace wood destroyed by decay.
USE SUPERIOR CEMENT AND
HAVE NO DECAY
IC.M.B
Builders’ Supplies
You’ll Enjoy our Bread and Pastry
Quick Lunches Served at any hour
Seward Bakery
A report filed, covering th<fc autop
sy in the coroner’s hearing in\to the
death of Charles Nevillius, pioneer
roadhouse man of Rapids, who died
early in January, indicates that death
was due to heart and other organic
troubles.
A recent item in the Fairbanks News
Miner states that Mr. Leslie Nerland,
son of the well known business man
of that place, was recently married to
Miss Mildred Kindall at Vancouver,
B. C.
William iustes and Joe Estes of
Mile 29, were recent visitors in Fair
banks.
“Doc” Dakin, who grew to manhood
in Seward, is now located in Seattle,
where he has a fine position with the
| installing department of the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
At the last election Doc was elected
vice president of the Installer’s Union.
He is also a valued member of the tel
ephone company’s baseball team.
Nenana is making preliminary pre
parations for the annual ice pool. It
is believed by the ice pool committee
that this year’s pot will far exceed
any of the past season’s. Calls for
tickets are coming in from all sec
tions of the Territory, even as far re
mote as Nome, while the inquiries
from the States are more numerous
than ever.
At, a meeting of the stockholders of
the Fairbanks Airplane corporation
held last week, the following officers
were elected: R. C. Wood, president,
|J. Fred Struthers, vice-president; E.
H. Stroecker, secretary-treasurer.
Good program at the Liberty.
Or. J. A. Baughman
Physioian and Surgeon
I CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
I
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108-Seward, Alask*
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
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
retary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second anc
fourth Mondays of eact
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 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. Gust Peter
son, N. G., Mrs. Merritt, secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
r Meets every first
& and third Tues
iSS-Zs 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.
Ml Stated communications first
\fgyand third Wednesdays of each
▼ \month; visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyn
iwetmann, Secretary.
IESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. In Odd Fellows’
fall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
rothers welcome. Ludvig Larsson,
r. G., Charles Lechner, secretary.
This Author Can’t Kick
On Way Play Was Filmed
For once the author can’t kick on
the way his play was expanded by
the scenarist for the screen, nor on
the ways in which the producer wan
i dered from the original. This once
is in “Excuse Me,” the new Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer picture which comes
to the Liberty Theater tonight.
“Excuse Me” will be remembered
as the successful stage farce writter
by Rupert Hughes. The screen ver
sion was also written by Rupert Hugh
es, and the screen production was
made by Rupert Hughes. It’s a Ru
pert Hughes affair all the way thru,
and many of his admirers think it’s
the best thing he has done. The story
concerns the amusing adventures of
a night in a Pullman car.
The heroine, a delightfully femin
ine society debutante, is played by
Norma Shearer. The hero is a young
naval officer, portrayed by Conrad Na
gel. The famous Pullman porter role
was intrusted to Walter Hiers, and
the fascinating French girl, Francine,
is played by Renee Adoree. Bert
Roach, as the traveling salesman,
leaves much comedy in his wake, and
William V. Mong, as the meek minis
ter, is importantly featured.
“Excuse Me” was directed by Alf
Goulding.
NEW CHARTS
The new charts referred to were
released by the Coast and Geodetic
Survey and are of interest to people
of this locality. They follow:
New Chart No. 8704. Pavlof Bay
and Approaches, Alaska Peninsula,
South Coast, Alaska. January, 1926.
Scale, 1:80,000. Dimensions 90 x 40
inches. Price 75 cents.
This new chart is constructed on
the mercator projection, scale 1:80,000
in Latitude 50 degrees 99 minutes. It
shows the results of a survey of Pav
lov Bay made in 1924, and earlier. The
eastern approaches to the bay are not
yet surveyed.
The abhve charts can be procured
from the Seward News Company.
Mrs. W. G. Loew and Miss Marion
duPont are the only masters of
hounds in America, being joint mas
ters of the famous Harford hounds
of Maryland.
An Iowa justice announces that he
will marry couples for a fee of two
bushels of corn. Some we know
would do the job for a pint.
7
Charles Stack, oldtimer of the In
terior district, and a member of Ne
nana Igloo of Pioneers, passed away
in St. Joseph’s hospital in the Inter
ior town last Saturday.
SCREEN DARK HALF TIME
PICTURE IS BEING SHOWN
NEW YORK, Feb. 9. (/P)—Charles
Van Sng,er, who has photographed
many film plays, has ascertained the
screen is dark nearly half the time
a picture is being shown, but the
eye of the camera is so fast the
average spectator never notices the
darkness.
Not satisfied with this knowledge,
he has estimated that in “Lady Win
dermere’s Fan,” the last photoplay
he filmed, 120,000 “pictures” are
thrown on the screen and that each
of these is seen three times.
“Sounds impossible?” he asked.
“Well, here’s how it is: There are
sixteen pictures in every foot of film.
The photoplay is approximately 7,500
t'eet long. That’s not so hard to fig
ire out.
“One has to be a bit mechanically
inclined to understand why you see
jach picture three times. In front of
:he lens on the projection machine is
i revolving disk. This disk is divided
nto six parts, there being three
)laek sections through which the light
s allowed • to travel to the screen.
“By means of an intricate synchron
zing device, this disk revolves once
>ach time one of the minute pictures
i-tops before the opening. There
bre, each picture is shown 3 times
>efore it passes on and the next
akes its place. Of course, all this
lappens too fast for the eye to dis
ern—but it happens, anyway.
“Darkness of the screen during j
[.early half the time the play is be
ng shown is caused by the black ■
ections of the disk being smaller
han the solid portions. i
It is said that the king and queen
f Spain are planning a visit to the
Inited States.
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TRAINS LEAVE SFWAR
7:30 A. IV
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
TRAINS ARRIVE S'WAR'
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7:30 P. M.
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WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAY' '
PROTECTION IS URGED FOR
CALIFORNIA RING-TAILED CAT
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9. (JP)—A
! cat with “an almost human facial ex
j pression of kindliness,” which after
i all is not a cat but belongs more
properly to the racoon family, is in
danger of extinction unless given the
protection of legsilation banning trap
ping.
Even Alice, blase as she must have
become in her trip through Wonder
, land, might consider this creature
| somewhat unusual for, again quoting
i the Nature Park, the little animal has
a diet ranging from mice, lizards and
gophers to berries, fruit and insects.
Known variously from Costa Rica
on the south to Oregon on the north
as California Ring-tailed Cat, Minor’s
cat, Cooncat, Band-tailed cat, or, in
Mexico, “Cacomixtle” it can easily
be tamed and made an affectionate
house pet. It has striking black
and white fur, “eyes large, mild and
expressive” and is possessed of a na
ture “bold and inquisitive.”
In national parks they are protect
ed but elsewhere they are subject to
trapping and are decreasing in num
ber so rapidly that they are likely
to disapi>ear entirely unless shield
ed by the law, say those in charge
of the Sequoia nature service.
PHOTOGRAPHED ETIQUETTE
TAUGHT BY MEANS OF
MOVING PICTURES
TOKIO, Feb. 9. (/P)—The Japanese
are to be taught etiquette by means
of moving pictures. Officials of the
department of education are planning
to launch a cinema campaign of in
struction next Spring.
A committee composed of twenty
leading educators will adopt stand
ards of social etiquette which they
believe should be taught the public
and which they consider has been
somewhat neglected in Japan because
the emphasis of education has been
placed on family rank rather than
upon social contacts.
CHOP SUEY, NOODLES,
OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
ii
Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL \
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th(
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The ,
the Pira
nesday r
Ladies’ n
men’s has
pace tonig
CHh
Cigars i
Soft Drinkt
CARD ‘
Phone -?•
CHRIST LARS
Next Door to Libei
Barber Shop
FRED MfLLER
BATHS-:-OPEN SUNDAY A.M,
W.VAV^V.V.VAV.V.VAVA'
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Jeweler
^Dealer in Watches and
Clocks, Nugget Jewelry,
Old Ivory, Curios, and
a, full line of goods usu
ally carried in a first class
Jewelry store.
Watches Repaired on
Short Notice
We have one of the neatest and cleanest mar
kets in Alaska—our meats, butter and eggs are
fresh and guaranteed in every respect.
Frye-Bruhn Co.
We have dileveries before and after school
HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F, I. REED, Proprietor
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Strictly Modem Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat Good Service
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
hot and cold water in EVERY ROOM
•TEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Prop.
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock