If you were the only person in town that traded with
mail order concerns—it would hurt «Mrae—but it wouldn’t paralyze the
prosperity of the community.
The greatest injury would be in the influence your out
of-town-trading exerted over others. Other people might follow in your
foot-steps of foreign trading and that following would prove detrimental to
home business development and betterment of public welfare.
Set a good example. Be a home buyer. Take pride in
your community. Feel that money spent here at home is playing an
important part in building up the town. Know that it buys the goods
you want and goes towards some public good. That it helps increase the
efficiency of schools—puts down better street crossings—erects better
libraries—brightens the town’s lights—makes the parks more attractive—pays
for better police protection, etc.
Instead of fostering the mail order habit—fight it openly.
Teach the truth of home trading. Preach home patronage. Show mail
order buyers the error of their ways—and go out of your way to do it.
Local merchants handle the highest grade merchan
dise. They carry advertised brands. They sell at a proper
price—makes of goods that bear the stamp of honest manufacturers.
They deal open-handedly. They don’t cover up questionable quality
with private labels. They offer you the latest! and most dependable
lines—in all lines of merchandise. Their stores are conveniently at hand. You
can reach them in a few short seconds—over the phone—or step right into their
places of business—give or leave your order—and have the goods delivered
straight to your home—all in a few minutes time.
They willingly accommodate you. They take particular
pains to give you just what you want right when you want it. You
don’t have to buy in big quantities to save freight or express charges. You can
spend less at a time—and save considerable sums in cash, to say nothing of the
great saving of time and trouble.
Advocate those advantages. Do mail order traders a
good turn by turning them away from away-from-home buying—liven
up local business, and by so doing speed the town along the road of progress.
Spend your money where it will in turn be spent for
local improvements instead of sending it away to fatten business and
better conditions of ether communities. Support the community that supports you.
The Calumet Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.
Interesting Chain Made
for New Radio Invention
BERLIN, Feb. 16.—An instrument
called the wireless ticker aroused in
terest at the recent Berlin, radio ex
position which incidentally drew some
400,000 visitors during the two weeks
it was open.
This ticker is the invention of an
Italian, Maurice Compare. He calls it
the Compare secret wireless system.
By it, he declares, the receiving sta
tion gets on a tape the message as it
is sent into the air by its originator.
It is a method of direct sending and
direct printing of wireless messages
without code of any sort, though at
the same time it is said to insure se
crecy. The transmitter includes a
typewriting machine, resembling the
ordinary typewriter, an apparatus
called a combiner, which can produce
numberless different combinations of
frequencies and transmit them to
numberless stations, separately and
secretly, and an ordinary wave gener
ator. The receiving machine includes
a wave receiver which is connected
with a so-called resonator, and again
connected with a typing apparatus.
SPENDS $1,500 TO MOVE
80-FOOT TREE TWO MILES
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17— One of
the four oldest pal trees in Califor
nia standing more than eighty feet
high, and weighing more than 60,000
pounds, has been moved two miles
and replanted in a garden. The work
cost more than $1,500.
The tree was brought to California
from Sinoloa, Mexico, by the old mis
sion padres, according to E. Clement
Wilson, the purchaser.
Remington Portable Typewriters at
the Alaska Shop. tf
RED GRANGE, GRIDIRON STAR
WCOPVRIQ^T UNDERWCOO A UNDERWOOD.
In baseball togs—Red Grange, grid
iron star of the University of Illinois
and greatest football player of the
year, whose services as a baseball
player are sought by Christy Matthew
son, president of the Boston Braves.
A dog owned by Solomon Abrams
of Atlantic City, jumped through a
glass door and, fought off robbers who
held up his master.
Officials report that swift ice boats
on Lake St. Clair are being used to
transport liquor from Canada to the
United States.
Kentucky Out To Stop
Tongues Given To Gossip
FRANKFORT, Feb. 17.—With the
announced purpose of curbing the ma
licious wagging of tongues, the Ken
tucky anti-gossip law is being invoked
and is securing convictions.
Frowning upon the repeating or
scattering of false rumors or reports
of a slanderous or harmful nature, it
places a $10 to $100 fine or ten to
fifty days’ imprisonment, or both, as
punishment.
The gossiper is deemed guilty un
less he is able to show to the satis
faction of a judge or jury that he is
carefully investigated the source of
the bandied remarks, and proved that
they had reasonable grounds.
To make available proper defense,
the gossiper must furnish for the
public court record “the name or the
names of the person or persons fur
nishing information upon which the
rumor was based.”
The law laid idle in the bound acts
of the last general assembly until re
cently at Owensboro a woman was
fined ten dollars for remarks linking
policemen, alleged bribes, and boot*
leg cases. The latest case at Padu
cah began when a warrant, charging
a councilman with gossiping that he
had seen the name of a county judge
on the Ku Klux Klan roster, was
sworn out.
Gossip “detrimental to the charac
ter or standing” of a private citizen
or officer or candidate for office was
made a misdemeanor when Governor
Fields signed his approval to the
measure after State Senator H. L. Me
Elroy, Lebanon, Ky., secured legisla
tive passage without trouble.
Thousands of fish pammed the wa
terwheel of a mill at West Swanport,
N. H., and residents can d them
me by the bagful.
LAWS’ ODD CONFLICT
DEPRIVES WOMEN OF
CITIZENSHIP STATUS
LONDON, Feb. 17.—There is a
steadily growing group oi' women liv
ing in England who are women with
out a country. They are former
Englishwomen whom their govern
ment disowns on their marriage to a
citizen of the United States and whom
the United States refuses to recog
nize as citizens since the enactment
of the bill forcing foreign women
marrying Americans to retain their
foreign citizenship unless naturalized
in America.
At the time the bill was enacted
the number of English women mar
ried to Aericans in England was very
small and little notice was taken of
the hardships forced upon them. Now
these nationally outcast women in
England number about 5,000 and their
predicament is constantly being brot
to the notice of the British govern
ment and the United States consular
authorities in England.
Neither the government nor the
consul will grant passports to these
women although requests are made
daily for this privilege. The Brit
ish government, according to their
law, believes that the woman becomes
an American citizen on marriage and
therefore refuses passport facilities.
The American consuls have relented
to the extent of issuing letters ex
plaining that the person cited is mar
ried to an American and although
technically not an American citizen,
requesting that passport privileges be
granted. The consuls refuse to ac
cept any responsibility, however, and
it is entirely on the suffrage of fore
ign governments that these women
are allowed to enter foreign coun
tries. The letter is required to be
vised as passports, but even despite
this precaution, many holders have
been refused admission to European
countries, particularly in the Balkan
states.
Several attempts to have the mat
ter satisfactorily settled have been
made by Anglo-American organiza
tions in England but just now there
is no disposition on the part of either
government to change its laws. The
last English government considered
the question and went so far as to
agree to place the matter before par
liament, but the present Conservative
government is not taking any steps
in that direction.
Most of the women affected have
no opportunity of residing in the U.
S. for the year required to obtain
American citizenship and it is for this
class that an appeal will shortly be
made by an American women's organ
ization in London to the American
government codify the existing laws
so as, to allow a “declaration of in
tent,” to be substituted for the resi
dential period in America.
The number of these women with
out a country is increasing at the
rate of about five hundred a year.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
I
ELLIS BALL
CHIU MILL
The mill that takes the pros
pector off the labor market.
Cheaper than an trastra, more
efficient than a stamp mill.
MADE IN SIZES FROM
TWO TO FIFTY TONS
DAILY CAPACITY
Priced $150 to $1989
Investigate the Ellis Mill First
NELS HAGEN
ALASKA AGENT*
Write for information to
P. O. Box 1105
SEWARD, ALASKA
GENTLEMEN CROOKS UPON
TRAINS BEING HUNTED OUT
CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—Pullman offi
cials have launched a campaign fight
ing the nation-wide ring of railroad
swindlers and gentlemen crooks who
prey upon well-to-do travelers. Rail
road police estimate more than one
hundred “mobs” of them infest the
main lines of travel east of Chicago.
They are the modern type of the
old-fashioned card sharp.
Trainmen have instructions to in
terfere when they see a man being
duped by professional gablers. On the
best trains detectives are posted to
get this species of highwayman.
Women train gamblers are negli
gible.
John Bossom of Marquette, Mich.,
again, failing to collect debts due him
by iver Brevik, “took it out of his
hide,” and got 30 days in jail.
Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
the Alaska Shop. tf
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
^rayand 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.
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 the Fire Hall. 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
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, N. G.
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Thomas Jasper, Propr.
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