Doing Our Part
The growth, prosperity and advance
ment of any community, village or city, de
pends largely upon the enterprise and co
operation of its citizens.
This bank realizes its duty in this re
spect and its resources and experience are
available at all times for the promotion and
welfare of legitimate enterprises.
Resources $400,000.00
Bank of Seward
SEWARD, ALASKA
“If Men Wear It
We Have It!"
TRY IT NEXT!
Howard-Jesson Coal
IS AN ALASKA PRODUCT
NOW ON THE LOCAL MARKET*
Phone Alaska Trarsfer, Local Agents
Alaska-Matanuska Coal Co.
Moose Creek, Alaska
Kraft & Son
General Merchandise
Meat market with modern cold
storage in connection
KODIAK, ALASKA
KETCHIKAN DEBTOR MAKES
REPLY TO LAWYER’S DUN
A certain professional man in
Ketchikan for some months past has
'been rendering bills to a man of
Ketchikan "without 'receiving any re
ply. Shortly before the first of the
year he wrote his debtor asking him
to say just what he intended to do
about the account. In due course,
reply which did not say a word
about the account, but the letter is
good at least for a smile and for
some a laugh. It reads:
“Thirty years ago I remember
eggs were three dozen for 25 cents,
butter 10 cents a pound, milk 5
cents a quart. The butcher gave
away liver and treated the kids to
bologna. The hired girl received $2
a week and did the washing. Wom
en did not powder and paint, smoke,
play poker or shake the shimmie.
Men wore whiskers and boots,, chew
ed tobacco, spit on the sidewalks and
cussed. Beer w*as 5 cents a glass
and the lunch was free. Laborers
worked ten hours a day and never
went on strike. No tips were given
to the waiter and the hat check
grafter was unknown. A kerosene
| hanging lamp and a stereoscope In
the parlor were luxuries. No one
was ever operated on for appendici
tis and no one bought glands. Mi
crobes were unheard of and folks
lived to a good old age, ,and each
year walked miles to wish their
friends a Merry Christmas.
“Today you know, everybody
rides in automobiles or flies, plays
golf, shoots craps, goes to the movies ,
nightly, smokes cigarettes, drinks
anything in sight, blames the hih i
cost of living on the opposite party
and never goes to bed the same day, ;
and thinks he is having ia wonder-- ■
ful time.
“These are the days of suffrage# ,
ting, profiteering, excess taxes and ;
prohibition and if you think life is
worth living I wish you a Happy j
New Year.”
CHULITNA NEWS
Well, here we are again started t
on a new year with the mildest win- ]
ter in the last five years. We have 4
about twro feet of snow on the level ]
here now. It has been so mild that i
most all the streams appeared again 1
with the w'eather around 30 and 40 3
above for the past month. Everyone f
here enjoyed a good Christmas and |
also a big feed and a few presents t
from our friends. I hope you folks J
in Seward had a good time Christ- -
mas. Moose Johnson is still running
his trap line and has caught 24 mink
and 12 weasel so far. The mink are
nice and dark.
Carl W. Carlson, the Free-Milling |
Kid, stopped over atChulitna as a
guest of Moose Johnson and Wertz
for two days. He gathered up his
small outfit and left for Little Gold
Stream, mile 423, where he plans on
trapping until March.
Sperro Gust has taken over Hurri
cane section on the A. R. R., suc
ceeding Tom Hagan, who resigned
on Jan. 12. Mr. Stanley is his new
helper.
James Aveno, section foreman, and
Dan Pigoff and Ole Seines, helpers
of Gold Creek section, were up at
Chulitna shining up four bad places
for two days, Jan. 13 and 14. Mr.
Aveno has thirteen miles of a sec
tion and one of the hardest north of
Curry as he has two long sidings to
look after also.
Jan. 15—«Mr. Thompson, chief line
man at Curry was up to Chulitna
and cutdown some trees that were
about to fall on the wires. While
at Chulitna he had dinner with Moose
Johnson and Harry Wertz.
Moose Johnson passed thru Can
yon Jan. 16 with his team of five
dogs on his vTay to Gold Creek
where he visited with James Aveno
for twro days. While there he made
a visit to the newiyw-eds of Gold
Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Will Johnson,
who wTere married at Seward Dec. 12.
Every one at Gold Creek joins in
wishing them the best of luck and
happiness on their journey thru life
together.
Jan. 17.—Mrs. J. W. Gale at the
pump station has been bothered with
rheumatism the past month but is
feeling a little better nowr. Mr. Gale
says tne ptarmigan have all disap
peared from Canyon and also from
Grance.
Harry Madsen, roadmaster, using
a hand s'peeder to travel over his
division, inspecting his track stop
ped at Chulitna for about .an hour
and went on to Gold Creek to stay
overnight. He reports that there is
no snow at all on the ground for 20
miles each side of Healy.
Jan. 19 Track Walker Andrew
Ott, at Chulitna and Harry Wertz
finished sinking the well for water
under the stationhouse and are now
waiting for some short pipe to come
out on Friday’s train. The station
house will have water again, in the
meantime Moose is hauling the water
from Salmon creek.
Jan. 20. Carl Williams, the Smil
ing Kid, is now brakeman on the lo
cal passenger train north of Curry.
Jan. 10—-Mr. Gray and Mr. West,
prospectors and trappers from Clear I
Creek, 25 miles south of Gold creek,
came down with a few furs.and went
on to Ta Ike etna. ■ '
Mr. Williams of Williams toad
house at the mouth of Indian river,
Mile 266, has been resting up for a
few days on account of being sick.
He is much improved again and has
left for Talkeetna to work on the
new steel bridge that the Alaska
Railroad is putting in up there.
Florsheim Shoes
Buy them by the year—NOT by the PAIR—
and save the difference.
The Money Value
of Quality is nowhere more apparent than in
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that insures long wear—these are the outstand
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PRICED $11.00 TO $11.50
Brown & Hawkins Corp.
(Quality First)
ONE
GOOD TEST
x —of the purity and stability of a
motor oil is the amount of carbon
it forms.
/
Zerolene forms, on an average,
30% less carbon than other oils.
The carbon is soft and fluffy and
most of it blows out with the ex
haust. For this* reason the Zero
lene-lubricated automobile or mo
tor-boat may be driven from 25 %
to 5o% farther without having
the valves ground or the cylinders
rebored.
Zerolene forms less carbon than
any other motor oil \nown to us.
Insist on Zerolene—a better oil.
Ask for it by name—Zerolene.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(California)