LOCAL NEWS NOTES
George Swarva has started a new foot
ball team, with himself as coach and his
new son and heir as Captain.
Miss Stella McLeod, who has beet, with
the Alaska-Juneau accounting department,
has been transferred to the Treadw?U of
fice.
Miss Maude LUJeotrand, proprietor of
the Palace of Sweets for a number of years,
has disposed of her business interests to
Mrs. Alice Pottygrove.
Arthur Liljestrand, the well known
ball player and athlete, has consentd to
coach the High School athletes for their
athletic contests this winter.
Alfred Thibodeau, for many years an
attendant at St. Ann hospttal, was in
the last draft and was visiting on Douglas
Island for a day or two before going to
Fort Seward.
Elmer Jackson and Alex Sey, the two
Douglas High School graduates who are
to attend college at the University of
Washington, registered last week with the
Douglas Exemption Board.
Juneau had two notable visitors last
week, Major Norman Read, of the United
States Aviation Corps, and Rev. L. D.
Cook, a Y. M. C. A. secretary. Both told
of interesting experiences from the bat
tle field.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Anderson have re
ceived word from their son, Oliver, who
recently arrived from the Inside and
made his parents a visit of a few days,
that he is now enlisted with the merchant
marine service.
Word has been received from friends
of Ed McCormick, the old time Treadwell
machinist who left here a few months ago
for the Foundation Shipyards at Tacoma,
that he has been made shift foreman in
his department.
Over a quarter of a million dollars' dam
age was done to Juneau last month on
account of heavy rains; the water came
down the hills in torrents, flooded the
Gastineau Hotel, Wills' grocery store and
other buildings down town, and completely
demolished about twenty homes in the
Casey-Shattuck Addition, in addition to
undermining the new Native hospital.
The city was without light and water for
several days. Both the mining companies
suffered heavily, especially the Alaska
Juneau.
Mike McDonald, former compressor man
at the Ready Bullion mine, returned to
Douglas on the Spokane, and says that he
will remain in Alaska from now on.
Isaac A. Weathers, one of the fishermen
who has made Douglas his home port, left
recently for Ketchikan, where he will en
list in the navy.
Sgt. Oliver 8. Hopper writes from Fort
Riley, Kas., that that camp has so far es
caped the Influenza bug, but their hos
pitals are taking care of a number of pa
tients from Fort Funston.
Topsy, the cub-bear given to L. S. Fer
ris by Norman Worth about two and a
half years ago, has "gone west," and the
boys are anticipating some choice bear
steaks and pot-roasts. Teddy, the mate,
was killed last spring, weighing almost
400 pounds.
An Amy Engineer
Come, all you gallant fellows, and a story
you shall hear
Of the trials and tribulations of an Army
Engineer,
He tries to do his duty and he tries to
do It well.
But the Captain, Sergeant, Corporal, all
give him hell.
The Surgeon looked him over and the Sur
geon grinned with glee,
"A shot In the arm will do no harm—
bring on my long squee-gee.”
With 50,000,000 typhoid bugs patrolling
through his blood,
They shot In 60,000,000 more and now
• his name Is mud.
They hung a pack upon hlB back, It
weighed 100 pounds;
They marched him to the rifle range, to
shoot 1,000 rounds.
And after that he walked five miles, up
to his knees In dust.
And when they said, “Take off your shoes,”
he just sat down and cussed.
They taught him every kind of gait, to
march, to ru3h, to crawl,
The first was bad, the next was worse,
the last was worst of all;
He skinned his belly on the rocks, he
snagged It on a nail—
He’d have made a damned good lizard,
if he’d only had a tall.
He’s a son-of-a-gun from Company D, an
Army Engineer,
He's going to France to shoot the pants—
off the German rear;
When he gets back from Germany, the
people all shall hear
It doesn’t pay to get in the way, of the
Army Engineer.
—Co. D, A. E. F., 26th Eng’s.