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Piano Tuner
Geo. Anderson. Expert, is in
Seward and is making his head
quarters at the Overland Hotel.
Orders taken for Pianos and
Player-Pianos. Pianos for rent.
Expert work guaranteed. Main
120. Address orders, Juneau,
Pox 001.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENKK \l. BLACKSMITH
Hnr»f<h«i'ine Whedwriphtine
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Reef, Pork. Veal Mutton, Poultry
Lard. Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Orders from the Westward and CooK
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AYE. SEWARD
V
PROFESSIONAL
J. H. ROMIG. M. 1*.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams i>.’; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
\tm R. C. P. 8: L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
L. E. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN. M. 1)., C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: l to 3 and 7 to 3 p. in.
DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office o\er Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 5S
FRATERNAL
3
L. O. 0. No. 142:»
Meets everv Tuesday 8 P.M » at
A. 15. Half. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
H. R. BIG FORD, Secretary.
ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No.
Meets 6 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lechner C. E. Mullin
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. n., Pioneer Hall
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WATCHES
Howard
Hamilton
Verithin («ru<*n
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
C. E. ORLANOER
srCCESSOR TO
GEORGE THE JEWELER
Scratch pads—for acnoo1, for your
desk, for the counter, for the work
room—10c at The Gateway.
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Certain-teed Roofing. Guaranteed
10 and 15 years. J. L. Gratf's. if.
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CAPT. WAUGH
A MEMBER OE !
COMMISSION
Newly Made Army Officer Now With
Alaska Road Commission and
Will Succeed Capt. Mehaffey
As Engineer
zn; ALSO GETS A COMMISSION
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Field Engineer Is Named As a C ap
tain and lie May Become a Road
Commissioner in the Near
Future .
Capt. VV. H. Waugh, United States
Army Engineers Reserve Corps, has
received orders by telegraph from the
War Department, directing him to re
lieve Capt. J. C. MehaiTey as engineer
oMirer of the Alaska Board of Road
Commissioners, according to mail ad
vices received from Juneau. 1 de
graphic advices were also received by
(Son. W. 1\ Richardson, President of
the Alaska Board of Road Commis
sioners, saying that a commission as
Captain in the Engineers’ Reserve
Corps, had been mailed to John Zug,
who has been a field engineer in the
service of the Road Commission for
many years. Mr. Zug will probably
succeed Capt. Mehaffey as disbursing
agent of the road commission.
The selection of Capt. Waugh for
membership on the Board of Road
Commissioners was recommended by
(Sen. Richardson some time ago, and
his assignment to the commission has
been expected. His appointment will
not interfere with his work as a Se
nior Highway Engineer in the C»ootl
Roads Bureau of the Department ot
Agriculture, but will facilitate co-op
eration between the two branches of
the Federal road builders in Alaska.
Mr. Zug has been field engineer for
the road commission in the I bird Di
vision with headquarters at Valdez.
For many years he was in direct
charge of the work of the commis
sion in the Fourth Division with head
quarters at Fairbanks. He is now on
his way to Juneau.
It is not known when Capt. Me
hatTey will be relieved and sever his
connection with the road comimssion.
That will depend upon whether or not
Mr. Zug is selected for membership
un the commission as disbursing
agent, a position that Capt. MehaiTey
has held in addition to that ot engi
neer officer since the departure of Col.
W. P. Davison about a month ago,
and, if so, when the selection shall be
made. Capt. Mehaffey has been work
ing on his reports and other matters
in order to have them out ot the way
whenever he can be relieved here and
assigned to other work.
It was understood by the members
of the Alaska Board of Road Com
missioners last spring that this would
be Capt. Mehaffey’s last season with
the commission, and that his services
were wanted by the War Department
in matters closer connected with th*>
war and war preparations than his
work in Alaska.
Capt. Waugh only recently received
his appointment as a Captain in th*.*
Engineers Reserve Corps, and this
week took his oath of office. The War
Department was immediately advised
of the fact, and the orders to relieve
Capt. Mehaffey as engineer officer of
the road commission were immediately
wired from Washington.
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HOME GUARDS MEET
The Seward Horae Guards had an
other enjoyable session last night at
the A. B. Hall and a splendid turn
out.
SPECIAL!
This week we offer you
Heavy Fle*eed-lined Underwear
SOc
per garment.
AT
Ellsworth’s
MAY CHANGE
MAIL ROUTES
TO THE NORTH
Mail rout£s to Alaska may start
from Portland, Oregon, July 1, 1918.
The postoftice department has invited
Portland interests to bid against Se
attle for Alaska mail contracts cov
ering a period of four years, and the
merchants of Portland are already ac
tive in promoting a line of steamers
to handle the contract
Referring to the matter, the Port
land Telegram says:
“Portland has been given an op
portunity to bid on the big Alaska
mail carrying contracts, through the
efforts of Postmaster Myers. Speci
fications for the contracts were re
ceived by Myers recently from Wash
ington, wherein the routes, the mail
schedules and bonds required are sot
forth. Copies will be sent those in
terested.
“Heretofore Seattle has had the ex
clusive privilege of bidding on these
contracts because Alaska mails have
at all times been forwarded from the
Sound.
“Representations have been made,
however, that Portland may be in po
sition to operate steamers between
Portland and the north before next
July, when the new contracts become
effective. The contracts run from July
l, 1918, to June 30, 1922, and in case
a steamship line is placed in opera
tion, the mails would go far toward
meeting its expenses, it is pointed out.
“Bids will be received at the post
office department at Washington from
now until 4:30 p. m„ December 4. The
bids will be made on a pound basis.
Bids will be received for these routes.
“Portland to Ketchikan, Wrangell,
Juneau, Skagway ami other points,
1250 miles and back, four times a
month.
“Portland to Nome, 2850 miles, and
back, during navigation season.
“These are in turn subdivided nml
rearranged, giving bidders various
combinations and side runs from dis
tributing points in Alaska.”
THE CWJRCHES
METHODIST CHURCH
11:00 A. M.—Theme, “Enduring
Strength,” Text, Deuteronomy 32:25.
12:10 P. M.—Sunday School.
7:30 P. M.—“Separating Influences
of Sin.”
The Ladies' Aid will meet with Mrs.
J. J. Patton Thursday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. Parents are urged to
bring or send their children to Sunday
School. With our new and commodi
ous equipment it is time for a for
ward movement in all lines of church
work.
You arc invited to the services of
the church.
J. J. PATTON, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH SERVICES
Rev. George John Zinn, Minister in
Charge
Services, Sunday, October 7, 1917.
11:00 A. M.—Morning service and
Sermon.
7:30 P. M.—Evening Service and
Sermon.
All Alaska News
Five hundred men are reported to
be working now at the Latouche prop
erty.
The Fairbanks Igloo, No. 4, Pio
neers of Alaska, at a recent meeting
decided to purchase $3000 of the sec
ond Liberty Loan Pond issue.
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Tanana Valley has & new Burbank
wizard. Thomas Luther Watson is
the new wiz and he is said to be the
discoverer of a five-headed cabbage
plant.
The new passenger coach of the gov
ernment railroad was given a tryout
recently at Nenana. Several of the
officials of the commissions made a
trip in the coach as far as Hailey sta
tion.
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T. F. McGraw, pioneer carpenter
builder of Sitka, recently was acci
dentally killed when a piling used on
the extension work of the cold stor
age plant at that place fell upon him.
Mr. McGraw had been prominent in
that vicinity for a number of years.
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Xenana citizens will raise funds and
endow a bed in the American Red!
Cross hospital near Paris. Thomas
Higgs has consented to show his mov
ing pictures of Alaska life at the bene
fit at which the bed funds are to be]
raised.
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At a meeting of the members of the J
executive board of the Fairbanks
Commercial club held recently, a new]
secretary of the organization was
elected. He is Guy B. Erwin, who
has been elected to succeed Wallace
Cathcart.
At the solicitation of Game War-:
den R. S. McDonald, all the restau-j
rants of Fairbanks have pledged them
selves not to buy any grouse during j
the present open season. This is done j
in the hope of protecting the birds so
that they will propogate that they wil! i
be plentiful next season.
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Several months ago the report was
•circulated that Charlie Murray, an
old-timer of the Tanana Valley, had
been injured at Marshal City. The re
port said that someone had shot thru
a window with a shotgun and that the
Hying glass and shot had blinded Mr.
Murray. This report was erroneous
it is learned now, as Deputy Marsha!
Pete McMullen, while at the lower
river, met Mr. Murray and he was ic
good health and his eyes were in first1
class shape. He did not know of the,
report that had been in circulation in
Fairbanks until told of it by the dep
uty.
Information received recently at
Fairbanks from Nenana was to the
effect that the launch Nita, which has
been plying between Nenana and
Fairbanks all summer, had been burn
ed as the result of an explosion on
board. The information received was
that Fete Godfrey, the owner and!
navigator of the Nita, was looking for
a leak in his gasoline tank. He is.
said to have been using a candle in.
the search, with the result that the:
gas fumes exploded, causing tin* boat
to catch fire and to burn com pi etcl\. j
Whether or not Godfrey was injured
by the reported explosion could not
be learned.
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For tickets, berth reservation and other particulars,
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IXL Parlor Heaters
Air Tight Heater*
Aluminum Ware
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Oh* Engine Oil
Lacquerct Paint
Denatured Alcohol
Lang * Kanin**
CusoHne Stove*
Deadening Felt
Weathtr Strip*
Blacksmith * Coal
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fish ini: Tackle
Alcohol Stove*
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Cook *Stove*
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Spark Plutfs
Jump Colls
Batteries
Asbestos
Tar Papei
Valve Oil
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?up Crease
Paints
Ammunition
Bench Forges
Brushes
Varnishes
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Japan
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
Slj>t Guns
Gasoline
Bellows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
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Cement
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Phone Main 37
J. L. GRAEF
Seward, Alaska
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
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JOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office- Bank of Seward Building
ALASKA
JUST ARRIVED
A fresh shipment of Augustine & Kyers’ and Lig
gett’s Candies. A big assortment to choose from.
SEWARD DRUG CO.
It!
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Day
and
Alight