WJ CHES
Howard
Hamilton
Vcrithin Gruen
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
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C. E. URIAH
SrtVKSSOR TO
GEORGE THE JEWELER
THE KEY
Ice Cream, Anytime
Any Quantity
THE KEY KIND
PHUNE MATH1SON US
Stationery
PAPER IN BOXES
Tablets Envelopes
Pena Pencil*
Ink Mucilage
Library Paste Paper ( lips
Memo Book* Paper Files
In fact everything in the Sta
tionery line, also a big line
of School Supplies
SEWARD DRUG CO.
PROFESSIONAL
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DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hoars: 9 a. m. to S p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Rea., Mad. 68
J. H. ROMIG. M. D.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
L. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN, M. Dn C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hoars: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
Seward
% 1 I Geo A Mitchell
y|*| || Proprietor
Open Day and Niirht
Phone Adams 119
Service—Cleanliness
Private Boxes for Ladies or Parties
The Carstens Packing Co,
Wholesale and Retail
Bast Park. Veal. Mstton. Poultry.
Lard* Hama and Bacon.
Batter and Egg*
Order* from the Westward and Cook
lolat Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE SEWARD
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Meet xxiA at the Branch. tf.
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a. Mcfoer, UlommO undertaker.
MISERY STALKS IN
HORRIBLE STRIDES
AMONG RUMANIANS
.
—
JASSY, Rumania, Feb. 2. — (Cor
respondence of The Associated Press)
— Extreme poverty and suffering ex
ists among refugees and peasants in
the little mountain villages that are
so numerous just back of the Ruman
ian-Geiman battle line. In a large
number of cases the refugees are with
out shoes and without shelter of any
kind, many of them being compelled
to live in the fields and to endure the
exposure of the prevailing cold win
' ter nights. Often their clothing
( consists only of a few thin ragged
cotton garments that give scarcely
any warmth to their .. ustod bodies.
Their situation is rendered the mo:*e
i precarious by the tact that the dis
| tricts in which they are living are
subject to frequent artillery lire and
to bombing by airplanes.
Those who are fortunate enough to
have even the poor comfort of shelter
i in the shattered adbe houses that re
main standing are in almost every in
I stance living under conditions ot the
! most wretched misery. Forced sud
denly by the exigencies of the mili
! tary situation to abandon their form
| er homes, they have found even sever
I er hardships awaiting them in the
! desolated districts to which they have
fled; for in these small villages there
is neither anything to sustain life nor
that medical care which often would
save life. All doctors are needed on
the front, and these unfortunate peo
ple. who might otherwise be useful
factors to society if properly cared
for. are left either to stniggle alone
with the ravages of famine and dis
ease or 10 die of starvation.
In some villages the refugees and
peasants receive bread twice a week;
in others none at all. It is true that
a scant supply of corn meal is obtain
able by application to government
agencies, but this slender staple for
| every meal is not calculated to give
l strength and sustenance to people al
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Meet me at the Branch. tf.|
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Clearing Out Sale
ON ALL ENAMELED WARE,
CHINA, HARDWARE, AND
ALL KITCHEN UTENSILS—
GOT TO GO AT ANY TRICK,
SOME BELOW COST.
THE BIG SALE STARTS FRI
DAY, FEB. 1st, AND LASTS
UNTIL SOLD
REMEMBER
FOR CASH ONLY
REMEMBER
NO EXCHANGE
THE BAZAAR
FRATERNAL
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L. 0. 0. M„ Now 1425
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brother*
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
F. K. BIG FORD, Secretary.
ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
P. H. Pederson John Noon
Noble Grand Secretary
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. m., Pioneer Hall
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices, prompt service.
NEW
COATS
and
DRESSES
at
Ellsworth’s
I ready reduced to the last extremity
of destitution by the loss of their ma
terial belongings and the financial
support usually given them by hus
bands or sons or brothers now serving
their country. In two instances refu
gees were observed picking in the
fields a kind of wild grass, which they
eat, but which in America we would
i think only of feeding to cattle.
The most pathetic case of suffering
and want was witnessed in the little
village of Soltiu, in the District of
Putna. In a squalid shack of wood
and mud were three little children on
the point of exhaustion for lack of
proper care and food. They were or
phans. The mother had lately died of
typhus, which has blighted nearly the
whole of Rumania; the father was
serving at the front, and a little girl
of 10 was acting as mother to two
tiny tots of 4 and 7. The youngest
.child was lying helpless on a bag on
a stone floor, a tragic spectacle of
famine and disease.
A second case, which was only typi
cal of numberless others, was observ
ed in a dilapitated house no larger
than the ordinary American bedroom.
The roof was full of holes. Elsewhere
in the house the open spaces were
stuffed with rags. Here there were
10 persons crowded together under
conditions of squalor and misery.
Rags and tattered patch-quilts form
l ed the only coverings on the make
shift beds.
One of the inmates was an elderly
woman who had recently lost her
husband, but whose pride it was to
have three sons serving in the army.
For this solemn contribution to the
cause of her country, however, she
had not even the small reward from
her government of a decent existence.
She had no food beyond a few hand
fuls of commeal. She was a spectre
of famine. Her face was drawn and
pinched and her countenance so inex
pressibly sad that it told its own sil
ent tale of the terrible hardships she
and her nine companions in the house
were enduring.
One of her children, a helpless mite
of 3, lay under the clay stove, in
which there was a feeble fire, slowly
I succumbing to pellagra. The other
nine occupants, most of them children,
were pathetic figures of poverty and
misery.
There probably are thousands of
cases equally as extreme or even
worse. The observer could easily see,
with this tragic picture before him,
why typhus had taken such a terrible
toll of life last winter. The houses
visited were in most eases dirty and
unsanitary and offered the most fer
tile breeding places for vermin. The
occupants were so terribly impover
ished that their feeble bodies could
scarcely be expected to withstand the
invasion of even the mildest of dis
eases.
In these villages, which often are
only a short distance from the area
where military activity is greatest,
and which are subjected almost daily
to shell fire by the Germans one wouid
think that the inhabitants, following
the instinct of self-preservation,
would go to places at least free from
the tenors of actual warfare; but
with a hope borne of confidence in the
bravery of the Rumanian army and
i its ability to drive back the Geimans,
these simple, guileless peasants con
tinue to linger in the danger zones,
believing that soon the German army
will be forced to withdraw and that
the population will be able to return
to their deserted homes.
On the other hand, there are some
who realize the great jeopardy In
which they are placing themselves by
staying within the range of enemy
guns, and they have wisely abandon
ed their homes for piaces at least re
moved from the imminence of air
plane bombardment and shell fire. In
these cases it is a sight deeply im
pressive to the American observer to
see the poor but saga'* ous peasant
burying in the cold earth his spare
; clothes or the household articles which
he treasures most, in order that they
may not fall into the hands of the in
vading Germans and that he may re
I cover them when t nemy is driv
en out.
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HYDROPHOBIA OM INCREASE
PARIS, Feb. 2. — A large increase
in hydrophobia is shown in the latest
i vital statistics, and the Pasteur Insti
tute says it is due to the high price of
foodstuffs. The police are taking an
active hand in suppressing the threat
ened epidemic.
'$. 0. S. TO MAN
AMERICA HAS
A START HERE
1
I.
The “S. 0. S.” to man America has
been received in Seward and George
Sexton has been named as the repre
sentative of this movement which has
been started by the Commercial Trav
elers of America.
“To man America” is the title chos
en for support to the Universal Mili
tary Training bill now before Con
I gress. Mr. Sexton has-the register
j and the various blanks which are to
j be used mainly in securing congres
sional support for this important bill,
j In a circular the Universal Military
; Training League, of Chicago, sets
| forth the following points why obli
gatory military training is now need
I ed and why help is enlisted:
We urge it because the boys in the
training camps now know that the
training is of the greatest benefit to
them physically, mentally and moral
ly. Their friends note the wonderful
I improvement. It will redeem and
J save tens of thousands of boys to lives
of usefulness. It makes bad boys
! good and good boys better. Nearly
nine thousand boys at Camp Giant
took a vote for and against Universal
Obligatory Training. The result was
I 8,G80 for and 25G against!
We urge it to save democracy by
breaking up group thinking and the
I stratification into which our citizen
ship is forming; to knit together lines
of cleavage that are widening, that
democracy may be safe from within;
so that “a government of the people,
by the people and for the people shall
not perish from the earth.”
We urge it because experience and
J every military authoiity at home and
i abroad show's that such training is
j absolutely essential for national safe
ty#
We urge it because the training
camp is the melting-pot that will
transmute young native and alien
I citizens into loyal patriotic men. The
I importance of this cannot be over
; stated. It will mean the American
; izing of the nation.
We urge it because we have now'
learned that millions of soldiers ao
not “spring to arms over night”—
; mobs sometimes do; it takes many,
1 many months and an enormous out
lay to produce an efficient army.
We urge it because wars always
! have been, and wars may come in the
| future. Without such training our
| nation w'ould be helpless. This is the
I only war where a nation was fortun
ute enough to have time to make
some preparation. Suppose w*e had
! been forced into immediate action?
We urge it because a League to
Enforce Peace may be long delayed,:
1 or may not be formed at all. It is
i too problematical to depend upon.
I Ex-President Taft, the head of the
movement, is one of the foremost ad- j
vocates of Universal Military Train-!
ing. Such a League could not en-!
force peace without trained men to |
do it.
We urge legislation now, the actual;
training to begin as soon as the War I
; Department can handle it without in |
any w'ay interfering with the conduct j
of the war. Nothing must do that. If i
it had been adopted five years ago it \
would have been w'orth billions to us;
today.
Read The Gateway.
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CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseflhoeing Wfeeclwrighting
SEWARD. ALASKA
Charley the Tailor
Next to Alaska S. S. Co.
CLEANING
PRESSING
REPAIRING
Special attention to Ladies Re
Modeling
Suits Made to Order
Telephone—Adams G6
Chop Soey-Noodles
MOON
Chop Suey and noodles at the
Moon Cafe, Washington and
Broadway. Open under new
management, Bob Merrill and
Merle Mynatt
HOTEL OVERLAND
HARRY WHITTKMORE, Leasee and Manager.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - * ALASKA
H. V. Hobkn A. F\ Davls
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HD BEN, MaxaoRR
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transfer * Phones, Main 17 and 81
SOFT ORINKS T||[ PA I ATF JOHN MATICH
Pool «n<l NllllifO I I /f |_fl v/L Proprlotor
A GENTLEMAN’S RESORT
Meet Your Friends at The Palace
BAR—POOL AND BILLIADS—CARD TABLES
THE
HOTEL
SEXT,ON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON. Manager
Office—Bank of Seward .Building
SEWARD ALASKA
Attention lVIusHers!
• •
THE GLACIER BAR, at Girdwood
. is a Restaurant and Pool Hall. Meals are to be
had from 5 a. m., until 10:00 p. m. Good
Spring Beds—Horse and Dog Stables
Hitchcock & Hachey, Props.
A GOOD wife, a good
pipe, an* a good con
science — ef thar 8
anything nearer
Heaven it ain’t in
my geog’aphy.
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VELVET-, the Smoothest Smoking Tobacco,
makes any pipe good.