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If your sweet tooth Is your wisdom
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MPRESS THEATER
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1917
8:00 P. M.
LATEST
HE ARST-PATH E News, No. 4C>
The Empress presents to you
a Jesse L. Lasky feature, a 5
part drama featuring the noted
dramatic star, I .AURA HOPE
CREWS, in a picturization of
“BLACKBIRDS”
with a splendid cast.
Also a two-part CHARLES
CHAPLIN comedy scream—one
of the latest Mutual releases:
“BEHIND THE SCREEN/*
EXTRA GOOD PROGRAM
10c and 25c
Proof of labor blanks for sale at
Gateway.
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The new Trench Shoe at Urbach’s.
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Waterfill ami Frazier whiskey at
the Branch.
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Meet me at The branch.
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Ask your grocers for Seward
Bakery Bread.
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Andy’s Express, phone Mudison 143.
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Waterfill & Frazier* whiskey at
The Branch.
Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
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City Express. Phone Main 122.
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
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Old papers, seventy-five for 10c, at
The Gateway.
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City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 122.
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Certain-teed Roofing. Guaranteed
5, 10 and 15 years. J. L. Graef’s. tf.
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2 C. Kodak, Jr., Kodak $12.»H)—
Seward Drug Co.
See Our Stock
Ladies' Summer Under
wear, Waists, Sport
Skirtsand Middy Blouses
We have the largest line of Comforters
and Bedding in Seward
If prices cut any figure with you---We
will get your business
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
FIRE INSURANCE
JOE CAMPBELL
Successor to
ENNIS & CAMPBELL
SEWARD ALASKA
“ THE PLACE WHERE MEN OUTFIT”
HIP BOOTS, KNEE BOOTS, SHOE PACS
Moleskin Shirts and Pants. Mosquito Nets, Dress Shoes, Working
Shoes, Hats, Raincoats, Underwear, Flannel Shirts, Dress Shirts,
Stein-Bloch Suits
COTTER’S
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Gus Nyland, owner and master of
the power schooner Nimrod, of Ko
diak, saw his first auto in Anchorage
recently.
Three hundred and sixty dollars
were raised by the citizens of Candle
for the Red Cross fund. Candle has
but few inhabitants and the per cap
ita contribution was unusually large.
Advices received at Nome from Gov
ernor Strong state that the Russian
government has released the trading
schooner Diamond L and considerable
cargo of furs, seized at a Siberian port
some time ago.
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Eighteen men at Juneau and one
man at Taku were recently enlisted
in the naval service at those places
by Lieutenant Clark. They will be
assigned to duty on the submarine
chasers now being constructed at Pa
cific Coast points.
Postmaster E. J. Wodren, of
Wrangell, who has held the office for
nearly seventeen years past, has tele
graphed his resignation to the depart
ment and expects to be relieved short
ly. Ill health is given as the cause
for his resignation.
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Gardens arc scandalously backward
in the Tolovana district, being little
more advanced than they should be by
the latter part of June, or before.
Even flowers, carefully nursed, seem
to be diffident about blooming out into
the world, and considering the high
cost of water.
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Alex Holmson and Solomon Red, of
Solomon, enlivened Valdez recently
with a cracker-eating ocntest. Holm
son bet that Red could not eat twelve
soda crackers in succession, but lost
the bet as Red surrounded the crack
ers, although it was a somewhat larg
er contract than he anticipated.
At the regular annual meeting of
the stockholders of the First Terri
torial Bank of Alaska in Douglas, held
in the bank parlors, P. R. Bradley
was elected president to fill the vacan
cy caused by the resignation of M. J.
O’Connor, who is soon leaving the ter
ritory.
Warren Bennett and James Taylor,
two employes of the Copper River &
Northwestern Railway at Cordova,
have left that place for Seattle where
they will enlist in the railroad con
struction unit under the engineering
department, now being raised by
Colonel Cavanaugh for service in
France.
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HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT
PLANNED FOR CACHE CREEK
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Harris
and the baby Chas. Jr., of the Cache
Creek Dredging Co., passed through
Seward on the Alameda on their way
Outside.
Mr. Harris will buy the necessary
supplies for the big dredging outfit
and will purchase all the necessary
material for the installation of a large
hydro-electric plant, the operation of
which will be started next season. Mr.
Harris expects to be able to get the
materials landed at Susitna Station in
ample time this fall to permit of ship
ment over the trail to Cache Creek
during the winter.
The plant will be sufficient to oper
ate the dredge.
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We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ery. Seward Drug Company.
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
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Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
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FISH PRICES
Prices at noon August 20, at
Seattle, as reported by the Bu
reau of Fisheries, are:
Halibut, 14 He.
Sable Fish, 4c.
Red Snapper, 2He.
Pickled Sable Fish, $14 per
bbl.
Pickled Herring, first grade,
$16 per bbl.
Pickled Salmon, pink, $14.50
per bbl.
MAKING ROOM FOR
WINTER STOCK
Dresses, Skirts,
Middy Blouses, Waists
and Sweaters
AT ALMOST COST PRICE
HALLETT & SCOTT
OF COURSE
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[SEWARD SNAPSHOTS)
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The Admiral Evans has ninety tons
of freight for Seward.
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The Alaska left Juneau at 11 A. M.
the 21st, and should be reported at
Cordova tonight.
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J. J. Underwood will make a trip
out over the railroad tomorrow.
An added argument to the need for
enforcing the dog ordinance is seen
in the occurence this morning when
three malamutes jumped L. H. Thomp
son, of The Empress, as he was walk
ing across the alley from the Seward
hotel. He beat them off with a rock
Members of the Alaska Patriotic
League met at Pioneer hall yesterday
and decided to defer final action on
matters concerning war work until
after the visit of Robert L. Scott, ol
the American Red Cross.
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Charles Sheldon has applied for ad
mission to the American air army.
Several professional and business
men of Seward are seeking opportun
ity to serve in various branches of
the army and are awaiting action on
thei rapplications to enter.
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I SOCIAL* CHAT ]
Mrs. It. J. Weir and Mrs. Frank
L. Ballaine will leave on the Admiral
Watson for Anchorage this evening
to be the guests of Mrs. William E.
Edes, wife of the chairman of the
Alaskan engineering commission.
Mrs. H. 0. Schaleben, formerly of
Seward, but recently of Rainbow
creek, where her husband is resident
surgeon on the government railroad,
will arrive over the line soon to be
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Erich Lu
cas.
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DISAGREE ON
POPE'S NOTE
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Germans Clash With Austria on Con
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sideration of Peace Note
by Benedict
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(By Associated Press Dispatch)
BERNE, Switzerland, Aug. 23.—
Chancellor Michael is told the Reich
stag Wednesday that Germany was
unable to agree with her allies con
cerning the reply to be made to the
Pope's note concerning peace. Diplo
mats here say that this indicates a
difference of opinion between Berlin
and Vienna, or possibly between Ber
lin and both Vienna and Sofia.
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Old papers, seventy-five for 10c, at
The Gateway.
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Scratch pads—for school, for your
desk, for the counter, for the work
room—10c at The Gateway.
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
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