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Yesterday there was printed in the
(Gateway a news item relative to the
reduced price of clothing and other
staple commodities. It proclaimed the
fact that the high prices that have
been prevailing since the war were to
be reduced to a -pre-war standing.
Some people in Seward upon reading
this news immediately took it for
granted that our local merchants were
charging too much for their stocks
and several people who are on theii
way outside to spend the winter mon
ths and most of the money made in
‘Alaska during the summer months, de
cided that they would postpone some
of their purchases until they reached
Seattle. Now any sane person who
read the article which simply stated
that the big manufacturing concerns
were contemplating a reduction in
price on staple commodities must have
realized that it would take Several
months and possibly a year before th<
stocks purchased by the retailers
coutd be sold and replaced by goods
purchased at the newly promisee
prices • ~
And these sane persons if they arc
Sewardites or citizens of any othei
part of the Territory must be thor
oughly familiar with the fact that th<
merchants of Seward and every othei
towu in Alaska have always sold then
goods as reasonable as they could be
purchased outside ;|id in a great many
instances much cheaper because of th<
fact that it was not necessary foi
them to add the huge rent and other
big expenses that all the Seattle stores
have to pay, to the price of the mer
chandise which they sell. Of course
there is a certain class of people al
ways to be found in a community, whe
are the first to kick about high prices
of the local merchants, but as a rule
these same people who kick are all
members of the Mail OrderBattalion.
They complain about the price and the
slimndSs and inferior quality of the
goods handled by the local merchant
and then they get out the mail order
bible and select a list of goods from
some highly colored pictures and from
some very cheap price lists, and gath
er together the cash which is abso
lutely necessary for them to dig up
before they can get the outside goods
and take the cash to the Tost Office
and buy a M. 0. and mail it out on the
boat and wait until the low priced,
highly colored bargains they have se
lected arrive. As a general role they
get stung. But they' seldom advertise
the fact. They wear the paper soled
shoes and the All Wool cotton gar
ments and then wonder why the local
' merchant will not extend them credit
m some really worth while merchan
Wise when the goods for which they!
paid cash only produced half the cash
price in actual wear.
There is not a Gouger on the whole
list of our local merchants. Every ar
ticle they sell is first class and fhe
prices charged by them are clmost al
ways below those charged for the j
same class of merchandise in the Stat
es where the merchants have an enor
mous overhead expense. Think it over
you people with the Mail Order Bible.
Put two and two together and you will
discover that it always makes four
and if you will do this simple sum of
addition with the next four dollars
you are figuring or sending out of the
Territory >ou will discover that lire
four dollars will purchase just#a$
much in Seward as it will outside and
that ninety nine times out of one hun
dred you will get more real value for
your money. You will all pay more for
your clothing in Seattle and other
towns in the states for the next year
than you will be obliged to pay rigid
here in Seward. Don’t continue to kid
yourselves that you can do better foi
the same money in Seattle or other
cities in the states. You absolutely
cannot. If von are a real Alaskan you
will support your home stores. If yov
are a Transient Ghuger you will be
able to save a few simolcons by spend
*ng some ot the money which you
armd this summer with the me;*
hants who made it possible for you
to come to Alaska and earn that mon
ey. If you are a member of the M;y!
Order Uible Class discard the llible of
low prices and big bargains and sev
ere your affiliations with the organis
ation that hurts a community more
than an epidemic of small pox. Sup
port your home merchants ami they
will give you merchandise as good and
in most instances better than you caa
ever hope to get by mail.
Think itx>ver, talk ft over and tloir
dig the sand out of your eyes that
blinds you and learn to see thing? as!
they really are not as some highly
colored catalog paints them. If you
want to continue to support the big
mail older houses who boast that they
make more than sixty million dollars
per year from their mail older sales
and that every bit of oveifiead exprn
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should pack up all of your belongings
and take passage on a boat that is
bound for some obscure place in the
South Seas where such an animal as a
merchant is unknown. Think it over.'
If the truth hurts, holler if you want
j to. The louder you holler the bigger
:the fool you will proclaim yourselves
;to be. You cannot get something for
[ nothing in this world. It can’t be did.
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FOREST NOTES
The virgin forests of the United
States,* which formerly covered 822
million acres, have shrunk to one-six
th of that area.
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The United States consumes or de
stroys annually 58 billion board feet
of material of saw-timber size.
About one-half of the remaining 2,
215 billion board feet of standing tim
ber in the United Spates is in the
three Pacific Coast Stoles.
All classes of forest land, including
culled, burned, and cut-over areas, in
the-United States now aggregate 4133
million acres, or a little more than
one-half of our original forests.
Practically one-fifth of the remain
ing timber of the country is contain
er! in the National Forests.
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The per capita consumption of lum
ber in the United States for the year
191$ wai about 800 Ward feet
-MOTMON TEMPLE
LETHBRIDGE, Alta, Nov., 10—Set
upon a hill, the highest point in the
town of Cardston in the ettreme
southwest of Alberta, stands like the
Acropolis of adcient Athens, the first
such structure to be errected oh Brit
ish soil, a Mormon temple.
* Six years ago last August the first
sod was turned. Year by year the im
posing $1,250,000 structure has risen
until today it stands almost complet-j
ed, ready for the final dedication by
the highest officials of the church, a'
ceremony which likely will take place
in May or June of next year. Interior
decoration, which has ' already made
the temple famous throughout* the
length and breadth of the continent, is
still progressing and it will be spring
before the final touches are made.
Once the temple is completed, de
dicated and turned over to the corps
of temple officials for the special rites
and ceremonies for which it was con
structed, it will be sacred ground. No
^non-member will be allowed to set
foot within its portals, and only mem
bers of the church who can carry a
certificate from their bishop showing
themselves to be in good standing in
every particular, will be allowed to;
take part in the ceremonies within its
walls.
Surrounding the temple and lift-1
ing it up, is a great square within
a reaining wall 235 feet square. With- •
in are being developed beautiful arti-j
'ficial gardens in the center of which 1
the temple stands, rearing its topmost:
point 110 feet in the air. The structure j
Is built of Nelson granite bearing
in gold to the ton. On the interior the!
finest of woods, paintings and rug?,
vie with each other to end a tone of
quiet magnificence. Throughout all
the rooms, special woods are used in
decorating. There is African and Am
erican walnut, redwood from South
America, ebony and rosewood, while in
every room are splendid borders of in
laid work which took months of time
on the part of several cabinet maker
to complete.
The Latter Day Saints have builij
aight temples including the one 4!
Cardston and one at Eaise, Hawaiian
Islands. The ninth will be built a
Mesa, Arizona.
The greater part of the money fo
building the Cardston temple was fur ,
nished by the central council, of which
President Herber J. Grant is the head
This money came from Mormons i:
every part of the continent. Howeve
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many thousands of dollars were con
tributed by members of the church ii
Canada, while much of the rough lab
or on the temple was contributed b>
members, without pay.
NEW AIR ROUTE
BUTTE, Mont Nov., 10— Cominer
rial organizations in Butte are consid
; erihg the project of establishitijg air
| plane passenger routes between Butt
and Yellowstone national parks. Thi
has been suggested by Harvey A. Beil
| gard of Billings, who was an aviato
during the world war.
The plan includes the bringing t<
Butte of a number of 40-passenger air
planes built by the government fo
bombing. It is estimated that such at
airplane could leave Butte at 1 o'
clock in the morning and reach Yei |
lowstone park at 9:30 a. m. Glacier
’park could be reached, it is said, in a
trip of three hours by air. The dis
tance by road from Yellowstone to
Glacier park is 400 miles, while' by
air it is only 275 miles.
Aviator Beilgard estimates he could
make a trip with one of the larg* pas*>
senger planes to Glacier park in the
morning, and by leaving there at 4
p. m. could bring back passengers to
Butte the same day. Beilgard has
made a flight from Billings'to Minne
apolis n 12 hours.
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A. G. Smth and wife from Seattle,
came in on the Wqjtson feat'night and
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PERT PARAGRAPTHS OP SENSE
AND NONSENSE FOREIGN AND
LOCAL, CAUGHT ON THE
FLY BY -THE HUMAN
TOOTHPICK ”
If any of you people in Seward ever
wonder, who the busiest man io Sew
ard is next in line to the guy who gets
out the newspaper, why quit your
wondering and read this. Last night
the Watson arrived with several hun
dred sacks of first and second class
mail.'Post master Hoot and his able
assistants sorted and distributed all of
the first class mail by nine o'clock.
This morning he delved into the con
tents of more than one hundred sacks
of second class matter and a load or
two of newspapers, magazines and
parcel post. Some busy well we say so
and there are some of you who get
peeved if your mail is nine seconds ]
late. Try getting out a newspaper or !
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sorting mail and you will find out the |
real meaning of the word busy.
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Bill Paterson embarked on the Sea 1
of matrimony last night. He has prom
ised not to become sea sick. The kids
who joined the large party of shiver
<*e-ers all think that Pat is some guy.‘;
They almost swamped Sylvia’s Ice
cream parlor last night while spending
the liberal tip Pat gave them. One fel
low was late. He arrived at Sylvia’s >
after the bunch had gone. He opened
the door, stepped in and looked around j
He drew a deep breath and said, “Say i
have you seen a big bunch of girls and ;
boys in here tonight.” He was told by
the Ginger AJe Queen that the bunch
had been and gone. “Gosh,” says the
littla fellow, “I guess Pm too late.”
And he sure meant it.
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OIJR MODERN VOCABULARY
Mayme—• Didya tell the fesh old guy
to beat it ?
Sade— Gwan, d’ya thing Pm glued!
to that old slang stuff ? I told the poor
liol to deport himself.
One of the members of the City
Council has been noticed several times
sneaking up the alley with a Can of
•some kind and entering, a garage. Sev
eral people who have noticed said
councilman are wondering just what
the can contains. Gas, oil or homo
brew. If gas or oil, nuff said. If homer
brew why the garage.
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The big wedding cake that was dot
voured last, night at the wedding feast
of a local couple who were united in
the holy bonds of matrimony was pome
cake, No more artistic dike cOidd have j
been built in the big bakeries-outside.!
U was perfect from1 every standpoint \
inside filling and outside decorations.!
Guess we have a baker who dan make !
other things besides doughnuts, eh.
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f ellow came into tlie office yester
iay and told us a good story. Its dth*.;
er based on. fact or the fellows’ ima
gination is very vivid.* Here’s the !
story:— A certain hotel man of Sew
ard has in the rear of : the
j hotel, a large wooden cage and in the
cage he has a large young eagle. This
eagle belongs to the specie known as
the American or RikL At the. present
time he is not bald headed but he dees
get red-beaded and when he dees hr
wants to fight The cats of the neigh
bor hood have much respect for him
The fact that he has developed, fight
ing qualities has made his owner de
sirous of matching him in free.for all,
against any other eagle in the. terri
tory. He is willing to bet $100.00 on
the outcome of , the fight The angle is
in prime conditionv having been train
ed on a choice diet of raw meat, and
fish. Any one haying eagle that he
wishes Lb put up against the Seward
e*fto cu. fEMpI *• ftr
to
Mtl Hotmt.
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The Seward News Company
GEORGE PHELPS,
Booksellers, Newspapers and Stationers
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I S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON NOV. 3rd. j j
| ^ Capt. Chas. Glasscock. ■;
|; S. S. Admiral Watson thistrip does not go to west
I j of Seward. ]|!
| C<Mii(HMii reserves right to change schedule without notice. X
ADMIRAL LINE BUILDING !|!
I j Wayne Blue, Agent. • •_Seward Alaska, j j
ALASKA IS W j
SAILING SCHEDULE
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Sail Tram Due Due Lv Seward
; SEATTLE STEAMER SEWARD Southbound
!; Nov. 5 ALAMEDANov. 11 Nov. 11
Nov. 15 NorthwestemNov. 21 Nov. 21
Nov. 25 ALAMEDADec. 1 Dec. 1
A. H. McDONALD, Agent
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Chas. K retting, Dictator.
A. H. L Meyer, Secretary.
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