Owing to weather conditions the dredge at Anchorage
is unable to operate until the summer of 1918
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Talk About Your Summer Wages!
If you can't keep warm, remember we have the larg
est lines of Men’s and Women’s Pumiahinfrs, Beddings, eto.,
in Seward.
We arc not selling anything at cost.
We aim to make some profit on everything we sell. ,
These arc War Times and war prices prevail in the
States and they must here.
We will givo you the best prices possible under exist
ing conditions.
Kemember, we are fourteen years in Seward and hope
to continue until we get Matanuska Coal, if it takes It
yearn more.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
Seward
%||Geo.A Mitchell
I £ Proprietor
t >peo [lit and Nig hi
Phone Adara* 11V
Service - Cleanlint s<
PrUjte lloxe* for La»lies or Parti**,
CHARLES CRAWFORD
QENERAL BLACKSMITH
Hor*<«ho*inf; WheelwrichtinR
SKWAKD AI.ASK \
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef, Pork, Veal Mutton, Poultry,
Lard, flams and Baron,
flutter and Eggs
Orders frotn the Westward and Cook
Islet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
THE KEY
Ice Cream, Anytime
Any Quantity
TBE KEY KIND
PHONE MATfflSON 115
Seward Steam Laundry
Phone Main 157
HARRY KAWABE, Prop.
Best of Work—Quickest Deliv
ery. Family Work. Hough
Dry l&c Per Pound.
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices, prompt service.
FREE
Instructions on crocheting caps
and other articles, Fridays from
2 to 3 o'clock of each week
AT
Ellsworth's
Scratch pubs—for acnoo’, for your
dork, far tkt counter; for thr work
roota—10c at Thr Gateway.
PROFESSIONAL
J. H. ROMIG. M. 0.
Office on Broadwuy
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
L. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN, M. a, C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. in.
Formerly of Nome
DR. 0. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. ?6 Res., Mad. 58
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FRATERNAL
L. 0. 0. M, No. 1425
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Half. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
H. K BIGFORD, Secretary.
ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets S P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lcchner C. & Mullin
Noble Grand Secretary
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. ;o., Pioneer Hall
Graduate Nurse
MISS ALBRECHT
Swedish Masseuse
Medical Gymnast
Member incorporated Society
trained Masseuses, London
Phone Main 117
Just Received
Ladies, Children’s and Men’s Felt
Slippers
High Grade Ladies Shoes $3.75 and up
Pure Silk Ribbons Put up in 10 yd
pieces 15, 20, and 25c per bolt
Fine Line of Fancy Ribbon 35c per yd
Ladies' Dress Silk in Latest Shades
Fresh Candies, High Grade Choco
lates tn all flavors, also faney Xmas
boxes.
Now is the time to select your Xmas
gifts and toys. Take your pick, a
large assortment on hand.
Special Sale for Ten Days
on all Enameled Ware, Glassware,
China, Crockery, and all Kitchen
Utensils
THE BAZAAR
SEWARD SNAPSHOTS
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Last night was the coldest so far
this winter. The railroad and Sexton
hotel thermometers registered 2 above
at 7 o’clock this morning and Attor
ney Greene’s registered zero.
^y
A1 Coombs of Mile 83 arrived on
the train last night for the outside
and is registered at the Overland.
The weather forecast for the next
24 hours is fair with fresh winds.
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Edward L. Mack came over the
trail from Marshall City, and is a
guest at the Overland.
Six hundred and ten pounds of mail
from Anchorage arrived last night.
M. K. Hussey, railroad employee,
enroute to the outside for the win
ter, is stopping at the Seward.
Miss. 1). Warner, of Iditarod, is
registered at the Overland while wait
ing for a steamer for the states.
Weather report for yesterday fol-;
low.-: maximum 18, minimum 8, cur
rent i>; char with north wind.
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The First Aid Class completed the,
course last night and examinations'
will be held soon, perhaps this week. (
The opening of the new confection
ery store of Sexton & Thwaites kist
night was a success considering the
weather. All customers were highly
pleased with service and articles and
commented highly on the pleasing ap-j
pea ranee of the display.
Tomorrow night a card party and
luncheon will be given at the Priest’s
residence by the ladies of the Cath
olic church. Already a large number
of tickets have been sold.
The next steamer, the Alaska, is
due to arrive from the south on Sat-1
urday.
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According to cable advices, the
steamer Spokane lias been towed to
Seattle for repairs. s,
Pete Morich is in the Federal jail,
Deputy Marshal Evans holding him in
custody, pending an investigation.
Twelve cases of liquor have been
seized by the U. S. Deputy Marshal
at Girdwood. The liquor was bound
for the interior by dog team. Xo ar
rests were made. -
It is understood that a recommen
dation has been made to the War De
partment for the establishment of a
cantonment at Fort William H. Sew
ard for training men from Alaska
who. will bo taken in the first draft.;
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Alien enemies, Germans and Aus
trians, must apply to the U. S. auth-1
orities for a permit to leave the coun
try. It takes from six weeks to two
months for the permit to be issued
as the request must be sent to Wash
ington, D. C., and O-Ked there.
ALASKA ITEMS
NOW BEFORE j
«. S. C2NGRESS
In tho appropriations before Con- •
press are included the following items1
for Alaska:
Road service, $100,000.
Fisheries, $100,000.
Cable service, $147,445.
Forest reserves, $23,162.
Reindeer service, $8,500.
Game protection, $27,500.
Suppression of liquor traffic, $15,
000.
Expenses of the Legislature, $46,
500.
Education of Natives, $225,000.
Medical relief, $82,500.
Agricultural station maintenance,
$65,000.
Cordova public building, $64,500.
Mine Inspection service, $7,000.
Mt. McKinley Park, $10,000.
Miscellaneous, $138,500.
Alaska Railroad
The Alaska railroad project expense |
estimate totals $7,356,758 to be <oc-!
pended for the continued construction 1
of the system. This is sub-divided in- j
to the following items:
For the construction of road be- ’
tween the Tanana river and Fair- I
banks, $2,019,068.
For the rehabilitation of the Tana
na Valley railroad (purchased last
June for $400,000), $137,500.
For construction between* Riley
Creek and Lignite Creek, $1,105,306.
This is from Mile 345 to 356.
For a six-mile spur up Hosanna
Creek, $210,000. This is at Mile 346.!
For operation and rehabilitation of i
the Seward division property, $1,-!
163,888.
FIRST NICKELS
AND DIMES ARE
SHIPPED INSIDE
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War Tax on Admissions to Theatres
Cauie Great Change in Currency
of Fairbanks—Cordova Sends
in the Small Change
VISITING MOVIE MAN TALKS
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Says Picture Houses Fight Shy of the
Picture Depicting the Alaskan
Miner as There Ib Too
Much to Criticise
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PORTLAND, Dec. 1. —(By Mail)
—The first crimes and nickles that
ever went into Fairbanks, Alaska,
were shipped in after the new war tax I
on motion picture theater admissions
went into effect, to meet the piob-;
lem of making small change.
F. W. Talbert, special representa
tive of the Universal Film company,
who has returned from a 3 month's
and a half trip through the Coast
cities of Alaska, told of the shipping
of the cargo of dimes and nickels
from Cordova to R. L. Thorn, mana
ger of the theater in Fairbanks, just
before Mr. Talbert left Alaska to re
turn to Portland.
“Heretofore everything in Fair
banks has cost 25 cents, 50 cents and
so on, in multiples of 25 cents,” says
Mr. Talbert. “The rise of 5 cents in
theater admission prices brought in
the problem of odd change. Until it
was possible to get dimes and nickles!
shipped over from Cordova, Manager!
Thorn met the new situation by sell- i
ing tickets in sufficient quantity to [
bring the total up to even 25-cent!
change.”
The films showing in Alaska now j
are those released in the states from j
one to two years ago. The big draw
back to getting film service into
Alaska is the fact that there is a 10
day schedule in summer and 15 to 18
days in the winter to the coast cities.1
and this makes it entirely impractical j
to take new films off the service in
the states and let them idle through •
the long trip to and from Alaska. As I
a result the films are used in all the;
theaters in the states before they got
up to the Alaskan circuits.
“Strangely enough current events
and weeklies ait? what the people j
want worst of all.
“This demand is met by buying the
films outright from the Seattle ex-;
changes taking them up to Alaska
and putting them through the circuit
of the coast cities. Captain A. E. La
th rop, who controls theaters in Cor
dova, Seward, Valdez and Anchorage, i
buys the films, puts them on to the
circuit and then sends them on to the
other cities. They are six weeks old
when they go out of Seattle and the
run along the coast cities is about f>0
days. Then they send them into the
interior cities by sled and perhaps
this week’s current events film will
reach Nome audiences some time late
next spring.
“In spite of the handicap of trans-1
portation against which they must,
work, there are a number of excellent,
theaters in Alaska, in Anchorage, Cor- [
dova, Valdez, Juneau, Ketchikan, etc.!
“One kind of film the exhibitors in
Alaska fight mighty shy of is the film
that is made up on the plot of a min
ing story. Their audiences know the
mining game down to the ground, and
the way that the hero of the average'
moving picture strikes his pick into a |
mud bank and pulls out a fortune,
doesn’t get by with an Alaskan audi
ence for a second.
“They’ve tried one or two mining
films there, but they won’t run ’em on j
a bet now. It’s safer to book cow boy (
and New York society films, in which;
the detail won’t meet with such a
critical eye.”
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WEATHER ON R. R.
The following is the weather re-;
port from places on the railroad re-!
ceived at 7 o’clock this nforning:
Anchorage, 23 below, clear, calm.
Summit Rdh. 12 below, clear, north.
Girdwood, 18 below, clear, calm.
Potter Creek, 11 below, clear, calm.
Matanuska, 30 below, clear, calm.
Talkeetna, 8 below, clear. N. W. ;
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Fine “Lutfisk” 25c, Seward Fish I
company. tf j
WHY WEAR DIRTY
I
Clothes, when we will do your
family wash* rough dry? We
call for and deliver laundry.
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DEE SING LAUNDRY
Phone Madison 111
Cor. Washington & Adams St.
HOTEL OVERLAND
& L. WHITTEMORE, Proprietor
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
H. V. Hoiskn A. F. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
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U. V. HOI * EX, Maxagkr
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Trausfd**r* - . I'hunes, Main IT urd 81
CAFE ROOMS I |J£ | ml Al ■ Sherman Hay
Pool and Billiards g __ g / & g / ^ Proprietor
Below Wholesale Cost
CLARET—25c per bottle; 5 bottles for a Dollar
Italian and French Vermouth 75c per quart.
ROCK AND RYE 75c per bottle
IMPORTED PERFECTION SCOTCH $2.50
BASS’ IMPORTED ALE, $1.50 per dozen.
Look Over Our Cordials—They
have to go. at any price.
THE
HOTEL
GEORGE SEXTON. Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms - Rates Reasonable
• JOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office- Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD AlASkA
Th’ man that starts out
with a candle to find
a leak m tii' gas,
gets quick re
sults, but they
ain't satisfac
,ory'
VELVET, The Smoothest Smoking Tobacco,
is the slowly acquired result of more than
2 years’ curing of Kentucky “Burley de
kUXC* Ootfacco Car,