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,VOK SALE
A* i
An eight horse power Pelton water
wheel, never been used. Just the
thing for a small mining plant or
electric generator. Inquire at the
Gateway. tf
FOR RENT
For rent or sale—Resturant, fully
equipped and ready for business.!
Good location. Apply Gateway.
For rent two-room furnished house,
$15 per month. See Dougherty <V
Stewart.
Small house, cheap rent. Madison 44.
Waterfill & Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
Stamps for sale at The Key.
PROFESSIONAL j
J. H. KOMIG. M. I).
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office. Adams 93; Residence, j
Adams 48.
L, r. C. P. £ L. R. C s. Edinburgh.
L. F. P. Si S., Glasgow.
J. M. SlOtN, M. D., C. M.
OVER OATEWAY
Office Hours, I to 3 »ind 7 to 8 f.
KoKMKKI.T »*►’ N’t'MK.
I)R. 0. J. KEATING
DENTIST
Of flea over Hour*:
Bank of Seward 9 a. m. to 5 p. m
phone: Office. Mad. 76; Res., Mad. 58
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT!
DENTiL OFFICES
Stull Building
Office Phone Residence Phone
Adams 111 Madison 44
LEON C. BOOKER
attorney at law
Bank of Sewurd Building
Phono Madison '4
ROBERT SIMPSON
Juneau, Alaska
GIum* Filled Lenses Ground j
Seward
1 1 1 Geo A. Mitchell
\J 1 L JL JL Proprietor
i >pen Day ami N is?l»l
Phone Ailams 111*
Service- Cleanliness
'•rivate Boxes for Ladies or Parties
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The Broadway Barbershop
For Courtesy and
Sanitation
Clean steam towel for
each customer.
S. L. COLWELL
WINTER WEAR FOR MEN
New Location
Brosiust & Noon Building.
Washington Street
DOUGHERTY ft ROMIG
BEAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent Rent* Collected
Lota for Sale Large Listing
Phone Red 147 Seward. Alaska
SEWARD BAKERY
Phone Madison 82
Excel la in Good Bakery Goods
Give Them a Trial
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Seward Steam Laundry
HARRY KAWABK, Prop.
FiWti Aienue Phone Main 157
Best of Work—Latest Machinery
Work Delivered in 24 hours
Extra Charge
Kough Dry 10c a pound with flat
work finish.
Cleaning and Pressing_
CAPE ROOMS |t | A AI I Sh*rm,n Hairnas
Pool end Billiard* _ /IL/lVL Proprietor
Best Liquors and Cigars
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lunch Counter in Connection
The Seward School News
Published once a week during the school year by children in the Seward Schools.
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Vol. 1 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1917 No. 1
ALASKA THE LAND
SOME PEOPLE SAID
COST TOO MUCH
By ALICE DAGGETT
(Age 11—Grade V.)
Alaska was bought from Russia
in 1S67. It was bought at night
for $7,200,000 by William H. Sew
ward. It was bought at night be
cause the United States had been
waiting so long for Russia to make
up its mind to sell Alaska. When
Russia decided, William H. Sew
ard did not even want to wait till
morning so they opened up all the
big houses and bought Alaska. *
Most people thought that was too
much to pay for a country so far
off. But now Alaska has paid for
itself in fish and in furs and skins
many times over.
Alaska is the most important
territory that the United States
owns and is almost twelve times
the size of New York. Alaska is
one-sixth of the land owned by the
United States.
There are a good many hot
springs up north. They are sup
posed to be caused by volcanoes
and the water has a very odd taste.
In the northern part they us%
reindeers to pull the sleds and they
go ten miles an hour, where a horse
goes live miles an hour. The rein
deers were shipped from Siberia
and Sweden. They are used for
food and skins also.
In the south they use dog teams
to carry the mail and freight.
Whales are caught for the whale
bone and for the oil. Many men
risk their lives to get them.
Seals are very easily caught ami
so the government protects them
by not letting people catch as many
as they want. Only one company
can catch any and they have to pay
to catch a certain amount a year.
They have two skins. The oute*
one has short hair and !s not used.
The inner one has soft fur on it,
and is sent to London where seals
are dressed.
The salmon is the most valuable
fish that Alaska has. They are can
ned and sent to the states.
Alaska has a varied climate.
Most of the mountains are covered
with snow the whole year around.
Cut in the valleys it is warm
enough to raise many agricultural
things.
Mt. McKinley is the highest
mountain in North America.
The glaciers are very beautiful
The ice breaks off in pieces and
floats away. If you are on a boat
you will see the engineers are very
careful to keep away when the ice
breaks off.
The northern lights are very
THE STORY Of
ST. VALENTINE
By MARGARET SLOAN
(Age 8—Grade IV.)
Long, long ago there lived a
priest named Valentine.
He liked to help people when they
were sick. He would go to see them
and would take them fruit and
books to read. They began to like
him very much. At last he got so
old and feeble that he could not
Come to see them. When he heard
that any one was sick he would send
a note of happiness and gladness.
After a while they did not get
Any more notes. They went to hra
cabin and found that he had died.
From that day to this we send lit
tle messages of love to each other
on his birthday, the fourteenth of
February.
SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
Seward's school organization In
cludes the following:
The school board, of three mem
bers—Merrill A. Martin, Mrs.
Frank L. Ballaine, and Dr. J. H.
i
Romig.
The faculty of four members—
Miss Wallace, principal, Miss Wold,
Miss Robb and Miss Root.
There are enrolled to date * 91
children.
Actual attendance 81.
IF YOU CAN'T FIND
anything in this paper
about your boy
or your girl
just take a look
and you will realize
that it’s not big enough
to get everything in
at once.
WATCH
NEXT WEEK’S NEWS
There will be a column devoted
to sayings of the primary scholars,
and Elizabeth Romig will report
news items.
The articles appearing today are
the best essays of the intermediate
grades. Next week the higher
grades will compete with the in
termediate grades on an essay on
“The Life of George Washington.”
Miss Elizabeth Romig, the presi
dent of the Athenaeum literary
Society will act as editor of next
week’s issue.
The pupils of the eighth grade
graduating class have commenced
work on their graduating essays.
beautiful; they come and fade
away. In Nome they are of all col
ors and are much prettier.
The United States would not sell
Alaska for many hundreds of mil
lions of dollars now.
SAVING POSTAGE
STAMPS KEEPING
MANY INTERESTED
On the morning of Lincoln's
birthday, the editor of the Gateway,
gave the school an excellent talk
on “stamps”—presenting each pupil
with a copy of the Lincoln Centen
nial stamp as a souvenir.
The talk was especially appreci
ated Ijy the stamp collectors of the
third, fourth and fifth grades.
Harry Revell has the largest gen
eral collection.
After listening to the talk the
pupils were asked to write an essay
on postage stamps and the follow
ing one was selected for publica
tion:
By WILLARD SHELLHORN
(Age 9—Grade V.)
Stamps
Letters were first carried by run
ners. They would carve their let
ters in rock. I^ater they used mud
got of the river Nile. They put it
in a bag made of cloth so it would
not break.
Queen Victoria had the first
stamps made. They were made in
1840. In the United States they
paid twenty-five cents to get a let
ter carried. At first anyone who
happended to go that way carried
the letter. The postmaster wrote
his name where our stamps are put.
Germany was the last country to
use stamps.
In Panama they have one-half
cent stamps only they have to pay
two and one-half cents to get a let
ter to the United States.
The three most valuable stamps
came from the Island of Maurius.
The Czar of Russia, the King of
Spain, and the King of England
own them. They cost $7,500 each.
They are made from a wood cut.
At first they did not have en
velopes. They took a sheet of paper
and folded it in the middle and on
one side wrote what they had to say
then folded in into an envelope.
In England they use war stamps.
The Chinese people write their
address in Chinese letters and the
men in the United States postoflice
cannot read the address. So they
have a Chino man in the postoflice
and the letters written in Chinese
letters are tied together and the
Chino man sends them to whom
they are sent.
BOOST EDITION
This, the opening number of the
the Seward School News is devoted
to boosting the importance of Al
aska.
MINNESOTA SOLD
FOR $2,750,000
SAYS L. W. HILL
ST. PAUL, — Sale of the Hill
steamer Minnesota has been confirm
ed! by L. VV. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railroad. The ship is
said to have sold for $2,750,000.
Catholk Church
Sundays—Communion Mass at 8:30,
Mass and sermon at 10:30 a. m. Sun
day school after mass. Rosary, in
struction and benediction at 7:30 p.
m. Week days—Daily mass at 7:30.
If you have a drop of sporting
blood in your veins dance wit tne
Seward Athletic club Saturday night
at A. B. hall. 2t
WANTS PATENT TO
SITE BEFORE RIVER
WASHES IT AWAY
In October, 1912, T. H. Beaumont,
of Fort Yukon, made application for
patent on his trading site at Fort Yu
kon. The ground was surveyed and
taken up with the general land office
through the proper channels, but for
some reason the issuance of the pat
ent has been held up.
Now the land office in Fairbanks
receives a communication from Mr.
Beaumont saying that unless the pat
ent is issued soon there will be noth
ing to issue it on except the Yukon
river, as the channel has changed its
course so much that it is washing
away the ground on which he origin
ally applied for a patent.
The question arises: If he gets
patent on the original survey and it
is in the course of the river, can he
build a fence around it?
MILE 40 ROADHOUSE
G. W. ADAMS, Proprietor
Dog Mushers Made Comfortable
All freight and expreas forwarded
from dad' Of eteeL • v;
FATHER OF AUTOS
DEAD IN PARIS
PARIS.—Amedee Bollee, sr., an in
ventor known in France as “the fath
er of automobilism,” is dead. Bollee
was the builder of a steam ear which
he first operated in 1873.
Removal sale now on at the Bazaar.
First Blossoms
of Spring
THE NJEJW SILKS
Showing striking patterns and
colorings in Silk Hose, also
Klosfit Silk Petticoats.
Attractive display of House
dresses, Kimonos, Dressing
Sacques, Buffet Scarfs.
BROWN ART CRASH
NEW STYLES FOP. SPRING
WEAR ARE HERE
(n-Duchess *and Isabella Kid
Gloves
We are receiving on every boat
the new and authorative crea
tions for the new season.
HALLETT& SCOTT
C.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
SOME OF OUR SPECIALTIES:
WELLMAN CANNED GOODS TIP TOP EGGS
MARSHFIELD CHEESE
RED CLOVER BUTTER SPERRY’S FLOURS
AND A FULL LINE OF
HARDWARE
Stoves, Hay and Feed
No Belter floods Can Be Bought At Any Price
G. W. PALMER, KNIK, ALASKA
The Coleman Hotel
GEORGE SEXTON. Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINERS' and COLD MINERS' SUPPLIES
Door# and Window#
IX L Parlor Heat*r»
Air Tiftht Heatrra
Aluminum Wan;
P. & B. Pap*r
Malthoid Rootiutf
Marin* Engine Oil
tin* Engine Oil
IjicQurrrt Paint
Aaphaltum Paint
Denatured Alcohol
Lazur’a Kangva
Gasoline Stove*
Deadening Felt
Weather Strip*
Blacksmith'* Coal
Wheel Barrow*
Fishing Tackle
Giant Powder
Alcohol Stove*
Seine Twine
Granite Ware
Cook Stove*
Camp Stove*
Oil Stoves
Spark Flu -r»
Jump Coils
Batteries
Asbestos
Tar Paper
Valve Oil
Klalne Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Ammunition
Bench Forces
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Coal Tar
Umi»s
lanterns
Tents
Shot Guns
Caps
Gasoline
Fuse
Bellows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Rifles
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
(«lass
Rope
Mercury
Ptvwe Maid 87 J. L. GRAEF Seward, Alaska
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON. Manager
Office- Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD ALASKA
LOYAL ORDER of MOOSE
Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock
in A. B. Hall
M. A. HORNER, Dictator
F. R. BIGFORD, Secretary
BRICK LAYING
Plastering and Cement Work
Fire box lining, Machinery bases
HARRY LEYTON
TOGO CAFE
Commerce Cafe Bldg.
jack u. toco
Proprietor
Open Day and Night
Tray Order Quick Service
Private Boxes
for ladies or parties.
Phone Adams 52
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On press neat Saturday. Order now. Ten cents per
copy. Better than letters.
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