CLASSIFIED AD COLUMN
FOR SALE
Make It 15 Million.
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Rayo Table Lamps with shades at
Grace's. Ol5tf.
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V. Mclver, licensed undertaker.
For sleds and ice skates see Graef.
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Boys Regulation Tan Army Shoes.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality First."
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City Exp**eaa. Phone Main 12*2.
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Meet me at The Pranch.
Oyster .«> 1 -e Branch.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 141
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Imported Swiss cheese can now be
hud at Brown & Hawkins.
Long distance telepnone oooth at
The Branch.
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PROFESSIONAL i
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DK. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hour*: 9 a. m. to 5 p. in.
Phones:
Office. Mad. 76 Rea., Mad. 68
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Graduate Nurse
MISS ALBRECHT
Swedish Masseuse
Medical Gymnast
Member incorporated Society
trained Masseuses, London
Phone Main 117
J. H. ROMIG. M. D.
Office on Broadway
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. D„ C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
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THE KEY
, I Ice Cream, Anytime
Any Quantity
THE KEY KIND
PHONE MATH1SON 115
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i ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
f >n:«l‘le prices* prompt service.
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SUITS AT
Ellsworth’s
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LEAVE ORDERS EARLY
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WHY WEAR DIRTY
\\ Clothes, when we will do your
j| family wash, rough dry?
!i call for and deliver laundry.
DBE SING LAUNDRY
Phone Madison 111
ii Cor. Washington & Adams St* |
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NEW FORMULA MAY 1
PRODUCE GLYCERINE N N
AT 30c A GALLON
CHICAGO, Dec. 26. — A new for
mula to produce glycerine, which 1s i
used if! the manufacture of high ex
ulosives, and as an antiseptic for
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L. 0. 0. M, No. 1425 •
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
F. K. BIG FORI), Secretary.
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lechner C E. Mullin
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
1 meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
ea h month, 8 p. m., Pioneer Hal!
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Seward
% | | Geo. A Mitchell
§ | Proprietor
Open Day and Night
I‘hone Adams 111*
Service - Cleanliness
Private Mate* for Lodie* or Parin'*
The Carstens Packing Go.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Poultry,
Lard, Hama and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Order* from the Westward ami Cook
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
SPECIAL SALE
ON LADIES FLEECED
RIBBED UNDERWEAR
50c A GARMENT
THE BAZAAR
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wounds, and which reduces the price
of the article from $7.50 a gallon to
?>Q cents a gallon is said to have been
discovered by Rev. Edward J. Cal
houn, instructor in Loyola Universal
ty.
The formula will be donated to the
nation if it is acceptable to the War
Department.
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PLANS NEGRO EMPIRE
AFTER WAR IS OVER
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 26. — j
After the war Rev. Dr. C. F. Chechz
zle, Abyssinian priest, lecturer and
preacher for the negroes of America
and the world, would form a nation
of negroes in Africa.
In a sermon at the St. John’s Afri
can M. E. Church here, he told the1
congregation, “the doctrine after this,
war will be that men of color shall be]
drawn out of every nation and found*
an empire of their own in Africa. •
“A million men,” he said, “from Af
rica and other countries belonging to
the black race have volunteered their
services already in this world war]
against autocracy and greed.”
jSEWARD SNAPSHOTS]
Even the smoke, curling up from
i the chimneys this morning, had that
| tired, lazy aspect.
Frank Cotter and Harry Whitte
inore compose the committee having
the arrangements in hand lor the mas
querade to be given by the A. B. next
Monday night.
The weather in Seward yesterday
was all that could have been desired,
not too cold, ranging around 4 below,
[ and no wind.
Jack Crawford came in on Mon
[ day night’s train from the Iditarod
| and is registered at the Seward,
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Local men have gone on the bond
j of Fied Bunce, arrested recently in
j Seward and sent to the jail at Valdez
j on a charge of obtaining goods with
| out propor funds in the bank, and he
! has been released. Mr. Bunce will
i retain here on the next steamer.
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The Aiumeda will be the next boat
from liic south. The steamer is ad
vertised to sail from Seattle tomor
row.
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The i mpress i.eatre was packed
u> the doors last night and standing
room was at a premium. The school
children acquitted themselves admir
ably in the choral selections.
One of the regular roomers at the
Seward hotel was invited out to din
ner yesterday. This roomer is em
ployed on the railroad and his occu
pation causing his hands to be grimed
with dirt. Desiring to have clean:
hands for once lie washed all of the
towels at the hotel with the result
that he secured the lily-whites.
The Grimm family were all gather
ed around the festive board yester
day for Christmas dinner. Mrs. Her
man Grimm reaching here from Skag
way on the Evans.
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The Catholic church was filled Mon
day midnight by worshipers at the
1 high mass. The special choir gave
one of the best musical programs ever
heard in Seward.
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Practically all children of the city
were gathered in the Methodist church
Monday night at 7:30 o’clock to re-:
ceiw gifts and gain a look at Santa’
Claus.
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Postmaster Root and his assistants j
worked overtime yesterday and dis-|
tributed the first class mail, also the!
Christmas parcels.
Mrs. Wayne Blue and children re-1
turned home from Seattle on the Ad-j
miral Evans early yesterday morn-;
ing. |
A. D. Estes and others from Mile
52 are at the Seward, having come in
on the train Monday night for the
Christmas holiday.
Everybody seemed to enjoy yester
day and gifts ranged from stick pins
to pianos.
Many an alarm clock made hasty
exits through windows this morning
when they attempted to disturb the
slumbers of those out “the night be
fore.”
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The Gateway sta.t* desire to thank
Leo Margules for that sparkling 4uft
that certainly gave the cheer.
M. S. Banbury, of Mile 52, came in
Monday night and is registered at the
Overland.
There will be many passengers out
on the train tomorrow morning at
seven o’clock.
All of tho parcel post for the in
terior has been dispatched from the
local office, going out on the train,
Monday as the Victoria missed con
nections with the first class mail.
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Mrs. K. W. Flye, of Seldovia, was
a passenger on the Evans bound home
after a visit to the states.
A long article in the Post-Intelli-1
gencer of Sunday, Dec. If}, contained!
a write-up of many Alaskans now in
the service. The names were correct
but many of the detachments were
erroneous.
The weather forecast for Seward
for tonight and tomorrow is fair with
fresh^winds.
Steamer Admiral Evuns will! return
from the westward Friday night late
or early Saturday morning. Already
many from the interior have hooked
passage for the south.
Snow is badly needed on the trail
from the Iditarod, according to those
who are now in Seward, having come
out within the past week.
The Lutheran Ladies Aid Society
will give a dance in the Van Gilder
hall next Saturday evening.
SILVER PRICE
IS TO BE SET
BY GOVERNMENT
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 20. —
George Dern, member of the Ameri
can Mining Congress Committees
which conferred with Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo in Washington last
week, returned home today and said
that the government would soon an
nounce tLe price for silver at one dol
lar an ounce.
18 RELEASED
PETROGKAD, Dec. 20. — Victor
Hugo Duras, of Nebraska, has finally
been granted permission by the Bol
sheviki government to leave Russia.
Mr. Duras, former American Vice
Consul of Leige, Belgium, and later
Vice Consul at Petrograd, was arrest
ed in August at the Finnish
frontier on suspicion of being a Ger
man spy. This was after he had left
the consular service. The United I
States government took his case up|
, and the release of the former official j
was given to him as a Christmas!
present.
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HELENA CAPITALISTS
SPECIALLY HONORED
BY NORWAY’S KING I
' HELENA, Mont., Dec. 26. — The
cross of the first class of the order j
of St. Olaf has been tendered by King
Haakon of Norway to A. M. Holter, a
capitalist of this city, and a pioneer,
of Montana. The tender was made
through Edwin C. H. liter of New
York, a son of the Helena man, by H.
H. Bryn, Norwegian ambassador to
the United States.
j Mr. Holter has written a letter of
acceptance of the honor, and lias in
quired the reason for its bestowal
which was not communiedted t ; him. ij
Several years ago he contributed $1 ,
000 to a fund for destitute families of i
Norwegian fishermen, and his dona-!
tion was declared to have been the!
largest icceivcd, either from Norway
or the United States. He thinks per
! haps the decoration is txnng given
i him jri this account.
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CANADA WILL NOT
CALL MARRIED MEN '
, TORONTO, Canada, Dec. 2G.—Clas>,
2—married men—will not be called to
the overseas army in February, as in
; timated by Judge Winchester ut a
Tribunal session held here recently.j
according to an emphatic statement
made here by Sir Robert Borden or
his arrival in Toronto.
“It is anticipated that all require
ment? can be met out of the class al ,
ready called up," declared the Pic
mier. “1 observed that statement,!
with surprise. There is no uuthoHty
whatever for any such'statement, and
there is no necessity, so far as l an
aware, for any such course as he out
lines. Up to the present time no suchj
course has been under consideration;
either by the Minister of \Miua 01 i
the Government as a whole."
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LEWIS TESTIFIES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.— Col. I.
Isaac Lewis, inventor of the Lewis;
machine gun, testifying before thei
congressional committee today, said
That he had tried to convince tne Vt/ai j
Department without avail to accept’
his machine gun while he is was still
connected with the army service. He
stated that Secretary of War Baker
and General Wood both turned his [
fer down. He cited the success that
the British were having with his guns I
they proving most effective in bag- j
ging Zeppelins. | ,
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MARRIED THREE TIMES
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 26. j
26. — Baroness W. Sutton Zoliner un
der arrest here as being a dangerous
alien enemy, is being held without
bond by the United States Marshal,
pending investigation. She claims she
is an American and that there is no
thing in the charges against her. She
says she has been married three time?*
her second husband being Baron Count
Loeffelholz von Courtberg, Captain in
the Bavarian army, from whom she
was divorced.
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Owing to the masquerade ball to be
giv^n next Monday evening there will
be no regular meeting of the Arctic
Brotherhood on that night.
Keg beer is running low in many
liquor houses and bottled beer is now
being served over the bars.
HOTEL OV :RLAN I
E. L. WHITTEMORE, Proprietor
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - .... ALASKA
H. V. Hobkn a. F. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBKN, Manager
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transfo- Phones, Main IT and SI
Sherman Haynes
Proprietor
We are selling Ruhstaller, Old German
Lager and Wieland’s Leer at.$5.50
This price is by the case. Look over the stock.
We are selling Everything.
Everything below what it cost us.
'We will be pleased to show you what is left.
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HOTEL
SEXTON
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 Sevtfard.Bjllding
SEWARD ALASKA
ELE th’ Irishman sez: “One
man’s ez good ez another
an’ a durn sight better.”
Anyway, one man
can’t get no better
tobacco ’n another
ef they both get
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