Owing to weather conditions the dredge at Anchorage
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Talk About Your Summer Wages!
Anchorge, 20 below—Temperature—Seward. 18 above.
If you can't keep warm, remember we have the larg
est lines of Men’s and Women’s Furnishings, Beddings, etc.,
in Seward.
We are not selling anything at cost.
We aim to make some profit on everything we sell.
These are War Times and war prices prevail in the
States and they must here.
We will give 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 14
years more.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
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Seward
• I I Geo A Mitchell
^ y 1^1 1 1 Proprietor
t >l»eu Dav anti N iifht
Phone Attain* IU«
Service Cleanliness
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Private ltoset f*»r I«.»dit>* or Parin'*
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshorin^ Wheelwrifchtinp
SKWAUTV ALASKA
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The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef. Pork* Veal Mutton, Poultry,
Urd, Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Orders from the Westward and Cook j
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
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THE KEY |
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Ice Cream, Anytime
Any Quantity
THE KEY KIND
PHONE MATH1SON 115
Seward Steam Laundry |
Phone Main 157
HARRY KAWABE. Prop.
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Beat of Work—Quickest Deliv
ery. Family Work. Rough
Dry 10c Per Pound. i
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices, prompt service, j
FREE
Instructions on crocheting caps
and other articles, Fridays from
2 to 3 o'clock of each week
AT
Ellsworth's
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Scratch pads—for iwhool, for your
d««k, ter aOuntaK, far tha woric
roon—10c at Tha Gateway.
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I PROFESSIONAL
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J. H. ROMIG, M. D.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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[LR.aP.ALH. 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. in.
Formerly of Nome
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DR. 0. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 68
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FRATERNAL j
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L O. a &L No. 1426
Meats every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Half. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
H. R. BIGFORD, Secretary.
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lechner C, R Mullin
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday i
I each month, 8 p. m., Pioneer Hall
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PURCHASES RESTAURANT
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R. S. Smallwood, who has been con
nected with the Seward Bakery has
sold his interests to George Mitchell
and has purchased the Branch Grill
from John Hoehn, who has left for
the state*.
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Just Received;
Ladies, Children’s and Men’s Felt
Slippers
High Grade Ladies Shoes $3.75 and up
Pure Silk Ribbons Put up 10 yards
in price 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 in all flavors, also fancy 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]
J. W. Morality, of the interior, left
on the Victoria for Cordova.
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Dr. Keating left for a professional
trip to LaTouche on tne Victoria.
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Frank H. Barr of the Bureau of
Education, is registered at the Over
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wier have
moved into their new apartments in
the railroad building.
J. Rothfus, wife and child, old tim
ers in Seward, left on the Victoria
for the states to spend the winter.
Ross J. Kenny, connected with the
Alaska Road Commission, was a pas
senger to Seattle on the Victoria.
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The weather report for Seward for
yesterday follows: maximum 30,
minimum 10, current 20; cloudy, light
fall of snow and north wind.
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Tom Finnegan, who has been car
rying mail, came out and took the
Victoria to Seattle. Mr. Finnegan
intends to enlist in the war service,
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R. II. Miller, government bureau of
educaiiou in charge of the western
division, is registered at the Over
land, on his way home to Anchorage.
The weather forecast for Seward
for the next 24 hours is fair with
prospects of snow. For three days
the barometer has remained the same.
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Two hundred and thirty two dol
lars were turned into the Red Cross
Finance Committee by the committee
naving charge of the Thanksgiving
eve dance. The local officers desire
to thank all who helped make the
dance a success.
Norman Worth, captain of the An
chorage baseball team; W. H. Hud
son, second baseman of the same nine;
and George Aubrey, captain last sea
san of the Turnagain Arm team, were
passengers to the states on the Vic- j
toria.
Frank Nash, Mile 23, was brought;
to town last night suffering from a
badly crushed hand which became
caught in the machinery of a speed
er. Doctors fixed the hand up and
no fingers will be lost.
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TO USE ENGLISH IN
NORWEGIAN CHURCHES
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 5. —
The English Association of the Nor
wegian Lutheran Church of America,
to promote the use of English in Nor
wegian churches of the country, was
organized here at a meeting of clergy
men of the denomination. Delegates
declared the action laid the founda
tion for a complete and speedy Amer
icanization of the entire Norwegian
Church of America/’ which comprises
more than 2,000 congregations from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5. —
Maj. Alanson Weeks, Medical Re-1
serve Corps, stationed at Camp Lew
is, Wash., is ordered to New York for!
a course of intensive training in
brain surgery at the Neuro-Surgical
School, Neurological Institute.
STEFANSSON IS
1 IN TROUBLE IN
ARCTIC CIRCLE
NOME, Alaska, Dec. 5. — No word
of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the only
explorer now in the Arctic, reached
the whalers and trappers at Banks
land and along the western Canadian
and Alaskan Arctic coasts, reported
Captain Martin Anderson when he ar
rived here recently in his schooner,
the Anna Olga, from Bailey Island,
which lies otT the Arctic coast n^ar
the mouth of the Mackenzie river.
Stefansson expected to complete the
northwest passage from the Pacific to
the Atlantic ocean aboard his motor
ship, the Polar Bear, this fall, accord
ing to word brought from the north
in 1916 by Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson,
one of the original Stefansson party
which left Victoria, B. C., June 17,
1913. At last reports, twenty-four
white men and nineteen Eskimos were
with the explorer. The party had a
good supply of provisions.
Last season the Arctic ocean ice
broke later in the year than ever be
fore, Captain Martin said. The late
break in the ice may have delayed
Stofansson from starting eastward
fiom Winter harbor, Melville island,
where it is believed the party spent
the 191G-17 winter.
“Should you not hear from me by
November 1917, it is to be presumed
that something beyond our control
has delayed us,” Stofansson said in a
letter he wrote to Rear Admiral
Peary from Cape Kellett, Banks isl
and, January 11, 1916. November,
1917 has come and the explorer's
Alaskan friends are wondering wheth
er the “something beyond our control”
has occurred.
“I am of the opinion that in the
spring of 1918 a ship or ships should
be sent north from the Atlantic to
look for us if we have not been heard
from then,” the letter to Peary con
tinued.
Stefansson was sent into the north!
by the Canadian government. He left 1
Victoria on the whaling steamer Kar-|
luck, which was. later lost in the ice.
In 1914 he discovered a large island
or continent northwest of Prince Pat
rick Island and spent the summers of
1915 and 1916 in exploring the new
land.
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WEATHER ON R. R.
The following is the weather re-1
port received at 7 o'clock this morn
ing from section along the govern
ment railroad:
Anchorage, 5 above, cloudy, calm.
Summit Rdh., 14 above, snowing.
Girdwood, 10 above, cloudy, calm,
one and a half inches of new snow.
Potter Creek, 3 below, cloudy, calm.,
Matanuska, 20 below, calm, snow
ing.
King, 14 above, clear, N. W. wind
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LONDON, Dec. 5. — A special tele
grapt wire connecting General Persh
ing’s headquarters in France with the
American military headquarters in
London has been installed.
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M governed and directed by the laws of
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§3 and all our earnings, less actual run
s' ning expenses, are paid to those who
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E. L. WHITTEMORE, Proprietor
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - . - ALASKA
H. V. Hobkn a. f. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
n. v. HOBKN, Manager
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transfu- Phones, Main 17 ard 81
CAFE —ROOMS | fjjf PA 1 I*" Sherman Haynes
Pool and Billiard* | - | Proprietor
Best of Drinks and Cigars
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THE
HOTEL
SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
I Most Comfortable
I Hotel in the City
a Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
; JOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office—Bank of Seward Bjilding
SEWARD ALASKA
WHY WEAR DIRTY
I! Clothes, when we will do your
| family wash, rough dry? We
call for aud deliver laundry.
DEE SING LAUNDRY
Phone Madison 111
Cor. Washington & Adams St.
NAVY JOBS OPEN TO
MEN WHO ARE SEEKING
EXCITEMENT AT SEA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5. —
The navy wants men for the mots
exciting and most active service of
the war—the armed guard of mer
chantmen and transports.
Secretary Josephus Daniels has an
nounced that men between 18 and 30,
without previous experience or special
trade training, will be accepted.
They do tho one
thing you 4iave al
ways wished a
cigarette would do;
they satisfy— and
yet they're MILD*