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H,rry V. Hoban. P Frank L. Batlaln*. See. Ertch I.ncaa, Traaa.
Entered ae aecoad-claaa matter September. 2.1916. at the poatofflce at Seward. Alaaka.
under act of March 3. 1879.
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DON’T WEAKEN.
Seward celebrated in proper spirit and style yesterday
and the boys went back to the muck sticks, sledges, pencils,
counters and other implements of civilized labor the better
for it.
Now for the big grind, the ninety days of driving be
fore feathers begin to fly in the low hills and the great
white silence begins to spread its blanket over the valeys.
Drive and don’t weaken.
If the shots fizzle and the rock is hard to move, don’t
grouch. When the figures get twisted in the column and
the balance, don’t, just buck ’em into line. When other
folks get you wrong and blame you for all their ills, grin
and put ’em right. When the summer clan blows out in
the fall to blow in what they plucked from you, sit tight
and learn your lesson, (don’t let ’em get it next time). With
the price of spuds at a hundred and twenty a ton, remem
ber your crop, (if you didn’t plant one this spring, it’s your
own fault), and make it large enough to last over next
time. If the other fellow let’s go and drifts over the hill
to greener fields, don’t slip, he'll be back. When they
spring some new gag about the high cost of steel and tell us
the coal can’t be had for three years more instead of two,
take another hold and hang on.
It’s a great life, if you don’t weaken.
MUST GET A LICENSE FIRST.
Hurry up marriages of the north are a thing of the
past. Marriage licenses and other documentary require
ments will attend the Alaskan wedding of the future.
No more can the fair-haired miner hail the river
steamer to secure immediate service of a passing minister
for a hurry-up wedding while t lie deck hands hold the boat
alongside a convenient bank, letting go when the last “I
will” is spoken, thus forcing the dominv to lean over the
rail and shout back, “I pronounce you man and wife,” to a
happy couple standing on the banks of the mighty Yukon.
No more can a Seward couple slip over to Cordova or
where no one can identify them and get hitched.
The only hope is to get on the boat and coax the cap
tain to get outside the three-mile limit, a hackneyed old
stunt, common to runaway marriages all over the world
and having no northland glamour.
Alas, the frontier is passing, and first thing we know
there will be a triffic cop on the corner.
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'W' -
A DYING WOMAN’S ADMONITION.
A Seattle woman turned on the gas and died before
her allotted years had run. She left a note for the world,
bespeaking kindlier treatment for sewing machine agents,
whom she described as home-loving men of wholly human
characteristics. How quickly are we prone to set aside a
class as sub-human. Met a man the other day, for in
: ance, who said he never had heard of an honest newspa
perman. Being a very ignorant man and always dripping
with delight when his ears are filled with the resonance of
his own voice, he will repeat that remark in the course of
a talkative life probably 10,000 times, and it will be re
echoed by others just as ignorant. No doubt there are sew
ing machine agents who have gentlemanly instincts and
affection for their families, but all that the world sees is a
mulish persistence supported by a ramshackle wagon
hauled by an underfed horse. How many ever think of a
sewing machine agent's babies? Or a subscription agent’s
wife? Or the happy home life of the insurance solicitor?
The Seattle woman may not have died in vain. Her pa
thetic appeal will soften the hearts of a few anyway, and
perhaps have the life of the very next machine agent who
claps a broad shoe down in the closing door’s way.—Cordo
va Times.
STUCK!
—Fiti patrick in St. Lou s Post - Dispatch
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Mariposa .June 13
Northwestern .June 10
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General and Seward in Particular an
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Notice to Creditors of Charles James
Alexander, Deceased
The creditors of the state of Charles
James Alexander are hereby notified
that the undersigned, J. Lindley Green, j
has been appointed administrator of:
said estate and all creditors of said
estate are hereby notified to present
their claims, with the proper vouchers
attached, to me at my office, over
Bank of Seward, in Seward, Alaska,
within six months from the date of the I
first publication of this notice. Date
of first publication June 19, 1917.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
July IS Administrator.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
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coast—bar none; the most advantageously located townsite in
Alaska; a fishing industry that alone will make a wealthy town;
a modern and complete cold storage plant and cannery; will have
one of the finest Radio Stations in the North Pacific.
SEWARD has a first-class gravity water system, modern electric
light and power plant, has twosolid financial institutions and is
the selected site for the North Coast Government Coaling Station,
the SALT WATER TERMINUS of the Government-built railroad,
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