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BUT IT IN TER HOME TOWN
THE TOWN WITHOUT A STORE
Suppose the Town of Seward should i
wake up jsome morningand find it
self _ without a solitary store.
What would the citizens of Seward
thi£?
Whet would they say ?
We should be confronted with stu
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pendous problems like those our fore
fathers had to meet If a package of
oatmeal or coffee was required, an or
iler would have to be sent away- for it
Two or three weeks would elapse be
fore the arrival of the coffee or oat
meal. In the meantime the morning
cup of coffee or the morning dish of
oatmeal could not be had. If a dress
were being made for one of the child
ren for thie Sunday School Picnic or a
birthday party and some trimmings
were required, instead of being able to
-secure them at once, .the dress would
have to go without them or be laid
aside until the trimmings came. Ima
gine Seward without a store. Most ol
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the folks who live in Seward are proud
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of their town and if fbiyone wants to
commence an argument with a Seward
man or woman in Anchorage or any
other town let them try to knock Sew
ard. Our spirit is right, but our prac
tices don’t back up our spirit. Th
majority of os have been doing our
best a number of time*’each year to
•rase Seward from the map of Alaska
How ? By sending our good money to
mail order houses for goods which cai.
bought right in Seward.
Let US give local merchants who a'
yertise the same generous deal we give
Ihe mail order houses and we will find
that they cannot only match the price ■
alien the parcel post, freight or ex
press charge to Seward is added, but
he will be able to beat— in the major
ity of instances— the best mail order
price when Quality is studied. Giving
the local merchants the same gener
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ous deal doesn't mean dropping in just
now and then for a petty demand.
It means placing the big orders with
them— accompanying these orders
them- accompanying these orders with
cash just as the mail order house de
mands and then waiting ten days.
Sminds unreasonable, perhaps, to ask
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such a thing. But is it any more un
reasonable to do that by our own home
town merchant which we do by the far
<away arranger? The trouble is most of
uf. have looked at this matter from
only one angle, We have been accus
tomeJ to getting what we. wanted
when we wanted H from the home
town merchant— and in many instanc*
». we have been getpng it on credit
We compared price**- oft times
gafriocfing to add freight or express
charge* but never once have we.
compared service. We have t^ken that
for granted. Isn’t it about time we
gave the home town merchant n square j
peal? Let us coa*M|er serviee along
yith prices. Lair us stop sending our
good cash away. Let us make a con
parted:e£^rt to;kaop it home where,
# will have an opportanity to fall into
4ur hands again. Le$us make our
furchasing slogan "BBUYIT IN THE
plO)CE> TOWN.1* . |
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i HONOLULU* Cdrtespehdence of
A®0ClK6u arOv/t'A KHUyOOPa DOW
Anost forgotten was in the making it
Ze tta* atMHfc of Mrt. KWH MW.
pvtai to fen (he otteot. iMika& te
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kai. was more than seven years old a:
the.time.«f the landing of the firs
missionaries on Hawaiian;shores. The
r centennial celebration of the advent
of Christian.teachers was held hen
last April. Mrs. Waikai’s age was giv
en by relatives as 107 years, 9 months.
Kamehameha, known as the Con
querer, the. greatest of the Hawaiian
kings, was contemplating his conquest
and consolidation of the Hawaiian
Islands when Mrs. Waikai was born. |
This kingdom remained under the!
sway of Kamehameha and his succes-;
sors until the establishment of the i
provisional government in 1893. Mrs. j
Waikai was two years old when the
Battle of Waterloo was fought in Bel-j
gium shattering Napoleon’s dream of
world dominion. A century later when
William of Germany attempted a like
achievement with similar.results, Mrs.
Waikai already was a centenarian.
.•{i*s. Waikai had lived in Honolulu for
70 years, and retained her faculties !
until death. She was born at Kona,
island of Hawaii*
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GOVERNOR OLCOTT DELIVERS
STRONG MESSAGE
SALEM, Ore. Jan. 12— Among the
oany things in Governor Olcotfs
•>age which he delivered yesterday tc
-he legislature, was one dealing wiii
-he Japanese question in the State of
Jregon. He stated that the questic:
vhich must be answered speedily anc:
. hieh was the meat momehten that
ill come before the f ugMithra #as
tow to meet the Japanese ftleittWL He
said that open steps must be taken t
urb the growth of Japanese colonies
xad preserve, Mour lands and resources
.'or the people of our own tadfe and na
tionality. 1 believe that an ultimatum
should be issued by this state with tiu
government that would make this gov
ernment a government by Americans
-or Americans and Americanizatior
the moat predominant aaaett for the
citizenry of our country. We Amer
icans cannot aaifmilate the Japanese.
Oil and water will not mix The cen
turies have shown that each nation
must work out its destiny alone."
MANILA, P. I*, Jan. 12r^ The fut
ure of the development of the foreign
trade of the Philippine Islands for the
month of September was the gain
made, by American shipping over that
of the British in the carrying trade to
and from the islands.
Vessels of American registry ply
ing in Philippian waters carried ira
ports and exports, ofti* islands, tike
value of $9,045,000, which was $9,537,
000 and : British ship* carried g#od5
worth $9,045,000 as against $6,500,000
for Amentia $7,270 JM for British
vessels for theeanle montirlaifyeax
The total foreign trade of the Philip
pine Islands during S^tonber
amounted te $21,700,000; a gain 6fg4,
000 over tike trade of September 1919.
LOW WATER
GENEVA, Jan. 12— The protract
ed drought which obtained for the past
two months in SwitaaAaad owned the
Rhine and the Shone to ranch low Iff*
'I* hitherto tiftaowii. ' the
1 down to a aere tKNkle inf m*m .rttfc ’
trie isilwaya ha) be return to kteafc
>.wear.~?
rhror cm^t met# tf*
shores of the Rtffte for miles mate to
rtffiilTfili.
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Dont cough
THE violent paroxysms of
coughing soon eased by Dh
Being’s New. Discovery. Fifty
yssrs a standard remedy for colds.
Children like it. No harmful drugs,
bat Just good medicine. At your
druggists 60c end $1.20 8 bottle.
fttrcaldsandcouffhfi
New Discovery
Lazy People, Lazy Bcweb
So many folks neglect the eeridus
condition of constipation. It under
mines the health, takes all vim m
I of w>u. Dr. King's Pills will In a
|« gentle manner invigorate the system,
i I’Sdr up the liver, move the bowels.
Same old price, 25c., all druggists.
r\ Prompt! Wont Gripe
INTERESTING ITEMS
PAPEETE, Tahitti, Jan. 12— Those
who brave the long voyage to the
South Seas in the hope of escaping the
extravagances of civilization are like
ly to meet with bitter disillusionment
before they have been in the islands
many hours.
The hectic atmoshphere of ‘the
metropolitan dance hall has been waft
ed across the long miles of blue sea
to these isolated shores and Broadway
flaunts brazenly through the shadow’s
t»f"4he cocoanut groves. The gramo
phone has come to Tahiti and has been
.icquired by every native who could
find the wherewithal. And now the
peaceful silence, broken heretofore on
y by the sound of the distant boom
ng of the surf on the barrier reef and
he soft cadences of native singing,
are shattered by the sonorous blare of
he latest jazz or the screech of the
eigning favorite on the vaudeville
circuit
• TOIO, Jan. 12—A special commit*
?e on legislation is considering the
idvisabiility of introducing the jury
system into Japan but its proposal is
•pposed by a number of influential
privy councillors, who declare that the
iation is not yet advanced enough for
yhis system. It is expected that the
proposal will be ropped.
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TOKIO, Jan. 12— Japan’s popula
ion during 1919 was increased by only
300,000 as against a usual rate of
328,000, according to an official re
port of the recent census. During 1919
births numbered 1,823,481 and deaths
1,513,687, the net gain, therefore, be
ng 308,794. Reduced number of mar
riages in consequence of higher cost
of living is one reason given by the
authorities for the falling off. But it is
probable that the principal cause was
\n abnormally heavy infant mortality
iue to the influenza epidemic.
The divorce rate in 1918 is unof
f c.ally returned at 112 per thousand
marriages? This compares with a Ger
/taii divorce rate 05*21.6 which is the
highest'in Europe. It should be re
nembored that these unofficial statis
tics are subject to correction.
Arkadelphia, Aik. Jan. 12— A chain
of grandmothers without parallel,
in-this section, at least, has been brok
en by the passing of Mrs. Emeline
Elisa Biles, 22.
Before her death, two small child
ren of Mrs. Eliza Hanson, her great
granddaughter, had six living grand
mothers of whom two were great
grandmothers and two were just plain
grandmothers. The oldest of the Han
son children is 3 Vi years of age. Thus
there were at one time five living
generations with less than 72 years
sepernttag the youngest from the eld
est
' The Hanson children had beside
their six.grandmothers, nine uncles,
four great uncles, two ftreat-great
uncles, * four jpreetanntsr two great
(Treat cuata w4 forty tocond courts*
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PERT PARAGRAPHS 6^ SENSE j
AND NONSENSE FOREIGN'AND {
LOCAL, CAUGHT ON THE
FLY BY “THE HUMAN
TOOTHPICK "
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Lots of people who rob Peter to pay 1
Paul manage to stand Paul off.
Every cloud has a pllver lining. Thai
is where the clouds have the bulge or
trouser pockets.
Consider the candle how it vtotepr
it - hfe away drop by drop that it maj
shed it’, light
■ You haven’t by any chance forgot- j
ten tiio masquerade ball that will b
pulled off on the evening-Of St Val
estine’s Day, have you ? Of course not
Why the man or woman, boy or gir
who forgets the Big Doin’s on tha
night will miss something worth while
Every dancer in Seward will be there
and the costumes — well we are no1,
saying a word but we have been luck)
enough to see several and believe ut
when we tell you that these several
are “knock -outs”. It is a benefit dance
for a wonderful thing. St.Valentine’s
^ay at the A. B. Hall, about 9 p. m.
‘‘Schools of thought” are sometimes
mentioned. They should be largely at
tended.
I It sometimes happens that die woman
who is disappointed in love isn't dis
appointed n u>*rt«aj.fc
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Hash is the ghost of a square mea\
A man seldom forgets a favor he dc
es another.
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| meeting trouble half way.
' To a dressmaker fitting a dress it
is a mere matter of form.
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Nothing will take the conceit out
of a bachelor like marryihg a widow.
Many a loser makes good by making
! a bluff at winning. ^
r.' Most people are better acquainted
with faith and hope than they are with
charity.
Keep your dollars in Seward and
trade with the home town merchant
who advertises worth while goods. j
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WANTED— White Rags at Gateway
Office. Will pay 5c pdr pound.
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