Owing to weather conditions the dredge at Anchorage
is unable *0 operate until the summer of 101S
Talk About Your Summer Wages!
m Anchorge. 20 below—Temperature—Seward. 18 above.
If you can’t keep warm, remember we have the larg
est lines of Men’s ami Women’s Furnishings, Beddings, etc., ^
in Seward.
Wo 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. •
Remember, 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
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i ipen Day ami Nitfht
Phone Ailams IP*
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CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheelwrighting
SKWAKD ALASKA
The Carstens Packing. Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Heef. Pork, Veal, Mutton. Poultry.
Lard. Hams and Bacon.
Butter and E*k*
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
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THE KEY
Ice Cream, Anytime
! Any Quantity
THE KEY KIND
PHONE MATHISON 115
Seward Steam Laundry
Phone Main 157
HARRY KAWABE, Trop.
Best of Work—Quickest Deliv
ery. Family Work. Rough
Dry 10c Per Pound.
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices, prompt service.
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HEAVY ALL WOOL
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JUST RECEIVED
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Ellsworth’s i
Scratch pads—for eenool, for your,
dank, for the county for the work-'
room—10c at The Gateway.
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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' 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 hour*: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
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DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. ni. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 68
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FRATERNAL
a-ts
L. O. 0. No. 1425
Meet* every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hail. 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
each month, 8 p. in., Pioneer Hall
8-13
m CHES
Howard
Hamilton
Verithin Gruen
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
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C. E. ORLANDER
SrCCESSOR TO
6E0R6E THE JEWELER
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Toys and Holiday Goods
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Have your selection now. Don't
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cure your choice.
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WANTED—Good boy to deliver pa
p«. Inquire Gateway. tf
SEW ARD SNAPSHOTS
The weather report for Seward for
yesterday was as follows: maximum
.‘14, minimum 2(> and current 20;
cloudy, snow with north wind.
Six hundred and seventy four
pounds of mail arrived Saturday
night from Anchorage for Seward
and the outside.
Charles Lech nor entertained last
night at the Hazelwood, giving a stag
party to many of his friends.
R. Matheson arrived from Anchor
age Saturday night and is registered
at the Seward hotel. He will leave
for the states on the Admiral Evans.
H. H. Laughlin arrived Saturday*
night from Anchorage and is regis
tered at the Seward. Mr. Laughlin
left the Cook Inlet town Friday noon
with his dog team. He will go south
on one of the next steamers.
Thirty seven from Anchorage and
other places on the railroad arrived
on the extra train Saturday night at
6 o’clock.
William Hormum, of Bellingham,
W. hi;'..,ton. l>ound for the Iditarod,
is at the Seward.
F. S. Overton, timekeeper at Mile
17, c .me in Saturday night for his
week*/ pi nge at the Seward. He
left on the train again this morning.
H. E. Fisher, the typewriter man,
with his wife, reached Seward Sat
urday night and are registered at the
Overland.
Capt. Thomas, in charge of the
boats of the San’Juan Fishing
Packing company*, left for Seattle •' i
the Alaska to spend the win It .
J. W. Frame, Jr., arrived on the
Alaska from Chitina and registered
at the Sexton. Mr. Frame left this
morning for Anchorage over the trail.
Mrs. H. M. Onyett, an arrival on
the Alaska from California, left: for
the Iditarod this morning over the
trail to join her husband. WhJc in
the city Mrs. Onyett was a guest at
the Sexton.
Jack Lean, the carrier, left out this
morning with the mail for Iditarod.
Mrs. Van Slyke, who will suon open
a delicatessen store on Broadway m
partnership with Mrs. Coffey*, arrived
on the Alaska Saturday night. She
is registered at the Sexton.
Mail for the Flat route, which in
cludes Iditarod, was dispatched < n
the regular train this morning.
Andy Simons, famous guide, re
turned from a trip Saturday night
and is registered at the Sexton. M *.
Simons brought back some excellent
pictures of wild game taken white on
his present trip.
Jerry Ford, passenger on the Alas
ka for the States on Sunday, ship
ped by express $30,000 in ''old riu^t,
which he brought out from the Idita
rod with him over the trail
Gus Gillis, the Optimo cigar man,
arrived on the Alaska Saturday night
returned to Valdez on the same boat
but will come back to the western
metropolis on the Admiral Evans on
Wednesday.
J. E. Thwaites and wife arrived on
the Alaska Saturday night with the
new fixtures and additional stock foi
the Sexton & Thwaites’ confection
ery store and photograph studio.
J. E. Wilson came over from Val-j
dcz on the Alaska and is registered
at the Overland hotel.
N. Harrison reached Seward on the
Alaska Saturday night bound for the
westward. He missed the Dora by
about live hours.
Lucy Miller, an arfivel from the
south on the Alaska, is registered at
the Overland.
Thanksgiving Services will be held
i at the Methodist church next Thurs
| day forenoon at 10:30 o’clock. Rev.
Patton reading the President’s pro
clamation and making a short ad
dress.
Mrs. W. H. Daykin, who left on the
Alaska for the states on a visit, is
making her first trip outside since
i she came here when Sewar l was »n -
its baby clothes.
The weather forecast for the* next
24 hours in Seward is clearing, w.'th
high winds, cool wave.
There will be no turkey famine in
Seward as plenty of the favorite
fowl for Thanksgiving arrived on the
Alaska Saturday night.
It is repotted that there was a wild
scep- at in* government warehoJot*
Saturday, charges being made anil
denied and as a result, two old em
ployees of the commission quit their
positions.
There will be something doing to
morrow at the noon day luncheon of
the Chamber of Commerce. All mem
bers are requested to be at their
plates by twelve thirty o’clock at the
. Seward Grill.
Invitations are out for many din
ner parties to be given on Thanks
giving Day and several private par
ties have been arranged for that
night.
Tickets sold so far indicate a large
attendance at the ball to be given
Wednesday night at the A. B. hall by
the local chapter of the Red Cross.
This ball will be a formal alfair.
| Owing to the holiday this week, the!
w orkroom of the Red Cross at the
railroad building will be closed on the
afternoons of Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
According to local merchants the
Christmas trade has started better
this year than at the same time last
year.
Slight repairs caused the shutting
olVof the electric light and power for
about 20 minutes last night. Throe
flashes on the complete system indi
cated that the lights would be turned
otr and nearly everybody had their
lamps ready for the emergency.
The United States Radio station at
the head of the bay will be in com
mission by the first of December, next
Saturday, according to announcement j
i today. The U. S. S. Saturn will be in
port all this week.
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FOOD CONTROL IN SPAIN
MADRID, Nov. 2G. — The Govern
ment has decided to appoint a gener
al controller of food and Senor Ruma
rino has been nominated for the post.
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NOTICE — ORDER YOUR WHIP
PING CREAM FOR THANKS
GIVING EARLY. SEWARD
DAIRY. N-22;
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npHEY’RE “HIPRESS”
Boots, made all in one piece
—soles and uppers—without a .
seam to work loose. That’s one
reason why they’re so differentIrom
the ordinary Loot, the sole and
upper of which are stuck together
by hand.
“H_IPRESS” Boots arc made out of
such tough stock—actually the same that
goes into Goodrich Tires — that they
outwear any other boot made. And
they’re the foot-easiest boot you ever
wore. 40,000 dealers.
THE B.F.GOQDRICH COMPANY
Factories: AKRON, OHIO
Seattle Branch, 113 King Street
HOTEL OVERLAP I
E. L. WHITTEMORE, Proprietor
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - * ALASKA
H. V. Mourn A. P. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. fJOBKN, Manaokii
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transfe- Phones, Main 17 ard 81
CAFE -ROOMS I §ff H | 41 | Sherman Haynes
Pool and Billiard* | /lL/lV/L Proprietor
Best of Drinks and Cigars
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Lunch Counter in Connection
THE
HOTEL
GEORGE SEXTON. Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
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UPJOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office—Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD ALASKA
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UP-TO-DATE
The following conversation occur
j red in a Seward eating place the
other day:
Customer—I would like an order
! of German Frankfurters, a cup of
English breakfast tea and two French
rolls.
Waiter (to the cook)—One war on
a tray.
Customer—Please add two sinkers
(doughnuts) to my order.
Waiter (to the cook)—Throw in a
couple of U-boats.
THAR'S three ways o’ doin’ things
—the right way, the wrong way,
an’ a mixture o’ both, an’ dern
me if the last ain’t wuss n
the second. Thar’s only
one right way to get smok
in’ tobacco satisfaction reg
’larly, an’ that’s t’ specify
VELVET, an’ adhere f
specifications
VELVET, the Smoothest Smoking Tobacco.
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