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SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1915.
“Local” news in a small town is something which makes a rather inter
esting study if we do not permit ourselves to look at it from the “high-toned”
view point of the would-be superior great city. The newspapers of large
cities are very fond of ridiculing the so-called news items of the small town
sheet. They get mighty funny when they speak about the Puyallup Purifier
or some other dear child of some penny-a-liner’s imagination. How excruciat
ingly humorous they become when they tell how the Purifier chronicles the
fact that Ezra PitTkens whitewashed his barn yesterday, or that Mrs. Simper
kins was the charming hostess at a delicious “spread” partaken of by the
delightful young members of the younger Society set of that lovely suburb,
Skinimalinky.
Maybe, after all, those accussed jokers have something on the Puyallup
Purifiers of the country. Maybe, yes, but, maybe, if the editor of the New
York World himself was "running” the Puyallup Purifier he’d change his
tune and be blamed glad to have something to say about the Bifkenses and
the Simperkinses and be glad to say it.
In a small town if the local newspaper overlooks the little local events
it soon hears about it. People forget that a small town usually has only a
small per centage of people whose names ever get in the paper. Out of a
town of, let us say, a thousand people, not more than a fifth are in the posi
tion that makes a news note about them "worth while.” Some of us would
never have our names printed unless we committed suicide or murder, and
the result is that to live up to the local requirements a "local” newspaper has
to print ami keep re-printing the same old names over and over again.
This all becomes just a little bit ridiculous after a time and we certainly
give an opening to that big town stuff. Any newspaper man who has worked
in all sorts of places is forced to smile, if he can keep from getting sore, at
the advice so generously offered him by those who have never followed the
game. One day an advisor tells you that the "local” news is the thing that
counts and three days later he wants to know whyinell you print the same
names so often. With that delightful suggestion of the general belief that
journalism is the most mercenary occupation in the list your adviser blandly
insinuates that you have been bought body and soul—yes, soul and body.
You will notice, in passing, that advisors of that kind belong to the forensic
order that can never consider a man being bought unless he is bought body
and soul.
So, papers are often between the devil and the deep sea. As a rule they
are constantly, in this respect, trying to dodge either his Satanic Majesty or
the bottomless briny. It might be intereseing to outsiders to consider care
fully these little things. Local news is very important, but newspapers soon
lose caste if they get too local and provincial.
UNCALLED FOR LETTERS.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for at the Seward Postotfice, Seward,
Alaska, Sept. 1st., 1915.
Rrunk, Thomas; Barton, Harry;
Boyce, Mrs. W. T.; Chmon. Jonnie;
Calavan, Grover; Coultrap, M. L (2);
Costello. Joe; Conroy, Thos.; Collins,
Miss L.; Dunham. Bert; Dalanovich,
M.; Darrow, Mrs. Della; Doran, Mrs.
A.; Hricksson, Gustav; Fhinn, P.;
Fahey. Eddie;Fousc, Orville; Gagnon,
John; Gensen, James; Harvere. J. L.;
Hansen, Alex; Haynes, Hurbert;
Hartwig, A. H.; Harman, J. K.;
Hohlbein, Abner; Ivan, Hanus; Jan
son, Nlis; JagurotT, Mr. Hajemussa;
; Johnson, Miss Beda (2); Kay, Ben;
Lowry, James; Luscombe, Chas.;
Larson, Crist; Lewis, Harry; Letter
man, John (2); McLallan, A. M.; Me
Kay, J. (barkeeper); Misford, Fred;
Maher, T.; Martindale, Mrs. Gussie;
Mark, Miss Anna; Morriono, J.:
Moriev, M.Begaza; Morrison, W. R.;
N'ilson, Erik; Reis, George; Remiek,
W. S.; Ramona, Maike; Rainier, Al;
Smith, Mrs.; Schuster, T. H.; Smith,
Mrs. Harry; Stadon, G. D.; Stoata,
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C. B. (4); Stevenson, Andrew (2);
Stephens, Mr. Clyde; Seegret, Wn.
James; Shoutz, Jack; Tynen, M. C.
(2); Venton, Dave; Vance, H. W.;
Welch, John H.; Wright, Miss
Camille.
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vertised letters.—Philip J. Hickey,
Postmaster.
“The building of the new railway
will be managed by the department
of the interior, through a commission,
the chairman of which is William C.
Edes, about whom we may say with
out exaggeration that he has been in
the open air quite a bit. For twenty
five years he was chief locating en
gineer for the Sante Fe and Southern
! Pacific Railway companies, carrying
grades and tracks through some of
the most difficult mountain territory
in the United States.-—(Everybody’s
Magazine.)
ANOTHER KANSAS FLOOD.
IOLA, Kansas, Sept. 7.—One hun
dred houses have been submerged to
the roofs or upper stories by the over
flowing of Elm creek. Seven inches
of rain caused the stream to rise to
an unprecedented height and hun
dreds of people were compelled to
take to the roofs and tree tops.
Many of those people are now miss
ing but most of the missing ones aro
; expected to turn up safe. The dam
age to property was in the hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
TO REMOVE OFFICIALS.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 7.—A committee
of citizens has petitioned the courts to
remove Mayor Crump, I*ire Police
Cammander Utley and Police Inspect
or Perry from office because of dis
- t !
crepancies in account and their viola
tion of the prohibition law.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
U. S. LAND OFFICE at Juneau Alaaka.
August 16, 1915 n
NOTICE la hereby given that John u.
Johnaton. of Seward. Alaska, who. on July
* 191R. made Homestead application. No.
0243*. for SHSEK SVaSW‘4 Sec 1- .
N4NEK NVjNWVi. Section 13. Town.hip l
, N.. Range l W., Seward Meridian, haa filed j
notice of Intention to make five year I root,
to ealabllah claim to the land above described,
before U. S. Conimlaaloncr M. J. Conroy, at
hla office at Seward. Alaaka. on the 30th day
of September. 1915.
Claimant namea aa witnesses:
J. H. Romlg.
S. L. Caldwell.
Don Carlos Brownell. Jr.. ....
Thonma Hambright all of Seward. Alaaka.
C. B. WALKER.
Register.
First publication August 27, 1915
Last publication Oct. 2, 1915.
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