WE PAY—
8 l-2c pound for lead.
$2.75 a hundred for rags.
$33 ton for cast iron.
27 l-2c pound for copper.
5c pound for rope.
18c pound for brass.
7 l-2c pound for rubber.
27c doz. for beer bottles.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1013 R. R. Ave. So., Seattle.
Seward j
% | | Geo A Mitchell
(jfl | | Proprietor
Open Ihiy and Night
I'hoin* Adams IIV
Service Cleanliness
Private llone** (or l«ttii»“> or ) '.iri'i**
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia. Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea- j
•onable prices, prompt service, j
HOT and COLD
DRINKS
at
THE KEY
PHONE MATHISON 115
i Seward Steam Laundry
Phone Main 157
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Beat of Work—Lateat Machinery
Work l>eli*ered in 24 hour*
Extra Charge
No Charge for Mending Clothes
Rough Dry 10c Pound
Cleaning and Preaaing
FOOD PLEDGE WEEK
STARTS--WOMENOE
NATION SOLICITED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—The National Food Pledge
week began yesterday and this morning the Food Admin
istration stated that its army of half a million men and
women volunteer canvassers were thoroughly mobilized
and had started their campaign under the various state
food administrators. The food pledge week ends next
Sunday. November 4th.
'1 he 500,000 canvassers reported on a preliminary sur
vey several days ago that they were sure to get the signa
tures of approximately 13,000.000 American housewives tc
the Food Pledge. A million and a quarter of the country’s
22.000.000 housewives already have signed the card prom
ising to conserve food. This leaves between seven and
eight million unaccounted for, and the Food Administra
tion touay expressed the conviction that all of them will
he pledged before the campaign ends.
School Children Organized
Reports show that school children are organized in
many places as volunteer assistant units to help in the cam
paign to enlist all the country’s twenty-two million house
wives in the work of conserving “war foods” of which
there is a world shortage. Among the 500,000 workers
who wili visit every home in the country is a large num
ber of "war Mothers," women whose sons or other male
relatives have gone to the front or are in training in this
country.
Yesterday, the opening day oi the campaign, was
marked by war-food conservation sermons by the conn
try’s 100,000 ministers in churches all over the land. The
Food Administration states that the response of the min
isters has been extraordinarily generous in this respect.
This was dont in connection with prayer for success of our
army and navy.
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State, city, county and local organizations constitute
the working machinery of the campaign. Continuing un
til next Saturday, these workers will make a house to
house canvass of the country, inquiring of each housewife
of the 22,000,000 families in the United States whether she
iias enrolled as a member of the Food Administration by
signing the Food Pledge card.
The workers will carry cards for those housewives
who have not vet enrolled. To each housewife who hasn't
THE GATEWAY
DEPARTMENT
IS I HE BESI EQUIPPED OEEICE IN ALASKA
Letter Heads
Bill Heads
Statements
Counter Slips
Hotel Note Heads
Envelopes
Business Cards
Dodgers
Posters
Programs
Dance Tickets
Invitations
Visiting Cards
Tally Cards
Announcements
At Home Cards
Individual
Stationery
Loose I-eat Sheets
Legal Blanks
Catalogs
Magazines
Special Checks for business men
Special Forms for Business Houses
In fact, anything you may wish in the way of
printing.
If you are planning new stationery or special
forms of any kind we are at your service.
PHONE, MAIN 71 __
PRINTING Of TUT BETTER KIND
a “Home Card,” telling what foods the government would
like to have them conserve and why, they will present one.
The workers will explain briefly and clearly what the
government’s food conservation idea is and what is asked
of each housewife.
Not to Eat Less—Substitution
- The Food Pledge is not, Food Administration officials
pointed out today, an effort to get people to eat less, but
to substitute those foods of which the country has an
abundance for those that are urgently needed by the peo
ples of the Allied countries in Europe and their armies
| and ours.
President Wilson, in a letter to the Food Administra
. tor, has said: “In no other way can they (American worn
1 en) so greatly assist as by enlisting in the service of the
Food Administration and cheerfully accepting its direc
tion and advice. By so doing, they will increase the sur
plus of food available for our own army and for export
< to our allies.
“To provide adequate supplies for the coming year is
of absolutely vital importance to the conduct of the war,
and without a very conscientious elimination of waste and
very strict economy in our food consumption, we cannot
hope to fulfill this primary duty. I trust, therefore, that
the women of the country will not only respond to your
: appeal and accept the pledge to the Food Administration
which you are proposing, but that all men also who are
engaged in die persona! distribution of foods will co-oper
ate with the same earnestness and in the same spirit."
The obligation assumed in enrolling as a member of
the Food Administration is simple. It involves no duel or
other fees.
Pledge Housewives Are lo Sign
Following is the briefly-worded pledge each house
wife is asked to sign:
"1 am glad to join you in the service of food conser
vation for our nation and I hereby accept membership in
the United States Food Administration, pledging myself
to carry out the directions and advice of the Food Admin
istrator in my home, insofar as my circumstances permit.”
“A ‘Membership Window Card’ will be delivered to
each enrolling member upon receipt of the signed pledge,
and from time to time suggestions will be sent out, these
suggestions, taken as a whole, constituting a series of les
sons in home economics.
‘‘There is no threat of privation,” said the Food Ad
ministrator in a statement formally announcing “Food
Pledge Week" “We wish only that our people should eat
plenty, but wisely and without waste. Wisdom in eating
is to make possible such adjustments in our food consump
tion, shipping and war necessities as will allow us to ful
I fill our duty in exports to our allies. By elimination of
v.aste we serve ourselves economically and morally.
“This is a duty of necessity, humanity and honor. As
: a free people we have elected to discharge this duty, not
under autocratic decree, but without other restraint than
the guidance of individual conscience. Upon the success
of this unprecedented adventure in democracy will large
ly stake the issue of the war."
Feed Our Allies This Winter
The problem of America, as the Food Administrator
sees it, is to feed our allies this winter by sending them as
much food as we can of the most concentrated nutritive
value in the least shipping space. These foods are wheat,
beef, pork, dairy products and sugar. This is to be accom
plished, the housewives will be told, by eating less of these
and more of other foods of which we have an abundance,
and by wasting less of all foods.
There is a superabundance of vegetables, especially
of potatoes, but they cannot be shipped to our allies be-1
cause they require from four to ten times the tonnage of
more concentrated foods, and the saving of ocean tonnage
is one of the vital problems of the war. The food Admin
istration, therefore, urges the liberal use of vegetables,
and of fruit, poultry, fish and other sea foods, with a larg
er use of corn meal for the purpose of saving wheat. As
these foods are healthful and relatively low in price, it
points out, the American people are not asked to endure!
privation, but merely to change their eating habits, and to
avoid waste.
FOOD CONTROLLER
ASKS THAT PRICE
OF MILK REMAIN
WINNIPEG, Oct. 29.—W. J. Hanna,
food controller for Canada, notified
Mayor F. H. Davidson that all milk
producers and all wholesale and retail
dealers engaged in the supply of fresh
milk for daily consumption are re
quested to make no advance in the
price for milk obtaining in their dis
trict until the committee appointed to
deal with the problem has reported on
the action, if any, should be taken.
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VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. <19.—To re
duce expenditures the government of
British Columbia is considering the
advisability of closing a number of
' provincial jails.
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FUEL CONTROLLER
FIXES COAL PRICE
FOR PRINCE RUPERT
PRINCE RUPERT, Oct. 29.—Nicol
Thompson, fuel controller for British
Columbia, has fixed the price of coal
here at the dock in bulk at $9.50 per!
ton. and screened and lump coal at
the dock at $10.50 a ton, with a guar
antee of the purchaser to return the
sacks and the purchaser also to make
the delivery at his own expense.
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James Galvin, ex-sailor, entered a
plea of guilty of manslaughter at Ju
neau and was sentenced to twelve
years in the penitentiary. Galvin shot
j and killed Stella Horton, colored wo
man, keeper of a roadhouse at Wells,•
| 23 miles from Haines.
Piano Tuner
Geo. Anderson, Expert, is in
Seward and is making his head
quarters at the Overland Hotel.
Orders taken for Pianos and
Player-Pianos. Pianos for rent.
Expert work guaranteed. Main
120. Address orders, Juneau,
Pox 991.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheel wrigh ting
SK.w.vnn m.ask \
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Poultry,
Lard, Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Eggii
Order* from the Westward and Cook
fnlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
PROFESSIONAL
J. H. ROMIG, M. I).
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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 hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. in. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 68
FRATERNAL
L. 0. 0. M., No. 1423
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
H. R. BIGFORD, Secretary.
ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lechner C. E. Mullin
Noble Grand Secretary
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. »
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. ;n., Pioneer Hall
m xhes
Howard
Hamilton
Verithin Gruen
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
0
C. £. QRLANDER
SrCCESSOR TO
GE0R6E THE JEWELER
SEWARD SAW MILL CO.
Good Rough Lumber of all
kinds $30 and up per thousand,
delivered.
TELEPHONE: KENAI 2