BRIDGE CLUB MEETING
The Seward Bridge Club will
meet tomorrow (Friday) at 1:30
p. m with Mrs. Wayne Blue.
The cool, comforting flavor
of WRIGLEY’S Spearmint
is a lasting pleasure.
It cleanses the mouth after
eating—gives a clean taste and
sweet breath.
It is refreshing and
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received orders to proceed to Hoon
ali. Kake and other Indian villages
where influenza was rampant. She
had just returned from this trip
when she sailed again on Christmas
Eve to relieve the Starr and the
Roosevelt, spending Christmas Day
in the seas of the Gulf of Alaska,
and performing her duties as well
as capable officers and men with
courageous regard for duty could
direct.
The Gatew^
with its first performance, so the
next day its editorial page carried
this:
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How much more damage and de
struction of property and how
many more lives of our citizens
must be imperiled and sacrificed,
before the Coast Guard Service will
he extended to the Westward from
the Alaska Gulf to Bristol Bay
whose waters are known to all navi
gators as ‘ The graveyard of the
North Pacific”; instead of keeping
their vessels resting serenely upon
the calm and placid waters of some
The
SILVER KING
PACKAGE
A favorite one for those who choose
ARTSTYLE CHOCOLATES
Now you can have Artstyle Chocolate assortments in either
a regular or a milk chocolate coating.
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Elwyn Swetmann, Prop.
rrtm St
VAN G'LDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
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— and don t wait un you rc «,uugu.t m. « ^
storm before you buy them. Shoes built ||
for style and. indoors need rubbers or =
galoshes in bad weather. Only rubber j
footwear wilt keep your feet warm ana =
dry, and shoes and stockings dry and clean g
when the ground is wet. When you buy, ^
look for the Red Ball Trade Mark. Then j
you will have rubbers that fit well, tool; g
well, and give you More Days Wear. g
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’and-locked harbor as close to in
tense civilization. social activity, i
comfort and amusement as is pos
sible to find in the Territory?
But perhaps we are ail wrong, i
Perhaps the reason for placing \
rheso revenue cutters in Alaskan
waters is only to protect our shores
from foreign invasion. However,
we have been led to believe it was
also to give aid to vessels in distress
and to save human lives when in j
imminent danger. If the latter be ;
true, why is not at least one cutter I
stationed in this vicinity. Cordova
Seward, and Kodiak all have wire
less stations, the latter, however,
being in the closest proximity to all
the wrecks that have occured dur
ing the last two and one-half years
in these most dangerous waters of
the Pacific Ocean.
Here again, the Gateway discloses
lack of knowledge. It is very badly
mistaken when it intimates that
the tt is kept “resting serenely
upon the calm and placid waters"
of a “land-locked harbor.” Unfor
innately she is kept moving most
of the time, searching for missing
craft, rendering aid where needed,
on visits of mercy and other duties.
Time has proved that the greatest
need for Coast Guard cutters is
where shipping is greatest. Proba
bly the most important Coast
Guard station in America, the one
that renders most service and
where the officers and crew are
hardest worked, is New York—and
this has no reference to rum-chas
ing.
The Empire has often contended
that there ought to be two Coast
Guard cutters in Western Alaska.
But that does not, mean that there
is not need for two of them in
Southeast Alaska where the ship
ping is greatest in the North. Not
only that, but as The Empire has
often said, there should be one or
more cutters to relieve those on
stations where they are compelled
to go south for their annual over- 1
hauling and to follow the seal herds
*o the Bering Sea. The Alaska
coast should be constantly guarded.
Just one more word: The Gate
vay, of course, an we
icisms of the Coast Guard Service
when it asks for its extension to the
waters of its neighborhood, but the
criticism ough not to have been
made. The Coast Guard is capable,
fearless, industrious. It never shirks
a dutv. The Unalga has spent too
many months in North Pacific gales
and other cutters have fought
storms and ice floes in Bering Sea
and Arctic Ocean too often to per
mit uninformed criticism of the
service to pass without rebuke.
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The electric plant
with the reach
Before you buy on electric plant
for your firm f nd out hots fa.'
its current will curry.
This ij a question of colt cry.
With low-voltaic currert a few
hundre 1 feet is the limit. But
with the Kohler Automatic’s
110-volt, long-distance current,
almost any distance you might
name, on the largest farm, is
within easy reach.
You ought to see this great little
power plant—the one without
storage batteries. Our Kohler
Automatic is ready for a demon
stration any time you say, either
here or on your own premises.
.. eward Machine Shop
Agents
KOHLER
AUTOMATIC
POWERS LI GHT
I Tip You Can
I! ^ Bank On!
|) *7* i ay cud rcss like a prince and still
| l save money. Slip me the low-down.”
II ” Well—take these kicks, for in
s'anee. They’re FLORSHEIMS. Ever
| L-c. quarter lines? Finer quality?
* Ni cer! But do they cost more than
£ ordinary shoes?
j( ”Not at all! Buy FLORSHEIMS,
i i brother, and save money yourself!”
“Quality First” Seward, Alaska.
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What ever courses precede
and what ever delicacies
may follow, the high mark
of expectancy—the pivotal
point of festive enjoyment
will be the roast whether it
be fowl or flesh.
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INVENTORY SALE
HARDWARE, STOVES AND RANGES
Mail orders will receive prompt attention
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Phone Madison S7 Seward Alaska
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THE ALASKA RAILROAD
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Trains Lear*
7: 30 a. m. Monday and Thurs
day;
Trains Arrive
7 p. m. Wednesday and Satur.
day; •*
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COLORED SHEETS AND PILLOW
CASES IN PINK, BLUE, NAVA,
Orchid. All the rage Outside. Ur
ach & Valade.
TRlf A PURE WHITE ROCK ICE
CREAM SODA. Schallerer’s Alaska
Shop.
Great show on at Liberty tonite.
por any kind of
GENERAL REPAIRING
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G. THORKELSON
Leave Call at The NORTHERN
Typewrltere and sewing machines
made aa good as new
If you haven’t tneo rrye.Bruhn’a
Baby Beef you have missed some
thing, friendsl
WE CARRY THE BEST BRAN*^
OF CANDY MANUFACTURED IN
THE UNITEtD STATES BOTH IN
BULK AND BOX. The Candy Cot
tage.
TRY AN ICE CREAM PIE, SchAl
lercr’s Alaska Shop.