Roadside audiences on the Pac
ific coast are being entertained by
a talking-picture theater on wheels
which brings the movie to patrons.
EXPERT SHOE REPAIRING WITH BEST
MATERIALS CANVAS AND LEATHER
GOODS MADE TO ORDER.
SEWARD LEATHER WORKS.
JOE’S PLACE
Joe Eamon, Prop. «
Cigars, Tobaccos, Soft Drinks
and Cards
On the corner opposite Ogle's
Garage, on 3rd, Washington
Adams 62
“TO THE CLUB,
JAMES!”
SEE THE DOWN-HEARTED
BUSINESS MAN
He has lost all his money.
He is forlorn. He doesn’t care
care what happens. He is
going to slump into “the fin
est automobile on earth,”
kiss the cold world good
bye, and go up and shoot j
himself—
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A GAME OF GOLF AT THE j
MARATHON j
«OLF
GREENS
Mr. and Mrs- O. Kraft, who have j
been visiting in Europe during the I
past several months, departed
from Germany on March 29, 1931,
as passengers aboard the SS St.
Louis. After a brief visit in New
York they will call upon Mrs.
Kraft’s relatives in Minneapolis,
thence returning to their home in
Kodiak after a seven-months ab
sence.
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Foreman Gott of the Kodiak
Fisheries Company, accompanied
by Otto Olson, pile driver boss,
arrived in Kodiak on the last trip
of the SS Faragut and are now
engaged in the activities of the
cannery. The remainder of the
crew arrived on the SS Queen in
cluding Supt. Slater, who will be
in active personal charge of can
ning operations during the bal
ance of the summer season.
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The U S. Army Air station, sit
uated at Kodiak, replacing the
station formerly maintained and
operated by the U. S. Naval branch
of the Government Air Service, is
now working with C. E. Weisinger
as operator in charge with operat
ors, as assistants. The station was
installed by Will Wagner, Radio
Civil Service, attached to the Sig
nal Corps, who, when the work
of installation was efficiently and
quickly performed, returned to
duties at Anchorage, where it is
planned to install another Army
station there- He was in Kodiak
approximately six weeks. The
crew now consists of C. E- Weis
inger, operator in charge; G. S.
Godfrey, operator, and W. Melvin,
who arrived April 6. Operator
Melvin, is an oldtimer, his father
having been in the employ of the!
Government in charge of the Kal
gin Bay Agriculture Station. Op
erator Melvin later lived and
worked at Lake Kenai. Operator
in Charge Weisinger is also an
oldtimer here having been at
tached for six years to the Naval
service at Woody Island, directly
across the harbor from Kodiak j
Upon his discharge from the Navy |
he immediately enlisted in the j
Army on February 5, and was
statoned for a period of two years
at Seward.
A A A A
Mr. Fred Schroeder, a prominent
business man of San Francisco,
arrived in Kodiak on the freighter
El Cedro bound for Attu Island,
located some 900 miles west of Un
alaska. He will take a small boat
from Unalaska to Attu Island,
where he conducts a general mer
chandise business and trade for
furs, established six years ago.
Mr. Schroeder is an old time Al
askan, having arrived in the coun
try in 1902, since which time for
a number of years he acted as
manager for the North American
Commercial Company at Dutch
Harbor, situated in the Westward
district. He will remain in Attu
until well along in the fall of the
year, then returning to his per
manent residence in San Fran
cisco.
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Mr- E. K. Pedler, secretary for
the Alaska Commercial Company
of San Francisco, arrived in Ko
diak aboard the freighter El Cedro
bound for Unalaska where he will
superintend the construction of a
dock for the Alaska Commercial
Co., a tthat place. He brought
with him all the necessary piling
and freight and a crew of con
struction men who will be em
ployed on the project. Mr. Ped
ier will be joined during the
course of the summer by his wife,
both of who will return to their
San Francisco residence upon
completion of the wharf.
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Albert Kraft, youngest son of
Otto Kraft, well known merchant
of the Kodiak area, was mar
ried three weeks ago, the bride
being Miss Cleo Vogue, of Seattle,
who recently arrived in Kodiak.
At the present time Mr. and Mrs.
Kraft are residing at the home
of his parents, but plan on mov
ing into the Morrison cottage upon
the arrival of Mr- and Mrs. O.
Kraft, who > are expected to ar-i
rive in Kodiak from an extend
ed trip to Europe in about three
weeks.
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Albert Marzan, prominent resi
dent of Uzinkie and member of |
the chool board, was a visitor in
Kodiak on buiness connected with
his fishing activities to be con- j
ducted this summer.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Fred A. Henton, one of the real j
oldtime miners in the “Northland, i
having mined on Nome beach
when that village was just start
ing, and who was one of the first
to join the oil stampede at Kana
tak a decade ago, departed from)
Kodiak on April 15 for Olga Bay!
at .the south end of the island,
where he feels assured he has
some very rich dredging ground
\nd expects to spend the summer
and fall in investigating its pos
sibilities. He was taken to his
summer’s work on board the gas
vessel Bear, in command of Cap
tain H. W. Vance, another old
timer in the country, and who ex
pects to complete the voyage in
eight days. ' “Big” Chris Matson
is acting as Captain Vance’s pilot
on the trip.
CHILDREN'S HOME
The Alaska Children’s Home,
sponsored by the Pacific Protect
ive Society, Alaska Division, has
finally begun to function in Doug
las, according to the Juneau Em
pire. This Children’s Home was
organized for the purpose of giv
ing custodial care for the depend
ent and delinquent children of
the Territory under the supervi
sion of the Board of Guardians
of Alaska.
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PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Seward Gtnwal Hospital
E. P. Harwood
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Johansen Building Seward. Alaska
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SEE
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DENTIST j
Phone Madison 108—Tecklenberg lU<ig.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW I
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F. W. Williamson
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor—U. S, Land
Surveyor—General Surveyor
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