New line or chilchen’s books
at the Alaska Shop.
IF YOU HAVEN’T TRIED
HO II LICK’S DANISH ICE
CREAM YOU HAVE MISSED
SOMETHING GOOD. Sold only
at the Candy Cottage.
AMANDA’S HAND
LAUNDRY
| We give service, Reasonably
Call for and Deliver
Phone Madison 126
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WALL PAPER
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THE ALASKA RAILROAD
TRAIN'S ARRIVE 6:30 P. M.
Dec. 26tli
Jan. 6tli
Jan. 16 th
TRAIN'S DEPART 7:30 A. IVL
Dec. 27th
Jan. 7th
Jan. 17 th
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The BEST place for
CLEANING
PRESSING
and ALTERATIONS
AT
C. Henning’s
Tailor Shop
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LOST APPENDIX
Edwin W- Hunnicutt, superinten
dent of construction for the Bur ■
eau of Education, who recently
; passed thru* Seward on his way to
j build a new school at Nondalton
on Lake Illiamna, evidently had an
, appendicitis attack at Anchorage
l before he could fly to Nondalton
i as he had planned. He writes a
letter of appreciation in the An
chorage Times of his treatment at
• the hospital there.
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SEE the BARGAIN TABLE at
the Alaska Shop.
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The best ice cream yet! Hor
! luck’s Danish Ice Cream. Candy
Cottage, sole agent.
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Classified Advertising
■ ...
1 RATES—Fifteen cents per line
Count six average words to a
line. Minimum charge 50 cents,
first insertion, V/z cents per
Jine for subsequent insertion.
FOUND—Gold watch- Owner may
have same by rewarding finder
and paying for this advertise
ment. Apply Russell Johnston.
FOR RENT
Furnished house close in $35
per month. Urbach & Valade.
FOR SALE or long lease. Dream
land hall. Inquire Gateway.
FOR SALE OR RENT—Piano.
Inquire Bank of Seward.
WANTED TO BUY
Hundreds have sent us discarded
jewelry, old gold, false teeth,
bridges, ^crowns, silver, platinum,
diamonds, antiques. Mail yours
today. Money mailed promptly.
Goods returned if offer refused.
Uhler. Sta. B. Brooklyn, N. Y.
BARGAINS
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ST IBS OF PRICES
BLUE SHOP
California
l
the land that knows no winter
Plan to go by train,
swiftly, economically...
To the pleasure of your visit
to California add a delight
ful journey there by train.
You ride in complete com
fort—free from worry', free
from strain. And while you
rest and relax, thrilling
scenes along the spectacu
lar Shasta Route pass by
your window.
New travel refinements,
new low fares. Service that
molds the trip to your
individual requirements.
Through Pullmans without
change of cars from Spo
kane or Seattle to San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles. Most
of the other cities and re
sorts of California are also
reached by Southern Pacific
Plan now! Ask your local
railroad agent or write tor
more detailed information.
Southern Pacific
C. M. ANDREWS, Asst. Gen. Frt. & Pass. Agent
1 Fourth Avenue, Seattle. Phone ELiiot 1365
FAMINE 1YI
CHINESE MILLIONS
1 BiB PROVINCE
CHUNGKING, China, Jan. 8- (4*)
:—The high cost of living has be
come an acute problem in the life
i of 25,000,000 or more persons in
| the west half of Szecheun, China’s
largest province. >
The present poverty-stricken
condition of the territory is at
tributed to taxes, poor crops, ban
ditry and the silver slump. There
are so many taxes that the farm
ers have little left after paying
them.
In many sectinos of the sur
rounding country peasants are
confronted with possibilities of a
famine.
The rice crop in Szecheuen was
less than 50 per cent of normal,
although it was better than usual
in most provinces of China.
To forestall actual starvation as
long as possible, soup kitchens
have been opened in many towns
and they are kept more or less
in constant use.
The beggar population has man- j
aged to treble since the arrival ■
of cold weather and a man with a :
prosperous appearance has fio bus- ;
iness on tb£ streets unless he has !
enough copper coins to pass out j
among the crying, sometimes j
screaming mendicants who fol
low him.
Foreign trade, like the crops and j
the tax-ridden farmers, has been I
hard hit. Fusines has fallen off
heavily in hte past six months
and this once prosperous Yangtze
river port has almost become a de
serted city.
This particular phase of the de
pression is attributed more to high
taxes than the low price of sil
ver.
There are taxes for unloading i
cargo, taxes for moving goods 1
from the docks to the merchant’s
shelves, a dozen different kinds j
of milit ary taxes, an even greater j
number of civitl taxes.
Phone for Horiuck’s Danish
Ice Cream and we will deliver
Candy Cottage.
The American Legion
SEWARD POST NO. 5
Meats * >-s ;rr<i thirij
Wednesdays
At 8 P. M ,-IIarrit
Post <‘nrmnamjer
L. or.arc!
reward Chap!
Eastern Star
Meets the second
and fourth Monday’s
of veach month in
McMullen's Bldg., at
8 p. m. Visiting mem
bers always welcome
Mrs. Emma Banbury, W. M., Mrs.
MarUne Johansen. Secretary.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA—IGLOO
NO. 9.
1 Cal M. Brosius, Secretary and
i Treasurer.
8eward Lodge No. 1425. L. O. O.
M. Meets every,
first and third j;
Fridays of eacMg
month at 8 p.
m. at L O. O.
F, Hall. All wel
come. Peter N.
Anderson, Di
rector. M. A. Horner, Secretary,
I
SEWARD REBEKAH LODGE NO
6-A L O. O. F.
Meets the first
and third Mon
days of eacl
month in I. O. O
F. Hall at 8 p. m
Visiting members
are always welcome. Margarets
Lechner, N. G., Ludvig Larsson
Secretary. _
Ressurection Lodge No. A-7, L O
O. F.
Meets every Thursday at^—
8 p. m. in Odd Fellows'
Hall. Visiting brothers welcome
Gerhard Johnsen, N. G., Ludvi|
Larsson, Secretary,
Seward Lodge No. 219, F. ant
A. M.
Stated communication
first and third Tuesday
each month. V is i 11 n i
brethern welcome. Elwyn Swet
mann, W. M., Harold Painter, Sec
By the time a box of freight
reaches its destination, if con
signed to this city, it bears no less
than 42 different tax stamps.
Communism presents another
problem. Discouraged over their
present condition, the peasants
turning to communists to show
them a way out of their diffi
culties.
" but all else, including butter, is
■ disposed of locally or at other
'points along the railroad,
j Though an oldtimer in the
| country his trip over the railroad
| to Seward was the first he had
' made over the line. Fie arrived
tin the Matanuska district years
ago via the Copper River region.
0LDT1EB PROVES
TUT THUS PHIS
IN TNT TEHRiTDRYj
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Exploding the old, time-worn
phrase that ‘farming in Alaska j
can’t and don’t pay, it can’t be !
done etc.’ A- W. Walters of the!
Matanuska Valley, is a living j
embodiment that It can be done
and can be made to pay.
Walters passed thru Seward j
enroute to the States where he'
will join Mi*s. Walters for a few:
months vacation.
Walters raises every kind of j
produce on his big farm and sells
everything he raises. Eggs from |
hsi several hundred chickens |
are disposed of in Anchorage I
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Professional Cards
Dr. A. D. Haver stock
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Seward General Hospital
S4UIS
Curtis R. Morford
_ FOR FIRE INSURANCE ___
Donohoe & Dimond
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office*
VALDKZ »nd CORDOVA
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
io«—Tt;eklcnl>*f« SI4m
F. W. Williamson
U. S'. DEPUTY MINERAL
SURVEYOR
V. S. LAND SURVEYOR
GENERAL SURVEYOR
Seward, Alaska
Inquire Seward Gateway
"Caterpiller” Tractors
ARE BUILT IN FIVE SIZES
TEN
FIFTEEN
TWENTY
THIRTY
SIXTY
a size for every use
A HUNDRED USES FOR
EVERY SIZE
Dealer
A. A. Shonbeck
Anchorage, Alaska
he Oldest Profession
EVEN in the days when Moses was tending the
flocks of his father-in-law at the foot of Mount
Horeb, there was in existence a collection of formulas
(preserved in what is now known as the Ebers Papyrus),
calling for many drugs in common use today. Pharmacy
has been referred to as the oldest profession, as in those
early days the pharmacist was the physician, the
chemist, and the botanist as well.
In these days of specialization, the professions of
i Medicine and Pharmacy are still closely allied. It is the
special province of the physician to diagnose disease
and to prescribe for it. The pharmacist must have an *
intimate knowledge of all the modem agents which th&
; physician prescribes, a knowledge which he can only
i gam through long years of education and training. But
m order to make a hiving the druggist must sell mer
chandise as well as professional service. Only the
• neighborhood which shows an appreciation of tins fact
can hope to support a drugstore with a well-equipped
> prescription department, ready for service when sick'
; ness comes.
For Prescription*.— Physician! prescribe
and Drugpi.cs dispense the pure products ot
Merck's laboratories.
For Y>or Medicine Cabinet— Be as dis
criminating as your Doctor and Druggist.
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Merck’s Boric Acid
Merck's Sodium Bicarbonate
Merck's Sodium Phosphate
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