Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established Aujrust 19, 1904
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CLEAN UP TIME IS HERE
Springtime is the time of new things, when the old
and decadent give away to nature’s new birth or foliage
and plant life, and all the world puts on new raiment.
Spring is also the clean-up season, when man’s habita
tion should be made to harmonize with nature.
Where there is filth there will be found disease. Dis
ease is accompanied by waste, danger and decay. Dirt
and disorder are the greatest enemies of public decency,
health and safety.
A few clean and orderly homes in a district can
never safeguard the entire community. A single filthy
home, dirty backyard, or a stagnant pool may easily
become the source of an epidemic of fatal diseases that
will sweep a city. A trash pile may start a general con
flagration.
Next Monday will be Clean-up Day in Seward.
The City Dads fixed next Monday because there will
be at least one full day—Sunday—for citizens to clean
up their premises, and on the following day, along will
come the City trucks to pick up the collected debris and
cany it away, free of charge. Residents and . property
owners are requested to cooperate to the fullest extent
as has been the custom in the past.
Every resident should be as proud of Seward and
his habitation and its environments as the most imma
culate housekeeper is proud of her home.
Next Monday, May 11!
ALASKA SALESMEN
The big business firms in the States, like Mahomet,
will go to the mountain if the altitudinous realty de:
dines to come to him. Salesmen from all over the Unit
ed States have been penetrating the Territory of Alas
ka for many years.
Besides creating closer fellowship, they help im
measureably in making stupid provincialism impossible.
To a certain extent the Alaskan salesman binds
the people of the States and the Territory with the gol
den shackles of commerce, of mutual interest. He brings
the polish of the city; and into the city the vigor of
Alaska.
Long ago was the erroneous idea dispelled that a
salesman Jed the socalled life of Riley; that he spent his
time paying attention to charming young ladies or
picking his teeth in front of swell hotels.
In due time he gets his stomach educated to ac
cept anything without a protest, and is able to sleep on
a hay-wire mattress without having a nightmare. Not
that Alaska restaurants and hotels hand out this line,
hut only to illustrate the point.
The rewards of commerce are greater than those
of the professions; therefore, the very best and bright
est minds that commerce can command, are put “on the
road.” The salesman is a disciple of Pope who wrote,
“The proper study of mankind is man.”
Since 1867 Alaska has purchased from the United
States more than $900,000,000 worth of merchandise!
Instead of remaining Outside and getting “panned,”
thousands should come to Alaska and pan for gold.
Canned Alaska berries should find a big market in
the States, as well as in Alaska. It can be done!
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Who remembers the old-fashioned love songs that
didn’t sound like the wail of a lost Alaskan soul?
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Jack Dempsey is about ready to get divorced. So, it
would seem that the old mauler is realiy tired of fights.
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IL1SKI INTEREST
. IT NATIONAL CAPITAL.
TOLD BT DELEGATE
(By W. A. S.)
WASHINGTON, D. C.The Del
egate from Alaska is interested
in having proper aviation fields
constructed in the Bristol Bay
region, and has been in commu
nication with the Territorial Road
Commission on that subject. Gov
ernor Parks suggests a new sit
uation in recent letter. He states
! that the aviation companies op
j crating out of Anchorage have
I practically discarded the use of
i wheels as landing gear, and have
j equipped their new ships with
i pontoons, believing that this style
I of plane will enable them to best
i serve the coastal regions. In the
winter this landing gear is re
placed by skiis, and with these
I they are able to land on frozen
lakes or streams.
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Appropriations have ben made
by Congress for expenditure by
the Bureau of Biological Survey,
for the fiscal years 1923 to 1932,
for the project of “Reindeer In
dustry in Alaska,” as follows: 1923,
$26,155; 1924, $21,406; 1925, $21,
645; 1926, $16,431; 1927, $18,895;
1928, $21,505; 1929, $22,321; 1930,
023,427; 1931, $26,175; 1932, $26,
705; making a total of $224,665.
In addition funds were made
available for the project of
“Muskox Investigations” as fol
lows: 1931, $40,000; 1932, $18,000.
There was also $500 available for
“Mountain Sheep Investigations,”
which will start July 1, 1931.
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The Director of the Census has
announced that of the 59,278 pop
ulation in Alaska there are 26,350
males over 15 years of age and
but 14,818 females over that age.
The number of persons from 5
to 20 years of age attending
school in 1930 was 9,133 as com
pared with 6,455 in 1920.
All of the school children taking
part in the track meet are now
signing on the dotted line for
entry to the many events.
The Japanese flier should be
making Seward within the week,
it is thought.
Vessels in port during theday
included the SS Admiral Evans,
SS Denali, Roy, Bill, B. F. & M.
The best ice cream yet: Uorluck’s Danish
Ice Cream. Candy Cottage, sole agent.
✓'7TS easy to lacquer thins*
y yourself with Nitrokote
^ Brushing Lacquer—and it
dries in one-half hour I
You can get beautiful color effects
with this rich lacquer by finish
tins furniture, candlesticks, book
ends, trays, wicker pieces—any
thing in wood, reed, pottery or
metal.
Ask us for descriptive color cards
and complete information. Let us
help you with your painting.
j4l*o: Nitrokote Floor Lacquer
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W. P. FULLER & CO.
PRODUCT
Brown & Hawkins
Remodeling work in the theater makes it
impossible to have a show tonight. Next show
wlil be on Friday, when we will give you
MAURICE CHEVALIER
THE GREAT FRENCH STAR
in the 8-reel special feature
"THE LOVE PARADE"
DIRECTED BY ERNST LUBITSCH
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SEND IT TO THE LAUNDRY
also
CLEANING and PRESSING
Seward Steam Laundry
Harry Kawabe— —Phone Main 148
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Doors
Cement
Plaster Board
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C. M. B.
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SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Bldg. Phone Main 81
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JOHN 6.
WHITE and CO.
I ill'lflrr High Grade Line of
I uliiiiuL cigars
TOBACCOS
CANDIES
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COMFORTABLE LODGING AT
MODERATE RATES
Day or Night
Seward, Alaska
Madison 128
Chas. P. Gilliland
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