WIDOW OP POUNDER OP INDIAN
SCHOOL DIES AT ATHERTON
Mrs. Anna L. Pratt, widow of the
late General Richard Henry Pratt,
founder of the Carlisle Indian
School, died Saturday evening,
August 27, 1927, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Guy LeRoy Stevick,
in Atherton. She was 83 years of
age, a native of New York State.
Private services were held yesterday
at the Stevick home and th© body
will be taken east, probaly tomor
row, for burial in Arlington Ceme
tery at Washington.
Mrs. Pratt Is survived by tone
son, Mason D. Pratt of San Fran
cisco, and two daughters, Mrs. Ed
gar M. Hawkins of Rochester, N.
Y., and Mrs. Stevick. Mrs. Hawk
ins will accompany the body East.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY AT SEW
WARD MARKS FLYING OF
NEW EMBLEM
At the hour of 4 o’clock p. m.
Saturday the official flap of Alaska
was flung to the breezes for the first,
time on the flag pole at the Jesse
Lee Home, one and a half miles
north of the City of Seward. Those
officiating at the ceremony were
Captain Ralph R. Guthrie of the
United States Signal Corps and Pri
vates Edwin S. Diehl and Charles
Harris.
Bennie Benson, 13-year-old stu
dent, designer of the flag attached
it to the halyards just below the
national emblem and stood at atten
tion while the multi-colored folds
of Old Glory and the deep violet
blue of Alaska’s official emblem.
stiiaaea with the golden stars of the
Big Dipper pointing to the North
Star, fluttered about him.
While the pupils of the Home
sang the National Anthem, the troop
of Boy Scouts standing at attention
and in salute, and citizens of Sew
ard and dignitaries of the Method
ist-Episcopal church stood uncover
ed, the halyards tightened, and
climbing into the brilliant sunshine
of a perfect day, Old Glory led her
child to the topmost heights of the
towering flagpole, where both
straightened out and fluttered
proudly in the cooling breezes blow
ing in from Resurrection Bay.—
Gateway.
THE .HOWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
“I have just completed an ex
tensive tour of Alaska,” he said be
fore sailing on the steamer Victoria
from Nome for Seattle and contin
ued:
“I am convinced the people of
the Territory desire a change in the
Delegate to Congress.
“The people believe great results
for Alaska can he obtained by a
Delegate in accord with the Admin
istration at Washington, a Delegate
who has consistent and construct
ive policies, not one of continuous
agitation and opposition.
“Therefore, I take this oppor
tiinity of announcing my candidacy
for the Republican nomination for
Delegate. If elected I will endeavor
to carry on a constructive policy for
the development of Alaska which
T believe 1 advocated as President of
the Territorial Senate at the last
session.”
This statement was made by Sen
ator Bartley Howard, who as Presi
dent of the Senate of Alaska, refus
ed to allow the Senate to consider
a bill providing for the election of a
Treasurer and Secretary by the Peo
ple of Alaska.
He is the same man who refused
to give members of the Senate a
copy of his opinion for their further
study altho it was discovered that
he had given the Juneau Empire
an ADVANCE copy of the very same
opinion.
“His Master’s Voice” is it?
CONCIENTIOUS
A Philadelphia man called up a
bird store the other day and said:
“Send me thirty thousand cock
roaches at once.”
“What in heaven’s name do you
want with thirty thousand cock
roaches?”
“Well,” replied the householder,
“I am moving today and my lease
says I must leave the premises here
in exactly the same condition in
which I found them.”—Thrift Mag
azine.
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