Kodiak Diary
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\Vayne Marsh.
be other day Mrs. Marsh en
j her living room and there
t gentleman caller, patiently
ing.
hat’s a pun, son—he was a
ent waiting for Dr. Johnson,
he walked right in, as the
on the door used to say to
do.
If it had been us waiting, we
would have known right away
we were in the wrong place. We
always pick up a magazine to
read, and the recent date on the
cover would have tipped us off.
We love the old country cust
om of farmers bringing in prod
uce to the newspaper office, es
pecially in our case, where we
don’t have a window to display
it and can take it right home
and sample it.
Our latest visitor of this type
is P. W. Silverwood, of the ba?e,
who brought ns an armful of
fresh peas, still entwined on the
vine, and 2 heads of leaf lettuce,
The peas, which appropriately
are Alaskan peas, and the lettuce
were grown on the Army plot at
the base that was started during
know Your Candidate!
Candidates today are more and more being subjected to
special interests and pressure groups. If the candidate is
more interested in being elected than in principles, he often
succumbs to this pressure and allows himself to become
committed to these minority groups.
This is wrong.
Vou, the majority of voters and citizens of this Division
who have no special favors to seek and who are against
pressure group government, assert yourselves! Check your
candidate! Vote! And remember this:—Promises are easily
forgotten. A better key to a candidate’s future course of
action is.his past record.
VOTE
FOR
GUNNARD M. ENGEBRETH
FOR SENATOR
# 14 years in Alaska
# 7 years teaching in Alaska
0 5 years business experience m Alaska
# Home and family in Anchorage
Third Division Republican Candidate
Election October 8, 1946
Paid Political Adv.
Ross E. Kimball
for
Territorial Commissioner of Labor
On Independent Ticket
Courteous and Honest
He can’t be Bought or Bluffed
He will reconsider all labor cases that were sold down
the river the last four years
He will establish public, relations and report all office
activity cacti week, such as inspections of mines
buildings working conditions, books, etc
the war as an experimental farm.
Mr. Silverwood said that next
year he was going to try to get
more people interested in joining
in the project. We suggest he
spread a few more samples a
rouud—if they are as good as
those we had a lot more persons
should become interested in a
policy of a-peas-ment.
These people who send checks
back to Kodiak marked “please
remit in U.S. funds” have griped
us no-wit, as we have recorded
in the past. But this week we
got even, although the confusion
our act may cause might lose us
an advertiser.
You see, we got a request
from a prospective advertiser in
Mexico City, D.F., with ad copy
enclosed, asking us how much
said ad would be.
It came to $3.60, so we wrote
saying so, andvthen out of pure
spite, we put “$3.60, in Alaska
funds.”
We couldn’t resist it, even if
we’re cutting off an ad to spite
our space.
Things we never knew until
now—R. D. Russell, owner of
the Men’s store, has been arrest
ed only once. The charge—bank
robbery. But he didn’t done it.
It was in the 20’s, as he was
selling adding machines and
check protectors, etc., in a terri
tory in the wilds of Utah.
He arrived in a small town,
met the banker and made a date
[ for the next day, and went tc
bed in his hotel room about a
block from the bank.
During the night the entire
door of the vault was blown from
the bank but no one heard it. II
was not discovered until the nexi
morning.
I he first Mr. Russell knew a
bout it was when a knock came
on his door and he opened it tc
find a delegation of irate citizens,
I armed with pitchforks, shotguns
and revolvers, menacingly group
ed in <he hall.
They escorted him to the bast
ille and threw him in jail and
while his credentials and luggage
and story were beiug checked,
farmers came into town to take
a look at him. Mr. Russell had
made the mistake of being the
only stranger in town.
Of course his alibi checked and
you can’t hold even a salesman
in jail without evidence, so Mr.
Russell was released. The next
day the gang that did rob the
bank was caught and all subse
quently went to the penitenti
ary.
Mr. Russell went to Alaska.
Sometime ago we had a very
embarrassing experience while
interviewing a bear hunter, re
turning in all hie glory from a
successful bear expedition.
We met the gentleman on the
main street, accompanied by his
young son, who had been on the
trip also.
After a few questions we came
to the critical query, "How big
was your bear?”
"Eleven feet, 3 inches,” he re
plied.
Junior snapped to attention.
"Why, daddy,” he said, "it was
only 9 feet.”
"Whatever makes you say
such a thing?” father asked or
Junior. “You know it was 11
feet, 3 inches ”
Father then ignored Junior
and went on with details of his
trip for several fast sentences.
But Junior was not to be
squelched. As soon as father
stopped for a breath, Junior
spoke up: "But we measured it,”
he said slowly and carefully,
"and it was 9 feet long.”
“I don’t know why he keeps
saying that,” father explained to
us, red in the face, “it was II
feet, 3 inches.”
When the story appeared in
the paper it didn’t say how big
the bear was. And we learned la
ter where the 11—3 business
came from. This hunter knew
that another hunter bad told us
his own bear was 10 feet 3, and
this hunter knew the other hunt
er’s bear wasn’t that big, so he
figured his bear was a font bigger
thaii the other hunter’s bear so
he added a foot to the other
hunter’s figure.
But the other hunter didn’t
, have any Junior along.
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