THE MOOSE PASS STORE HAS CHANGED OWNERSHIP. MR. BOB HALL
OF SEWARD WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE A GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE
UNDER THE OLD NAME AND. IN THE SAME LOCATION, CARRYING AT ALL
TIMES FIRST CLASS LINES. ALL LOCAL AS WELL AS OUT OF TOWN ORDERS
WILL HAVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
DROP IN AND LETT’S GET ACQUAINTED.
HiT mmi Mm STMRS!
BOB HALL.PROPRIETOR
GROCERIES
HARDWARE
DRUG SUNDRIES
WORK CLOTHING
Ed Estes has leased Trail Lake Inn to
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnston of Seward.They
have enjoyed an excellent business since
they took over on March 1. They plan to
conduct the Inn along the sane general line
it has heretofore been conducted. Comfort
able room8» meals* lunches* sandwiches*
short orders. Special chicken or steak
dinners will be served on reservation.
There will be dancing on Saturday nights.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnston spent last summer
in the Talkeetna district. Mrs. Johnston
is a registered nurse,
Jhc Mo^ae Pass unit of The American Red
Cross has received a quantity of supplies
and is diligently turning out dresses,»ox,
scarves, and the like.
Lester Busey, editor of The Seward Gate
way is now issuing a four column eight page
paper which he calls The Seward News#
The Gateway plant having been destroyed in
the fire- which swept Seward in November,
the News is being printed at Anchorage.
Bryant O'Brien of Lawing has leased the
machine shop and garage of Estes Brothers
in Moose Pass. He haB had wide experience
in general mechanical work and is expert
at acetylene and arc welding. He would
like to have your patronage.
Joe E. Brown of the wide grin and movie
fame has spent 10 days in Alaska, seven of
them in Anchorage. The friend he is vis
iting in Anchorage returned to his apart
ment one afternoon and found his entrance
blocked by a long line of children, each
of whom was armed with a pencil and piece
of paper* He started to crowd himself
thru the mob in the doorway whereupon to
quote his words "a dime-sixed lassie told
me with a fierce scowl on her brow 'you
just get back in line and wait your turn
like the rest of us.' "
Twenty seven inches of sno has fallen
in Moose Pass and vicinity yesterday and
tcday.
FREE - A large coal burning stove to
anyone who conies after it, Fred l*ub
scher.
Breakfast guests at Trail Lake Inn
last Sunday were Mr. and Mrs, Joe Stanton
of Seward, their son, Bobbie, Mrs, Pat
ton and a guest. The parky were driv
ing to the Stanton home at Mile 44.
Mr. and Mr8. Harold Campen and Mr.
Erwin of the Standard Oil in Seward,were
guests at Trail Lake Inn Sunday.
Among the Alaskans who visited Dele
gate Dimond in hie office in Washington
recently were the Reverend and Mrs.
Dimytri Hotovitsky of Belkofsky,(Alaska)
Mary Lee Council, secretary to the Dele
gate should write a worthy successor to
the Hut-chut song.
Ralph Reed was down from Curry over
last weekend.
Floyd and Delbert Wolfe are driving a
newly purchased Chevrolet coupe.
There are 18 incorporated towns in
Alaska and 200 unincorporated towns in
cluding native settlements.
Tom looney, who spent 22^ years at
San Quentin for the Los Angeles Labor
Day bombing that long ago - spent most
of the last two years of freedom from
prison in hospitals. He died March 1
following a major operation.
The amount of $12 was collected in
Moose Pass for the War Fund drive.
An attractive program in commemoration
of Washington's birthday was given by
Moose Pass schoolchildren at the school
house on the evening of February 23.
At least we are brushing up on Asia
tic geography because of the war.