Douglas Island news. [volume], June 12, 1912, Image 3

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The Douglas Island News.
rME LOCAL FIELD*
Steve Kane came iu from Hoonah
yesterday.
Alti-Tone, the great tonic at the Alas*
ka Drug Co.
Dr. R. Steele, dentist, arrived on a
recent boat.
Alti-Tone, the great tonic, at tbe
Alaska Drug Co.
Charlie Steveus ha9 gone to Cali
fornia on busiueee.
The Santa Aua brought coal to the
ferry wharf Monday.
Wm. Anderson is improving his resi
dence on Secoud street.
Miss Edna Dow went to Seattle last
week for a short vacation.
Edwin Fox went south last Thursday
night for a visit at Spokane, Wash.
The Latouche unloaded 200 tons of
coal at the city dock Saturday night.
Window screens, screen cloth and
chicken netting can be had at Jensen's.
Get a Kodak at Andrews^ studio and
learn to take pictures. We will show
you.
Digesto, the great food tonic and
builder, 25c a bottle at the Alaska
Drug Co.
Mrs. Henry Brie is among the pas
sengers coming to Douglas on tbe Str.
Humboldt.
Trusses of all kinds and sixes can be
bad at the Alaska Drug Co.? guarau
teed to fit.
Albin iJaritello and George Stukey
weut over to Hoouah last week ou the
City of Rome.
Sprinkling caus, garden hose and all
that goes to beautify the garden, for
eale at Jenseu's.
If your back hurts, get a Beliadouna
plaster at the Alaska Drug Co* and get
immediate relief.
The Douglas infants ben* the Doug
las Juniors by a score ol L9 to it last :
Monday eveoiug.
Sunday evening the Lyric orchestra
will give a concert lu connection with
the regular show.
Muresco ? Muresco ? Mureaco ? the
only wall finish ? in all colors at Jeu
een's Hardware store.
A dance will be giveu tonight at the
Lyric after the show by the Lyric or
chestra. Fine music.
Notice ? Denatured alcohol 90 ceuts
a gallon at the Alaska Drug Co. You
furnish your owu container.
Clothes baskets, cheap camping bas
kets, wringers, washboards, boilers,
tubs, etc., can be had at Jenseu's.
Mrs. Lena Morrow Lewin, a lecturer
for the socialist party, delivered au ad
dress at Natatorium hail last uight.
The city salt water pump will be
moved in to the *hore line thin sum
mer. A lot of new i>ipt? hits already
arrived.
The forestry boat Tahu, which has
beeu lying at the dock for several
day*, pulled out for the south this
morning.
We have for sale three strings of gen
uine hand made Oregou Rose beads.
Call in aud see them at the Alaska
Dr ug Co.
Day after tomorrow ? Friday ? is Flag
Day. All patriotic Americans should
display the ?tars and stripes on the
that day.
Just arrived ? a large stock of East
man Kodaks and supplies at Ed An
drews' studio. Everything sold at cat
alog prices.
Miss Susaune Homes, principal of
the Douglas school, aud her sister, Miss
Alary Homes, left last week for their
home in Oregon.
The Tex's Clay cigar makers went to
Limestone Suuday. The latest story is
that they caught several thousand
pounds of halibut.
Mr. P. S. Early came in yesterday
evening from Yankee cove. He says
that his garden is producing all kinds
of vegetables iu great abundance.
Dr. Clay will give personal attention
to Douglas lslaud patients and will be
at the office of Dr. Finley in Douglas
on Tuesday and Friday of each week.
From the 15th of Juue until tne 15th
of July the Alaska Drug Co. will give
register checks ? $5 good for 25c in
trade. A ticket with every cash pur
chase.
Towusman Nicholas King will not be
much behiud in the march of improve
ment that has struck Douglas, and is
making extensive improvements to his
residence property.
M. S. Hudson has bought the lot on
Front street next to the Island saloon
and already has a gang of men at work
excavating for the foundation of a fine
new building. This is the only vacant
lot in the burned district of Front
atreet.
Alti-Tone, the great touic, at ttie
Alaska Drug Co.
j Last week John Koski bought of
John Mo Williams the lot next to
i Charlie Fenster on Fourth street and
; now has a fine residence building well
; under way.
Say, isn't it delicious? You ought to
try it, made fresh every day. Joe
Trudgeon makes it? that famous Nu
gate ? and you caD get it at the Alaska
; Drug Co.f three differeut kinds.
Miss Annie McCormick arrived yes
terday evening from San Francisco for
a visit with her parents in this city*
John McCormick, who has beeu visit
} ing in Frisco, returned ou the same
boat*
All members of the Douglas Improve
ment Club are requested to attend a
! special meeting called for Thursday
evening to make arrangements for an
entertainment. The meeting will be
held at the school house.
Mr. O. H. Bernard, a former resideut
of Douglas, came north ou the steamer
Jefferson on his way to the Fairbauks
couutry, where he is interested in some
i placer claims. Mr. Bernard now makes
I his home at Grants Pass.
Builders, take notice, you can save
money if you buy your doors, windows,
nails, roofiug papers, building papers,
deadiug felt and corrugated irou from
Jen9eu's Hardware store.
For sale? 137 acres good water front
farm land on Puget sound. Will cut
into smaller tracts if desired. Easy
terms at half the price others are re
ceiving for adjoiuing lands* See N? J*
Emory, Saus Souci hotel, Douglas.
Dr. Kulish, government expert on
sanitation, visited Douglas the other
day and smelled around dowu in beach
towu. He said it needed fixing and if
the city council could uot force a
clean up he would try his hand in a
tew weeks.
As soon as the Thomas building is
complete the Alaska Drug Co. will
move there fiom its present location in
the Odd Fellows' buildiug. The Odd
Fellows plau to use the eutire building
for lodge purpo?es, the first floor to be
used as a banquet room and a hall for
! dancing.
Mr. A. Murray, who has started
building operations on his lot at the
corner of Third and tx streets, has the
lumber on the grouud to flume the
creek from one end of his property to
the other. After the flume is iu place
the lots will be graded to present an
unbroken appearance.
1 Several volcanoes out ou the Alaska
I peninsula, which, by the way, is nearly
I a thousand miles from Douglas, are iu
a state of eruption. Saturday uighl a
shower of ashes fell in Douglas, evi
dently from that source* News comes
? from the Westward that several small
villages have beeu destroyed.
TREADWELL TOPICS
Mis* Gertrude Landsburg returned
no the Jefferson from Seattle and will
spend the summer with her parents.
Mrs. Bert Bell left on the Jefforson
for the state*.
The boarding house near the old
Bear's Nest property is receiving a coat
of paint.
Mr. John D. Miller has gone to the
I Taku river country for a couple of
weeks outing.
Miss Marie Adams, of Ballard, Wash*,
was an arrival on the Seattle, to be a
I a guest of Mrs. A. G. Christoe for a
short time.
Mrs, A. E, Christoe returned on the
Seattle after a mouth's visit with rela
tives and friends in Seattle. She was
accompanied by her sou, David.
Wm. Danielsou, formerly of the car
penter force, left recently for a visit to
the states; also to his home in Norway*
Mr. T. Manners and family are now
i occupying the Bennett cottage while
: the Bennetts are away on a vacation.
Albert Rapp, who has been attend
ing the uuiversity for the past six
months, returned on the Jefferson,
Russell Casey has resigned his posi
tion at the cyanide plant and gooe to
Juneau.
Karl Stein and Ed Jack9on came in
from Gypsum and left for Nugget creek
where they have accepted work.
A sister of Mrs. E. Youngstrom, of
"The Pines," stopped here on her way
to the interior. Mrs. Youugstrom ac
companied her as far as Skagway, re
turning on the Seattle.
The barge Louisiana wa9 anchored at
1 the Treadwell buoy for a couple of
days.
The last Club dance was not well at
teuded because of it being the last
night of the appearance of the May
Roberts Co. for some time.
Teams have been organized for the
hose races for the Fourth, and almost
j every evening some of them are out on
j the Treadwell plaza racing.
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