Douglas Island news. [volume], September 11, 1912, Image 3

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The Douglas Island News.
TH? LOCAL FIELD.
The Jefferson is due tomorrow;
Joe Devereaux left last week foe Ta
coma.
The Spokane was in last night from
the South.
Jack McDonald has gone on a trip
to the Jualio.
About the hardest rain of the year
fell yesterday.
Ohl you great big, beautiful dinuer
pails at Jensen's.
Board by the day, week or month at
the Douglas Grill.
Lost ? A gold locket. Return to Mrs.
U. Brie and get reward.
Mrs. August Olson, who has been
very sick, is recovering nicely.
Druggist F. ?. Warner left on the
City of Seattle for the States.
Do you know that you can get iron
ing aud sleeve boards at Jensen's.
M. S. Hudson aud John Lock hart are
back from a hunting trip on Admiralty.
?mil Fischer, the barber, who was
sick last week, is back at his post of
duty.
Last week the Alaska Steamship Co.
cut the freight rate from Seattle to $2
a ton.
Joe Rossie has goueto Salmon creek
to work for the Alaska Gastineau Min
ing Company.
The Missee Anna and Charlotte Fox
will depart on the Jeffersou for a visit
at Portiaud, Ore.
Gettiug married will be in fashion
betweeu now aud Christmas. You
know it's Leap Year.
Take the childreu to the moving pic
tures at the Lyric. A show every
night. Good music always.
Miss Violet Johuson and Miss Edna
Dow arrived from the States last Fri
day morning on the Dolphin.
Mr. Emory, who by this time is pretty
well knowu iu this part of Alaska, came
up from the States last week.
Miss Auita Ditman, of Seattle, ar
rived last uight on the Spokane to take
a positiou iu the Douglas school.
Jack McDouald will make a sweeping
reduction ou Raiu Coats, Overcoats
and Suits for the next thirty days.
So many men are out iu the hills
huntiug the lost boys that the local
restaurant is about out of busiuess.
At last it will be possible to get a cup
of good coffee and a saudwich iu Doug
las. JLuquire at the Palace of Sweets.
If your clothes Deed repairiog, clean
ing or pressing, call ou Anton Krasel,
ue.xt door to the cable otflce, Second
street.
Born. ? A soo was born to Mr. and
Mrs. William Siiafer on Saturday, Sept.
7th. Mr. Shafer is the city marshal of
Douglas.
Just arrived ? a large stock of East
mau Kodaks and supplies at Ed An
drews' studio. Everything sold at cat
alog prices.
Mrs. Gerge E. James, accompanied
by her son, Lester, and daughters,
Ruth and Mary, left on the City of Se
attle for Seattle.
Mrs. Gus Grundler and Mrs. P. A. J.
Galwas will be passeugers for the States
on the Humboldt. They will visit both
Seattle and Portland.
According to a local weather ob
server at Juneau, three and eight-tenths
inches of rain has fallen at the Capital
City in the past 9even days.
Among the improvements being
made by the city council is the exten
sion of the salt water mains to connect
with the St. Aon avenue pipe line.
Dr. Clay will give personal attention
to Douglas Island patients and will be
at the office of Dr. Fiuley in Douglas
on Tuesday and Friday of each week.
The dance that was to have been
given at the Treadwell Club tonight
has been postponed indefinitely out
of respect for the poor boys whose fate
is so uncertain.
Mrs. L. G. Thomas will depart about
the 20th of the present month for the
States. She expects to visit during the
winter months with relatives in Kansas
City, St. Louis and Chicago.
The opening of the Douglas Opera
House under a new management drew
a large crowd Saturday night. There
were a number of highly entertaining
features, among which was a fine lunch.
Motion pictures will be shown at this
place free every night in the week.
Charley Mann is the new manager.
M. H. Crawford, commercial motion
picture photographer with the Ibis
Theatre, Seattle, has been with the
Tyee whaliug outfit for several weeks
and secured some fine films of the
whaling industry. The pictures taken
include scenes from the exciting chase,
captare and disposal of the largest sea
auiuials.
j TREADWELL TOPICS
' '
Prof. Koswell E. Sampeon, who ha rs
been working at Treadwell for the past
three months, was a southbound pas
senger on the City of Seattle for Pull*
man College.
Miss Laura Clemo, niece of Mrs. A.E?
Christoe, left for California, where she
will pursue her studies at the Normal.
Paul Carpenter is among the Island
students attending the Juneau High
school.
Miss Lillian Werner returned on the J
Dolphin from the Sound cities, where
she has been spending her vaction.
I
Thos. MacPhereon was an outgoing
passenger on the Al-Ki, bound for Ta
coma, where he will visit with his fam
ily. 1
Mit>s Carrie Auderson is one of the
telephone operators in the new office at j
Douglas.
The roof of Ed Needham's house is
receiving a coat of shingles.
The Club dances, which prove to be
so popnlar during the winter months,
are to be renewed.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Sharp, who have
been residents of the Pines for a few
months, are leaving for the Sound on
the Al-Ki.
The students who have been em- j
ployed up at Nugget creek aud around
Treadwell during the vacation months i
are gradually leaving for the universi- :
ties and high schools in the States. ,
Among those southbound were Lex
Gamble, Edward Taylor aod Dave
Christoe on the Seattle, Harold E?
Kerry on the Al-Ki, and Frank Caraway
on the Mariposa.
! Achiel Libbrecht, who ts owner and
builder of the new two-story cottage
uear theSOO mill, uow has his carpenter
j
work and puiuting done aud has moved
! his family into it.
The Tread wellschool opeued Monday i
, with Miss Werner as teacher.
"Know America"
| Lecture and moving pictures. Mr.
i O. B. Whitmore will lecture on "The
Mammoth Cave of Keutucky" at the
! Lyric theatre, ou next Tuesday even
iug, Sept. 17th, under the auspices of
the Ladies' League. This is a rare
treat. Admiosiou, children, 25c; adults
-50c. beats may be reserved, free, at
Hubbard's store.
The government school for natives
ou the Douglas beach will begin work
on next Mouday, the 16th. The teach
| ers are to be Miss Edua Dean and Miss
' Isabelle S. Thursby.
All Brother Arctics are asked to at I
tend the regular meeting of Camp1
' Tread well, No. 14, at A. L. U. hall next 1
Tuesday evening, Besides some busi
ness of importance, there will be re
, freshmeuts aud a jolly time. A large
; attendance is expected.
i
Friday morning the steamer Georgia j
' became fractuous aud bumped into a j
j cluster of piles at the corner of the city
dock, smashiug several big piles and
shaking the structure from center to
j circumference. The ship was uninjured
aud proceeded on her course to Sitka
! and way ports.
Louis Potter, a sculptor, who died
recently at Seattle, visited Douglas
about eight years ago, in search of local
color for some of his work. His lifelike ;
statues of M. S. Hudson, Anton Marks
and C. F. Anderson, done in bronze,
were afterward exhibited in one of the
large jewelry stores in Seattle.
Diec: ? At Douglas, on Tuesday, Sep
tember 10, Karlo Aloycy, beloved son
of John and Katariua Africh, aged two
months and thirteen days. The fuuer
j al servioe will be held at the Catholic
church on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 9 a. m.
Rev. Father Bruckert officiating. In
terment at the Douglas Catholio ceme
tery.
I ? ? ? ?
Rev. 0. B. Whitmore, pastor of the
Congregational church of Douglas,
came up last evening ou the City of Se
attle. tie will hold services iu the
Methodist church next Sunday; the
j subject for the moruiug service will be
the "Reasonableness of the Christian
! Hope" and the evening topic the
| ''Mountains of the Bible." The public
is invited to both of these services. ?
! Skagway Alaskan.
Thursday night a man wandered
I down to the city dock in the "sma"
! hours of the night. It is supposed that
I he carried a cargo of forty-rod. At any
rate he fell overboard, and when he
, struck the frigid waters of Gastineau
he yelled and also grasped a pile in lov
ing embrace. Morgan, first mate on
the dock, was sleeping peacefully in
the office, but he heard that yell and
rushed to the rescue. Man saved and
| placed on the dry dock.
??VVES LEAD-MOTHERS
P.
DOUGLAS ? ? * * , ALASKA
H. FO
Attention, Mothers?
Children's Feet Need First Attention
Their shoes must fit for health's sake*
Our children's shoes are made to fit
Economical and durable, too.
Specialty Fitters of Children's Feet |
The Home of Values
B. M. BEHRENDS, BANKER,
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Foreign Exchange Issued Oldest Bank in Alaska
(INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS.
When In need of a good range or
cook stove, heaters, or anything in the
stove line, give 119 a call. Julius Jen
sen, agent for Great Western Stove Co.
G. Roene, who won fame a few years
ago as the inventor of a water bicycle
which refused to bike, has recently,
launched a new contraption which is
called a "catamaran.'* It consists of a
pair of hollow cylinders about thirty
feet long, laid parallel and connected
by a woodeu framework or platform. A
gas engine is supposed to furnish pow
er to drive the affair through the water
at a furious rate. Seats are provided
for passengers? should there be any.
The Douglas public school opened !
Monday last, with an attendance of
138, which is the largest first-day at
tendance in the history of the school.
There are seven teachers employed,
Miss Susanne Homes, principal, Misses
Edna Dow, Margaret Berquist, M. P.
McGill, Violet Johnson, Grace Gamble
and Anita Ditman. ' All but the last
two taught in the school last year. The
attendance of beginners is a remark
able feature. MiBs Johnson, who has
charge of the primary department,
found herself looking into the expect |
ant faces of 54 little folks. The chil I
dren, as well as the teachers are pleased
! with the improvements to the school '
made during vacation, and a season of
earnest hard work is looked forward to ,
[ with pleasure.
$ UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY jt
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2 CAPITAL $50,000 I
i Surplus and Uudivided r
a Profits $ 16,000 ?
J Individual Deposits 180,000 L
^5 Government Deposits... 150,000 J
i v
Commercial Accounts Solicited ^
J Special Attention Given to r
A Foreign Exchange r
T. F. Kennedy, President ^
iA. A. Gabbs, Cashier
! ALASKA JEWELRY CO. Douglas [
j: For Watch and Jewelry Repairing |
Che Island pel ?? |
ALBIN BARITELLO, P?oi*ie*ok
Best Grades Klines, Ciquors, and Cigars
NO INFERIOR BRANDS
Family Trade Solicited? Free Delivery F?ONt St1* DOUULAS
Get a Kodak at Andrews* studio and
learn to take pictures* We will show
you*
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PLUMBING
STEAM FITTING
SHEET METAL
WORK
Jobbing:, all kinds of Repair and Ma?
chine Work, Phonographs and Sewing
Machines Repaired.
OAS ENGINE REPAIRING
Front Street, near Ball Park, Dotiglb ^
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B. R. LEIVERS
|NOW HAS A FULL LINE 0?
Groceries, Fruits,
Vegetables
And adtes for a shurti of
your patronage;
ALSO AGENT FOR
SCHILLING'S BEST
FRONT ST. DOUGLAS
OPPOSITE HUNTER HOTEL
PHONE 53
minrirnrGrririrtnnrs^^
IJ^Harick
WATCHES, DIAMONDS,
JEWELRY
UNEAU ALASKA
THE
Little Douglas
Importers of the Famous
Glendhue Scotch Whiskey
Kentucky Bonded Goods
Special Attention to Family Orders
Orders Promptly ^Delivered
52[to all Parts of the City
HUDSON & NELSON
DOUGLAS, ALASKA