The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post. [volume], October 04, 1917, Page 5, Image 5

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Piano Tuner j
Geo. Anderson, Expert, is in i
Seward and is making his head- J
quarters at the Overland Hotel.
Orders taken for Pianos and *
Player-Pianos. Pianos for rent.
Expert work guaranteed. Main
120. Address orders, Juneau, J
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CHARLES CRAWFORD |
<; KN KRA1. BLACKSM ITU
Horseshoeing Wheel* righting
SRWARD .\L.\sK.\
The Carslens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef, Pork, Veal Mutton, Poultrj
Lard. Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Egg»
Orders from the Westward and t ool
Inlet Gi\en Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
! PROFESSIONAL
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J. H. ROMIG, M. O.
Office on Broadway
Residence lhird Ave.
Phones: Office. Adams 93; Resi
dence. Adams 4$.
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I L. R. C. P. 4 L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
I.. F. P. 4 S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN. M. D, C. M.
Van Gilder lluilding
Office hours: l lo 3 and 7 to 3 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
OK. O. J. KEATING
Oentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. in. to 5 p. n.
Phones:
Office. Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 5S
FRATERNAL _
L o. O, MU N<>- 1425
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
11. R. BIGEORD, Secretary.
ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lechner C. E. Mull in
Noble Grand Secretary’
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. u., Pioneer HaLI
WATCHES
Howard
Hamilton
V'erithin Gmen
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
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C. E. ORLANDER
SfCCKSSOH TO
GEORGE THE JEWELER
Scratch pads—for actioo\ for your
desk, for the counter, for the work
room—10c at The Gateway.
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Certain-teed Roofing. Guaranteed
10 and 15 years. J. L. Graef's. tf.
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I THE STROLLER
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The idea of a “peace feeler” is when
a married man rubs the bump on his
head.
There is no system of government
yet invented that will enable a man
to live without working, so why the
Socialist and the I. W. W?
The time has come when a man
can't have his own way all the time.
Even the millionaire has to swallow
when he don’t want to.
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The fellow that made his wife be
lieve what he said, used the simple
way of telling her this week what she
had told him hist week.
Just as soon as a woman overcomes
the problem of being thin, she spends
the rest of her life trying to over
come the problem of being fat.
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A man's cold is always much worse
on Sundav when his wife wants him'
to go to church. Hut, of course, it is
much better on Monday night when a
friend wants him to go to a “smoker.”
Our guess that no woman would he
content in the land of milk and honey
unless she could make a salad out of'
it. is right. It was fully demonstrat
ed last week.
Professor Garner is having a dic
tionary of the monkey language trans-;
luted into German. Well, he will need
it in Germany as soon as we get thru
making monkeys out of the Huns.
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A fisherman of Seward told us last
night after his arrival from a fishing
trip that bass were striking all around
where he was. It is the first time in
mv life I ever knew that bass belonged
to a union.
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An advertisement appearing in a
neighboring territorial paper just
i brought to our notice reads: “Pleas
ant rooms for four gentlemen. Use
of phone and piano. Also dressmaker
to store room down town.”
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The reason why electric lights are
such an improvement over the old ker
osene kind is because, in one instance
at least, she is always forgetting to
till them. They are not like a Ford,j
they just have to have fuel if there
is to be light.
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What is the French word for
! “nut”? Why? Well, this is the name
of a new club recently organized by
a few of Seward high’s young ladies.
We understand there will be thirteen
in the club. How do we know? Well,
this is our privilege.
NIGHT, AS WELL AS DAY, IS
FULL OF WORK AND HUSTLE
BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES
IN FRANCE, Sept. 10, (Correspond
ence of The Associated Press).— ;
Night, as well as day, is full of work;
and hustle at an army aeredome.j
Night flights are not frequent, but thej
night is the time when the mechan
ics are busiest, putting everything
right for whatever tomorrow may;
We carry Symphony Lawn Station-1
I ery. Seward Drug Company.
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Long distance telepnone booth at
The Branch.
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
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2 C. Kodak, Jr., Kodak $12.00—
Seward Drug Co.
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
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Taylor’s Express. Phone Main 122.
Special Sale
Two doz. pretty Hats at cost.
Just three Winter Coats left,
to go at cost price.
Black shoes, with white tops,
at a bargain.
Will pay you to call early.
HALLETT & SCOTT
(Of Course)
bring forth.
Long after the sun has sunk be
neath the tops of the hangars and the
trees have changed from green to
black, the hard-worked airplanes drift
homeward, crossing the evening sky
like black specks on a purple cloth
and landing with a deep droning on
the clipped grass, lame and weary
from a long afternoon's work over the
lines.
The day’s work is finished; reports
are handed in, and the pilots saunter
down to their mess-tent among the
trees. The mechanics appear, wheel
the machines into their respective
hangars, and the night’s work is be
gun.
It is seventeen miles to the shell
holes of No-Man’s Land, and all the
horrors of war. The long white road,
thick with the dust of transport, is
silent. The flat aerodrome is in dark
ness but the hangars, looming black
against the evening sky, are bright
within. There is much to be done.
Mazes of wires must be overhauled;
many must be replaced or tautened.
The enemy aircraft artillery has been
active and some of the planes bear
witness of its work. The canvas wings
of one machine are riddled and need
long and patient attention before it
will be fit for service again. On an
other, the flying struts must be re*
newed. On another, the wings are out
of shape, the result of straining ma
noeuvers in aerobatic fighting.
The whole means a hard seven
hours’ work for the entire staff of
mechanics. They settle down to it as
a matter of routine. Every time a
machine comes back from the lines it
has to be overhauled, perhaps dis
mantled. New gadgets must be fitted,
the engine repaired and cleaned. Air
planes are after all very delicate bits
of mechanism and need continual at
tention. Without it they are useless,
even dangerous. The accuracy of hun
dreds of measurements, the trust
worthiness of hundreds of parts, are
essential to good flying and reliabil
ity, and just as much depends on these
factors as on the skill of the pilot.
-The airplane mechanic doesn’t share
the dangers of the field or the hard
ships of the infantryman or artillery
man, but he has endless work, and a
very heavy responsibility. When there
is heavy air fighting he must frequent
ly work all day and all night, and woe
betide the pilot if he should skimp any
of his work. Upon his shoulders rests
the strength of the squadron and its
efficiency.
The officer in charge of the aero
drome during the night hours is known
as the “Orderly Officer." Warmly clad
to keep out the chills of the night,
he walks around the busy sheds and
hangars, now and then offering a word
of advice or encouragement, but al
ways with an ear for the telephone
bell, for at any moment orders may
come through for night bombing or the
warding off of some hostile aircraft.
Such orders are very rare, but ev
erything is ready for them when they
come.
The work in the hangars is so ar
ranged that the steeds appointed for
the next day’s work shall be ready an
hour before dawn. As the first rays
of the sun light up the aerodrome, the
machines are wheeled out on the “Tar
mac," oiled and attuned for the morn
ing’s flight.
All Alaska News j
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Returns from 37 registration pre
cincts in southeastern Alaska, outside
of incorporated towns, show that l,-i
248 persons were registered under the
conscription act.
Elam Harnesch, said to be the
original of Jack London’s “Burning!
Daylight,” of the well known Fair-j
banks logging firm of Schofield &
Harnesch, left Fairbanks recently for
his old home in Pennsylvania after
spending twenty years in the north
without a break.
R. L. Fromme, of the Olympic Na
tional forest reserve, has been assign
ed to the charge of the Alaska na
tional forest reserves to succeed W.
G. Weigle, who has been assigned to
duty in France.
The 10,000 pound cargo of halibut
boat Morengen was sold ut Juneau re
cently at ten ajid one-eighth cents,
the highest bid ever paid for halibut
at that place.
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The 1017 tax roll for the town of
Petersburg shows the total valuation
for assessment purposes of real and
personal property to be $355,330, or
$07,230 more than the valuation of
last year.
The records of the Alaska engineer
ing commission show that the mer-j
chants of Fairbanks are profiting by
the activities of the commission to
the extent of about $5,000 weekly,
the commission spending about that
amount with the merchants in the
purchase of supplies.
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According to a report received at
the marshal’s office at Fairbanks, min
ing activities in the Tanana Hot j
Springs district have been seriously
hampered this season by the operation
of the eight-hour law. A number of
the plants have shut down and others!
have worked with decreased forces.
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A report from the Hot Springs dis
trict of the Tanana states that Boul-j
der creek, which was staked several
years ago and allowed to lapse, was
the scene of a strike last fail and win
ter, with the result that about forty
men have been employed there this
summer.
The recently published reports of
the Alaska Treadwell and the Alaska
Mexican mines show a combined profit
for 1910 of $722,354.98.
Owing to the inability of shippers
to secure space for frozen lish ship- •
meats from Juneau, halibut steamers
arriving there recently have found no
takers for their cargoes, the cold stor
age men being afraid to buy.
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SPECIAL!
This week we offer you j
j Heavy Fleeced-Iined Underwear j
! SOc I;
iper garment.
AT j |
| Ellsworth’s j
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A Through Ticket
Via
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. PaulRy.
WHY
By buying a through ticket you save from $10.00 to
$15.00 as against buying to Seattle and re-buying
there.
By buying over the C., M. & St. P. Ry. you are as
sured the comfort that comes from riding behind an
electric locomotive — the most powerful in all the
world—and that personal attention which is a fea
ture of “Milwaukee” service. _
For tickets, berth reservation and other particulars,
consult your nearest Steamship Agent.
A. P. CHAPMAN, Jr. ' J- F. BAHL
Asst. General Passenger Agent City Passenger Agent
Stuart Building Second and Cherry
Seattle, Washington
A gentleman is a human bein’
of the male persuasion,
with all the qualities of a
shore enough man,
only them qualities is
gentled a little to
smooth out the rough
ness. VELVET is a
“gentleman" tobacco.
VELVET, The Smoothest Smoking Tobacco, has all
the pipe qualities of Kentucky Burley dc Luxe “gen
tled" by ageing:.
Steamship Agent will
sell you a through
ticket via this line
To Portland, Spokane, St. Paul, Chicago, Kansas City and East and
South
Through Trains—Good Meals—Quick Time—Fine Service
Try it on Your Next Trip
REMEMBER, YOU SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR TICKET
HERE
HARRY R. TAYLOR, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent
Room Ls, Valentine Bldg. Juneau Alaska
T. m. MOORE, City Passenger Agent,
Second and Columbia, Seattle.
THE
HOTEL
GEORGE SEXTON. Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
HARDWARE, STOVES AND RANGES
KUBBKK BKI.TING
|>t>.>ra and Window*
IX1, Parlor Heater*
Air Tight Heaters
Aluminum Ware
P, & B. Pnper
Mnlthoid Roofing
Marine Engine Oil
(las Engine Oil
Lac<iueret Paint
Denatured Alcohol
Lung’s Ranges
Gasoline Stoves
Deadening Felt
Weather Strips
Blacksmith's Coal
Wheel Barrows
Fishing Tackle
Alcohol Stoves
Seine Twine
Granite Ware
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Oil Slovea
$park Pluxa
Jump Coils
Batteries
Aat>est(»s
Tar Papei
Valve Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Greuae
Painta
Ammunition
Bench Forties
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Coal Tar
I*amps
Lanterns
Tents
Shot Guns
Cusollns
Bellow*
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Aides
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Clast
Rope
Mercury
Phone Main 87 J. L. GRAEF Seward, Alaska
SEWARD WATER anil POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON. Manager
Office—Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD ALASKA
JUST ARRIVED
A fresh shipment of Augustine & Kyers’ and Lig
gett’s Candies. A big assortment to choose from.
SEWARD DRUG CO.
Cfl
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Open
Day
and
Night