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Special deliver of freshly baked goods from 11 a. m. to 12 o'clock and from 4 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Seward Bakery. Phone Madison 82. FOR SALE OR LEASE—Home and rooming house, grocery store in connection; lease three to five years. Will sell stock on hand. Write M. E. Shortley, Seldovia, _Alaska. FOR SALE—Gasboat Buffalo, 50 foot boat, just overhauled. A. C. Down. a ey. Seward Hotel. Fritz Augeraan, a brief visitor i Seward form Latouche, who spei the week-end in the city, returned t his work Sunday a passenger on th good ship Yukon. Mli ICE CREAM High Grade Candies Framed Pictures, Curios and Photographs Phone Adams 128 Your Sock —May be well made, but it is not so strong as our vault Entrust your savings to our care; we pay interest (your sock does not). Remember: buried treasure never grows, but every dollar you deposit with us be comes two dollars in time. OPEN AN AC COUNT WITH US. Bank of Seward n it o e FLOOD LOSSES HEM ON MUSKRAT FIRMS WASRINGTON, July 12. (JP)—Ad-1 vices reaching the Department o' Ag-1 riculture from the Mississippi flood j area show tremendous losses to fur farmers on the lower Gulf coast. Muskrats are reported to have died by the thousands when trapped and drowned in their homes by a sudden rush of water. The crest ofthe flood was spotted with lifeless, floating bodies. Great loss is said to have resulted from the onrush of water wTien dams were dynamited to lessen the burden 1 of natural channels. Rafts, piled high with brush and j | mud and set afloat as a haven of re-1 ; fuge, were of little use. CIRCUS BARS SHOOTING PARIS. July 12. (/P)—Cannonading, pistol shots and explosions are barred [ at the matinees of the principal indoor circuses from now on. FRANCO-GERMAN AIRPORT LUXEMBURG, July 12. (JP)—A joint! aerodrome for German and French aviation companies has been agreed upon between the cities of Treves and Luxemburg. The site of the new aerodrome is about half way between the two cities. ORIGINAL “YANKEE DOODLE’’ HARTFORD, Conn., July 12. </P)— Dr. Geo. C. F. Williams of tills city, president of the Connecticut Histor cal Society, has presented the society with the original copy of “Yankee Doodle,” beginning with the words, j “Father and I went down to camp.”« The manuscript is among 225 do,cu-j ments of Revolutionary days which Dr. Williams has given to the society.! CONVENT BARS BOBBED HAIR MANILA, July 12. (JP)—'The Colegia de Santa Teresa, a convent college1 here, will not admit any girl student I this fall whose hair is bobbed. Those 1 already enrolled must let their tresses grow. “It isn’t becoming and it isn’t j ladylike,” the superior declared in her edict. JOKES HIMSELF WELL LOS ANGELES, Ju’v 12. (A')— Will Rogers has joked his way out c‘ the hospital. His humor and sunny disposition aided him in recovering j from an ’operation, say doctors. He j has gone to his home in Beverly | Hills. TO ATTEND FUNERAL Mrs. Fred Haklaso i accompanied by her son Victor left for Anchorage a few days ago to aftend the funeral exercises held for Lee Lauritz who ended his life by hanging. Mrs. Hakinson is returning no Wednes day’s train and may be acc. mpa”ied by her cousin, Mrs. Lauri z and two children. Vantine’s Incence and burners. Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. English Broadcloth Shirts, N. Y. j prices, $2.50 each. Urbach’s. Try a piece of BABY BEEF from Frye-Bruhn meat market. Ghas. H. Gilbert, Bureau of Fish eries man, a local arrival from the South on the S. S. Yukon, left town yesterday. LEGAL NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. SERIAL NO. 06180 July 9, 1927. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the NEW ENGLAND FISH COMPA NY, a corporation organized under the Laws of the State of Maine and author ized to do business in the Territory of Alaska, has filed application, Serial 06180, for patent under the provisions of Sec. 2306, R. S., for a tract of land situated at Kodiak, Alaska, in Latitude 57 deg. 47 min. 22 sec. and Longitude 150 deg. 24 min. 47 sec., containing an area of 5.16 acres, and included within U. S. Survey No. 1534 and more particularly described as follows, to wit: Commencing at Cor. No. 1 M. C. on the line of ordinary high tide of St. Paul Harbor, whence U. S. C. & G. S. Sta. bears N. 69 deg. 13 min. 15 sec. E. 41.22 chs.; running thence along the line of said high tide of St. Paul Harbor (1) S. 60 deg. 51 min. W. 4.52 chs.; (2) S. 56 deg. 27 min. W. 4.51 chs.; (3) S. 49 deg. 04 min, W. 2.40 chs.; (4) S. 61 deg. 28 min. W. 3.00 chs. to Cor. No. 2 M. C. on the line of ordinary high tide of St. Paul Harbor; thence N. 25 deg. 29 min. W. 4.55 chs. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 64 deg. 31 min. E. 14.32 chs. to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 25 deg. 29 min. E. 2.83 chs. to Cor. No. 1 the place of beginning, containing an area of 5.16 acres; magnetic variation 24 deg. 20 min. E. J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register U. S. Land Office. First publication July 11, 1927. Last publication Sept. 19, 1927. By the Sack or Carload PREMIER LUMP AND MINE RUN COAL Coal—Try It. The New Howard-Jesson Healy Lump, Nut or Mine Run Evan Jones Lump or Mine Run Nanimo Range Coal In Sack or Bulk WOOD, ICE, HAY AND GRAIN Transferring — Teaming ALASKA TRANSFER Telephone—Main 81 ARCADE BUILDING H. V. Hoben. A. F. Davis HOTEL OVERLAND MEL A. HORNER Manager SEWARD ALASKA On the Main Street STOP AT HOTEL SEATTLE when In Anchorage, Alaska HOT AND COLD WATER IN ALL ROOMS CURRENT PRICES J. J. MclSAAC, Prop. i'Timlfir ! j Trains Leave—8:00 a.m. Sunday; i 7:30 a.m. Monday and Thursday; ! 10:00 a.m. Saturday. i i Trains Arrive—3:40 p.m. Sunday; « 7:00 p.m. Wednesday and Satur i day. J 9:45 p.m. Friday. 11 11 1.. l piiaiii j Cleaning and Pressing ■ Ladies’ Work a Specialty J Phone Adams 120 Shoe Shining | WM. SLEDGE, Prop. CITY EXPRESS Agent for The American Express Co. Sample Room in Connection Baggage Stored Connection made with all steamers, trains and hotels. “We never sleep” Phone Main 122 Harold Painter, Prop. Successor to Billy Patterson ELLISBALL-CHILI MILL MADE IN SIZES FROM TWO TO FIFTY TONS DAILY CAPACITY Priced $150 to $1989 Investigate the Ellis Mill First NELS HAGEN ALASKA AGENT SEWARD - ALASKA When in Seldovia Stop at JOE HILL’S PLACE Dance Hall, Pool Room, Barber “THE BEST IN TOWN” Rooms, Restaurant, Movie i ‘HOTEL SEWARD’ Hot and Cold Water in in All Rooms Rooms With or Without Baths OSCAR DAHL, Prop.