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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
McGrath, alaska. aug. d, 1922
He Married His Step
mother, Now Goes to
Court to Get Redress
Neiv York.—Although he made his
stepmother his own wife soon after his
father’s death had made her a widow,
John M. Vandergrift, whose grand
father was one of the founders of the
Standard Oil Company in Pittsburg,
made the rather pat point in a pro
ceeding begun in the supreme court
Saturday that Mrs. Vandergrift Sr.-Jr.
continued to treat him like a stepchild.
In his suit Vandergrift is seeking to
recover possession of property valued
at $125,000, which he says he placed in
her name in deference to her superior
and wider experience in finance. A
temporary injunction has been granted
restraining Mrs. Sybil M. Vandergrift
from disposing of the property in ques
tion. which consists chiefly of Pitts
burg mortgages.
Since last November Vandergrift aad
the woman, who was at once wife and
mother to him, have been living apart.
At the time of his marriage to his
stepmother the plaintiff was 22 and
Mrs. Vandergrift 34 years old. She
had Lhen been a widow only six months.
According to Vandergrift, his bride
suggested before the marriage that he
put in her name stocks and bonds be
queathed to him by his grandfather,
Jacob J. Vandergrift. This he did, he
says, with the understanding that he
and Mrs. Vandergrift were to share
the income. Not only does she now re
fuse to turn back any of the property,
the plaintiff complains, but she has
barred him from collecting a cash divi
dend of $507 on a $40,000 life insurance
policy of which he is the beneficiary.
Sauer Kraut Makers
Laud Juice’s Kick
Chicago.—Sauer kraut, the lobster a
la Newburg of the poor, is coming
back with a punch. The tip was passed
around at the annual meeting of the
National Kraut Packers’ Association
held here Tueseay, and if what they
say bears up under test, Mr. Volstead
will have to work up a new law.
"You can make for yourself a concoc
tion with a s^ing in it,” the tip said.
■"If you have a barrel or keg of sauer
kraut in the house, just take the juice
in a shaker with some ice, and you
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have a cocktail with a delightful kick.
It looks Lke ;t bronx and tastes like a
spiked lemonade.”
But this is not all. The packers
maintain that daily consumption of
sauer kraut will make women beauti
ful. They say it is vastly more benefi
cial than yeast for clearing the com
plexion. It will make skinny people
plump, and will reduce grossly fat peo
ple to trim proportions.
Spinach has been alluded to as
“broom for the stomach,” but the
makers of sauer kraut claim their pro
duct is a vacuum cleaner for the entire
human system.
He Stands a Lot, But
Finally Spanks Wife
Now York. — It rather staggered
Frank D. Montforfc when he learned
his wife had spent $3,SCO on cosmetics
in a vear and a half, but he didn’t real
ly lose his patience until an Italian
count, came on the scene.
Montfort, a retired banker of St.
Paul, is living at the Waldorf. Mrs.
Montfort, who demands 810,000 a year
instead of the $4,800 which her hus
band allows her, lives at another hotel
here.
According to Montfort, who describes
his wife as a “social jazzer,” the count
in the case was employed to tutor bis
son when the family was traveling in
Italy a few months ago.
Except for the instance of the spank
ing—for which he does not apologize— I
the banker denies his wife’s charges of 1
cruelty.
But when she returned here with!
the Italian count—that, says Montfort, j
answering a separation suit, was when
he attempted a little moral uplifting—
yes, he spanked her.
Dubs His Wife World
League of Nations!
Chicago.—“She isn’t a wife, she’s
a league of nations ” shouted Sherman
Charging Hawk, a Sioux Indian, when
he was arraigned in the court of do
mestic relations Tuesday on a charge
of non-support.
“Her first husband was a German,”
continued Charging Hawk, “then she
was married to a Mexican. Next she
became the wife of a Chinese, anu after
that she was married to me. I suppose
she wants a Russian bolshevik next.”
Charging Hawk is 53 years old. He
says Ethel, his wife, has dressed him
four times and tried to poison him
twice. She has two children, the off
spring of former husbands.
“J’ve had a warlike life,” he added.
“I’ve been in the United States army
four years, and was a policeman on the
Sioux reservation three years, but
those experiences were tame compared
with life with her.”
Yanks and Legionaires
The United States has fi40 war graves
in France not registered.
There are “10 aces” of the world war
now serving in the United States army.
The War Veterans’ Bureau at Wash
ington is conducting more than 50,000
medical examinations every month.
At the time of the armistice, Novem
uer 11, 1918, the world war was cost
ng the United States approximately
550,000,000 daily.
The practice of pensioning or insur
ng sick and wounded soldiers is said
-c have been started in England by
Dliver Cromwell.
Trench maps, which were printed i'or
nilitary use on strong canvas, are now
jeing used in England to make inner
:oles for tennis shoes.
With the present American army of
40,000 men, the war department, has
only 98,000 soldiers ready for immedi
ate service in this country.
The total deaths in the American ex
peditionary forces, including those on
transports, between May, 1917, and
January, 1920, were 77,712.
Approximately 1,200,000 pairs of new
trench and field shoes were sold for
$1.83 per pair by the quartermaster de
partment of the United States army.
At the present rate of exchange it
costs $2,000 to maintain an American
soldier for one year. $1,300 for an Eng
lish soldier, and $375 for a French sol
dier.
More than 200 destroyers of the
United States navy are lying in various
ports with depleted crews, barely suffi
cient to keep up their intricate mech
anism.
The Society of Military and Naval
Officers of the World War, organized
in New York in 1920, with a present
membership of 500 men, is to be devel
oped through other states until it be
comes nation-wide. The membership
may be handed down from father to
son, generation after generation
As a protest against the sending of
any more British ex-soldiers to Canada,
Frederick Charles Parson, of Vancou
ver, B. C., sent his medals, his king’s
certificate and his discharge papers
back to King George. He has not been
able to obtain work since his arrivalilfc
months ago, when he came from Eng
land under the British Dominion Emi
gration Society’s plan.
Half of the money for the erection of
the community memorial building to
be erected by the American Legion
Post at Sturgis, S. D., has been pledged
by its members from state bonuses.
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McGrath, Alaska
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Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are righ t
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John E. Baker
Independent Candidate
for
Territorial Representative
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