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<Tl>* ILuskd iTintrs
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'■'Entered as secorfd^eiass matter Eebruary 1, 1937,
die post office at lakotna, Alaska, under the-Act of
j^arch 3, Y87S.” •
Represented Nationally by
:j. V. GREELY and ASSOCIATES
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.FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1S37
MAN'S SPHERE IN ALASKA—
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(The Valdez Miner)
4 ~ not one .whit behind the States when it
=s to the large number of brainy women in the pro
ems ana in businesses. .Many of these women have
n super-successful .and have .achieved great promin
le in their chosen .work. .In fact, in proportion to the
oulation. we believe .Alaska has . more women who are
jccessful attorneys, physicians, .miners, business wo
,-nl ana others, than any like area in the States.
Mrs. Russell Hermann of Juneau is our lone and sue-,
cessful woman attorney. .Mrs. Hermann came to Alaska
.about 15 years ago as a .teacher for the Valdez schools.
Later she married JL..R.- Hermann, a prominent druggist
of Juneau, and finding that her home life did not take
up all of her time, studied law, was admitted to the
bar after passing a.brilliant .examination, and is now
practicing in the capital city, one of its most successful ^
legal lights. She is also prominent in the Woman’s Clubs j
of Alaska, And .has for many years successfully publish
ed the annual newspaper issued by the Club. She also
writes for national magazines and papers.
Mrs. Irene Converse Werthmann, physician anti sur-'
geon, is another Alaskan woman who is destined to meet
with great success in .her profession. She already has ,
built up a very fine practice in Valdez, and has estab-!
lished the nucleus x>f a good hospital business.
Mrs. Sarah Pritchett, owner of theWrangell Sentinel'
one of the leading weeklies of .Southeast Alaska, is the
anlv werncr. editor and manager of a newspaper in Al
aska. She has conducted her paper the past seven years ,
since the death of her .husband, and by hard work and
good judgment, has Attained that success which gener-.
ally accompanies hard work and earnest endeavor. She
not only edits and manages her paper, but if the occa
sion arises, sets type, helps with the mechanical work
and makes a hand generally. Mrs. Pritchett has built up
a good business and her paper is deservedly popular.
Mrs. B. V. Sullivan, a long-time resident of Valdez,
is another woman who has shown her adaptability to
not only run a business, -but also to run a town, as she
si Alaska's only woman m^yor, having served very ac
ceptably in a late council. .She also conducts a general!
store and is a heavy property owner in Valdez. j
An far .as we know of, Mrs. Clara Wheeler is the
rnly woman druggist in .Alaska. A resident of \ aldez
for over 20. years, she .has Jouilt up a fine business since
the death of her husband several .years ago, with a
large stock of drugs, .magazines, ivory curios, and ail
manner .of articles usually handled by A drug store. She
has made a reputation .among the commercial travelers ,
as a good business woman.and the wolf will never both-'
er her door step .if the large business done is any cri
terion.
Mrs. E. Winter is ."another lady .who has built up a
good business in Valdez aDd acquired much .property!
here by attention xo detail and by careful buying. For j.
many.years she has conducted a store for Jadies And
children, and is also a -heavy property owner.
And lest «e fie^get, .there is Kitty O'Brien of Fair
banks, the only seaman taxi-driver ir the Territory and
m a general favorite .with the tourists. Kitty has a good
business .and is said to be a fine driver.
There are hundreds of women in the Territory who
are taking an active part in its business affairs, airs.
Blanche Cascade*) of Fairbanks, manages a large mining
property since the death of her husband and is very suc
eessful at it.
Every town in .Alaska has its outstanding business
and professional vwotaen. Space forbids mentioning bat
a few who nr* a® standing on account of the great suc
cess they nave attasned.
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.Music PtoI.—"What do you think of Kreisler ?”
Frosn—^“GaeaLl Splendid! Swell pickup, a lot
pep, and 20 miles- sn a gallon.”
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Those “who hev* referred somewhat familiarly to
“Wally” will pleas* rent ember that now it is the Duch
aess.—Indianapolis Star.
In this country lawmaker is becoming syn
onymous wish the ’Tsuc-mfiicfcp-.—Detroit Free
Press.
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PLACER LOCATION NOTICES sow on sale at
The Kusko Timas office. Gat yarn*
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
CTAKHN FROM THE FILES OF THE KUSKO TIMES) •
Buckskin Harris, who brought four!
lorses from Ruby to Takotna early
n the season for use on road work,
is scheduled to leave the latter place
shortly for Ruby, taking the horses
with him.
The working forces on the Takot
oa-Ophir highway have been reduc
ed materially within the past few
iays, about 25 men having been laid
jB.
Tom Brady, who left in June for
lakotna, and who has been connect
ed with the Road Commission for
some time, left the upper town yes
terday for Ruby on his way to the
Chandalar, traveling overland in
company with Messrs. Lukens and
Whitehead who go as far as Ruby,
Andrew Olsen, from up river *r
-ived yesterday, for a short Stay
Fine at Anchorage recently clean
ed out all the buiidings in two blocks
jetween F and D streets, entailing
the loss of $150,000. The only build
The Otis Lake summer resort, near
\nchorage. has been reopened for
die season. There is a pavilion there
where refreshments are served. An
into road leads from the city to the
lake, where it is said there are ex
cellent places for swimming.
rngs remaining standing in the fire
district are three on the east end of
the block and two on the west end of
the next block. The entire city turn
ed out and fought the flames being
ably assisted by the soldiers of the
Fourteenth Infantry, stationed there.
The flames started in a pool hall and
quickly spread to other buildings,
the dry weather making the boards
like tinder.
The . tall term of McGrath schoc
opens next Tuesday.
The launch Maple Leal arrive,
last evening from Takotna. Com in
down with Captain Hart were Tor
Shallow, well-known Iditaroder, £
Walker, and Paul Minnick.
Mr. and Mrs. John Heino wer
made happy Thursday morning b
the arrival of. a daughter. Dr. W. I
Green being in attendance. The hi
tie guest tipped the scales almost a
ten pounds. Mother and daughte
doing nicely.
ANCHORAGE—There is much «
citement here over the discovery c
gold quartz, going $100 to the tor
at a point near the Government ra;
way, 30 miles south of this cita
and prospectors, are stampeding t
the scene of the find. The report
that have reached this city stat
that a dozen fissures have been ur
covered in an area seven by 12 mile
in extent, near the town of Gird
wood, on the railroad. Some of tn
discoveries were made in cats akm
Tumagarn. Arm.
A cavalry officer wanted a huntei
but, being unable to afford anythin;
like a thoroughbred, was forced t
buy an ordinary hack of doubtfi
ancestry.
“I assure you, sir, Vs a good ’oss
bred in military traditions," said th
dealer, and so the bargain wa
struck.
T heaitimal, however, proved t
be terribly slow, so the officer re
turned in a rage to the dealer.
“I thought you said that brute wa
bred in the military tradition ?" h
shouted.
“That’s right, boss," grinned th
dealer. “ T/d rather die than ran
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Capital and Surplus $100,000
WILL ADVANCE MONEY ON GOLD
AND
Ship Gold at Very Reasonable Rates
VANDERPOOL’S
FREIGHTING SERVICE
Has Established A Dependable
and Quick Service-on the _
TAKOTNA RIVER
Careful attention to all freight
orders, whether large or small
WOODROW
VANDERPOOL
TAKOTNA, ALASKA
OATES FREIGHTING
SERVICE
We Haul Anything
Heavy or Light
Where You Want It j
VWE ARE LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS FOR LUMBER FROM THK
MILLER SAWMILL
JOE OATES, FREIGHTER
TAKOTNA, ALASKA
Passenger Service
FREDDIE OATES, Pwf>
TIMELY EDITORIALS
Culled From Our Exchanges
DICTATORS. DON'T GROW
IN THRIVING NATIONS—
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<The Alaska Daily Press >
It -would be interesting to know just what red-hut
trail has been engaging the noses of the esteemed pub
lic servants who have recently announced that they
smell the smell of an approaching dictator.
Senator .Borah and Ambassador Dodd are the latest
to join in this outcry.-Other men have, sanded off before
them. And the common burden of the complaint is that
a dark-man is. about To .cross our path, full of stra.tege.ns>
and devious notions, ready to abolish our liberties the
moment we happen to look the other way.
This might be convincing if it were not for the fan
that the ordinary American is altogether too busy these
days to warty about it. And that fact. , in itself, is a
sure-fire defense against dictatorship.
d ! For dictatorships are never brought about ty some
F I one’s secret plotting The plotting takes place, ef course;
_ j but it has to -be .built up on widespread public confusion.
5 alarm and desperation. .If the people generally don't feel
- that an abyss is yawning right .in. front of them, ready
6 to follow them unless something drastic is done, the
5 | plotters won’t get to first hasp.
What sort of conditions have we m th
i States today ?
The dark fears of recent years axe gone. The coun
try is going back to work. Factory chimneys are smok
ing, the railroads are husy once more, mines are going
full blast, the unmusical noise of riveting hammers is
beginning to be heard-again, the auto industry is work
ing full time, trying to keep up with the public’s orders,
farmers are. making money and real estate salesman are
or.ce again able to look their.,wives in the eye
The ordinary American has things on his mind, tr
be sure. He ..would like to know whether the Athletes
can stick around the top of the American League roue!
longer. He is tryingTo decide where he will go on his
vacation. He is about to turn his., old car in and get a
new one, and he hasn't quite made up his mind which
make to select.
When men’s minds are running in those channels
the country is as safe from, dictators as the most, ardent
Republican could ask.
A prosperous people never had a*r«voJutien-and nev
er will. The time to worry—the only time to worry—
is when pro^ierity has vanished and people are begin
ning to. fear that it will, never come back agtirn. Then
as in the early 1930’s, demagogues like Long. Cough Ur
,jsnd Townsend get a hearing. Desperate people are v iT
mg to listen to desperate men talk of depserate cure
ails; husy, hqpeful people are not, and never will be
As long as -we are riding the recovery wave we hawe
j nothing whatever to fear from men with dictatorial <!*■
sjgns.
GOLD INFLOW INCREASES—
(Seward Gateway)
"Dhe inflow of gold tothis country, which in the firt
fire months of the year totaled more than |770 OOQ/I0P
I continued at an even greater rate during Jure, reaching
volume only exceeded in only one or turn, months in oar
, history
The increase in monetary- gold stock during tne
month exceeded $300,000/100. Tne gold stock passdc
twelve billions early in June, and on xhe 2Str :stood at
SL22S3.000.000
These'unprecedented'gold jnp.tK-rts result cbitfS
from the continued dehoarding nf "gold from private
holdings in London and other Eeacpeaii center s and
from another outflow of capital from France.
The Bank of Netherlands, the third oooniry to ab
sorb gold, increased its reserves last month; then came
Chma and a .few days ago Brazil announced virtual re
i movel of restrictions on gold imports.
How much gold disappeared into private holdings hi
festers -Eurppe during the depression can be at carta*
1 ed only in round figures because of fragmentary uuorm
ation on certain gold movements, particularly the hold
I ings of the various stabilization.funds, and on the aup
j ply of old gold.
However, a simple comparison of available inferma
' tion on the supply and demand for gold between the enc
! of 1930 and the end of 1936 indicates that nearly $3,000;
00,000 “disappeared” oc_was unaccounted for during
| that period.
At the present rate the dehaardakg movement mil;
; oob expend itself; pcobabiy it will proceed m'We slow!?
i as the dehoarding ceases the supply offered to centra.1
-ink and in the London bullion market will be reduce/:
to newly-mined gold and secondary gold shipped fro* •
I the Far East.
Neighbor—“I’d like some beans."
Grocer—“Canned 7”
Neighbor—“No, I’m still on the job.”
They say that the weaker sex is often the'Stroqpr
i sex because of the weakness of the stronger sex for 'h>
weaker sex.
“Why are iamb chops so dear 7“
“There’s a scarcity of sheep.”
“Nonsense; 1 counted 2,000/100 in bed last iughi.*'_
Exchange.
Salk—“I told him, dad, that.you would switat udF
the light- at ten.”
“Dha—“Well?”
Sa'ly —“He said he’d .be Back -at .tan.*