Douglas Island news., 1909-05-12

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 Tom Price expects to go to Cordova on the next boat to the westward, He has assurances that things are booming out there in his line and he intends to try it for the summer at least.
 Mrs. Oswald Tramontin left on the steamer Hum boldt for a visit to her former home at Cincinnati, Ohio, and to take the remains of her daughter, who died January IS, there for final in- torment.
 The work of the Ladies' Auxiliary in preparing an exhibit for the ALP. exposition is drawing to close. As part of the exhibit there will be the most complete set of views of Douglas Island ever got together.
 
 On Humb boldt sailing days leave your mali and orders for the South at Heub- uer's Drug Store after 8:30 p. m. She Is carrying mail free of charge for the pubic and letters and orders placed ill P. O. after closing hours will not go out.
 Jack Ross visited Douglas Sunday renewing old acQuaiutances. MT. and Mrs. Ross are now living in beautiful little home of their own at Victoria, which town, Jack contends, has the most beautiful climate of any spot on the continent.
 Merchant Fox is again enlarging the cellar under his store building. This time he expects to make complete job of it and make it as large as the foun- dation, wall it up with concrete and put iu ventilators and drains. Tracy brothers have charge of the work.
 Last Wednesday evening a Jap boy gave an exhibition of bicycle riding on Front street. He came down the D street hill headed straight for the post office door, which was closed, and plunged head first through the glass, landing on the inside without touching side or bottom. Except for few cuts and scratches he was uuhurt.
 The marriage of Rev. Henry T. At klnsOn and Miss Stella Jones was solemnized at Skagway last Monday. The groom is the pastor of the Meth odist Episcopal church ill Juneau. The bride is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Chas. E. Jones, who have recently be- come residents of Douglas. Mir. and Mrs. Atkinson came down from Skag- way this morning on the Georgia.
 A game of baseball-the first of the season-is planned for next Sunday on the Douglas grounds, Douglas vs. Ju- neau. The game will be much in the nature of try-out, for neither of the teams is as yet thoroughly organized. It's all home talent this year. The boys have worked hard on the Douglas grounds, and they are in better shape thai ever before. Third base, which was six feet higher than first, has been lowered, and first raised.
 Charlie Fox returned last week on the Ohio from a trip to the westward as far as Prince William sound. He re- ports that the trip back was delight, mainly because the weather was fair and the sea smooth, and the view of the beautiful scenery was uninter- rupted. At Cordova he found busy town, real estate at boom prices, and people coming and going by the hun dreds. Chas. Rosswog, formerly of Douglas, is now the proprietor of the Postofice cigar and candy store. Mark Tatom is out at the front, mile 52, Tn charge of a gang of men engaged ln railroad construction work. MT. and Mrs. w. w. Shorthill are pleasantly situated in neat cottage near the of fees of the Katalla company, where he is employed. Alfred Williams, for merly with the Treadwell company, is now assistant chief engineer for the Katalla company, and for the most part is practically in charge. Sam Blum, formerly of Juneau, has just completed one of the finest store buildings in the territory at Cordova, which he will oc- cupy with large stock of general mer- cbandise and a bank-the first bank in