Douglas Island news., 1911-10-18

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 The progress of the Alaska Labor Union hall is still delayed for the want of material which is now expected on the Seattle.
 The Seattle left for the north Monday night. Among the passengers for Douglas are Mrs. John Penglase and daughter Anna.
 The Red Men will open the holiday season with grand masquerade prize ball, at the Natatorium hall, on Thanksgiving Eve.
 Mir. P. S. Early, of Yankee cove, has spent the last week in Douglas. He expects to start for the cove either today or tomorrow
 Keep clean and you will be healthy. The bath tubs at the Douglas Hand Laundry are at your service. Try them for your annual bath.
 The big steamship Santa Ana is past due at the City Dock with cargo of Ladysmith coal. This is the best coal that can be bought on the Pacific coast, and it will be sold at So ton.
 Deputy Marshal McMiIlau returned last week from Portland. Miss Magic Clark returned with him and will spend the winter visiting her cousin, Mrs. McMillan.
 At the meeting of the city council Monday night Colin M. Blain was elected city wharfnger, to succeed John Stcft, who goes to Petersburg on the Humboldt.
 Mir. Ed. Churchill will be a passenger for the south ou the next boat. He returns to his home at Entiat, Wash. A small stamp mill recently started in that vicinity offers, him employment.
 Island folks will soon get used 10 pay day on the l6th, which is the new system at Treadwell. On the 10th of Novem Der, all of the employees of the company will draw full months pay.
 The Juneau Dispatch announces the probable consolidation of the Perse verauco and Oxford companies, owning mines in Silver Bow basin and Sheep creek, under the management of Bart Thane.
 Miss Gertrude Fremming, of Juneau, left on the Jefferson for Spokane, to visit her aunt, Mrs. J. D. Koren, wife of the engineer of the Idaho division of the Northern Pacific. She will return in December.
 Whatever may or may not be said of Piuchot. in whom the people of the North really have very little interest, his press agent has perpetrated the greatest bunch of ridiculous rot ever rotten about Alaska.
 Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Get your phono- graph now and pay for it later on. The Victor, Edison and Columbia ma chimes, sold on the very easiest terms at Smiths Drug Store.
 The location of the postotfice is still an unsolved problem in Douglas. Front, Second and Third street all claim it, but the inspectors give no hint of what may be the outcome of the controversy
 The St. Ann avenue chemical is, now housed at the hospital. Directions for it's use are posted on the wall near the machine. Members of Hose company number 3, should take especial pains to become with its workings.
 Dr. Jas. K. Simpson is expected to arrive in Douglas the last of this month or the first of next He will stay for probably two or three weeks in Douglas, taking charge of Dr. De- Vighne's office while he takes vaca- ton.
 A reign of terror struck Skagway last week when it was reported that the White Pass company was about to establish large general store in that city. Now, that Manager o. l.. Dicke- son has declared there's nothing in it., they fondly call him "Ole."
 Porter Breakiron, one of the star players on the Douglas ball team will depart on the Dolphin for Cosmopolis, Wash. When the Springtime comes,