Douglas Island news., 1913-07-30
The Douglas Island News.
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nah last week on business.
 George Anderson and Wm. Oliver are headed fer the Shushana strike.
 FoR SA1E-A good secondhand Type Writer. Inquire at the News office.
 The Civic Club will meet at the school house to night to discuss the cemetery fence.
 Keep out the flies. Buy your window screens, screen doors and window screening at jensen's.
 Fishing tackle, guns, tents and ann munition-largest stock in town to choose from-at Jensen's.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry Erie and Mrs. W. Fl. McBlaine have gone out to Warm Springs for a summer outing.
 Some time in October, Mir. and Mrs. Frank M. Simpson will leave Douglas to make their home in California.
 Mir. and Mrs. George l.. Johnson have moved into the John Stoft cottage at the corner of Third and H streets.
 Mir. Julius Jensen, the Second street hardware dealer, has begun work on a large addition to his store building.
 Now is the time Co paint that old building. Let Jensen sell you the paint because he carries complete stock
 If your clothes need repairing, clean ing or pressing, call on Anton Krasel, next door to the cable office, Second street.
 Jensen has just received a big ship ment of furniture, carpets and linoleum which you should see before buying elsewhere.
 Miss Crystal Snow, who has been teaching in the Sitka school, came over last Saturday on the steamship Jefferson.
 On her next voyage the excursion steamer Spokane, of the Pacific Coast Steamship company, will reach Tread we'll at about II o'clock in the morning of Thursday, August 7th.
 Something new in life preservers at Jensen's. It takes the place of a cush- ion and pillow, and passes inspection on all motor boats as a life preserver. Ask to see it when you pass by.
 The S.S.Windber, of the North Am erican Fisheries Co.,, pulled in at Tread we'll this morning for fuel oil. She is bound from the Westward to her home port at Bellingham, loaded with 37,SOO cases of reds.
 The old Bears Nest mill, which has long been au eye sore to tbe people of Douglas and Treadwell, is to be torn down at last, and in it's place Messrs. Ferris and Daniels, of Treadwell, will erect a large apartment house.
 Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin, accom- panied by her son, Matt, will return to Douglas via the steamship Al-Ki due next Monday. Mrs. Bentley will visit for some time in the Puget sound country before returning to Alaska.
 Mrs. M. J. O'Connor, Miss Regime Miller and Mrs. Schlothan departed yesterday on the Humboldt for the south. Mrs. Schlothan goes to Ketch- ikan, where she will visit her son, Will liam, for a couple of weeks before re- turning to her home in California. Mrs. O'CoDnor and Miss Miller go straight to San Francisco, where they will visit for several months with rela- tives and friends.
 Oscar Grundler, Dick Mccormick, Emmett Carroll and Abel Anderson returned last night from ten days outing among the islands and bays to the south. They visited Oliver inlet, Doty's cove, South island, Twin points, Limestone inlet, Taku harbor and Turner lake. At Taku they were per mitted to gaze on the pretty school girls, brought from the States to take the places of the striking Japs.
 The federal grand jury returned not true bill in the case of Charlie Stevens, who was charged with a seri. ous crime for grabbing a cap off an. other mans head. The man in ques tion owed Charlie S5, and Charlie de manded payment. The man refused to come through and Charlie seized bis cap, saying, ''In just keep this" For this crime the commissioner allowed