Douglas Island news., 1914-04-29
The DOugIas IsIand News.
rHRLocAL FIELD

new coat of planking
 Workmen are making rapid progress In replankiug Second street.
 The Maydower pavilion has become very popular place for dances.
 Mayor OCouuor has brought bis cruiser Celtic out from winter quarters. Governor Lister, of Washington, has been forced to abandon his Alaska trip.
 W. Ringuette, brother of Ed, re gently arrived iu Douglas from Mich. igau.
 Councilman M. s. Hudson writes that he will be back in Douglas on May 10th.
 Mr. and Mrs. George L. Johnson left last week to make their home in the States.
 Charlie Kimmerliug came up from the Sound country on the steamer Jef- Eersoa.
 The Misses May Mccormick and Jean Russell are planning trip to tbe Sound.
 James Morris, the miner quarsntined at Juneau with smallpox, has been dis charged.
 The Douglas Civic Improvement Club met at the school house last Fri day night.
 Broken pipes repaired at Keist's Pool Room. All work guaranteed Advertisement
 Clarence .A. Popp and B. P. Rotman left for the States Monday on the steamer Al Xii
 Maurice Casey, brother of Pat, ar rived last week from Chicago to make his home iu Douglas.
 Deputy Marshal Fels came back from the states the other day, and took the next boat for Ketchikan.
 Captain A. A. Gabbs, of the mail boat Fox, sails for Rake each Monday morn lng from the Douglas city float.
 Mrs. Lawrence Erickson returned te Juneau last week from California, where she suffered Q long illness The Humboldt came iu from Seattle last night and the stores have a gener- ous supply of green garden sauce
 Have you a houseto buildY See Geo. B. Brown, Contractor and Builder, Douglas, Alaska. He kuows.-Adv.
 Howard, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hewitt, has been in the past week with a severe attack of grip. Mr. John Murray, who spent che winter in California, returned to Doug las yesterday mogujug Oo the steamer Seattle.
 Alter lt is an said, there arc ITO better grounds for baseball in aii this part of Alaska than we have rigtt here in Douglas.
 A number of young men on Douglas Island would like to fight the Mexicans but they hate to leave until the base ball season is over. If your clothes need repairing, clean taq CT pressing, call on Anton Krasel, next door to the cable Ofice' Second t.-Advertisement.
 The halibut schooner Montana burn ed to the water line last Monday near Stka. The mentors of the crew es- caped with their lives.
 Mrs. Wm. Stubbins will leave tomor- row for a trip to Europe, where che will visit relatives and friends in Ataiyr France and Switzerland
 Capt. Nord, of the steamer Jefferson, has been promoted to the command of che Alameda. Capt. Miller is now on the bridge of the Jefferson
 The Juneau Dispatch reports the marrow escape from drowning of Jim Golden. a former resident Ot Douglas, and Jim an old sea dog, too.
 Cashier A. B. Gurr, of the First Ter ritorial bank, was seen last Sunday trying out a racing boat in the waters of Gastineau. Pat was the pilot
 smokers-Am kinds of Smoking To bacco in pound jars-also Egyptian and Sweet Caporal Cigarettes at Aeists Pool Boom, Hunter BlOck.-Adv. 
 Billy Ctt was one of the 6rst victims of the chapter of baseball accidents for 1914. Alter the game Sunday he dis ..orarad lhat be bad broken hand.