The daily Alaskan., 1915-05-17
SHORT LOCAL PARAGRAPHS
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twice elected president of the Mis- sion Mothers club of San Francis co, which is the largest wo- mans organization in that great city, devoted to the betteTment Cf conditions surrounding child life and by virtue of its numerical strength-haying over three hun dred members - is a factor of no small consequence in the politi- cal life of San Francisco, and able thereby to accomplish many needed :efOrms.
 The members of the local w. c. '. U., having as their honor guests ne visiting officers and delegates bf the territorial organization, held ;- picnic today at schaffer park. The outing party assembled at the NJ. E. church and left for the grounds at 10 a. m. A general in- vitation was extended to the peo- pie of Skagway to attend, of which quite number took advantage. The day has been an ideal one for such d atheriRg-not a cloud in the sky and a gentle, caressing breeze blowing with just sufficient force, to overcome what would otherwise have been Q slightly oppressive feeling in the atmosphere.
 The baseball contest yesterday afternoon between the w. P. A. club team and an aggregation of "has-beens,, was a hippodrome exhi- bition only eXCelled in the annals of territorial baseball by the game played at Ft. w. H. Seward on the previous Sunday between the home team and the soldier boys, in which the latter won by a score of 14 to 1. The ease with which some of these "has-beens" famed out when at bat, and the sang froid with which they fumbled balls in the diamond and on the outfield was the ad- miration of the spectators, of whom there were a goodly number prss- ent. The score was 6 to 1 In fa- tor of the W. P. A. club team.
 Last night Mrs. Cornelia Temple
 on Hatcher, president of the terri torial W. c. T. U., after an invoca- ton by Rev. R. c. Blackwell of Juneau, delivered her lecture, "The Temperance Movement in Picture, song and Story," at the M. D. church and was listened to with closest attention by a large audi ecce. Miss Evangeline Cook sang song, in which the children of the Sunday school joined in the caorus, in a most pleasing manner, Mr. P. II. Ganty playing the piano accompaniment. The Rev. L. H. Pedersen rendered g vocal solo with congregational chorus and instru- mental accompaniment, and the church choir also sang a selection. Tonight Mrs. Hatcher will deliver an address at the church, com mencing at 8 o'clock, on How Washington Went Dry"
 A party composed of Rev. and Mrs. R. c. Blackwell and Mrs. Sut- ton of Juneau, Mrs. Jurgenson and Taylor and Miss Wigg of Wrangell Mrs. Duryea of Petersburg, Miss and J. Gwilym, jr., assistant to General Agent F. B. WurzbaCher, after providing themselves with a light lunch to stay their hunger un- til their return, and which they consumed on reaching the falls, started at 6:15 o'clock this mGrn- ing and made the climb up the steep mountain trail to the eastward of town until they reached the form CT site of Castle Kern, a famous tourists resort which was burned down several years ago in a forest fire and has never been rebuilt. Re turning they arrived in Skagway at 9 o'clock a. m, tired from their arduous tramp, but extremely well pleased, nevertheless, with the magnificent scenic panorama to which they had been treated during taajr journey.
 About the 1st of June a greatly improved service for the furnishing Of electricity to its patrons will be instituted by the Hcme Power O., which, at a meeting of the beard of directors the other day, decided to do away with the flat rate and install a complete meter system. It has been realized by the company for a long time that the flat rate now in vogue has not worked euuitably to all of the con