The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-26

to call at the office of the collector for the Washington district. which includes Alaska. In the course of his remarks. the collector stated that ere were less mistakes in the in come tax returns from Alaska than from any other district. Thus he intimated that the average person here who made out these returns is unusually intelligent.
 A new travelling deputy collector of customs will be sent into Alaska this year. it is learned He is some man who has been promoted from the Tacoma office, and he will come in here soon after navigation opens. He will take the place made vacant by the resignation of E. c. Raine wao quit the job last fall.
 Name Joe Morrow. the good And time natured teller in the Mixed. First National bank
 has an extremely in- yentive mind. which is occupied when not at regular duties. In fig uring out jokes on his friends It is also kncwn that some of his friends are quite inventive when it comes to making up stories without foundation about MT Morrow. sim ply to get even with him. Here is one such story, which, of course, MT. Morrow denies:
 It is said that someone came into the bank one day recently to make a payment of some kind but took the money to the wrong window. She was told to pay 1t to Morrow. She concluded that for some reason the bank wanted her to pay it tomorrow. so she went out and returned the next day with the money.
 Maiden IL Is said that Time Names dulls the memory" and -orgotten. 1t was found by an
 unique method in Fair banks last week that It sometimes even makes one forget name com mon to his or her childhood. The test was made by Mrs. Guy B. Er- win when she was hostess last Thurs day at party of elderly ladies on the occasion of the 18th birthday of Mir Erwin's mother, Mrs. R. k. Er- win.
 In planning for the party, Mrs. Er- win hit upon the novel plan of hay ing the place cards at the table bear the maiden names of the guests, though all of them were more than 50 years of age.
 To find out the maiden names of the guests was no easy matter, but by the aid of numerous friends it was finally accomplished. Thus, when the guests arrived the hostess told them that each would find her place at the table by means of the cards. That was when the fun be- gan, for most of them passed by their own places, not recognizing the old names by which they were known in youth. At last one lady looked for moment at a card. and then declared that it was her name, though she had not been called by it for the last 40 years.
 The maiden names of the guests, as found on their place cards. were as follows: Mrs Cambern, Ella Levey;" Mrs. Simpson, "Adeline Cor don;" Mrs Birmingham. Sophia Kid der" Mrs Rushworth, Mary Bick- erdike;" Mrs Monasmith, Mary Porter" Mrs. Siddons Helen Reid; :" and Mrs. Erwin, the guest of hon or. Isabel Reading"
 On the back of each place card was an original verse. describing the name of the guest for whom it was intended The verse on Mrs Erwin's card was as follows: "T' stands for Isabel
 And they choose well,
 For she always has been,
 And still "Is Belle"
 Shes had attention enough to
 Turn anyone's head And before she was sixteen
 Years old, she was wed.
 Who LOST-Two or three Took The gallons of delicious Ice Ice Cream? cream in the hills near
 town. Finder will please inform almost any one of the Fair banks high school boys.
 The foregoing is not a paid ad vertisement, but it Is printed here for the purpose of assisting some young men in explaining to certain young ladies rather peculiar event that took place a week ago yester day in the hills near the city, where the young people went to hunt cro- GUS.
 The sad story of the disappear ance of the ice cream was slow about leaking out, but the ice cream leaked out, or was taken out with out any delay.
 It seems that the crocus party had been planned several days in ad- vance, and the young men decided to surprise the young women of the party by providing ice cream. Ac- cordingly they had the ice cream packed into a large oil can, and on the Saturday night previous to the party this was carried into the hills and hidden in the bushes, ice being packed about the can to keep the cream cold.
 It was planned by the young men to allow the young ladies to bring the cake and other refreshments, and to produce the ice cream at the proper time as surprise to the young women.
 Accordingly, after the picnic was spread, the young men began to
 K about the need of ice cream, and at last the young women were nuuced to go with them to the place where the cream was hidden. There they all beheld the can in which the ice cream had been brought, and the male members Of the party innocently suggested that yorbapc 1t contained comat hing good