The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-15
Town Gossip and Stories
By The TattIer.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>~~>~ ~>~~~>~~~~-~~~~~~~~~~~> He Was The members of a Ger. On The tain organization in Fair Square. banks meet once every
 month. They manage to keep the expenses of their little parties down by supplying their own needs in the way of refreshments And to do this they take turns in small groups. their names coming up in alphabetical order.
 At the meeting held last week Sandy" Barrack was on the en tertainment committee. The com mittee was presided over by one of the lady members of the order whose business 1t was to tell the re mainder of the committeeman just what they should provide in the nature of refreshment.
 The lady called MT. Barrack up by telephone and asked him to bring a square of honey realizing that, as working man he would not have tho time nor inclination to prepare anything Mir Barrack had hard time to understand the lady over the phone. but he evidently decided that when she asked him the question she said Wont you bring a square. honey?" for, much to the surprise of the lady he walk ed into the meeting the other even Ing with common carpenters square he did so, Is this what you want" In Union There is an old adage There Is which states that I'D Strength. union there is strength 7
 But that even such logi- cal saying as that may sometimes be wrong has been often demon strated. even though the parties concerned are as far apart on vari- ous subjects as the two poles.
 Over at Rampant there are two .'UIIuo INduIllS SOoIl dIlt! M P. Fleischman. They have both been in the Yukon town for years and number themselves among the most prominent residents Likewise they have quarreled over business matters and have not spoken tc each other in civil manner for
 
 know. Only recently a supreme cour decision was rendered in a suit which was the result of their old time quarrel.
 Recent events, however, have dem onstrated that the quarrel has had nothing to do with the civic pride have not spoken to each other for five years, have combined through other parties to build trail from Rampant to the Tolovana country, said road now being open for busi- ness.
 Why The The News-Miner was News Minor late All of their sub Wac Late. scribers were wait
 ing expectantly and al most breathlessly for the news of the day it would bring forth. The question of the hour was, Are wa at war with Germany yet?" or Why doesn't that paper come?"
 And all the time that these subscribers were waiting so pa tiently or impatiently for their pa per little drama of newspaper life. particularly In the case of the News Miner, was being enacted at that office For there was an ex- cellent reason for the lateness of the paper Saturday evening. In fact, the only places that its late ness was not noticeable were Gar den Island and other nearby districts of the community, for the patrons of the paper in those portions Of the city had received their evening news with a life size portrait (al- most of Attorney General Mickey holds" on the front page But therein lies the story.
 A visitor casually dropped into the NewsMiner office Saturday evening when it was about time that the paper was off the press He went back to the press and picked up a paper as 1t came off Almost the first thing that caught his eye was the picture of "Attor- neyGeneral McReynolds."
 For moment he could hardly believe his eyes He was not cer- tain that he had read the name and article right, but he was sure that former Attorney General Mickey holds had been elevated to the su- preme bench something near a year ago. and that Thomas Watts Gregory Is the present attorney-general.
 In the kindness of his heart he therefore notified the News Miner bunch that they were "jobbing themselves. Then an argument en sued. which eventually resulted in the press being stopped. Quickly the telegraph editor stepped to the