The Alaska citizen., 1915-03-15


fuse to grant any more licenses
there.
But while the fight over the sa.
loon matter created considerable
problem confronting the town which
threatens to be far more serious.
This problem is in regard to the
employment of a teacher for the
new school that is to be establish ed
there
No sooner We're the people of Nc
Carthy assured that they would be
given a school, than they began 10
consider what kind of a teacher
should be employed. One faction
has been insisting that the teacher
must be young and pretty and gen
orally attractive, while another fac.
ton wants a teacher that has more
brains than good looks. According
to stories printed in various Alaska
newspapers, the question of how the
new teacher must look is threaten
ing to disrupt the peace of that
community.
Unique 1t pays TO advertise, es-
/ Trophy pecially in The Citizen.
Rejected. That was proved last
week, when it was an
nounced in this newspaper that the
curling club was in need of a trophy
for the last series of the season.
The club was offered more trophies
than it could use
One of the trophies, the one re-
jected by the club, was brought to
The Citizen by Ed. Wickersham
and those who have seen it declare
that it is one of tie most interesting
trophies ever seen in Fairbanks,
even though it was at one time
awarded 10 the Fairbanks bartend-
ers for beating the BARRIERS of the
city in a baseball gabe Certainly
the trophy is unique even though its
original cost was small.
This interesting trophy is a loving
cup, made out of tin, and cheap tin
at that, and it stands about a foot
in height It's handle would do JUS
tice to large washtub 1t was
probably intended originally as a
gallon measure for the coal oil de
partment Of grocery store, and
on account of its size and shape was
a very appropriate emblem to be
won by bartenders' baseball club.
It was originally used as a trophy
in 1909, and on its side has been
painted the names Of the Fairbanks
bartenders who composed the team
that triumphantly carried it off in
that year.
Jurymen Now that the grand
Play jury is at work, some
Joke. Of the local people WHO
served in the past as
grand jurymen tell stories of thing
of a humorous nature, that have
transpired behind the guarded doors
of the grand jury room in past
years. One of these stories was
told while the members of the Com
mercial club were having a little
social hour, previous to actual work,
at the meeting last Monday night
1t seems that some years ago Max
Smith, who was until last fall at
the head of the grocery department
Of the Northern Commercial com
pany, was the victim of a practical
joke played on him by the members
of the grand jury.
At that time there was bad blood
between Mr. Smith and Mark Good
man. who was employed as a clerk
in the postoffice. This strained re
lationship between the two came to
crisis one day in the n. C. store
when one invited the other to go to
warehouse No. 8, where they could
fight it out.
The two men retired to the ware
house, and wien the fight was fin
ished, each looked like he was the
vanquished person. Really it seems
that no one remembers who of the
two men was the victor. Anyhow
the fight received considerable no.
tice from the gossips about town,
and finally reached the ears of the
grand jurymen, many of whom knew
both of the fighters. Then the joke
was decided upon.
The bailiff Of the grand jury in
formed Mr.. Max Smith that he was
wanted at the grand jury room
But he refused to go until proper
ly prepared subpoena should be serv-
ed on him. The bailiff returned
later, however, with a subpoena
signed by the foreman Of the jury,
and this had so much of an official
air about it, that Mr.. Smith con
Guided that unless he obeyed he
might be sent to Jail.
At the grand jury room, Mr..
Smith had to answer all sorts Of