The Alaska citizen., 1916-04-17
Town Gossip and Stories
B, The Tattler.

First Straw Fairbanksans generally Hat Makes have been .sOmewha Appearance surprised at the sud
 den coming of spring But il seems 10 have arrived sud denly and with a vengeance. Fol with but ten days of sunshine the winter trails have practically gon' to pieces and many people who have a great deal of winter work yet tc do in the way of hauling etc, were therefore caught mapping.
 All of this. however. did not deter Duke Thompson, the popular eX press messenger of the Panama Val ley railroad, from coming out with his straw hat on last Tuesday. He Is usually the first 10 come out in summer headgear. and. as far as can be learned. lived up to his reputation thIs time. His day of the resurrection of his straw hat is April II every year.
 One for Poor Duke"
 Worried Some years ago there Over resided in the city oi Finals. Seattle a gentleman by
 the name of Fred Gasch He was county commissioner of King county for years, and as far as is known is enjoying the best of health at the present time.
 Mir Gasch, at the time this story va stold on him. was raising an in teresting family. one of the daugh- ters later on becoming the wife of Hank Shead. the salesman at NJ A. Pinska's, and who is now on the Outside on visit.
 For those who are not familiar with the business firms of Seattle hey & Stewart were at that time, and may be yet, the principal un- dertakers of the city.
 Whether the child which is being quoted was the now Mrs. Shead or not is not told in the story, but if 1t were not she 1t certainly was her younger sister,
 The little girl had been sick for some time One day she asked;
 Mamma. after all the people ar dead who is going to bury Bonney & Stewart" The Shoe Two'me business men On The of Fairbanks. We're hay Other Foct. ing a little converse
 tion one day last week One of them is on the regular panel of the petit jury and consequently their talk drifted to court business, par ticularly the trials of the cases which have occupied the time of the court and the minds. of Fairbanksans generally for the past several weeks And the petit juryman was explain ing the attitudes of the juries sitting on the cases as compared with the attitude of a large part of the pop ulation of Fairbanks, in reference to the prosecution of the cases.
 Suddenly the other business man sprung a proposition on the jury man which related to himself, and one of the girls connected with the cases. The juryman got on his high horse when the subject was preached and said That girl is - - liar if she says that"
 Whereupon his fellow converse tionalist remarked 'I notice that you seem to be willing to convict other men of just such things on that girls testimony"
 And the silence which ensued was loud and long
 What Does Next Sunday is Easter Easter And as a consequence Represent? it is expected that many
 people, as is usually the custom, will doll up" in honor of the occasion. The reason they will do so is that it has become a habit with them. For it is safe to say that but few are acquainted with the significance of the day it. self Which fact is not at all sur prising, for the explanation afforded by all writers on the subject is very complicated to the mind of the ordinary layman
 The Encyclopedia Brittanica says that Easter is the celebration of the festival of the resurrection of Christ and that it is the principal feast of the Christian era, And it further states that it has been observed from the very earliest Christian times Both of which facts, of course, are generally known. The name Easter" is derived from the word spring" in all ancient languages, and the encyclopedia states that as consequence, Easter is usually known as the first day of the spring season.
 The proper time for the celebra tion of Easter has oCcasioned much controversy since the very earliest time, according to the encyclopedia But as celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, it never comes earlier than March 22 or after April 25. For the day celebrated is the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21, or the first calendar day of spring.
 This year Easter falls on April 23 the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21, which occurs tonight. And it is the latest in years It will, however fal even later than that, for, according to the encyclopedia, the latest Easter in this century will be April 25 of the year 1943. In 1761 and 1918, Easter fell on March %, bu this will not be the case in any year of the Twentieth century.
 Joke Was Frank Cotter was a ia Not On miliar figure in news Cotter. paper circles in the
 early days of Fairbank: and will be remembered by many old friends. He is now in business in Seward, but just to keep his
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