Douglas Island news., 1916-02-02
The Douglas Island News.
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 nounced for tonight.
 The steamship Spokane reached Treadw9ll today at noon.
 Hose Company No. will meet next Monday night at the city hall building.
 The next meeting of the Douglas council will be on Monday, February l4th.
 Go Go Stubbins' for Ladies', Misses and Chndreu's Coats at greatly reduced prices.
 Plain sewing wanted at home or will go out by the day. Prices reasonable. Mrs. B. Gage, Douglas. tf
 Ed Salmon returned on the Al-Ki from Victoria. B. C., much improved in health and general appearance.
 Leivers & Leivers, candy manufac- turers, expect their expert candy maker to return from the States on an early boat.
 Louie Keist has moved to Juneau, and Bill Miller, the tonsorialist, has taken possession of tbe premises va cased.
 The report that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brie left for the South on the Alameda has been exaggerated. They are still with us.
 Go to Stubbins' for Ladies, Misses and Chudren's Coats at greatly re- duced prices
 The "Black Box" film, which was lost overheard from the ferry last week during the storm, has been recovered ! by a fisherman.
 It is now stated that during the com . ing summer an average of one boat . per day will reach Gastineau chanuel . from the south.
 Paul Peterson, an employe at the Treadwell machine shop, received serious injury to his right eye one day last week by a piece of hot babbit.
 Mrs. M. Wilhelm, of the Stubbins store, departs on the Alameda for Cali. fornia, where she will spend several . months visiting at the home of Mrs. Cornwall.
 The groundbog saw bis shadow today all right. This means that be took a look around and scrambled back into his winter nest, where he will sleep for six weeks and then come out and stay out, and our winter will be over.
 A bill board has been erected ou the street in front of the residence of Councilman Frank Oliver The man who tears it down and chops it up for kindling wood will do SO with the ap- proval and consent of the town council.
 Jim Monaglc, former resident of Douglas. and a brother iu law of Mrs. Joseph Patterson and Mr.M.S Hudson, arrived last week from Buckley, Wash. Jim says that coming back to Douglas is one of the most natural things in the world.
 Lou Miller returned Sunday from Lituya bay, where he has spent six months placer mining for gold. He was accompanied by a man named Jack Mcleod, who is nursing a badly lacer- ated hand as a result of a dispute with Jack Campbell over mining claim.
 The high wind of last week uncovered l a Hume that supplies a part of the water that goes into the high pressure tank of the Douglas Water Works. The frost did the rest and sealed the Hume. Iu consequence Douglas was pretty shy on water for day or two.
 The weather bas moderated from the severe cold of last week, and the Taku wind is letting up a little more every day. But the days are bright aud the sun is gaining in power. The scars of winter, in the shape of bursted water pipes, cracked windows and tumbled down chimneys are as yet mostly un' healed
 On the Al-Ki when she went South last week were Mrs. II. Lahikaineu and three children bound for Finland. Something over a year ago the husband and father died of consumption, leav ing bis family with scarcely nothing but debts. He was a logger, but had formerly worked for the Treadwell company. The family has been de- pendent on charity and would no doubt have suffered had the Treadwell com- pauy not made them an allowance of | et ner day. The voman finally decided