The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-07

Brick" Everyone who knew Comes Back Perciyal Thomas Joseph To Life. BlanChfltld will be glad
 to hear that he has at last made his whereabouts known 10 some Of his old friends. Attcr leaving here Brick" as he was known to all his friends. went 10 California for a while and was last heard of in the vicinity of Oasis. in that state In the last mail. now. ever. letters were received which told of his visit to some of the Al askans in Seattle, and which also gives the details of his life since leaving Fairbanks.
 Brick" went from California to Sidney. Australia, and there invest ed in a live stock farm. and was doing real well when the European war broke out But at that time, being a Canadian by birth. he felt the call of duty and joined an Aus tralian volunteer force. The boy was only nineteen years old last month. but he somehow managed to get around the age limit and was admitted to the army.
 The force which Brick" joined was sent to the Dardanelles, and there he has been for the past two years. This spring he was wounded twice in the right leg, and was dis charged from the hospital and sent back home From there he sailed to Seattle and has been working near Yakima for several months in a logging camp.
 At present Percy is undecided as 10 his future course. He is seri- ously thinking of making trip to some portion of Alaska for ', time. and then of going out to at tend one of the coast colleges, prob ably the University of Washington For the present he is spending his time looking up all the oldtimera he can locate in Seattle.
 Percy's father is now playing q cornet in an orchestra in San Fran cisco NIT. Blanchfield will be re- membered in Fairbanks as one of the prominent members of various musical organizations of earlier years.
 Vassar Girls In The Citizen of last Pleased With Monday appeared the Fairbanks. first last and only
 interview with any member of the Vassar girls party who are touring Alaska and who left here last Thursday on the Yu- kon after four days stay And, although they were here but short time. the girls were shown every thing there is to see and were en- tertained to the best of the ability of Fairbanksans, Their apprecia- tion of the efforts of the people to entertain them is best expressed in the letter of one of their number, written to this paper, under the caption of Impressions of an un- approchable" It is as follows:
 Fairbanks is assuredly not a monarchy, yet We hear that there is nothing so kingly as kindness, and this city has proven itself king ly in this respect. Although only few hours have passed since the arrival of the Panama the citzens have shown their charming hospi- tality, and the Nassar girls, how ever "unapproachable" at Times, are not absolutely so.
 We are already deeply indebted to several, especially to the Woman's Civic club. for the enchanting posies placed in every room. Like the time honored lecturer. We say Ladies and gentlemen, we thank you.
 MARGUERITA PHILLIPS Music If there was ever In Every chance for every music Home loving Fairbanksan tC
 acquire his hearts de sire in a musical way il is at the present time For all of the busi ness houses which deal in musical goods have brought big shipments of all kinds of such goods and musi cal instruments in from the Outside
 On the steamer Panama, which arrived here Saturday, Calderhead's Victrola shop received what is be lieved to be the largest shipment of talking machines ever sent ou, of Seattle at one time. It consisted of 125 Victrola talking machines ol all kinds. from the little S15 ma chine to the $500 electric Victrola.
 Including the big shipment, the Victrola Shop now has something like 165 talking machines on hand And it is expected that there vii be at least 40 more machines shipped in before the close of navigation. Dice Box Laws are made to keep