The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-09-04
SEWARD SNAPSHOTS

Thelma Ellsworth entertained number of her young friends Satur- day evening.
 Mir. and Mrs. c. w. Smith went out restore mailprivileges to Thomas Wat on the Mariposa.
 Mir. and Mrs. Isaac Evans are re- turning to Seward on the Alameda, after an extended visit Outside.
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 Officials of the court, with the ex- ception of Judge Munley, returned to Valdez on the Mariposa.
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 Captain Johnson of the Johnson Stagnath fishing company, went out on the Admiral Farragut.
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 The U. S. A. T. Crook, with rail road supplies, passed up Cook inlet yesterday afternoon.
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 The new freight depot is receiving the usual coat of "box car" red and will shortly look like it had been part of the landscape for many years.
 -:- Mrs. l.. F. Thompson, wife of the manager of The Empress, and their children, are returning home on the Alameda.
 N. o. Anderson is in town from Lynx creek. Anderson says the prop erty on that creek will be ready for work on large scale next season.
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 Mrs. H. E. Belle, Ida, Buster and Harry, came in from Roosevelt yes terday and the children are attending school.
 Mrs. Gus Borgen and daughters sailed south on the Mariposa en route to San Francisco, where the latter will enter business college.
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 Joe Richards is here from Hope to log for the Alaska Transfer Go. and will help get out the snowshed ma terial for Mile 531a.
 U. s. Marshal Brenneman is en route to Seward on the Alameda but will probably not continue beyond Valdez when he finds that this term of court has been completed.
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 Rev. Fischer, of the First Congre- gational church at Seattle, sailed on the Admiral Farragut for home after an extended visit with Mir. and Mrs. c. E. Myers at Moose Pass.
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 Mrs. Walter Tim, who returned from a round trip to westward on the Santa Ana, will aid the ladies in the Seward civic fair with a novel booth. What it will contain is a secret.
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 Mrs. Frank l.. Ballaine and Mrs. R. J. Weir returned on the S. s. Mari posa from westward after a visit with Mrs. William c. Edes at Anchorage. While there, Mrs. Edes entertained for her guests with an afternoon tea.
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 MT. and Mrs. Charles Krefting, Mrs. Pete Anderson, Mrs. Ed Crawford, Mrs. Alfred Rosness, Mrs. L. P. Starr and Phil Seamon went down the bay yesterday on Shelters launch, after blue berries, with splendid success.
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 Harry Ellsworth attempted to nayi- gate from Seward to the radio station with his Ford yesterday but the stream was a wee bit deeper than the draft of the car. The engine stalled and there was evidence of an uneX- pected sea voyage on the high tide but Charles Christensen came along with his team and snaked the car out of trouble
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 Rumors that the Admiral Farragut was ashore down the bay went the rounds for little while last evening when the liner stopped, whistled and turned on her searchlight at the Johnson-Stagnath fish camp, but it was soon learned that she was mere ly taking aboard some forty barrels of salt salmon and two hundred gal Ions of shark oil.
 A young undergraduate from the University of California went on a snipe hunt with a number of fellow employees over to the naval radio sta tion the other night. Those in the know, left him holding the sack while they rounded up the snipe-i e., went back to bed. After some course of time the tide came in and Rudolph, figuring that it was bad night for shine same hack to camp wetter and