The Cordova daily times., 1920-01-20
'MORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA
 OCCURRENCES

Seward recently published a new telephone directory.
 An Anchorage man is selling hot house lettuce raised in the city.
 A. w. Lipke returned to Seward on recent boat, after having spent some time overseas as wireless operator
 Judge Bunnell continued the case of Joseph Laubner vs. Doris Laubner until the next term of court at Seward
 Isaac Broad of Wrangell was fined s10o recently for being intoxicated and resisting arrest. Broad paid the fine
 William Brown, formerly agent for the Admiral line at Cordova was act ing as freight clerk on the last trip of the Admiral Watson
 The telegraph lines were down be- tween Seward and Anchorage the first of the month, owing to the heavy snow slides on Turnagain arm.
 An Igloo of Pioneers with nearly fifty members was organized at Ko- diak recently. The new organization starts out with flattering prospects.
 The Chamber. of Commerce at An chorage holds regular weekly lunches, where the members get together and discuss affairs beneficial to the city
 D. Housel, a Well-knOWn business man in Juneau, and Miss Florine Jones of Indiana were married in Se- anle on Christmas day. They will make their home in Juneau. William Fairman, who recently re- turned to Seward after an extended visit to the States, says there are 25,000 idle men in Seattle, and the North never looked as good to him as it does now. Lena Kippen, former prOprietress of the Cozy Corner soft drink emporium at Ketchikan, was arrested recently and fined $100 or fifty days in the federal jail. The woman announced that she would serve time.
 Miss Barbara Preston, who was born in Ketchikan and later attended the public schools in that city, was mar ried at Reno, Nev., recently to Ben F. Barrow, former service man. Miss PrSston's parents lived in Ketchikan for more than twenty yeyars.
 The natives of Juneau and vicinity had an elaborate Christmas program. Several splendid music numbers were rendered by the choir, which it is said, would have been credit to any white choir in the largest of cities.
 J. R. Hewett has opened up a ma chine shop on Pennock island, near .1Ketchikan, directly opposite the Vstandard Oil dock. Hewett formerly was foreman at the Northern machine shops in Ketchikan for six years
 Eugene Barbin, a pioneer Klondiker, died recently after an illness of many akeeks. He was engaged as a baker for the Boss bakery for many years. MT Barbin was native of Quebec, and leaves a widow and several adult childr He was an active member of t snkon Order of Pioneers.
 .sco papers are playing up the arrival in that city of Allan E. Gren- nan of Dawson, who the papers say had never seen a street car, palm Aree or cement sidewalk until he ar rived there, having grown to man. hood in the Northland. Brennan is in charge of the dog teams of film play studio, and corrects errors in Arctic settings.
 The Malamute Kid, who has been at work on the government railroad near Fairbanks, has quit his job and there is strong probability of the railroad never becoming finished, &C., coxding to interior papers. When the Halamute Kid went to work for the government he took along with him his 1O3 dogs, as any Alaska dog-owner would naturally do. It is said that the dogs made life burden to the rail- road workers, although they were the