The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1927, Page 24

Tl)lf. HOW ARD, FAMED AS .S'(,'Ilz‘\'l"l.\"l'. house flies helped tc MERRY DAY citrus industry ot | scale, and the use | parasites and natura {both the gypsy an | inse | Howard's chief hobl [ with e Happy Christmas Time is all of them. | Dr. Marl with us again. May its Joy and Peace make your 1912 linfected products to | States. day complete. - oo | LONDON, Dec, 24 i kins gets more and {on da | broke, Dr and Dr. .C. L. Marlatt, | dier as worked out WASHINGTON, Dec, 24 An OF providing ample claimed as the ¥ whose skill | and guidance saved the natfon’s|¢0Tds call the crops a billion dollar insect pests, Dr. Le! ard, at the he entomology loss from | nd 0. How- of government | more than 30 ned his task o retiring ingpecfor departments, 1 “Study ha | average soldier is vears, has younger hands. | His mantle falls to Dr. C. L. | Marlatt, oclate chiet of regu-!una ysually buys a {latory work in the bureau of en | {tomology and chairman of the| federal horticultural board. | Dr. Hows request, purpc tomol 1 research. In his sev-|or supper on Tues entieth y . he a century of federal service that! | Monday. |saw his name inscribed on every | meal is ‘broke’.” Col. Wri i J. M. GIOVANETTI deeds extolled in this and fore | lands. ¢ The lightest meal Dr. Howard’s favorite fields!day, when Tommy | | ‘iAx‘- medical entomology and pa: ‘()ld Papers for sale at Emplre Office| land is looking for sitology, especially the study of spend it on cakes, insects that cause (hw.xm in man. ‘n\m,.n o The Voice of a Great Organization UT unto the crisp clear air of Christmas Morn---blending with the chimes from many ‘ belfries---reaching f.nr and wide into the heart 1 of every home in this community goes the wish of this human organization. To everyone in our ever-w 1d nmg circle of friends we speak our smurcst thanks for their valued patronage --- for their part in making possible the enormous expansion which has taken place during the past year---and for the great volume of business we have done. We pledge ourselves to be of greater serv- ice to vou during the coming vear than ever before---and to perpetually merit that full meas- ure of good will you have bestowed upon us. May this be to yvou and yours the most ]0\ ous of Christmases, and may vou realize in { 1928 the fulfillment of all your ambitions. JUNEAU COLD STORAGE (0., Inc. when he i W mo, extras at all when he has a full pocketbook. | This is the human side of new r. Leland 0. Howard (above) means of feeding the Briti by army ex- |perts. The “progressive system 24 GRS s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, DEC. 24, RETIRES 1\ U. S. ENTOMOLOGIST the. His studies of mosquitoes and Ph 1i control ) ]IL:J:”'M. vellow fever, typhoid fe ’ (heir résiimiendation Me, hs ve- !“Hlifl wife of the senior senator| ver, and otlier dangerous mala | ceived @ permanent parole gna|from Ohio. | s | been rele: i smu- penitentiary, where hé was ,xmlfln on his hands she gives hi ence of from ten *o|all the aid she can, but as One of Dr. Howard's most not. worthy accomplishments has been his wort with parasites of in.|Upera House, NO' thtle b beetle from the Orient saved th | Coast from great injury by white i « 1 d (moth has had a leading | W V!I all of his attainments, Dr.| w hy srybody everywhere. He | the Pre ys he learns something from |located in Juneau at the time | t, who has been close-|one of the instigators of the [1y associated with Dr. Howard's| administration since 1889, was in-| A ilttle log ecabin where the|ine strumental in promoting pa of the Plant Quarantine Act in|church, but this was not the regulating importation of | scene of the big doings. The op- "TOMMY GETS FINE ' , FOOD WHEN BROKE |inence that were held here, and |tor the men,” said old army re nnovation, Lieut. Col. Stephen of army ca-| tering, announced scientifically re. | organized plans’ in the army food | revealed that the fairly flush | with money during the week ends. {outside, but by Sunday night he to meet that situation as an d, retiving at his oW1 [aid in keeping the soldier fit and | Along the lines of entertai to continue en-|content the army now has a tea On Wednesday a better | qances In June 5 served, and on Thursds {honor roll of science and his it is better still, and even inclides | gances were squaws {fruit salad.and other sweets.” In 1886 the first dance attend d has his pay |eval of Juneau's prominent citi- a In vl Y Which 18 | time but throughout the year, M a8 finished half|jittle more substantial than on nt the cures 1927. tendencies | ina —tha new‘rr again| ployes in vaults and depart with | cash in the hysicians d, and on sed ng a sente | twenty-one yea fi Scene of Festivities the Pa siire »f European| Christmas trees for the kiddies | gjoia enemies of |0f the town of Juneau are not an | ., brown-tail | invention « of extremely modern |y oqiment tor ne: part in |times, here, according to nm«.x‘,l.m,.,.,-.,\ paroles granted him. | |~.\\||1, the trees of New England. | Valentine, local jeweler, who is| bration, Mr. Valentine recalle held on his first year as s talking | resident of Juneau. Rev. King byterian Church, who w RI and who i now in California, was movement. nerv He of electrical enginee plans to on the Dr: ns to inal vagar i Similar control measures are re. |one of Junes pioneer mer W |intervals, but ithe copking and |garded as having saved American chants, having first come here in S]eep.wa]kmg Ofilcer fiP{l"'h{l. straightening” are done | | agriculture from approximately | 188 Falls O f Wind e s Willie | | one mm.m dollars in damage by| The first Christmas tree cele-| s Out of INAOW| sShe is a member of the Con-!| CHMOND, | tain of Police B. V. today of injuries he -received when he fell from a second story window of his as he walked in his sleep. The accident was attributed m;"‘ Episcopal Church.- MRS. FRANK B. WILLIS e derangement suffered by | officer afte of a railroad workeg from bhenea'h | 2 the trucks of a tank car. pronounce Burgett | lock the em . tills, . DELAWARE, 0, Dee. ann! the strength of | tics do not bother Mrs, l-‘rau)\ B from the Kansas| When her husband has a cam | rs for the holdup |polities in general—Mrs. Willis is ect pests. Introduction of a L05 Cabin Church of the Qindaro bank. [too deeply interested in her home | ue the studyand in collecting old-fashioned | ing. A pres “quilu to hother | n is said by phy-\ Sne does virtuaiiy all the house-| sed ""'"“““\\urk at the Willis home here, as ineighbors will testify. The laun-| comes in once a week, anl| | the “cleaning woman” at regular| ie gressional Club and the luncheon club of semators’ wives in Wash- |ington. However, she gets just as much pleasure out of attend- |ing the meeting of the Ladies’ Aid | Society of the Delaware Method- Cal.,, Dec. 24.—Cap- Shirley dizd house last night Her own hobby is collecting | r he worked three | auilts like grandmother used, not | e [Zynda Hotel now stands was th®|hours to help extricate the hody|the startling things known asiand former governor of Ohio azy quilts, but those of ordercd 'proud of this—has never made a | design. The pride of her collec-! political speech. the Unitedfcra house, the building on the P v E tion is a quilt that has been n il Ee corner of Second and Seward | Agvertiéing always pays. “isejher family for nearly a century. Aivetininie Stunos ‘save. which is mow owned by Mrs |the columns of The Empire. Mrs. Willis—and the senator the columns of The Empire. Winn, w: the | scene of in the early days, 1 the affairs of prom. | jas usual it was chosen for th first Christmas Tree for the peo Tommy At-|ple of Juneau. better food apt to be There were not muny children nor many white women here in those days. Mr. Valentine sail,| but the certainly joyed them-| selves and every effort was made | to have the tree well covered | with presents for all. ‘ Men, women and ehildren, 10 matter who they were, left tho| opera house with something other |~ | | | nourishment than what they went in with. Ali| kinds of goodies were on tap foi a feed at the tree, and then there | wer Wright, on presents and more goodics for the children and grown-ups to take home. | sryone was full of the ben- evolent spirit and for those who | cared to get up on the stage and do a little soug and dance num ber there were a few dollar thrown at their feet at the con | clusion of the act. meal or so it observel. ments held not only at Christma entine relatad, were t i's firs years the only women on Satur-{hy white women was held. Sev 2 1zens and six white women dc candy and|cided to hold an impromptu dance in one of the few buildings then rding on what is now Front u I t. The dance began with | the dozen or =o men and women all dressed up for the occasion. However, it had been the cus- {tom for the men to attend the |dances in their old clothes, lum | ber jackets, or whatever ited | their ‘moods. Every little whilc some man would walk in, look around the hall, and then sneak out again as if he had a guilfy conscience, A few minutes later the same man reappeared, but on the sec- ond occasion he was garbed in | his Dbest clothes which had been laying at home in the moth balls for some time. For the rest of the evening the six white women were kept busy dancing with men who had not had such a treat since they left the States. After that the prospectors, car- penters and their fellow men came to the dances all dolled up ready to make a big evening of it. OPERATION SUCCESSFUL ON STUDENT Model at Scio-oi, Turns Out to Be Robber Over Week-Ends INDEPENDENCE, Kan., Dec. 24. —Paul Burgett, who led a Jekyll- Hyde career as a student at the Missouri Military Academy, at Mexico, Mo., is starting life anew. The 26-year-old former - bank bandit, who attributed his hectic criminal eareer to a brain afflic. tion, is making a new beginning by working in the oil fields here, Paul Burgett, as Dr. Jekyll, was: A model cadet in a military academy; business manager of the academy paper: member of the football team; a popular member of the younger set in Mexico, Mo.: 'la well-behaved home boy, who was never knowi to drink, smoke or swear., Paul Burgett, as Mr, Hyde, was: /A bandit who spent his week- |2 | ends ‘holding up and robl w. a highwayman who stole ' car in Quay, Okla., an‘i M .:Dd held" up five | ank and W er. of the W . Kansas City, ) K’;fin held - ap chance \ i £ you, too, t6 a Pleasant Holiday Season. WHAT COULD BE SWEETER? The Season’s Greetings To Our Personal and Business Friends, To Our Customers, To Our Competitors and Every Reader of This Paper. Gastineau Grocery Frye’s BuiLping Juneau, Alaska i Usi Merry Christmas = To You . You have made us happy in being able to serve you---it is our earnest wish that we have played a worthy part in assisting \