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7] 7D;u'ly Alaska Em pire Benjamin Wrangell is and i member of JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITO many R AND MANAGEB Published EMPIRE PR) Streets, Juneau, eve) n VTING COMBANY Alabka pt Sunday by at Second and Main ¢ ) the « strong race Eotered 1n the Post Office in Ju matte: uneau as Second Class With the SUBSCRIPTION P Derrvered by caerier In Juneau, Thane for $1.25 per postage paid, at the One year, in advance, $12 sl $6.00; one month, In advance, $1 Bubscribers will confer a favor motify the Business Office of any @ the delivery of their papers, Telephon Editc nd By mall, Bu Douglas, Treadwell and ATES. didate the Traitt tial General just a on month, for o following rates: wajoritie in advance inop x montas, 25. if they will promptly fallure or irregularity Rustga or for re-election usiness Offices, 374. MEMBER =F ASSOGIATEZD PRESS. The Associated Press Is exclu use for republication of all news it or not otherwise credited in th local news published herein It in Senators sively entitled to the 4 dispatches credited to lic is paper and also the - ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER “UBLICATION seat have to take a is long as t JUNEAL FRESH F Pacific Fis overtake AS The Juneau market chikan pounds September pounds. Twenty-one fares ar and thirty-eig P eau covered by th ot in November has the while neit cle 1 course the Rupe 9,000 pounds October than Alaska tc are Pr 3, in greater of the The were same where the Prince the I ce Rur when ali those for the wns halibut rec HELP G lu)\\ R \I\I There Manager in Ju a gift Home should be cordial W. D. Gross au and Ketchikan substantial sum of to of the at No matter timers are being cared things they sht nothing that counts ing and to of the in money f resident h n for ( €0 m each Sitka for m get quite scme one’s pock for any money ch does not one nethin Home, there is There residents of a great deal raising the cash to and make enjoyable ire s more if money and i proy to give eac his feel and hi own that use him event as MR. WALKER MADE RACE. takes into accou When one to 1,200 Indians voted Mr. Walker of Ketc run fer the Territ nst. him from the 34, He had returns from the that s a se election markable majority a returns was in the early was thought the Indian towns bloes cut his lead pletely and left him a few Mr. Walker is one of the Southeast Alaska. That the public testified by in appreciation of his fitness It is unfortunate that additional votes that would be him in the Legislature with Ziegler However, that he would their he with down unti vo! such i the he did Mr pitted Walker was against a for fi halibut. Tk Oct October very i1 it best Mr suffered ISH MARKET. Evidently tend about to permit herman shows Ketchikan that that que n he receipts ber Juneau The right of is un were between e American 20 were rived at Ketchikan during the periods nor Ketchikan (C markets landings had single recelpts month in either ibut is St. Paul of as were | verity ert but days of patra of the empire against rights of wings of the penetrate. Something {enjoyed by greater deg with ject of any Theatres |globe since the dust of their day, Pioneers | endure for blood old-| o man autho man within diction—and A British realized by aesar's hour nee political lenging ¢ wh This is why prohibition agen States the Mire To be the a October for eipts THE MONEY. the e t co-operation Coliseum the his effort a cash Christma to ra w the well how ow these many “hristmas, uch fc et ths or nice is joy as hav ity there be is his own to have account than hundred | t owill one cost no one er co-operation in h of them little n way, Chr an a his own tmas was Caandian [tice promptly {proud and lusty [not with Englishmen 000 |mitted at from 1,000 },,0ting in the late |yovernmental made re-lin behalf of Senate. Theof the » complete unoffictal! A large majority white towns and it pull through But | almost unanimous | vanished com-| g4 tes shy of election. |g qualified of {march is the opinion of |tional » fine vote he got for the Legislature. 1 not get the few necessary to place Shattuck and Mr. | Je it fact |included Mr. EXCELLENT or the int that lid bloc hikan D a orial Eighteent simple to halt And The dignity immunity men under banner And belie: ton still there e that the by the man, on strong one the last friends strength In¢ Attorney-General oW will the Supreme any one to dispute realized Roman Augustus made no obelsance to imperious Cleo- a citizen of Rome was to be assured unqualified support and protection of the any Roman like other frontiers remote planting the centuries, in that day, his Government and the subject the to which spelled the doom of earth’s mightiest sovereignty Government border peremptorily |ered to cease firing acorss the border. impunity expense of its own and the sleuths who slay protest |ment has been sufficient to call the booze bravos they shooting into Canada is concerned, at subject is assured, of nevertheless, the to seems parrots the parrots should be THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY NOV 24, of the s deservedly of a merchants He atives and ritory leading popular. House of Represen throughout the worth of that Mr, was Mr Walker's and redit he is made. eliminated, Ticket e would Division majority than two lian vote every cept Judge substan- Attorn of 1,6 to one Democratic have the Fi received a in rst rd votes less to that the 1 overlook Senator leader even if who has not held a guess Repub- Borah they Senate fricult a te man he Idaho eagle, does to River that flood relief. Mississippi the stion ¢ not in- powers be forget of has settled it beyond the The Ku Klux Klan and practice. Court in principle The British Citizen. incinnati l<.:1qmlvr ) importance and herald value, The proud the citizenship trespass upon anywhere the or might invasion of or individual eagle hovered Roman this prized guardianship is British subject enjoyed in han has been the lot of the sub- country on the face of the legions of the Emperors pressed in the civilization Roman standards to One needed not patrician to secure the aid and defense ~the sign and symbol of Ro- power enveloped every free- majesty of the imperial juris- ond what was the first the decad- today realizes Roman subject from the fading days of until came Britain's chal- ich still obtains. otherwise practically unhampered ts, coast guards and other United quick-trigger agents along have been ord- The prac- Even our own that it can- expense of at is per- tizens—the explaining afterward, with rotection superlatively extended in the name discontinued Government is aware permit, at the English subjects, w h Amendment. from the Canadian Govern- will stay so far least and immunity of the British and it is superior to the dignity the American citizen, who to- is supposed to be ready to stripes and stars of the na- its ultimate defense! halted, as The campaign cigar is now almost unknown. are people who profess not to world is growing better.— (Hous- Post-Dispatch.) in Atlantic City have been polling list. Of course, the 21 years old.—(Detroit News.) SCHOOLS SHOW SMALL GROWTH IN PAST YEAR Alaska Schools Continue t Grow—New Law Proves Unsatisfactory Alaska small year ties son educa 1 took place school year 192 marized as follc schools, in nu in school ' expe during enc owth 1927-28 ster D, Hend ritorial commissi The in compar ner expansion whic may be sun In mnumber 9 teache ry school enrol ment, $102,355 Increased costs be excess along otl are less would indics of the ir the con buileings corporated ci school building year was §29.993 with $4,344 for 1926.27. 44 may ap n view of the charg utside the cost 1 ng ie school ye School Statistics The following tal sets f details relative to the #chools maintained, their ment, etc.: Number of schools Number of teachers Total pupils enrolled 0 number Elementary school enrollment 4115 | High school enrollment Elementary school graduates High school graduates . Expenses and expendl!ures v & ¥ 0. Of the nhlely scl hooln mainta ed, sixty.ome were taught by one on with th total enrollment compared 4828 three to twenty teachers each Thu‘ enroliment varied from two pupils | at Woodrow to six hundred fifty- ! three at Ketchikan. Cos from $855.31 for the spec at Moose Creek to $49 | amount expended at Juneau. | The per capita annual expense| of schools in incorporated cities | including expenditures for | capital outlay) was $125.85. Per| capita annual expense for indi.| vidual schools ranged from Eagle, the most expensive per pupil in average daily attendance, | to §94,12 at Petersburg, the least In schools outside in- | s the annual in average daily| $158.24 | Source of Funds h rated citles derived an| ¢ | average percent of their | and expenditures | f|from the Territorial treasury. The amount expended was § Of this amount $245 received from Territorial fatio d the balance $130 from local taxation. Cordo- the highest per cent! itorial support, 84 | and Petersburg the per cent. of Territorial be considered the opinion of Under the law| Legislature, the Ter- ritorial refund to each school may not exceed a sum equal to 85 per cent of for the school sar 1926 So long as a par. ticular city school system ren )07 (not (V) expensive 1| corporated ¢ pense per pupil dance was ex- \- | total expenses 1. | was 1| propr 01 received the Te cent 14.9 va basis cannot ry, in on upport sfa as n of passed by the i expenses (| static such an of arrangement is sat- stactory. However, if expansion taking place burden falls heavily 2 community as its school grow is the more upon 8yS Examples of Inequity Cordova and Pe burg, referred above, afford e. manner in which 95 | works. Since the |1926-27 the Cordova vamn has experienced no special in- | growth necessitaling the employ- [mmn of additional teachers, or the new school school law sys- | teacher each, ten by two teachers other marked increase in expenses, each, and the balance by from|consequently this city receives ap- | employ | opportunities for the 'm continues to| | Game amples of the | year | 85 per cent ial support. Petersburg, on the other hand, has been forced to two additional teachers in order to keep pace with the in- creased enrollment. This addi- tional expense must be carried al. most entirely by the municipality, thus materially decreasing the per cent of Territorial support and placing the city among the group which is penalized on account of proximately Territor- | the natural growth and expansion of its school Seward afford in point. This teacher to the school faculty in 19 and a second teacher at the opening of the current school year. The law penalizes her for thus attempting to provide better children en- tem still another case city added one roiled in her schools B WHO’S WHO AND WHERE, W. R. Selfridge, member for the First Division of the Alaska iame Commission, is returning to his home in Ketchikan on the Yukon. He has been in attend- ance at the Commission's annual meeting which ended last Tues- day. F. W. Byerly, well known photographer and skii expert of Petersburg, returned there on the Yukon after spending two days here. Mrs. going enroute . | - J. H. Cann was an out- passenger on the Yukon to Seattle to join her husband, Capt. J. H. Cann, there. Frank P. Willlams, Game Com- missioner from the Second Divi- sion, who has been attending the annual meeting of the Alaska Commission here for the two weeks, left for Seattle the Yukon. R. C. (Bob) Chamberlain, well- known pioneer of Fairbanks, is a passenger on the Yukon for Seattle |to visit friends there and else- ;wh ara in the States, —————— ALBUMS For your Summer Snap Shots. Winter and Pond Co. adv. past on Benjamin | for | can- | H————-————- ‘l ALONG LIFE’S 'l DETOUR By SAM HILL ! B Hint To Wives A little praise, If given now and then, Will do a lot To make more cheerful men Sez Granddad— The big advantage the hitching post had over parking space was| that you didn't get tagged for hanging around it too long. What Every Preacher Knows “Daddy,” said the preacher's| small gon, “why are they called lay | members?” y “Because they always are laying | down on the job, son,” dad. { Passing Observation The bottle opener is considered even more important than the can| opener in some homes, Where Ignorance Is Bliss Raw carrot salad is A thing we've read about— It may be good—but we’ll Ne'er eat it to find out!!! Huh' Blinks: “I always count ten be fore 1 speak when I am angry.” Jinks: “That's commendable—" Blinks: “No, hardly, you see I use that time it takes to think up meaner things to say than I could | it 1 spoke right out.” Great Need of The Times Oig t cigars and coal that will burn without louvmg ashes. | | 1t | modern cl sighed his | True sign that but now More Or Less It used be a a perfect lady would consider it just to speak of her leg limbg it would be for her to hide them ind an old-fashioned, long skirt A husband's pocket is what his travels in on its way window to his she a wo- to was man ly as sil- b s pay the ¢ 's handbag The only thing more helpless han a new born babe ver in the hands of a clever wom- ashier’s is a man an The of a fat out principal occupation woman, who is fair, and forty, is trying to paint the forty and reduce the fat n a man needs a two- it is because the kind of thes he wears can’t be washed out before going to bed and hung the bathtub to be ready for morning Probably the nearest thing to ab- ute zero in consolation is for a know her are very even if they anything ornamental reason some girls get mar. s because they have no little entertain their beaux are completing their ver next legs are us but ried brothers to le they CALL FOR BIDS ALL CONCERNED: \led bids will the Office of the Governor of until two o’clock P. M., 28, 1928, covering the| furnishing of suitable quarters, Juneau, for the use of the Ninth Session of the Al ritoria Legislature for eight days, beginning Monday March 4 and ending Friday, May 10, 1929, both dates inclusive; the quarters to be provided with desks, tables, chairs, heat, light, water, vidors, wastd-baskets, ) TO Se be received at Alaska November cu A Rare One A very strange stenog. Is Ellen Mary Wall. Who looks like she was dressed For business, not a ball. | A Slick Dad | “How did you get rid of that| objectional suitor your daughter| was so determined to marry?"| asked the old friend. “I sent him all the bills I've paid for her during the last six months,” grinned the father. None Better The two best wa to get a lot of whopping big lies told about! you are to insult the community gossip and run for the highest of- fice in the greatest country in the world. Which Is More Truth Than Poetry “MAY THE BEST MAN WIN"— headline, And how often the groom lives to wish he had and now was the one who was dishing out the ali- mony. vonshine! Since an astronomer is The father of Miss Ella Boone, It's probably not so strange That she should be o’er fond of moon. Natural Question “Yes, bridge is his topic.” “What is he—an engineer, den. tist or card shark?" Speakin' Of Optimists— There is the gent who buys his spectacles from a mail-order house who deserves some honorable men. tion. favorite Where's The Alarm Box? ‘What flaming youth Needs most, no doubt, Are firemen who Can put him out Had Listened To Dad's Remarks “Daddy, what is a dungeon?” asked Bobbie. “ Adark and gloomy replied his fatner. “Oh,” exclaimed the kid, “then the living room is a dungeon when mother won’t let you turn on the upper lights, isn't it?” place, son,” Which Isn't Saying Much A fish hawk around Wildwood, N. J., was discovered trying to hatch out a nest full of golf balls. Probably having just as much suc- cess at that as the owners did with the game they had tried to play with ‘em. Mabry’s Cafe Imperial Building Front Street Regular Dinners Short Orders Lunches Open 6 a. m. to 2 a. m. POPULAR PRICES Merchants Lunch served from 11:30 a. m. to 2 p. m. daily. 50 cents HARRY MABRY land toilet facilities. [requirements to meet actual con- 'lllli()ll:‘. platforms, janitor services, etcet- including the installation of proper and sufficient lavatory speci- the Further particulars and fications may be procured at Governor's Office Bids must be sabmitted in quadruplicate and the envelope in which enclosed marked plainly to indicate the contents. The right reserved to reject any or all bids, and to alter, amend or modify the specifications and The successful bidder will be required to enter into a written contract, embodying the terms and provisions of the accepted bid, and furnish a bond in the amount of the bid. GEO. PARKS, Governor of Alaska. First publication, Nov. 16, 1928.| Last publication, Nov. 27, 1928. AUTOS FOR HIRE /SomeTHING Treat yourself to a ride. —says Taxi Tad. hard day's work you'll find it refreshing and restful-—the cost is small. In- sure yourself safety en route by providing a Carlson Taxi. Just call Single O or 94. After the Carlson’s Taxi and Ambulance Service Phone Single O and 11 Berry’s Taxi PHONE 199 Stand at Gastineau The Packard Taxi PHONE 444 Stand at Arctio Prompt Service, Day and Night CovicH AuTo SERVICE STAND AT THE OLYMPIC Phone 342, Day or Night Juneau, Alaska John Borbridge TAXI T Wign REEDER’S TAXI 1928. llllll IlilIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII | PROFESSIONAL T | ~.': DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Bullding Telephone 17¢ MILK MAID BREAD JUNEAU BAKERY Phone 577 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST m Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m, IIll"llIIIlllllllllllll!llllllll lisnmnn SEWARD BUILDING ‘P Office Phone 469, Res. I Phone 278. | o We Deliver | Reliable Transfer j Phone 149 Res. 1 COURTESY and OUOD SERVICE Our Motto jours: 10 to 1 to 7 to 8 or by appoinment Licensed Ost thic Physic'sn Phone: lce 1671, Residence, Gast'neau Hotel — Dr. Geo. L. Barton CHIROPRACTOR, Hellenthai Bidg. Office Service Only Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 noon, 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. and 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. Phone 529 CHIROPRACTIC is not the practice of Medicine, Surgery nor Osteopathy. MUTUAL ICE CREAM 75¢ per quart We Deliver JUNEAU BILLIARDS CARLSON TAXI Phones Single O and 94 Robert Simpson Opt. D. Uraduate Los Angeles Col)- lege ct Optomstry amd Opthalmelogy Glasses Fitted seneses Ground B —— GARBAGE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING G. A. GETCHELL, Phome 109 or 149 Janeau Pubhc Library and Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Maln Street at 4th Reading Room Open From € 3 m to 10 p. m. Circulation Room Open Frum 1 to 6:30 p. m.—7:00 p. m. to §:30 p. m. Current Magazines, Newspapers Reference Books, Etc, FREE TO ALL J. B. BURFORD & CO L. C. S8mith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Public Stemographer Fraternal >ocieties — 0F Gastineau Channel — 9 e Lester D, Hendersom, H. L. Redl!ngshnter, Exalted Ruler, LR o a0 Meeting every W H. Sides, chflary Wednesday _ even= 8 o'clock, Visiting Brothers welcome. Juneau Liora Club Meets every Wea nesday at 12:3@ o’clock. Presidene Secy-Treas 13 fall. Messerschmide, Co-Ordinate Bod... of Freemasonry Scottish Rite Regular meetin| second Frida; " Tonth, at a0 g ». m. 244 Vellows' Hall. WALTER B. HEISEL. Secretary. —_—— T —— \ A LOYAL ORDLA | OF MOOS! Juneau Locge ™ Meots overy Moudsn night, at 8 Jecloew WALTER HELLAN, Dictator J. H. HART, Secretary. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. Y Second: and. Fourth Mon- jay of each month in 0da Fellows' ginning at ‘_" / HARRY L LUSAS, o R o i, 7 Secretary. Order of EASTERN STAR Second and Fourth Tueaw days of ewch month, &I b Worthy Matres ALICE BROWN, Secs KNIGHTS oF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1769, Meetings second and last Monday at 17:30 m, T-ansient brothers urged te attend. Couneil ¢ham- bers, Fifth_Street. EDW. M. McINTYRM '3 K. E. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. B. Meets Mondax nights 8 o'clock. kagles’ Hall, Douglas. Willlam Ott, W. P. Guy L. Smith, Secrelary. Visiting Brothers welcome. AMERICAN LEGION Meets second and fourth Thursda) each monath i¥ Dugout. Daintiest of Christinas cards. Samples now on display at the Empire. want—Christ- See display of Just what you mas greetings. Cards at Empire. s THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Corner 4th and Franklin St. Phone 136 i GEO. M. SIMPKINS (O. PRINTING and STATIONERY SCRIPTO LONG LEAD PENCILS FILING CABINETS OFFICE EQUIPMENT Phone 244 Opposite Alaska Electric Light Office e ALASKAN HOTEL MODERN REASONABLE RATES Dave HousgL, Prop. T Tt T T r > T T T T L] Eessears An Interest Account ADDS to your income, standing and self-respect, MAKES you independent and thrifty, GIVES you protection and the good things of life, OPENS the way to opportunity and success. We welcome your Interest Account 4% Paid Semi-Annually The B. M. Belrrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska PHONE 182 Day and Night Service e WOMEN CF MOOSEEEART LEGION, NO. 439 Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays each month, 8 P.M. at Mooss Hall. Esther Ing! geni; Agnes , Senlor Re- rigg, Recorder. P — ——- Brunswick Bowling Alleys for men and women Stand—Miller's Taxi Phone 218 2 2] JAPANESE TOY SHOP H. B. MAKINO Front Street P. 0. Box 218 for Mall Orders ——————————a MORRIS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SAND and GRAVEL Carpenter and Concrete Work No job too large nor too small for us. MORRIS CONSTRUCTION CO. BYILDING CONTRACTORS Phone 62 JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 Service Transfer Co. SAW MILL WOOD and COAL Office Phone 389 Residence Phone 443