The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1930, Page 3

SAVE MONEY! AT OUR CLEARANCE SALE OF SUITS and Overcoats If you need a suit or overcoat you cannot afford to pass up this opportunity. Prices Drastically Reduced! Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes H. S. GRAVES The ClotBing Man L‘ Full of long lasting delicious flavor and made of pure chicle and other ingredients of the highest quality. WRIGLEYS comes to you in perfect condition. All of its goodness is sealed tight in the clean wax wrapped packages. The days work goes much easier with WRIGLEY'S to sustain and refresh. Pl Th | b VT "|IIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIllIIlIIllllllIIIIIIlllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIll' CHAS, K, HARRIS PASSES AWAY IN 1 NEW YORK CITY Awthr of the Song Hit “After the Ball” and | Others Is Dead (Contmued from Page Onc) dle and some wires. This so delight- ed one of the actors that he gave the boy an old banjo and taught; him the chords. Harris practiced incessantly until he mastered ban-| jo technique. Then when his fam-| ily moved to Milwaukee he hung! out his shingle advertising “Profes- sor Charles K. Harris, teacher of banjo.” Writes for Opera A year or two later, displeased | with the songs of a Milwaukee amateur show, Harris submitted several of his own compositions. One was accepted—for nothing— and thus was started his career as a song writer. He gradually ac-)| quired a local reputation and re- ceived his first big order when| David Henderson, manager of the| Chicago Opera House, paid him| $150 for three songs for the ex- travaganza, “Sinbad the Sa e Harris got his inspiration for “After the Ball,” the most famous | of his songs, from a quarrel be- tween two lovers which he wit- nessed while attending a ball .in Chicago. He hawked the song up | {stil a youngster that his family { Owensboro, Ky., the ball where he got the inspira- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, DEC. 23, 1930 and down among actors and thny refused it one after another be- cause it contained “too much story. Finally, James Aldrich Libby con- sented to sing it at the Bijou The- ater, Chicago. It became an in- stantaneous hit. Soon orders for copies peured in in such num- bers that Harris was forced to borrow money to get sufficient copies printed to supply Chicago! alone. For a time the returns averaged | $1,000 a day and the sales con- tinued long beyond the averag life of popular ballads. It was sais that “After the Ball” was the greatest money maker of any pop- ular sonz up to its time. Harris was born at Poughkeep: N. Y, May 1, 1865, of Hel parentage. It was while he wa | moved to Saginaw, Mich, In 1893 he married Miss Cora Lehrberg of whom he met at tion for his famous song. ————————— BETHEL PENTECOSTAL SUNDAY SCHOOL WILL CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the Beth- | el Pentacostal Assembly Sunday School will celebrate with a Christ- mas service to which the public is invited. The services will be in the assembly on Main street. The pro- gram follows: “Joy to the World,"—Congrega- i tion; Scripture Reading and Prayer —Rev. C. C. Personeus; “O Little Town of Bethlehem”—Congrega- tion; Recitation, “Star of Bethle- hem"—Julia Bailey; Song, “Silent Night"—Audrey Click and Anna .|l|l||III|IIllilIIIIIIIIllmlIIIIIII||||IIIIlll||lIIIillIIIIIIIHNIIIIiIIIIIlIIIIlIIIlIIIIIII I ARE AN IDEAL SLEDS KIDDIES We Have a Complete Line of FLEXIBLE FLYERS and FIRE FLY S The Most Popular Sled on the Market HARRIS HARDW ARE CO. FRONT STREET GIFT FOR THE Come in several different sizes—Priced from $2.50 to $10.50 AS USUAL WE HAVE A MOST ATTRACTIVE CHRISTMAS DISPLAY OF - Fruits a Vegetables and all other.good 'things to go with a'Royal Christmas Feast, including--- NUTS, CLUSTER RAISINS, DATES, FIGS, CRANBERRIES, APPLES, ORANGES, GRAPES, GRAPEFRUIT, CELERY and many other choice things NEW SHIPMENT GRANDMA’S CAKES Sanitary | “The Store That Pleases” Grocery | d AT 24 4 PHONES 83—385 : H&Hfififl | mas”—Byron Personeus; Christma mnn Speeial Musical Numb(l - Dally Cross-uord Puzzle ACROSS Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle 7. Not any L Peruse & Kinaof frac- v on §. Sea cagle 9. Entire amoant S Cgazy 10, Exclamation of disgust 1k Small boy 17. Southern con- stellation 13. Sign ot the zodine 0> [Z[-4m) = 19. Dines 4. Lamb's pen 22, Sudden briet . hame blast of wind 15 :'l‘lil;:"ol 1 ade belleve R allan eoln laudeatted IR e urlen 3. Roused from E| 2. Russian moun- sleep talns Porsion talry 2. 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The Herald Angels Sing’ ful”—Congregation, and Benedic- | Congregation; Recitation, “Christ- | ticn by the Pastor. -Carl Click; Song—Inneficita - and the Bethel Beach Chil NOTICE Mrs. Barlow and Children; fior ation—Johnny Wilson. Juneau Chapter No. 7 O. E. 8., will meet Tuesday, Dec. 23r “While Shepards Watched’ §heir | o'clock. Business meeting g ~Congrega Recitftion LILY BURFORD, Our King’ 2 Seivers Worthy Matron. ‘Hark! 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