MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
SERVICE CLEANERS
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4th and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickleson, Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
Phone RED 96
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NORTHERN LIGHT & POWER CO.
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
G-E Dial-the-fabric Iron - G-E Steam Iron
G-E Automatic Roaster - G-E Hotplate
G-E Washing Machine - G-E Sun Lamp
G-E Electric Clock - G-E Mazda Lamps
Wiring Materials
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SCHOOL NOTES
SIXTH AND SEVENTH GRADES
We are busy working on our les
sons for first semester exams. We
are busy on book reports also.
Our Christmas party, Dec. 17th,
in our room was adecidcd suc
cess. We all brought our lunch and
had the treats of pop, cookies, ap
ples, candy bars with it.
Our chalk drawings of outdoor
scenes are very colorful. We en
joyed doing them.
Biilly Lencer and Tess Bronson
have left the seventh grades for
other schools. We are sorry to lo.-e
them. We wrote a “Round Robin
Letter” to Billy and enclosed a
copy of a story Tess wrote before
she left. In this story Bill was one
j()f the main characters. We hope to
1 write a ’’Round Robin Letter” to
Tess in the near future. From
Holy Cross we have a new pupil,
Dean Martin.
HIGH SCHOOL
Last Friday two-thirds of the
High School students braved the
elements and found their way
through the terrific s'orm. Only
the students from the remote sec
tions of town were not present.
The stormy day reminded us of
the beautiful winter idyl written
by John Greenleaf Whtitier, called
i “Snow-Bound.”
I “The old familiar sights of ours
Took marvelous shapes; strange
domes and towers.”
We were happy to welcome
Olga Hay back to school after a
ANNOUNCING
CITY CAB
G. E. SNYDER, OWNER
NEXT DOOR TO ALASKA STEAM
MAIN
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unique Chris'mas vacation in Seat
tle. A trip like that reminds one
of progress made in recent years in
meahods of travel. A perilous trip
from Nome to Fairbanks by dog
team took weeks while now the
same distance is covered in two
hours by plane.
Word from Julia Silverman, a
sopohomore student at Stanford,
states that her friends Jane Scott
and Phyllis Roell met at Los An
geles during the holidays and they ^
had a wonderful time.
.lack Dowd is training at Shep
pard Air Force Base located at ,
Wichita Falls, Texas. It has been 1
very warm there. He thought the
electric storms were very interest
ing to observe.
The good news that Bonnie Ann
Dunbar has been elected president
of the student body at her school
j again proves that Nome has out
standing students in their midst. 1
All the students are studying
diligently for the semester exam
inations which will be held on
Thursday and Friday. Jan. 20 and j
: 21.
The beautiful cons‘ellation call
ed the “Northern Cross” can be
seen in the eastern sky in the
morning and western sky at night.
It is close to the star called Vega.
A comet has been seen in the
seen in the southeastern skv by
| observers in the States. Our high
, latitude may prevent its observa
| tion up at Nome for some time.
Students returning from vaca
tion days report of pleasant times
I of relaxation, sleeping, eating, and
i skiing filled up most of the Christ
man seasons. Many good resolu
. tions have been made by some of
; the students.
Everyone was thankful for the
increased illumination achieved by
the janitor in carefully washing
all of the light globes and fix
tures. Three coats of varnish on
the gymnasium floor makes it re
flect the light like a mirrored lake.
Most of the decorations were
! taken down durin gthe holidays.
Tuesday evening. the high
Girl Seoul New*
The Girl Scout cookie sa'.t wj
be held Saturday, Jan. I1 wito
all the girls participating Uar y
girls will sell at the N rt.her*
Commercial store while the.
will go from house to hou.-e The /
will be sold for fifty cents u dozer
The senior girls are working
complete their aviation bade* a
ter which they will work r dr. •
matics.
We are having a lot of fun with
our tap dancing and have learned
hree steps. One whole danee wid
be complete when we lea~r. ore
more step to be added to the or
iginal three.
All of the Scouts and our loro
mittee have been invited to ; tea
oy our sponsors, the Oficers Wive'
Club, on Jan. 17 at Marks A ir
Force Base.
June Dunbar, Sc./be.
school was defeated by the officer
at the Base by a score of 3c to 3)
Lt. Peterson was high point man
on the Officers team w;tn IK
points, while Harold Bell \v;u high
point man for the High Scho* I
with ten points. The High Sdhocl
has lost only two games out <A ten
making our average 80 per cent.
Word from Jack Dowd stat-i-oned
with the 3754th Training Squad
ron of Wichita Falls, Texas re
lates that he was awakened on<
night at 3:30 by an electric storm
He arose to watch it because d
was his first experience an
electric storm. It is very hot nown
there with 105 degrees ir. the
shade one day.
The planet Venus ha1- now
moved into the region close to the
sun. It is no longer visible four
hours before sunrise. It is be; evt'd
by astronomers that Venus har
one satellite or moon. Albedo is ;•
term u^ed to express the capacity
of a surface to reflect light. Venn*
reflects about on-half o fits light
Mercury one-eighth, Mars, one
quarter, and upited two-th rds.
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker i
Box 625 Nome, Alaska J
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Phone—Shop: Black 76 — Residence: Main 52
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