THE GHOST TOWN GAZETTE
CHITIKA,ALASKA AUGUST 28, 1956
Editor: Jo Wilson
Art Editor: Carol Steadr.ian
CKITIKa
Population - Scarce weather - Wet
Electric Service - Usually !
City V/atcr - By 0..A* Kelson
“ Telephone **■ City Only
Sower - Smells
Hunting Season is going ‘full blast
aryi the hunters who are lucky are
proudly showing off their Trophies.
COrt bush pilot Jack Wilson reports
that so far Dr. K..B. Coffin, Bud
Shoemaker, and Bob Gill have bagg
ed the largest rans. They say
Doc invited a hunter into camp and
lost 3 gamo-s of cribbage before he
discovered the visitor was a black
bear.
The old Sourdoughs say that the Hi
U-Skoo-kun Construction Co. will
soon change the nano to the Ki-U
Skoo-kum Snow Shoveling Co. Must
be why they acquired that now nin
aturc leader to shovel snow with.
This little tale,
I should not toll*
Cause I knew 0.. a*,
hill shout and yell.
For summer work,
he aces excell
. ,The winters toil
makes him rebel.
The snow’s not here,
but Fall has fell.
That Lazy r.ccd,
has cast its spell;
As our Chief Ghost
• crc^/ls in his shell..
Yes Fall is here,
. and things are swell.
Hio work dear friends
has- rone to — Pot.
Walter Holmes, of nay Creek, shot
another wolfI His proficiency as
a marksman is-not to be doubted,
but ho mistook the front leg for
the head and consequently catas
trophy was the result. The Pay
Born was blown to sr.ritherines
poor Walter has been consoling
himself with, the thought that at
least the shell only cost 15 cent3
at most. He has our deepest
sympathy, besides what’s a measley
50 buck bounty, its only money
after all.
In case you uninitiated Chechako’s
don’t know it, a PayvBoho Is a
wee bore in the leg of a wolf
which has to be attached to the
pelt in order to collect the ^50*.
bounty.
CGPPLJ HIV JR Aio:<A
Population - Indians, horchants
Cooks, Bush Pilots, Sourdoughs,
Drunks and other Trashy
Weather - Better than the Caast
Climate - Comparable to Burbank
Tv;o Prospc-ctcrs, Andrew Halverson
and Art nelson, went to Summit
Lake to do assessment work on the
Spirit mountain Ilickel property#.
By the lob'ks of their gear we
have an id.,a they will be assess
ing some, full curl rams..
kaxine Gilmore and Buddy Smith
wore married in Cordova on the 25th
of.this month.
Hr., and LIrs. Ho Ivin Gaither- have
returned to Chitina after spend
'ing the summer in Fairbanks. Mel
will teach cur school again this
year but will not be assisted by
wife Rose because of interference
by the stork.
Pat Albors is‘back in McCarthy to
help Liz. Vve think she really re
turned to improve her batting
average ( correction bowling
average) she will never hear the
last of that 66.
Louise fiance expects her son Jim
to arrive in Chitina this comning
week. Jin has boon working for
the Wild and Fish Life in Bear
Trap Bay on Prince william Sound.
He plans a visit with his mother
before returning to Montana State
where he is an A student( A for
Absurd, Adrift, Abstain, and At
large). V
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