A FEW CASES OF
Washable Wall Gloss Outside
Paints Also Enamels
Large Glass Putty Shellac
Japan Dryer Lineeed Oil
Turpentine Brushes
NOME LUMBER CO
ERNEST M. ATTEBERY
BUILDING CONTRACTOR
ESTIMATES, PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
PREPARED
CARPENTRY 441 SECOND AYE.
CHEVROLET
Half-Ton and 11/2 Ton Trucks
Mr. Business Man—Look over your delivery equipment
and ask yourself if you'd he proud of your trucks if they
were parked in front of your home. If the least in doubt,
whether they create a favorable impression, drop in at the
NOME MOTOR CO.
Main Street, and look over the complete line of Chevrolet
Trucks and Commercial Cars—you'll find the type that
suits your business perfectly. You'll find. too. that Chev
rolet Trucks are as practical, inexpensive and economical, as
they are good looking.
THE AMERICAN STOVE CO.
(The Largest Gas Range Mfg. in the World)
PRESENTS
66 THE MAGIC CHEF ”
File Ideal “Flamo" Gas Range
LARRY CALVIN
PHONE—RED 44
THIRD AVENUE, NOME, ALASKA
LOCAL NEWS
Talking with operators of the win
ter water services in Nome, it was
learned that they plan to turn from
sleighs to wagons within a day or
two. So rapid has been the thawing
and the disappearance of the snow,
that there is very little time left for
sleighs inside of the city limits.
It was also learned that the day
after the water teams change their
mode of transportation, the Nome
Fire Department will change from
sled to wagon.
Pilot Frank Whaley of Roust Air
ways hopped off yesterday afternoon
from Nome and made a round trip
to Ruby. Mr. Chivers was a passen
ger to Ruby with the plane. The
plane returned last evening with
Jim Cassidy, and a Mr. Nelson as
passengers and a quantity of freight,
after contacting a Northern Air
Transport plane, at that place.
Pilot Whaley is to make a flight
to Unalakleet and return today with
passengers and express. He report
ed there was about a foot of water
on the Yukon River landing field at
Ruby.
Arrivals from other parts of Al
aska and Uie states declare that the
copper mines at Kennecott are re
opening and that there are about
fifty or sixty men there now work
ing opening up the mines and pre
paring to take out ore, to be shipped
to the states. Evidently the price
of copper has gone up to such an ex
tent that some profitable copper
mining can be done. Mr. Chivers.
who was cook at the North Pole
Bakery, and who was formerly em
ployed as a cook at Kennecott, re
ceived a wire to return to his former
position, and he left Nome yester
day by plane.
The building formerly used as a
jail and telephone exchange during
the days when Fort Davis housed a
unit of the U. S. Army, and now
owned by A. Polet, was hauled to
a position on the lot where before
the fire, was located the A. Polet
Stores. ,
The hauling was done by the
Nome Motor Company, which used
ARCTIC TRANSPORT CO.
ANNOUNCES
S. S. ARTHUR J. BALDWIN
SAILS FROM SEATTLE
MAY 23RD
CALLING AT ALL PORTS FROM
ST. MICHAEL TO KOTZEBUE
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YOUR FREIGHT OFFERINGS
ARE SOLICITED
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ARCTIC TRANSPORT CO.
three caterpillars on the job. Sun
day the long haul from Fort Davis
to the head of Stedman avenue was
made in three hours, a distance of
about three miles.
The building was brought into
town by way of B street and placed
on the lot on the corner of Front
street and Hunter Way last night.
Clyde Cockburn who had the job of
moving the Mozee dwelling to its
new location on Second avenue,
near Hogan’s Alley, completed his
moving of the building today.
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service returned to Nome last
evening from the mouth of the Col
ville River, on the Arctic coast, east
of Point Barrow. As passengers re
turning were Ross J. Kinney, Frank
Martin and Joe Amarok.
When the plane left Nome it flew
to Betties and Wiseman and tHence
across the Endicott Range and flew
down the Colville River to its
mouth.
Pilot Mirow and his passengers
hopped off from there yesterday and
returned by way of Betties and Nu
lato to Nome.
When the party left Nome it was
reported they were headed for a
supposed gold strike somewhere on
the Arctic Slope of the Endicott
mountains. Whether they reached
it or not, no definite information
could be obtained.
Pilot Mirow is due for a hop to
the Kougarok section tomorrow,
weather permitting.
WEATHER AT
NENANA TODAY
The weather report rendered by
the Nome Weather Bureau at noon
today stated that the weather at
Nenana was clear, calm and a tem
perature of 50 above zero.
Fairbanks weather reported light
rain squalls this morning;other than
that the ice was believed to be hold
ing just as firm as always.
“WHEN LADIES MEET" TELLS
MATRIMONIAL STORY AT
DREAM THEATRE TONIGHT
An exceptionally strong cast was
assembled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cosmopolitan for its film version of
the Rachel Crothers stage success,
“When Ladies Meet,” which will be
shown at the Dream Theatre tonite.
Ann Harding and Robert Montgom
ery are co-starred and the other
principle roles are filled by Myrna
Loy, Alice Brady and Frank Morgan
Miss Harding enacts the publish
er’s wife in Miss Crothers'. Mont
gomery. is the shrewd young news
paperman who creates a fictitious
liaison between himself and the pub
lisher’s wife in order to attract the
interest of the woman he really
loves.
It is Miss Loy, a rising young
novelist, whom Montgomery loves,
but Miss Loy believes herself to be
enamored of the publisher, played
by Frank Morgan. It is this criss
cross complication of affections
which forms the unusual dramatic
structure of ‘When Ladies Meet.1
FOR YOUR
INFORMATION
To the Public of Nome.
Office hours at Radio Station.
DAILY
7:30 A. M. to 5:00 P. M.
SUNDAY’S & HOLIDAYS
3:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M.
Telegrams accepted at Radio Sta
tion ONLY and during Office Hours.
LEON F. HARPER,
Operator in Charge
FOUND—A pair of horn-rimmed
eye glasses in a leather case. Own- '
er may have same by identifying and
! paying for this advertisement.
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DR. REX F. SWARTZ |
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Hours 1—3 P. M.
Now Located In
Office Indian AITs. Bldg.
Nome, Alaska.
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Dream Theatre
ONE SHOW TONIGHT 8 P. M.
ANN HARDING
ROBERT MONTGOMERY
IN
“WHEN LADIES MEET”
ALSO
Mickey McGuire In “MICKEY’S RACE”
SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION
NEVA WHALEY WILL PRESENT
HER BIG AND LITTLE TOTS IN
“FAIRYLAND FOLLIES”
ADULTS 75cts (Tax Included) CHILDREN 25cts
ONE SHOW 8 P. M.
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