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WHILE IT LASTS—$1.45 Per Lb.
NOME LI MBER CO
ERNEST M. ATTEBERY
BUILDING CONTRACT! >R
ESTIMATES, PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
PREPARED
CARPENTRY 441 SECOND AVE.
A WAY TO PROMOTE BETTER
STREETS WITHOUT COST!
HAVE YOUR COAL. LUMBER, FREIGHT AND
ETC. MOVED WITH THE NOME MOTOR CO.
CATERPILLAR AND IN THAT WAY THE
STREETS WILL BE KEPT FLATTENED OUT
WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL COST TO THE
CITY, OTHER THAN THE USUAL DRAY AGE
CHARGE. Telephone Main 108
NOME MOTOR CO.
OPENING
ARCTIC BEER PARLOR
AND CARD ROOM
Between Pioneer Drug Store And Dream Theatre
Jack Solomon, Prop.
LOCAL NEWS
Mrs. Angie Bode, of St. Joseph,
Missouri, arrived Sunday by plane
via Fairbanks. Mrs. Bode is a grad
tiate nurse and has joined the staff
of the Maynard-Columbus hospital.
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service, who has been installing
a new motor in his Stinson Reliant
at Fairbanks, was scheduled to leave
that place for Nome either today
or Tuesday, weather permitting
A Woodley airline plane arrived
Nome about noon today with three
passengers from Anchorage, all from
Juneau, having gone to Anchorage
by boat and train. The pilot took
off again on his return trip today.
The names of the passengers were
not determined.
Pilot Frank Whaley of the Roust
Airways was scheduled to take off
from Fairbanks today for Nome,
weather permitting, but due to the
high winds prevailing it is not de
finitely known whether the plane
left Fairbanks or not.
The Nome Brass Band is holding a
regular practice this evening in the
Nevada Hall. .Director C. C. Tan
ner who is ill with an attack of
pleurisy, will not be able to conduct
the band this evening, put a mem
ber of the band will probably be
chosen to act for the evening.
Pilot John Lynn of the Northern
Air Transport arrived from Fair
banks Saturday evening with S. W.
Taggart of the Nome Lumber Co.,
Martin Strand and Mr. Sundquist.
He took off for Bluff Sunday morn
ing with John Bahnke and bride and
Lena Bahnke. John Bahnke and
the daughter of Ole Wheeler were
married Saturday. Pilot Lynn con
tinued on to Fairbanks from Bluff.
Pilot Chester Brown of the NAT
made a round trip to Teller, Sunday
with H. W. Parmelley and Kernick
Smith as passengers for that place.
Monday he made a flight to Council
with Anston Dickson and Rose
Mathews for White Mountain. He
had a passenger for Candle but wea
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ther conditions prevented reaching
that point. Karl Bale was a return
ing passenger from Council.
Pilot Brown is due for a flight to
Candle and Teller tomorrow morn
ing weather permitting.
Nine Passengers
Arrive At Nome
Sunday By Plane
Pilot Jerry Jones of the Pacific
Alaska Airways arrived in Nome
Sunday from Fairbanks with nine
passengers, the eight of which were
for the Alaska Sunset Mines Inc.:
C. R. Jones, J. A. Bell, Gus Adams, 1
Gus Nyquist, Olaf Munsen, W. E.
Roberts, Stanley Whistler and Mr. j
Kennedy.
A Mrs. Bode was a passenger on
the plane. She is to be a nurse in
the Maynard Columbus Nospital in
Nome. Mrs. Bodie comes from St.
Joseph, Missouri.
Pilot Jones hopped oil yesterday
afternoon on his return flight in the
big Ford plane. The regular mail
plane of the PAA is due to come in
to Nome from Fairbanks, Tuesday,
weather permitting.
S. W. Taggart Tells
Conditions About
Alaska And Nome
Continued From Page One
amply taken care of by local labor,
and that housing conditions at pres
ent were almost nil.
Orders 1,250,000 feet lumber
In regard to business concerning
the Nome Lumber Co., he stated that
the company has an order of one
million, two hundred 50,000 feet
of lumber coming in on the first
boats in the spring, to furnish local
and government building proposed
construction. Besides common lum
ber, the Nome Lumber Company is
shipping in complete lines of build
ing materials of all kinds to fill out
their stock which lias been largely
consumed this winter. They expect
to carry numerous lines of furnish
ings for the construction of modern
buildings. Further plans of the com
pany regarding the construction of
additional cabins to offset the hous
ing shortage, stated Mr. Taggart will
probably be announced at an early
date. He let it be known however,
that a number of cabins of the one
and two rooms type will proobably
be built before the first boats ar
rive here.
Dredges Working Since March 17
While passing through Fairbanks,
Mr. Taggart stated, he observed that
dredging had commenced in that re
gion about March 17th. In disuss
ing labor and housing conditions of
Nome, Mr. Taggart reported that al
most every city in Alaska was be- j
ing overrun with a surplus of labor
and that housing and other condi
tions were being greatly congested
and that every vessel leaving Seattle
for the north carried hundreds of
persons coming into the territory
looking for work.
It was also learned that W. A. Cas
tleton, of the Alaska Sunset Mines,
intends leaving Seattle about April
20th for Nome. Mr. Castleton has
been coming to Nome for the past
two years.
DR. REX F. SWARTZ
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Hours 1—3 P. M.
Now Located In
Office Indian Affs. Bldg.
Npme, Alaska.
C. C. TANNER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
FEDERAL BUILDING
NOME, ALASKA
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