THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNAIU). Manager.
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Hospital Notes
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Mrs. Gerald Harney and
b?by are still in the hospi
tal, feeling fine, and will be
leaving for their home in a
few days.
Mrs. Edgar Gregory, a
native woman from White
Mountain, is a medical pa
tient in the Maynard Col
umbus Hospital, and is im
proving rapidly.
Albert Johnson, a native,
also from Wt. Mountain, a
surgical case this week, is
rapidly improving and will
be ready to leave soon.
Dune McDonald, who has
been in the hospital for
a couple of weeks, having
arrived here by plane from
his home at Candle, is now
prepared and ready for his
journey by plane to Fair
banks or Anchorage, en
route to the states, to bet
ter his health.
Interesting Items
About Alaskans
R. A. Gridley will super
vise the awarding of bids
for building the hydroelec
tric plant at Seward.
A fifty-colony group may
be astablished in the grain
field areas around Fair
banks, if the plans of M.D.
Snodgrass, in conjunction
with Col. O. F. Ohlson. ma
ture as expected. Mr. Snod
grass at one time started a
colony at Matanuska, from
which much was expected
but little resulted. Citizens
of Fairbanks are not enthus
ed over the project, and it
is belie\ed the small colony
will be an established fact.
Seven Seward carpenters
were sent to Palmer recent
ly to help colonists build
barns and outbuildings.Ine
men are to receive $1.00 an
hour.
Not so bad for Nome.
59 degrees below zero, or
91 degrees below freezing,
was the all-time record for
December at Fairbanks
about the middle of the
month. At Fort Yukon it
was 71 degrees below, and
60 below at Circle. Nome
recorded zero weather.
Harold Rock, an Eskimo
of White Mountain,Seward
Peninsula, is now at Trail,
Oregon, where he is study
ing art, according to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Rock studied under Dr. W.
U. Neely at the Eklutna In
dian school and several of
his finer paintings and craft
\vrork are in the headquar
ters of the bureau.
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WASHINGTON
CURRENT
COMMENT
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to do more than float the
Soviet flag. He would be
given ground for singing
the ancient Civil War song
which begins: “In the pris
on cell I sit.”
Cuba has had a half a
dozen presidents in two
and one-half years, the lat
est incumbent having re
signed a few days ago. At
that rate, the United Stat
es would have a supply of
twenty or thirty ex-presi
dents on hand all the time.
Think of the task incident
to keeping track of the do
ings of that many former
chief executives at once!
1 hen consider the wear
and tear on the White
House. One squad of paper
hangers hardly will be out
of the way before another
was on the job. On the oth
er hand, travel would be
brightened and made more
interesting, since birthplac
es, homes and law offices of
ex-presidents would stret
ch along the roads like fill
ing stations. The proper
man would always be avail
able to make a speech when
Maritime Fed.
Of Pacific* Calls
Aid Sec*. Perkins
(ftv The Associated Press!
San Francisco, Jan. 3, —
Official of the Maritime
Federation of the Pacific
awaited word today from
Secretary of Labor Perkins
in reply to their plea for
intercession in the strike of
49 steam schooner crews.
Harry Lundberg, presi
dent and F. M. Kelley sec
retary, asked Miss Perkins
to compel ship owners to
meet with representatives
of the sailors union, to ef
fect a settlement of the dis
putes
a watch was presented to
the chief of the local fire
company. Cuba may be act
ing wisely in laying up a
store of ex-presidents for a
rainy day.
A woman of 28 threatens
to camp before the White
House with her five child
ren until a pardon is grant
ed her husband, a wealthy
young man whose name is
familiar to every newspap
er reader. His hold on fame
arises out of the fact that
in 1920 he fled to Germany
after having been convict
Continued on Page 3
(OFFICIAL PUBLICATION)
Report Of The Financial Condition
OF THE
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska,
Located at Nome, Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on
Khe 31st day of December, 1935.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts. $243,176.43
Loans on real estate . 43,208.00
Overdrafts . 42.93
United States bonds owned . 204,939.69
Other bonds and warrants owned ' . 321,420.00
Banking house, furniture and fixtures . 58,000.00
Other real estate owned . 3,700.00
Cheeks on other banks and other cash items. 15,427.60
Exchanges for clearing house ...
Cash on hand and due from banks . 140,839.27
Other resources, judgments, claims, etc.
Expenses in excess of earnings .
Gold Bullion on hand . 295.36
Fuel A c . 44.52
TOTAL . .... $1,031,093.80
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in ...$ 100,000.00
Surplus fund . 25,000.00
Undivided profits less expenses paid. 139,250.25
Dividends declared but unpaid .
Due to other banks—deposits .
Due to other banks—overdrafts .
Individual and savings deposits . 414,481.56
Demand and time certificates of deposit . 348,61 1.99
Cashier’s and certified checks . 3,750.00
Notes and bills rediscounted .
Bills payable (including certificates of deposit) for .
money borrowed .
...
TOTAL ... .r"... $1,031,093.80
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )
Territory of Alaska, : ss:
Second Division. )
I, J. S. STANGROOM, cashier of the above named bank, do
solemnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
J. S. STANGROOM, Cashier.
( NOTORIAL SEAL ) (CORRECT ATTEST
Subscribed and sworn to before me G. R. JACKSON,
this 3rd day of January, 1936. L. H. McCLOY
M. J. WALSH
Notary Public in and for the Territory of
Alaska. My commission expires May 17, 1938.
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