cornrs and ^oinc-"
Gillian O’Neill, brother of
Phil of the Trading Post, was a
visitor to the valley during-the
week. It was a hurried trio, some
thing of a solo honeymoon, for Bill.
Pis bride of the day before,
Violet Lundell, Anchorage school
teacher whom he had met when they
were students at the University of
Alaska, couldn’t leave her duties
even to make the short trip uo to
visit ^hil and Alice.
Ted Aright, flashy right defense
of the 10 aimer hockey team, has rone
to Seward where his wife is expect
ing the blessed event. Ted was a
lime nervous wnen no leiu our saia
that he expected to null through all
right. The doctor in attendance h"-°
the refutation of never having los
a father.
Dr. ^ollarcl, AHRC dentist, will
return to his office in the hospital
building on I'arch 18.
V/a Iter 8 a c krnan , official photog
rapher for the Alaska railroad, was
a visitor to the valley.
The mild weather here was too
much for old Bob Chancuist, sour
dough prospector and stamneder.
Bob has quit the corporation and
is flying in to the eouth Fork of
the Xuskokwim where he is certain
he will dig un the big naystreak he
has been hunting for the past 30
years.
Around 80 men have been dropped
from the corporation payroll this
past week. Host of them have left
the valley.
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II MRS. T.A. SMITH HAS °OHE ATTRAC-h
iTIVS EUILDING LOTS CLOSE IN AND ,
[FOR SALE AT A VERY REASONABLE FIG-j
HRS FOR CASH DURING I ARCH ONLY.
Also 6 youns Rhode Island Red
Roosters at “5.00 each. See or
■jwrite Mrs. T.A. Smith - Palmer.
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YOU? TOL1AP, IXY A -YES3,
IAYEE30 YOU T'IU A FORTUNE
Last year, a cheechako working
in a Fairbanks drug store bought
hins'If one ticket on the Nenana
Ice Pool. When the ice went out
on Hay 15, he suddenly found him
self in nossession of $52,00011
Somebody hits the ice pool ev
ery year and so far no one person
has had the luck to win it twice.
It’s a darn good gamble, tho;
the squarest there is. It can’t
bt fixed by a schemer. The winner
gets the whole business, barring
a tax which Uncle Sam appropriat
es, In a case where two or more
people strike the same winning
date, hour and minute, the money
is solit evenly. You need not
name the precise minute, if you
are closest you take the money
just the same.
The device which sets the time
for the payoff is simple and fool
proof; In the center of the Tanana
River, 200 feet from the railroad
dock, a trinod is set up. Its legs
are frozen into the ice of the riv
er. From the ton of this trinod to
the ton of the stiff-leg of an un
loading derrick on the dock is
stretched a length of No. 9 tele
graoh wire. There is an appreciab
le amount of slack in this wire,
and to the slack a finer wire is
attached which runs into a sealed
sheet-iron box locked to the top
of the stiff-leg. Inside the box
is a Waltham 8-day chronometer
with a snecial clock-stooping
device. The finer wire is attached
to this device, and when the ice
moves, the slack tightens the fine
wire, causing the clock to stop.
Ten days before the antieioated
movement of the ice day-and-night
watchmen are on the dock making
sure that no one tampers with the
mechanism.
Hhen that clock stoos, someone
is certain to be made harpy.
Fere’s a list of ten years of
ice-movements. If you study it.
MAYES you can learn a system!I
1925- Hay
1926- Arril
1927- Hay
1928- May
1929- May
1930- May
1931- Hay
1932- Hay
1933- May
1934- Anril
1935- May
7-- 6 :32PH
26-- 4:03PM
13-- 5:42PM
6-- 4:25PM
5-- 3:41-M
8-- 7:03PM
10-- 9:23AM
1-- 10:13AM
8-- 7:30PM
30— 2:07PM
15-- 1:32PM
The ice has an
moving when it nle
t emut s to forecast
regardless of how
the thickness, the
in the hills and o
unharpy habit of
uses, end at
are difficult
much you study
amount of snow
tier governing
factors.