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THE
MCCARTHY WEEKLY NEWS
Entered as second class matter. Sep- j
tember 17th, 1918,atthe Post Office at i
McCarthy, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Flo Malehorn Editor I
M. Snyder Circulation Manager j
Subsori |>t ion Pates
Single Copies .15
Three Months 1.00 1
Six Months 1.90 j
One Year 3.19'!
Payable In Advance
Saturday. Mur. 19, 1927
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SCHOOL NOTES
I»\ Liml;i Anderson
Me (’;it 11)\*. A1 ask;»
M i rch 15, ! 92 7
0*•:« r Friends;
1 like it very much in Me
I'at tliy. because it is so open. I
mean you don't need to ho very
ca refill ot any cn i s or horses.
Wo ha vo all hinds ot sports
in M.Cuthy. some of t.lioin arc:
; snow balling. snow fort building,
i ico skaling, sk;ini_r. rol>her and
cop, Washington Poko, clicesc it.
making snow men, and hide and
; scoic.
Then* are only five children
:n the McCarthy school. I here are
I ten children in McC arthy alto—
: aether. Most of the school child
ren went away. The school child
ren are in three different gr des.
j Graham is in the third grade,
Leonard, Uuddie, and Janus are
in the fifth grade, and I am in the
seventh grade.
The school board gave every
school child in McCarthy twenty
dollars from the Christmas fund,
in the form of a bank account, and
every child got an eight dollar
present with it also.
We had an entertainment
Christmas and we had a Christ
mas tree also
Onr teacher's name is Mrs.
M. K. Harrais, and she is the best
teacher 1 have ever hud and ever
will have.
Kennecott is a mining <-a m p.
11 has some oiiier mines c.lose
some of them are Jumbo, Mother
Lode, Bonanza, Green Hutto, and
Erie. Gold mines are; Dan Creek,
Chitii n, and Chisana.
McCarthy iS right at the
foot of the Kennecott Glacier.
be celebrated George
Washington’s bir! hday, and will
talw about W. H. Seward the
thirtieth of March.
We made Geography books
Janus, Buddie, and Leonard made
books of the L. S. Graham made
a book of birds and rnimaJs, l
made a book of Europe. We are
going to make History books.
Graham is going to make a book
of all the children of the different
races of the world. Janus, Buddie
Leonard, and 1 are making r Hist •
o-y hook from the Vikings to the
present.
We nettle book-cruses in
sell eel. We got two gasoline boxes,
nails, sand paper, and hammers.
Mrs. Harrais let us use hall the
school house tor our work shop.
11 to >k us two weeks to make
and paint our bookcases.
in September we started
with the Near East Kelief Work.
We went around collecting old
clothes from every body in Me —
Cart by. Leonard was the captain
of one team and i of another.
Some of the people who went
away would give us all of their
old clothes. We had a cake and
canny sale at which we made
foi ty four dollars. We sent the
money to the Orthopedic Hosp—
dal to help the sick children, and
the clothing co the Near East
Kelief.
We have an Honor Roll in
school, on which we get a star
for every perfect lesson. This
makes us all try very hard to get
things exactly right.
I would be very much plea
sed if you would write about
Chitina.
Your friend,
Linda Anderson