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THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter. Sep
tember 17th, 1918, at the Post Office at
McCarthy, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Flo Malehorn Editor
M. Snyder Circulation Manager
Subscript ion Rules
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Saturday. Apr. 2,1927
SCHOOL NOTES
I’y Janus Trim
McCarthy A la sic a
March 31. 1027
Dear Friends,
We surelv have nice wen
tiler here, it’s nice and warm
Yesterday it was forty above zero |
We played out doors all day yes
terday.
1 n winter we ski and sleigh
We have a hie- lull to ski and I
sleigh down. We can go bicycle I
riding on the ground. I was try
ing to teach my brother to ride |
the bike.
We are studying about j
Europe now, I like to study about
Europe and its people. How many
•hildren are there in the fifth
‘trade? We ha ve three children in
our grade. All the children we
have in the school are five. There
are the thiid grade, fifth, and
seventn Our teacher’s name is
Mrs. Harrais, she is a very good
teacher. We have an Honor Doll.
You get a star for every perfect
lesson. When you have a special
and you get a hundred, you put
on a special star, which is any
color you want.
We have inside book cases
in school. Wo each brought two
gasoline hoxos smd bought some
nails and sandpaper. We sand
papered them and then miil«*d
them together. Then we painted
them.
A few weeks sifter that we
made books about the l.buied
States, the third grade sibout
animals of the world, and the
seventh about Europe. We cut
out siud mounted picture.". >d m —
teresting animals, people. scenes
and industries.
We have five copper mines
here, the Green Butte, Mother
Lode, Bonanza, .J umbo, and Erie.
Tlie gold mines are Dan Creek,
Chititu, and the Chisana.
There is a great glacier
that extends from Mt. liiackbuin
past Kenneeott to McCarthy. In
the summer it inelis. We go a -
round to the glacier and pick up
copper.
Up above Kenneeott there
is a lock called Castle Rock. it
surely does look like a castle.
We have si Jot of fun at re
cess playing jan. We play it in
the wood shed.
in the fall, when school be
gan, we went around collecting
lor the .Near East Ueuel’. Then we
laid a cake sale. Wc got forty-four
dollars. Mrs. Harrais asked us if
we wanted to send it to the Near
East Relief or to the Orthopeaic
Hospital and we said we wanted
to send it to the Orthopedic Hos
pital.
We hope that you will write
us a letter and tell us all about
your school ana town.
Your friend,
Janus Trim
AVEEAGE AMERICAN BOY
OF roDAY IS THREE INCHES
TALLER THEN 50 YEARS AGO
( 'incago: Tne average American
boy today is three and one tenths
inches taller toen he was 50 years
ago, but lor no particular reason
so far as Dr. Horace Gray of
Chioag can find out.
Dr. Gray has written in
the current journal of the ArnerL
can Medical association the con
clusions of an investigation con —
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