mm prizes
Mrs Ivy G. Chase, chairman of the |
Garden Contest, which the Ancorage ]
Woman's Club is conducting, an- I
sonsces that four prizes will be
awardel. asd the following rules
have been adopted for the costest:
Eight dollars for the best vege
table garden, open to children of all
ages.
Ten dollars for the best flower
garden grown by a girl or boy be
tween the ages of ten and nineteen
years.
Five dollars for the best flower
garden grown by a boy under the
years.
In malting the award of prizes the
following points will be considered:
The largest variety of flowers or
vegetables; the largest output of
vegetables; the neatness of the gar
den; the artistic arrangement of the
flowers about the house and grounds.
Inspection of gardens will be made
once each week and a record kept of
vegetables picked at the time of
inspection. This record will be
turned over to the Judges at the end
of the contest. No record will be
kept of vegetables picked except at '
the time of inspection.
The final inspection of the Judges
will be made on the following dates:
Vegetable garden, September 15th;
flower garden, August 31st.
Children may receive assistance in
preparing the ground for planting,
and those under ten years may re
ceive assistance in the planting.
After that all children must assume
the entire care of the garden.
Fertilizer may be obtained, if de
sired, from the load placed in the
school house grounds for this pur
pose.
Rules for the flower gardens: The
flowers may be located about the
house, as desired, where they will
grow best. Any or all of the follow
ing flowers may be planted. Sweet
peas, nasturtiums, pansies, poppies,
daisies, mignonettes, pinks, pe
tunias, verpenas, marigolds, flox,
canterbury bells, gypsphila, or other
flowers growing well in this country.
Rules for vegetable gardens: The
plot of ground must not exceed six
teen feet square. Any or all of the
fallowing vegetables may be plant
ed Lettuce, onions, cabbage, rad
ishes, carrots, parsnips, kale, brns
sels sprouts, turnips, petrowskis,
rulabagru and peas.
Any child may compete for both
vegetable and flower garden prizes.
Children wishing to enter this
contest will please report to Miss
Clark, at the school house, before
Monday, June 5th, 3:30 p. m., and
leg'ster name, age and address, and
for what prize they wish to compete.
Any little girl under ten entering
the contest for the flower garden
i prize will be given a vote, as to
j whether a doll dressed by the
Woman’s Club shall be substituted
* for the five dollars offered.
COUPLE HAP NARROW ESCAPE
FROM DROWNING IN RIVER
Captain Balderson brought ttbe
launch Hustler in Monday from a
successful trip to Susitna Station
and McDougal, 36 miles above the
station on the Yentna river. The
captain had ten passengers and five
tons of freight on his trip up the
river and brought back six passen
gers to Anchorage. Among the pas
sengers on the trip to McDougal were
Jim Murray and M. A. Ellis, big op
erators in the Cache creek country.
He reports a very narrow escape
of a man and his wife who are run
ning the roadhouse at Happy river.
They were on their way to Knik to
lay in a supply of provisions and
wore making the trip in a poling
boat when the swift river current
overturned the boat, and they had a
hard struggle saving their lives, and
^ost seven fine malamute pups by
drowning.
Capt. Balderston took a bundle of
the Daily Times with him on the
trip, and he says the people of both
the Station and McDougal were cer
tainly glad to get them, as favorable
reports of the paper had already
reached there.
O. b. Davis came down from the
Landing on yesterday’s train on bus
iness connected with his restaurant
at that place.
Five Dollar Sale.
Any $7.50. $10.(tO or $12.50 hat
in our shop at $5.00. A few sport
hats at $2.50. Mrs. Conrad P. Lien.
G ft., opposite postoffice. 5 31 3t
OPEN DAY A YD NIGHT.
Tbe Two Girls’ Cafe.
NEWS HAPPENINGS
ALASKAN TOWNS
Three franchises, granting to the
! Cordova Power Company the right
to use the streets and alleys of the
city of Cordova for the purpose of
supplying the city with lights, power
a id water, have been passed by the
j Cordova city council.
G. W. Herman, a mining man of
the rtuby district, recently returned
1 to Ruby over the Seward trail, bring
| !ng with him his wife. His bride is
the mother of his partner in the
! mining game, E. W. McKinnon. The
partnership is now all in the family.
Arthur C. Fox, one of the best
known theatrical men to visit Alas
ka, has arrived at Juneau, having
with him the famous Chicago Trib
une war pictures. Mr. Fox secured
these pictures, and is now making a
| tour of Alaska, presenting them in
I all the cities.
Frank McGibney, who was recent
ly arrested at Marshall and taken to
Iditarod on the charge of the larceny
of a plow from the Guggles, was dis
charged by the commissioner, It
being shown that he had mistakenly
taken the wrong agricultural imple
ment.
E. V. Boyle, of Cordova, whose
wife was recently taken off the
steaner Mariposa at Ketchikan, suf
fering from a severe attack of ap
pendicitis, has reached that city and
found Mrs. Boyle rapidly recovering
from the operation she was com
pelled to undergo.
B. P. O. E.
Bulletin No. ' 23."
Close up your business affairs.
Kiss friend wife good bye.
Be sure you have your latch key.
Then beat it for the Club Thursday
evening.
Honest, Bill, this will be good.
5-31-2t
Ford Sterling, the greatest laugh
provoker and burlesque comedian
on the screen today. At Movies to
night. 6-l-2t
We develop and print at The
Model, 4th, between E and F streets.
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Boys’ Union Suits—One-third off. |
Fairbanks Clothing Store.
jj-fl BJORNSON & GANTON
Merchant Tailors Correct Styles
4th and I Street
~ . PASSENGERS AND BAGGAGE
Reo Auto Service storage five days fr$e
Night and Day Service
Staud: Front of F. J. Cotter’s Store. HERMAN E. GENTSCH, Mur.
McNALLY & MAITLAND
Have received 800,000 feet different kinds
Yard at Foot of H Street
* + + + + ++ + ** + •*<+* *
All Kinds of Common Dimension
Flooring Siding Finishing Shiplap
and Kiln-Dry Dimensions
Sash and Doors
I
DEPARTMENT Or THE INTEBIOB.
Alaskan Engineering- Commission.
Sealed proposals, in duplicate, will be
received at the office of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, Anchorage, Ai
asba, until 2 p. m., June 5th, 1916, and
then opened, for the furnishing of irom
325 to 375 tons of native red top u»*
swamp grass hay, in the vicinity of the
railroad line north of Anchorage, Al
aska, in accordance with the following
specifications:
Specifications.
Bids will be received for either wild
red top or swamp hay. The bidder
must specify which kind he rroposes to
furnish, and from what locality. The
hay must be free from weeds, sticKs
and other refuse, and stacked so as to
turn the water. Tt must be placed on n
suitable foundation, placed as follows:
Cross logs of from 10 inches to 12 in
ches in diameter will be laid parallel to
each other and spaced about 10 feet
apart, center to center. These base
logs will be floored over with poles to
hold the hay in such manner as to pro
vide not less than six inches of air
space* between the ground and the floor
ing.
Hay stacks must be not less than 12 '
feet wide, and should be, preferably, 20
feet long, and from 12 feet to 16 feet !
in height.
The hay must stand not less {han 4 0
days before final measurement and pay
ment. Partial payment may he made to
the contractor when the stacks are first j
put up.
All hay must be stacked so tnat
teams may have easy access to it, to I
permit hauling by wagons or sleds to
winter quarters.
Tne foreman in charge will have au
thority to designate where hay may be
cut, so that it will be reasonably ik
cecsible to his locality.
Preference will be given to bid lers
proposing to furnish the entire quan
tity, but bids for smaller quantities will
be considered.
bids should be enclosed in sealed en
velopes, addressed to the Alaskan Ln
glneerirtg Commission, Anchorage, Alas
ka, and plainly marked on the outside:
“Proposal for furnishing native hay; to
be opened June 5th."
Tne Alaskan Engineering Commission
reserves the right t© accept or reject
any or all bids, and to waive technical
defects or formalities, if deemed in tne
interest of the Commission to do so.
Suitable bond will be required from
successful bidder.
F. MEARS,
Commissioner.
First publication, May 26.
bast publication, June 6.
Run May 26, 29, 31, June 2, 6.
i
CITY BAKERY
Fifth and D Sts.
We beg to announce that we
have opened a bakery, and are
prepared to supply the trade
with first-class goods. We have
an extended experience. We de
liver to restaurants and groo
cerles. Give us a trial.
RASO & CO.
TheTwo Girls Cafe
Mrs. Ollie Gray and Viola Bar
nett, Propr.etors.
4th Ave. and C St.
Onr Motto:
Courtesy, Service, Quality
WAFFLES A SPECIALTY
""
A Big Special
at
Carslens Packing Company
MARKET
Fourth Street, Near C
To introduce in Anchorage our Washington
Brand Hams, Bacon and Lard, will sell for a
few days:
Medium Hams, mild cure, regular 25c lb., at.22c
Medium Bacon, mild cure, regular 30c lb., at.25c
Picnic Hams, regular 20c lb., at.18c
No. 10 Pure Lard...$1.75
No. 5 Pure Lard .90c
No. 3 Pure Lanl.60c
Snow Cap Compound No. 5 ....■.75c
Snow Cap Compound No. 3.50c
All meats cured under government supervision in
one of the largest and best equipped packing houses on
the Pacific coast.
This is close to wholesale prices. Save a little change
while the saving is good.
Special shipment of Fancy Legs of Lamb, Chickens,
Steer Beef, etc., for your Sunday dinner.
Open till 12 o’clock Sunday.
J. J. HALES,
Manager Anchorage Branch.
For Summer Comfort
We Carry a Complete Assortment of
Light Wool, Balbrigan and
B. V. D.
Underwear
Regular and Union Suits
Silk and Pongee
Overshirts
in White, Tan, Gray and Khaki Colors
Silk and Lisle Hosiery
all Colors
Jaffe & Bayles
Cor. Fourth and D Street
The Home of Hart, Schaffner
and Marx Good Clothes
Doors Roofing Paper
Windows Building Paper
LUMBER
ANCHORAGE SUPPLY CO.
First and O