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Our Large Stock of Furniture, Rugs,
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second and Fourth Tuesdays
At S P. M.
F ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Board of School Directors
Nenana Public School
Xenana March 1, 1919
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
Complying with the laws of Alas
ka. notice is hereby given that the
regular annual election will be held
in the town of Xenana.
Tuesday, April 1st, 1919.
For the purpose of electing one
school director, to serve one year,
to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mrs. Jeannette Ellen
son. and two directors to sene two
years to fill the vacancies caused
by the expiration of terms of Mrs.
E. L. Sweeney and Mr. George
W. Pennington.
The names of candidates must be
in the hands of the Clerk of the
School Board not later than March
22, 1919.
The polling place will be located
in the fire hall, adjoining the town
site office. Polls will be open from
8 a. m. until 7 p. m. on the day
and date of election.
J. H. SCOTT,
Clerk of School Board.
Approved:
MRS. E. L. SWEEXEY.
President.
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Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
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Mike Hyland, Prop.
Phone 84 Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
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PUFFED BRICK
SHIP ID LEAVE
MS SAIURDAY
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OAKLAND, Cal.—March loth has!
been set as the date for launching
the first “puffed brick” vessel in
the government’s concrete ship
building program. It is scheduled
to drop from the ways of the San
Francisco Shipbuilding company on •
Government Island in Oakland In
ner Harbor and officials of the con
cern who built the “Faith” are con
fident, in view of present progress,
that the launching will take place,
on time.
rouring of two 7,t>00 ton oil
tankers began at the plant the first
of February. This was made a gala
event under the auspices of the
Oakland Chamber .of Commerce. It
is expected that the second vessel
will leave the ways a day or two
after the first launching.
The local yard has introduced
several innovations in concrete ship
construction, chief of which is the
use of “puffed brick”. This is'
made like ordinary brick of a pecu
liar clay containing a low percent
age of silica When subjected to
intense heat the bricks puff up like !
popcorn in a popper. The product '
looks much like coke and is as light.
The “puffed brick" then are |
ground up and mixed with cement, j
Thus, instead of using crushed rock
as in ordinary concrete construction,
about 40 per cent is said to be
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gained in the lightness of the ship’s
walls.
Another feature is the method
of constructing the forms. These!
are built in standarized sections and
hinged with bolts so that they can
be forced up, and put out of the
way when the concrete hardens.
As soon as a vessel is launched,
these forms can be put back in
place, the steel rods installed and in
a few days pouring of another ship !
can begin. The concrete ship ex- j
perts say that this arrangement j
makes it possible to turn out a
7,500 ton vessel every three months.!
Besides, only about 25 per cent of;
lumber in the forms is wasted.
In only one respeet does concrete [
shipbuilding resemble steel con
struction. That is in the use of the
; pneumatic hammer. As the con
crete pours between the sheathings,
workmen turn their “rivet guns” on
the steel rods. The vibration shakes
the concrete into the smallest cran
The two concrete vessels being
built on Government Island resemble
steel ships in their lines, being a
large advance, it is asserted over the
“Faith " They will be launched
sideways because it has been figured
out that sending a concrete vessel
into the water stern first may sub
ject it to a damaging twisting
strain. The boats really take a
three foot dive into the water, the
ways being that distance above high
water. It has been figured out that
the three foot drop with the side
of the vessel going in broadside,
subjects the boat to the minimum
of strain by spreading it over a
large surface.
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NEWS OFFICE
LATEST STYLES
IN DRESSES ARE
FORM BREAKERS
PHILADELPHIA.—Dresses which
many women now are wearing are
causing them to become “knock
kneed, knock-armed and sway
backed,” recently declared Mrs. J.
Mensendick in an address before
the Twentieth Century club
Dr. William A. Stecher, director
of physical education in the Phila
delphia public schools, agrees with
Mrs. Mensendick that dresses which
make women answer to that descrip
tion are in style but he asserts that
there is no danger that they will
become permanently disabled by
their efforts to conform to the new
fashions.
There is nothing the matter with
woman’s frame of body, but there
is with her frame of mind, he said.
In other words, she is not knock
kneed, etc., because she can't help
it, but rather because she wants to
be in fashion.
“Dr. Celia Mosher, of Leland Stan
ford University, says all of a
woman's muscles can be developed
to be as strong as those of a man,"
adds Dr. Stetcher. “Women are
men’s muscular inferiors ten to
thirty-three per cent, statistics say.
This is due to no innate disability,
but to woman's dress and to tradi
tional ideas regarding modest, fem
inine exercise.
“On the other hand, men are
women's inferiors when it comes
to feeling the cold. Everybody
knows how long a woman can re
main in bathing, and how scant her
clothing may be in winter, and yet
she does not die of exposure."
The steamship Alameda is the
first steamship on the Alaska run
to boast of the services of a sol
dier who saw service in P ranee and
was wounded. Julian Hawthorne
Bear, who wears the service stripe
and was wpunded slightly ;n ttm
arm, now is freight clerk an ‘ le
steamship. Mr. Bear formerly was
station agent at McCarthy. 1'. B.
Thompson, a soldier discharged from
Camp Lewis, now is wire’ess oper
ator on the same vessel.
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As a result of a petition sent to |
the governor several months ago
by the residents of Wards Cove,
that suburb of Ketchikan is to have
a schoolhouse for the children whose
parents are engaged in business in
that locality. An election was re
cently held for the purpose of
electing a school board, with the
result that the following officers
were appointed for the first term
of the new school: Eugene Wacker,
director; Mrs. E. Wacker, clerk; R.
P. Walsh, treasurer.
While Wall street is a street in
N'ew York, it is really a phrase
designating a financial district. In
this district are the business head
quarters of 8000 of the 10,000
millionaires in New York. The build
ings range, in value, from a modest
million to 25 millions each. These
buildings house from a thousand
persons to one which houses 18,000
persons.
NOTICE
The health officer has received
a supply of small pox vaccine and
all persons desiring will be vac
cinated without charge. They should
present themselves at the Commis
sion hospital at the following hours
only: week-days, 11 a. m. to 12 m.
and 4 to 5 p. m. Sundays, 11 a. m
to 12 m.
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