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Our Store Specializes on Supplying the
Needs of
HOTELS, ROADHOUSES, CAMPS
We Carry A Complete Line of
Bedding, Mattresses, Springs, House Lin
ing, Linoleum, Wall Paper, Decorations
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES
R & G CORSETS, DRESSES, UNDERWEAR, SHOES
Men’s Work Skirts, Rubbers, Mackinaws, Khaki
Suits, Underwear, Heavy Work Shoes, Hats
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NEW RECORDS
RUGS, FURNITURE, CROCKERY, CLASSWEAR
Sos SIMSON’S 3
HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR RAW FURS
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Wm. M. Smith
ATTORNEY AT LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
OFFICES IN NEW YORK BLOCK
The following persons were registered
at the Cooney house during the week:
R. F. Roth, J. C. Woods, Roy Lund,
Mrs. H. Berry, Miss Jov, P. E. Barbee,
Conn Baggs, Fairbanks; Mrs. C. Schmitz,
Oliver Lee, A. N. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Claussen, Wood River; Norman Had
ley, Twelve Mile; Fred Maskovitz, Kan
tishna; Q. A. Showers, Mike Torivicli,
L. Devysvicli, Chena; Mrs. Norman
Campbell, Howell Mill; A. B. Funk, N.
A. Lundstrom, Wm. H. Smith, Geo..
Taylor, Herman Holm, Bill Ziroff, Ne
naua.
Berlin: Latest reports from the recent
railroad disaster indicate a death list of
nearly 2000.
CHURCH SERVICE.
There will be a service at four p. m.
Sunday in the Marshal’s office. This is
! a regular service, held usually on the
; mission grounds. Thru the kindness ol
the municipal authorities 1 am enabled
to hold services occasionally in this more
accessible place, and I trust that many
will avail themselves of this cordial wel
come to come and worship Goel.
Wm. A. Thomas, Priest in Charge.
The boiler houseat the Howell sawmill,
12 miles below Nenana, was elestroved b\
fire this week. The loss is not serious,
little damage having resulted beyond the
destruction of the small structure in whicl
the boilers and engine were housed. A
new engine is being shipped from Ho
Springs and it is expected that operation:
can be resumed within a few days.
Word has been received in Juneau tha
James J. Davis, International Director
: General of the Loyal Order of Moose
| with a staff of officials and a number o
i friends, will visit Alaska this summer.
WOOD RIVER STORE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Large New Stock - - Fairbanks Prices
Fifteen Miles from Nenana
THE NAIL ORDER HOUSE
OE THE NORTH
Everything in Groceries, Feed, Tobacco, Cigars, Hardware
Tools, Building Material, Electrical Supplies, House
hold Utensils, Overalls, Tents, Mattresses, Blankets, ete.
A Complete Stock of General Supplies, Including
the Famous Mishawaka Rubber Boots and Shoes
Corona Typewriters, Dodge Bros. Automobiles
Special Attention Given to Mail and Telegraphic Orders
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
Fairbanks Chena
I HEROES- PAST AND PRESENT
When Napoleon crossed the Alpine crags,
With the tri-colored flag in advance,
The wind lrom old Splungen tore her
into rags;
The emblem most dear to France.
But al>ove the din of torrent and wind
Was the roar of an avalanche, sweeping.
And many a solder was hurled so unkind
To the canyons below, slowly freezing.
But hark! What was heard from the dim
depths below?
The taps of a drum, reveille beating;
Where a boy's mangled body, half cov
ered with snow,
Slowly death’s door is greeting—
No hope of rescue, his fate calmly met—
His bones left to bleach in the canyon.
Tho heroes have died, heroes live yet,
And a hero will claim our devotion.
| Old Nero on Rome's lofty palace at rest,
! While the city by flames was devoured,
! Calmly his lvre he played on his breast
As the sparks of the flames o’er him
showered.
What cares a hero of meeting his doom?
He’s calm when facing Hell's furv; *
His spirit is bright, tho surrounded by
gloom,
Vale of tears becomes blaze of glory.
| On Nenana's dark streets, at sixty below,
While the peaceful Neuanaites slum
i be red,
! Hark! A bell tolled a signal, its mean
ing we know
And all men from their beds volun
teered.
Tliev coped with the fire; how, later I'll
tell.
But the price! all humanity staggered;
Heroic Dethlefseu, to the liot jaws of
Hell,
His name lies with the rest of the
martyred.
He tolled at the bell regardless of mitts.
And with bucket toiled ’til the morrow;
Fierce Jack Frost ne'er dampened his
grip
But plunged the scene into sorrow.
The Legion of Honor, the great Iron
Cross,
Have been pinned on breasts far less
worthy;
! Not destroying, but by saving, he suf
fered loss,
| Sacrificing both hands for the many.
■1 So here’s to our hero and hisdutiful wife,
Respect and deep sympathy from us;
i We pledge you our sympathy to the end
of this life,
I Success and true love is our chorus.
And when Old Nenana’s a tiling of the
past
And most of us parted forever,
The emliers of friendship will shine to
the last,
And the hero of Nenana’s first-fire.
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| What we saw at the fire I’ll tell jou in
brief,
(But dont let the truth hurt vour feel
ings;)
S A fire is just like a can of corn’d beef,
Rotten, but good while you’re eating,
j There were buckets and tin pans, all
• | sizes and shape,
Hustled to the scene of excitement;
Axes, extinguishers, all things but red
tape,
And no one adorned in refinement.
Men without stockings, some without
shoes,
One man in his night shirt w;as rim
ing;
One glimpse of these ginks would cure
the blues
If shown on the movies some evening.
I saw a saw in the hands of Curtis,
Sawing away at a lamp;
Billy Gagnon with his apparatus
Fearing the fire would get damp.
Roy Dbuse doused a bucket of water
Plump, into Mike Meagher’s face;
He feared this cigaret smoker
Would draw all fire from the place.
I heard old Jim Momb mumbling.
With both hands rubbing his nose;
And Bailey tried vainly to couple
His socks to a fireman’s hose.
The house was all topsy-turvy.
And everyone rooted like pigs;
A pick in the hands of Big Leckie,
1 And an ax in the hands of Tom Riggs.
When to it’s zenith rose the smoke and
the fire,
And excitement froze everyone’s snout,
In mushed Doc Smith’s Chesepeake ter
rier,
He sneezed! And the fire went out.
r. c. MORRIS.
I The following persons registered at
the Fallon house during the week: W.
Rooney, Fairbanks; Martin Malland,
I Tolovana: J. F. Kerper, G. B. Richard
son, K. Case, A. Irvine, Nenana; Pat
Carron, 20-Mile; George Gotto, Gold
stream; Frank Egan, Cliena; Ronald
Campbell, Woodchopper Creek; D. Du
gan, Wood River; Alfred Linder, Minto.
Mrs. Campbell will hold another of
her delightful and popular parties at her
dancing academy in the New York block
tonight. All are cordially invited.
LOT ON A STREET FOR SALE. In
quire Signal Sergeant
NORTH STAR RESTAURANT
MIKE’S PLACE
The Best There is in the Eating Line Always on Tap
Open Day and Night
Personal Mention
—
Mrs. Carl Schmidt and Mrs. Claussen '
came down from Wood River to attend
the Coliseum masquerade.
Commissioner Robert I{. Burns left for
Fairbanks on Wednesday to be gone sev
eral days on business.
Mrs. Theodore Brakke arrived from i
Fairbanks on Thursday and expects to
remain here a week or more.
Geo. L. Armstrong, special agent of
the general land office, arrived irom the
upper river town on Thursday.
The Palmer stage arrived from Fair
banks on Thursday with a consignment
of second class mail.
COMMUNICATION.
As an acknowledgement of my sincere
appreciation of the benefits to mv health,
which I am already experiencing and
have every reason to believe I will con
tinue to experience, 1 desire to publicly
thank Dr. Smith and his able corps ol
assistants, of the Alaskan Engineering
commission hospital, for their able work
and kind and efficient ministrations to
mv comfort during the time I was under
their care. For the past twenty years I
have been a constant sufferer from stom
ach trouble, and during the past two
years have been troubled with inflamma
tion of the bowels in such an aggravated
form that I have been unable to take sol
id nourishment in any form. I have
treated with doctors throughout the great
er part of the United States, but without
permanent relief. I was operated on bv
■ Dr. Smith for stomach trouble, stricture
of the intestines, intestinal adhesions and
appendicitis a short time after my arrival
from the Upper Kovukuk last fall.
I also wish to thank the many friends
who have manifested such active interest
in mv welfare, and to say that lam truly
: grateful, (Signed) Patrick J. Carraher.
PRISONERS LEAVE
FOR UPPER RIVER
Mrs. Rose St. Louis, James Boland and
Red Rogers, the trio arrested last week
at the St. Louis cabin, were taken to
; Fairbanks this week by Deputy Marshal
John Wood, who made the trip down the
liver for the purpose of escorting his
prisoners to the Fairbanks jail. He was
! assisted by Roy Lund, two dog teams be
i ing necessary for the accommodation of
1 the prisoners.
Boland and the St. Louis woman were
bound over to the grand jury recently on
! a felony charge. Rogers was arrested on
i a charge of assault with a dangerous
: weapon, but was permitted to enter a p’.ea
| of guilty to a less serious charge, and
was fined $50 and costs, which he was
! unable to produce. He will work out
; his fine in the Fairbanks jail.
Dr. H. L. HEDGER
• Will dose his offices in Nenana on
or about March 4 and will for the
i Koyukuk, to be away until July.
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BAKERY
Bread
Pastry
LUNCHES
Everything New and Clean
WATCH
REPAIRING
Wm. SERRICK
Fourth St. Opp.
Rust’s Pises
PIONEER
HAND LAUNDRY
Mrs. Al. Whits
Corner Second and C Streets
EALLON HOUSE
Good, Clean, Quiet Sleeping Ac-'
commodations
Electric Lights Furnace Heat
Jas. J. Fallon Front & A
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COLISEUM MASQUE
ENJOYED BY MANY
The masquerade party, which was held
at the Coliseum on Thursday evening in
honor of Washington's birthday, was one
of the most largely attended and most
enjoyable dances held in Nenana this
winter. Practically everybody in town
was there, and the variety of costumes
in evidence was a surprise to all. Priz
es were awarded as follows: Best dressed
lady, Mrs. E. I. Foster, who appeared as
a Colonial dame; best sustained lady char
acter, Mrs. M. J. Cooney, as Columbia;
best sustained male character, C. I).
Ross, as Charlie Chaplin; the booby priz
es went to Mrs. Carl Schmidt, of Wood
River and to W. A. Ball, as a “kloocli.
Comfortably Furnlahod, Maated
Room In Now York Block For
Rent. Inquire Simson’a
CLEANING, PRESSING
Alterations, Repairing
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Mrs. Campbell
Second St., Moat Tavern Cafe
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Business Is Good
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