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We Have It
Screen Doors
Screen Windows
Screen Wire
Screen Door Sets
Wheelbarrows
Garden Rakes
Garden Hoes
Garden Spades
Grass Hooks
Flower and Garden Seeds
and Three Kinds of
Seed Potatoes
COGNILL’S
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second and Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER
Secretary
Dictator
'LAUNCH VIC*
READY JOB USE
The launch Victory, which under
the guidance of her owner, Captain
Fred Douse, will again go on the
regular run between Xenana and
Fairbanks, has had the final coat of
paint put on and the finishing
touches given her machinery.
She is now ready for launching
and will take the water just as soon
as her owner feels sure that the
heavy run of ice is over.
The craft is in trim shape now
and looks spick and span. She has
been very thoroughly overhauled,
both hull and machinery receiving
careful attention. Her passenger
accommodations have been thor
oughly renovated and improved, and
she carries no less than 22,000
cubic inches of air in separate tanks
in different parts of her hull, which
makes her practically non-sinkable.
Just as soon as the river is suffi
ciently clear of ice to make navi
gation safe, she will eommensc her
regular runs. Due notification of
this will appear in the News later
LADIES’ AID MEETING
TOMORROW AFTERNOON
The Ladies’ Aid society of Xe
nana will meet at 2:30 tomorrow
afternoon at the home of Mrs. F.
D. Browne.
All members of the society are
urged to be in attendance and take
part in the business that will be
up for discussion at the meeting.
FERRY SERVICE
ACROSS IANANA
—
With a clear stretch of water
opposite the town, and very little
drift ice interfering, a ferry ser
vice was established early this morn
ing by an enterprising Xenanaite,
j in a small boat capable of carry
i ing three pasengers at a time.
Many of the A. E. C. employees
1 who had come across the river last
■ night returned to their camps this
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morning and the ferryman reaped
quite a harvest for a while.
A gang of men who had been
fighting fire at Camp 415 were
marooned as a result of the ice
going out, and a boat was launched
by the Commission to get them
across.
It is expected that the business j
men of the town will establish a
ferry service in a few days.
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GRIFFITH PAR1Y !
REACH TALKEETNA
A recent arrival in Xenana, over
the Broad Pass trail, brings word
of the arrival at Talkeetna, on
April 23d, of a part of the Grif
fiths mining outfit, which left Xe
nana on the morning of March
26th.
Cap Griffith, with part of the
outfit, had not shown up at Tal
keetna on the night of the 23d,
but was expected in the next day.
The party was composed of C. F.
(Cap) Griffith. A. P. Clark and
Frank McGibney, and they had six
double-enders, three horses and a
complete mining outfit and sup
plies. At the end of steel the
party picked up two tons of horse
feed- which had been sent on ahead,
and the journey was made by way
of the Xenana canyon.
This is said to be the first time
the trail has been negotiated with
horses and double-enders.
The party will engage in mining
extensively by hydraulic methods
this season on some ground which
was staked some time ago Lv Cap
Griffith on Bird creek, about thirty
miles from Talkeetna.
The hydraulic plant, wh'ch had
been ordered from the Slates, was
expected to be at Anchorage by
the time the party reached Tal
keetna. They wjll freight it over
to Bird creek.
FAIRBANKS BOY SCOUTS
AID IN VICTORY DRIVE j
Fifteen Fairbanks Boy Scouts re- 1
ported that, as a result of the Sat- j 1
urday drive conducted by them, in ic
the interest of the Victory Liberty j1
Loan, the sum of S6.000 wa= sub- t
scribed.
It is estimated that about three
quarters of the Fairbanks quo'a of j
the Victory Loan has teen sub
scribed to date.
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IGADEMY DANCE {
BREA! SUCCESS
Quite a large number of Nenana- j
;es attended the dance given by j
he Nenana Dancing Academy last !
aturday night at the Union Hall, j
nd had a most enjoyable time. j
The floor was in splendid con- ,
ition and good music was provid
d, which was the main contributing
actor to the success of the dance, '
.hich was continued until a much 1
ater hour than usual. 1
In view of the fact that the hall ( -
ras not obtainable for next Satur- ^
ay night, the Dancing Academy <
rill postpone its usual weekly dance ’
intil Saturday, May 17th. s
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MOVANA MAIL
A new boat which is being con
tracted in Fairbanks by Andy
itrom, for Carl White, to be used
n the mail and passenger service
setween Tolovana and Fairbanks,
vill be completed and ready for
aunching in a day or two.
The new boat, which is a trifle
mailer than the one used by White
ast summer, will be a steam-driven
tern-wheel eraft.
After the new boat has been
aunched, Carl White plans on hav
ng his old boat changed from a
:asoline propeller.driven boat to a
tern-wheel steamer. He believes
hat stern-wheelers are more suita
ile for navigating the waters of
he very crooked Tolovana river.
Little Miss Ethel Morrison, who
ras operated on recently for ap
pendicitis, is mending rapidly and
rill soon be able to return home.
|
George Kosoff, who has a grad
ng contract on the Nenana-Fair
anks line near Standard creek,
ame into town on business last
ight and left again for his station'
his morning.
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DOC KENNELS NENANA, ALASKA g
The man who created the N'obel
*rize. awarded each year to five
lersons who have rendered to
lumanitv the greatest service, was
tlferd Bernhard Nobel. Few know,
lowever, that he was the inventor
'f dynamite. When his invention
cas complete he found that he had
pent every cent he had on it. and
offered to sell it to the British gov
ernment for $3000. It was refused
because the invention was “worth
less.” He offered to sell a friend
a half interest in it for $130. This
svas also refused. Then he started
to manufacture dynamtie himself
and made a fortune of nine million
dollars out of it.
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Air Tight heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
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CLEAN DRY WOOD; FOR SALE
COAL BY THE SACK OR TON
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