The Nenana News
"“VOLUME I NENANA. ALASKA. APRIL 21. 1917. ~ NUMBER 31
CONGRESS MAKES
IMPORTANT DECISION
ONE-HALF OF NENANA LOT
PAYMENTS MADE AVAIL
ABLE FOR IMPROVEMENTS
According to advices just received from Washington by Townsite
Manager Ryus, congress has passed a bill which revises the Alaska
railroad townsite regulations to make one half of the money derived
from the sale of lots in all townsites available for the making of im
provements in the townsites.
One feature of the bill which is of vital importance to Nenanaites
is that it assures a practically fixed amount each year for improvements
for which no special assessments will have to be made, and that this
sum will be forthcoming each year as long as payments are made on
lots. All money derived from future lot sales will be divided in a
similar manner.
Great credit is due the officials of the Land and Industrial depart
ment and the local townsite officials, for it was wholly thru their unceas
ing efforts that the bill was formulated and presented to congress, and
its final passage was accomplished thru their aggressiveness.
AWARD TO BE GIVEN
BEST KEPT HOME
Mrs. Thos. Riggs, Jr., v/ishes
to announce that she will present
a silver cup to the person in the
town of Nenana, or in the Com
f mission reservation who will have
the neatest and prettiest yard of
flowers and vegetables—size of
garden will not necessarily be tak
en into consideration. Three judges
will be selected from outside of
Nenana so that there can be no
partiality shown. The prize will
be awarded about August first.
BANKER’S WIFE
GRANTED DIVORCE
Within one hour after the com
plaint was filed Judge Bunnell yes
terday morning granted a decree
of divorce to Mrs. R. C. Woods of
Fairbanks. It is understood that
Mr. Woods consented to the sep
aration. The former Mrs. Woods
left for the Outside last nite.
4 SIX SHOWS WEEKLY
AT COLISEUM
The Coliseum management an
nounces that beginning with the
Sunday show the following sched
ule will be effective: Wednesdays
and Fridays of each week two
episodes of ‘ The Million Dollar
Mystery” will be shown each nite.
On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat
urdays the regular Pathe Weekly
Drama-Comedy program will be
presented, and Sunday will be
feature nite as heretofore. Mon
day will be held open in order
that features may be repeated or
other social events may be held.
COMPLETE LINE OF
MATERIALS SECURED
Herman Anderson and son, Har
old, arrived in Nenana last Sunday
afternoon from Seattle. Mr. An
derson left Nenana late last fall to
go Outside to select a ltne of stock
for the local firm of Anderson Bros.
& Nerland, and reports that he put
in three months of the hardest
kind of hustling to secure a com
plete line of materials necessary
for the home furnishing trade.
The stock will consist of a com
plete hardware line, this item in
itself amounting to $i5,000. be
sides furnithre, sash, doors, glass,
plate glass store fronts, beaver
board, wall paper and linings,
paints, rugs, linoleums andanum
of other things which Mr. Ander
son is having put up especially for
the Alaska trade. Mr. Anderson
states that prices in all lines are
going sky high Outside, and that
he was fortunate in making the
trip personally and at the time he
did, as it enabled him to get the
best selections and to get his or
ders booked as early as he did.
A large addition to the present
store building will be erected in
the near future, and a storage ware-1
house will also be built to accom
modate the large stock which will
begin to arrive on the first boats.
Upon his arrival in Fairbanks
Mr. Anderson received the sad
news of the death of his eight
year-old son Lester, in Seattle,
whom he had left only a short time
previously in the best of health, i
TEUTONS IN
SERIOUS RIOTS REPORTED FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF GERMANY
NEW YORK: Despite the air-tight censorship which the German mili
tary staff is endeavoring to maintain, absolutely authentic reports have
been coming in from Holland, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland describing
the Socialist activities in Germany and Austria-Hungary, and the open
revolution which is apparently rampant thruout the Central Allies"
domains.
NEW YORK: The details of the demands of the Socialist party in Germany,
and which became known for the first time yesterday, are so revolutionary in
character that to grant them would mean the overthrow of Prussianism. They
have demanded that peace be established at once, and as an inducement to that
end that the government relinquish all claim to territory either lost or won dur
ing the war, and that compulsory military service be abolished.
LONDON: Dispatches from Holland this morning state that German troops
were called out yesterday afternoon to quell a mob of 10,COO munition strikers
j who attempted to burn the city hall at Magdeburg. A large number of the riot
were killed and wounded.
AMRTERDAM: Dispatches this morning state that the workers in all the
munition factories in Germany, including the great Krupp factories, have struck,
and refuse to make any more war supplies, hoping by this means to bring the
war to an end more quickly.
PARIS: The French troops progressed over a forty mile front yesterday to a
depth of from three-quarters to four miles, and that in an attempted counter=
attack at Justinconrt last nitea German division of 40,000 men was practically
annihilated by artillery fire.
PLANS FOR LIBRARY
PROGRESS RAPIDLY
The temporary committee which
has the plans of the Nenana public
library in hand reports that more
than four hundred dollars has been
subscribed, and that a large order
of books is being prepared and
will be sent out immediately. This
will assure the arrival of the books
in good season this summer. The
list includes an India paper edition
of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, an
up-to-date unabridged dictionary,
a good selection of the more solid
readihg matter such as the philos
ophers, historians, poets, etc., and
a liberal selection of the best cur
rent fiction of the past few years.
Nenana should have one of the
best libraries in the North and the
committee in charge deserves great
praise for the progress they have
made. _
FAIRBANKS BRIDGE
OPENED TO TRAFFIC
Advices from the upper town;
state that the new steel bridge to!
connect Garden Island with the:
business section of Fairbanks was j
thrown open to general traffic yes
terday. The event was celebrated
with appropriate ceremonies.
ANOTHER BASEBALL
PLAYER ARRIVES
Baseball enthusiasts and mem
bers of the Nenana Athletic asso
ciation are rejoicing in the fact that
the ranks of the local organization
are to be added to, and materially
strengthened by the arrival in town
of Harold Anderson, son of Mr.
Herman Anderson of the local firm
of Anderson Bros. & Nerland. Mr.
Anderson brings a most enviable
record with him from the Outside,
having traveled in some of the
fastest company in Seattle, and
his presence in the Nenana line
up should add one more nail to
flag which will fly at the head of the
Nenana penant pole at the opening
of the season, and which it is con
fidently expected will be there at
the close of the season, making
known to all that Nenana is as
heretofore, the champion of Inter- j
ior Alaska. _
STEVENS & JOHNSON
OPEN DOG FARM.
A first-class dog farm will be
opened in the very near future by
Messrs. Stevens and Johnson, two
old-timers from the Ruby district
who recently arrived in Nenana.
The farm will be established at a
point about four miles down the
Tanana. and the proprietors stale
that wire trolley runs will be pro
vided to enable the dogs to get the
exercise necessary to keep them
in condition. Present ii d cations
show that they will have a bnsy
season.
SOCIAL DANCE AT
COLISEUM TONITE
Another of the popular Saturday
nite social dances will be held at
the Coliseum tonite after the show
and a cordial invitation is extended
to the public to attend. An ad
mission of two bits will be charged
spectators occupying the balcony,
and gentlemen desiring to dance
may secure tickets at the usual
charge, $1.00. Lady dancers free.
NORTH STAR RES
TAURANT ENLARGED
Carpenters are busily engaged
in making alterations and improve
ments to the North Star restaurant
building on A street near First and
when completed Mr. Goonan, the
proprietor, will be well equipped
to handle the rapidly increasing
volume of business which is being
noted in all lines as the open sea
son approaches.