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Be Prepared for Cold Weather
We Have a Large and Varied Assortment of the Leading Brands o
MACKINAW COATS MACKINAW PANTS
Army and Navy Sweaters SPORT SHIRTS, Heavy Wool
SWEATER COATS WOOL SOCKS, All Weights
UNION SUITS and TWO PIECE GARMENTS
GENUINE DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOES
BALL BAND ARCTICS
WOOL BLANKETS BLANKET SHEETS COMFORTERS
SEE OUR BRUSSELS and WILTON RUGS, ALL SIZES
Bisse.l’s Vacuum Sweepers Electric Vacuum Sweepers
.
We Carry a Full Line of
I MINERS’ and TRAPPERS’ SUPPLIES
| and Can Furnish Your Outfit Complete at Special Prices
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
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No Store In Alaska Carries a Better =
H Grade of Goods and None Undersells This S
= Store. ==
f= We Have Many More Just as Good =
||| Bargains as the Ones Advertised Here. A
=E Call at Our Store Will Convince You that §5
EE We Can Save You Money._ |j§
I FUR COATS - CLOTH OVERCOATS |
COON COATS, Matched Dark Skin* $95 —
COON COATS (Pieced Fur) Special $25 ==
WALLABY COATS, Extra Special $75 ==
BEST GRADE MARMOT LINED COATS .$95 =
FUR COLLAR, CLOTH COATS.$35 =
CLOTH OVERCOATS, $40 Value* .$25 =
SUITS
BEST GRADE SATIN LINED SUITS
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX SUITS .
BLUE AND BLACK SERGE SUITS
LARGE VARIETY $35 SUITS, At.
$45
$35
$25
$25
OVERSHIRTS
HEAVY WASH SILK SHIRTS
GOOD GRADE SILK SHIRTS
SUITCLOTH SHIRTS, Special
FLANNEL OVERSHIRTS
SILK AND LINEN DRESS SHIRTS
$7.50
$5.60
$5.00
$2.50
$2.50
UNDERWEAR
MEDLICOTT, HEAVIEST AND BEST. Suit
STANFIELD’S, MEDIUM WEIGHT, Suit
CANADIAN, BEST ALL WOOL, Suit.
EALGE BRAND, BEST GRADE, Suit.
MEDLICOTT, MEDIUM, Suit .
$5.50
$5.50
$7.50
$6.50
$4.50
FOOTWEAR
WALKOVER DRESS SHOES, Pair
WALKOVER. CUSTOM GRADE, Pair
DANIEL GREEN BEST FELT SHOES
ALFRED DOLGE BEST FELT SHOES
MOCCASINS, BEST AT $5, $4 and
$8.50
$9.50
$6.50
$4.50
$3.75
QUILTS and BLANKETS
BEST DOWN SLEEPING ROBES ....
DOWN QUILTS, 6x7 Feet .
ALL WOOL BLANKETS, Single
DOUBLE WOOL BLANKETS, 9 Iba.
$19.50
$15.00
.$4.50
$9.50
GLOVES and MITTS
ALL WOOOL INSIDE MITTS, Pair .
BEST SCOTCH WOOL MITTS, Pair .
EISENDRATH MAMMOTH MITTS, Beat.
CARHART BEST GRADE MAMMOTH MITTS
CANVAS GLOVES, Special, 2 PAIR.
.25c
$1.50
..$1.50
$1.50
.25c
PARKAS, BEST DRILL. WOLF TRIMMED .$4.50
PARKAS, KHAKI, BEST FITTING.$5.00
TURKISH TOWELS, GOOD SIZE .,25c
FELT INSOLES, BEST WHITE .50c
FELT INSOLES, GRAY, Pair .25c
LEVI STRAUSS BLUE OVERALLS, Pair.$1.50
SIMSON’S
Store Open Every Night Until 10 O’clock
ill
NEW YORK.—To help make
farming profitable and rural life
endurable for the farmer, his wife,
his sons and daughters, the Metho
dist Episcopal church has under
taken to spend $5,500,00 in training
rural ministers to teach scientific
farming and develop social activity
in country districts. The purpose
as announced by the Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension is
to keep the farmers on the farms.
Dissatisfaction with country life,
it is declared, has caused a decrease
of rural population in Ohio, Indiana.
Iowa. Missouri, Vermont and New
Hampshire. The boys and girls will
not stay on the farm when high
wages are to be earned nearer the
moving picture theaters.
To combat this, the Methodist
church is planning to send many of
its best men to the country churches,
of which it has upward of 12,000.
Rural pastors are to have special
training in agriculture so as to help
farmers with advice. Demonstration
farms are to be established where
agricultural colleges do not meet
the needs.
Associations of rural ministers to
put these plans into effect already
have been started in Ohio, West
Virginia, Iowa, South Dakota, Penn
sylvania and Nebraska. Chairs of
Rural Sociology to teach how to
be happy though living on a farm
have been established in theological
seminaries and plans are in the mak
ing to start similar courses in col
leges.
SECTION GANG
TO BE FORMED
_
A new section gang, t0 be known
as Section No. 5, will be established
with headquarters at 35-mile, camp
373. It will consist of eight men,
a foreman and a cook, and these
men with one of the engineering
staff of residency three will be the
only people who will occupy this
once busy camp.
Superintendent Packer stated that
the sectionmen will be selected for
this service and sent to the camp
just as soon as the weather moder
ates some, perhaps in a day or two.
The men will occupy the old bunk
house for the present, and will,
later on, move into the old store
building which will probably be
fitted up as a combination bunk and
mess house.
From this point where the store
building is situated for a distance
of about two miles, the road runs
, along the hillside, which has been
•cut and sloped off to permit of the
road being put through. Consider
able gravel and a few boulders ggt
| dislodged during the spring thaw
: and block the road to some extent,
and the gang stationed there
i will be employed in closely watching
! this part of the road and keeping it
| clear of impediments.
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* TEMPERATURE »?
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** As reported by the government *t
observation station, Nenana
Tuesday, December 10 *5
Maximum .46 below
Minimum .50 below ^
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NOTICE
—
j Nenana Club members please be
j on hand Saturday night after the
show
■ensss—The Gateway to McKinley
national Park.
Dr. J. R. BOWEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
PUNS AMD
FOR B8IDGE A1
DISIANI CAMPS
The original plans for the bridge
spanning the Nenana river at mile
373, known as the Nenana Crossing,
called for a structure the main
part of which consisted of piers 24
feet apart on which trusses were
to be fixed wi^i the necessary tres
tle approaches on either shore; but
in view of the fact that the bridge
is liable to be damaged considerably
when the break-up occurs, with the
loss of consfderable material which
goes to make up the trusses, the
plans have been altered and orders
have been issued for the building
of a straight trestle bridge to carry
the steel across.
Accordingly, rows of piling will
be driven between the piers, short
ening the spans by 12 feet and the
structure finished off like an ordin
ary bridge.
The waters of the Nenana river
in the neighborhood of the bridge
flow very swiftly and the pressure
of the ice against the bridge when
the breakup occurs is enormous and,
it is expected that a considerable
portion of the structure will be
carried away and traffic will be
suspended for a little time, until
the bridge is repaired.
It is the intention of the Alaskan
Engineering commission to erect a j
permanent steel bridge across the
Nenana river at the Crossing, but
owing to transportation difficulties
and cost, the material for the con
struction of the steel bridge will
not be ordered until rail communi-j
cation with the coast has been es
tablished, when, the structural steel
can be hauled on the government
road to the bridge site.
In the meantime, Mr. Browne
stated that the trestle bridge will
be rebuilt as often as it is de
stroyed by the ice, and traffic from
Nenana to the end of steel will be
maintained.
OFFICIALS GO 10
GREEFMSM
PARIS—Foreign Minister Pichon,
Minister of Marine Geroges Leygues
of the French cabinet, General
Pershing and Colonel House, with
several other high officials, left to
day for Brest, where they will meet
President Wilson, who is expected
to arrive there on Friday.
Elaborate preparations have been
made for the reception of President
Wilson, and the streets of Brest
through which he will pass have been
splendidly decorated and the entire
town has put on its gayest dress
in honor of the great event. ,
ISLANDERS PEAVED
OVER RULING
TAHATI—TheUnited States gov
ernment embargo on the export, in
tin cans, of gasoline and distillate,
I
is bewailed by owners of schooners
among the islands. With few ex
ceptions these vessels are propelled
by gasoline engines and on long
voyages are compelled to carry ex
tra supplies of fuel to replenish
their tanks. Tins and iron drums ar'.
the only practical containers for
transporting liquids in tropcial lati
tudes.
Cutting off the supply of kero
sene and gasoline five-gallon cans
will deprice the islanders of one of
the most universally used and valued
of utensils. In every island of the
South Seas, even to the remotest
atoll, these cans are the native car
riers of water and are used as coffee
pots, wash boilers, flower pots,
drums for dance music, bowls for
toddy and even as pillows. As p.
result of the embargo old cans have
| greatly appreciated in value, in the
eyes of the nif ives.
I OVERCOATS
The essential qualities in a good overcoat are few; style, fit,
quality and price. It is not often that you find the first
three combined at the right price. The overcoats we handle
combine all good qualities—and the prices are right. Come
to the store and convince yourself whatever we have said
in favor of our Overcoats are facts. Buy. or look,—you
are welcome.
EXTRA SPECIAL LOW PRICES ARE IN FORCE NOW
Our Stock Reducing Sale
IV STILL GOING ON RIGHT ALONG
$25 : Values Now Selling: at $15
$35 Values Now Selling at $25
COON COATS (Pieced Fur) $25
BEAVER CLOTH COATS* Satin Quilted, with Large
Beave- Collars, at $45
BEST GRADE MARMOT LINED COATS $95
CLOTH OVERCOATS, with Fur Collars $35
THE HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES
s: iv! son’s
The Nome of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
MOSCOW CLERGY
OUT Oil STRIKE
10 AD PRIEST!
—
LONDON.—A strike of “priests”
in Moscow was one of the incidents j
of Bolsheviki rule. Bishop Andronic ;
of the Perm diocese, a man of con- j
siderable influence among the Rus- i
sian clergy, had been arrested for
his outspoken opposition to the Bol
sheviki regime, and all the ecclesias
tics in that district went on strike
in protest against his imprsonment. I
They refused to perform the serv- j
ces their office required, and the
devout muzhiks and townspeople;
were greatly mortified. A number
of strikin gclergymen were arrested, I
charged with counter-revolutionary
activity.
After a through examination by
the local commission for the sup
presion of counter-revolution, sabo
tage and speculation, they were re-!
leasedupon signing a pledge that
they never would take part in agita- j
tion against the soviet government
nor in connection with the arrest
of the bishop.
What became of the b.ishop an*"
how the strike ended, has not been
learned.
Journalism has a royal recruit in
the king of Siam, who recently con
tributed an article to a Siamese
journal on “Freedom of the Seas.” j
HUNTING PARTY
KIISJE TRAIL
-Messrs Ernest Foster and Everett
fitzwater left yesterday morning on
a two week’s hunting trip, traveling
by dog team. They are heading to
ward the Lignite country and ex >
pect to cut across from there to
the Middle river country, where
they hope to do most of their
hunting.
The men are wel! supplied with
camping equipment and some grub
and expect to be able to live off
the land some. They are both
good shots and expect to bag the
limit of caribou, moose and moun
tain sheep.
RUST HOUSE
Mrs. Ed. Williams, Prop.
A and FIFTH STREETS
ROOMS AND BOARD
ROOMS 75c and $1.00
Coffee and Doughnuts 25c
DOG KENNELS
Sheldon-Gibson Stage Line
Carrying U. S. Mails
For CHITINA and WAY POINTS
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Harry Woodward, agent
Fairbanks
Phone 84 Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
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BEVO
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| Per Dozen $3.00 1
| AGENTS FOR THE FAIRBANKS BEVERAGE CO. I
CHEER-O
| Qts. per Doz. $4 Doz. Pints $2.50 |
PORT-O
| All Flavors, per Case - $3.25 I
| FRESH FRUITS, CANDIES POOL, CIGARS, TOBACCO |
1~THE PORTLAND |
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