PINE CORK USED
BY SWEDISH PUBLIC
WASHINGTON.—Pine cork is be
ing used in Sweden because of the
shortage of true cork. Samples of
the substitute have been sent to
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce by Axel Osholm, trade
commissioner, who is investigating
the lumber markets of Finland and
Scandinavia.
The first Cordovan to meet death
as a member of Uncle Sam’s fight
ing force in France .was James Ben
nett, formerly employed on the Cop
per River railway, and well and
favorably known by Cordova resi
dents.
GERMANS PLANTING
TOBACCO FOR USE
NEW YORK.—Because of the
dearth and high price of tobacco
in Germany, the inhabitants of the
large cities have begun to grow their
own tobacco, says the Berlin Tage
blatt.
Ted Cunningham and Ellery Carl
son, Wrangell boys in the service
of the United States, were members
of the crew of the ill-fated sub
marine chaser No. 209, which was
a converted yacht, operating out of
Philadelphia, and which was sunk
recently off the Atlantic coast.
FALL IS HERE
AND WE ARE READY TO SUPPLY EVERY MAN, WOMAN
AND CHILD IN NENANA WITH SUITABLE CLOTHES
BUY NOW and SAVE MONEY
THERE IS NOTHING TO BE GAINED BY WAITING
ASSORTMENTS WILL NEVER BE BETTER ,
PRICES WILL NEVER BE LOWER
MEN’S DEPARTMENT
Fall and Winter Suits—Standard Makes
STERNS, ADLERS, HART SCHAFFNER & MARX
THE STYLES ARE CORRECT
THE TAILORING IS THE BEST
PATTERNS IN GOOD VARIETY
AND WE GUARANTEE TO FIT YOU PERFECT—TO YOUR
SATISFACTION
Special Attention It Called to Our Complete Stock of Black
and Blue Serge Suits- Prices are
$25 $35 $45
(Silk and Satin Lined)
It’s Time to Put On Medium Weight Wool Underwear;
We Recommend:
Wright’s Needle Ribbed Wool Underwear, Suit.$6
Dunham Mills' Ribbed Underwear, grey and white; Suit. .. $6
Cooper’s Spring Needle Ribbed Underwear, Suit.$5
$5.00
SIMSON’S
SUITCLOTH
SHIRTS
$6.50
This label stands for the best in Overshirts—Genuine Suit
cloths, London shrunk, fast colors; one of these shirts will
outwear half a dozen flannel shirts... Prices a-e
$5 and $6.50
FINE DRESS SHOES ARE KNOWN BY THESE NAMES
HANAN & SON FREEMAN
We have both makes at $8.50 and $9.50 pair for the best
Good Dress Shoes are selling now as low as, pair.$6.50
Heavy Waterproof Cutter and Chippewa Shoes from
$7.50 up to $13.50.
Cashmerine Wool Sox, pair .50c
Heavy White Wool Sox, pair.50c
Hipress Rubber Pacs, white, pair .$5.50
Hipress Rubber Pacs, red, pair.$4.50
For real comfort there is nothing like a Down Quilt
We are selling them at the old price, up from...
Every Suit \
h,*ry Party Dress HALF PR1CE
every street Dress i
“ ; \ THIS INCLUDES ALL
Every Evening Gown ) THE LATE arrivals
$25 Values at $12.50
$35 Values at $17.50
Fall Coats at Big Reductions
The Fall Hats Are Unpacked
Fall and Winter Underwear in Good Variety
GOOD UNION SUITS, At .$3.50
SILK AND WOOL UNIONS, At .$5.00
Towels, Sheets Pillow Cases, Clinic Gauze, Ginghams, House
Linings, Muslin, Cretans, Outing Flannels, Table Linen,
Canton Flannel, Daisy Cloth, Cotton Batts, ..
Wool Batts, Blankets, Quilts.
SIMSON’S
NEW DEVICE IS
BEING USED 10
SPREAD GRAVEL
Superintendent of Construction
W. L. Packer is the inventor of a
new device for spreading gravel on
the roadbed for use by the surfac
ing gangs and it is said to be giving
great satisfaction and helping very
materially in furthering the work
of building the railroad. The work
done by the spreader is equal to
the work that will be done by a
force of about forty men using
shovels to get gravel from the sides
to the middle of the track.
The spreader is a very strongly
built V shaped box with arms ex
tending a few feet beyond the rails.
Notches cut in the sprt\der fits on
the rails on each side to gather in
the gravel dumped off the cars by
the plow. It is hooked on to the
rear car of the gravel train and
does the work of properly spreading
the gravel on the roadbed simul
taneously with the work done by the
plow in unloading the gravel cars.
The spreader w|s built in Xenana
under the direction of Mr. Packer.
SWELL PICTURE TONIGHT
AT THE COLISEUM THEATER
N'obdy should miss the picture
that will be shown at the Coliseum
tonight, as it is certainly worth see
ing. Five reels tell a very romantic
story in which Lou Tellengen, as the
“Unknown”, takes the leading role.
The story centers around the world
famous military unit known as the
Foreign Legion, in their quarters in
Algeria, where they keep open house
and welcome into their ranks all
soldiers of fortune. of whatever
nationality they may be who may
care to join this dare-devil regi
ment. «
The Foreign Legion in their Al
gerian quarters offer santuary where
men who have met misfortune may
redeem their past, and where no
questions are asked and no papers
needed.
The inevitable love story lends
a charm to the story of a brave
man’s struggle to extricate himself
from misfortune.
Bargain prices will prevail, the
general admission being two bits,
and reserved seats fifty cents.
COMING
SUNDAY and MONDAY
MAKE YOUR WANTS KNOWN
through the
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska.
If you want to either hire or bo
hired, let us hear from you.
Employers will please state nature
of positions vacant and
wages paid.
Those desiring positions will give
qualifications and nature of
work wanted.
E. J. WHITE,
Chief of Bureau.
By order of the Governor.
Max M. Smith, late of the N. C.
company, is now at Camp Fremont,
California in the subsistence depart
ment of the Quartermaster’s detach
ment. He enlisted on August first
and was told off to this branch of
the service shortly afterwards. In
an interesting letter to J. H. Flower,
of the N. C. store, he says he is
tickeled to death to be in the army
and likes the life very much. His
detachment is handling the food
supplies for the camp and he says
“We have thirty-five thousand
troops under canvas here, and be
live me, they eat up some food in a
month. Cars of supplies unload into
huge depots and are delivered to
the different outfits by big motor
trucks. We also operate a motor
train to and from San Francisco,
composed of twenty big motor
trucks and they certainly do handle
an enormous quantity of stuff.
“The camp is like a huge circus,
everything except the bath and wash
houses and the mess halls being un
der canvas. There are about sixty
different commands here and each
one busy with his own particular
work. Artillery, infantry, siege gun
battalions, gas battalions, signal
corps, cooks and bakers school, offi
cers' training schools and dozens of
others go to make up the huge
camp.
“All sorts of drilling and man
oevering going on everywhere.^ Band
concerts, ball games, boxing, Liberty
theater, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A.,
Knights of Columbus, etc., all busy
amusing the big bunch of school
boys looking for amusement when
the day’s work is over.
“The weather down here is simply
great. Hot in the day time and
pleasantly cool at night. We sleep
with the tent up all around, five
men to a tent, and awake in the
morning feeing fine and ready for
a good breakfast- We get three
good meals a day—good food and
well cooked. No chance business
on army cooking any more; the cooks
and bakers are all graduates from
school and all have to know their
business l'*fore “going on.” Yes
terday we had chicken, which was
fine. We have fresh fruit, lots of
fresh vegetables, good bread (war),
butter once a day, good coffee, beef
and pork, etc., so you see we don’t
go hungry.
"The greatest trouble I find is
that there isn’t work enough to suit
me. The army game is so different
from the game of business. So
many men to do a thing and every
thing to go through a certain rout
ine that it makes a man weary who
has been used to putting things
through in something like fair time;
but I will get used to things event
ually.
“The new act. 18 to 45 years,
will make a lot of fellows sick who
have hollered about what good citi
zens they were—but were willing
enough to let someone else do the
fighting—won’t it? This is a great
opportunity to be 45 years old—
come out here and join one of the
Q. M. detachrjents, where you can
get into any kind of work that you
wish. I am sure you can find what
work you want to take up if you
can pass the physical test and join
the colors.
Tell ail the old gang hello for me.”
Max also speaks of having met
Pierce Cromwell, lately of the N. C.
staff at Wiseman- He is in the
naval service.
Leith Russell, when last heard
of was enjoying a short vacation at
Spokane, and expressed himself as
very well pleased with the service.
He is very anxious to be assigned
for duty overseas.
Howard Curtis, late general store
keeper of the A. E. C., is now a
major in the Regulars and expects
to be sent across “Over There” in
command of a labor battalion
Writing from Camp Johnston, Jack
sonville, Fla., Curtis says that he
expects to be in camp for about
three weeks more and then will be
1 sent across in one of the transports
, from an Atlantic port. At present
TWO CHOICE
BUSINESS LOTS
FOR SALE
CORNER OF MARKET ANI> SECOND
BLOCK 14 LOTS 1 AND 2
NEW PRICE TODAY
Lot No. 1 - $576.52
Lot No. 2 - $252.52
These Lots are centrally located, being
only a few steps from the Postoffice and
office of U. S. Commissioner and across
the street from the Telegraph office and
Federal Reserve.
The Lots origionally sold for $1200.00
and $500.00 respectively. For further in
formation see Dr. J. R. Bowen, the dentist
Bowen Building, Nenana.
he belongs to Officers’ Unit No. 1,
Camp Johnston.
Frank Murphy (Ichabod) late of
the electrical department of the
A. E. C., joined the army shortly
after his arrival in the States and
is now under training at Camp
Grant, 111. He says that he is hav
ing some strenuous times in train
ing, but expects to be transferred
shortly to some electrical division
and then he hopes that life will be
a little pleasanter. He says he had I
a dandy trip down the coast and I
across country on the Milwaukee |
road on his trip out from Alaska ;
Times are pretty good in Vancouver ,
and Seattle, but living and clothes ■
are very high, he says.
Jack Oreer and Asa Fittoek, late
of the store department of the A.
E. C., are now in the quartermaster
corps and in Washington, D. C.
They expect to be sent to a camp
on the Atlantic coast preparatory
to going “Over There.”
All of the boys hear(Tw*om, with
out exception, express themselves as
being well pleased with the army
life and are also agreed that civilian
life in Alaska is a whole lot better
than in the States, owing to the
high cost of everything, and that
unless a man wants to join the
army, he is very much better off in
Alaska.
What is still standing of the old
Willson & Sylvester Mill Co.’s mill
which was destroyed by fire last
March will soon be cleared away
! and the new mill will be in process
1 of erection.
RUST HOUSE
Mr*. Ed. William*, Prop.
A and FIFTH STREETS
ROOMS AND BOARD
ROOMS 75c and $1.00
Coffee and Doughnuts 25c
DOG KENNELS
John E. Erickson, formerly con
nected with the lighthouse service)
in Southeastern Alaska, has gone
South to report for duty with the
Engineers’ Corps of the United
States army.
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
<
SI)eldon-6il)soi) Stage Line
Carrying U. S. Mail*
For CHITINA and WAY POINTS
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Harry Woodward, agent
Fairbanks
Or Squire 'Tater 'low he goin' to
be mighty nigh king er de roos’
'mong garden sass folks. We alls
kin eat him as a 'tater boiled, baked,
fried, stewed, cooked wid cheese en
dey gettin’ so dey make im inter
flour; so's we kin '‘substi-tute" him
fo' wheat flour. He's de “suv>«titu
tenest” of all de vittles, he sez.
De udder garden sass folks lak
inguns, tomatoes, cabbage en turnips
en squash don't ni—d to git peeved,
’cause dey’s goin' to be room in de
pot fo' de whole tribe. Ev’y las’
one on ’em can he'p save wheat en
meat fer de boys dat's doin’ de fight
in’ over yander.
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