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A THRILLING DRAMA IN THREE ACTS
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A RIP-ROARING COMEDY
Produced by C. Jay William*
FOUNDED ON THE CELEBRATED ‘BUY A BALE OF COTTON’
MOVEMENT
Rev. Robert Joseph Diven, one of tbe able Four-Minute Men,
will address tbe audience tomorrow night. His talk will be en
tirely on the Red Cross activities.
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NENANAITES ARE
LEI IN ON PLAN
I 10 BIO ON WOOL
! Wool Clipped From White House
Sheep Will Be Sold to the
Highest Bidder.
j There have been many novel
methods adopted for the raising of
Red Cross funds but none of them
1 has been more unique than the one
by which President Wilson is helping
to boost the big hundred million
dollar drive that is under way this
week throughout the country. Every
one in Nenana has a chance to get
into the game and it is in full swing
from the time of this announcement.
The following telegram, received this
morning by Mrs. Bowen, who is lead
ing the local drive, explains the
plan:
“Mrs. Bowen, Nenana Branch
Red Cross:
larn made from wool clipped
from sheep pastured by President
Wilson on the White House grounds
during the past winter has been dis
tributed by the president to be auc
tioned for the benefit of the Red
Cross. Each state and Alaska has
been awarded two pounds, and the
proceeds are to be counted as the
contribution of President Wilson and
Mrs. Wilson to the fund. Governor
Riggs has appointed me chairman
to manage the auction in this divi
sion and one-half pound has been
assigned as our quota for auction
here. The governor also suggests
that the purchaser might use the
yarn to embroider stars on the honor
flag gained during the Third Liberty
Loan drive. Each bidder should ac
company his bid with ten per ce,nt
of the amount he or she bids, and
no money will be refunded. I sug
gest that you public the list of bid
j ders each day and wire me each day
i the highest bid received. The bids
! will close at midnight, Monday, the
127th. Fairbanks is keen for the
FOWLER & MORRIS
GROCERIES
DRY GOODS
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COMPLETE LINE
LOWEST PRICES
auction. Does not your town need
this yarn? The amount accompany
ing the bids will go into the fund
also.
“JOHN A. CLARK.”
It is not likeiy that Nenana is
going to let Fairbanks or any other
town in this division get away with
that yarn without some spirited bid
ding, so it may be expected that
Mrs. Bowen will be kept busy taking
I in bids each day this week and Mon
j day. She will receive these up until
7:30 each evening, and they will be
given publicity in this newspaper
and on the bulletin boards from day
| to day. Who’s the first bidder?
It’s all wool!
COOK INLET SAYS
CROP WILL RIPEN
That grain crops will ripen and
mature in the Matanuska valley even
under unfavorable climatic condi
tions, such as generally prevailed
thorughout the Cook Inlet country
last summer, is proved beyond doubt
by samples of Siberian wheat, black
oats, and hullness and beardless bar
ley brough to Anchorage recently
by Danial Sloan from his ranch
near Wasilla along the main line of
the government railroad.
The samples were brought down
by Mr. Sloan in order to demon
strate the feasibility with which
Matanuska farmers may grow grain
crops on their ranches. The seed I
was obtained from the agricultural
department of the United States gov
ernment and was planted May 15,
1917, and cut September 8, 1917.
The samples shown by Mr. Sloan,
clearly prove what may be done in,
the matter of cereal crops and with
the aid given to the farmers of
the Matanuska valley by the agri
cultural experimental farm, the (
growing of grain crops.
WHERE IS 5139?
The holder of Ticket 5139, which
won first prize in the Simson pot- j
lach, has not yet claimed the money, '
and unless he puts in an appearance i
before seven o’clock tomorrow night,
the prize will go to the holder of j
Ticket 4891, the second one drawn
when the drawing was held on May
11. In case the second number is
not presented within twenty days
from the date of the drawing, the
third ticket drawn, No. 6884, will
, i
get the money.
CARTER KOON IS
GLAD I JOINED;
CENSORS STRICT
Former Resident of Nonane Writes
That Doings At the Front
Are Army Secret.
Under date of March 13, Carter
Koon, former well known resident
of Nenana who went Outside to en
list last year and who is now in
France, attached to Co. B. First
U. S. Engineers, has written to
Arild Slippern in which he describes
the country in which he is stationed
and refers to the fate of a previous
letter, which gives some notion of
the strictness with which the mili
tary authorities are maintaining
their censorship of war news. “I
received your letter a few days ago,’’
he writes, “and was truly glad to
hear from you, for somehow, Ne
nana seems more like home to me
than any place I know.
“As I sit here writing this, with
the sun shining nice and warm, and
the birds singing in the trees, you
would not imagine there was any
such thing as war. But as the ger
man (small g) trenches are in view
across the way, and as I have been
around her for some time. I don’t
have to be told that at any minute
something may start which would
soon convince even the most skepti
cal person that there is war in this
part of the country.
“Well, old boy, if I were allowed
to do it, I might write a more in
teresting letter, for you know I
can hand out a pretty good line
when I want to. But as I had a
letter returned to me last night with
a request, or rather, I should say,
in the army, a command to rewrite
it, I guess it’s taboo with what a
fellow likes most to write about,
and in fact, about all a fellow has
to write about over here, after he
has exhausted his vocabulary in com
menting on the fine climate in the
winter time, the grand scenery, and
the modern, up-to-date towns (mod
ern in the days of Joan of Arc),
and last but not least, this lovely
mud they have over here. If Le
Page had spent the price of a ticket
to France, he need never to have
gone to the expense of putting up
a factory to make glue, for this -s
surely the clear dope.
“But leaving all jokes aside, I
imagine this to be a beautiful coun
try in the summer time, and when I
left Nenana with the intention of
trying to join as soon as I got to
the great Outside, I did not expect
any summer picnic excursion, so I
am not discouraged, neither am I
dissatisfied. And if I get through
0. K. I will consider it even as a
personal investment, time well
spent.”
In closing, the former contractor
expresses a wish to be remembered
to all his friends in Nenana.
Corporal Conway set out from I
Hersehel Island last winter on a
journey of 1800 miles for the pur
pose of apprehending an Eskimo ac
cused of killing his wife. At the
same time he brough in another
Eskimo as witness. Both men are
reported to be of the blond race
which Steffansson said existed. In
spector Phillips of the N. W. M. P.
undertook a dangerous journey es
corting two Eskimos from the Cop
per Mine river in the far north to
Hersehel. The men were accused
of killing two Catholic priests He
does not expect to get any farther
than Fort McPherson this spring.
Karl Lendren, a Swedish fisher
man was recently arrested at Ketch
ikan for making seditious remarks.
Karl Hallman was also arrested at
the same time. The men are charg
ed with saying that the Liberty Loan
was a “rich man’s graft” and other
remarks of similar character.
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' According to a recent executive
j order no one may leave the United
' States with over $100 in paper
[ money or one hundred each of gold
or silver certificates. The disobey
ing of this order subjects the per
son to a fine of not more than
$10,000 or imprisonment for not
more than two years, or both, and
( subjects such coin or currency to
seizure by the United States.
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NURSING SICKLY PLANTS
Sickly plants, like sickly people, |
cannot stand extremes. Sickly pot
plants may often be more quickly
brought back to health by watering
with very warm water only. Low
vitality will not be raised through ]
the use of chilly water or less than j
110 degrees of temperature.
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Game Warden Steve Foster, who1
recently underwent an operation at
the Government hospital, has left
the institution and will be ready to
resume his official labors within a
few days.
! Mr. and Mrs. Max Love came
j down from Fairbanks yesterday. Mr
Love is a son of Mrs. M. S. Love.
Nenana’s postmaster.
Victory is a
Question of Stamina
Send-the Wheat
Meat Fats Sugar
the fuel for Fighters
UNITED states food administration
BOIL THE WATER
Dr. Malcolm E. Smith, health
officer of the town of Nenan, has
issued instructions to the public ' •>
boil all water used for drinking pur
poses. The general flooding of the
town has contaminated all wells in
the flooded J rea, and the use of
this water, unless boiled, undoubt
edly would result in much sickness. |
Wm. Casey, whoh as been in
Fairbanks serving on the trial jury,
returned to Nenana this afternoon
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FASTKY OR BREAKFAST
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