Compare These Prices
1 with those quoted elsewhere I
THEY ARE THE MOST CONVINCING PROOFS THAT IT
IS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO TRADE AT THIS
STORE, WHERE YOU CAN SAVE MONEY ON
EVERI PURCHASE.
It’s you.*- duty to try and save money and not ignore
facts... If you consider the purchase of your winter outfit of
clothes from a strictly business standpoint, we will surely
get our share of your business.
MEN’S SUITS
(The Best of the Ready-Made Brands)
$35.00
Strictly Hand-Tailored—Correct in Eve-y Detail; Including
All Black and Blue Serge Suits.
(Silk or Satin Lined, $10 Extra) Alterations Free
Hart Schaffner & Marx Overcoats, with Velvet
or Presto Cloth Collars .
$25—$35 |
= GOOD HEAVY CLOTH OVERCOATS, Special
$20 =
= DRESS MACKINAW COATS,.$6.50, $7.50, $8.50, $9.50 =
There’s nothing like a Genuine Down Quilt for solid
comfort... We have them from the regular Bed Size (some
of them silk covered) to a 9-foot square size. And as they
are all left-overs f'om last year, we will sell them at last
year’s prices—from .$12.50 Up
COTTON QUILTS
GOVERNMENT BLANKETS
...$3 50 Up
$7.50 each
Here is where you can find the official Football Sweater—
the famouse “YALE”, the best are priced fro $6.50 up
At the rate prices and freight rates are climbing, it’s
doubtful if we will be able to handle Trunks or Suitcases
next season. Take the hint—Buy what you need NOW.
Prices are last years prices.
LARGE STEAMER TRUNKS .$15.00
SUITCASES, Real Fibre .$3.50
LEATHER COVERED $9.50
LEATHER COVERED .$9.50
SOLID LEATHER . $19.50
s Just Received—The Very Latest Hats §
JOHN B. STETSON AND OTHERS
ASK TO SEE THE NEW VELOUR HATS
They are Beauties—All the Latest Shades They are $6 each
FELT HATS, at ..$5.00
= FUR BAND CLOTH CAPS—the Nobby Kind.$1.50 =
MAMMOTH MITTS—Best Grade, pair.$1.50
GREY OUTING FLANNEL OVERSHIRTS.$150
UNION SUITS, Extra Special, $6 Quality.$4.75
SUITCLOTH OVERSHIRTS, Our Own Make.$4.75
Come and see the latest KHAKI FLANNEL SHIRTS, they
are ju,t like the ones Uncle Sam’s Boys are wearing,
SPECIAL PRICE, $5.00
COMBINATION KHAKI FLANNEL OVERSHIRTS AND
SWEATERS—We have been fortunate to secure a few
dozen of these Arctic Sweatershirts. It’s the ideal gar
ment for the outdoor man. Price.$5.50
1 DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT 1
$30 HEAVY SERGE STREET DRESSES, At.$15.00
HEAVY CLOTH COATS WITH FUR COLLARS
NEARLY EVERYTHING IN THIS DEPARTMENT AT
ONEHALF AND ONE-THIRD OFF
LADIES’ UNION SUITS, Heavy Weights. $2.50
TIGHTS—WAISTS—BLOOMERS ...$i.5q
CHILDREN’S UNDERWEAR AT HALF PRICE
HOOVERIZE—Make your own quilts. Gumbo Batts,
Enough for a quilt.$2.50
SIMSON’S
RED CROSS ENTERTAINED
DRAFT BOYS LAST NIGHT
The Red Cross ladies of Nenana
were hostesses last night to the boys
of the draft and they were enter
tained at the picture show.
Immediately after the show a
dance was to be given the boys at
the Labor Union Hall and hurried
arrangements were made for the
necessary music, which was on hand
at the hall. Owing to the fact that
the arrangements for holding a
dance was taken in hand rather
late in the day, the attendance at
the function, especially the ladies,
was rather poor. A great many of
the ladies of the town didn’t know
that a dance had been arrange
for, the only intimation the peopl
had of the dance being the announce
ment made by Robert Joseph Dive
at the show.
GET YOUR BAGGAGE
A varied lot of baggage and othe
parcels brought to Nenana fror
the Tolovana country and Fairbank
by Carl White during the seaso
has been turned over to Dutc
Blankfield, who will deliver th
property to its owners if they wi
call for it.
Put the right food on the hom
table and the camp table will tak
care of itself.
FINANCES OF TOWN
MAKE FINE SHOWING
The townsite manager furnishes
the follow;ng .'♦atement of townsite
affairs, which is of interest to all
residents of Nenana.
It indicates that the financial
situation regarding assessments is
much better than was supposed. And
it puts an entirely different com
plexion on the matter of prices paid
for lots at the original sale.
We all know that those prices
j were too high, but as we are now
assured that fifty per cent of the
: sale price is to be returned as a
credit against charges for improve
ments of all kinds, it becomes ap
parent that the virtual effect of this
is to reduce the sale price by fifty
per cent.
In other words, fifty per cent of
all money paid for lots goes to pay
! the Alaskan Engineering Commis
j sion for money expended by them
; for various improvements.
It will take several weeks for the
townsite manager to prepare a new
assessment based roundly on the
statement below; and until that is
entirely finished it will be impossible
to say just how any par^cular lot
stands as to payments.
In the district directly served by
water and sewer systems there may
be some additional charges, as no
water or sewer assessmentts have as
yet been levied.
For the balance of the town there
will be no assessment against any
lot on which the assessments levied
are paid to date, until July or
August, 1919.
To date there is yet unpaid, of
assessments levied, $5,635.14.
The lots on which this amount
is owed will have to pay their share
of the new assessment. But it is
bound to be less than the total of
the old levies.
The new assessment roll will cover
the following items: $10 per lot
for the original clearing in 1916;
[ operation and maintenance for the
year ending June 30, 1917; opera
tion and maintenance for the year
ending June 30, 1918; water system
and sewer system, grading and side
walks.
These headings coincide with the
five assessments already levied, with
the water and sewer systems added.
Under the head of operation and
maintenance the charges will be
based on figures several thousand
dollars less than the old rolls, the
items making up this amount being
allotted for payment out of the fifty
per cent fund
Lots that are overpaid as to
assessments, will be given credit on
the townsite books accordingly,
against future assessments to be
levied during the five year period.
Penalties that have been paid will
be credited against new’ assessment,
cancelling the former penalty charge,
On the whole this development
shows the townsite’s affairs to be
in really first class condition.
When the new assessment roll is
completed new notices will be sent
out stating the total charges against
each lot; the amount of money paid
and the resulting debit or credit.
As stated above these notices will
probably carry a credit for all lots
not in the district served by the
water and sewer systems. And of
course excepting those lots on which
all assessments have not yet been
paid.
For those lots in the district served
by the water and sewer systems
there may be a debit balance, as
they have not yet been assessed for
these improvemnts. But it is cer
tain that these debit balances will
not be great, as the total over
assessments carried in the old oper
ation and maintenance rolls fully
equal the estimated annual assess
ment for water and sewer systems.
The statement follows:
ivmioiiL duuvjL 1
j Total expenditures by the Alaskan Engineering; Commission,
exclusive of the School Building, to June 30, 1918.
(The School Building has been paid for and the Alas
kan Engineering Commission reimbursed out of the
Fifty Percent Fund, therefore this item does not enter
into this calculation. The amount of $81,350.06 is
subject to some reduction by corrections not yet made.)
TO BE MET AS FOLLOWS
! Assessments actually paid, reimbursing the Alaskan
Engineering Commission, to Sept. 30, 1918.
i Assessments levied, due but not yet paid.
j Paid to the Alaskan Engineering Commission by U. S.
Treasury Transfer, from 50 Percent Fund.
50 Percent Fund available in U. S. Treasury at Dec. 31, 1917
last report received.
Assessments against Sold Lots, for Grading and Sidewalks,
payable in 1919 and 1920.
Assessments against Sold Lots, for Water and Sewer, payable
in 1919, 1920 and 1921 (approximate).
j FIFTY PER CENT STATEMENT
Installments of lots payable in 1918, 1919, 1920 and
! 1921> approximate .$70,020.00
Half of foregoing, returnable for improvements.... 35,010.00
Necessary receipts from this $35,010, to complete
j the payment of the above indebtedness, not pro
vided for in items above
I .
$81,350.06
$13,205-26
5,635.14
8,305.47
9,485.92
11,485.14
12,750.00
20,483.13
i A liberal allowance has been
made in the estimate, the difference
between $35,010 and $30,483.13,
which amounts to $14,526 87, to
cover failure on the part of some
to pay their installments; also to
j IS DUE TONIGHT
j The steamer Alaska with the
1 ! barge Elk in tow is reported to have
] passed Tolovana at 2 o’clock this
s morning and may be expected to
. arrive here some time tonight. She
i' will wash boilers here and will sail
\ for Whitehorse, on her last trip
j for the season, twenty-four hours
I after time of arrival in Nenana.
i All the passenger accommodations
r on this steamer have been sold with j
i the exception of one berth for a
s lady.
i Considerable delay appears to
i have been experienced by the vessel
e and her tow at the mouth of the
1 Kantishna river, owing to the very
I low stage of the water in this
I neighborhood. The steamer was
able to get over the shallow place,
, but the heavily laden barge Elk j
$81,350.06
cover future improvements.
|
If the amount is not thus used,
and is paid in, it may be used to
further reduce assessments as out
lined above.
stuck and could not be got over.
According to the marine bulletin,
which states that the vessel passed
Tolovana at 2 o’clock this morning,
it is thought that the shallow places
in the river was safely got over.
The barge has a full cargo for
Nenana, composed in part of 10
complete Hart convertible cars and
a big locomotive consigned to the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
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Sarah—Up Nulato 7 a. m. date.
Julia B. At Ruby.
Seattle 3—Up Nulato 5 f m.
Jacobs—Down Nenana 7 a. m.
Alaska—Up Tolovana 2 a. m.
Tanana and Yukon—Left mouth
of river for Nenana noon, 1st.
Reliance—Heaves Chena 'for Ne
nana this a. m.
Davis—Up Rampart 12 noon, 29.
Will Arrive on Sir. Reliance
WITH A COMPLETE STOCK OF,
WOMEN’S FALL WEAR
COATS DRESSES WAISTS
NOTELTIES-—Fresh New Stock
Location will be
Announced Later
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W. F. RODIGKEIT, Pr«p.
TRY SOME FRESH GREENS WITH ONE OF
OUR DINNER ORDERS
If It Is On the Market You Will Find It Here
: WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DINNER PARTIES
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The launch Helen M., under chart
er to Carl White, arrived in Nenana
late yesterday evening after an
unusually long trip from the Tolo
vana country. She left Brooks on
the 27th of last month, and owing
to the difficulties and dangers of
navigation on the Tolovana river
during the dark hours, the launch
tied up to the bank as soon as dark
ness fell on the land. The very
low stage of water on both the
Tolovana and the Tanana rivers also
considerably delayed the' boat,
She landed the following pass
engers at the mouth of the Tolo
vana river: Mrs. and Mrs. Charles
Craig, Mrs. Stoner and James
Nichols. Mrs. Bustrom was the only
passenger for Nenana, while those
in transit for Fairbanks wefe Mrs.
Jacobsen, Mrs. Gibbs, Miss Lillian
Smith, Miss Raymond, Colin Mc
Pherson, James Gibbs, Walter Kob
ish, Walter Morris, Patrick Breen.
The four last mentioned men have
been drafted and intended journey
ing; to Fairbanks to join the trans
port, but owing to the delay of the
launch, were enabled to board the
transport here. The launch sailed
for Fairbanks at 8 o’clock this
morning.
A Talkeetna business man says
: there may be something stirring up
his way in the line of a new placer
strike, as a prospector about 45
miles out lately sent in a hundred
dollars worth of dust, the coarsest
of which weighed $13.65.
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
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A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
Tom Smith, Prop.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
NEW CONSIGNMENT
Green Tomatoes
Fresh Parsnips
Fresh Carrots
Fresh Beets
Fresh Celery
Outside Potatoes
Native Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
California Onions
Cabbage
FRESH EGGS
Apples Pears Oranges Lemons
Graqe Fruit Grapes
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.