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FIRST CLASS QUICK SERVICE
HOME COOKING OUR SPECIALTY
NEXT DOOR TO CASCADE LAUNDRY
KETOOROKY & CO.
(BETTER KNOWN AS RUSSIAN JOHN)
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
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NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
Nenana School Board will meet as
a board of equalization, to take
under advisement and adjust any
tax upon Nenana property that may
seem excessive or improperly levied.
The sessions for this purpose will
^tbe held at the Franklin K. Lane
school building, on December 9th,
10th and 11th, between the hours
«f 7:30 and 8:30 p. m., and those
who have complaints or adjustments
to make must avail themselves of
this opportunity as there will be
no other meeting for this special
purpose. f
MRS. E. L. SWEENEY,
▲ President Nenana School Board.
Gentlemen’* Suit* cleaned and
pre**ed. Fur coat* lined and reno
vated. Ladie*’ *uit* and dre*se*
renovated at the tailor shop on up
per A street, near Third. Open
Monday, Dec. 9.
NOTICE
Remember the smoker at the
Nenana club, 10 p. m., December
the 14th.
NOTICE
See the issue of December 3 for
particulars, mail your suggestions
to the Contest Committee, Nenana
Commercial club, win a prize and
help boost Nenana.
We Carry the Best Grade of
MACKINAW SHIRTS, COATS and PANTS
Finest assortment of Men’s Socks, Daniel
Green Felt Shoes and Slippers, Moccasins,
Wool Blankets and Comforters
A Full Line of Miner’s and Trapper’s Supples
FOWLER & MORRIS
GROCERS
The Best Buy
Of The Year
You Can’t Lose
Lot No, 1
Lot No. 2
$518.52
$191.52
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.
COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OP ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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'FRANCE SHOWS
GHASTLY EFFECT
OF GREAT WAR
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With the American Forces ir
France.—The country over which
, the Americans fought their wa\
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northwest from Verdun presents a
picture of ruin, destruction and de
solation The villages are unin
habited and homes seem but sepul
' chres.
Torn by mines causing huge
craters, gashed by bombardments
which made hundreds of shell-hole
' and strewn with broken or aband
oned guns, wagons, heaps of ammu
' nition, helmets and all the other
i debris of four years of desperate
j fighting, the whole route betray
I the awful effects of war.
; Everywhere, in every direction
; and protecting each slightest angle
I and nook, across the roads until torn
away by shells or human hands, are
i countless strands of barbed wire,
I most of it rusted by the rains,
i crazily topsy-turvy on its supporting
1 stakes that have fallen to right and
I left. “If it takes four years to
I win the war,” said some casual visi
tor to' the front, “it will take six
years to roll up the barbed wire that
has been used in winning it.”
Take, for instance, the trip from
ruined, desolate Avocourt northward
to Malaneourt and Montfaucon, the
scene of some of the bitterest fight
ing of the entire war. Avocourt was
in ruins before even the American
offensive started.
For a solid mile northward the
road winds across foothills that once
were covered with green trees, but
now are shorn and bare. Gigantic
mines have torn the road in twain
and gouged out holes fifty and more
feet deep, a hundred and moie feet
across, to get around or across which
engineers have had to exercise their
ingenuity and the surrounding coun
try, stripped of its wood, has fur
nished the rock Fortunately there
is plenty of that.
To either side of the road are he
remains of what were once liva e
comfortable dugouts and buildings,
blown into thousands of pieces by
discharges of explosives when the
enemy retreated. Farther afield and.
and as far as the eye can reach
across the low hills ore hundreds
and thousands of shell holes their
craters overlapping, big and little
holes from missies of every char
acter, that have torn and scarred
the earth almost beyond !ho nope
of redempton.
Everywhere is the debris of the
battlefield, guns, helmets, a; tides
of clothing, piles and heaps of am
munition, broken-down md sp' alt
ered wagons, caissons and trucks.
And, if one go over the scene soon,
enough, bodies awaiting burial.
The comparison between Malan
court and Avocourt is striking—be
cause the former has suffered so
much more. Buildings no longer
have even a semblance of their for
mer state. Where in Avocourt walls
at least stand here and there, in
Malancourt everything has been
razed as though with dynamite, and
the crumbing remnants were seized
upon to rebuild the shattered roads
and make them passable for the in
satiable armies ahead that required
more and even more ammunition,
and food and supplies.
Neither Malancourt, nor Mont
faucan, nor any one of a score of
;owns within the sector where the
\mericans operated has a single
iving inhabitant left. In every di
rection is a waste of craters and up
orn earth. It is the quintessence
'f desolation and nothingness.
The once beautiful wooded slopes
md hills are now torn and gashed.
Jroat artillery bombardments have
tripped hillsides of all but the
tumps of their trees, which tower
athetically against the sky with
ut branches or foliage, mere crip
led relics of their former selves, >
lany of them have been shattered j
y shells as by lightning, others cut I
ff as though by bungling wood |
hoppers unable to fell a tree clean. J
The reconstruction of Europe is
dmittedly going to be a long, hard
isk, far longer than the war that
lade it necessary. In time to come
BRITISH PLAN
FOR RELEASING
MENJMED
LONDON—Married men and those
who have seen long service in the
British armies will receive first con
sideration in the demobilization of
British fighting forces, says Dr.
Christopher Addison, minister of re
construction. “Pivotal” men, he
said, would come back early.
The demobilization, said the min
ister, should be so conducted that
millions of men in the navy anil
army wrould have an early oppor
tunity of employment. Accordingly
a plan arranged on industrial re
quirements had been prepared.
As men are demobilized they will
| be reemployed in the various in
jdustries from which they were with
| drawn to enter the army. There
i will be special facilities giving ac
cess to the land, said Dr. Allison.
Gardens or larger plots will be pro
vided.
Councils composed of employers
and working men have been organ
ized in forty or fifty different
trades. Already these bodies are
removing sources of irritation and
bringing a spirit of solidarity, a
i better spirit than prevailed under
j former agreements, said the minister,
i In as much as the necessity for
j producing as much food as possible
| will not end with the war. Dr. Addi
| son said he believed some control
| over the use of the land would con
! tinue to be exercised by the govern
j ment. Great Britain should manu
| facture nitrates for manures on a
I large scale.
| The minister declared that unless
care was exercised there would be
a great deal of speculation while the
demobilization of the army was in
progress^ and prices might advance
j to the great detriment of industry.
the meadows and valleys between
Avocourt and Malancourt will be
green again, and the trees of the
Argon no forest will grow up as they
did before 1914. But as they all
| look now it seems very, very far in
| the future before the ruin, the utter
, destruction, can be made good and
the former status of this portion
of France restored.
LOST—A Grey Husky Dog, about
Nov. 27th; has collar on neck.
Finder return to Coghill’s store. '
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COOINEV MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
NENANA ..... ALASKA
HYLAND'S CIGAR STORE
CIGARS POOL TOBACCOS
Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
Barber Shop in Connection
Mike Hyland, Prop.
YOU CAN GET CALLING CARDS AT THE NEWS OFFICE
A Satisfied Customer
IS OUR
QUALITY
PRICE
Go With Our
CLOCKS
SERVICE
WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY
Tells, tHe Time in the DarH
$3^^AJ^rii\^CLocK^s--SiTiaIl and Large
^Ve Have a Line of Safety Razors, Blades, Sharpeners and
Strops. Best Flashlight at $2> Refills and Repairs.
Wm. TAYLOR
JEWELER
Word was received from Fair
banks yesterday afternoon and noti-j
fieation of the fact made in the
News, that Ed Gardner, a prospector
in the Bonnifield country, was miss
and that his friends had started a
searching party out to look for him.
Gardner happened to see the news
item and called at the News office
this forenoon and also despatched
a wire to the Fairbanks News-Miner
so that the fears of his friends may
be allayed.
Gardner with three other men is
engaged in prospecting on Bonnifield
creek, a trbutary of Wood river, and
there are also about four men pros
pecting on Gold Kinjr creek, over the
divide and a few miles distant front
Gardner’s claim. He says that he
usualy ffoes to Fairbanks every fall,
but this year made up his mind to
come to Xennaa and seek employ
ment. Before starting for Nenana
he went over to. the cabin of his
friends on Gold Kintr creek, but
missed them, and then took the
Tatlanika trail, arriving in Nenana
on Thansksgivinp: Eve. He is now
working for the Alaskan Engineering
commission.
Theodore Brakke, who had been
with Mike Cooney building a trail
through the Broad Pass country,
returned to town yesterday. Mike.
Cooney is reported to be coming in
for the holidays.
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