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NELSON
THE SHOE MAIN, IS
Going Out of Business
ENTIRE STOCK OP
Shoes, Shirts, Coats, Men’s Clothing
Of All Kinds MUST GO Immediately at
50c on the Dollar
LOOK AT THESE VALUES
HA TS, formerly sold for $5 and $6, now . . $3
Work Shoes, formerly sold for $9, $10, now . $4
Dress Shoes, formerly $7.50, $8, now . $5, $5.50
ALL CAPS 50c and $1.00
Best Dress Shirt in town.$1.25
NENANAITES ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE QUALITY OF OUR
GOODS, AND ARE URGED TO BENEFIT THEMSELVES BY THIS
FORCED SALE
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War Bulletins
Read Them Daily at
Nenana’s Leading Cigar Store
The Terminal
TRAINS TO SEWARD
. BY JULY FIRST
The gap between the ends of
steel on the Turnagain Arm division
of the government railroad will be
closed and passenger and freight
trains will be operated between
Anchorage and Seward early this
summer, according to William Gerig,
engineer in charge of the Anchor
age division, who arrived at An
-W chorage from the East recently.
Regular Train Service
“A regular train service will be
I maintained between Anchorage and
Seward beginning in July,” said Mr.
Gerig. “Work on the Anchorage
harbor will be commenced in the i
spring as soon as weather condi
tions permit. The big dredge,
which was assembled here last fall,
will be used first to remove the
earth. The present plans for An
chorage harbor improvements make 1
provisions for the handling of all
traffic during the summer without
delay and it is expected that incom
ing and outgoing freight will be
moved without any congestion.
“The Alaskan Engineering com-'
mission will continue the prosecu
tion of the construction of the gov
ernment railroad north from An- •
chorage”, continued Mr. Gerig, “and
the original plans for the work of
construction will be carried out. |
May Depend on Labor.
“Much of the work proposed by!
the Alaskan Engineering commission
will depend in a large measure on
the ability of the commission to ob- ■
tain sufficient labor for the various j
departments.”
Mr. Gerig has spent the past four!
months in Washington, where his
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The Time to Clean is in the Spring, Except
ing When You Own a Watch—Then it is
Right in the Springs Where the Cleaning is
Needed. We Do It.
WATCHMAKER Will. TAYLOR JEWELER
Agent for the Celebrated
Hamilton Watches
time was principally taken up wi
matters connected with the Alask;
Engineering commission.
William C. Edes, chairman of tl
Alaskan Engineering ocmmission,
now in Washington. He will retui
to Anchorage about June.
ANCHORAGE SCHOOL BOARD
MAKES FINANCIAL REPORT
Expenditures for the Anchoraj
school district for the quarter b
ginning November 1 and ending c
February 28 amounts to $7,386.7
according to the report of Mrs. A
thur G. Thompson, secretary ar
treasurer of the educational boar
Three-foruths of this amount, <
$5,540.04, will be refunded to tl
Anchorage school treasury from tl
territorial treasury.
Salaries for the four months ti
taled $5,352.50 school supplies co:
$416.73 and fuel amounted t
$941.95.
There were other outlays of sma
ler amounts.
The detailed report will be made
to the territorial superintendent c
education by Mrs. Thompson, an
is as follows:
Salaries for November.$1,310.0
Salaries for December. 1,310.0
Salaries for January. 1,347.5
Salaries for February. 1,385.0
School Supplies . 416,7
School Furniture. 77.0
Eteparis and improvements 357.1
Water, light and phone. .. 241.3
fuel . 941.9
Total ..$7,386.7
Territorial refund, three-quarter
>f $7,386.71, will be $5,540.04.
NO HOPE EON HOPE?
Elmer McNemee is the hope o
he conscriptive draft in the villagi
if Hope, Alaska. Mr. McNemee ii
lot only the hope of the Hope draf
>oard but he is the entire and soli
itizen of Hope subject to the con
criptive draft law. As long as h<
emained in Hope the exemptior
oard at that place had a subjeci
pon whom to deliberate and cogi
ate, but now that he is in Anchor
ge, the board over there is without
laterial upon which to work.
Mr. McNemee is an employee oi
lie Alaskan Engineering commis
ion at Anchorage, but makes his
ome at Hope, where he is inter
sted in several mining claims,
ifhen the exemption board, which
■as appointed for Hope, began its
;ssions, it was discovered that Mr.
IcNemee was the only person in
le vicinity eligble to the draft
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REFUTE CHARGES
OF SMELLY
An indignation meeting was held
in the Indian village at Juneau re
cently when the report got around
| that it had been stated by Attorney
j R. E. Robertson, in the course of
a public address, that the Indians
I use as a staple article of food a
j fish meal put up by the Alaska Fish
| Salting & By-Products company at
J Killisnoo.
j A committee of Indians was
I formed to demand of Mr. Robertson
Jthat he retract his statements or
j make other amends for what was
I declared “a deep insult to the Alas
| ka natives,” says the Juneau Dis
\ patch.
Jack Williams, a leader in the In
j dian village, persuaded the com
I mittee that they should keep cool
and simply explain through the press
that the statement of the attorney
! 1
is not true.
‘‘The product of
the company
mentioned is guano, a fertilizer that
i it not and never has been used as
a food by the natives,” said Mr.
! Williams. “In fact, this guano
smells so rank that the Indians will
I not even use it as fertilizer, prefer
ing to use seaweed for their gar
dens.”
j The Indians assert that very little
herring oil is used as food, either.
“The company uses mud shark
J and other fish in its manufacture
that the natives do not use for oil,”
i said Mr. Williams, “and for that
! reason they prefer to make for
; themselves what herring oil they
\
;h i “The natives live on almost the
,n same food as the white man and buy
jthe best in the market,” stated Mr
ie i Williams. “They use far more sea!
is oil than herring oil anyway, as it
n is better for general use and keeps
; better.”
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HID NATIVES
e Explanation of a mystery that for
e a long time enshrouded a cabin on
a bleak stretch of coast between
j Cordova and Katalla is given by
Ben Goodman, the jeweler and fur
o buyer of Anchorage, says the An-;
chorage Times.
! “An early break-up a few years
i ago having made it necessary for
3 j me to postpone a fur-buying trip Ij
f had started to the Interior, I con- '
J | eluded to return to the coast, where j
j I knew a boat would pick me up,”,
5 recounted Mr. Goodman.
“On leaving the Interior Indian ;
village, the natives told me not to j
stay in a certain cabin on the coast I
because of spooks—a doctor having
committed suicide in it.
5 j “However, I started for the place,
1 I having no apprehension in regard to
»j the spirits of dead persons.
“The cabin had been built and
used by fishermen years previously.
Early in the morning after my first
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We Are Closing Out Our Entire St ck oi'
HARDWARE
Saws, Axes, Planes, Hammer and Axe Handles, Stove
Pipe, Graniteware, Kitchen Utensils and Many
Other Household Utensils We Have In Stock
MUST GO IMMEDIATELY
See l:s For Bargains In Any of the Above Lines
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DR. A. A. KENISON
THE OPTICIAN
Is In Town for a Few Days
SEE HIM ABOUT YOUR
YES and EYEGLASSES
ipht in the dilapidated structure
heard a repeated and uncanny
nocking on the roof. I looked
ut, and the knocking ceaced. I
ould see nothing that in any way
i'ould account for the strange noise
«ext morning the same thing hap
iened.
“In front of the cabin was the
'each anc^ behind was a high rock
rail 250 feet high; so it was im
'ossible for a human being to come
r go from the cabin unseen.
“Having noticed that the door
made a noise on opening, I left it
open the third night and remained
fully dressed. Bright and early,
again came the ghost rat-a-tat; out
I rushed. A raven would dig clams
on the beach and fly to the roof
to crack the shells and eat his break
fast—previously the noise of the
opening door had scared him away
—this was the spook of the cabin.”
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GOVERNMENT
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Stand This Test
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quarter for some luxury, remember our
brave soldiers under the German guns; re
member the Kaiser’s threats against our
country; remember the German menace that
hangs over your home and loved ones and
Buy a U. S. Thrift Stamp
That is the way to save priceless American
lives; that is the way to make Victory sure;
that is the way to shorten this war.
When you have saved 16 Thrift Stamps, exchange them,
with a few added pennies, for a U. S. War Savings
Stamp, which will pay you $5 in five years’ time.
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THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
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