STRICTLY SANITARY BATHS ATTRACTIVE LOBBY V
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THE MOUSE or COMFORT FOR ALL
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DOG KENNELS NENANA, ALASKA jj
ISSUE CHALLENGE
A committee representing the
fcusiness men of Nenana. composed
of Andy Hoey and Joe Fisher, have
perfected arrangements for the
formation of a tug of war team,
and a challenge is accordingly is
sued to the heads of departments
of the A. E. C. for a tug of war,
to take place during the Fourth of
July celebration, for a purse of any
amount, or for marbles or chalk.
The town team is composed of
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'Billy Coutts, Alf Ekeland, Jos
Burns, Frank Teufel and Mike
i Cooney, with “Hungry” Mike Goon
j en as anchor man. Joe Fisher is
acting as trainer, while Andy Hoey
is manager of the team,
j In a spirit of fairness, and out
' of consideration for the rope they
will use, the business men have
barred Tom Smith from the town
team, and they wish to make the
stipulation that the Commission
butcher, Ed Harbers, be barred
from the opposing team, for the
same reason.
Lester Earhart, who is working
with Albert Lundborg, the con
tractor, is visiting in town for a
' few days.
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Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work of All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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Nothing Succeeds
Like Success
Oar Goods are Right. Our Prices are
Right
Watch and Jewelry Repairing, Engraving
Wm. TAYLOR
Northern Commercial Co.
Outfitters of the North
HEADQUARTERS FOR
GROCERIES
EGGS
FRESH FRUIT
HARDWARE
BUILDING MATERIAL
FEED
MERCHANDISE
Northern Commercial Co.
HANDLING WAR
RISK INSURANCE
MAIL IS BIG JOB
WASHINGTON, D. C. — More
than a ton of incoming mail daily,
and nearly as much outgoing mail,
has made it necessary for the bu
reau of war risk insurance to build
up a postal system of its own
larger than is maintained by any
single institution except the post
office in the United States. An
announcement today by the bureau
said an average of 80,000 persons
write daily, inquiring about allot
ments and allowances, insurance pol
icies, or compensation payments, or
remitting checks and currency as
premiums on insurance. This also
means that each letter must be an
swered, and that makes an outgoing
mail of 80,000 letters.
Since the bureau has 13,000 em
ployes and 36 divisions devoted to
various phases of the bureau’s work,
the opening, reading, sorting and
delivery of these letters to the prop
er divisions is a t2sk requiring more
than 100 employes.
Mail is recei%red every half hour,
and most of it is opened by ma
chinery and tied in bundles for de
livery to the first set of readers.
The readers peruse each letter to
ascertain to what division it should
be routed,* check up to see that the
envelope contains the check or bill
which the letter may say it con
tains, and that the return address
is on the letter as well as the en
velope. Thousands of letters come
without return address, making it
difficult to trace them. Hundreds
of envelopes contain currency, with
out letter or address to identify
them. Many are signed by an in
adequate name, such as “Mrs.
Smith,” so that identification must
be worked out laboriously by clerks.
When letters give insufficient In
formation upon which to base a re
ply, a form setting forth all the
necessary infoimation is sent to the
writer.
Outgoing letters are sorted ac
cording to the states for which they
are destined, and tied in bundles
and placed in separate sacks before
leaving the bureau, in order that
they may be more rapidly handled
in the federal postoffices.
ENGLISH WOMEN MAY
BE ADMITTED TO BAR
LONDON.—The house of lords
having passed the second reading
of Lord Buckmaster's bill letting
down the bars of the legal profes
sion to women, the indications are
that the measure will become a
law during the present parliament
ary session.
One by one, as a veteran ob
server of the struggle for women’s
rights points out, all the old sex
barriers are tumbling down. It
was strange, he says, to hear the
government’s blessing of the bill
pronounced by the lord chancellor,
who, as Sir F. E. Smith, was one
of the chief opponents of woman
suffrage when he was a member of
the house of commons.
The work performed by women
during the war, the lord chancellor
explained, in vindicating his former
opposition, had profoundly altered
matters. “I may say,” he con
tinued, “that under the changed
| circumstances of the time the gov
ernment welcomes this proposal,
and that it is their hope that they
may be able to give it such assist
ance as will render its passing into
law highly probable.”
The bill confers upon women the
right of qualifying either as solici
tors or barristers. It does not ex
tend, however, to Scotland or Ire
land.
Engineer in Charge Fred’k D.
Browne, who is in Fairbanks on
official business, is expected home
the first of the week.
John Brower, head of the Brow
er stage line, operating between
Fairbanks and Chitina, left the up
per town yesterday afternoon for
his coast headquarters, traveling bv
special stage. He was accompanied
by H. G. Taylor, manager at the
Fairbanks end.
AGEO OLDTIIB
DIB SI HOSPITAL;
BURIAL MUM
Gus Renus, who was admitted ti
the Commission hospital some timi
ago, suffering from heart disease
died this morning. He was an em
ploye of the A. E. C. at the timi
he was admitted to the hospital
and Dr. More took a serious view
of the case. -
The deceased was a well-knowi
mining man of the Ruby distric
and was a member of Igloo No. 5
Pioneers of Alaska, located a
Ruby. The funeral will take plac<
tomorrow afternoon- at 2 o'clock
the funeral services being conduct
ed by the local Pioneer lodge.
The Cascade Laundry has plent;
of hot soft water at all times. New
bath rooms, fully equipped and san
itary, with special rooms for ladies
You get -ebate with $2.50 laundry
which applies on bath, or pay 50<
per bath.
The recent rains would appea
to have caused the lesser stream
in the mountain regions to carry i
large volume of water and th
main rivers, the Xenana and th
Tanana, have shown a steady ris
for the past few days.
The boom at Austin Oars’ log
ging camp near the mouth of th
Totatlanika is reported to hav
broken, resulting in the loss of ;
considerable number of sawlogs.
Along the N'enana waterfront
near the steam laundry, the hig1
waters, encroaching on the thawe1
bank, appear to be cutting in be
hind the riprapping, and there i
some danger of it being washe
away. Agent Scott of the A.-Y. X
company noticed it first this morn
ing and reported it to the Commis
sion officials, who will, no doubt
take adequate steps to protect th
bank at this spot.
Genuine Buhach at Fowler i
Morris.
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Three Toggenburg goats hav
been purchased by the governmen
experiment station near Fairbank
i and an effort will be made by S’J
perintendent Snodgrass to demon
strate the possibilities of goat cul
ture in Central Alaska. A thoi
oughbred billgoat will be added t
the ftoek later in the summer. Th
| ewes were purchased from W. J
; Vaehon.
Ike P. Taylor, of the A. E. C
and George Parks, of the genera
land office, went out the line sout
of Nenana today, using a speede
I for the trip.
The launch Peerless left for th
; upper town this morning with tw
passengers. Jack Lucy and Tor
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Will You Walk Into My Parlor?
A Mr. Cobb has married a Mis
Webb. He knew that they wer
meant to be joined as soon as h
spied her.—Tit-Bits.
GRACE (Presbyterian) CHURCI
REV. ROBT.
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
1 12:00 noon—The children’s houi
(Evening subject, “The Voice o
j the People.”
Music begins at 7:15 Lecture 7:3
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(INCLUDING THE WAR TAX)
I THE PORTLAND I
JACKSON & EKELAND, Propi.
ALLIED DOCTORS
WORK W PREVENT
PLAGUE OUTBREAK
CONSTANTINOPLE.—American,
British, French and Greek phy
sicians are striving with might and
main to prevent an outbreak of
the plague in the region extending
along the north shore of the Ae
gean Sea from Saloniki to Con
stantinople. In the work the Brit
ish. French and Greek armies and
the American Red Cross are co
operating.
“America and England as well
as the far off corners of the earth
cannot afford in these days to ig
nore outbreaks of disease, no mat
ter where they occur,” declared a
British sanitary officer in charge
of the work of cleaning up Con
stantinople. “If the plague is al
lowed to breed here in the Near
East, sooner or later it will reach
England and America. And its
ravages, if allowed to spread, will
exceed those of the so-called in
fluenza.”
1 Eastern Macedonia, which has
. been a battleground for centuries,
-'and which since 1912 has been
- : fought over again and again, is to
, j day a horrible mess. The early
; • summer sun is breeding flies and
mosquitoes by the millions, the un
healthy Struma valley is steaming
c with malarial vapors, the streets of
Drama, Serres, Kavalla, Xanthi and
the hundreds of other small vil
t lages are filthy beyond belief. •
’■ The returned refugees live in
s shell-shattered ruins under sanitary
t conditions unspeakable. Their rags
’ are alive with vermin. From the
i, big Red Cross warehouse at Ka
tj valla, housing three hundred fami
? | lies of refugees, from five to a
-'dozen dead from typhus were re
SOCIAL DANCE
Sat. May 14
UNION MALL
Mrs. Belle Campbell - Director
moved daily during April. The
refugees were easy victims after
many months of semi-starvation in
Bulgaria.
The children of Eastern Mace
donia are pitiful sights, suffering
from the results of semi-starvation,
with their little ribs showing plain
ly through their taut-drawn flesh
With hollow, lack-luster yes they
i lie about on the streets in the sun,
'indifferent to their fate.
Each day tens of thousands of
loaves of bread are distributed by
the Red Cross in dozens of Serbian,
Macedonian and Rumanian cities.
Bales of clothing are given out to
the neediest. Serums against dis
. ease are injected in thousands of
peasants and “delousing” baths are
given to those living in crowded
centers.
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Washburn—Up Kokrines 6 a. m.
Alatna and Dooley—At Gibbon.
Jacobs—Up Hot Springs for Ne
nana 2:30 a. m.
Seattle 3—At St. Michael,
i Warior—Up St. Michael for Kot
lik, 11th.
Eclipse —In Fairbanks, 13th.
Benchley—At Melozi.
Kelly—At Chena.
Tanana— Up Rampart, 13th.
Alaska —With two barges and
1 Sibilla in tow, down Eagle 5 a.m.
1 Casca—In Dawson.
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