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Lot No. 1 - $567.52
Lot No. 2 - $240.52
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.
Dr. J. R. BOWEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
RUST HOUSE
Mrs. Ed. Williams, Prop.
A and FIFTH STREETS
ROOMS AND BOARD
ROOMS 75c and $1.00
Coffee and Doughnuts 25c
DOG KENNELS
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OUR BOYS
Over There
are giving tHeir lives tHat
we may live in safety
Our Dollars
Over Here
must make our Home de
fenses safe and provide
the sinews of war
for our armies
BUY
LIBERTY
BOND vS
They are Patriotic
They are Practical
THEY ARE SAFE
MAKE YOUR
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Do Their Share
'FEEDING TROOPS
OVERSEAS FANES
TOURS, Central France.—The j
American army in Europe could be
fed and clothed and all its creature
comforts looked after for three
months if not another pound of I
supplies was secured. This was the I
statement made here by officers of
the army Quartermaster's Depart-,
, ment which directs this mammoth
work of supplies.
It gives an idea of the vast stock i
of reserve resources stored in the
miles of warehouses stretching from
the coast inland to the fighting line,
| and it is a comforting assurance
I too that this huge reserve will be
kept up through the coming winter
period so that the American sol
; diers' warmth, as well as his food
and clothing, will be fully looked
after.
It is a huge undertaking to feed
a million men even for a single
, day—a million men scattered to a
I thousand points, in trenches, on
battlefieds and camps, along 300
miles of front and for a depth of
500 miles. And when are added
housing and clothing, and the pe
i riod is extended through the winter
months of cold and frost, with the
' prospect of another million or two
men may be headed this way before
long—with these elements one gets
some idea of the magnitude of the
supply problem for a million or
more men.
Here at the center of the sys
tem, where the receipts are regu
i lated and the distribution made,
i there was an opportunity of learn
j ing some of the details of how the
j system operates.
In the food branch alone, it takes
over four million pounds of food
every day to feed the army. This
prodigious daily consumption of
food embraces a million pounds
of flour baked into a million pounds
of bread every day, 875,000 pounds
of fresh beef, 875,000 pounds of
potatoes, 230,000 pounds of sugar
and 125,000 pounds of tomatoes.
The peper and salt for a single day
is 42,500 pounds.
Army coffee is roasted at the rate
of 70,000 pounds a day, and it takes
20.000 pounds of solidified alcohol
to cook this coffee through the
month.
The beef is the bulkiest product
used each day, and occupies a daily
space of 45,000 cubic feet, or
about the dimensions of a business
block, of solid meat. Flour comes
next; requiring 25,000 cubic feet of
daily space, and potatoes about the
same.
These are only a few of the main
items. But the list runs all through
the many requirements of the over
sea army ration, with vast uanti
ties in each case. Here are some
of the other daily items:
' Bacon 225,000 pounds, beans,
75.000 pounds, rice 50,000 pounds,
onions 250,000 pounds, evaporated
fruit 70,000 pounds, jam 70,000,
1 pounds, milk 62,500 pounds, vine
gar 40,000 pounds, lard ..40 000
'pounds, butter 31,000 pounds, syrup
40.000 pounds.
| These being included in the over
sea ration, everyone of the million
| men is entitled to his full allow
I ance and it must go forward to him
i wherever he is. So that besides the
i vast daily stock there is the ques
tion of unfailing daily delivery first
by railways and camion trains, and
: then to the individual soldier.
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010 SEED GROWS
IN UTMRDENS
SALT LAKE CITY.—Wheat seed,
estimated to be 1,000 years old,
which was planted in a community
war garden in this city for ex
perimental purposes, has proved
most successful, according to an
announcement just made by W. J.
Newman, a former city councilman
here. The seed was found in ruins
of the cliff dwellers in Southern
Utah by Professor Byron Cum
mings, formerly with the University
of Utah.
The seed was precented to the
Deseret Museum. It was found in
a tightly sealed bottle of Indian
origin and Professor Cummings said
was oviously of great age, possibly
1,000 years. Mr. Newman was given
10 kernals to experiment with.
These were planted on May 10 of
this year and cultivated in a com
munity war garden by Mr. New
man’s son.
Of the 10 seeds, nine grew. The
nine produced 69 heads of grain,
averaging 75 kernels to the head,
a total of 5,175 kernels. These aro
being preserved for further experi
ments to determine their produc
tively. The kernels are about three
trines the size of Turkey red wheat
kernels, and already a number of
inquiries for samples from scientific
farmers have reached Mr. Newman.
Often on the field or in the
trenches he is supplied from mar
mites, or huge thermos bottles carry
ing hot food for eight men, and
often too the delivery in the trench
es is by the Yukon pack used in
Alaska and by the Hudson Bay voy
agers and Indians.
Besides this four million pounds
of food moving forward daily to
the troops, each man carries with
him two days emergency ration,
five pounds to the man, or an addi
tional five million pounds of food
for an army of a million men. Of
the emergency ration, carried on
the back, there is outstanding every
day two million pounds of corned
beef and two million pounds of
hardtack, 300,000 pounds of sugar,
62,500 pounds of coffee, 20,000
pounds of salt and 500,000 pounds
of solidified alcohol for heating
and cooking while on march.
A road is being constructed from
McCarthy to Scolai glacier by Road
Commissioner James E Wilson.
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j NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
Complying with the requirements
| of the laws of Alaska, as set forth
jin Section II: “An Act to provide
I for the organization of School Dis
tricts outside of incorporated
towns,” notice is hereby given that
an election will be held in the town
of N'enana, Tuesday, October 15th,
for the purpose of electing two
school directors to fill the vacancies
caused by the resignation of Mr.
Nora Hall and John A. Brevig.
Those who are chosen in the coming
election will serve for the the unex
pired terms of the two members of
the board whose resignations are
now under consideration.
The names of candidates must be
in the hands of the Treasurer, Geo.
W. Pennington, not later than Sat
urday, October 5th, 1918.
The polling place will be located
in the fire hall, adjoining the town
site office. Polls will be open from
8 a. m. to 7 p. m. on the day and
date of election.
NORA M. HALL,
Clerk, Nenana School Board.
Approved:
MRS. E. L. SWEENEY,
President
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