TIME TO THINK ABOUT GIFTS
We Have Them In Great Variety
AUTO PLAYER PIANO
$650 Cash or Easy Terms
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Phonographs,'Mandolins, Guitars, Banjos
JUST RECEIVED FROM NEW YORK
Ladies’ Hand Tailored Skirts in Large Variety
Full AssortmenLofiR & G Corsets
PARKAS
WOOL BLANKETS1 g
Toilet Articles of Every Description
Pinaud’s and Colgate’s Perfumes and Soaps
gr- Fancy Leather Goods in Great Variety_‘
Hand Painted and Decorated Lamps
Men’s Neckwear and Combination Sets
Ivory Crib Boards, Paper Knives and Other
Hand Carved Novelties Made by Eskimos
House Lining, Cheese Cloth, Sheets and Pillow
Cases, Bed Spreads, Canvas, Khaki Cloth
400 Dozen Assorted Towels
SPECIAL--TURKISH TOWELS, 25c
Extra,Heavy Flannelette Night Gowns - $ 1.50
Flannelette Pajamas - 2.50
Men’s Gray Mixed Wool Sweater Coats - 3.50
All Wool Sweater Coats - - $6.50 up
Waterproof All Wool Mackinaw Coats - 8.50
Genuine Imported Wool Ma;kinaw Coats
In Plain and Fancy Colors - $11.50 and 12.50
Hart Shaffner & Marx Overcoats - 25.00
Broadcloth Overcoats, Satin Quilted, with'"
Beaver Collars and Cuffs - - 50.00
Genuine Russian Calf Teamsters’ Coats 35.00
Flannel Overshirts - 3.50
Eagle Brand Wool Underwear, per Suit - 4.50
Best Canadian All Wool Underwear, Suit 6.00
Wool Union Suits - - $4 to 6.50
White Wool Sox, per Pair - - 25c
Natural Wool Cashmere Sox, 3 Pair for 1.00
Fur Caps of All Descriptions_. _
Dolge Felt and Felt Lined Shoes
Flash Lights, - $1.25 up
Extra Batteries of All Sizes
Cook’s Inlaid Linoleum in All Newest Designs
Table Oilcloth in All Colors
SIM SON’S NEW STORE
HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR RAW FURS
Dr. R. R. MYERS
HAS OPENED
DENTAL PARLORS
OVER
Thompson & Gagnon’s
Drug Store
RAPPOLT’S
BAKERY
Bread
Pastry
LUNCHES
Everything New and Clean
NIGHT WATCHMAN
CAN MAKE ARRESTS
Night Watchman J. E. Dethlefsen,
i whose appointment recently received the
indorsement of the land and industrial
| department, is now a special deputy
i marshal, with full authority to make ar
! rests, should such action become neces
I sarv while he is on duty. He was sworn
j in during the early part of the week.
The Palmer stage arrived from Fair
; hanks on Wednesday evening and de
i parted on the return trip to the upper
. town yesterday morning.
The Koland stage arrived from Fair
banks on Sunday evening and left on
; another trip to the upper town Tuesday
morning.
Roy Lund made another trip to Nena
na with his dog team, arriving Monday
evening and returning on Wednesday to
• the upper'river town.
TWO DIE OF BURNS
Sherman Family Suffers
Loss In Fairbanks
BABY BEAD, LITTLE GIRL DYING
| Girl Tries To Start Fire In Stove
With Coil Oil Dinin'*
Mothers Absence
The year-old babv of Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Sherman, and little Mary Porter were
j burned to death at Fairbankson Wednes
day when the Sherman home was de
stroyed by fire. Irene, the six-year-old
daughter of the Shermans, was also se
verely burned and it is feared she will
not recover. Should she survive, she
I will be permanently disfigured.
The children were alone in the ltouse
j when the fire started, Mrs. Sherman hav
j jng left the Torter girl to look after her
! two little ones. Shortli after the moth
er left the house Irene attempted to start
a fire with coal oil, and it is believed an
J explosion occnrred. The flames spread
I so rapidlv that the children were unable
to escape until rescued by a passer-by.
; The baby was rescued later by Firemen
Jack Hansen and Jack O’Connor, but
; died that night after having been tikcn
to the hospital. The Porter girl died the
following day.
A year ago Mrs. Sherman lost another
baby while on the trail in theTotatlanika
| country, the child being frozen to death
! as a result of being caught in a storm
Mrs. Sherman is a daughter of Mrs. John
Patten.
Mrs. Rust, William A. Coghill and
| Billy Lawrence, the little soil of Mrs.
and Mr. W, E. Lawrence, celebrated
their birthdays on Tuesday evening at
the Rust home arid a most pieasent
evening is reported by the many friends
wlioweie there, Dancing was enjoyed
j until a late hour, following which the
i guests were treated to an eladorate lun
! cheon,
i Howard P. Curtis and F. H, Bailey
! were dinner guests at ihe home of Mr.
I and Mrs. W, H.'Gilcher on Thursday.
The first annual Thanksgiving Eve
j ball, which was held at the Coliseum on
: Wednesday night by the management of
; that amusement place, was a pronounced
I success although the attendance was not
so large as the management had reason
J to expect.
| Bud Saum spent Thanksgiving with
i Grady Summerlin at Camp Twenty-Mile,
j He made the trip with his dog team and
1 reports having been treated to a most
enjoyable “big feed.” The only objec
j tionable feature of the outing was the
; amount of new snow on the trail, which
j made the going slow and laborious.
Deputy Marshall James Hagen i>^ on
I the streets again after a slight illness
j which compelled him to remain indoors
i during the early part of the week.
Fred Houselman, who recently arrived
from the Toklat country with a poke of
dust taken from his Moose creek hold
ings, returned to the district during the
week. It is his intention to devote the
balance of the winter to trapping, as
there is little that he can do m a mining
way. His ground is a summer proposi
tion. _
A motor-generator set has been instal
led at the Coliseum, to replace the gaso
line engine which has been in operation
there since the opening of the theater in
the early fall. The new arrangement in
sures a steadier light for the cinemato
graph and should prove more economic
al.
Capt. and Mrs. Adams leli for Chena
Tuesday morning, to be absent from Xe
nana the remainder of the winter.
The Bachelor quarters was the scene
of an impromptu dancing party last Sat
urday evening.
Mrs. John Wood, wife of the well-known
deputy marshal stationed at Fairbanks,
presented her husband with a boy during
the week.
Cooney’s Hotel and Store
General Merchandise
and Hardware.
Gents5 Furnishings General Outfitting
First Clas3 Hotel in Connection
Rooms and Beds
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Cooney & Cooney
“A55 Street
Death Is First One To Oc
cur In Nenana
BODY TAKEN TO FAIRBANKS
Funeral Will Be Held Tomorrow
Under Auspices Of The
Order Of Moose
The grim reaper collected his first toll
in Nenana on Monday, when Jack Nor
ton, popular employe of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, was summoned
to the Great Beyond. Death occurred at
the Commission hospital, where the de
ceased had undergone a serious alxlorn
tnal operation six days previous v, and
was caused by acute dilatation of the
stomach.
The remains were sent to Fairbanks
Wednesday and the funeral will he held
in that town tomorrow under the auspic
es of the Loyal Order of Moose, of which
organization the deceased was a member.
Jack Norton was an old-time Alaskan,
having spent considerable time on the
coast before coming to the Interior. He
resided for a time in Fairbanks, later
went into the Tolovana country and fin
ally came to Nenana, where he secured
employement with the Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission. At the time he entered
the hospital he was employed as engineer
at the Commission power plant. He is
survived by a widow, to whom he was
married less than a year ago.
Communicaton
Nenana, Alaska, Nov. 30, 1916.
Editor News: —
I was borned at Nenana and I never
seen anv body in this village starve yet.
We native boys and girls we are al
ways looked after our self. The men
who made that newspaper never support
us and I wonder Low he know us that
we starve. That man that made those
words ought to be shame for him self.
He just put himself in bad name. I
dont think he have any sense in his head
or else he is half erszv.
I know all nati/e village along the
... “"'e not seen anvlxxiv
slnrve ve,‘ 11 ;s Oo.P» "ill that nobody
*Iarve yet. I know we die with sickness
l>ut not with staivalion.
before anv whites came we use l>ow
ami arrow ami it was just as good as us
'IV the rifle.
natives we lived here all our lives,
thousand of years ago. Our graudfnth
ers ami mothers lived here before us,
and they know how to live more than
we do. (Signed ) Dayk Albkkt.
The Lemon automobile stage, which
left l'airbanks last week for Nenana, was
compelled to abandon the trip a short
distance the other side of the Ohio road
house, anti it is doubtful if another
effort will be made to inaugurate an auto
service between the two towns until trail
conditions have been improved. Musliers
report that the stage man had a series of
j mishaps, the result of colliding with
| stumps and niggerlieads.
A1 Ghezzi, the old-time Cliatanikn mer
1 chant who recently erected a building
and openeil a pool ball and store in town,
returned to his home in the upper camp
several davs ago. He will probably be
absent until late in December.
Jack Bell, son of one of the foruur
owners of the Fairbanks Times, was a
visitor in Nenana during the week. He
made the trip from Fairbanks cu a bi
l cycle.
FORGKT your troubles by learning to
dance. See Mrs. Campbell, the dancing
teacher, at tlie Cooney hotel.
I Dry Lumber for Sale. Inquire
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