Nenana Steam Laundry
Phone 76
OUR EQUIPMENT COMPLETE
WORK EQUAL TO THE BEST
J. F. BENNETT.
GEORGE RICH
Prompt Reliable Satisfactory
STOVES OF ANY KIND MADE TO ORDER
AH Workmanship Guaranteed Pertaining to Heating or Plumbing.
The Nenana Sheet Metal Works street.
BLANKFIELD EXPRESS
CONNECTING WITH FAIRBANKS TRAIN.
PASSENGERS BAGGAGE MAIL
Clean Dry Wood for Sale Hauling of AH Kind.
OFFICE AT THE TERMINAL.
Prospectors
Trappers
Tourists
The Nenana district offers oppor
tunities for prospecting, farming, and
trapping that are unequaled in any
other section of Alaska.
Gold placers of known value, close
to Nenana, are producing annually sub
stantial amounts, and there are scores
of streams within the district on which
little or no prospecting has been done.
These streams, until a short time ago
almost inaccessible, are now easily
reached by means of the new Govern
ment Railroad, and undoubtedly soon
will be the scene of much mining ac
tivity.
Farming in the Nenana district has
the advantage of a growing season fully
ten days longer than that of any other
section of Interior Alaska. There is
much desirable land in the district open
to homesteaders, and marketing possi
bilities are being expanded steadily.
Fur-bearing animals of the Nenana
and adjacent districts are noted for the
fine quality of their fur, and trappers
annually bring large numbers of pelts
to Nenana and receive for them higher
prices than are obtained for the average
furs of other districts.
Game of all kinds abounds in the
Nenana district, there are scores of
trout streams easy of access, and the
scenic wonders of the district are un
surpassed. The district is the natural
gateway to Mt. McKinley National
Park, and close to Nenana may be
viewed the largest coal ledges in the
world.
Detailed information regarding the
resour.es and possibilities of the Ne
nana district may be obtained from the
Nenana
Commercial
Club
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FORMER SALOONS
ARE CONVERTED
TO UNIQUE USES
CHICAGO.—The problem of plac
ing the hundreds of Chicago sa
loons on the “dry” basis is being
solved in various and unique ways.
The Rev. George Kilby, genera!
manager of the Chicago Christian
Industrial league, is trying one way
by turning “salponist'' himself and
operating as a soft drink saloon a
bar that formerly figured in many
newspaper stories as a “notorious
resort.” In addition to soft drinks,
with which it is hoped to retain at
least a part of the former patron
age of the place, Mr. Kilby is pro
viding club features to make it in
fact the “poor man's club," with
writing tables and free stationery,
a billiard table, books, magazines,
and reading tables.
A hotel with 300 beds to be let
!at from 10 cents to 25 cents each
a night is being operated in con
nection with the club. In the base
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ment, shower baths, washbowls, and
'facilities for the patrons to do theit
own laundry work are installed. A
restaurant in connection complete;
jthe hotel's equipment. Cold weath
er is expected to augment greatly
(the institution’s patronage.
Another former saloon has beer
; converted into a clubhouse for chi!
; dren. The children call it the “Red
White and Blue Club,” and al
times more than 100 children art
reading and playing where the for
mer patrons of the saloon playec
• cards and discussed their steins.
The “Red, White and Blues” wert
first organized as a part of th*
■ work of the women’s committee
Council of National Defense, an<:
since then the club has been fin
anced through the efforts of severa
women who have given a series o!
charity entertainments for the ben
efit of the organization.
Some of the functions of the day
nursery are exercised by the club
j which keeps the children of em
ployed mothers during the day.
Others of the little “members” arc
orphans.
Although the place lacks furnish
ings, it has proven very popular
with the children of the neighbor
hood. and the women managing it
plan to raise $3,500 for heat and
maintenance during the winter.
Other Chicago saloons have been
converted into restaurants, cafe
terias, ice cream and soft drink
parlors, coffee and chocolate houses,
but the majority' still are running
as “saloons” with the same fix
tures and employes, having substi
tuted a great variety of non-alco
holic drinks for the liquors former
ly dispensed.
Fresh Groceries, Fancy and Sta
ple. Fowler & Morris.
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News Office
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TRAGEDY AND
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WASHINGTON, D. C—Much o
the humor and some of the traged;
of war are poured daily int<f thi
bureau of war risk insurance, whicl
has the enormous task of adminis
tering the insurance and allotmen
accounts of all men in the militar;
service.
At the first of the month th<
letters arrive at the rate of 140,00<
a day. later falling to 40,000 o:
50,000. Between 75,000 and 100,
000 pieces of mail are sent ou
daily. Remittances for insuranci
premiums numbered 1,203,792 be
tween July 14 and October 7, hav
ing a value of $9,784,186.
Handling such a tremendou
quantity of mail, dealing with mei
whose names in scores of instance:
are identical, necessitates the mos
punctilious accuracy, to assure tha
the proper account is credited. Om
mother who wrote to ask about ai
allotment made by her son J(pa wa
asked to be more specific in identi
fying the soldier. She wrote back
somewhat indignant in her motherl;
pride:
“You must have noticed Jim. be
cause he’s six feet tall."
The bureau is constantly remind
ing persons with whom it has deal
ings to send notification of an;
change in address. One person tool
this injunction very literally.
“Dear Government,” she wTOtc
"This is to let you know I am stay
ing a while with my folks at Simp
kins Falls.”
Manifest willingness to obey th
law and the honesty of the averag
American are portrayed in most o
the 'letters, but in none better tha
the one replying to a formal ir
quirv whether the mother of a cel
tain soldier who asked a Govern
ment allowance for her, had an
support. She conscientiously rc
plied:
“Only Fred's hens.”
The mail section of the burea
has been put on a 16-hour basis t
keep the handling of mail strictl:
current. One shift works from nin
to five each day, another coming o
at one o’clock in the morning t
work until nine. Great mail truck
make hourly trips to the postoffice
day and night.
Letters containing insufficient in
formation—and there are many o
them—entail great trouble. The;
are turned over to index searchers
who comb the files for other paper
until the case in question is beyoni
doubt. This group of employe:
works from five until midnight.
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The following are the steame:
sailings from Seward for the South
Northwestern—Dec. 1
Alameda—Dec. 26.
Northwestern—Jan. 6.
SKOF HOUSE
That’s the Place
GOOD BARN FOR HORSES
IN CONNECTION.
Second and Market Sts.
MRS. JAMES LAV1N
SINGLETON’S
ROADHOUSE and STORE
Outfit* for Prospector*, Trapper*
and Hunter*.
Goods Delivered to All Points in
Lignite District.
FIRST-CLASS ROADHOUSE
ACCOMMODATIONS
COONEY HOTEL
MR. AND MRS. M. J. COONEY
Owien and Mniferi.
DOG KENNELS IN CONNECTION
Heated Electric Lighted Bedded Stalls
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, A female humpback whale having
two hind legs, 50 inches in length,
has been caught at the Kuykot
whaling station, Manager Ruck of
jthe Consolidated Whaling company
says that in his 20 years of whaling
experience he has never heard of a
whale having legs on the exterior.
He pointed out that whales have
atrophied legs within their bodies,
these being boomerang-shaped and
120 inches in length. They are use
dess portions of the anatomy, evi
dently once used by the mammals
on land after the manner of a
dinosaur, but which have sunk into
the body from disuse.
—
’ i D. B. McGibney, associated with
Captain Griffith in placer operations
on Peters creek, in the Cache Creek
district, left for the States recently
ion business connected with the prop
' erty. Mr. McGibney informed the
Anchorage Times that'he and Grif
fith will install a sawmill on Peters
creek this winter and will cut 100.
000 feet of lumber to be used next
year in the Cache Creek district.
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GUARD THAT LIFESPARK!
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Look to your underwear, jackets,
caps, fur robes and coaU. Buttons
off allow cold to enter. Have a red
flannel belt made to your measure*
ment to protect your kidneys. Not
having heavy expenses, co-opcation
is possible at
D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Streets
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ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
stands alone in par-excellence of
service and sanitary convenience.
Turkish, Steam, Shower
or Plain Baths, at
MODERATE RATES.
Rooms for Dressing and Resting
in Connection. Also Rooms for
Rent, Transient or Permanent.
Mr. and Mrs. Heimburger
Proprietors.
WOOD
Sawing
ICE and EXPRESS
I CYRIELE VERHAEGHE
OFFICE AT
THE TERMINAL
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Chop Suey, Noodles
AND
Home-Made Bakery
Northern Cafe
GEORGE TANAKA, Prop.
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I Miners and Prospectors! |
{ NOTICE OF 6HAN6E OF RECORDING PRECINCTS I
> S According to a recently issued Court Order by |
= Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- §
| cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- =
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts. =
5 = Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be |
. | enabled by this change to do their recording and §
| transact other business at Nenana, which is within =
■ i easy reach of their mining activities. 5
| NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB.
| J. R. Bowen. President. R. J. Diven. Secretary. I
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COLISEUM
STRONG PROGRAM FOR TONIGHT
LATE PATHE NEWS-PICTORIAL
THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR EYES
Showing: ‘‘Costly Destruction by Leakage of Reservoir.” Nearly
$500,000 worth of lumber is destroyed by an avalanche of
water as reservoir is emptied by a leak. And other scenes of
intense interest.
Paramount Pictures P-esents
Kathleen Clifford
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A MYSTERY SERIAL.
“WHO IS NUMBER ONE?”
SECOND EPISODE —“THE FLYING FORTRESS”
TWO REELS.
“WHO IS NUMBER ONE”
THIRD EPISODE —“THE SEA CRAWLER”
TWO REELS.
MUSIC-VIOLIN, PIANO AND DRUMS
General Admission 25c. Reserved Seats 50c.
SHOW STARTS AT EIGHT O’CLOCK.