THE NORTHERN COMMERCIAL
Of Alaska
IS ONE OF THE PERMANENT INSTITU
TIONS OF ALASKA AND THE COMPANY IS
COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF SOURDOUGHS.
THE PRICES MADF. BY THF. COMPANY IN
THE PAST HAVE BEEN THF STANDARD IN
THE COUNTRY. WE ARE NOW CONSTANTLY
ADJUSTING CUR PRICES TO MEET WITH
NEW CONDITIONS AND THE LOWERING OF
PRICES OUTSIDE.
We Intend to Meet all Competition
and we are Here on tHe ground
ready always to Make Right
Any Defective Goods
——
GENTLEMEN
The Cleaning, Mending and Press
ing of Shirts, Parkas, Suit*, Robei
and Fur Coat* goes merrily on al
D'ORSAY’S SHOP
Pioneers of Alaska
Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAYS
AT S:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
Alfred J. Ghexai Joe O’Connor
Secretary President.
U. S. GRILL
THE BEST OF ALL
GOOD THINGS TO EAT
The Best of Ererything at
Right Prices
SERVICE UNEXCELLED
Call Often
You Are Always Welcome
SECOND AVE. - FAIRBANKS
Home Restaurant
In Quality of Good* and Quickne**
of Strrice We Lead and all
Other* Follow
Fourth Avenue—Neat Moose Hall
J. E. TERRILL
Fairbanks Telephone 933
Merchant’s Cafe
BEST MEALS
PRICES REASONABLE
KLAPPROTH * ADAM!
Next to Northern Hotel
FAIRBANKS — ALASKA
NEW
Victor Records
WHEN IN FAIRBANKS
Look over our Complete Stock
SHELF HARDWARE
CROCKERY
GLASSWARE
DOG HARNESS
SNOWSHOES end SLEDS
SMITHS
HARDWARE
ana GUN STORE
Second Aeenue near Cushman
HOTEL
NORTHERN
FAIRBANKS
Only Hot Water Heating System
in Fairbanks
Pool and Card Rooms, Cigars
Ice Cream and Soft Drinks
CARL BERGE, Prop.
C, CX Held
(Successor to R. S. McDonald)
PUBLIC
STENOGRAPHY
TYPEWRITING
CONVEYANCING
LETTER WRITING
RENTALS
LOANS
Fire Insurance
Only the Moot Reliable
Companies
MAGAZINE AGENCY
NOTARY PUBLIC
Slater’s Dairy sells pure fresh mill
at 25c a quart. GET THE BEST
Fresh milk from Slater’s Dairy a
25 cents a quart.
NEW LINE OF
Optical Goods
AT NEW PRICES
EIGHT POWER BINOCULARS
AT BARGAIN PRICES
Quart* and Reading
GLASSES
WATCHES
JEWELRY
I ' *C Z'' X > < > C -
Watch Repairing
DESIGNING AND NATIVE
JEWELRY A SPECIALTY
WM. TAYLOR
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
Z 2
MEETS AT MOOSE HA LI
Fourth and B Streets
At 8:00 P. M.
Secretary Dictator
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELANU
] SECOND AND FOURTH MONDAY
I
| LAMM and COMPANY
Tailors of Chicago
Announcing a general reduction
affecting alt Fall and Winter
1921-1922 pattern*. Suit or Over
coat can be had for $32.50
and up. You buy (atitfaction when
you buy Lamm Clothe*. They
are worn by particular dreaters
everywhere
BERG, The Tailor
FAIRBANKS
If Comfort, Economy and the
Envi'onments of Home
Appeal to You,
STOP AT THE
MONTANA
SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK
OR MONTH.
If you can't »ell it the old way—
; try adverti*ing. It utuaiiy help*.
] News : FAIRBANKS : Notes
Peter Steil, Correspondent
$ v__-__j
The Arthur Robertson case is on
j trial before Commissioner M. R.
Boyd and a jury, the hearing hav-1
ing started yesterday morning. The
witnesses thus far called have been
members of the marshal’s staff, J.;
J. Buckley being the first to lake j
the stand. Robertson is charged
with violation of the dry law.
The McDermott vs Bowman case,
on trial before District Judge Clegg,
without a jury, has been decided
in favor of McDermott, although
the amount sued for was cut about J
in half. McDermott sued for an i
amount in excess of $1,000 for
merchandise, and in the settlement,
the defendant was given a credit
for labor performed, leaving the'
balance awarded to the plaintiff |
about $700.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Crites
left for the Outside on Sunday on
a honeymoon trip. They will go to
California and other sections of
the country before returning to
Alaska. There . were many friends!
at the depot to bid them farewell.'
—
Merton Atwood went to Xenana
on Sunday on a brief visit
Charles White left for the Tolo
vana on Sunday with the mail.
A. Hanot was a Xenana-bound
passenger on the Sunday train.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Vining left
* for the Outside on Sunday.
_
i Charles Harding went to Xenana
• on Sunday.
t _
Deputy Marshal Jack Wood, wife
and two children left on Sunday
on their way to Ruby, where Mr.
Wood is stationed.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Godfrey, who
recently returned to Fairbanks from
the coast, left for their home in the
Tolovana country on Sunday.
Andrew Anderson, of the Fair
banks laundry, left for the Outside
on Sunday.
!
Hills Humphreys left for Xenana j
on the Sunday train, enroute to the;
coast.
Paul Hopkins, assayer at the '
Bureau of Mines station, left for
the Outside on Sunday, on a vaca
tion trip. He will be away several
j
weeks.
Joe Murphy is a recent arrival
in town from Riley.
W. B. Borden was a visitor in
town this week from his ranch.
Official maps of the new Graehl j
townsite have been received at the
Land Office, where they are on sale
at a quarter each.
Mrs. Mellish, who is just back
from a tour of the world, arrived
from Nenana on Sunday, and will
reopen her store here.
Mrs. Harriet D’Orsay, Nenana
business woman, is a visitor in town
having arrived on the Sunday train.
Mrs. Henry Feldman, who came
in from Fairbanks Creek to attend
the Crites-Fitohett wedding, and who
became too ill to attend the cere-1
mony. is now on the road to re-;
lovery and will soon be able to
return to her creek home.
—
Eagle hall was the scene of an
enjoyable dance on Saturday night.
Music was provided by the new
Empress orchestra.
—
Mrs. P. S. Whitney was an out
ward-bound passenger on the Sun
day train, headed for the States.
She was accompanied as far as Ne
nana by her husband.
Andrew Nelson, hydraulic man oi
Pedro Creek, spent Sunday in the
Lou Madigan came in from Fox
on Saturday to attend the Eagle
iance.
Willis Nicley was a visitor in
town this week fmm Goldstream.
A local resident contributed $25
to the city treasury this week. He
was trying to break trail on a down
town sidewalk and made such a bad
job of it that Chief Sanderlin lost
his patience.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
Notice is hereby given that the
:o-partnership heretofore existing
oetween the undersigned, known by
the firm name of Ball A Thomas,
ias this day been dissolved by mu
tual consent. All accounts owing
laid firm are payable to William A.
rhomas and all bills will be paid
ay him.
IRA B. BALL
W. A. THOMAS
Dated at Nenana, Alaska, Feb. 2,
1922.
NOTICE PROPERTY OWNERS
1 HAVE GREAT DEMAND
FOR CABINS
Furnished and Unfurnished
List Your Property with Me
Make Your Investment Pay
DO IT NOW
CHARLES D. LECKIE
U. S. Commissioner
The steamer Watson left Seattle
or Seward this morning, and will
nake the trip by way of the inside
mssape.
Come to
CIRCLE HOT SPRINGS
FAMOUS FOR CURING RHEUMATISM—STOMACH TROUBLES
Good Accommodation* for Health and Re«t
New bath Home and Sveat Room*. — Private Cabin* for Ladie*
Plenty of Freih Egg* and Chicken*
All Vegetable* U*ed are Raieed and Canned on the Spring* Farm
Phone Connection with Circle City. - Four Mail* a Month
Rate* $3.50 per Day, Including Meal*, Bath* and Lodging
For Transportation Communicate with John Palm, Chatanlka, or
Wire OTTO MEYER. Circle
T* ^ 1 |7 Florida Grape Fruit, Pears
rresh trim Bananas, Oranges, &c.
The February Victor Records
Are Here.
Latest in Fox Trots, &c.
New Stock of White Yard Goods, Indian Head,
Muslin, Japanese Crape, &c.
w. A. COGHILL
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F
COLISEUM
Wednesday Night
LAST TIME
PARAMOUNT PRESENTS
“THE RESTLESS SEX”
FEATURING
marion davis
A DRAMA THAT TAKES YOU
BEHIND THE SCENES OF NEW YORK S
SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC LIFE
And lay* bare the Heart of a Woman
KINOGRAM —-COMEDY
ADMISSION, 50c. . - . RESERVED. 75c
SHOW STARTS AT EIGHT-THIRTY
COLISEUM
Scenes of Alaska
Portraing
THE DAYS OF ’98
TO THE PRESENT TIME
TOLD IN PICTURES WITH
EXPLANATORY LECTURE
— BY —
Mr. P. A. Thelin
CINEMATOGRAPHER AND LECTURER OF ALASKA
STEREOPTICON VIEWS OF GREaT HISTORICAL INTEREST
Tie first D»y» of Skagway, Dyea, Dawson .rod the Klondike
are gone forever, but a Pictorial Record of the Hardship* and
Achievements of the Hardy Men and Women who Stampeded to
the Klondike in '67, '98 and '99 has been Preserved in this Rare
and Valuable Collection of Pictures. Some of the Scenes are_
The first five white women son, via Black Lake.
Dance hall girls bound for
the Great Eldorado.
First U. S. maii team to
Dawson—Beef cattle for the
Klondike—Dawson City in fail
of '97—First steam boiler on
Bonanza—it blew up—Dr. Pei
ronett, one of the first phsyi
cians to get there—Indian vil
lages along the I’nper Yukon.
of Dyea, crossing the Dyea riv
er on men’s backs.
Stampeders at White Pass,
’97. The endless line of men
or. Chiicoot Pass, '98.
Northern Lights on Lake
I’enne—Crossing Lake Lebarge
— Poling boats on the Yukon
—George Carmack, one of the
discoverers of the Klondike.
Pack train, Skagway to Daw
And a Great Many Other Scenes of The*? Stirring Alaska Days
MOTION PICTURES OF ANOTHER DECADE
These Pictures Also Taken by Mr. Thelin
First fanners' convention in
Alaska, Fairbanks, 1917
School Children in Rel
Cross parade. Fairbanks.
Capt. Street and crew with
flying machines at Fairbanks.
Midnight Sun celebration at
Fairbanks.
Last boat of the season leav
ing for Whitehorsp
Completion of steel bridge
across Chena slough.
Farming Scenes. Fairbanks
and Matanuska.
Different methods of mining
—Dog races—The All Alaska
Sweepstake race—Alaska big
game—Moose, reindeer, cari
bou, deer, bear, beaver—Y.'hite
whaling of beluga fishing—
freighting to the mine by dogs,
horses and tractors—v,jr trad
ing along the Arctic coast of
Alaska—Hursla Island, Viet
oria Land.
MANY OTHER PICTURES OF EQUAL JNTEREST
ESKIMOS WILL APPEAR ON THE STAGE IN GALA ATTIRE
— AT THE —
COLISEUM TONIGHT
ADMISSION, 50 Cents RESERVED 75 Cents
Children under ?4 years*-25 Cents
NOTICE
Any person desiring to write re
ar d*r,g Nenana Townsite, Electric
'ower or T. & T. accounts during
le administration by the Alaskan
ingineering Commission will please'
address all correspondence to Col
Fred. Mears, Chairman, Alaskan En
gineering Commission, Anchorage,
Alaska, where same will receive
prompt attention.
CARL SCHMIDT