THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918. at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth ...-.Editor and Manager
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this paper and also all the local news published herein.
DON’T BE A SLACKER
Because it took the world war to
evolve the word • “slacker” it does
not necessarily follow that the word
is applicable only to military mat
ters. In fact it applies just as aptly
to the man or woman who neglects
civic duties and is always willing
to “let George do it.”
The commonest evidence of this
kind of slacking is that so often
given voice by such talk as “Oh.
I never bother about politics, I
leave that to the professionals,” and
similar phrases that are intended
by those that utter them as evidence
of superior wisdom, but which, ac
cepted at their true value, simply
convict those making them of an
unpardonable neglect of a plain
duty.
The franchise, or the opportunity
to take a hand in the affairs of
the town, state or nation, is beyond
all question the greatest boon which
originates with Liberty, and he or
she who fails to appreciate it and
use it with the greatest amount of
:n> ur iiur cunimanu
rightly forfeits the respect of fellow
citizens and fails to evidence a
right to live under the benefits of a
Constitution.
This war has for one of its prim
ary objects the granting of self de
termination to all people, and, surely,
those who already have and enjoy
this privilege of a voice in their
own affairs, should be proud to give
tangible evidence that they appre
ciate it by taking a keen interest
in their country’s politics and re
cording their vote in the manner
which their intelligence dictates.
Let nothing interfere with the
casting of your vote on Tuesday.
Study carefully the records of the
men asking for your franchise. If
you think that Mr. Wilson has hand
led the affairs of this nation as
you would have had them managed,
remember his appeal for the elec
tion of a Democratic congress. He
KNOWS that the European nations
will look upon this election as a test
of the popularity of his policies,
and that if a Republican majority
is returned it will be accepted as
an indication that his conduct of the
war does not meet with popular
approval And then, if you will
look carefully over the record made
at Washington by Mr. Sulzer, you
will find many reasons why he
should be re-elected to continue the
good work he has so efficiently be
gun.
FORTUNES OF WAR
| The shifting fortunes of war do
not allow a general to issue in one
day orders to be followed through
out a whole campaign.
Herbert Hoover is really a su
preme quartermaster of the whole
Allied forces, combatant and non
combatant. He cannot tell today
what orders will be necessary to
issue next month, nor what restric
tions now in force, may be then
safely removed. The whole Ameri
can people is in the thick of a
titantic fray, and the biggest job
for the civilian population is to
keep the fighters supplied with food.
A multitude of interlocking con
tingencies decide what commodities
must be shipped over seas from
season to season.
At present sugar and wheat are
\ the two outstanding essentials, al
though fat and beef must be kept
moving too. The new rules must
be accepted at home as would the
command for a general advance at
the front. It would be treason
to hang back.
WAR DIET HEALTHFUL
The war and the government are
now doing for this nation what the
people as individuals would not do
l for themselves. It is now shown
that wheatless and near wheatless
menus are a blessing in disguies in
that they have been the means of
improving the health of the Ameri
can people. Wheat flour is not
as good for the digestive organs
as are the coarser cereals and flours
which have become part of the
daily bill of fare.
If the people will only cut out
the grumbling and cheerfully buckle
down to the war menus we will
soon have a healthier and happier
nation.
ry is a.
of Stamina
Send- the Wheat
Meat-Rtfs Sugar
the fuel far Fighters
IINF^D STATE5 FOOD ADMINISTRATION
HYLAND'S CIGAR STORE
C/GARS POOL, TOBACCOS
Soft Drinks Candies Fresh Fruit
Warm Comfortable Rooms
Berber Shop in Connection
Mike Hyland, Prop.
*'mt..
Phone 84 , Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
I PRICES REASONABLE LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
NEW BOOKS ARE
READY FOR ISSUE
AT THE LIBRARY
The new library books received
recently are now ready for issue.
Mr. Gagnon at Union Hall, will
act as librarian, and will be on
hand from 1 p. m. until closing time,
the place being closed for about
half an hour after five o’clock.
There are some splendid new
books on war subjects, as well as a
hundred copies of the latest fiction.
Subscribers are requested to re
turn books as soon as read, in order
that others may take them in their
turn; especially should this be done
with the war books, as there are
only eighteen of the latter, and it
will be necessary to keep them mov
ing if all are to have a chance
at them.
All arrangements for drawing
books may be made with Mr.
Gagnon.
DEMOCRATS WILL
RALEY TOMORROW
Representatives of the Democratic
party in this district will hold a
rally at the N'enana Labor Union
Hall on Saturday night, November 1.
The rally is scheduled to com
mence immediately after the pic
ture show. Among the speakers of
the evening will be Messrs W. A.
Ryan, George Pennington and R.
S. McDonald.
NOTICE
Nenana Club members please be
on hand Saturday night after the
show for a business meeting of un
usual importance.
RUNNING WILL BE
LAID AI REST ON
SUNDAY AT 1:30
The remains of the late Axel
Running, who was a charter member
of the Fairbanks Igloo, Pioneers of
Alaska, will be buried by the Xe
nana Igloo, Pioneers of Alask? on
Sunday, November 3.
The funeral services will com
mence at 1:30 p. m., sharp at the
Nenana Labor Union Hall. Dr.
Diven will deliver the funeral oration
after which the beautiful service
according to the Pioneer ritual will
be read by the officers of Nenana
Igloo and special music will be
rendered.
The pall-bearers will be Patrick
King, James McGilvery, Ed Gaynor,
Frank Doyea, William Noble and
Fred Mann.
A cooperage plant for manufact
uring barrels is being instiled by
Harry Cribb at Anchorage, with a
capacity of 3000 barrels per month.
Visiting Cards
Typewriter
Ribbons
Carbon
Paper
Legal
Blanks
Tablets
Blotters
i
Envelopes
Scratch Pads
NEWS OFFICE
DARE DEVIL FOUR
MAKE 11 ROUNDS
Following the time-honored cus
tom. Hallowe’en was celebrated by
the younger set of Nenana in the
good old-fashioned way during last
night, and many heavy and cumber
some things were found this morn
ing, by their irate owners, in places
where they didn't belong. The bells
forgot to ring a merry peal this
morning at the usual hour, and if
the kids had their way, the Com
mission whistle would not have
' sounded either.
The perpetrators of the greatest
amount of innocent fun at the ex
pense of several Nenana house
holders'were known as the “Dare
Devil Four” whose identity is still
closely veiled in mystery. Their
camouflage would appear to have
been complete, and, despite the fact
that members of this michief patrol
were seen and spoken to by some
Nenanaites, nobody seems willing or
i able to state positively who they
| were. Their pranks are said to
have commenced soon after dark
and to have continued almost all
night.
A guess was hazarded by some
one that they were four popular
young ladies of Nenana, but Mr.
Rodigkeit, of the Tavern, is positive
that this cannot be, and for the
following reason: He says that four
desperate looking characters came
to his restaurant along about 3 a. m
and ordered and ate a huge sub
stantial meal with a relish and ap
i petite that only belongs to hard
working miners, trappers and hunt
ers, and he knows just who can eat.
When the time came for payment
and such was requested, four hands
went to hip pockets with mathmati
cal precision and eached flashed an
ugly looking Colt .45, and he says
he was tickled to death to call it
■ square. No one has yet been able
to find out who these four were.
Jim Hagen, the marshal, said that
he had heard about it, but the
“Dare Devil Four” seemed to have
been able to elude even this keen
sleuth.
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GERMANS NOW USING
NEW KIND OF BREAD
AMSTERDAM.-—Germany is now
threatened with a new war food
called lupine bread. To work a pro
cess for converting; lupine, a legu
minous plant into food for man and
beast on a large scale, a company
has been formed at Chemnitz Sax
ony. with a capital of 3,000.000
marks.
The lupine was held in no particu
lar esteem until about fifty years
ago, when a German chemist dis
covered a process by which the bit
ter taste of the plant w^s eliminated
and the vegetable fat and albumen
which it contains were made service
able for human consumption. Now
a German food expert, has taken up
and perfected the old recipe. It is
said that lupine meal makes quite
a palatable and wholesome "bread”,
while the refuse is excellent food for
cattle. The German government, it
is announced, is about to take the
lupine cultivation under its official
wing.
NOTICE
A little brown basket containing
violets, was lost from the tea room
at the Union Hall. Finder please re
turn to Nenana News office.
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ivultu. rizuci
NOTICE
Announcement is made that there
will be no meeting of the Nenana
Commercial club tonight.
SOPHIA ViCTIMS
i Bodies of the Victims Are Being
Identified As Rapidly As They
Are Recovered.
According to a telegram from
. Charles Ostrom, the former Fair
j banks jeweler, who is now in busi
i
jness at Juneau, no difficulty is be
! ing experienced now in identifying
i ‘
j the bodies of the victims of the
I great Princess Sophia disaster,
! which are being recovered from the
j icy waters of Lynn Canal,
j The difficulty first experienced
in identifying the bodies, as stated
1 in the news despatches, was due to
j the fact that a majority of the
people whose bodies were first re
covered were total strangers to the
searchers first engagd in the grew
some task. An impression seems
to have been created in the minds
of some of the people on reading
of the difficulty experienced in the
work of identification, that the
bodies had been in some manner
rendered unrecognizable by the ac
tion of the sea.
Mr. Ostrom’s telegram states def
initely that none of the bodies re
covered, so far, show the slightest
signs of having been bruised or
mangled in any way
The body of a little girl, about
| five or six years of age, is reported
' to have been recovered vesterday,
l
i but has not been identified yet.
' The bodies are being embalmed
! as soon as they are brought to shore
■ and will be held in Juneau pending
! receipt of instructions from rela
‘ tives regarding final disposition.
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NOTICE
| Nenana Club members nlease re
j member the regular ST'ial gathering
i each Friday night at k .”>0.
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SUGAR MUSI BE
A taaspoonAd seat
nothui<i You say-, \5rt sl
heaping ieaspoanfnl
saved, each meal for
1W days for each of the
ioo.ooo.ooo persons
in tha United States
makes a pile as bijl as the
tkaoherch buildup* enough
to aupph- the ennre armed
forces of the nation.
! War is an ugly thing, but a Ger
man peace is uglier—.
WANT ADS
WANTED—-Two or Three con
genial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchm fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
WANTED- Reliable party to rent
or manage Central lodging House
Inquire on premises. 0-21
FOR RENT—Four-room unfurnished
cabin, hot and cold water con
nections. Inquire Waechter Bros.
Market.
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
Skof House
, UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Mrs Norman Campbell
Highest Cash
Prices Paid for
RAW
FURS
! SIMSON’S
r.s. McDonald
CONVEYANCING
GENERAL BROKERAGE
NOTARIAL WORK
LIFE INSURANCE
Local Agent of
Whitely-Wood ward Company
Home Insurance Co., New York
National Fire, of Hartford
Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Co.
Law Union and Rock, London
Look Them Up In Best's
Union Insurance Society, London
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
Tom Smith, Prop.
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COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANG ES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works