MEN’S SHOES
Reliable Makes—Lowest Prices
Mayer Shoes, Dress Calf, pair $6.50
Freeman Shoes, Russet, pair $8.50
Walkover, Custom grade,
latest styles . . $9.50
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Men’s Felt Slippers, pair $1.00
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DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
The sun on longer days will mak<
you feel like throwing away youi
old hat and suit. Certainly thos<
old spots do not improve your ap
pearance, but for a trifling sum yoi
can have them pressed, mended ant
cleaned at Mrs. D’Orsay’s Tailoi
Shop, Third and A streets.
Nesana. Alaska's Interior Tnel Pepo'
Be Prepared for Cold Weather
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SWEATER COATS
MACKINAW PANTS
SPORT SHIRTS, Heavy Wool
WOOL SOCKS, AH Weights
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and Can Furnish Your Outfit Complete at Special Prices
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ON GOVT. ROAD
A recent arrival from the coast
over the Broad Pass trail, brings
word that the big bridge now in
course of construction to span the
Talkeetna river, is rapidly nearing
completion, and that it will be but
a short time before the structure
will be ready for the steel.
Beyond the bridge, toward Lig
nite, twenty miles of railroad grade
has been completed and is now
ready for the steel, and just as
soon as the bridge has been com
pleted, the line will be finished as
rapidly as possible to Deadhorse.
The officials of the Alaskan Engin
eering commission, coast division,
say the bridge will be completed
about May.
The south approach to the bridge
will consist of nineteen X4-foot spans
and be 226 feet long. The main
structure will consist of four 121
foot Howe truss spans and be 502
feet, 9 inches long. The north
approach -will consist of one hund
red and nine 14-foot spans and will
be 1432 feet long.
The entire spanway will be 2200
feet and 9 inches in length- The
highest elevation of the bridge will
be 372 feet above Anchorage datum.
The laying of steel on the coast
division of the government railroad
to the south bank of the Talkeetna
river was completed in January.
The gap between steel, from Lig
nit to Talkeetna, is approximately
150 miles in length at the present,
but with the extension of the steel
to Lignite on this divson, and to
Deadhorse on the coast division, the
distance between railheads will only
be about 120 miles.
Those who have traveled over the
Broad Pass trail are all agreed that
with a very little revision and a
little work in the way of clearing
off some timber, etc, at a moderate
outla :t could be made into the
finest kind of a trail for almost
any kind of traffic.
DAYS ARE NOW GROWING
LONGER RAPIDLY
The following is a table of sun
light for Xenana:
Feb. 15. . .8 hours, 18 minutes
March 1.9 hours, 5 minutes
March 21 . 12 hours
On March 21 the vernal equinox
is reached and it marks the be
ginning of spring. On this day the
length of the day and the night are
equal.
From this date and until the 21st
day of June the days grow longer
and the nights shorter, and in this
latitude there is no night on the
21st of June.
From June 21st the nights grow
' longer and the days shorter until
September 21, when the autumal
‘equinox is reached Then day
' and night are equal in duration of
time, and the date also marks the
'beginning of autumn. From this
| date on the nights continue to grow
longer and the days shorter until
the shortest day of the year, Dec
121st is reached.
DANCING ACADEMY
MEETING TONIGHT
The dancing academy conducted
by Mrs. Belle Campbell will meet
tonight at the Lnion Hall, imme
diately after the picture show.
The date had been advanced
from Friday to Thursday night
originally because the Red Cross
dance was scheduled for Saturday
night. This function has now been
postponed indefinitely; but as an
nounced Tuesday night, the acad
emy will meet tonight; the next
meetings being on Tuesday and
Thursday nights of next week.
NOTICE
The health officer has received
a supply of small pox vaccine and
all persons desiring will be vac
cinated without charge. They should
present themselves at the Commis
sion hospital at the following hours
only: week-days, 11 a. m. to 12 m.
and 4 to 5 p. m. Sundays, 11 a. m
to 12 m.
COMMISSION IS
MAKING EFFORT
10 GET VESSEL
ANCHORAGE.—Efforts of the
Alaskan Engineering: commission to
induce the federal government to
operate a steamship next season
between Pacific coast ports in the
various states and the towns of
Seward and Anchorage in Alaska
are heartily seconded by business
men of Anchorage.
The Commission's ocean freight
every summer is of so large a ton
nage that the government can bet
ter afford to operatee its own
steamship than pay the charges im
posed by private transportation
companies. Prior to 1918, the
United States transport Crook was
in service for the Commission, but
iast season did not resume her
Alska run as he was needed else
where for war work. Private com
panies, throughout 1918, handled
trte Commission’s ocean traffic.
When the Crook was at the dis
posal of the Commission, she car
ried mail on both northbound and
-.uihbound voyages, but she did
not transport freight for private
persons nor firms nor accommodate
passegers, except employees of the
Commission.
Anchorage businessmen are anx
ious for the re-establishmer# of a
steamship service by the govern
ment because of the mail facilities
it would afford them. The privately
owned steamships which now handle
mail as freight, make only infre
quent calls at Southwestern Alaska
ports, and as a consequence as
long a period as a month has some
times elapsed without the receipt
at Anchorage of mail from the
States.
NOTICE
A meeting of the Nenana U.ub
will be held at the club room in
the Union Hall on Tuesday, March
11th, commencing promptly at 8
o'clock in the evening.
All members are urged to be in
attendance.
For travelers a folding clothes
tree nas been invented which can
be carried in a bag or trunk and,
when extended, fastened to a bed
stead or other article of furniture.
For persons who crochet a woman
has invented a ring to be worn on
a little finger, so constructed that
it holds the thread at an even ten
sion.
For newspaper bulletins or ad
vertising purposes an electric sign
has been invented on which letters
appear in lights as keys on a type
writer keyboard are pressed.
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT
For the week ending March 1
there were 346 employes on the
pay rolls of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission, showing an increase
of 54 employees as against the
number employed during the pre
ceding week. There were also 122
stationmen or contractors, and 33
stationmen laborers, showing an in
crease of 12 stationmen and a de
crease of 3 stationmen laborers for
the period under review.
The forces of the A. E. C. were
destributed as follows:
Camp 1, general.41
Camp 1, electric.10
Camp 1, corral.
Camp 1, construction .78
Camp 1, store .20
Hospital . 11
Townsite .2
Surfacing camp .12
Tracklaying camp .39
Section No. 1. 7
Section No. 4 . 8
Camp 373 .39
Camp 415. 4
Camp 440 .-. 9
Camp 449. 8
Ditcher camp .23
Nenana total —.322
Fairbanks office *?.**—. 2
Tanana Valley R. R.13
Camp 454 ....-. 9
Fairbanks total —._.24
To cal fn» division .. 346
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FRIDAY BRIDGE CLUB
MEETS AT GILCHER HOME
| The Friday Bridge club will meet
tomorrow night at the home of
Mrs. W. H. Gilcher on First and C
streets. The play will commence
promptly at 8 o'clock. Members
who are unable to attend are kindly
requested to provide substitutes.
The peace conference of course,
is being kept very busy, but not
so busy but what it will find ample
time to tend to the former Hun
kaiser's case, all right.
Uncle Sam may do his great part
in feeding the distitute of Germany
but no hearty handshakes or any
thing resembling them, will go with
the supplies.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
W. H. Gilcher left Fairbanks on
the Robinson auto today for home.
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Blanks
Tablets
Blotters
Envelopes
Scratch Pads
NEWS OFFICE
MAIL ARRIVES IN
NENANA LAST NIGHT
Thelin’s stage pulled into town
last night with two sacks of mail
and some freight consigned to local
merchants.
The stage will leave Nenana on
the return journey to Fairbanks to- *
morrow morning.
Now that so many persons are
becoming “hep” to what the Bol
sheviki propaganda really means,
the upheaval agitators presently
will be found turning to some new
kind of -ism, but which will prove
nothing other than a new name
for the same brand of I. W. W -
ism.
—
As for the anti-Soviet Raders of
Russia, they would prefer to see
Bolshevik delegates in an immeas
urably hotter place than in th^
peace conference.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
THE NEWS OFFICE
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Finest assortment of Men’s Socks, Daniel |
Green Felt Shoes and Slippers, Moccasins,
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