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New Phonograph Records
TOYS STATIONERY
NEW BOOKS
AND A THOUSAND OTHER USEFUL AND
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EVERYTHING WILL BE SOLD AT “REASONABLE
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We Want to Make Special Mention of Our Line of
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CARDS FOR ALL OCCASIONS, POST CARDS FOR
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY AND ST. PATRICK’S DAY
FANCY CLOCKS—INDIRECT AND TABLE LAMPS
WATERMAN’S FOUNTAIN PENS, $2.50 to $15
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Carrying Mail, Freight and
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OPENING CONTEST
SHOWS FAST PLAY
The opening basketball game of
the season, which was played at
Union hall on Thursday evening,
proved to the satisfaction of the few
spectators on hand, that Nenana has
two very fast and evenly matched
teams, capable of staging a most
interesting series of contests.
The score on Thursday was 28-26,
in favor of the Mike Meagher ag
| gregation. The play was close
j throughout the game and there was
no dearth of excitement, many clever
plays having been recorded. The
defeated team was captained by
Dick Ward.
Manager Woodbury Abbey an
nounces that another game will be
played sometime during the coming
week.
A woman i* like a telephone—she
will always respond to the ring. We
make rings, and set stones correctly.
WM. TAYLOR, Jeweler.
PIONEERS TO ATTEND SERVICE
The Nenana Igloo of Pioneers has
been invited to attend the evening
services at Grace Presbyterian
I church, tomorrow night, when a
! special text will be the subject of
I lecture. Members are asked to be
• at Union hall on Sunday evening
j at 7:15, and the lodge will then
j march in a body to the church.
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WEDDING LAST EVENING
j The marriage ceremony which
! united Mr. Alf Martinyus Andresen
and Miss Gina Warloe in holy matri
mony took place at the Rust House
last evening at nine o’clock. Robert
Joseph Diven, D. D., of Grace
church officiating. Mr. and Mrs.
Andresen will make their future
home in Fairbanks.
Chief Clerk J. B. Bickford, of
the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion is expected in Nenana tonight
i from the upper town, accompanied
| by his son Kenneth and Mrs. Bick
ford.
Most Everybody
BUYS EGGS HERE. THEY KNOW THAT WE
SELL ONLY THE GENUINE PETALUMA VARI
ETY AND THAT OUR GUARANTEE GOES
WITH EVERY SINGLE EGG. DO YOU BUY
PETALUMAS, OR JUST EGGS?
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
“ALASKA’S LARGEST OUTFITTERS”
'KIRS. LANE THANKS
NEIMIA FOR HELP
_
The employes of the Alaskan En
gineering commission, at Nenana,
and along the right of way, have
subscribed to the American Red
Cross, through the department of
interior, for the support of the beds
already given by the employees, the
following sums for the month of
January, 1918:
Nenana employees. 1345.50
Red Cross box, Telegraph sta
tion . 4.00
Red Cross box, Disbursing
i office . 23.00
Residency 3, December. 107.50
Residency 3, January. 70.75
Camp 16 . 18.75
Camp 9 .. 19.00
Camp 15 . 74.57
Camp 17 . 26.50
Total .$689.57
A check for the above amount
iwas forwarded to Mrs. Franklin K.
Lane, in charge of the War Relief
■ Work for the department of the in
ferior, on February 12.
j G. F. Cramer, special disbursing
1 agent of the Commission, is in re
| ceipt of the following letter from
Mrs. Franklin K. Lane:
I “Dear Mr. Cramer:—I have re
ceived your check for $839.25, cov
i ering contributions for the month
| of November, 1917 to the War Re
j lief Work, and have noted with
pleasure the source of the subscrip
tions. It is certainly an excellent
showing, and on behalf of the War
Work Association I want to express
the deep satisfaction which we all
feel in the keen and substantial in
terest which is being manifested by
the railroad employees of the Ne
nana district.
“Cordially yours,
“MRS. FRANKLIN K. LANE.”
SPECIAL SERVICES TOMORROW
On Sunday evening, February 17,
Dr. Diven will deliver an address
on “The World’s Pioneers.” A
large gathering of the local organ
ization of the Alaskan Pioneers is an
ticipated on this occasion. The
musical program for the evening
will consist of one hymn, “My
Country ’Tis of Thee,” to be sung
by the assembly, a solo by Mrs.
Hildebrand, and a solo by Kenneth
Diven. The meeting will begin
promptly at 7:30, Commission time.
JOY RIDERS ARRIVE
FROM FAIRBANKS
A party of nine joy riders arrived
in town this afternoon from the
upper town in one of BoDDy Shel
don’s famous tin lizzies, with a
double ender attached, a la Alaskan,
Included in the party were Misses
Laura Lewis, Alta Russell, Pearl
Petersen, Dorris Jacobson, and Mrs.
Redman, and Messrs Sheldon, Jas.
Barrack, Redman and Lev(ick.
Jack Donnelly, formerly of Ne
nana, has written friends in this city
that he is now in the aviation branch
of the navy, having enlisted shortly
after nis arrival in the States.
NOTICE
There will be a regular' meeting
of the Nenana Commercial club at
3 P. M. tomorrow at the usual
place.
Notices of these meetings will be
discontinued hereafter, as long as
meetings are held each Sunday.
H. B. JOSEPH,
Secretary.
ATTENTION, REGISTRANTS!
The undersigned, an associate
member of the legal advisory board
for the Fourth Judicial Division, re
siding at Nenana, desires to say
that he will be supremely happy in
rendering you aid by the way of
free legal advice and assistance in
the making out of your question
naires. Night or day at your service.
JOHN C. MURPHY,
Attorney at Law
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—Inquire ,
News Office.
6RAGE (Presbyterian) CHURCH
REV. ROBERT
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
Sunday School .12 M.
Evening Service, ‘‘The World’*
Pioneer*” .7:30 P. M.
HIKE MARY SKEW
*1 COllSEliM SUNDAY
An unusually attractive program
has been arranged by the Coliseum
management for tomorrow night's
show consisting of a split reel scenic
and comedy and a five-reel Pathe
Gold Rooster feature, entitled
“Little Mary Sunshine.”
In the feautre will be seen, for
the first time in Nenana, filmdom’s
youngest leading lady, Baby Marie
Osborne, with Henry King, Mar
guerite Nichols, Andrew Arbuckle
and the Bear.
“Little Mary Sunshine” comes di
rect from Fairbanks with the best
of recommendations and in the
movie world, the feature is rated as
one of the top notchers, being on
the roll of honor.
Mr. R. R. Douse will make a four
minute address during the last inter
mission.
The price of admission will be
fifty cents, with a quarter extra for
resrved seats. The show will start
promptly at 8:30 o’clock.
PLACER MINING WITH
THE DRAGLINE RIG
W. M. Hollerbach, now repre
sentative of the Bucyrus company, j
who is now in charge of the drag
line excavator used by the Alaska !
Engineering commission here, re
cently returned from Fairbanks,
where he has been investigating the
possibilities of placer mining by the
open cut method with the dragline
excavator. Mr. Hollerbach is great
ly pleased with the prospects of min
ing in this manner and believes that
it will revolutionize the mining game j
in Interior Alaska, once the method :
has been given a thorough tryout.
In speaking of his investigations, !
Mr. Hollerbach says:
“In the two weeks that I spent1
in Fairbanks and vicinity, I made
trips to nearly all of the surround
ing creeks where placer mines were
in operation and talked to the vari
ous operators. The most favored
system of mining at the present
time is with the Bagley scraper, and
while this system is fairly good, it
is not efficient, and with the camp
being in the state that it is now, I
with all the big mining gamblers
gone and with them all the big
money, I am of the opinion that
efficiency is the biggest factor that
will have to be taken into consid- j
eration. Material can be handled !
by the Dragline at a cost of 8 cents ;
per cubic yard, allowing 3 cents for j
car haulage and 5 cents for sluic- i
ing or gold separation. In the i
Goldstream district, property there
which is now being worked for 22
cents and 40 cents per cubic yard,
can be worked by the excavator for
12 cents, counting depreciation, in
terest, wear and tear, as well as
labor, oil and fuel. It will cost
about $50 a day to operate one of
these machines, and the cost of the
machine at Fairbanks will stand I
about $20,000. The machine that l!
have in mind for this style of work 1
would be a 75-foot boom excavator, \
which would handle about three cubic i
yards per minute if operated stead-1
ily, or about 1440 cubic yards a
shift. However, as this cannot al- j
ways be operated steadily in some
conditions, I would state that 1000
yards is a very conservative esti
mate. The most simple method [
would be loading into cars, exca- j
vating a cut 120 feet wide up to 30
feet deep at each setting of the ma
chine; this figure will also allow of
going over the cut as many times
as possible, allowing the sun to thaw
the ground. This machine will
handle hard pan as fast as the loose '
material and will also handle the j
harder material but with some re-:
duction in yardage for the shift. '
The yearly output would then be
estimated on the number of shifts
the machine was operated. Eigh
teen inches of frost can be handled
very nicely when the frost lays on
the surface with thawed ground
underneath. I have handled frozen
material like this without difficulty
about 8 miles from Nenana last
fall.”
Mr. Hollerbach expects to investi
gate the mining properties around
Brooks and the Tolovana district in
the near future.
OPERATORS INDICTED
Knoxville, Tenn. — The federal
grand jury has returned indictments
against forty-seven men, including
coal operators and dealers of Ten
nessee, charging them with violation
of the food control bill.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—Inquire
News Office.
“FOE SALE” CARDS at the Hews
office.
CLUB SENDS LETTER
TO SUPT. SNODGRASS
Acting under instructions from
the Commercial club, Secretary
Joseph, in the name of the Arbor
Day committee has forwarded . the
following letter to Superintendent
Snodgrass, of the Fairbanks experi
ment farm, with a view to obtaining
information which will be of value
to the residents of Nenana when tree
planting time arrives:
“At a recent meeting of the Ne
nana Commercial club, it was de
cided that the planting of trees in
the streets of the town, for decora
tive purposes and otherwise, should
be encouraged to the utmost; and
accordingly, the townsite manager,
Mr. F. S. Ryus, has agreed to nomin
ate a certain day in May as Arbor
Day.
“The planting of birch and poplar
trees is chiefly contemplated and,
so that we may achieve the best
possible results, the club is asking
you, if you will be so kind, to in
struct us in the approved manner
of planting trees. It has ben sug
gested that an educative article be
published shortly prior to Arbor
Day, and we think that the instruc
tions received from you would be
of greatest value for embodiment in j
this article.”
PIONEERS, ATTENTION!
All members of Nenana Igloo of
Alaska Order of Pioneers are re
quested to be at Union hall at 7:15
Sunday evening. Members will then
march to Grace church, where spe
cial services are to be held by Rev.
R. J. Diven.
FOR SALE—Four young dogs and
sleigh. Came from the Kantiahna.
Inquire Belmont Cigar Store. 14
FOR SALE—Two good work dogs,
priced reasonable. Inquire N ews
office. tf.
NENANA LODGE, No. 1193
Loyal Order of Moose, meets every
Wednesday Evening at 8 O’CIock
at labor union hall
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REASONS
HY You Should Buy Your Next Watch From U*.
E Are Agents for the Best American Made Watches.
ALTHAM—ELGIN—HAM1LT0N-H0WARD
E SELL AT STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES.
ITH Proper Material on Hand to Make Repairs.
E Are Here to Stay—to Make Good Our Guarantee.
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WM. TAYLOR
JEWELER ENGRAVER
COLISEUM I
Program for Sunday
The Headliner will be a Split Reel Scenic and Comedy, for
the benefit of those coming late, so they may see the entire feature
which follows. The title of the Scenic is
SCENES FROM THE HIGHLANDS, JAMTLAND, SWEDEN
And the Comedy Is
FREDDY AIDS MATRIMONY
PATHE PRESENTS
Little Mary Sunshine
A GOLD ROOSTER PLAY IN FIVE PARTS
FEATURING HENRY KING AND BABY MARIE OSBORNE
Filmdom’s Youngest Leading Lady, Supported by Marguerite
Nichols, Andrew Arbuckle, and the Bear
NOTE—Baby Marie Osborne, being a mere child and the
youngeet leading lady in the world, makes this feature rank as one
of the best shown in Nenana.
NOTICE—Mr. Roy Douse, one of the Four-Minute Men, will
address the audience tonight four minutes, on topics of the war.
SHOW STARTS AT 8:30 O’CLOCK
GENERAL ADMISSION, 50c RESERVED SEATS, 75c
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