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MR. CONSUMER
THERE’S NO GUESSWORK WHEN YOU BUY YOUR WATCH
FROM US—WHETHER IT BE A DOLLAR WATCH OR
A HUNDRED DOLLAR WATCH.
AS A WATCHMAKER, WE CAN GUARANTEE SATISFACTION
WATERMAN’S IDEAL FOUNTAIN PENS
Sold at Standard Price. (Our Price.)
We Repair Anything In Our Line New Point, for Fountain Pen.
WM. TAYLOR
WATCHMAKER
JEWELER
ENGRAVER
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FOR FAIRBANKS
FAST WARM, COMFORTABLE
LAUNCH VICTORY
LEAVES NENANA
TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND
SATURDAY AT 8 A. M.
43-MILE ROADHOUSE
CHANGES HANDS
John Gilbert, part owner of the
| roadhouse just across the river from
the engineering camp at 43-mile is
in town on his way to the States.
He has sold his interest in the
roadhouse to Ole Boen, who is now
! running the place.
If you have a sweet-tooth, pull it.
BUY AN ELECTRIC FAN
We Have Them In Six and Twelve Inch Sizes
AND THE PRICE WILL BE RIGHT
3-Foot WIRE FENCING, per yard - - - 25c
TANANA SHEETMETAL WORKS
FRESH FRUIT AND EGGS
Over Lake Lebarge
Apples
Lemons
Grape fruit
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
MIDNIGHT SUN
IS PREPARING
FOR SEASON
A. E. C. Power Barge Will Soon
Be Ready to Take Up Run on
Tanana Rive'.
The Alaskan Engineering commis
sion’s power launch Midnight Sun
which has been under repairs for
some time, is expected to be ready
to take up the freighting service
on the river today.
A piston which had been sent to
Fairbanks for repairs was received
| on the steamer Shusana on Satur
day and the work of puttting it in
position on the boat was imme
diately taken in hand.
It is reported that she will make
a trip to Fairbanks as soon as the
repairs have been completed and
bring some freight for the Com
mission.
Ed. Mclnnes will be skipper on
the Midnight Sun for the season.
NOTICE
There has recently been an un
usually large number of false rumors
in circulation in this city relative
to various war developments. We
wish to emphatically state that these
reports do not originate at this
office or from the men connected
with it. We are not permitted to
j publish news contained in press com
j munications any more than it is per
'missible to publish ordinary private
| messages. Anyone claiming to have
been given a “tip’ or otherwise hav
ing received information from mem
bers of this detachment are stating
falsehoods.
Attention is called to the fact that
the party, or parties, starting these
local rumors do so in direct defiance
to the President’s orders relative to
the publication or circulation of un
truthful war news. An offense that
is punishable by imprisonment and
heavy -fine.
We respectfully request that the
public cease looking to this office
for the confirmation or denial of
these various rumors. We know
nothing of them and it is as much
news to us as to you.
LOCAL DETACHMENT,
U. S. SIGNAL CORPS.
“Food will win the war,” but will
it win for us or Germany—that is
the question for the American people.
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COLISEUM
PROGRAM FOR TONIGHT
A BEAUTIFUL MODEL PICTURE AND STRONG FEATURE
FOR PROGRAM TONIGHT
THE SCULPTOR’S DREAM
FEATURING DELEON’S MODELS DE LOVE
The Story Shows What the Sculptor Dreams. The Modols Are
Taken From Life. Just a Tip, Boys! Don’t Miss It.
TRIANGLE PLAYS PRESENTS
THE FOREMOST ACTOR, FRANK KEENAN, SUPPORTED BY
AN ALL STAR CAST, IN
Thoroughbred
THRILLING KENTUCKY STORY IN FIVE WONDERFUL ACTS
This picture is pronounced by those who saw it in Fairbanks to
be one of the best pictures shown for some time.
ADMISSION 50c RESERVED SEATS 75c
SHOW STARTS AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
SUN’S ECLIPSE
SEN HERE
Partial Eclipse of the Sun Visible
At Nenana Saturday, Seen
By Many.
A total eclipse of the sun, visible
in Alaska as a partial eclipse, took
place shortly after noon Saturday
and was seen by many Nenanaites
who happened to be aware of the
pending phenomena.
The eclipse, the first total eclipse
of the sun visible in the United
States since 1900, and the last until
1923, was observed at the University
of Denver Observatory, where as
tronomers from Yerkes observatory
made their observations.
Professor Edwin B. Frost, of the
Yerkes Observatory at Green Bay,
Wis., recently sent to Dean Herbert
A. Howe, head of the department of
astronomy of the Univeristy of Den
ver, a number of specially prepared
instruments which were dully in
stalled at the observatory by Pro
fessor Frost later on and used to
make the necessary observations.
One of the principal pieces of ap
paratus is a special spectroscope, to
be attached to the 21-inch telescope
at the Denver Observatory for the
purpose of photographing the Corona.
An opportunity to photograph the
Corana is afforded only during a
total eclipse and astronomers are
greatly interested in teh result of this
work as affording opportonity to
study the composition of this great
outer belt of luminous gasses which
surround the sun.
Photographs were also taken of
the sky in the region of the sun
' in search of any stray comet and
also of the mythical planet Vulcan,
which some astronomers have assert
ed has its orbit so close to the sun
that it can only be seen during an
eclipse. The existence of such a
planet is doubted by most astrono
mers, however.
Among the astronomers who work
ed at the Denver observatory, be
sides the staff from Yerks Observ
atory, were Professor A. V. Turner,
of the College of the City of New
i York, Professor Schlessinger, of Al
j leghany Observatory, Professor Bie
; field, of Dennison University, and
i Professor Moore, of the United
| States Bureau of Mines.
Although astronomers considered
: themselves fortunate in that the
! path of the total eclipse included
the Denver Observatory, with its
high power telescopes, they expe
rienced much difficulty in obtaining
special apparatus because of the war.
MUD TELLS BOOTBLACK
WHERE SOLDIERS FIGHT
QUANTICO, Va.—What section,
of the trenches do you hail from? !
That’s a hard question to answer, ;
if you don’t happen to know, and |
there’s only one man in the world.
who can look at you and tell, ac-;
cording to latest reports from the j
United States Marines in France.
A prophet? No, just a plaine, or- j
dinary human being—and what’s !
more, all he needs to see is your j
feet! To be sure, he’s only a boot-j
black, but nevertheless, he’s the ac-!
i knowledged ‘mud specialist’ of Paris, j
A letter received here recently1
from an overseas marine states:
“While awaiting my turn in the
‘specialists’s’ parlor recently I ob
served a French soldier getting his
boots polished. The man examined
the mud on the Frenchman’s boots
and immediately told him he was
from Verdun. ‘Oui, certainement,’
this Poilu said, much surprised.
Then the ‘mud doctor’ gave me the
once over and said: ‘And you, mon
( sieur, are from B-.’ He cer
i tainly hit the nail on the head. He
I has made a study of what he calls
I mud culture, and is considered one
j of the highest specialized persons
I in Paris.”
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LAUNCH NITA LEAVES
FAIRBANKS TOMORROW
] The launch Nita is expected to leave
Fairbanks for Nenana tomorrow
with some freight and passengers.
It is not definitely known whether
she will bring any mail for Nenana.
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The bacon you save may save your
bacon.
High prices are better than a Hun
peace.
MOSQUITO HEAD & BED NETS
Hat, Shoes, Shirts, Lace Pants
and a Full Line of Furnishings
GARDEN SEEDS 2 pgs. for 25c.
FRESH EGGS $1.00 per doz
G. S. BUTTER 2 pds. for $1.25
Fresh Fruit
Grape Fruit, Oranges, Lemons and
Apples.
ICE CREAM SOFT DRINKS
PHONE FREE DELIVERY
W. A. COGHILL
OPPOSITE COLISEUM.
COONEY HOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest."
NENANA . ALASKA
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MOOSE CREEK BRIDGE
NOW READY FOR TRAFFIC
Recent arrivals from Residency 4
(43-mile) report that a new bridge
to span Moose creek, is in course
of construction on the wagon road.
The old bridge, which had been
glaciered over badly, is reported to
have been carried away when the
breakup occurred on Moose Creek.
The new bridg(?, it is stated, will be
a sustantial structure supported by
bents of piling.
The road beyond Moose creek runs
; for some considerable distance on
marshy land and is said to be in a
very miry condition and unfit for
wheeled traffic. Mushers also find
considerable difficulty in getting
over this part of the trail.
FAIRBANKS COMMERCIAL
CLUB TO HAVE HATCHERY
News from the upper town indi
cates that a shipment of trout eggs
of the steel head trout variety, have
been received recently from Tacoma.
It is the intention of the Fair
banks Commercial club to conduct
experiments in fish culture in a
hatchery which will be established
on Birch Lake.
The question of stocking the
waters of suitable streams in the
Tanana valley with trout fry will
depend largely on the success of the
experiments to be conducted by the
Fairbanks Commercial club.
Mr. and Mrs. Lipson Simson and
i son arrived in Nenana from Fair
: banks on the steamer Shusana. They
i expect to make their home in Ne
nana.
Reduction, Production—the 1918
watchwords.
MARINE WIN
Nasutlin—Up Hootalinqua, 3:30
a. m.
Tanana—Up Isaccs, 4:35 a. m.
Lake Lebarge not open; river jam
med at foot of lake.
Washburn—Up Kokrines, 8 p m ,
the ninth.
Julia B.—At Kotlik, 8th, last re
port.
Martha Clow—Down Marshal, 5th
Seattle No. 3—Down Nulato, 8th.
Carl White—Up Tolovana river,
the seventh.
Davis—Leaves Fort Gibbon for
Eagle on arrival of Washburn.
Sibilla—At Gibbon.
Hoover has summed up the situa
tion in these words: The time has
come for sacrifice.” Can we refuse
to see the truth much longer.
For Sale
72 Cases Over-the-Ice Eggs
3 Cases Fresh Lemons
10 Head Young Draft Horses.
3 Wagons.
4 Sleds.
50 Tarpaulins. All Sizes.
House and Barn.
RANCH—40 acres under cul
tivation; all necessary farm
ing implements; ground fall
plowed; hay enough to put
in crop with.
W. E. Terrill
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Tom Smith, Prop.
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WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF
ICE CREAM
COMPLETE LINE OF CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND TOBACCOS
ALSO CANDY, STATIONERY AND DRUGS
LEGAL BLANKS FOR SALE
THOMPSON’S DRUG STORE
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