SPRING IS HERE
We Have It
Screen Doors
Screen Windows
Screen Wire
Screen Door Sets
Wheelbarrows
Garden Rakes
Garden Hoes
Garden Spades
Grass Hooks
Flower and Garden Seeds
and Three Kinds of
Seed Potatoes
COGHILL’S
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
Oa Second attd Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
FAIRBANKS LINE I
MU IE!
FOR GRADING
I
Immediately after the receipt of
instructions from Chairman Edes, of
the Alaskan Engineering Commis
i sion, relative to construction work
on the Fairbanks-Nenana right of
j way, announcement of which was
■ made in the Xenana News on Satur
1 (iay, May 3, several contracts were
let, and those who have taken up
these contracts are already busy es
tablishing their camps, preparatory
to commencing grading operations
just as soon as frost conditions will
admit of them.
The following contracts were
awarded following the receipt of in
structions from Chairman Edes. up
to yesterday morning:
Hugh Ross was awarded a clear
ing contract between Station Nos.
20,950 and 20,060; June 16 being
the date set for completion.
Alek Kangin, grading contract,
from 19,922 to 19.924: date of com
pletion July 15.
George Johnson & Co., grading
contract, from 20,080 to 20,090;
date of completion August 1.
W. W. Oberg & Co., grading con
tract, from 20,030 to 20,039; date
of completion August 1.
Victor Young & Co., grading con
tract from 20,050 to 20,080; date
of completion August 1.
Geo. Burrell & Co., grading con
r.s. McDonald
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SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
tract from 20,590 to 20,150; date
of completion October 1.
Axel Larson & Co., grading con
tract from 20,100 to 20,125; date
of completion July 30.
Axel Larson & Co., grading con
tract from 20,145 to 20,160; date
of completion July 30.
Assistant Engineer Ike P. Taylor
stated that all of the grading and
other work which will be let on con
tract on the Fairbanks-Xenana line
is now lined up and ready for award
ing to the bidders, in varying
lengths. There have been many in
quiries and it is expected that the
bulk of the grading contracts will be
let within the next few days.
Several of the contractors' out
fits are now being got together
and will be sent out to their respect
ive campsites, the hauling of them
being done by the A. E. C.. at no
expense to the contractors. The
necessary material and supplies that
will be needed by the contractors
during the tenure of their contracts
will be supplied at the stores es
tablished along the line, nearest the
place where the work is being done.
A regular mail service will also be
established by the A. E. C. and will
probably be a bi-weekly one. It
generally takes a rig three days to
make the round trip between camp
415 and Standard creek, situated
near the end of steel on the Happy
division.
ICE WENT OUT AT
FAIRBANKS TODAY
The official breakup was regis
tered at Fairbanks at 12:54 p. m.
today, when the big cake bearing
the flag moved down, went past the
bridge, and on downstream.
Joe Enos, D. A. Xewton. Mrs.
Frank Gordon and Bob Menzie each
won a $60 minute pool; Eddie Suter
and Tom Marquam jointly won an
other $60 minute pool, while Josh
Vance won the $300 minute pool.
The minute pool run by the Ter
minal in Xenana. on the Fairbanks
breakup, was won by Car! Bern
hardt.
CAMBRIDGE MAY LET
>- ■>- BARS-DOWN TtTWDMEN
LOXDOX, Eng.—A memorial ha;
been presented to Cambridge uni
versity urging the admission oi
women to full university member
ship. Women, it is suggested,
should be subject to the same con
ditions and discipline as men stu
dents and should wear the cap and
gown. Seven masters of college;
and twenty-two professors signed
the petition.
Women athletes are aspiring fa
take part in the university’s sports.
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WS.S.
1TOE SOW03 SUMPS
ISSUED BT THE
VNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
YOU
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BUY
WAR
SAVINGS
STAMPS
NOW
RETURNED SOLDIERS !i
TO BE ENTERTAINED I
By mm cross;
An entertainment and dance {
which is being ararnged by the la- j
dies of the local Red Cross branch, j
in honor of the returned soldier:, I
will be held at the Labor Union ,
hall on Saturday, May 10th.
Arrangements will be made to
have the picture show comioence at '
an earlier hour than usual, so that
the Red Cross entertainment may
be commenced earlier. Announce
'ment of the time of the entertain
ment will be made later.
A vocal and instrumental program
will be rendered and light refresh
ments will be served throughout the
affair. Everybody is cordially in
vited to the function. No charge
jwill be made for admission.
The entertainment will be repeat
ed shortly after the first boat of
the season arrives at Xentha.
DREDGE MAN LEAVING
FOR FAIRBANKS SOON «
In a wire recently received by
John A. Clark, of Fairbanks, G. A.
Aarons, who is the manager of a
British dredging outfit on Fairbanks
'creek, says that he and his party
will be leaving Seattle in a day or
two for Fairbanks, via Whitehorse.
ANCHORAGE RECEIVES
MATERIAL SHIPMENT
i
ANCHORAGE. — Seven hundred
and forty tons of railroad sup
plies constitute the first sh'pment
of material in the season of 19iy
to arrive in Anchorage for the Alas
ka Engineering Commission.
The feight was loaded at Seattle
on the barge Lawrence. From Se
attle to Seidovia, which is near the
mouth of Cook Inlet about 120
miles south of Anchorage, the Law
'rence was towed by the ocean tug
Gneonta. From Seldovia. the Law
j rent e was taken in tow by the
j Commission’s steamer Annie W. and
j brought to Anchorage.
Included in the cargo of the ■
: barge were one coaling elevator, t
,1,4-14 rails of 70-pound steel, 1,269 (
packages of spikes, bolts and fit
tings. 197 bundles of iron. 200 bar
Irtls of fuel oil, and 711 bales of
i
; STRICTLY SANITARY BATHS
ATTRACTIVE LOBBY
\ DOG KENNELS
NENANA, ALASKA
COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
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
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| Miners and Prospectors! I
1 NOTICE OF GHAK6E OF RECORDING PRECINCTS (
According to a recently issued Court Order by §
5 Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- g
| cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- f
§ nifield and Totatlanika Districts. g
Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be 5
= enabled by this change to do their recording aud trans- s
§ act other business at Nenana, which is within easy 1
| reach of their mining activities. =
1 NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB.
5 R. S. McDonald, H. B. Joseph,
g President. Secretary |
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