* FRESHMEN STAGE
FIRST SLEIGH RIDE
The first sleigh ride of the sea
son was celebrated last Saturday
evening when the Freshmen class at
the Alaska Agricultural College and
School of Mines near Fairbanks, en
tertained for the College students
and their friends.
At 8:30 the sleigh pulled out,
headed for the College, where a
dance was enjoyed and refreshments
served. The party returned to town
shortly after midnight.
Professor and Mrs. Earl Pilgrim
chaperoned the happy crowd.
KENNETH KERR RESIGNS
-¥ Kenneth C. Kerr, widely known
writer on transportation subjects and
former industrial agent of the Alaska
Steamship company, has resigned as
editor and publisher of Railway and
Marine News, a Seattle monthly pub
lication. Mr. Kerr had been con
nected with Railway and Marine
News since 1912. He came to Se
attle from Riverside, Calif., in 1910,
after occupying positions on various
newspapers in the West. He has
been active in transportation circles
in Seattle for the last fifteen years.
Mr. Kerr said he had not completed
his plans for the future but would
reside permanently in Seattle alter
a vacation trip to California.
Mrs. E. H. Alderman, GO. beat off
with her umbrella two youths who
tried to hold her up at Eugene. Ore.
NATURALIZATION HEARING
IS SET FOR APRIL 3RD
The naturalization hearing which
was dated for March 9, has been
postponed until April 3, in the courts
of the Fourth Division.
The postponement was necessary j
because of the fact that court will
not be in session on March 9 in
Fairbanks.
The petit jurors from Fairbanks
and Graehl who were to have re
ported for duty March 31 have been
excused until April 27, at which time
they will report to the court.
YOUTH TO MUSH TO FORT YUKON
Judge Cecil H. Clegg and nephew
Bob Johnson of the Fourth Division
left recently for a trip to Fort Yu
kon by way of Circle City. They
expect to be awmy about three weeks.
Bob was quite excited over the
prospects of mushing his nine dogs
on such a long trip. He has been
driving them close to towm about
ten days in preparation for the
long journey to Fort Yukon, and it
was with satisfactory confidence
that he started the mush to the Arc
tic Circle village.
The dogs were purchased from
Ralph Loman, who made the trip
with them from Nome to Nenana.
Antonio Solitana, who claimed to be
i 134 years old. died recently at New
; Orleans, where he is said to have
I been planning to marry his seventh
I wife.
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MILESTONES IN LIFE
OF CALVIN COOLIDGE
1872—Born at Plymouth, Vermont.
1895—Graduated Amherst College.
1897—Admitted to the bar and be
gan practice at Northampton
Mass.
1899—Elected to Northampton city
council, and served subsequent
ly as city solicitor and court
clerk.
1905— Married Grace Anna Good
hue of Burlington, Vermont.
1906— Elected state representative.
1909—Elected Mayor Northampton.
1911—Elected to Massachusetts
State Senate, and later became
president of the Senate.
1913—Elected Lieutenant-Govern
or of Massachusetts.
1918—Elected governor.
1920—Elected Vice-President.
1923— Became President upon the
death of President Harding.
1924— Elected President by largest
plurality in history.
DESTROYER RAMS TENDER.
SAN DIEGO. Cal., Mar. 9—The de
stroyer Robert Smith rammed the air
craft tender Langley, during maneu
vers between the Atlantic and Pacific
fleets. The bow of the Robert Smith
was badly smashed in but she was
able to return to port. The damage
to the Langley is unknown.
OFFICIALS WILL CO-OPERATE
OTTAWA, Mar. 9.—Under the new
Canadian and United States anti
smuggling treaty, Canadian officials
will co-operate to stop rum smuggling
across the border from British Colum
bia.
At Weehawken, N. J., a 100-ton
boulder rolled from a cliff, narrowly
missing a street car filled with peo
ple.
Sheaffer's Life Time Pens, at the
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SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
KENTUCKY ELECTION CASES
FOURTH MURDER TRIAL SET
JACKSON, Ky., Mar. 10.—T h e
fourth trial in the series of “Clayhole
cases,” as the murder indictments
against 13 men for the election day
shooting of 1921 are known, has been j
set for March 25 before Judge D. W.
Gardner.
One of the first trials resulted in
conviction of one member of the
Republican group of defendants, Wm.
Barnett, whose two-year prison sen
tence will expire this spring, while
two trials of the Democratic group
resulted in a disagreement of the
jury and a conviction was reversed
on appeal.
The shooting resulted in four deaths
and 17 wounded. It followed the in
vasion of one party stronghold by
members of another party on election
morning.
All concerned in the shooting sign
ed a petition to the county judge and
commonwealth’s attorney that they
“failed to see where any good can
result in litigation over the matter”
and asked the county officials to “let
bygones be bygones.” The prosecu
tion, however, was soon begun.
The three trials so far have been
held in Boyd county, on charges of
venue from Breathitt county, the
scene of the shooting.
The approaching trial will be with
other members of the Republican
group as defendants. They, accus
ed of the murder of three Democrats
slain, demanded separate trials.
GIRLS MAKE UP MINDS QUICKLY
SEATTLE, Mar. 9.—-Girls make up
their minds more quickly than men,
figures published by the University
of Washington here indicate. Of
approximately 1,000 new men stud
ents at the University 357 stated that
they were not sure of their future
careers. The girls in the same dile
ma, out of a slightly smaller total,
numbered about 100.
Two womeri fruit venders in Chi
cago pelted Policeman William Maye
with rotten fruit when he attempted
! to stop their quarrel.
After stealing and cracking a
500-pound safe, Chicago burglars
found it only contained worthless pa
pers.
Joseph Somes of Cardiff. Wales,
baptized his baby in water on which
the ice had to be broken and got 30
days in jail. .
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
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POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
ARONERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
VICAR ROCKS BA3 Y’S CRADLE
OBSERVING ANCIENT CUSTOM
MANSFIELD, Eng., When the Rev
J. Lowndes, the bachelor vicar of
Blidworth, near here, rocked a baby’s
cradle in his church on a recent
Sunday it was not in an effort to
stop the babe’s cry, but the carrying
cut of a custom which has been ob
served for nearly 700 years.
From the thirteenth century it ha.'
been a rule that the most recently
bcrn baby in the parish should be
taken to church on the Sunday near
est Candlemas and dedicated to God
On Saturday night the child is bap
tized, next day it is again taken to
the sanctuary and placed in a tiny
cradle inside the altar rails. The vi
car then dedicates the child to God
and rocks the cradle.
The ceremony is intended to sym
bolize the Biblical story of the pres
entation of the Child Christ in the
temple. The cradle in Blidworth
Church was draped with linen and
bedecked with a mass of flowers.
At the head of the cradle were plac
ed two lighted candles and two aqol
vtes stood near with lighted tape??.
In the olden days the parishioner?
used to parade the village street
carrying the child, but that pari "
the ceremony is now omitted.
WRANGEL’S MEN IN BALKANS
RESTIVE AS WINTER WANES
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| PIROT, Serbia, Mar. 9—Increasing
evidences of activities are apparen
among the troops of Genera; Baron
Wrangel, which found inte”-allied
protection in the Balkans as a plat*
of refuge after the collapse cn the
Wrangel anti-Bolshevik eamoaicn
the Crimea.
These troops have been kept under
supervision, in a disarmed and de
mobilized condition, during the inter
vening time. But a skeleton organ
ization has been maintained and the
commanders have been keeping m
touch with their men.
It is now announced that these
Russian forces, in both Jugoslavia
and Bulgaria, will be reorganize
this spring, General Wrangel liimsel
i will take command of this work in
Pirot, covering the Serbian sector,
and he will be assisted b\ General
Scorp, in charge oi the men living
in Bulgaria.
Orders to report at Pirot have been
sent out to many men scattered thru
Serbia and Bulgaria.
CACHE MUNITIONS FOUND
PARIS, Mar. S.—Bulgarian officials
report they have discovered a huge
store of rifles, cartridges and explo
sives in the region near the Jugoslav
border, which is believed to belong to
Soviet agents.
Fire from a gas range burned off
the whiskers of Isaac Aaronson. 7h.
of Chicago, nearly causing his
death.
Nine of the Behrman family of
Glencoe, 111., were awakened by the
cries of a cat and escaped from their
burning home.
Sir Reginald Bacon has caused a
British sensation by his book which
blames Admiral Beatty, first lord of
the admiralty, for failure to destroy
the German fleet off Jutland.
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