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CEITIKA, ALASKA. DECEMBER*^? ,1931..
CHRISTMAS IN ALASKA. It is always a
*■ merry time specially for the littlest
- Sourdoughs. Maybe so it is because'it
is so near where Santa Glaus lives, &
Christmas trees grow all around, and
reindeer graze on the tundra to the
North of us. •
THI° CHRISTMAS TTTAS AS GOOD A ONE as we
have* ever had. The children of the
Public. School put on a program Christ
mas Eve as they usually do*All the
people enjoyed it.After the program
Santa came in.Ke had just arrived from ‘
Copper Center.He got his feet wet on
the way, It, was too bad he had to go cn
to McCarthy so quick that he didn’t
have a chance to get them warm here.
After he distributed some of the pres
ents he.decided it was time he headed
for-McCarthy -so he said if there were
any of the school officials there in
the Hall to come‘up and distribute
gifts, so he could be on his way. He
said that they didn’t ncccsarily have
to know how to write-,but just so they
could read -enuf to read -the names on'
the packages .Mr . A1 Moorc ,R , J.Shepard. ,
ana Jack Coats*thot they could read a
1 i 111 e, s o 'they c amc up an d he Ipc d out»
Theye was a ‘beautiful, Christmas tree
that Sullivan (Sully) got for us with
the he Ip 6 f ' Le e Smal ly, and Mr s jVm ,R .
Cameron,Mrs.Lyons and Mrs. Taylor trim
med most gorgeously. Everybody got a
lot "of nice presents.At th£ tree we mr
mean. We don't know so much about the..
stocking the next morning. Wc hope, no
one got a switch in his stocking. Af
ter the tree,there was dance in the
hall,and. lots of furn.There were not
' enuf wimen there for partners so they
tagged Nordby with a ribbon to make
him a woman.He was a good sport and
danced with only men the rest of the
evening.
WE MAKE OUR BCfr TO THE -RUMOR HOUND of
the- Cordova Times who says that
THE YOOTGSfeRS II? THE STATES who, •
have hea,rd about the migration £f the
reindeer from Alaska to Canada (see
last week's HERALD) in which it is go
ing to take more than two - years for
the reindeer to make the crossing,all
must .be a little suspicious about this
story of Santa Clus galloping around
the Worldmin one night in a reindeer
lied. __
•EE LEARN THAT THE MCCARTHY SCHOOL has
been ordered discontinued the first of
' nuary because the attendance, has got
en down to one pupil. .
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ny Alaskans hope for legislation that
ill relieve the prospectors from per
forming annual assessment work on siJyer ‘
jcations till silver market shaHrem*- .
•OE GOOPIATA-'E B-.T.Y HITTu 13 ^ VJ 'RAD
hape with whooping cough pneu
onia.Mrs.& Mr.staj .>tp * rery night.
EXPECTIKG ,1 BIG CITY SOCK^perhapa
parry' Taylor, ConnKorr is-,Ernie
Bryan, Sam E a zee, Sam Jennings and
Tom Holland make a bunch-who are
moving out our city limits.TayloP
is taking up an 80 acre homestead,
claim on the .left side of the rood
near Pete Kennedy’s at 6 Kilo cn
the Fairbanks Trail. Hr.Taylor is
using it to get lumber and stove
wood. The Road Commission told him
they had an cld war tractor or cat
which, didn’t seem to be much good
if he could fix it up he could
have it.He did,and built a log
cabin tc put it up in,on the new
home stead.They kept three and 4
bonfires going at a -time to butn
up'ra.te limbs.Hr.Taylor’s compa
ny,Adrian and Philip Kelson and
his s on A If raid,had a jolly time
keeping the fires going.They were
also good to get warm on,Getting
up' at 5 in the morning to ride -oit
on the truck, they always stopped
at Ernie Bryan’s, at 5 Kile, to t
breakfast on Sourdough hot-cakes
before going on. They chipked the ■
cabin with moss and. made the roof
of logs covered with scd,and -did
•not make the roof of coal-oil. tin
cans like other cabins, V/e boys
went out a number of times and we
'had a lot of fun and we. thank the
‘.Taylor’s very much.
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Philip: 11Scorns like Ernie Bryante
maybe getting lazy lately*”
Bi 1 ly: ”Hc w' s that?He »s never ’
Philip: ”We11,that last morning we
boys ate ©ut at 5 Ifilc,he was put*,
ting pop-corn into the. hot-cakes,
to make them flip themselves overa
CONTRACT — ' AWARDED *
The Gillam Airways has been author
ized to carry 1200 lbs’of mail bjt
air plane from Cordova*to Eyak.,
Chitina,DcCarthy and Kennecott .each
week- beginning jan*15th and up to
April 15th. They will carry all ex
press , freight and passengers offer.,
for transportation, single pieces . -
not to exceed. 500 lbs.in weight, •
This will take care of the Copper • '
River Valley and'give them effici- •
■ ent and very up-to-date-service
during the coining railroad tie-up
of four months.. ' -
THE HOSPITAL for the Natives that ...
Fessrs.Conn'and Engstrom are builds
ing is almost finished.lt is all .
done but the finishing touches*
It is large,well, built,and it has fi
at tic. that could be used in case t he
rooms are"dull up.-We were lucky to'
have sue i good carpenters and hospital,
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