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reach a fine lot of people, among them* are five doctors-.The publication
goes to 3® put ;of the 49 of the United States, to Cuba;,'Mexico,Prance,and
Tokyo, Japan.The states in Which no one has subscribed, to it as yet ,arc : -
Delaware,West Virginia.,South Carolina.,Georgia,Mississippi ,Louisiana,Neva '
nd-a,South ' Dakota,Kansas, Mon tana, Alabama, & Rhode Island*
It Is one, cf our gr'eat ambitions tc have the paper with its news of
Alaska, gc to EVERY state in the Union*
Some cf our p.atrons have, done a let toward this,already.per instance
Mr *H .H .Harrell of Arkansas has sent in 3 yearly subscr ;Mr .Penley Hunter
of N.Y*sent us 4;3 subscrips each for 1 yr Hattie E.Moore of Everett,Un.;
Lilian Clough of New Hamp. ;V.J.Dwyer of Bellingham;Frs. Rebie Harrington
a lecturer of Adams,.Mass..;Mrs. John Coats of Chitina,- 2 subscrips each:
Mr* Scott Donahue of N.Y. ;Mr.Geo,'Mdister ‘of Ohio, E.E.Hodgcson cf Iowa; *
Miss Josephine Emery of Tilton,.N.H*; Mrs. J.U. Pritchett of Wrangell,Ala ska;
Mrs *R .J.Shepard,Mfs *Dclehant,Mr .Wm.pelehant all of Chitina,Alaska;Mrs.A<
M.Dcringer of Valdez,Alaska,4; and Gene Garrity & Peggy Duggan each sent'
in Several. Jim Hatper of Northvillc ,Mich*& Nancy Palmer of Baltimore ,Md*
write^ that they will work to get us subscribers*This is good of them all.
Wc want to appreciate the public for super ting our paper sc well,ano
say that we are very gratefull to the subscribers,and encouragers* This
history would not be complete without a word of gratitude to the many ad*
vertisers who pay for space in this publicatioruUith what they do for us
we certanly hope they get returns in patronage* - •
The HERALD has paid out $190.00 .for supplies in the year!s work.ltd
mailing list is such that a hectagrap’h. is being u£cd now for addressing*
Since September,all 3 boys have had birthdays,Philip new being lo ys
& 3 weeks old,Billy 13 yrs 8c 5-J- mos;and 'Adrian IS yrs*3 mos.(ln the 4th,
8th & tth grades respectively,at school.) The editor,Adrian Nelson,likep
tc be a boy'artist,and makes the pictures for the different editions.
Billy.*Moor-e,Ass*t. Editor,furnishes .many of the touches of humor, and
Philip gets out and gets the advertising which helps support all papersj
;Wc realize that the HERALD would not have such a good and wide
circulation as it does, if it were hot that-wc live in Alaska.Which is ft
place most people arc interested in. And wc feel that we *arc very lucky
tc live such a life as people do.here'in a country s_o_ beautiful and so
nearly perfect in every way as ALASKA* V? / ~~ n € >
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7EATHER - AND .SUCH LIKE. : A PEN-PICTURE OF LIFE HERE,
(For,the benefit cf the many Subscribers who have written asking for it t)
This may not exactly, pc part -of cur history,but it is what has been
requested for by many letters' we have rec’d. The TEMPERATURE fc-r over Z
weeks now.has been, ’’ypiryjt'rratiow according to Mrs.John Coats who-has n
bout the most accurate..ope in .town* Her house is sheltered/so right in
the middle of tide yillagc is it usually a couple of degrees colder than
her thermometer* For; tSi e last* month (excepting 2 days jit has stayed at *
20 degrees below zejyj’^pr colder.The lowest was 45 below zero last'night.
Twice in that time jvt'‘gayc a .big jump, of 50 degrees from 20 abc.ve to 30
below in a .few hour’s,anc\ from the maximum 26 above to 25 .below over nigh*'
For the last. 5- dgeys it has registered 35*40,& 45 below zero here,and 43
below at the Indian* School. The Nelson’s house has been turned into sort
of an igl'co by the owner’s* turning the hose f ine-spray* on it all over its
outside walls.The water freezes the instant it touches,and seals up the
ship-lap as tight as.a drum,making it much easier and cheaper to hecat,as
it is the biggest house in town.It has 11 big rooms and is 8 stories^
(65 below is the lowest we have ever yet seen it* in. Chitina,altho Copper
Center & Strelna have both had it 70 & even 74 belo$.Fcr„ 6 or sometimes
maybe 7 months there is always snow clean and pretty on the ground,but
it is sc dry and powdery that it is swept with a broom mostly instead bf
shoveling. On the Coast .it gets very deep(to cover the houses at times)
but never deep here* We the’t we could fell the Los'Angeles friends seme
thing about ..snow, but we heard over the Radio that'L.Ai had its 1st show
in fifty years, sc now THEY know a let about snew, too ;They a re lucky.
Now' for the PICTURE* As we sit here typing this, we look up and no
tice. the door,where the frost has gotten so bold these ccld days tfcat it
has walked right thru the wood leaving patches like white snow on the in
side cf the panels* The nail-head.s on'the'door and window casings bulge
a" an inch like little marbles cf sncw.The drapery curtains are frozen to
the ice on the.window sillS.ThO panes are covered with frost'that is so
thick that it is like snowjtoo*and you cannot see thru them,oven at noon
when the sun peeps ‘ever the’ Mi *Ncw> at 3 o’clock,the Sun is entirely gone
and darkness'is^creeping'ever this part‘of'the * world,tho the days are d
good deal longer than at Christmas time.
The fire-tender runs down cellar'to give the furnace - which is'al
ready blazing - an extra warming poke,and to throw on some more 4 ft'.log:
of spruce. Outdoors; it may be 43 fee lew, - and is - but here in this room
it is cozy and. warm,and bright ;with file electric lights overhead,& the
bridge-lamp at our elbow'iFfem the next room we hear the strains of the
song,’’The .Father of the Land.1.We Love”,which our mother is playing on the
piano for pur two little sistdrs,Florence and Ora,and Billy Moore’s sis
ter, Mary Mo ore f Xhey 'want tc learn it, f or " Qecrge. Washington’s 200-th ce
lebration next month.'Pret+y an rfhe girls will probably begin dancing'
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