THE MARY RR PEOPLE (F THIS TOWR will j
orobably be marooned here all winter, 5
for t hey expect no more regular tra-J
ins till next May.The officials usual
ly expect to keep the road open till .
January,but the many slides,& bridges;
3c snowsheds washing out settled that j
hash. The mails will probably be- rath-1
er few & far between but they will ar-j
rive at their destinations just the
same.Mail this week was brot up over
The C.R.& H.rr. by being packed across
the slide by hand.It was only 1st class.
The second class has not gotten here.
HAROLD GI LIAM OB THE GI LIAM AIRWAYS
has taken the contract to get the
mails from vthe Coast to Chitina,Mo
Car thy, & Kenne co 11, & he wi 11 carry ex
press, freight & passengers,until the
RR begins operations again next spring
He will bring up our 2nd class mail
tomorrow if the weather is good for
fluring.Kirkpatbick is still with the
Gillam Airways,& lands the Amphibian
on the Cooper River in front of the
airfield thebe.The;school pupils can
see him land,, if Mr s .Richards lets them.
m.& MRS . J. L. CLOUGH DIDN'T T7ART TOGO
back East so soon.But they thot best
to go"while the'going was good" - on
acc't of slides,etc,leaving Wed..A.M.
As the RR wasn't running, they went 0
ver the Richardson Hwy to Valdez in
the Relson's ' Chevrolet withEnok Rord
by as driver .He had never seen Valdez
so this was a good chance .Without rc
aly knowing it,they picked a slick da;
for fthe trip.All the other days for a
week have been rainy Sc soggy ATed.was
so clear they could enjy the jet 9. an a.
scenery.There was lots of nice snow
on Thompsonf s Pass & all over the Kts.
This is the same trail that some of
the goldseekers that didnot go over
Chilkeet Pass,mushed into the Klond
ike from Valdez.lt was terrible then^
hut is a good gravel road no wf thanks
to the Alaska Road Com & its fine work.
The Cloughs lof^on the steamcr"Aleu
• t ian"f or Cordov Saturday .Who re they
will visit their dau.Lilian who marr-j
ied S JD .Reed of the CR&NW.They will
sail south the next trip of the S/S
“Yukon*.The reason they want to goon'
the"Yukon* is so they can he with Yrs.
Rogers who is their favorite steward
ess.They have now made 5 round trips
to Alaska.They'expect to get to theirj
home in Nashua,New Ha.mpshire.hy Ncv.lsLj
Me hope them a happy trip.About the j
last thing J.L.did for'Chitina before
he left for the States,was to oil up
the old school bell the way he did it
last- year .He climbed up into the bel
fry,untangled the rope,took a look to
see if all was 0 k,put a little oil
here & a little'oil there,& climbed
down the ladder.Knowing full well th
at even the Kd>Rd Com men,as well as
the scholars|would he^r the bell at 9’
o’clock & know they were date to werk^
HO// "When the bell rings, it sings."!
AL MOCKS’S CKErr OF THE A H C is due |
back from Delta on the Trail any day j
now.It was bad for the men this sum
mer as it rained every day but two.
BILLS TIB^T-T".'™ :c£p7r re cl gr ini nr; an tim
Cordova Hospital sitting up & walking
THE PEOPLE ins Tnia l>A'RT'(Wt AL8SKA '
get lots of ducks,geese,ptarmigans^
sprue,-, hcns^& willow grouse.The eng
gineers shoot them from the engines1
on the R.R.The drivers oh the trail
shoot them from 1hbc autos .Sven one of
the Natives got fooled by one of tb
grouse rtho .One named Jo was driving
along the road when he saw a peace
of wood which w&s a grouse.He coul
nat tell it was,but it wasnft a per
o e of wood at all .He could easily
have shot it if he hadn’t thot it
was a stick.He went a little farth
er, the grouse flew up in the air &
flew away .Which surprised him very
much. By Ora Nelson. 8 yrs.
"A FINE SPRUCE HEN SAT ON A TREE,
And she fes as dumb as a hen csouLAbo
That hen, she said to J. L. C,,
"Just get your gun and shoot at me."
Which he did do.She flew up from ihe
road into a tree about g way up 5
Hile Hill on the Ihirbanks Trai 1. J.L•
must be trying to follow the examp
le of his" illustrious "daughter,whose
husband is S.E.Reed,the popular man
with the temporarily unpopular CR 88c
NW,of Cordova.This was Oct.5,11 A.KJ
Pacific Standard Time. Contributed*
BIG- FAREWELL FAMILY DINNER PARTY cf
8 was given in honor of the depart
ing Cloughs at Mrs.Estrada’s fine
restaurant 8c hotel.lt was T Bone S'
Ste^k dinner with cornbread & s&Jad.
j 4"Tdfhds of hot vegetables , turnips
Ifresh from her fine garden & desert
A real dinnerparty AND HOY!
HEREf S 50!
KEKNECOTT COPPER C OR PGR AT I OH’S
Camp activities at Kennecott clos
ing down for the winter for the 1st
time in its history.(It is hoped,
around here at least,that this will
not happen again.)This would be a
serious thing for this part of Ala
ska, if it closed down for very long
Qpzite a numberfiof the people at tin
camp will probably go Outside fo:
fch©pwinter, where they can live ch
eaper, as living conditions are sr
expensive in Alaska especialy in
the winter. At the same time, quite
a number of them wijLl, .pity there
to keep Kenneco^t?;;:3?n-or*der untill
'spring, when it is hoped to open u;
again. It would be Plucky thing fo:
a*l 1 concerned if the price of Cop
per went up. _
HKC. CELIA QUISTBERG TOO USED TO BE
Celi^tt Herron,has been sick quite a
lot from her appendix which she
had operated at Fairbanks. She got
worse again this week. She had to
go to bed for quite a while. Then
Hiss Lambert was good to her and
took her up to her house at the
new hospital where they ha^e ev~
erthing to make her betters.
She is very much better now Oscar
says. By Florence Nelson.
Flashlights & batteries @ .
CHTTTNA NRUG STOKE.