Just at noon on the 17th of
December we editor stood on
a level field and we found
That we Bast a shaddow on the snow reaching toward the north PoP*3for
. • Feet
From our correspondent at Me Car thy we learn that,
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The Northern Hotel caught fire Tuesday Morning
Nov.22 at 4 AM and burned to the ground (and
then some).The fire started the day before but
some of the McCarthy citizens thot they had it
• ; extinguished,but since it was a 2 story log
building it is thot that some of ^the sparks may
have remained 'between the logs and renevred the
, fire nt night [when there was no one to put it out;
Mrs Julia Suit enrich, burned her ft
awful bad Thanksgiving day by spil
ling some hot gravy on itj
Axel Tahlstrom just completed his
contract for ^drilling r, hundred ft.
tunnel on Williams Peak near Pan
Creek." Mr, r"ahl strong has a con
tract for 200 feet more but cannot
finish” it this winter because he . |
cannot get any more provisions up
this winter. The .snow is too deep
for the horses to take the; freight
on the hill
Pete Brenewick is busy freighting
supplies into the Bremner for the
coming summer. The Road Commiss
ion just •ompleted a winter trail
from; the ITizina Bridge into the
Bremner by which Fr.and Frs*
Brenewick are getting the Btemner
freight in. Bill Cameron had charge
of the 'cutting of this road. He has
hod charge of work for the Commis
sion here for many years and has
had charge of work for the Commiss
ion in other places in Alaska for
ever so many years. Some people say
he can build more good road for
every dollar spent than any other
man in Alaska or.U.S,
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■ Sandy who owned a picture theatre
in Aberdeen,went to London to get
•some new ideas for advertising.
Haile -in London he noticed a. sign <
ovc-r -a. movie house ,‘which ‘said : * A 11
persons over 80 will be admitted,
free”.. . . \
" Just, the thing”.he thot to
himself. ‘
After his return to Aberdeen he
put this notice on his theatre
box office,.
” All persons over 80 will, be
admitted free-- if accompanied by
their parents,”
,T'e received word in the laart mail
that Mike Haas of Fresno Calif,
has gotten himself -married. He
'* worked for thc\(Nabesna Co, last
summer running the hoist till, he
hurt the finger he plays the
Ukeklele v^ith /ind he took it to
Fairbanks to be fixed. T:hen he got
back hp^ drove a truck for the A.R.C
till the eni of the season and
then, he went to Fresno and waited.
He married Mary Litman.,
Judge--*. The traffic officer says
you got sarcastic with him>”.
Mr.Nagger--* But I didn’t intend
to be. He talked, to me like my
wife does, and I forgot'myself
and answered,” Yts,my dear"
joe--” Vo you come from< Bopt-oxrt "
Henry—"No, 0. I’m talking this j
•way because I cut jvf ®outh on a *
Judge--" I cannot conceive of a
meaner,more' cowardly act than
yours of deserting your wife. Do
* you realize that you are a
deserter/"
prisoner--"?/ell if you all know
c d dat lady as I doe s,ho ss,you
sho wouldn’t call me no desert
er .Ah is a refugee, dat’s what
! Ah is."
| people are always looking for
cure alls for everything from
•belly ake to war ant debts.
From what we hea.r on the radio
here in Chitina from all over
the U.S. we notice that a lot
of people are going nutty over
the idea that boose and lots of
it will cure our depression
troubles. They seem to think
that we can drink ourselves back
to prosperity.
, Oh,what a head ake..
Doctor;,. " Sambo,I can think
of but one thing that will cure
you,and that is an electric bath”
Sambo.*.. '"Daw, Suh Doctah,you
ain’t talking to this here boy.
I had a .friend what took one of
them thingd down in ^IDG Sing
and it drowned him."