| EDITOR A'PUBLISHER, Hdrion C.Nelson,j.
j Bus .Mgr. ,ASS *T Circulation Mgr A Re*rj.
porterPhilie Cl Nelson. j
:FOUNDED, January, 1931. __ _ _r
ICont.from Pagc'TTl CHRISTMAS PROGRAM j
even little 5 yr old Hal Barnett, took ;
2 parts,In one of the plays a little j
boy gets awfully sick'A rithing from ';
eating too much candy,& n very fine' j
but gruff Dr.impersonated by Philip, j
fixed him up alright A stopt the ter*
riblc groaning.Mary Moore was nurse.
A little girl is lost in another play
8c found by a sailor while she is hun
ting for Santa.But he canTt take her
anywhere as her name isnBetty,her fa
ther is Poppa,8c she lives at home1*.
Mamie had'the part of lost girl 8c as
h cr mother , with spectacle s, ' MaryMo ore
groaned nwfuly at her worry,A every
body laughed till they almost slit to
see what a fine middle age lady Mary 1
made.Ora was a kind big sister,Jackie
was the busy Detective,A Elorenee was
the maid who felt so bad for the lost;
girl.Everypart was fine A funny,There
was a fine big tree;it was an achieve
ment for the men who got it for us,as
it is''hard to find good big spruce
trees,A hard to get them in as they
are so brittle with cold that they al
ways break. This was n beautiful one
of fine shap e ,8c or name n tal ly t r imme d *
The teacher gave fine presents to ev
eryone, and seemed to know'just what
each of the pupils wanted. She drew
Philip’s name A gave him a painting
set he had been wanting for a. year.
Everyone thanks her very much, ■
THE FIRST GIFT OUT OF. THE PACK .was: a
gTfl fr om Santa to John Nelson A it
was a nightshirt for Him to ’’Kecpon"
nil trimmed neatly writh red A orange
A the Pnd present was a nigger •’•baby
doll for Oscar*Bill Lubbe'recd n beok
*Nhat ’ I Know About "rcmcn” , (It was
blanki) The U.S.Commissioner got a
book named **On Mnrrying ’ A Kissing the
Br ide**.11 w<as not blank< SimonsenT s
coat that he left ,up on the Hill was
returned to him by Santa,A Chase got'
a bottle of medicine big as - oh well.
Nordby was given an Engagement rin^
as big enuf* to go .round Pat Murphy s
neck.These should be much appreciated
M .D KIRKPATRICK, ONE OF THE AVIATORS
for Chitina,will be laid up for the
next 10 days in the Cordova General
Hospital for'he is having his tonsil
itis removed,as it has been affect
ing his health,
EDITORIAL^. Too Bad he had to go on
Christmas Day, for we fear it is non
too merry after taking ether A7e pub
lishers are in very deep sympathy for
him,as we know just how it feels to
have tonsils & we wouldn’t like to
miss our Christmas dinner - even for
the ice-cream they give to tonsil pa*
patients, -The Publishers,
"TThat is capital & labor?” "Veil,
suppose I lend you £>1C,” "Yes,”
"That’s capital; and if I try to
get it back, that’s labor,"
| The Schools have 10 days Vacation.‘
THE MAF 37HO 13 LRIVIHG HIS WILD -
half-breed wolf-dogs to the World’s
Fair in Chicago,Slim Williams,whose
progress we promised to report,in
the middle of the week sent this to
KF^d Hadio.lt was broadcast thus:
nThurs,P.F.Havc arrived in Lawson.
Yukon Terr., Can. So many h.updre ds of
miles covered go far,dogs in "finer
condition.Faking an average of 15
riles a day. Had to break-trail for
3©© miles of the way. A longeritip
ahead,but couldn’t be harder. Had
fine treatment all along the way.”
Slim wants Copper Ctr to know that
he hasn’t lost his bet yet.
GILLAF GAVE US ALL A SURPRISE OH
CHRISTMAS. It wis Christmas Eve A
not nearly all the Chitina mail was
up here yet. Because there was so
much second class mail that the air
planes hadn’t had time to get' all
of it to Chitina from Cordova, as
the boat got in Friday,& firstclass
came up first as usual. So Gillajn
planned to surprise everybody. He
brot all the packages he could ca
rry, to us on Christmas morning, P
got here just in time. Everyone is
glad. \7€' sure do thank you for that
Gillam,a hundred times. By‘Florence
; Kelson. Age 10. 4 th Grade.
IELVIF CHASE ,KEAI) BOOK-KEEPER for
the Chitina Cash Store, went by
. GiHam Airways to the coast city of
Cordova,on business for a few days
and has just returned .He has been
back on the job only n short time .• %
i after several weeks in the new Ho^
! spital for pneumonia. It was pret
! ty tuff to have to have pneumonia, .
but it is far from tuff to be tak
en care of by ‘such a fine nurse as,
i'}Ziss Lambert. We haven’ t heard any
athing about Chase asking to go on^"
' home from the hospital because he
; was starving to death while the fe*
s ver lasted,as orie' patient did, not '
1 so long ago. .Well,we hope Melvin
i. enjoyed it down’in the bright lights
; of the big city of Cordova,to kind
i of make up for being sick so long,
■■ THE HERALD STAFF WISHES TO THANK
Marion Thompson of'Fairbanks,Alask-.
a, for asking KFCVD, the Voice of the
: Golden Forth at Anchorage,Alaska,
•' to broadcast selections in our hon
i or.Miss Thompson is the daughter of
1 Editor Thompson of the Fairbanks
f "pews Miner”,who died only some
: time ago. The Territory of Alaska
■ lost a fine journalist of the Nor
( th then, they tell us. He was the
i famous editor of a famous Interior
j paper. MRS. REBIE HARRINGTON; wife*
of Judge Harrington of Adams,Mass.,'
also wanted a letter broadcast to
• the HERALD BOYS from Philadelphia. •
ftadio Sta.\7e want to thank her,too,
for that kind wish. We are sorryto
say Alaska‘cannot seem to get tune£>
ed-in on those East Coast stations
very often. M»beso too far on the
air.Tho we get the Far Eastern St*'.
in JAPAN late in the night * someti-?
mes. Anyway,thank you both,folks.