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CHITIIFA, ALASKA
FEBRUARY U8.1932.
DON’T FORGET■■ THAT THIS IS
LEAP YEAR.
AND TOKCRRCW IS THE BIG DAY’
You unmarried women had bet
ter get out and court the old
Sourdough bachelors. They
. make- the best kind of husband
and you won ’ t -• have another
L QY.bC^Uw
HENRY WAPS WORTH LONGFELLOW
OaLEERATED HIS BIRTHDAY YES
TERDAY. HE WAS ONE OF THE
GREATEST LOVED ANERICAN PO ETf
"He looks the whole world, ir.
the face,
For hr owes not any man,"
chance like this for a long time*
3 OPE-ONE ’ of cur customers must have
sent Mrs. Levering of Golden,Colo*,a.
copy of our newspaper that the Nat
ive children wrote for us in Decemb
er .As she sent a large and wonderful
box of presents to the Native school
and a lovely letter'of appreciation
of the Native issue,to Mrs.Delehant
the teacherThere were toys,books,&
warm clothes. Some 6f the articles
were an electric questionerta card '
that tells where the largest rivers,
lakes,towns and other things arc in*
about every State in the Union. The
Natives and Mrs.Delehant want to send
thanks to Mrs.Lovering for her kind
ness and nice gifts.The HERALD wants
to thank her also.
AFTER. 3 DAYS absent #Alfred '& Alberta
Taylor got into school again. 'They
couldnTt come in during the 30,40 8c
- 52 below zero weather.They come by
horses now instead of by dogs.It is
5 miles each way,8c dark when they
start 8c dark when they get home.They
are getting to be real Sourdoughs.
THE CHI TINA PUBLI C LIBRARY has growni*
the i-b yrs of service tc our inhabi
tants.The first Library to be started
h cr e- was f oun de d by Mr . y*> t s umo to, a
very nice man who was the Jap cook
for thfe H.H.mess.He had 4'children to
supcrt,but he donated $25,00 for sto
ry books fer -the use of pupils.Since
then it has developed for the grev/n
ups wanted a library for theirselves
with the childrens.This Was founded
by Hiss Marguerite Lyman,late teacher
of the Public School.,who started dan
c£s &; ’*Days of t98wto get money for
it" with the help of the pupils & some
fricMds.Since then,it has been increa^
ing aai -’HHy.Lor every $150,00-.earned
by ur • se Territory of .Alaska,- gives
our Lrary another 150 each year...
’••-t-..? all the books from the Seat
tle Homans• Mining Auxillery,& other
doaot rs, the wall's are running, over,"
ever, vlth all the lowely shelves Mr.
AX Ho ore built. Chitina will soon ’ >
hc.ve to find new quarters to hold
its bocks.Our schoclhouse is so fu3l
of volumes that soon there won't"be
room for the pupils tc crowd, in.
The residence of this little -.’c, n
should consider themselves veiy fnrt
unate to have such a fire 11hrary & /
should be thankful to those who be- (
-gan it 8c whe catalog & distribute if\
From --(The Village Blacksmith)
Alaskans surely do look the whole
world in the face and they cannot
-pick up their living easily. Host
of them know how to do'many things
& .arc very resourseful#while some
men in the Ptatcs know how to do
only one china. There are many men
who are blacksmiths in town,at the
least,six *cf them,who will .appreci
ate the poem Just quoted from if
they will look it up to read it a
gain. The father of the Assft Edi
tor is a foreman of the Alaska Hoad
Commission,but he is one of the ver~
satil ones who knows how to do the
blacksmithing if he wants to.
A DOLLAR A DAY is enuf to give a
way. Big Carl Carlson is one of the
best & tuffest fellows in town.
Hanes Maney is just as good & just
as tuff even tho he isn’t so big *
A few days age we were in the Cast
Store where the men1*hang outw and
we were reminded of the "good old
days* when’Carl popped off a bet
with Hanes. Dollars are not sc easy
to find in Alaska as they were sane
years ago & so $1 was fixed as the
1 bet. The men & •cats*(catypiliars
tractors) arc tuff up here,but evr
en at that they*cannot keep at the
job day-&-night,especialy when the
snow is deep or'drifted on the
Trail. Some men,cats & graders got
started out a few days ago to clem
the snow off the road between here
& Lower Tonsina.Since time on the
road can’t be made all the time,
they bet at what time of day they
would get to their destination. Sc
Hanes made it short & * said-”5 o’cl
ock or before• (Feb.18,P.M1)Big Car'
said*5 or after,same date."Both of
ahem are good enuf that we'wouldno
mention who we hope to win,The way
of things now we don’t have much ir
hope for.It’s rumored Cbrl is stuck
HAROLD Gillam flew to Chi tina, left
icai 1 from Outs i d e, tc ok ma,i 1 for are
,States 8c then returned to McCarthy,
jl'c trfjje mail for Kenheeott.He had a
{passenger for Chitina.The sky was
| ilear & blue as a bluebell but the
| thermometer said 5o below & still
(going down,But the cold didnotstop
j1 lam n hi3 mai 1 busino se,. He re
turned from Anchorage today with
the Cordova Basket-Ball Team that'
was strain'el t.hci sp.by the Gov’t R,. *
h- tl j -.e They prayed in Thar ranks,