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CHITINA.ALASKA.
KAY i,,1932.
| Here is a purple'pasque-flower,
I sometimes called,crocus,sent
I to you as a MAY BAY GREETING
(Picked on April 24.)
K3W KESILENT IS SWEET
Like is ©. little flower
herself, is Bill Niemi fs new baby
named, - | Marian.Mrs* Niemi just
same backjj from the States Friday.
We welcottfe^ this tiny new resident,&
ihe Niemi’s.,back to our town. There
was never a baby more welcome than
■j;his little "Maid Marian”.
fTKEKE WERE LOTS of old-timers came
back to town' on' the last boat-train.
Bill Cameron,Jr,who has been Cutside
for the winter .Charles J. (Slim)McMa
hon came back too,and is going to go
pack to work with the Road Com on the
Rig Steam Shovel oat the Trail at Ke
»ny Lake. Hia!wife,Gladys Rogers,who
Js much loved by all of us as well as
$lim,who used to teach the school'here
is visiting her parents in Monroe,Wn..
Slim has been taking a fine course*in
areonautics at Oakland,California.
BRABAZON also, came back,but he left *
pis beer - d & whiskers in the States.
Last week our kind friend Jdin Brake
returned from back in Minnesota visi*
ting his sister & her little family.
Re told the kids lots oftrue-storics,
ON LOVELY FOUR YEARS* TRIP TO NORWAY
|£r.& Mrs. Nels Tjosevig, daughter El
panor,& 13 year old Miss Stella Wats
jold of McCarthy are on a long trip
pack to Norway.Mr.& Mrs.Watsjold wil3
ptay in NcCarthy where they have the
Gen*l Store.Stella was born in Brook
lyn,N.Y, then they went to Norway and
ptayed till they came to Alaska a fem
years ago.Both girls are lucky as th
ey know how to speak,read & write in
both Norwegian & English.They will be
guests of the Salyer Reeds & tho Tim
Eskstroms while going thru Cordova.
While Outside one of the men saw a
sign'on his door in a large hotel.lt
said,"Have you left anything?"He af
firms it should have said,"Have*y»u
anything left? J * * We wonder.
;;; ';j
fkom
| THE
HERALD STAFFS
: THE COPPiiR RIVER RR BRIDGE
I went out with the ice Tue.Apr.28.
| So the passengers & freight are fer
Iried by the Bridge'Gang in 2 rowboat^
i 3 banks of oarsman,a man with an oar*
j stick to steer them in the back,The
ferry was formerly run by Indians,
Its Capt&in*Old Doc Billum’’always.
I wore his silk stove-pipe hat,so pr-*
; owdly,which he got from some white
; man .Afterwards it was put oi his grave ,
[HERE IS ANOTHER FUNNY STORY we heard
jon the 26th of April,1932, Election
[Returns: Cordova, Foster 92
Rustgard 214
McCarthy, Foster S
Rustgard 22
Kennecott Foster 1, • \
i Rustgard 24
Chitina, Foster 5
j ' Rustgard 36
Juneau, Foster 326
; . Rustgard 1328
jfhe first named candidate has lived
(at all of these places.The whole Tsr
jritory voted in about the same pro*
: port ion .Probably when the Rqmor Hound
.tries to describe this story he Wijl
use such words as veline,quinine,vip
jegarine & asinine .We know that the
•Rumor Hound is funny & we think that'
isometirfies he is funnier than he loncws.
Really,just for a minute he seemed
:to take %• th us and Mr .Foster kindff
seriously. __ '
AMOS FLEURY came back to Chitina fr-,
om the Cordova Hospital last week,
with such a wide smile the whole wo
rld could get in it,It ms not only
frozen beans that had given him sioM.f
ness.Worse than that.It was ruptured
appendicitis.But now he is well and
thanks to t he fine Dr in Cordova.
^e are glad to see him again feelirifi
so good.He went home to "Copper Ctr.
Mosquitos are c omi ng d cwn at th e bridge,
JOHN GRAVDAHL WHI IE WORKING on the bridge standing on a cap was hit by a
•able, slipped,fell amd lit hard on hisheel.The ligaments were torn,and
he had to go to the hospital at Cordova,to reoooperate,Tough luck,John,
NABORLINESS IN THE NORTH. Mrs.Barnet being sick for a long time thot she
had better go to the Dr at Cordova to see what was wrong.In such a small
town it is hard, to hire anyone to care for children.But nab’orlines's makes
ap for that.Mrs. Wm.Camwrcn came' to the rescue and took care of Mrs.Barn- ,V
etfs children who consist of Hal,Eddie and Catherine Opal,all under 5 yrs
of age.Mrs, Barnet is back now and very much better we are glad to state,
OBCAR CRAIG has been troubled with chronic appendicitis for quite a few
years.A few days ago he went down to Juneau to the Governme'ht Hospital
to be op-si a/- d op.C-nod luck, Oscar .Hope to see you ba>;V f.,oon„ .