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STJMER SHOW. The last day of summer
brings the first snow of winter*But
where is the autumn? On the 20 th of
Sept, we went to bed in the rain &
woke up in the smtrw.lt was 2 inches
deep. By nite it. was 4 inches. Uext
morning it was 7-f inches on the le
vel.It has been on the ground 4 days
& hasn’t melted off yet.But it is in
citing now. The first snow usally
goes off in a day. Automobiles sta^Ll
in the snort on the Fairbanks & Vald
ez summits, & 2 ft deep is reported
at Paxon. A gas speeder got stuck in
the snow on the R ;R. at Ei, 50. M.
Reed of the Local,says they don’t
have snow in the summer at Cordova.
They have it in the spring! "We’ll ‘
say they do! "2 ft is nothing to them,
LAST WEEK’S EARTHQUAKES ARE REPORTED
to be general as well as local. In
^Cordova & Valdez'on the coast the 2
quakes woke many people from their
dear sleep. In Anchorage it shook the'
dishes on the shelves & stopped clocks.
In Chitlna it rattled phonograph d oors
but didn’t do any real damage unyssfriere;
There werfe 2 very distinct shocks, 1'
after ten,& 1 alittle bdfore mid-nite..
Fairbanks also felt the shock quake
of the earth,being the most severe
for very mr-ny years.
SNOW SCULPTURE in the school yard.
Usually show in our Interior of Alas
ka is dry, salty & sugary like sand 8c
powder. But this weekfs was wet. It
hardly averages once ?i year that it
will pack for playing. This time it
makes fine snowballs, snowmen, igloos
and funl
MRS. LILIAN CLOUGH REED WENT HUNTING
with her husband Salyer Reed on the
Copper R. HR.flats. The first ■ duck '
she saw she killed with the firstshot.
It was a mallard,wfth beautiful purp
le strips on its'wings. Her husband
got a fine goose.They'sent them here
to Chitina,& Mr »& Mrs.Jos.Clo-ugh had
a dinner party to eat the birds. Mr; *
% Mrs.* Ed Barnett had a dinnerparty,
too, to celebrat*e some fine birds of
the geese kind that Cecar Larsen shot.
: !. W I it I AM A. H E 3 S E jj
I f DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
I i FOR i!
! | HIGHWAY . ENGINEER
II Election on November 8,1932.
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NOTICE. When the ’water system stopped
funning -this A.M. it was because it
got stopped at the Outlet. The Edi
tor of this paper is in charge of
the water* system & electric light
plant until Tuesday when the owner
will be back from out the Trail. If
anything goes^wrong Call "one long &
2 short rings ‘on the Phone & we will
try to fix it immeeLately.A.C.Nelson I
FINE A .R.C.AUCTION OF WORK-HORSES.
$t Alaska Road Commission horses
were' sold.The Auctioneer was Frank
Shipp that is called'*Daddy Shipp V '
because everyone likes him so well.
Ho got good prices for them for it
will cost a lot for the buyers to
feed them this winter,& they will
not be killed.,we are glad to say.
Ruth Paulsom bought 2 fine ones @
$40.00.She had watched them work
all summer & knew the best horses.
! So she got jrhem for John Paulson
whe is her'husband.Handel got two
for $2o.00,one for $15 8c one for 5.
EDITOR IAL. On"HOBSES n.
Old Bill,Swagger?s favorite horse
came to a sad end late this summer.
He got mired in the mud so deep out
the Chistochina Trail that the man
driving him(not Swagger)who was'e
vidently a newcomer with horses,
shot him so hefd die an easier and
quicker death.'This is one proof
that oldtimers,not cheechakos, sh
ould have the driving of horses ov
swampy'4 isolated trails* - It
is quite a usual sight here in Chi
tina to see horses lying'around on
j the boardwalks in summer. One day
; 9 of them were lying asleeep on ti c
! walk in front of the store & hotel ,
'8c the people were turning out and
walking in the road,They sun them
selves in the dust at the 4 cross
roads in front of A.B.Hall & make'
s the autos turn out into the brush.
Their favorite food is making a
meal of eating flowers from window
boxes,having demolished one ladyfs
•nasturtiums 2 times this summer.
; They do lots'of good work for the
•Road Com tho,& pack supplies over
!long hard trails,8c help out bycrop
Iping the grass in peopled yards,s o
jit doesn*t have to be cut,In wint
er it costs a lot to keep one as
their food is mostly then of alfal
fa 8c grain brot up from the Stater
jA man came in from Gulkana to buy
j Hank Reed*s horse 8c take it out the a
Trail.A <great affair was rigged up
I to fence in the body of truck.so
| the horse could, be transported, in
no danger of falling off the back*
We suppose that.the main reason
horses are so cheap to be bot in
the late summer is that winter is
coming on,Since cater pi liar*- tract
ors came into style horses arenot
used so much for freighting on the
rivers when they are frozen in the
winters. The Editor..
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THE NATIVE SCHOOL was put in fine
'shape for this yearfs work by our
fine teacher Mrs.Delehant & her
husband Wm.Delchant, She taught
the pupils how to help in'making
a bn tiding clean & pr e t1 y /j Tar nr over)