Ralph Courtnay, N. C. Manager at
Thkotna, has been at McGrath sev
eral days, Bert Goodpastor being in
charge of the store during Mr.
Courtnay’s absence.
Joe Oates made a freighting trip
ta McGrath during the week and
reports the trail very heavy.
Mike Hockriter has a drill set up
on Sunset creek with which he will
start work in a few days.
Ifmmet Shaw of Flat,, and Frank
Eddington who spent a few days in
town during the week, returned to
their prospecting on the Lnnoko.
Johnny Moore flew in Friday
frern Flat enroute to Anchorage.
Pilot Moore returned recently from
a.trip to the. outside and once again
will be a regular visitor to these
parts.
Kappy Jacobson paid Takotna a
brief visit during the early part of
the week.
Warner Alfred left - Tuesday over
the trail on a business trip to Mc
Gi-ath.
Frank Guskey departed during the
week for McGrath with the Alaska
Airways.
Art Woodley with two passengers
paused here Friday before continu
ing to Ophir.
A recent arrival in Takotna is
J. O’Connor from Fairbanks. Mr.
O’Connor spent a few days on Ganes
— hut is .now residing In town,.
John Peterson and Claude Nyberg
prospectors from Ganes, arrived in
town Saturday. Both men report
that their digging operations were
considerably hampered by glaciers.
Chester Brink, driving a string of
ten dogs, left this morning with a
load of supplier for Eddington and
Shaw on the Innoko.
Joe Oates Jr. left Friday with
Pilot Woodley for Flat to visit
friends and relatives.
Conrad Olson made a trip to Ganes
during the week.
Waino Puntilla, operator from
Ganes and Little, is a passenger on
the Northwestern from Seattle.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS*.
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Clothes make the man and reveal
* how woman is made. — Florence
Herald.
It should be easy to make an
honest living—there’s so little com
petition.—Thomaston (Ga.) Times.
If we ever have another one let’s
call it a war. to end soldiers and cut
out the hooey.—Los Angeles Times.
Another. disease you catch in a
crowd is whatever mania the crowd
happens to have.—Helena Independ
ent, Montana.
One way to reduce motor accidents
is to build cars.so they can’t go
any faster than the average driver
thinks.—Life.
These are the.days when there are
a lot of after dinner speakers after
dinners to sp^ak after.—Ohio State
Journal.
We see . no.great objection to the
old hands across the sea idea, as
long as Uncle Sam keeps his leg
beyond their grasp.—Boston Herald.
FI, AT
Correspondent
Mrs. Fred Padersen.
Feb. H.
Pilot Don Glass of the Woodley
Airways arrived today with a load of
freight for Flat and way points.
Art Woodley, owner Woodley
Airways, piloting a Travel-Air, ar
rived Flat at 3 P. M. making stops
at McGrath, Takotna enroute. Both
Art and Don spent the night here
Don takng off for Piamute and Art
for Stoney River next morning.
Don returned to Flat, but Art. went
direct to Anchorage from Stoney
River.
Feb. 12.
Pilot Littly of Star Service arriv
ed from Marshall on the Yukon
making a stop at Crooked Creek on
the lower Kuskokwim bringing Den
nis Parent and Bert Fagerness to
Flat. The latter left with Pilot
Littly for Anchorage while Mr.
Parent will spend a couple of w'eeks
visiting with the old timers.
In a letter to Padersens from
Steinan pr. Trondheim, Norway, R.
S. Klingenberg, writes that he has
been seeing a lot of country and
meeting people that he has not seen
for a good many years. He found
! all enjoying good health and he has
| been having a glorious time. “Dad”
says he will be with us again soon
and in closing he sends Greetings t.
everybody in Flat.
Feb. 16.
A large crowd enjoyed the “Bean
Party and Dance” given by .he
Pioneer lodge at the Moose Hail last
night.
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A Bear Story
One of the best hear stories of
the season—and what season docs
not produce a good bear story in the
North ?—comes from Cumshewa In
let on Queen Charlotte Islands.
It seems that a logger went hunt
ing and for transportation used a
heavy, old-fashioned canoe.
As he paddled he drew under a
windfall which was tipped into the
water. The logger glanced up and
saw a black bear on the tree looking
down at him with all the curiosity
with which the soul of a bear is
customarily filled.
“Bafig!” spoke the hunter’s gun
and bruin tumbled on his back into
the canoe and lay still. The logger
paddled to shore and beached the
canoe but the bear, besides being
naturally heavy, was wedged into
the canoe in such a way that he could
not be moved. So the logger went
for help up the beach.
Returning with a friend, who
naturally doubted his story and want
ed to see the visual evidence of the
hunter’s truthfulness, the logger
found bear and canoe both vanished.
The second man began to scrutin
ize the hunter with misgivings as to
his ability to keep out of Essondale,
but before he could pass any judg
ment on the case a niose in a near
by tree attracted attention and there
was the bear wel up the trunk of
the tree with the canoe still on his
back. Another shot, this time with
deliberate aim, brought the “ba-ar”
and his wooden shell down, the canoe
slightly damaged, the bear complete
ly so.
If this story is not believed, there
J is nothing that can be done about
it. —The Northern Argonaut.
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M cGRATH
A Star Airways’ plane piloted by
John Littly arrived from Anchorage
with three passengers for down river
points and picked up Mr. Koslosky
on a fur buying trip.
Kenny Neese arrived here with a
new Bellanca from Anchorage carry
ing a capacity load of freight for
iakotna, Ophir, Cripple and Flat.
Cecil Marsh in his Robin plane with
Pilot Peterson at the controls, arriv
ed from Anchorage having one pass
enger for Bethel.
Kenneth Neese made a trip from
McGrath to Ganes with a full, load of
freight. Kenny is stopping here
overnight and will go to Medfra,
for passtngers enroute to Anchorage.
Oscar Winchell arrived and left
today with two travelling salesmen
for Kuskokwim and Yukon river
points and will wind up in the Arc
tic.
Art Woodley of the Woodley Air
Service, will leave in the morning
for Takotna, Ophir and Cripple with
two salesmen whose itinerary include
Lne Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers and
the Arctic.
Alaska Air Service, Jack Eliot
Pilot, left this morning with a load
of freight for Ganes, returning with
Eric Hard who is on hia way to
Fairbanks.
Harry Dulac left with Oscar Win
chel last Tuesday for Anchorage to
obtain medical treatment. Hope the
boy will be on his feet again soon.
K.
WHO WOULD NOT BE A
KNIGHT OF THE ROAD?
From Minnesota comes a reveal
ing picture of the way the jobless
are now looked after. R. W. Hitch
cock, writing in tLe Seur News
Hex aid, says:
“Knights of the road, once re
viled as bums and hoboes are now
‘transients’ in Minnesota. They no
longer live in the jungle but have
convenient camps scattered over the
state with good beds, a tempting
menu, radios with their meals, cloth
ing, dental and medical care, and to
cap the climax, each ‘transient’ is
given 95 cents per week of the tax
payers’ money.
“They are fed on the fat of the
land; much better than the farmers
who are ‘' i ced to help support them.
I took pot luck at one of the camps
and this is what I got: boiled pota
toes of fine quality with paprika
sprinkled . over them, gravy, roast
beef in large cuts, rye and white
bread, butter, salad of fresh cabbage
and tomatoes (shipped in), coffee,
hot tea, iced tea, sugar, cream, and
choice peaches for dessert- I thought
they was putting on the dog for me
but was assured “it is just our reg
ular feed.”
DuRand’s Cafe
Good Clean Food.
Everybody Welcome.
FLAT
ALASKA
| ONTARIO TOWN RECORDS
' COLD OF 73° BELOW ZERO.
TORONTO, Jan.23.—Wth a temp
i erature of 73 degrees below zero,
Iroquois Falls, Out., a paper manu
facturing town 200 miles north of
North Bay, came close today to the
all-time Canadian low record.
That recordwas established in Dec
ember, 1910, when the thermomet 1
fell to 78 degrees below zero it
flood Hope, a Hudsons’ Bay trading
l ost on the Mackenzie River.
These other minimum tempera
nces marked Winter’s most inten
sive sieger
White River, Ont., —62; Fort Mc
Murray, Canada, —60; Frederick,!
Wis., —55 (unofficial); Eveleth, j
Minn., —51.
We can truthfully say that of the
local publications in the Kuskokwim
Valley and the lower Yukon, the
Kusko Times enjoys the broadest
local circulation. There must be a
reason: a subscription to the Kusko
will place you among the many sat
isfied readers*
DOG RESTAURANT MAKES
MONEY.
On upper Madison Avenue, New
Vork City, is a “dog restaurant”
which supplies a special food for
pampered canines and even delivers
meals on order. The shop is well
patronized and the owner is said to
be prospering. Nearby, a woman
whose income was wiped out by the
depression, has opened • a “nursery”
for pets. Her assistants will go out
on call to take full nursemaid charge
of dogs, cats, or other pets, giving
them exercise and an airing, take
them to hospitals to be vaccinated or
otherwise treated. And in the same
block iive children ragged, under
nourished if not starving, and un
cared for.
Northern Pacific tracks reached
tidewaters of the Pacific on Decem
ber 16, 1873, when the track lay ..v
crew arrived at Commencement Bay
and named the point Nev Tacoma.
LOUSSAC’S DRUG STORE
Anchorage, Alaska.
Drugs Rubber Goods RCA Radios
Liquors of All Kinds. Olympia Beer.
Special, Prompt Attention Given All Mail Orders.
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HEWITT’S PHOTO SHOP
ANCHORAGE. ALASKA.
Directs your attention to their amature finishing department to
gether with their 24 hour service.
Carrying a full line of standard and Portable typewriters, Barr
ough and Victor adding machines.
Battery radios for those living, in unwired homes, fresh stock of •
batteries at all times. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. f