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This \Veek Special
FEB 14TH to 19TH INCLUSIVE.
POST TOASTIES 3 packages for.50c
UNCLE SAM BREASTFAST FOOD per package .2Bc
PETTI JOHN'S BREAKFAST FOOD, 3 packages for .50o
MALTO MEAL, per package .20c
HONMT GRITS, per package.15c
POST TAVERN SPECIAL. 3 packages.50c
PEARL OF WHEAT, per package ..2»o
COMING SOON OUR BIG REBUILDING SALE WATCH FOR AD.
QOGGIN.
The Quality Store. |
Wm Larnlgan returned to Council
today after a short visit in the city.
Eric Johnson pulled out for Solomon
with the outside mall last evening.
The Kougarok mall departed this
morning !r; charge of Qus Wheeler and
Carrier Fred Larson also departed
with the bimonthly mail for Teller.
Messrs. Ohrem and Brown came in
from Dexter last evening and report
operations progressing as usual In that
locality.
A large crowd attended the Valen
ti.? dance given by the lady Pioneers
i th Igloo lust night and everybody
had a very enjoyable time.
Th Salomon Derby is scheduled to
t. place tomorrow morning but un
Ess the present cold and wind abates
considerably it is probable that the
event will bo again postponed until
more favorable conditions prevail.
Judge Adams, clerk of the district
court has been confined to his home
with a severe attack of lumbago for
the past several days, but is reported
t ' bo making favorable progress to
ward recovery.
I’ll.- present cold weather Is again
i iig the "a! barons smile with the
j n i f increased salts while the house
in :t r groans in spirit and damns the
v ■; er man. Good deal like the war
l cut ns of Europe, eh? Both sides
i.ftcr the same fellow.
roe of Nome's lending citizens wll'
deliver after dinner speeches at the
i uulotic festival to be given by the
1 iii church Friday evening, th<
subjects chosen f *r the occasion being
t Wellington. Lincoln and Wilson
whose claims to patriotic recognition
will be s- ' forth by O. D. Cochran,. G
J. Lomen and Judge J. R. Tucker.
Dun Cnwley, chairman of the Arctic
I dherhood cabaret committee has
i.-s a d . call for a meeting at the A
B. hall at eight this evening at which
the details of the much anticipated
cabaret dance will probably be ar
ranged. It is understood that the af
fair will probably come off Saturday
night, but the final decision will proba
bly be announced tomorrow
Intensely cold is the wind that has
been curling the whiskers of the hardl
est old sour dough during the pasi
forty eight hours and everyone Is
crawling pretty close Into their coat
collar. The thermometer has been
down close to the twenty mark during
the entire period contrary to the usual
rule in the Nome section, where the
temperature usually rises with the
wind.
The Moose burden handicap commit
tee announce that two more prizes
have been added to those to be given
the contestants In the big race. Will
iam Wobb is one of the donors and
has off ered a novel prize for the
winner of the thirteenth place. Lomen
Brothers have also decided to give a
pi Ize for the tall ender, which will
be known a: the booby prize. It Is
probable that still other prizes may be
added a> the day approaches as it Is
reported that several others are think
ing about offerings to further Increase
the interest in that novel event.
The Chamber of Commerce mail
committee is still hard on the trail
of the defects in the mail service and
has now determined to ascertain the
reason for the extreme age of some
of the second class arriving during the
past few weeks. In pursuance of this
intention the following telegram was
directed to the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce last night.
Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Seat
tle.
Can you ascertain if Seward penin
sula mall, first or second class, Is hold
In Seattle. Present delivery shows
either retention or congestion en route.
Second oiass arriving three months old.
impossible to obtain explanation here
f poorest mall service In years. Wo
isk you assistance to obtain Immediate
ellef.
NOME SEWARD PENINSULA
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The Alaska Lighterage Company an
lounces another raise of one cent In
he price of gasoline, under lnstruc
lons received from the Standard Oil
-'ompany. According to the same ln
ormant, this is the third raise in one
veek It Is also Intimated that the
ause lies in an Increased consump
Ion by tho European belligerents,
vhich, if true, indicates that friend
lohn D. intends to take full advantage
f the market, no matter which way
t goes. If the demand is heavy, he
aises and if light he also raises.
Going and cornin’." See? Great eye.
lohn!
Two more games were played In the
loard of Trade billiard tournament
ist night before a large and Interested
Towd of spectators. The first match
'as in the B class, the contestants be
ng Lewis and McGuire, both handi
apped at 110. The latter won by a
narrow margin of twelve points In 98
linings, the Anal score being McGuire
10, Lewis 98. Binder, conceding his
■pponent forty points out of one hun
dred, won from Corbin ^in a close
same in the D class. The final score
vaa Binder 100, Corbin 51. Two Inter
sting matches will be played this eve
iing, the first between Divine, 125 and
'angmann 100, the second between
.’hompson, und Melin, both handicap
ped at 110. The management Is today
daclng bleachers In the billiard room
o that the crowd may enjoy the play
j -vith a greater degree of comfort.
At the Dream tonight. Uncle Tom’s
Jabln, In three parts, a picturelzation
f the famous drama and novel made
inmortal by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The great story has now outlived the
>utspoken word and is now vividly
>ortrayed In pictures. A grandly flim
d subject that Is dear to the heart
if every American, it may be Justly
ermed a survival of the fittest. A
lassie standard In American drama
ind a Jewel in literature. Wednesday
ind Thursday the third and fourth
plsodes of the great serial. "The Perils
if Pauline."
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The All Star baseball team will prac
Ice In the A. B. hall this evening at
■lght p. m. and all players are re
luested to be on hand. The ladles are
reported to be fast getting into shape
o play next week and both teams are
hard at work. The married ladles met
'or practice at the Hunter hall this
fternoon and the unmarried ladles
will do some training In the high
school gym this evening. It is an
nounced that the first game of the new
series between Nome and the Fort wl1
probably take place a week from Fri
luy, unless some unforeseen happening
occurs.
Up to three this afternoon Percy
Blatchford, who departed for the Nug
get roadhouse yesterday morning to
bring In Rice, the man reported badly
frozen, had not succeeded In getting
beyond the U. S. roadh use. Tele
phone Inquiry at both the Nugget and
the U. S. today discloses that a terri
dc gale Is raging In that section and
he temperature Is given as tw’enty five
The following table snows the av
rage temperature for each day for the
he following years:
1916. 1916
January 1 . 1 4
fanuary 3 . X 6
February 3 . 6 8
February 4 .1.,—10., 18
February 6 .—It 17
February « .—18 18
February 7 .—10 0
February 8 .8 —1
February 9 .10 —8
February 10.—8 —12
January 11 .—8 —18
February 18. 7 —10
February It.—II —81
i below. Leo Wittenberg, reports from
'the Nugget that the wind is something
worse than he has even experienced
before. Rice, the unfortunate victim
of the terrible experience In the last
blizzard is reported resting easy but
is in bad shape.
KILLED OR WHY
A. K A. Service.
SUMNER, Wash., Feb. 15—C. E.
Gamble, a young American who had
Just enlisted and was preparing to
start on his way to Europe to fight
with the allies, was killed here today
by being run down by a Northern
Pacific train. Gamble, after making
ail his preparations to leave for
France, started out to visit his mother
who lives a short distance from here.
It was while on this journey that he
was struck by the train and Instantly
| killed.
STORAGE BATTERIES
CAUSE OF E-2
EXPLOSION
A. f*. \. Service.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Responsibility
for the explosion which destroyed the
submarine E-2 was placed upon th<
storage batteries used on government
submarines by Lieut. C. W. Nlmetz
during the course of the hearing before
the naval Investigation board. Lieut.
Nlmetz Is acting as counsel for Lieut.
Chas. M. Cooke, the commander of the
submarine, who Is charged with neglect
of duty in connecton with the ex
plosion. In his defense of the subma
rine commander Lieutenant Nlmetz
declared that the explosion which de
stroyed the submarine and also blotted
out several lives, was due to nothing
else than he faulty batteres furnished
by the Edison Storage Batteries Com
pany.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NUOQKT
ORDINANCE NO- 242.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND OR
DINANCE NO. 68, ENTITLED "AN
ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR
THE REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
PRIOR TO ALL MUNICIPAL
ELECTIONS WITHIN AND FOR
THE CITY OF NOME."
Be It ordained and enacted by the
common council of the Town of Nome:
Section 1.—That ordinance No. 68,
entitled "An ordinance to provide for
the registration of voters prior to all
municipal elections within and for the
City of Nome," be, and the same
hereby is amended as follows: That
the Title of said ordinance be made
to read: "Ordinance No. 68: An Ordi
nance to provide for the registration
of voters prior to all municipal and
school board elections within and for
the City of Nome, and for Nome School
District"
Section 2.—That section 1 of said
ordinance be amended as follows:
After the word "municipal" in the
third line of said section. Insert the
Millinery,
Gowns and
Tailoring
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Phone Main 85
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words: "and school board;” and, also,
after the word "Nome" In the third
line of said section, insert the words
"and Nome school district.”
Section 3.—That suid ordinance be
further amended as follows: In the
sixth line of section 9, after the word
"name,” strike out the wore* "age."
Section 4.—That said ordinance be
‘further amended as follows: In the
' 4th line of section 10, after the word
; "name,” strike out the word "age."
j Section 6.—That said ordinance be
further amended as follows: After the
word "Nome," in the 16th line of sec
tion 10. of said ordinance, strike out
the affidavit beginning with the words:
“I. do" and ending
with the words: "an infamous crime."
and Insert the following form of affl
| davit: “I . do, sol
I omnly swear (or affirm) that I am
over twenty years, eleven months and
I twenty days of age: that I am a cltl
i zen of the United States, by.
'.; or, that I have declared my
| ntention of becoming a citizen of the
| United States within seven years last
oast: that I have been a bona fide
| resident of the Territory of Alaska
i for eleven months and twenty days,
last past, and of the Town of Nome
Alaska, for five months and twenty
days, last past; or, that I am a bona
fide resident of the Nome, Alaska,
school district.
Section 6.—That a new section be
added to said ordinance to folow sec
tion 12 thereof and to be numbered
section 12A, as fololws:
“Section 12A.—If it should appear
‘o the city clerk, upon the examination
provided for in the preceding section
or at all, that the applicant Is not
possessed of the full qualifications as
prescribed in the first clause of section
2 of ordinance No. 241 entitled
j "An ordinance providing rules and
I regulations for municipal and schooi
1 board elections, etc." passed by the
j common council of Nome, Alaska, Jan
| uary 3rd. 1916, but that he or she is
J possessed of the qualifications pre
| scribed in the second clause of section
2 of said ordinance No. 241, relating
,o the qualifications of electors for
members of the school board, only,
1 then such applicant shall be registered
! in a special and separate poll list, to
| be kept for that purpose. Such spe
cial and separate poll list shall be
1 properly designated, and shall corre
spond in all particulars to the gen
eral poll list kept by the city clerk,
except as to the period of time of
residence of the applicant within the
Territory of Alaska, and within the
Town of Nome, next preceding the
date of election, and shall be duly
certified and delivered to the election
board, as in other cases.”
Passed by the common Council of
Nome, Alaska, the 14th day of Feb
ruary, 1916.
OEO. A. DIAMOND,
President of the common council and
exoffleo Mayor of Nome.
Attest:
E. QRIMM,
City Clerk.
| COMING EVENTS
U. 3. MAIL MOVEMENTS.
Mail for Kougarok and Teller leaves
the first and fifteenth of each month.
Mail for other sections of Sevan
peninsula and the outside closes Mon
days and Friday, at 4:30. registered
and ordinary mail, five o’clock p. m.
Malls arrive Thursday and Sunday
Malls leave Tuesday and Saturday
morning.
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office end Residence.
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Office hours: 2-9 and 7-8 p. m.
Phone—Night er day, Main 28.
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J A Few Specials ?
4* ON OUR BARGAIN COUNTER THIS WEEK.
4* QUAIL BRAND BERRIES, GAL. CANS.66c rER CAN.
4* QUAIL BRAND PEACHES. GAL. CANS, 45c PER CAN.
4, QUAIL BRAND APRICOTS, GAL. CANS, 45c PER CAN 4
X QUAIL BRAND RHUBARB. G VL. 40c PER CAN 4
4 SEA PORT PEACHES, »4.00 PER CASE 4
FORCE, 8 package* for $1.00. 4
^ SHREDED WHEAT BISCUITS, 8 package® for $1.00 4
♦ MOLLER’S GROCERY:
^ PHONE. Main 86 211 FRONT ST. 4
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All Measures
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And you will have to anawor yi ur letter*. •
We carry the line grades of writing paper In hoxei, tablet* and
pound paper, Including Eaton Ciane & Pike Companies, Highland
Linen. Twilled IrUh Linen, Cran' e Linen, Lawn, etc.
Fine Linen Envelopea In pn Itngea of 25 each, 16c. Alao tha woven
letter size. Envelopea at 10c a package. I
Free chance on $$0.00 Pun ti Bowl given with each 60 cent pur
chase or payment on account. ■
HILL’S PHARMACY
Headquarters Fins Writing Paper. j
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90c JO (2.Q0
Special pticcs per box
P. A. Peterson Shoe Co.
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I SPECIAL OFFERIKG1
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§ A nice warm Eider Down blanket 8
§ in colors of Pink and Blue i
§ Regularly priced at 75c |
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