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Nome. Alaska.
Chas. Levien Holds Only Nome
Winning Ticket on Dog Derby
The only holder of a sweepstak
es ticket on the Fairbanks Dog
Derby in this section of Alaska
was Chas. Levien of Nome who
held ticket number DD 26511
which drew fourth prize.
Mr. Levien received a telegram
from the Fairbanks Ice Carnival
and Dog Derby advising him that
he should forward his counter
foil and that not less than $220.00
would be deposited in the Fair
banks bank to his credit. On the
counterfoil fourth prize was list
ed at $5,000 if the total sales of
tickets exceeded $100,000. How
ever it appears that such a figure
was not reached.
Another winner in the Fair
! banks sweepstakes was Dan Kel
ly who is supposed to have been
awarded about $130.00.
In yesterday’s issue the date
i set for the reporting of the Petit
Jury appeared as April 20th. The
correct date for the petit jury to
report to the U. S. District Court
at Nome, Alaska, is April 22nd.
Todate 125 persons have regis
tered for the regular annual mun
icipal and school board election
to be held the first Tuesday in
April, which will be on the sec
ond day of the month. Registra
tion will close on the fourth Sat
urday this month, or March 23.
Little interest has been shown
yet in candidacies for the various
city offices and council. However
it is expected that during the
next two weeks numerous filings
wil Ibe made with the city clerk.
’ If you have not registered you
j owe it ito yourself and your city
to do so.
In one of our columns the Po
let's Store is offering a series of
prizes to the one that can guess
the closest as to the population
of the City or Nome and also to
the one that can give the closest
guess as to the population of the
Second Division.
It is interesting to attempt to
secure the idea of many of our
citizens on this subject. It is the
prevalent opinion that Nome and
Seward Peninsula have been los
ing in population but if one stops
to consider the school census and
the children that are going to
| school and figuring the usual per
' centage of 6 to 1 it brings the
Nome population to much morel
than it was at the time of the
census in 1930.
What is your guess? Prelimin
ary reports are expected by mail
from now on.
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Many friends and a large repre i
sentation of the Pioneers of Al
aska assembled at the City Hall
| at 1:30 yesterday afternoon for
! the purpose of attending the last
' rites for the late Chas. Miller.
Shortly after 1:30 they proceeded:
j to the cemetery where Rev. W P
Wood conducted the service.
Mr. Chas. Miller had in this
; part of the world for forty years
1 or more his family having left
< for the States twenyt or more
| years ago. He has personally re
j sided at Jess Creek where he has;
continuously mined on the beach
and on his property at Jess
! Creek. At one time he was in
partnership with Thos. Jensen
and under the firm name of Mil
ler and Jensen they did a lot of
mining in that section. He is sur
vived by four daughters, Dr. Ol
ga Miller. Mrs. Rose Martin, Miss
Jessie Miller and Mrs. Anna Kim
ball.
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Race chairman Boucher an
nounced today that he has had
many requests for teams for the
1 Cheechacco race from aspiring
| dog mushers and that he is re
■ questing dog teams owners to eo
i | operate by registering their
I teams with Pres. Givan of the
' Arctic Club so that cheechacco
i drivers may be assigned teams
j for the race scheduled for Sun
i day, March 17.
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He also stated that unless at
least five teams are registered
for the race it will not be run.
Officials are to be nominated and
announced in Friday’s issue.
! The Board of Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce are to
hold a special meeting tomorrow
noon at the North Pole Bakery.
Airplane News
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Arriving o nthe PAA plane yes
! terday from Fairbanks were Mr.
1 and Mrs. Fred Cavota who made
1 a hurry-up trip to New York
City a month ago when Mr. Ca
vota’s father was reported ser
iously ill. Outgoing on the PAA
was Ed Tarnutzer found for the
Pioneer’s Home at Sitka.
WIEN ACTIVITIES
Frank Whaley returned from
; Fairbanks yesterday with two
passengers, Mr. McKay and Chas.
Thompson and freight.
A trip was made to Bluff this
morning with freight and with
I John Hegness as a passenger.
Trips are scheduled for the
north as soon a weather permits.
MIROW ACTIVITIES
I Today Pilot Sasseen left Nome
at 6:30 am for Anchorage with
Ralph Smith as pasenger and ar
rived there 11:30 am. He left An
ehorage at 1:26 and will arrive
in Nome this afternoon. He will
leave for Anchorage tomorrow to
meet the train.
Fred Chambers left on his
weekly mail run and will return
to Nome on Saturday.
Fred Chambers made a trip to
Golovin and returned with three
passengers, Charlie Simms. Mrs.
Johnston and James Larson.
Jack Jefford is due in Nome
tonight with the Reindeer Ac
quisition Unit from the North.
Reports from the North today
indicated that U S Marshal B. B.
Mozee with Pilot Cross left Kot
zebue for Barrow at 2:16 pm
Tuesday. Radio reports said that
i both Cross’s plane and King of
! the Ferguson Airways got into
Barrow and were southbound
about noon today. However this
report was not confirmed up to
the hour of going to press.
Pilgrim Springs Benefit To Be
Held Sat. Night at School Gym
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The annual benefit entertain
ment for the Pilgrim Springs
School for Orphans will be held
Saturday night in the High i
School Auditorium. The needs of;
this school now in operation for)
more than twenty years are well |
known to all Approximately fifty 1
children call Pilgrim Springs
home. They are gathered from
the broken homes of Seward Pen,
insula, clothed, fed and educated)
Those who know the worries con:
nected with caring for such a
large number of children arc the
only ones who can properly un
derstand what it means to face
each year and to answer the ques
tinn, “Can we continue for one
more year?”
The school has been supported
all these years by the free-will
offerings of generous people in
the States and the self sacrifice;
of the various members of the
staff of Pilgrim Springs. It is not
commonly known that not a sin
gle member of the staff gets even
one dollara year in salary. Board
and room and clothing are given
in exchange for complete devo
tion to the care of Alaska's child
ren.
Just this year the Pilgrim
Springs School must make a
large outlay for a heating plant.
This plant will cost at least a
thousand dollars. Your copoera-i
tion in making the entertainment j
a financial success will do much.
to enable the Springs to buy this |
heating plant. We are all properl
ly concerned about the plight of;
the children of our brothers and)
sisters in countries now at war. j
The little children at the Springs j
must also be your concern.
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Buy them by the bundle, Use
them for starting fires. For Sale
at The Nome Nugget.
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FREE GUESS
WHAT IS THE POPULATION OF NOME?
WHAT IS THE POPULATION OF
THE SECOND DIVISION?
Commencing Monday morning March 11 and closing
on Monday March 18th we will accept FREE of
CHARGE your guesses on the Nome population as
well as on the population of the Second Division.
The winner will be announced as soon as the official
figures are released in Juneau and wired into the
Nome Nugget.
To the Nearest Guess $5.00 In Trade
To the Second Guess 3.00 In Trade
To the Third Guess 2.00 In Trade
The same prizes will be awarded to the winners of
the Nome Contest and the Second Division Contest.
In case of a tie the prizes will be awarded by <
drawing for place.
POLETS STORE
Elizabeth M. Cross
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
On The Democratic Ticket
Quarter Century In Alaska
Primary Election April 30. 1940
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