iWe wish all a prosperous
New Year
D. E. CROWLEY GROC. !
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On the last day of each month from now till I
May 31st, we will hold a drawing for a month
ly PREMIi M and for a chance in the GRAND
PREHIUM
A TICKET TO
SEATTLE AND RETURN
i To be drawn for on June 1st 1917
THE JANUARY PREMIUM WILL BE A NO. 4
VICTROLA
TO BE DRAWN FOR ON JAN. 31 ST, 1917
Coupons will be issued with each Dollar Cash
Purchase or paid on account
Lomen Bros.
I THREE S I ORES
Overland Mail
Twice-a-Week
NOW-A-DWS
WRITE OFTEN TO YOUR FRIENDS ON THE OUTSIDE.—USE
Correspondence Cards
THEY ARE VERY POPULAR AT PRESENT,
FINE FOR SHORT LETTERS
The most complete assortment of beautiful writing paper ever
brought to Nome. At popular pi ices. Come in and get a SAMPLE
FREE and examine our stock.
We deliver the goods
Hill’s Pharmacy |
CORONA TYPEWRITTFR FREE. One chance with each 50c
purchase or paid on account
Begin the New Year ri^ht
Order the Nome Nugget
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Something New
Uncle John Golden Tree
Maple Syrup
j This syrup must not bo confounded with the ordinary blended syrups It is guaranteed to you to
| contain 60 per cent Maple Sugar 22 per cent Maple Sap and b; lance granulated sugar the best jell
! j ing brands In this market excepting pure maple sap syrups do not contain more than 10 per cent
j , Maple.
A trial of this syrup will convince you that the difference In price will be more than offset by
the quality.
Quart cans 6oc
One half gallon* cans 1.10
One gallon cans 2.00
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NEWS NOTES
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Owing to the blizzard everything
: .e picuy quiet along ail local fronts.
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Tits Miner’s laoncp Club will bold u
! social uuuce on Suturduy evening,
sum tiers and their friends will pur
uuipuie.
Tomorrow work on the cells in the
basement of the file house will be
oi-fcuii unuer the d.lection of Council
man Wesley.
Alter the installation of the officers
' of bewurd Chapter Mo. 2, Royal Arch
’ ..iasoiis, last night, the members went
.o the Board of Trade cafe where
a banquet was held. The front part
of the cafe was reserved entirely foi
.Ins occasion. Only Royal Arch Ma
ns participated.
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Judge Worcester of the Iiougarok
iS Still engaged In renewing old
uieudBhips 111 the city having con
sumed Uie business which brought
■ uni to town, lie will return to the
i .vougarok us soon us the weather Is
at for travel.
The Miner's Home Club held iu
.'.CM) caul socmi last night. Them
• o a ^cioa uikBiiaaziCU, twenty-1Wc»
| utbiu in play. Tile WiUiiui
it , Lawt'.cCO, AUiit in. in. i n 1 C Ikif C II ili&e,
..is. F. \t. Peterson, secoud. Gentlc
,.un, C'. H. Price, hist and K. H. HoK '
ecolld.
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The water vendors today got their 1
suck in trade from the Peoples' i
...undry instead of from the Arctic!
j.rings us usual. This was necessl
i.tid by the high water which over-1
..owed bnuke liver us a result of the
long southerly wind. One tank sled
wiled in the slush ice on the river
. h moin.ng aim ut last accounts was
still there.
The Davison childien are now be
■ e? cared tor by people in different
, -i is of the town. A movement is on
iuct 10 bung them together under
one roof unul spring. By that time 1
it is expected that they may have a
chance to be taken into the line home
at Moosehcurt, ill., which is conduct* j
ed by the Loyal Order of Moose of
which Mr. Davison is a member.
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The Loyal Order of Moose at their
last meeting adopted a resolution fa
voring "the establishment of a court
o' nations for tiie settlement of all
justiciable udestions of dispute tiiat
may arise between nations’—a ration -
able alternative to war.” Thi3 is in
huiuiony with action by other Moose
lodges and is part of a concerted
movement to attain this end after
ihe war stops. A portion of the res
olution provides, however, that until
the eiiicncncy of an international court
ins been recognized there shall be no
opposition to tiie right of every nation
to adopt adequate measures for na
tional defense.
Mr. Walter C. Shields, superintend
ent of tiie bureau of education, started
this morning on a three months’ trip
of Inspection of schools and reindeer
herds. He will go to Council, Candle,
Buekland, Selawik, Shungnak, Noor
vik, adn to the fair at Noatak. From
there he will return as fast as possi
ble for the reindeer fair at Mary’s
Igloo. He started out with five sleds
drawn by reindeer and two native
drivers. He will be almost steadily
on the go for the next three months.
On the sleds, Mr. Shields carries tenta.
i gasoline stoves, sleeping bags, extru
clothing, and some food, the supply
wf which wiit be replenished freni
Urns to time at ths stations. Hs U
thus independent of the elements and
cun camp whenever necessary. The
reindeer can provide themselves with
fodder after their days’ work wherever
there is a supply of moss which Is
nearly everywhere along the route.
lu the absence of Air. Shields, the
uhairs of the bureau of education will
tie attended to by Dr. Neuman.
J. V. Sheldon expects to start for
tvougurok us soon as the weather
changes for the better.
Mr. R. 6. Julian of this city last
full sent a copy of the Nugget’s spe
cial Mining und Dredging Kdition to j
his friend, Muyor HI (Jill of Seattle,
itecently he received a reply express
ing thunks and saying that the mayor
considers the edition a credit to the
1 progressive city of Name.
On December 23 Judge Worcester
* appointed Mrs. breeding guardian of
I .lie estate of Conrad breeding who Is
[ .bought to have perished in the cold.
! the law provides for the appoint*
; ment of a guardian in a cuse like
I .his when because of lack of proof
of death an administrator Is not al
1 lowable.
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At the meeting of the Nome Kennel
Club members on Sunday at 230 p. m.
in the Nonpareil store many matters
of Interest will be brought up.
Among these are the settlement of
the date of the Solomon derby and
the question of shortening the dis
tance for the All-Alaska Sweepstakes i
from 400 miles to 200.
Pete Yeager with the Kougarok
mail is said to be overdue. He left
here on the second of the month snd 1
is supposed to make the round trip
in eight days. As he is an expert
muiher no real fears were felt for his
safety. The Nugget learned by tele
phone this afternoon that hs left
Shelton this morning on the return
to Nome. It is reported that Larson
may come in from Taylor with him.
Pete Lang and John Wilson thought
they would lake a dog ride out to the
third beach this forenoon. They start
ed and got nearly to the Bessie when
the blizzurd begun in earnest. Their
dogs bulked but by urging were forc
ed on a little farther when they ell
laid down. Lang and Wilson were for
going ahead but they did not want
to desert their poor animals so they
headed them towurd home and were
able to keep the trail most of the time.
They say that today’3 weather was not
tit for mushing but at that they
could have gone anywhere if their
dogs could.
A letter has been received In town
from Former District Judge A. S.
Aloore. He is now at Saluda, N. C..
where he is running an apple orchard
and doing some farming. He writes
that southern politicians are conli
! dent that Roosevelt would have won
easily over Wilson If the vengeful old
iip" republicans had not kept the Col
onel from the nomination,
i Judge Moore's wife who was strick
en with paralysis a couple of years
or so ago is better. She is now In a
Philadelphia for treatment.
The Judge recently lost his trunk
and many belongings by a fire in the
j little hotel where he stops in Saluda.
I In the trunk were many valuable pa
| pers and mo3t of ail the gold watch
I given him In his retirement from the
I Nome Judgeship by the members of
the bar. He prized this memento of
the friendship of Nome's lawyers very
highly and mournB Its loss. The fire
caused the judge considerable annoy
ance because it deprived him of hi3
eye glasses without which he could
neither read nor see at a distance,
lie wunted to bs remembered to Nome
friends.
PASSES BILL
FOR DRY MAIL
'-lernational News Servioe.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—Yesterday
(he senate passed the bill Introduced
by Senator Bankheud which prohibits
iho transmission by mail of periodicals
or newspapers which carry on their
p:iges advertisements of liquor, wine
or beer when such printed matter Is
(o go to dry states.
The bill will now go to the house
where the real tight Is to be made
against all prohibition measures.
Calling Cards at the Nugget 0flies
BRITISH WAR-SHIP
SUNK BY SUBMARINE
IN MEDITERRANEAN
international Newt Service.
BERLIN, Jati. 12.—Newspaper re
ports given out by the overseas
agency and ;of a semi-official char
acter say that a British cruiser,
thought to bo the Shannon, was sunk
by a submarine on Tuesday in the
Mediterranean. Seven naval officers
and thirty three army officers are
reported lost. The Shannon was a
large ship, having a displacement of
fourteen thousand, eight hundred
tons.
The overseas agency account also
states that an Italian destroyer was
sunk by a submarine off Corfu with
ihe loss of practically her entire crew.
LONDON. Jan. 12.—Tho admiralty
his announced that tho British hat
tlc3hlp Cornwallis was sunk on Tues
day in the Mediterranean by a sub
marine. The Cornwallis displaced
fourteen thousand tons, and carried a
crew of seven hundred and fifty men
of whom only thirteen were drowned.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—It js quit0
evident that the lost British ship re
ferred to In the Berlin disaptches aa
the Shannon is the same one offi
cially announced by the British ad
miralty as the Cornawllls. The na
tionality of the submarine that sank
her is not stated.
Music with your meals at the
Board of Trade Cafe on Sunday from
5:30 to 7:30 p. m.
A. B.’S ATTENNTION.
All Arctic Brothers are requested to
hand la the name of the lady and
gentleman they wish to Invite to the
Mardi Gras, to the manager at A.
B. Club Booms not later than Jan
uary 14.
THE COMMITTEE.
Let the Nugget do your letter writ
ing by sending the Weekly Nugget to
vnur friends on the outside—60e mo.
5c Sale of Canned Goods
Fruits and Vegetables
»^12 DIFFERENT BRANDS TO SELECT FROM.
You pay twenty five cents for one can. hen you may select one
can from the remaining eleven brandx
FOR 5c
G. P. GOGGIN
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Come in and see the new
stock at the EMPORIUM and
get their prices.
THE EMPORIUM
KRISTAN BROS,
■iff* I# H Alii We must satisfy
WE KNOW
WE WILL DO THAT IN
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