j NICE
LEMONS
D. E. CROWLEY GROC. GO.
Prizes for March
CONTEST
First Prize—One chance on a
Round Trip Ticket to
SEATTLE AND RETURN
Second Prize—Thirty-Five dollar
Photo Album of Alaskan Views
Lomen Bros.
THREE STORES
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What We Give You
A Bar of Gold
Free—Value $100.00—Free
One chance on this pure goH will be given with I'W'H 50c Fflt
OIIASF nr payment on account.
DRAWING JUNE 25th
ALSO
A THEATER TICKET
Will be given away on April 1. This Ticket will be good every day
for two months at the Dream tht ter and will be given free to the
person holding the lucky chance "n April 1. One chance on this
ticket will be given with each 2 5c, purchace or payment.
Drawing April 1st
Hill’s Pharmacy
_ We deliver the Goods. I
Begin the New Year right
Order the Nome Nugget
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LENTEN SEASON
Is Now on
Have You Received
Our
Lenten Fish Specialties Booklet
If Not Get One
It is full of valuable, saving and seasonable suggestions.
Come and take a look at our fish display)
[polets Stores
TERREL WRITES OF
LIFE OUTSIDE
I
! Mr. Joel Terrel was one of a num
ber who on leaving Inst fall were asked
! by the Nugget to write their impres
sions of what they’ 3hould see outside.
Jn response he sent this very inter
laining letter which will be finished
tomorrow;
SEATTLE, Jan., 17, 1917.
To the Nugget;
Am keeping my promise to W'rite you
and will tell of the outside as It ap
pears to me. If my letter impresses
you that my horizon is limited and my
view hazy you will please be so kind
as to pardon me; there are no eye
openers here.
Alaskans line the streets, fill the joy
places and spend their money with the
abandon of bacchanalians. They are
well dressed and when seen in the
restaurants convince one that their
main object in life is to defy the high
cost of living. This may solve the
mystery of their perennial return to
the nation’s great white way. 1 will
not mention them individually as it
would take too long, and then again
I may have to attach a long postscript
to my letter in order to tell of those
who hud escaped my memory and the
vigilance of the police There aro just
tim e classes of Alaskans here, to-wit:
Those who work, those who do not
work, those who imbibe unreservedly
I have seen one actually in the first
class and one in the third class. All
others are in the second class. Of
course when I make the above state
ment 1 disregard all liear-say repre
sentations as incompetent, irrelevant
and Immaterial; and not proper
evidence to go buck to Nome.
There is prosperity here in some lines
and hard times in others. The trans
portation people are so far behind that
tin y may nev er catch up. The cafes,
department stores and play houses
air- simply Jammed.all the time. The
hotels and apartment houses are fulll
and turning ..way hundreds and hun
dreds every day, and many of the
apartment houses have large signs in
iront say ing, "no vacancies” while
others do not put up the signs, as
th» ii managers like to have the priv
aige of turning people away; a
pleasure they never had before, unless
it was in the gold excitement days.
There are a great many people here j
from Canada, and many of the wSH
to-do young men are playing hockey.
A Canadian said to mo the other day:
”1 am not able to go over the
country playing hockey, hut I came
over here to escape conscription just
'.he same.”
No one can fully acount for the
great number of people in thy city.
There aro no eastern people here at
all; they are too'busy making money.
While all comers say that the word Is
out in Oregon, Califorin.a and the
mountain states that Seattle is very’
prosperous there seems to be very’
ti vv people here from those states.
Iteal fstate has not advanced one cent,
unless It 1m the down-town property.
The lumber business is simply para
1 ized on account of transportation
tonditions, but there are. said to be
about forty million dollars worth of
ships under construction and con
i traded to be built on Puget Sound;
| to say nothing of the Government
I ships under construction and to be
built. Most all other lines of business
I are about as they were two years ago
. with the people engaged in them
! kicking against the high cost of living.
These people are very much with the
President und his peace moves. They
say that the armies of Europe art
eating the bread they should have and
are putting up the price of every
thing they have to buy. The people
generally dress better and live better
than they did in the past and seem
to have more money, but I am unable
to even guess where it all comes from.
Many of the stores, especially i:i Un
clothing und hardware lines, cannot
get the stock for gold in advance. One
merchunt explained to mo that hun
ureds of large und small factories in
the East had gone into tile war fur
nishing busniness and were known no
more to the trade, in their old lines.
Ttie South is more prosperous than
ever before, and is probably out
stripping the rich East. The 191(1
cotton crop in Texas alone brought
almost three quarters of a billion of
dollars. An automobile man here tells
me that this place has less than fifty
automobile houses. Dallas, Texas, a
city of about one hundred thousand,
lias one hundred and fifty such houses.
Even the darkies down there are too
proud to ride in Fords. Most every
thing here is as high or higher than
m isome, but your merchants will pul
the price up when they get their
spring goods, because they will have
lo pay much more.
By the way, you would laugh in
your sleeves if you could be here and
see the ladies in their modern crea
toins. iteally some of them are wear
ing anticipations. 1 could not tear
myself away from Second avenue long
enough to cat and sleep during my
fifirst week here. Their toggery sim
ply demonstrates that we are not re
liant upon Germany for dye-stuffs and
that Job's coat would appear solid
black in comparison with the raiment
of the flock of feminine fashion con
noisseurs who set the whimsical and
capricious standards of dress in this
village. Those of seven, seventeen
and seventy seem t<t vie with each
other in the selection of gay and
pompous attire.
Dresses are built higil up under the
cars and the cloak collars even but
ton over their petit noses, but while
they are added to at the top they are
abbreviated on the other end. The
fat ones wear very big hats und the
slim ones wear small hats, but all
hats are pulled low over their be
witching brows, so that only the eyes
arc left exposed to horrid man. (Jne
has to look at their feet to distinguish
them—thanks to nature, they run in
different sizes. It is a dangerous
thing to flirt at a distance with a
lady in modern dress, so they say, be
cause if she heaves-to one often finds
that his Venus ha3 seen more than
fifty winters and that her adornment
is the sum total of her charms. It is
then too late for him to write a note
or degend upon any form of diplom
acy; a swift mobilization and an ig
nominious retreat is all that’s left—
so they say.
Continued to morrow.
FIVE HUNDRED SHOVELLERS
WANTED—THIS WEEK ONLY
Special Sale at HOLT’S.
During this week Holt will sell at a
uniform price each of 25c eight hun
dred new short hamlled shovels,
square or round pointed; take your
choice, only 25c each while they last
This special sale will last only during
the present week. This is far below
actual costs.
HOLT’S CASH STORE.
Phone Main 96.
VERY SPECIAL OFFER.
From now until April 1, we offer
first class tailor made sutis and over
coats at outside prices. Some extra
fine black and blue serge and wor
sted. Besides 300 of this season’s
latest patterns. All wool material,
fit and workmanship guaranteed.
Please bring us your cleaning, pres
sing and repairing.
Yours to pleas.e
NOME TAILORING CO,.
Next door to Sogerstrom & Hagen.
Classified Ads.
All Classified Ads Must be Paid for
in Advenes.
L08T.
LOST—On Feb. 26th, three 3-months
old pups. Description as follows: 1
male, black, with brown markings;
crown eared. 2 females, greyish brown
long-tailed. Hound strain. Notify
Russ Downing.
| NEWS NOTES
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Tlie reindeer market which was
I opened some weeks ago has been
closed because the Cape I’rince of
| Wales natives who ran tin* market
sold all their meat. They still have
some live deer here but they are not
j fat enough to slaughter and will be
i put on the feeding grounds again.
There was a general exodus today
lu Council. Among those who wen*,
were Mrs. Uaiod and daughter. Miss
I Thompson. Joe Sugg and llary Clark.
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|
I Otto Mills, a well known miner,
I underwent a serious operation this
j morning .1 Holy Cross hospital. Dr.
, Mustard performed the operation as
| sisted by Drs. Neuman and Chaco.
The patient is resting easily.
Dr. Neuman und Carl J. Lomon are
| soPciting on behalf of the Bureau of
' Kducaiioon articles suitable for prizes
to be awarded at the Reindeer Fair
at Hot Springs during the week be
ginning March 19th. All contributions
| Irom merchants and others will lie ap*
I predated and will add to the interest
of the contoGt.
v,
The Solomon Derby ntis been de
1 finitely fixed for Friday as it is be
| lieved that the present spell of
weather will continue and the trod
wit! be well broken out by that time.
Last nigl.t the contestants drew
for positions and the result is as fol
low.-. Seppala, Downing, Anderson,
,\> er Webb, Bowen-Delezene. The start
j will be made at 10 o' look and at ten
! minute intervals.
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Lust night Lewis scored 1?0 billiards
a Idle Lyle was making 89 in a B class
match. Lewis is showing steady im
P’ovement in form His average was
1.05 and Lyles' 1.22.
Mlsh 95 beat Ivory 110 In the 88th
Inning He averaged 1.10. Ivory was
| not up to his usual standard and re
gistered only 75 with an average of
rv.-i.— —.i- ■ ■ ' —
.88.
Tonight Dr. Kittelson 95 will play
Meyer 110 In ( lass C, and there is a
possibility that Ed. Wells may clash
j cues with Roe Pierce In class A.
After the minutes of the last regular
’council meeting and the epochal spec
mi meeting Imd been read lust right
and u correction inserted in the latter
at the request of Burgh they were ap
pt oved.
Communications were read from
Messrs. Polet and Goggin offering en
closed checks ns payment in full for
their taxes. Polet's check was short
$170 of the amount levied and Gog
gin’s $150. less than entered on the
tax roll. Polet had added $50 to whal
lie considered just "for good fellow
ship."
Reports were made that the city
treasurer imd a balance of $847.72;
that the Eskimos had been digging
around the garbage dumps to the
possible detriment of health; and that
the fire plant is in first class shape.
The tenders for taxes by Polet and
Goggin were taken up under the head
of new business. Councilman Burgh
rose to state that Polet's offer ol' $50.
' for good fellowship" was an insult
to the council and to the community.
A little later he extended his remarks
by saying that it was a sort of bribe
and could not be reprobated too
strongly. He would make no tax con
cessions to anybody. The taxes had
been fixed by the board of equaliza
tion and should stand.
Councilman Rose asked City At
torney O'Neil if the checks could be
acepted as part payment and on
learning that they could not, favored
laturning them.
Councilman Wesley, Ross, and Mc
Allister were firm in their opinions
that the full amount of the taxes only
should be accepted. Mayor Moller
I therefore instructed the clerk to re
turn the tenders,
l
After voting the sum of $1,600 to
' the school board, approving Mayor
Molier's action In puying city salaries
[ and $576 to the Are house trustee,and
discussing some minor matters the
council adjourned.
Advertise In The Nome Nugget
APPLES
Small size 15c per doz.
riedium size 20c per doz.
Large Size 25c per doz.
G. P. GOGGIN iSS
i_
Come in and see the new
stock at the EMPORIUM and
get their prices.
THE EMPORIUM
KRISTAN BROS, I
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g THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICE. 2
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2 Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before X
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1 A Barn Dance f
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3 And the big store offers X
8 A special for that occassion 2
| PHETIY HOUSE DRESSES (HO APRONS f
8 Suitable for the event 8
1 UNDERPRICED j
§ .85 Aprons .75 I
§ $1.00 Aprons .85 I
I $1.75 Dresses $1.50 |
§ $2.00 Dresses $ 1.75 f
§ $2.25 Dresses $2.00 8
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