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Arctic Club Dinner-Dance
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T'ne first occasion of its kind to
be staged at Nome, the Arctic
C: b dinner-dance held Wednes
evenir.g at the Nevada Cab
drew a capacity crowd of
m mbers and their guests in for
mai and informal attire.
With Arthur T. Harris in the
po-i';on of Toastmaster and Char
1 ■ E.-ch director of singing, the
of. hr got off to an euthusiastic
beginning. Humor and sharp ap
p.'ites welded the crowd togeth
er and during the course of the
■v ning, during which dancing
was enjoyed to the music of the
Nevada orchestra, good feeling
and fun predominated.
Entertainment numbers, sing
ing and dedication numbers
drew applause for the excellent
manner in which the committee
handled the affair. It was an
nounced that once a month the
Arctic Club would stage these
dimer dances. According to the
more than eighty persons attend
ing Wednesday night, next
month’s affair should be a huge
| success.
Prize winners at the Pioneer
Card Party held last Monday ev
ening at the Odd Fellows Build
ing were as follows: Ladies—Mrs
Fred Roberts first, Mrs. Stuart
Stangroom second, Mrs. W. L.
1 Slr.ek consolation. Gentlemen—
A. Polet, Stuart Stangroom and
Fred Rohn consolation.
CHILDREN VACCINATED
FOR SMALLPOX
In cooperation with the Com
municable Disease program to
protect tooth the individual and
the community against Smallpox,
sixty-six infants, preschool and
school children were vaccinated
Thursday morning by Dr. Mor
com assisted by Mrs. Sprenger.
Mrs. Wi’Jbur Wood assisted with
the records.
Parents are asked to bring the
children below school age who
were vaccinated, to the Health
Center in the City Hall between
the hours of 1 to 3 p.m. Monday.
In this way those vaccinated may
be kept under supervision and
the reactions either immune or
positive, may be recorded.
Nels Anderson, brother to Jack
Anderson, dock superintendent
of the Lomen Commercial Co.,
was admitted to citizenship in
the United States of America, be
fore Judge J. H, S. Morison of
the District Court at Nome, this
morning.
Elsewhere in today’s issue ap
pears the first of a series of spec
ialized advertisements by The A1
aska Steamship Co., placed thru
its national advertising agency,
Beaumont and Hohman Inc., Seat
tie, Wn. Today’s ad drews atten
tion to March 30, Alaska Day.
Don Stewart, manager of the!
Monument dredging operations
about 15 miles from Nome, re
ports that the work of dismantl
ing the dredge and hauling it
about forty miles overland to j
Beaver Creek has progressed rap
idly as possible.
Already nearly half of the;
dredge has been delivered at1
Beaver Creek with about four or
five more large loads to be made.
A trip requires two days over to
Beaver with a iload. The dredge
is to be reassembled at the new
location and made ready for dig
! ging by the breakup time. He has
a crew of fifteen men busy on
the job.
The Pioneers of Alaska Card
Party at the School Auditorium
takes place tomororw night, with
refreshments and dancing includ
I ed. Music will be to the strains
; of the Nevada Orchestra. And
one and all are cordially invited
to take part in the evening’s en
tertainment.
Bert Noble, held under a fel
ony charge which was later
changed to straight larceny, pled
guilty in the U. S. Commission
er’s court Thursday and received
a fine of $100.00, upon payment
of which he was released.
You can save -2.00 by paying six
months in advance for your sub
scription to The Nome Nugget.
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1 Filing For City Offices Closed
List of Candidates
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Wednesday afternoon, when
filings for office in the annual
'city elec:ion closed, the follow
| ing had filed:
For Mayor — George Madsen,
; Henry G. Miller,
i For Council —Clinton S. At
! wood, Larry Galvin, William J.
i Maloney, A. J. (Gus) O’Leary, J.
• G. (Jack) Stewart.
For City Treasurer—L. H. Mc
Cloy.
For City Attorney —Leroy M.
Sullivan.
For City Clerk—M. J. Walsh.
For Member of School Board—
Mrs. E. F. Baldwin.
The PAA Electra arrived from
Fairbanks yesterday morning
with mail and the following pas
sengers: Miss Mildred Maynard,
A. M. Hartford, J. J. Jeenan and
wife, Jerry Sullivan, Louis Mi
deke, A. D. Graham and T. B.
Tucker.
Returning from a 3 months’
vacation touring the West Coast
and three weeks in Honolul, Ha
waii, Miss Mildred Maynard, sec
retary to Judge J. H. S. Morison
of the U. S. District Court at
Nome, arrived on the PAA Elec
tra Thursday.
Following a winter spent in the
States, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Keenan
returned to Nome Thursday via ]
PAA Electra. They will go to!
Taylor Creek where preparations
will be made for the transporting
of Mr. Keenan’s dredge from its
present location on the Kougarok
River, upstream about five miles.
It. will then be placed in opera
tion for the season.
A. M. Hartford, general man
aged of the Nome department of
the U. S. Smelting, Refining and
Mining Company, returned by
plane Thursday after a busy visit
spent at the company offices in
Salt Lake City, where it was be
lieved plans were discussed for1
further developments in the
dredging operations of Nome’s,
largest gold producer.
Becoming one of “them” win-,
ter-land vacationers, Jerry Sulli
van perennial booster of the Kou
garok, and a patriarch of the
prospectors in that area, return
ed to Nome Thursday after a win
ter in the States. He is returning
to his ground in the Kougarok to
make ready for a busy 1940 dig
ging season.
Outgoing passenger yesterday
with the PAA enroute to Metla
katla Indian village, was Wm.
Hemsing, who was detailed to as
sist the Reindeer Acquisition
Unit under Chas. Burdick, in the
counting of deer on the northern
slopes of the Peninsula. His reg
ular position is school teached for
the Indian Affairs at Metlakatla,
although several years ago he,
was stationed at Noorvik, on the
Kobuk River.
A Wien Airways plane left
Fairbanks today for Nome with j
A. D. Stormfeltz and Mrs. Don
Lyle.
MIROW ACTIVITIES
Pilot Chambers left for Unal
akleet Thursday afternoon after;
making a trip to American Creek
with freight and one passenger a
Mr. Anderson. Pilot Chambers is
expected back in Nome tomor
row afternon and will leave for
Shishmaref on Monday with mail
and express.
Pilot Sasseen is in Anchorage
awaiting weather and reports 25 i
passengers there to come to
Nome.
Pilot Jefford left for Unalak
leet and points east and will be
gone for several days before re
turning to Nome. Mrs. Novak
was an outgoing passenger.
The Nome Fire Department
was called out at 4 o’clock this
afternoon to the parsonage of the
Federated Church where an ov
erheated stove and flue caused
the alarm.
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