WEEKLY SERVICE TO ANCHORAGE AND FAIRBANKS
Serving Seward Peninsula, Council and the Lower Yukon
U. S. MAILS — PASSENGERS — AND EXPRESS
ALL PLANES RADIO EQUIPPED - FOUR RADIO STATIONS
MIROW A Tr” SERVICE
Mrs. Hans Mirow, Owner and Manager
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Don’t Forget Our Gift Drawing 7:00 PM, Jan. 15, 1940.
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FLY THE PIONEER LINE
Passengers, Freight To All Parts of Alaska
Radio Equipped Planes-Passenger Insurance
U. S. Mail Carriers
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Wien Alaska Airlines, Ine.
Bases At
Nome : : : Fairbanks
LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO.
Agents For
Allis-Clialmers Tractors
Hillman Drills
Mining Equipment
Nome, Alaska
The PAA mail plane arrived
Nome today from Fairbanks at
about 12:30 with mail, but no
first class, due to the cancellation
of the January 6th sailing of the
Mount McKinley from Seattle.
On the return flight the plane
carried for Fairbanks, Mr. and
Mrs. Lars Rynning and Miss Lily
David for Golovin.
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Monday, March 11, 1940 has
been set by Judge J H S Mori
son as the beginning of the 1940
General Term of the U S District
Court Nome.
Grand and Petit juries will
then be drawn returnable April
15 and 22 respectively.
Outgoing passengers today on
the PAA plane were Mr. and
Mrs. L E Rynning bound for a
vacation in the States, their first
in several years.
Mr. Rynning is manager of the
Lomen Commercial Co. at Nome.
He and Mrs. Rynning will visit
their children at Tacoma, where
! they are attending school.
The Democratic Club of Nome
met at the city hall Sunday af
ternoon and in accordance with
its by-laws completed election of
permanent officers for the next
two year term. Re-signing of the
roll of the club for the same
period took place, and next Sun
day, at 2 pm was set as the
| tife for the next meeting.
The newly elected officers were
as follows:
Chairman M J Walsh
Vice Chairman Fred W Yenney
Secretary Gene Kell
Treasurer John Lichtenberg
i Sergeant-at-arms Clyde Cock
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Discussion of the coming pri
I mary election ensued and com
j mittees are reported to be work
■ ing toward getting a full ticket
i filed. Reports are expected to be
! made at next Sunday’s meeting
concerning candidates.
Senator O D Cochran addres
ised the meeting declaring that
his candidacy to succeed himself
for another two-year term would
be filed at an early date. Expres
sions were also expected from
okher leading Democrats as to
their filing dates.
The Nome Drug Store Holiday
j Gift drawing of the $100 in gold
j nuggets will be held this even
j in g at the Nome Drug Store at
3:00 p.m. The nuggets have been
on display at the Store for over
a month and are as nice a col
lection of nuggets as you can win
anywhere, or dig for that mat
ter.
U S Marshal B B Mozee left
Nome Sunday morning via Wien
Alaska Airlines plane for For
tuna Ledge to pick up a 10-year
old Eskimo girl found insane by
a jury last week. Mrs. C C Tan
ner traveled at matron.
The party remained over-night
at Fortuna Lodge and returned
to Nome today.
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Mirow Air Service
Activities
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Pilot Jcfford with the Reindeer
Acquisition Unit carrying C G
Burdick and Sid Rood landed in
Shaktoclik this afternoon and
will leave for Unalakleet this ev
ening, and expect to return to
Nome tomorrow.
Pilot Chambers landed at Mar
shal this afternoon on his regular
mail run and is expected in
Nome this week-end.
Pilot Sasseen left Anchorage,
this morning and is expected in
Nome this afternoon and will
leave for Anchorage Wednesday
with a load of passengers, and ex j
pects to make two round trips
this week in time to meet thej
boat this week end at Anchorage, j
Pilot Sasseen arrived Nome to
day from Anchorage with the
Mirow Air Service Lockheed
Vega plane which was flown to j
the States last summer and given j
a complete overhaul and rebuild. J
Tomorrow Pilot Sasseen is sched j
uled to make a flight to Wales,
to pick up a load of excess mail, j
Wien Airlines
Activities
January 13—A flight was made ^
to Taylor with a load of freight 4
and mail. 4
January 14 — Frank Whaley 4,
made a flight to Marshall re- |
turning to Nome today. B B Mo- 4
zee and Mrs. C C Tanner made 4
the round trip. A native girl 4
was also brought to Nome. , ^
Two trips are scheduled for 11
points north tomorrow. A trip is 4
planned for Fairbanks the latter 4
part of this week. 4
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The Board of Directors of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber
of Commerce will hold a meet^
ing at North Pole at 12 o’clock
noon Tuesday, Jan. 16.
Acoording to this week’s pas
sengers list aboard the S. S. Al
aska, leaving Seattle Saturday, j
Miss Zelda Griffith, Miss Johnny
Johnson, and Mrs. Guy E. Mish,
wife of Postmaster Mish, all of
Nome are enroute to this city.
The Potter Studio and Scotch
Shop is holding its gift drawing
tonight at 8 o’clock. The first
is a $25.00 Raven Screen for the
movie fan and the second prize a 1
$15.00 Agfa still camera with 6.3 "
lens, or an equal value in mer-j i
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Write to your friends and rela j
ives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour j
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big j
I <tck out of it.
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THEY COT THE BIRD(S) —Shyness seemed to over
come Novelist Ernest Hemingway (left) when he and Christopher
LaFarge, author and poet, posed at Sun Valley, Idaho, with their
day’s catch of snipe, fast-flying game bird.
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SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA ROUTE
Leave Due Leave Due
>TEAMER Seattle Seward Seward Seattle
dt. McKINLEY .. Jan 6 Jan 12 Jan 12 Jan 18
ALASKA —.— Jan 13 Jan 19 Jan 19 Jan 25
dt. McKINLEY .— Jan 20 Jan 20 Jan 26 Feb l.._
ALASKA . Jan 27 Feb 2 Feb 2 Feb 8
dt. McKINLEY . Feb 3 Feb 9 Feb 9 Feb 15
VLASKA .. . Feb 10 Feb 16 Feb 16 Feb 22
iTUKON ... Feb 17 Feb 23 Feb 23 Feb 29
UjASKA.Feb 24 Mar 1 Mar 1 Mar 7
(Note: All sailings subject to change without notice.)
JOE HARN1SH, Agent
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