THE NOME NUGGET
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SMALL OPPORTUNITY
Family of Five
Buried in Landslide
TURIN, Italy, —A landslide
thundered down a*600-foot hill at
nearby Verrua Savoia yesterday,
smashing a small hotel and bury
ing five members of the hotel
keeper’s family in the ruins.
All were feared dead.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: George Amarok and
Emma Reeves.
Discharged: Everett Ehrhart.
There are about 150 potato and
' vegetable growers in Alaska. The
Jollowing vegetables are produced
in Alaska and will be on the mar
ket during Alaska Farm Month:
lettuce, cabbage, radishes, carrots,
green onions, broccoli, cauliflow
er, squash, peas, greens kohlrabi,
turnips, rhubarb, and potatoes.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget
Masonry Falls From
New York Building
Struck by Lightning
NEW YORK, WV-Lightning
struck the 40-story Equitable
Building on Broadway near Pine
Street Wednesday night, sending
a shower of chunks of masonry
down from an upper floor.
The debris shattered a 20-foot
flagpole at the fifth floor level.
Police, fearing more falling
stonework, closed off Broadway
between Wall and Cedar Streets
pending a survey of damage.
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NO MORE EASY STREET
POTTSTOWN, Pa., —A num
ber of residents of nearby North
Coventry Township awoke yes
terday morning to find they no
longer live on Easy Street.
The township road supervisors
the night before had changed the
name to Creek Road.
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i GAMBELL
NEWS LETTER
By CLARENCE IRRIGOO
SUMMER. 1357
“And at midnight . . . behold,
the bridegroom cometh.”
Young man and woman were
determined to be married one day
last June. Determination was so
urgent that they called the Mar
riage Commissioner at midnight
and had him solemnize the mar
riage. Good luck to the young
couple, Raymond Toolie and Eliz
abeth Sevouhok, both of Savoon
ga, Alaska.
New Teachers and Missionaries
Former teachers and mission
aries of Gambell left the island
for their new stations this sum
mer. New people arrived to take
I their places. The teachers have
three children. We are looking
forward to a happy winter with
them.
High School Students
Another school season nearing
its first day made the young peo
ple who were home for the sum
mer repack their belongings.
They are preparing to leave their
fafrnilies, relatives and friends to
spend another winter at Mt.
Edgecumbe and Sheldon Jackson
High Schools.
These young American citizens
have not come home to spend the
summer for fun. They are the
members of the Ground Observer
Corps and have spent many hours
during their free time.
They also went fishing and bird
hunting during the short vacation
period.
And now they have given up
their homes and loved ones once
again to acquire more education
and, if need be, to become one of
Alaska’s leading citizens. We pray
that the Airlines who are respon
sible in providing the transporta
tions will have safe trips thruout
all the years to come in our great
land of ALASKA.
Keep It Under Your Stetson
No one knows that the Seventh
Day Adventist Church is going to
build a house at Gambell until a
tug with a barge in. tow arrives
with a load of lumber.
St. Lawrence Island is a Rein
deer Reservation; therefore, peo
ple other than the Eskimos are
prohibited to build anything ex
cept military. The Presbyterian
Church, USA, which had a church
building for almost 70 years, has
a long term lease.
Because the two villages have
few people, all members of the
Presbyterian Church, USA, other
churches have not asked to build
a place of worship beside the
fully organized Church. But for
several years the Seventh Day
Adventist Church have been dig
ging its head into a fully organ
ized villages under cover. Their
plans were so secret that no one
know they are coming. Without
the consent of the village and the
Village Council, their house is
built.
A Law keeper breaks a law!
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! THE TRADING POST
Three-Quarter Length Parkas
Nylon Down-Filled Parkas
Insulated Rubber Boots
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Army Cots and Mattresses
Parkas, Jackets and Liners
At The Trading Post
Sourdough Reunion Newsletter
By CARRIE M. McLAIN
Have been waiting for the In
! ternational Sourdough Reunion to
I terminate before writing and giv
ing you a word picture of events.
The *picnic was held Sunday,
! Sept. 1. It was a lovely ending to
i four perfect and unforgetable
! days. Right from last Thursday
afternoon when registration took
place at the Olympic Hotel there
was no end of meeting old “sour
doughs.” The feeling is indescrib
able upon meeting folks I had not
j seen in 48 and 50 years.
Breakfast With the Seppalas
I met Leonard Seppala and his
wife at registration, and had waf
fle breakfast Friday morning at
their lovely home and saw all the
many silver trophies, won at the
dog races, Seppala run from
Nome, on down the line, not to
mention citations from the gov
ernor of Alaska and from Nor
way. Saw all his early Nome pic
tures, some of which I hope will
go back to Nome once we can get
a museum under way. He has a
wealth of pictures—mining, Eski
mos of the early days and dog
pictures.
Old Friends ai the Tea
Friday afternoon there was a
tea for the women and a stag
1 party for the men. There must
have been at least 300 women
gathered at this tea in the Olym
pic Hotel. The occasion was nice
ly handled by the Ladies of the
Golden North, with sandwiches
and homemade cookies that re
minded me of Nome.
At the tea I met Mary Rodine
whom I had not seen since 1906
and Bertha White’s mother, who
is now 88 years' old. I also met
Edith Weaver, Mrs. Mazen, Mrs.
Ole Hay, Connie Mazen, Mabel
Searl Fletcher, Mrs. Mahan, Ellen
Lyle Smith, Bessie Fowler, Jennie
O’Farrell, Mrs. Grant Laiblin,
Helen Teasack, Mrs. Wallace,
Mrs. Rdss Kinney, Mrs. Ratten
berg, Mrs. Rydeen, Mrs. Morri
son (Judge Morrison’s widow), the
wife of Leonard Best, Hazel Lind
berg, who was in Nome gathering
material for a book, Pearl Van
Sickle, and Lulu Fairbanks.
There was Mrs. Harry Ellingston,
whose husband I saw for the first
time when we were both in the
sixth grade ip Nome in 1906, Mrs.
Richard Sundquist and daughter
Anne, and Mrs. Code, Mrs. Kor
thauer, who came to Nome in
1905 on the same trip of the Vic
toria that we had made, and who
well remembered all of us thru
that stormy trip. There were all
these and many others I can’t
recall at the moment.
What a happy throng we all
made—those from Fairbanks and
Dawson—it was a chatty after
noon.
Jim Gaffney's Nome Room
Later we went to Jim Gaffney’s
Nome Room where George Go
shaw had many of his pictures
and old newspapers. Jim had pic
tures of the early days that just
kept one in retrospection. What
wouldn’t I give to have those back
to Nome!
Also at the Nome Room I met
Rosalie Rank, who had also been
at the tea, and Hazel Dashley,
whom I hadn’t seen since 1909.
What a talk fest! Ada Wolffe Bast
was also there looking at a group
picture taken of her and other
young Nome folks including
Grant Jackson and Fred Hanks
many years ago. I saw more old
time pictures of Nome than I can
: ever remember seeing bofore. It
j was a rare treat and certainly a
| nice gesture on Jim Gaffney’s
| part.
At the tea I met a Mrs. J. Z.
i Sexton, who wore her Dawson
j badge. She mentioned having
I lived next to Mr. and Mrs. Guffey
1 on Whidby Island where both had
I a home for 41 years. Mr. Guffey
! died all of 20 years ago and Mrs.
i Guffey, who planned to attend
i this reunion, passed away August
| 21st. There were six sons, all bom
| in Nome. None of the sons is liv
| ing on the island tho two reside
I in Seattle. One son is dead,
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The Grand Ball
Friday evening was the grand
j ball, held in the Spanish Ball
' room, a hall easily as large as the
! old Eagle Hall if not larger. An
j 11-piece orchestra played some of
! the ragtime tunes and waltzes. It
| was surprising to see the number
j of old couples dancing and having
| a merry time.
Dancing at the ball were Gus
Masik, Dick Racine, Mr. Siever
son, Charles Holkie and Oliver
Anderson. I saw Mrs. Dustin and
the BilJ Kelseys, Andy Box, Mrs.
Benawa, Mr. Debaum (?) who
worked for Tony Polet, and Bill
Pangman, who looks just as
young as he did 30 years ago in
spite of being blind. He gets by
surprisingly well, even to dancing.
Bertha McKay was enjoying
herself to the utmost at the ball.
You could see the old-timers are
dear to her heart. Slim Rydeen
dosen’t take a back seat for any
old-timer past 80; and Alice is
just as active at 70 as she was at
I 50. Mrs. Morrison has been their
house guest and she so enjoyed
this gathering, saying it was just
like being in Nome again. I also
saw Dave Runyan and daughter,
Jane Maddox, Mrs. Dustin, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Swartz, and “Big”
McIntyre.
There were 86 couples in the
grand march, with far more sit
ting on the sidelines. They
marched to the old tune “I’m
A-Workin’ on the Railroad” and
it was so peppy the old-timers x
had to march in spite of them
selves.
Thru all these main events
there were many little snack par
ties by the different groups, but
I was lucky to make the main
doings, as it kept Art busy driving
me to the functions and getting
to places on time. This business
of covering distances in all this
traffic is just beyond me—not to
mention the parking situation.
( TO BE CONTINUED )
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