We Are Pleased to be Able to Announce That
Our Stock Is Most Complete
And of the Very Best of Everything
Sam’l Applebaum
Smith’s
FLAT
Dry Goods,
Ladies'and Children’s
Footwear
A Store Full of Big Values
Invites Your Inspection....
IGHT NOW when the high cost of living is attack
ing von on all sides is the time of all times when
you should investigate and compare values. When
we see the prices quoted ’roundabout us and by the
many catalog houses whose offerings and prices we have
checked up, we have no hesitancy in saying that you
will find in our store item after item of a quality that is
better, or at a price that is lower than you can find any
where else. Now, we say to you, compare this store’s
values with what you can find anywhere else, and you
are sure to trade with us.
REMODELED :: REOPENED
PORCELAIN
Tub laths
Open At All Hours
The CROSBY
Home of the 20th Centurv Turkish
Bath
Basil Clemons, the photographer,
who is on his way Outside, has decided
to remain in the camp a weak or so.
This is due to the fact that many wish
to take advantage of his well-known
talent, and as well as waiting favorable
trail aud moon conditions.
WE CARRY,..
Wool Blankets,
Bedsteads,
Mattresses
and Springs,
Wallpaper,
Linoleum
Spring Cleaning Time Is
Coming, Get Ready Now
Wfc BUY PI IBQ
AND SELL I Wl\V
Ansleys
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
IDITAROD. ALASKA
SDBSTITOTE FOR COAL
That Alaska’s coal resources are at
tracting the attention of persons in
coal districts in other parts of tiie
Union is evidenced by the following
comment from the Advertiser, of Hunt
ington, W. Va.:
“With the object of quickening the
industrial development of Alaska that
is expected to follow the building of
the government railway there, Uncle
Sam’s bureau of mines has recently
made a number of tests as to the qual
ity of the mineral resources there with
encouraging results,’’ says the Adver
tiser.
“A quantity of lignite, a type of low
grade coal that does not stand transpor
tation because of its tendency to dry up
and blow away, was shipped iu watei
tight sacks to the bureau from the Ne
uana field with the purpose of finding
out whether it could be manufactured
into briquettes and made available for
shipment.
“According to a report made to Van
H. Manning, director of the bureau of
mines, this lignite was not only bri
quetted successfully, but it was found
to contain in this form nearly double
the heating and steaming value of the
original lignite.11
Mrs Jay J. Smith has been in Idit
arod several days this week.
The Joe Miller Contest
Captain Harrigan claims that the
oldest joke is the one about the smart
guy who saw a sign in a store window.
The sign read: “Iron sinks.’’ The
smart guy went into the shop and said:
“Why have you that sign there? I
| know very well that iron sinks.” And
the shopkeeper replied: “Yes, I sup
pose you know that wine vaults and
sulphur springs, and jelly rolls, and
music stands, and Niagara falls, and
moonlight walks, and holiday trips, and
scandal spreads, and rubber tires, and
trade returns, and marble busts.”—Ex.
SLEDS TO ORDER
And Repaired on Short Notice
All Sizes of Brakes, Bows and Other Parts in Stock
All Sizes of Hickory on Hand for Sale
CARPENTER WORK FROM LOG CABINS TO CABINET MAKING
Ralph J. Button, Flat
C. R PECK, FLAT
TONIGHT’S
THE NIGHT
Not for many a day 1ms the big A. B.
hali in this city been so attracively dec
orated as it is for tonight’s Red Cross
benefit ball giveu by Camp Iditarod
No. 27, Arctic Brotherhood. Numerous
large banners of snow-white material
bearing a red cross in the center of the
field of each, together with large pen
nant-shaped flags of the same kind and
design, are artistically placed around
the entire walls of the hall and hung
diagonally across it. There are also
wide panels of red and white decorative
stuff, in lattice-work design, neatly
placed in locations that add greatly to
the general effectiveness of the whole
decorative scheme.
The favorable weather of the past
week ensures a large attendance, and
hotel accommodations have been ar
ranged for days in advance.
The“feed” part of the affair has been
given ample attention, and as that part
lias been placed in the hands of “Hub”
Riley, the retaurameur of long experi
ence, you should worry about that.
Lack of transportation don't go as an j
excuse for not attending tonight's big
dance. Besides the regular stage-line
facilities and numerous private rigs,
“Dredge Mover” Chapin and “Seawolf” ;
Larson have equipped mammoth four
hoss carry-alls that will hold as many
as can pile on.
Telephonic messages from the creeks
say that everybody is coming to the
big dance, and so is everybody else.
“Sandy” McDonald is surely expected,
provided, of course, that he can catch
the “5:15.”
BE ON THE LOOKOUT
For a thick-set individual of medium
height, prominent whiskerless chin,
cold steel-gray eyes, wears a win
ning smile and cowhide boots. He
usually hibernates on Otter creek,
and is liablo to be loaded with decks
of marked cards and tailor-made
dice. If he gets “action” among the
big crowd at the A. B. Hall tonight
the Bed Cross fund will swell pro
digiously.
LEAGUE WORK CUTOUT
The executive board of the Alaska
Loyal League, met at Flat on Wednes
day evening, ail the members being.in ;
attendance.
The board was organized by making
the president and secretary of the
league the chairman and secretary, re
spectively, of the board. A few by
laws for the guidance of the board
were adopted, and the following com
mittees were created, and the chair
men appointed:
Food Conservation, Thomas Mc
Mahon; Liberty Bonds, Richard C.
Button; Membership. Grant Murdock;
Reading for Our Soldiers, Mrs. Anna
Chittick; Red Cross, Mrs. V. F, Jacob;
Registration and Statistics, Geo. W. :
Albrecht, and War Revenue, C. R.
Peck. Other committees will be ap
pointed as the need may arise.
Various matters of more or less im
portance were considered and disposed
of by appropriate action, taken or de
ferred.
RELIGIOUS^ SERVICES
Rev. F. L Forbes, D. D., may con
tinue in the comp a week longer than
he expected to. There was a large
attendance at Flat Sunday night last,
and good attendance at Otter Monday
night in spite of the storm. Services
will be in Flat at 7:30 o’clock tomorrow
(Sunday) evening. A number of chil
dren may be baptized. A service will
be held at Iditarod in the schoolhouse
Monday evening next._
Several ailments seem to afflict our
winter mail service, but the ‘ wander
lust” is not one of them.
WEATHER REPORT
Following are the daily temperatures
from readings taken by Captain E. J.
Smith, volunteer observer.
Date— Max. Min.
Januarv 26. —26 —40
“ ' 27. 20 28
“ 28 20 30
“ 29 30 32
“ 30. 30 34
“ 31. 18 24
February 2. 16 16
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Job Printing at Pioneer office.
Hats Hats
JOHN B STETSON
A. J. WEISS
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes
&
Mrs. L. C. Thornton, Flat
JAY JOHNSTON’S BROTHER
GOES OUTSIDE TO BE AIRMAN
Fairbanks News-Miner, Dec. 14:
Leaving Fairbanks tomorrow, Fred
Johnston expects to go Outside to en
list in the aviation corps of the United
States army. Mr. Johnston is a well
known old-timer of the North, having
spent practically all his life in the
Dawson and Fairbanks districts. He
is going to try to get into the aviation
corps, if possible, and owing to his wide
experience with gasoline engines, his
friends believe he will have little diffi
culty in making it.
Sid Ensor returned Thursday from
his trip to Takotna and McGrath. On
the way he passed three government
officials, Nelson O. Brigham, the timber
cruiser, a fur warden, and a game war*
den. They were bound for Iditarou*
Ensor is leaving again In a few days
with a passenger for Seward.
NOTIONS,
Ladies’ Furnishings
—AT—
Mrs. Chittick’s, Flat
Ralph J. Button has finished his work
shop. He has it adequately fitted up
with steam tanks and other appliances
to faciliate his turning out rapidly first
class carpenter and repair work.
Photography
PORTRAIT
AND
VIEW WORK
I’ll Be Here for a
Short Time Only
Basil Clemons, Flat
GOOD
DOG
Bacon
30c. Lb.
Northern Commercial Co.