Ill the interest of Food Conservation, you are
earnestly urged to do what you can toward
saving and guarding against waste of Food.
Sarn’i Applebaum
DRY GOODS 3 FURNISHINGS
FLAT
Ladies, buy your Arctics, Dawsons, Rubbers and Rubber Boots
from us, with a guarantee that they are not
injured by frost or age
Childrens’ Rubbers, Pacs and Rubber Boots
at Outside Prices
GASOLINE CAUSES
DISASTROUS FIRE
Treacherous gasoline caused the total
destruction of the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Soutar shortly before the
noon hour last Monday, and the very
severe burning of Mrs. Soutar, who
was alone in the house, and not an
other person within a distance of two
blocks. That Mrs. Soutar escaped with
her life is miraculous—as her should
ers, arms, neck and face are frightfully
burned. With her clothing afire Mrs.
Soutar rushed from the flame-filled
house clear across First street into the
hard-crusted deep snow for relief, and
her screams quickly brought a couple
of neighbors to her aid, who found the
little woman in an exhausted condition
from the terrible experience. Site was
quickly carried to the Adams house,
where "first relief” requisites were
splendidly applied by neighboring
women, and a fast dogteam piloted by
1500 ROLLS
FOR SALE
To close out my stock of
Wallpaper, I will dispose of
same at 25c and 50c per roll
fall double rolls). Come and
make your selections before
the stock is “picked over.”
Geo, W, Adams, Iditarod
MEN’S FURNISHINGS
Linoleum
Wallpaper
Drugs
Toilet Articles
Get Under a New Hat
J. B. Stetsons and Others
Remember, those boys in France are
YOUR boys. Do YOUR durndest in
eaving food, and they will get THEIR
bite. _
Ansleys
STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA
| Hurry Watson was despatched towards
j Fiat City to pick up and return with
i Dr. Heed, who had been ’phoned for,
'anti started afoot. The physician
reached here in record time, and re- j
1 mained at the bedside of the sufferer
[ the entire night. Dr. Heed, accom
panied by Hob Griffis, removed the pa- |
lient to his hospital at Flat City on :
Tuesday afternoon.
The house burned completely to the
ground—not a article of wearing ap
parel or furniture was saved, and Mr.
Soutar was also badly burned on the
forehead and right hand while attempt
ing to enter the back door of the burn
ing cabin. The loss is a severe one to
the Soutars, it being one of the best
furnished homes in the camp. Besides
a fine piano there were several other
prized musical instruments, including
a costly phonograph and an immense
cabinet of the most expensive records.
A distressing item of loss was a bird |
cage containing four or five sweet-sing- j
ing canaries, that made the little home
echo with their song.
It is only a month since Mr. Soutar’s j
place of business—the Merchants cafe j
-was by effective work of volunteer!
firemen saved from a fire that was get- j
ting under good headwav.
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RESUMES PUBLICATION
The Pioneer is pleased is welcome j
the re-appearance of the Ruby Record- j
Citizen after asuspension of publication >
since last October. The new manager j
is Gus Lynell, who arrived in Ruby the |
early part of March from Nome, and !
issued his first paper on the 9th. Be- j
sides being an efficient linotype oper
ator, Mr. Lynell has had much experi
ence in all branches of newspaper
work. He resigned as a member of the j
city council of Nome before leaving for 1
I Ruby.
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John McCormick, the noted Irish
tenor, announced recently that he
would pay his own expenses and tour
the country until he earned $100,000,
which he would present to the Amer
ican Red Cross for whatever puimpose it
might see fit.
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NOW, JOE, WILL TOD BE GOOD? j
I've beamed when you hollered,“Oh
girlie.”
I’ve hopped when you bellowed
“Oh, say,”
And everything else till today;
But there’s one thing that’s got to
be different
From now till the great war is
done,
Unless you’re prepared for a riot,
You’ve got to quit calling me
“Hun.” —Ex.
C. R PECK, FLAT
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£ LOCAL AND PERSONAL <>
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♦OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOf
Jack H. Foreman, the Flat black
smith, who started for the Outside on
the last trip of the steamer Washburn
last September to spend the winter in
the States, reached camp last Tuesday,
after a long mush over the Seward
trail.
Owen Gray substituted for Mail Car
rier Smith on the trip to McGrath last
week, and returned here on last Mon
day afternoon with the mail from the
Outside. Mr. Smith treated himself
and his faithful dogteam to nearly a
week of much-needed rest, andresumod
the run last Tuesday in fine spirits.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaller have moved
to Discovery for the summer.
Mrs. Frank Larson and little daugh
ter Frances were in town a couple days
tiie first of the week.
The Beaton & Donnelley dredge is
being overhauled and prepared for the
summer’s work. About a dozen men
are engaged in this work.
Miss Nelson, who recently returned
from Dikoman, has gone to Otter,
where she will be employed in Riley’s
messhouse for the summer.
A (1-pound baby boy arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gong
tin of Discovery, Otter, at f> o’clock
last Tuesday evening. Dr. Behla was
in attendance.
Chas. Itl. Taylor and Cyril P. Wood
made a trip to Flat Wednesday.
Harry Yeager, who recently arrived
here from Marshall, is leaving today
for the Coast, a passenged of Sid Ensor.
Joe Owens arrived in camp Wednes
day, after spending the winter Outside.
He reports wages high but living so
expensive that the former proportion
is not improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Darling of Marshall
passed through the first of the week
on their way to the Outside.
The recent arrivals from Marshall
tell of raids on blind pigs at Jungle
town in the Marshall district. Helen
Moulton is serving a jail sentence for
selling whiskey. She was fined $300
but refused to pay it, preferring the
jail alternative. Mrs. Norton, who was
found with a bottle of whiskey in her
possession, has been arrested.
Mrs. Dawson was a visitor at Flat
last Wednesdav.
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OYEZ! OYEZ1
The town council of Iditarod will
meet tonight (Saturday, March 30) to
“wind up” the business affairs of the
municipality for the past year. All
members are urgently requested to be
on hand promptly. Also, all persons,
firms and corporations having bills
against the city government are re
quested to have the same ready for
consideration at the meeting.
FLOUR FROM ALASKA
Seattle Post-Intelligencer—It has
takeA some time to realize, by actual
experiment, that Alaska agriculture is
likely to prove a profitable vocation in
the great northern territory, but evi
dence is accumulating that practically
every crop produced in the north tem
perate zone may be produced on Alas
ka's rich valley lands. Pioneers have
been producing bountiful crops of pota
toes for some years, and the Alaska
rutabaga has been successfully culti
vated. Root crops having proven a
success, the experimenters diverged
into small grain production and har
vested some amazing crops of oats and
barley. In recent years the federal
agricultural station at Fairbanks has
been developing a native seed wheat,
and results obtained last fall indicate
that bountiful wheat crops may be pro
duced in the North. A public-spirited
citizen at Fairbanks has installed a
small flour mill and is now manufactur
ing Alaska flour out of Alaska wheat
produced in the Tanana Valley.
Large crops are produced in Europe
on land much farther north than the
Alaska agricultural lands.
WEATHER REPORT
Following are the daily temperatures
from readings taken by Captain E. J.
Smith, volunteer observer.
Date— Max. Min.
March 23. 3 —30
11 24. 15 -22
“ 25. 1(5 —24
“ 20 34 10
“ 27 30 20
“ 28. 40 20
it 20 32 28
NOTICE
Iwillnotba responsible for billsof my
employes. A, H, TWITCHELL,
March. 30, 1918.
A. J. WEISS
The
Cl< >lhier
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Psflarx Good Clothes j
Ladies’ Furnishings
Mrs. L. C. Thornton, Flat
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POLLY CLIFFORD HERE
The storkoplane of Dr. Moore was
noticed hovering rather mysteriously
in the vicinity of the Summit road
house early last Thursday morning,
and scarcely before anyone could
realize the fact, it had descended
| upon the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Leo Clifford and presented them with a
fine sure-enough suffragette—at least
the welcome little stranger commenced
■ immediately to demand its rights in no
i uncertain tones. The proud father,
having heard something about the cus
tom of weighing new arrivals, started
to look for scales for that purpose, but ■
he couldn’t find anything in that line;
but 30-foot hay scales; ho decided they I
hadn’t the capacity, and, besides, they |
were frozen so tightly that he could j
not budge them. Consequently, at this ;
writing, the little miss has not been
weighed.
Mrs. Clifford and Polly (that's its
name) are doing fine, and if “Dad Leo”
could have had his way The Pioneer
this week would have been printed
! with green and red and blue ink.
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Charles E. Taylor and C. P! Wood
returned home last Monday from their J
j trip to Takotna and McGrath.
OLD CLOTHES DRIVE IS STILL ON
The ladies in charge request that if
you have any old clothes or shoes that
are serviceable, and which you would
like to send to the Belgians, to please
send them in. They can be loft at the
Adams house, the N. C. Co., or at the
telephone office.
NOTIONS,
Ladies’ Furnishings
—AT—
Mrs. Chittick’s, Flat
REMODELED :: REOPENED
PORCELAIN
Tub i laths
Open At All Hours
The CROSBY
Home of the 20th Century Turkish
Bath
NOW
IS THE TIME
TO
HOOVERIZE
Northern Commercial Co.