LOCAL NEWS
CHRISTMAS TREK AT
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There will be a Christmas Tree
and program at the Community
Church Riven by the Sunday School,
Sunday evening at S:00 p. m. The
public is cordially irvited to attend
end see the little forks perform and
enjoy the program.
NEW SHOWER RATH INSTALLER
AT ELITE RATES
Andrew Box. the genial proprietor
of the Elite Hotel and Bath House,
reports that he has just recently
renovated the shower bath at the
Elite and invites the public to try
the new equipment out. Andy says
that bathers cannot come too early
or too late to net service at the
WARNING TO MI'S HERS
The ice in Bering Sea at Cape
Nome has left the beach and drifted
approximately 7 miles from shore
for a distance of about one mile
t-:.ch way from Cape Nome, aecord
irg to Mr. Abrnhamson. who was in
Nome yesterday afternoon. Mush
ers should beware of this strip, as a
thin scum of ice will form over this
open space and may give the appear
ance of old ice, but will not he
strong enough to hold any weight.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Ed Muldrow is out of the Hospital
and i3 stopping at the Elite Hotel.
Ed has had a long seige :.t the hos
pital with an injured foot and his
many friends are glad to see hint out
and improving.
AI. Orland is confined to the hos
p.tal this week, but is said to be im
proving in health the last few days.
JAMES KEENAN WILL MAKE
TRIP TO NEW YORK
.fame* J. Keenan. the representa
tivp of the H. S. Newman interests
’in this district wl^ ^uvp Nome in a
few days for a business trip to New
York. Mr. Keenan will make the
trip to Nenana with his fast dog
team, and from there will go to
Reward over the Government Rail
road. and to Seattle by steamer, and
entrain from the latter place for
New York. Mr. Keenan expects to
return to Nome at the opening of
H. It. KIIWARDS WILL LEAVE
FOR STATES OVER TRAIL
Superintendent II. R. Edwards of
the Hamm on Consolidated Gold
Fields, will leave Nome next week
for the States. L. Sc-ppala will take
Mr. Edwards to Nenana with the
crack dog team owned by the Ham
mnn Company, and from there Mr.
Edwards will make the trip to Sew
nrd over the Government Railroad,
and thence to Seattle by steamer.
Business calls the Superintendent of
the Mammon Company to the States,
and he. will probably return to Nome
in the Spring on the first boat from
the States.
SANTA CUl'S ON WAY TO NOME
FROM NORTH POLE
Santa Claus will arrive in Nome
with his team of Reindeer. Christ
mas Eve and will make his head
quarters at the Lomen Drug Store,
and Holt’s Hardware Store. Dog
owners are requested to keep their
dogs off the streets next Monday as
the Reindeer are very easily fright
ened by dogs, and should anything
happen to the. Reindeer team of dear
old Santa Claus, the kiddies in the
States as well as here, might be
forc<*l to be out of toys etc., this
Christmas. Santa Claus will be in
Nome in the afternoon and will un
doubtedly leave for the States im
mediately after dispensing toys and
other gifts to the kiddies of Nome.
Lomen Brothers are in receipt of a
telegram from Santa Claus which is
dated from the North Pole and
which states that he (Santa Claus)
is leaving the North Pole today and
will be at the Lomen StoTe Monday,
and deliver presents Monday after
noon before rushing to Seattle.
Santa adds that he has his crack
team of reindeer and is well provid
ed with presents for the kiddles aa
well as for the grown ups.
frank miller arrived in
NOME FROM TELLER
Frank Miller arrived !n Nome
from Teller last Tuesday evening.
Mr. Miller state* that 1.200 deer of
the Douglas her! are being driven
dow n and will be located at SunBOt
Cr*»ek. where they will bo slaughter
ed for the public.
MlliO’S ( \FK H11.I, €51VK AWA1
CAKE MONDAY
Tli.' drawing tor the large fruil
take.at Milo’s Cafe. which is beinjj
Kiven away by the Manager. Johr
I.epri. will take place next Monday
afternoon at 4:00 o’clock, in tht
dining room of the cafe. All num
bers which have been issued will be
placed In a box. and someone select
ed to make the drawing. The luckv
person holding the number corres
ponding to the one drawn from the
box. will be d**olared the winner ot
the cake. The public is invited to be
there and bring along their tickets
representing chances on the cake.
MAIL NOTICE
The mail arrived in Nome from the
outside last Sunday and the outgo
ing mail left Nome Inst Tuesday for
the States. The next incoming mail
had not arrived at Golovin up to 7
p. m.. Thursday, and therefore is
uot expected* to arrive in Nome be
Men’s Sport Sweater*, all wool, at
the Swenson Co., for $3.00.
SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAH
Willi ?hi’ remarkably mild wea
un regretted. In fm-t. though todav
i.; tho shortest day of the year, wo
have already passed the nadir point,
for at 9:45 this morning the sun
reached tho farthest point south.
solstice, and from today, the days
will lengthen, at first imperceptibly,
but gradually gaining until around
the equinox the daily gain is t« min
utes and 45 seconds.
Today. December 22. is the short
est day of the year, but the differ
ence hif the length of the days
can only be calculated. Today is 2
seconds shorter than yesterday. The
2:00:35 p. in., making the interval
from sunrise to sunset 4 hours 55
seconds. At noon the su-n was but 2
degrees, 20 minutes above the hori
zon. while the declination was 23 de
grees, 27 minutes south.
By January 1. the day has gained
12 minutes—2 in the forenoon and
10 iu the afternoon, and by January
10 the increase is noticeable to the
most casual observer. The days
lengthen out in the afternoon first,
which seems ■peculiar, but this is due
to the fact that that the equation of
time at the solstice is additive,
to apparent time. and for a
while gains more than the sun. If
apparent time were kept instead of
s'endau-d mean time, forenoon and
afternoon would show the same Ln
The apparent movement of the
sun from south to north from Dec
ember to June, and from north to
ward south from June to December,
which gives us our reasons and the
varying days, is due to two couses,
the annual revolution of the earth
around the sun. and the inclination
of the earth’s axis, or poles, to the
plane af the orbit around the sun.
The poles are inclined or tilted at an
angle of fifi deg. 33 min. to the plane
of the orbit, and the pole-s always
point in the same direction in space,
no matter what part of the orbit the
earth is in. This causes the poles to
alternately lean toward and away
from the sun. At the equinoxes the
plane of the poles Is perpendicular
to the orbit and the sun is vertically
over the equator. If the earth were
spinning around upright in its orbit,
we would have no seasons and the
sun would always be at the same
JOHN A. WILSON
Chocolate Candy at the Swenson
Co., only JOT cents per pound. Mixed
candy In glass* jars 75 cents per
Christmas IWnner at Bahlke’s
Koast Turkey with Cranberry Sauce.
Fresh Roast Pork and Apple Sauce,
Crab Salad.
Corn on the Cob.
lemon and Mince l*ie.
Ice Cream.
| Newly Renovated I
Hot and Cold Baths
* ELITE BATH HOUSE
liny and Night. Try Them Out. I
WATCH REPAIRING
Leave your Watches, r.nd Clocki
at Holt’s Hal’d ware Store, they will
he cleaned and repaired prompt!)
at a reasonable price. Mail orders
wil receive prompt attention. All
work guaranteed.
KT>WART> J. FOX.
Subscribe NOW tot ttio Nome Naggei
SKAPUVK l'KKI» TO
UKfMTK SHIPWRECKS
Pensacola. Dec. 20th—A twin
motored soap-lane from the Pensaco
la Naval Station landed 150 raQee
south of Mobile in the open Gulf and
rescued three mem from am Eagle
boot w*hich had beem adrift since
last Friday night. The sea was fair
ly rough when the rescue was made.
.JOCKEY ESTARUSHES NEW
RECORD Hill 192.1
New York. Dec. 21—Karl S. Shade,
a premier American jockey, estab
lished a now money-winning record
for 1922. by riding horses to victo
ries which netted the owners tihe
j total sum of $444,125.00.
1 HATE OF EXCHANGE
l»KCEM1IEH FIFTEENTH
j Now York. IW. 19lh Noon Hi
1 change cables I December 15th were:
Sterling 4.37.31; French Franc 5.32
Italian Lire 1.35; Dutch Guilder
| Cold Peso 73.12: Shanghai Taol
(72.04; Indian Rupee 30.94 and bar
j TWO MORE KILLED IN PLANE IN
TEXAS FLIGHT
San Antonio, Dee. 20—Captain H.
, K. Sturckm and Sergeant C. E.
R>!«‘s were killed when the plane in
which they were ridi/ng crashed to
j < arth at Pendelton. Texas.
MANLEY IN AUSKA
i Frank Manley, well known Tnter
| :<.r mining man and banker, who lias
] been operating in the Texas oil
| fields fr>r several years, recently vis
j ited his old haunts in the Tanana
j Valley. Mr. Manley was the owner
j of Discovery Claim and other prop
I erty on Cleary creek. Afterwards
! he owned the Manley Hot Springs
; ou tihe Tanana River and was one of
j the heavy stockholders in tihe First
j National Bank of Fairbanks at one
j time. He was aU*j heavily interest-,
j ed in the Iditarod country, associ-;
j ated with Torn Alt ken. Henry Riley'
| MUST I "HINTING PKHNH
BROUGHT TO ALASKA
Toe first printing press enrer
! -..u Alaska is the valued possession of
[.lames Wickersham of Juneau. Tt is
I au old-fashioned hand press and was
first used for the publication of a
, paper for the St. James Mission, at
j Fort Adam. Alaska, eight miles be
low what is now called Tanana. This
is the first Yukon paper ever pub
lished. Gordon Betties was editor
and printer and the first issue came
out on New Year’s Day 1894. It
did not suspend publication until
several years later.
The press will be presented to the
Alaska College of Agriculture and
ScJuool of Mines at Fairbanks.
CHARITY SKKKKlt
STORKD Simms
Rawnu-nl Full of KuUbhi* When
InvestigMted By Suspicious
j Syracuse. X. Y.. — The gray wolf,
fo John Pa.ll at o said, was so clone to
the door of hits home, that living
there was like being a charac-ber in
a Jack London novel. Oh. it was
hear trending! tihe stouy he told.
Starvation just around the corner.
No bread. No flour. No meat—
why. his family would have forgot
ten what mea't looked like if It
weren’t for the packers’ advertise
ments on the signboards*.
! Yes.- it was a terrible tale. The
police. listening to him. thought of
Arctic explorers who dined on filet
mignon made of the soles of their
They thought of the poor fruit
dealer who had no bananas.
I And they fed John Pallato. They
sent area* baskets of meat and veg
} etables to his home. But always
j John came back for more.
So it happened that the police be
! can to susppct that they were feed
, inc a rathole. A social worker was
j sent to investigate. Stored in the
j Pallato cellar he found:
j Seventeen bags of flour.
Seventy five cans of tomatoes.
I Twenty five pounds of coffee.
And several crates of assorted
canned goods.
John, it developed, ihad a perfect
ly good Job at which he was working
daily. And the family of John were
fat-chewed and healthy. There will
be no more playiDg Ividy Bountiful
to John Patlato by Syracuse Char
ge* Department.
ffOTICF
Any Items of interest to the com
munity If given or telephone# te the
Nugget will be given publicity and
will be appreciated at all times.
THE BON MARCHE
AND
CHEAP JOHN’S STORE
Wish you one and all
A Merry Christmas
TIME IS MONEY—Sft DON’T WASTE IT
Go direct to the Bon Marche and you will
find what you are looking for. Gifts of
all descriptions for Men, Women
and Children
A CAR LOAD OF TOYS
The Bon Marche
(The house of Quality, Style and Service)
M. WEISBERG, MANAGER
_WHOLESALE AND RETAIL— MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PERSONAL ATTENTION.
ALASKA
NEWSY
ITEMS
A Womens’ Auxiliary to the John
! W. Jones Post of the American Le
'gion, has been formed at Cordova.
A citizenship night school will be
opened at Juneau i<n the near future
under the supervision of Prof. W. K.
Keller, 9uper!ntendent of the Jun
eau Public Schools.
The Ketchikan Chronicle says that
on October sixth strawberry plants
were still in blossom in. some of the
yards In that city.
William B. Cloes, principal owner
of the White Pass and Yukon Route,
died in London on September 2Pth,
according to word received by Her
bert Wheeler, General Manager of
the Company.
George P. Eastman. President of
the Eastman Kodak Company, left
Alaska recently for the south after
spending several weeks hunting la
the Yukon country.
The Petersburg Report says there
is talk of a modern saw-mill being
established at Scow Bay, and that
the commercial club of that city is
working to get a cold storage plant
for halibut boats.
It is reported that the store of
Mrs. Anderson, at Ninllchlc, was
burglarized recently and the sum of
$1,400 In cash taken. As yet no
clue as to the identity of the thief
or thieves has been found.
Shipments of pulpwood in the log
are now being made from the Queen
Charlotte Islands to Port Angeles.
Washington, for use in the manufac
ture of papeT. The first shipment
consisted of 600,000 feet of spruce.
Plans are under way at Anchor
age for the construceion of a com
munity house, with a gymnasium,
social hall, library and rending room
under one roof. The estimated cost
of the building is $20,000, whiah it
is proposed to raise by popular sub
scription.
Miss Rose Gallagher, the 16-year
old daughter of Neil Gallagher, and
a pupil of the Parochial school in
Juneau, is declared to be a h?rofne
by the Juneau papers far having
saved the Uveu ot four persons from
the sinking gas boat Isabelle, near
the Gallagher fox farm in Swanson
D. W. Beil of Williamsport, Pa., a
member of a party just returned to
Wrangell from hunting big game to
the Cassiar country, ts believed to
bare broken the record for killing
hip- caribou. His specimen of th*
Osborne species had anti era with 38
points and a spread of 56% inches.
Rains in the interior, particularly
in the Fairbanks section, party in
September resulted in a larger pro
duction of placer gold than was an
ticipated. according to Bill Camp
bell. Fairbanks and Kanttshna min
ing man. In the Fairbanks district
alone, he said it was estimated that
the late rains increased the produc
tion over $250,000.
Chester W. Purring ton, mining en
gineer, formerly connected with the
United States Geological Survey,
whA made an intensive study of
piacer gold mining in Alaska,, was
one of the victime of the earthquake
at Tokio. Mr. Purrlngton wrote a
report on gravel mining, based
largely on hie observations In the
Fairbanks region, that is an author
ity for 0]acer miner*.
The Sholdon-Jai'kson school at
Sitka, which opened its regular ses
sion recently, is overcrowded witn
Indian, students, and applicants have
been tunned away owing to lack of
dormitory room. The total school
enrollment Is 150.