MOOSE PASS MINER
_By L. H. Allen_
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'VE PREDICT
Of course the MINER doesn't set up to
be one of these here now professional
forecasters of the future but we think we
are quite as reliable as that famous as
trologist, Madame What s-her-neme, who pre
dicted that President Roosevelt would be
assassinated in 1938 and that Hitler would
be killed in 1939. We’re slow about get
ting the news - but we don't believe that
either of those things happened.
We predict that several someones who
are now mining in the Moose Pass district,
will strike it rich during 1940,-we hope,
we hope, we hope!
We predict that in that event, Moose
Pass will become the scene of a stampede
which will make history.
We predict that the Moose Pass pool wii:
win the 1940 Nenana Ice Pool,-we hope, we
hope, we hope!
We predict tn&t we are au gu-Liig ooo
better, take life easier and be happier,
under the electric lighting system which
the Roycroft-Estes brothers are now instar
ling in Moose Pass.
We predict that the Department of the
Interior will decide in 1940 to discard
the money-eating Alaska Railroad and build
a highway over its roadbed. So motor
travel can go via Mount McKinley National
Park to Fairbanks to Circle to meet the
International Highway and so on to the
States and to South America in the not far
distant future. So Alaskans may have the
convenience and blessing of daily bus trav
el instead of having to go into a huddle
somewhere while waiting for once-a-week
train service. So trucks in competition
will bring freight rates to a reasonable
cost,instead of the 25$ to 37$ higher
freight rates than they pay in the States
which Alaskans have to pay The Alaska Rail
road .
THEN, parents can visit their children
at the University of Alaska and students a1
the University can get home for Christmas}
then, too, Alaskans con see other sections
of Alaska than where they live.
The world's smallest country is Vatican
City near Rome, which comprises 198.7
acres. The world's largest country is
the Russian USSR(Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics)with an area (at the present day,
of 8,144,228 square mile6.
The average wife thinks if she gave her
husband a little rope he would skip.
—Washington Post.
LOCAL EVENTS
A band of Christmas carolers mushed
t ru the three feet of snow that fell oh
Christmas Eve and became exhausted about
the time they reached Hielo's Roadhouse.
Thereupon they held a party and dance at
the roadhouse,which proved so enjoyable
that when someone brought up the suggest
ion that it "might be time to go home"
they learned that the clock stood at 4
a.m. Christmas Day. The carolers were
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lackey, Mrs. Leora Roy
croft, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Smith, Ed.
and Bob Estes, Mr. and Mrs, Jake Laubscher,
Mr. And Mrs. Paul Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
Don Cook, Chuck Whitmarsh, Lyman Graves,
Newell Ponds, "Bud" Tolson and R.A.Paul,
To celebrate Mrs. Harry L. Smith's
birthday, a surprise party was given at
the Smith cabin Th rsday night, which was
engineered so that Mrs. Smith was entire
ly surprised, by Mr. Smith ano Chuck .Jiit —
marsh. Games were a feature of the en
tertainment during the evening. Those
who participated were Mrs. E. L. Robbins,
Mrs. John L. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thurston and John;
Mi', and Mrs. Roy Luckey and Roy; Mrs.
Leora Royeroft, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Estes and
Kathryn Louise;Eq and Bob Estes, Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Laubscher and Dolores; Mr. and
. Mrs. Don Cook and Don,Jr.,Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stafford
and Miss Mary Stafford; Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Ives and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Emerson of
Seward; Frank Hielo, Lyman Graves, Fred
Holley, Newell Ponds, Chuck Whitmarsh, and
William Manley of Anchorage.
The John L. Nelsons had for their Christ
mas dinner guests, Russell //illiaras, R.A.
Paul and Jim Nelson of Sewarc.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reid entertained Mr,
and Mrs. E. L. Robbins at Christmas din
ner.
The bridge Foursome, Mrs.S.L.Robbins,
Mrs. Harry L. Smith and Mrs. Paul Williams
met with the fourth player,Mrs. Ralph Reid
on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Velanis had Mrs.
Lois Allen for their Christmas dinner
guest.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kenneth Emerson,
who were married in Seward Sunday morning;
drove to Moose Pass to visit the Jake Laub
schers the same afternoon and were marooned
in Moose Pass by the snowstorm of Christmas
Eve. They occupied the Harry L.Smith cabin
for a couple of days.
Clarence Scheiber spent Christmas in
Seward with Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kennedy.