THORULF LEHMANN
Wishing
YOU ALL
nun
AND
Prosperous
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Mi Lein
LEGION
(Tlio OWnaliun Post)
FOREWORD:—Every few yards
..long the front line trencher there
us»'d to be an Observation Post
where the soldier on guard, by
means of a listening device and a
periscope, kept tabs on the enemy.
On being relieved he took a weather
observation.
In placing a Legionnaire in the
front line trenches of the Nation's
everyday affairs 1 am trying to
| catch the same spirit that made the
American doughboy the most happ.'
go-lucky, yet thoro: the most fear
ed when the occasion demanded,
but at other times just bubbling
over with tomfoolery, wit and gen
eral all round skylarking..— F. D.
THE PESSIMIST.
There is a man across the street
Whom I am never glad to meet
Itecause he looks so glum and blue
Every time he passes you
And half the time he wears a frown
As he daily grumbles through town
In everything he finds a fault
From weather's turn to table salt ,
• The world is growing worse,” he j
As criticism he about him lays
"Nature's wrong and man’s a jest
In north and south, or east and
He sees no good in anyone I
Without discounting soniethiug donej
In others work to lessen pain |
He sees a motive there for gain
He’s a PESSIMIST; a mournful. j
gloomy pest
Of all men he’s the one
that I detest.
■tacking Kultur.
An offlcinl who has scrutinized the
reports made by German diplomatic
representatives to their government,
before the declaration of war furn
ishes this extract from one of them:
•'The Americans .are very rough.
If you call one of them a liar ho
does not argue the matter after the
manner of a German gentleman, but
brutally knocks you down. • The
Americans h>ive absolutely no Kul
Hc Struck.
A mud-bedraggled Tommy was
plodding wearily toward the base
when a subaltern stopped him.
“Do you know that your regiment
is in the front line now? Why aren’t
you there?” he asked.
“Well, sir.” the Tommy explained,
“we wero Just going over the top
when the officer shouted: ‘Strike for
home and glory, lads!’ All the oth
ers struck for glory, but I struck for
RESOLVED: That I shall become
interested in my country as well as
myself. ThaUC shall not ask. “WTiat
Li my country doing for me?” — —
any more than, “What am 1 doing
for my country?” .That I shall smite
the pessimist with the spike-studded
club of optimism. That I shall not
squabble with my neighbors, or
neighboring towns, but Join hands
with them and go after that which
we both want. That I shall be first,
last and always an American, and if
there is any other place that T like
better than America th.it T shall go
there. Resolved also; that a kick is
destructive, whereas a boost is con
structive, and that I shall reveal by
my actions in which of these truths
T am a believer.
(Signed! Every Average Man.
Are you a war time hero and a
peace time slacker? Are you one
of the fellows who deplore the lassi
tude of your Legion Poet, yet do
nothing to liven it up? Are you a
wet blanket?
Be fair with yourself and admit
the charge if correct
Then, snap out of it! Jump in and
help keep the wheels of progress
turning. We need you. Our stand
ing army here at Nome is necessar
ily small apd everyone in needed al
roll call. Show up at every meet
ing. Help stir things up. Starl
something. If you do not belonp
and are eligible, there’s an applica
tion blank and a loaded fountain per
ready for you at Legion Headquar
ters In the Coast Guard Station.
Do your bit. Start the New Yeai
“Bang!” Went the rifles at man
eouvers, "Oo-oo!” screamed tlu
pretty girl—a nice, decorous, sur
prised little scream. 8he stepped
backward into the arm* of a young
“Oh?" Maid she. blushing, ”1 was
frightened by the rifles. I beg yo>ir
pardon.”
“Not at all.” raid the alert young
man. “Let’s go oyer and watch
the artillery.”
Heard at the Cigar t’ounter.
"Have a cigar, old man."
"Can't do it. Just swore off."
“Well, put one In your pocket for
tomorrow, then."
Weather Observation.
A hailstorm of rewolulions will
sweep the country about January
1st. Will make itself felt mainly
through a falling off in the sales of
tobacco, and an absence of card
playing and profanity for varying
periods of time. No radical or per
manent change is expected to be
wrought, however, as the hot sun of
desire usually melts these, hailstone*
of New Year’s resolve very speed
ily. An annual occurrence fairly
well understood and accepted by the
average "Resoluter."
OBSERVER Frank Dufresne
lilt. HEAL ON FOR I.INDEREIUi
REINDEER HERDS.
A deal involving the transfer of
iy(>00 reindeer from Jafet Linde
berg to a group of Eastern financiers
for 3800,000. is stated in the follow
ing clipping from the San P’rancisco
Bulletin of October 27. to b® the
first step to market Alaska reindeer
meat on a large scale in the retail j
markets of theUnited States.and also
to utilize the highly valuable by
products obtained from hides, hoofs
and horns. So far as knowu at
present, the deal has not been con
sununfated. The article says:
A party of New York financiers
and business men, headed by Robert
Lee Dunn, registered at the Palace
Hotel, are completing today an
$800,000 deal by which, it buys
from Jafet Lindeberg. of this city,
his Alaska herd of 11,000 reindeer'
at $37 per head.
A big option was also paid down '
for the second Lindeberg herd.
Thin is the first step to market
reindeer meat on a large scale In
the retail markets of the United
States, and also the first arrange
ment to market thruout the world
the byproducts of the animal obtain
ed from Its hides, hoofs and bones.
The value of the byproducts will, it
Is said, exceed the revenue from the
meat of the carcass.
It is understood the new purchas
ers had In view refrigeration plants
so as to be able to deliver the rein
deer meat in good condition in com
pletion with the methods of the Chi
cago meat packers.
The New Yorkers want to have
Lindeberg as the active expert and
also a director and part owner in
their company.
The deal means the fruition of
Lindeberg's dream to market rein
ileer meat in the United States.
The hero of Rex Beach's Alaskan
story, “The Spoilers.“ Lindeberg,
once a reindeer herder in Alaska,
saw the possibilities for fortune in
the meat and byproducts of the ani
mal long before Nome and Its gold
riches electrified the world and mado
him a millionaire over night.
Dunn, who is engineering the big
deal, is a celebrated globe trotter
ind newspaper correspondent.
I Ml N'T DARK TAKE
YE It MUTCHES OFF
According to a recent issue of the
tfenana News, a feller don’t dare
take his britches off In Nenanu, if
tie hopes to get up town next morn
ing with anything on him. Life
there must be full of human Inter
George Hupprich was up town
there one night with a pocket full
money, trying to get a bet on the
World series. Not being able to he
returned home and decided that it
ivas hath night, so disrobed and took
1 plunge. When h^ returned he
couldn't find his britches—at first;
late rhe found them in another part
if the room, with such money as
-hey had contained gone. Knowing
tv-here he was he had taken the pre
caution of hiding most of his money
before he took the bath, so he only
lost a few dollars.
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LET US GO TO
THE ifHSSTLE CAFE
For Our
New Year’s
Tuykey Dinner
And Home Made Fruit Cake
Happy New Year
To All
From
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