Iditarod pioneer., 1911-05-06
COMING AND GOING

Charles Marsh. who has been busy during the winter on a large logging contract on upper Otter, made quick trip to Ophir last week with Slim McRea. He went there on business and will return in short time, although McRae got back last Tuesday.
 Mrs Harry Moss, of Flat City, was a visitor in the city during the early part of the week.
 It is reported that Henry Leonardy, the well-known gardener of Fairbanks who taught the ''yung dunion" how to sprout at his greenhouses on Garden island, will be one of the first passen- gers on that far-famed first boat with load of green goods He will also bring the building material for green houses, which he will set up here at once
 Al Raynor, the famous messhouse proprietor of Dome creek, has trans ferred his property there to Walter Fisher and will come here to do fancy messing for operators on Flat creek.
 The Misses Cora and Lillian Smith, popular telephone girls of the Fair banks district, accompanied by their mother, will be down on the first water, and will join their brother Ben Smith, at Flat. Miss Cora Smith, it will be remembered, was the Tanana's 1 choice as the most popular young lady, receiving the highest number of votes in the Fairbanks Times competition for the trip to the Seattle fair. She is still quite popular with a certain ndi- vidual in Iditarod, and her wedding will be solemnized shortly after her ar rival.
 Gus Olson, chief architect and main push of carpenters on the Baird & An derson building of Flat, was in town Tuesday talking to his packers, mean ing the men who will put up the panga i for the aforesaid building. Building operations will start there immediately on the site of the old Pacific cold stor- age building next to Casey's, which will be moved to the back of the lot. The place will be ready for occupancy about the first of June.
 James P. Mulligan, of the N. C. Co.,. s station at Dikeman. visited in this city from last Saturday until Mondays mid night hour, when, in company with Cy Atwell, he hit the trail for home.
 George Kilroy, of Kilroy & Martin dale, laymen on the Up-Grade associa- tion at the head of Flat, came in on business last Wednesday.
 Mrs. J. J. Price was reported quite i'll this week at her home on upper Flat.
 Miss Halley, of the local telephone exchange, was suddenly taken ill Tues day afternoon and was assisted to the local hospital where she recovered rap idly, but is still quite weak. It is con- sidered that rest will do her good, and, in the meantime, Miss Kotsch is handling the keyboard.
 Watching the calm and impressive 1 laying of the cornerstone of the new A. B. hall, which took place last Mon day, a young man of this city was sud denly seized by a brilliant idea and rushed off to engage a young lady as his partner for the opening ball. As George Ade would say: ITO beat this fellow to It, you'd have to leave 8 call for o'clock and start on run."
 MT. Rooney, of Rooney & Teassack, who conducted a mercantile establish ment here last summer, has gone to Seward where he is going into busi- ness. Mir. Teassack is reported to be in Ellensburg, Wash.
 Mrs. Selma Swanson, of the Grand hotel, Flat, was visitor in the city last Monday.
 Col. A. B. Ferguson, the widely known apostle of simonpure democracy. visited Iditarod on urgent business this week. He was accompanied by Mrs. Ferguson.
 Headed for Georgetown and going good, Attorney J. c. Moody was sighted along the ridge of the divide by E. M. (Black) Sullivan, who re ached town Monday. Moody will stop at George town for the spring, but he will prob ably go Outside when the Kuskokwim