The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-05-24

Women Il W. 10 ty 'amonstrat-
Win ed last Friday that the
Out. women of Fairbanks are
more public spirited and
more energetic than are the men:
that Is, taking them as an average.
one of the men who has been
giving the playground committee of
the Civic club much assistance. Sc
cured the promises of about 40 men
that they would come to work on
the grounds on last Friday. Ac-
cordingly the members of the com
mittee saw that the materials that
had been promised We're on the
ground and ready for the expected
workmen.
On Friday morning the man who
had secured the promises of labor
appeared at the playground but
throughout all that day not one of
the men who had promised him to
come showed up for the work. They
had either forgotten their promises
or had decided not to work
But the Fairbanks women are not
easily discouraged. Late in the aft
ernoon Mrs. Clegg, who is head of
the playground committee, telephor-
ed the other members that each of
them was expected to bring two men
TO work that evening at the play
ground. The members responded,
and the work was given a good start
before the sun went down.
However. the ladies received ma
terial aid from several of the most
public-spirited men in the city.
These men have contributed sup,
plies and funds and are doing all
in their power for making the play
ground project the success it prom
ises to be.
May There is a good chance
Produce that Interior Alaska
Sugar. may produce sugar as
we'll as gold in the flu
ture, for Paul j. Rickert has expert
mented with the sugar beets here.
and has found that they can be
grown apparently with success
1t has been contended that the
long days of sunshine in this lati-
tude would be especially good for
beets, as the amount of sunshine
determines the percentage of sugar
that is formed in the growing beet
In the States where sugar beets
are grown in large quantities, 1t is
found that when summer is cloudy
much of the time, the percentage
of sugar in the beets is lower than
when there is more sunny weather
Therefore it seems that the long
hours of sunshine in this district
would make unusually rich sugar
Mr. Rickert has a quantity of
sugar beet seed on hand, and he is
willing to give this to anyone who
VII experiment with it this year
The seed should be planted soon
or it will be too late for this sea
son
New Town Matthews is the name
Born In of the youngest town
Alaska. born in Alaska 1t is
somewhere north of the
Arctic circle in the koyukuk coun.
try, about 125 miles from BEETLES
Judging from letters received here
last week, the new town is COM
posed of a lot of enterprising peo-
pie, who have petitioned for a post
office, elected a recorder and made
other preparations for civil conven-
ienCes.
But the strange thing about the
town is the way the people there
are said to have organized a Dem
ocratic club as soon as they started
their town. They seem to think that
with a Democratic administration at
one of their first ne
office department in Washington that
iS Ia,
is worthy of a postoffice
Judge Bunnell received one of the
letters that arrived here last week
from Matthews, written by Alex. NJ.
the newly elected recorder,
but in that letter nothing was said
about the new Democratic club. The
etter to JUDGE Bunnell stated. how
ever, that Mr.. Smith had been elect
ed recorder by the miners at a meet
ing held by large number of them,
and that there is now in that local.
~ $50 prospectors The locality will
produce, he said, about Sl5O,OOO in
gold this year
Canada Postmasters in Canada
Raises have been notified that
p .. Fees the fees on postoffice
money orders payable in
the United States have been raised.
1t is made evident that the raise
IN the price of the money orders Is
a result of the war in Europe, sup
posedly due indirectly to the fluc-
tuation of Canadian money stand
ards, The direct excuse is that the
high rate of exchange in New York
has made necessary the increase in
postal exchange rates
Exchange rates, it would seem.
are not the real cause, for the money
order rates from the United States
INTO Canada have not been raised.
for instance, the fee for sending
500 in a money order from Dawson
to Fairbanks is rs cents, payable
at the Dawson postoffice, while the
fee for sending the same amount of
money from this city to Dawson,
the fee payable here, is only 30
cents. Probably behind the whole
thing is desire on the part of the
Canadian government to make the
postoffice fees meet some OF the
war expenses.
Slide Since the Civic club
Prompts was organized, there have
Joke. been men who have been
quite certain that the
ladies would do something rash.
This idea seemed to be responsible
a few DAYS ago for nractical joka