The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-22

some time. hut when they did they decided to have some fun a they came along
 Accordingly they posed as aero plane men from the Outside Al each roadhouse they looked over the proposed sites for landing places, hangars. etc And they even played the role of government postotiice inspectors in that they decided that each roadhouse should be postof fee. with the roadhOuse keepers as postmasters.
 And they nade great deal of fun. both for themselves and for their fellow passengers on the stage. 4 For people all along the line rose ,o the bait easily and all kinds of propositions Gere made to the men if they would only decide to estah fish stations and post0tiices at certain places
 First When the hardware Shears stock of the local store Sold of the Northern Com
 mercial company was sent north e number of years ago, dozen or so pair of sheep shears were included in the shipment Fo. be it known when a clerk in d wholesale house starts in to make up bill of goods for the purpose of establishing any kind of store he leaves nothing out never giving a thought to whether or not the article would ever be useful in the country to which the goods are to be shipped.
 Consequently when the sheep shears arrived here with the re mainder Of the consignment of goods they were greeted with no little amusement b. the boys then in the hardware departmen. of the big local store. the reason being that no use for sheep shears could be imagined at that time, unless they could b. put to possible use shcarine the fetlocks and toretops of horses
 The shears have now, however, come into their own. For although they have lain for many years on the shelves at the N C. store. with their original number intact, except for a purchase or two by a mule skinner or broncho buster. they are now being put 10 their righttul use. That is, at least one pair of them is being used for 3hearing sheep.
 George Markus made the sale cf the shears one day last week. The purchaser was F. Pearson, a rancheI who intends to go into the sheep raising business on a large scale He wintered small flock of sheep with results being now of the opinr on that sheep will thrive here al all seasons of the year if properly cared for It was to gather the fleece of the flock he now has that MT Pearson purchased the shears Forgot This story rightly be Baking longs on the ladies Powder page. But, as it con
 pfFOrfC Df q novice to become a culinary artist early in the game it will be told here although it is our private opiui on that the said novice would dc well to pay more attention to h.s recipes hereafter.
 All soldiers are supposed to know how to cook, to a certain extent That is they are supposed to kno" how to do tbe culi.ary stunt WhC~ t comes to preparing the ordinary everyday eatahles. For they ncVC! can tell just when they might D, called upon to do so. In fact tn, reason for thIs story is that one c' the signal corp men stationed a, Cinema attempt to branch out wher it came his turn to do cook shift.
 One day the new cook decided tha, he would like a diet little bit il variance with that his two com panions had been dishing up Y him when they had cook shift. Ac cordingly, he decided to make cake, so he hunted through tht keepsakes of the signal corps ottict until he found a cook book telling all about how to make fancy pastry Then he got ready.
 All of the ingredients of the cak' were measured with much care Next came the mixing. Then th' baking And then, feeling brett, well satisfied with his work, Nil Soldier sat himself down on bo' to watch his cake, at the same tim, taking the cook book in his hant and perusins it with the idea o advancing still further into the mys teries of the culinary art.
 While doing so Ae happened t glance over the recipe from whicl he had made the cake. and 1t Wa not until then that he noticed tha