The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
Town Gossip and Stories
8, The Isttler.


 ties on Ready Bullion dome and that he will go mining again, this time probably on a very large scale. 50 YEARS I've been in the IN THE business for 90 years. BUSINESS worked with Geo
 Bellows more than 40 years ago on various New York papers At one time there were only three men in the world who could stick" type faster than l could"
 The above were the remarks yes terday morning of Fred Crewe, Of Cleary. who is going back into the newspaper game again. That is. he is going to Nenana to work on the Nenana News He will probably get away the latter part of the weeek
 of course, l don't suppose l can do what l used to-" said Mir Crewe yesterday, but I'll get by somehow I can do anything from devil work to writing editorial, excepting press work, and never did any of that good enough to stick" the News 5 HE HAS A casual visitor to VOTERS the Eagle Barber BEGGED. shop on Second ave
 nue will notice a sample ballot containing the names of all of the candidates who are to be voted upon at the election in No vember pinned to the wall And he will also notice, upon close obser- vation that there is small cross opposite the name of every candl- date. just as though all the names had been voted.
 Yes, I marked it," said Ben Sher- man yesterday "l did it because somebody else first marked the names of those he expected would be elected. didn't want anybody who comes in here to think that had been the first to mark the ballot.
 For, don't you know, there is a 'turrible' narrow minded bunch around here The first thing some gink would do would be to go up to that thing and see the way it was marked and then go out and say he had Newt and me begged. It's fixed now so they won't know how either of us are going to vote. PROFESSOR A few moons ago LOSES HIS certain professor in NERVE the Fairbanks school
 decided that it was necessary to give one of the young ladies lecture He told her to re port in the office for the same. He went there and got his face into Dutch uncle expression. He wait ed She did not appear. Finally he thought that she must have not understood. He went to the assem- bly, room She stood at the window gazing into the mirror of her vanity box which she held in one hand while she carefully powdered her nose with the other. She was pre- pairing for the ordeal. The profes- sor wilted It was too much for his sense of humor
 ROCK WAS One of the big i'm ALL SAME provements made a BULLET. little more than
 year ago at the N. c. store when that concern changed it's quarters about little, was the installation of plate glass front the entire width of the store on Front street. And the plate glass windows were the pride of all of the employees of the big concern. for they were the only ones in town wherein an automobile, if necessary, could be exhibited with ease.
 Now, however. there is general mourning at the N. c. store. For one of the windows, that which is in the N. c. hardware department, has been punctured. The hole is but a small one. and looks as though bullet might have been fired through it.
 The fact of the matter is, how ever, that the hole was made by a small stone. The incident is phe nomenal in way. for the rock was thrown at the window from the hoof of a horse Had anyone been in it's way at the time 1t was thrown, his head would probably have been punctured, instead of the N. c. plate glass front.
 DOG PUPS There have been AND WOLF many instances of FRIENDLY. domestic animals, al
 though of different families. making up with each other. For instance. it is no uncommon thing 10 see the net dog and the