The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-10
Town Gossip and Stories
By The TattIer.

dyed AttNOuSn ttlAS touldlLl- Pat Of ing holiday greeting were Santa received in Fairbanks
 from numerous residents of this city who are now on the Outside. it remained for MT. and Mrs. R. (. Wood 10 play the part on one of the stages arriving in Fairbanks from the coast last week d large Christmas box was received. II was addressed to Frank r. Wood. but it contained remembrances of all kinds for young and old in the large circle Of Mir. and Mrs. Woods particular friends
 True it is that the Christmas sup plies Ly the Woods were a little late, but the old adage better late than never" was never better exempli- fled. Or so think all of those Fair banksans who were remembered at Christmas time by Mir and Mrs. Wood
 Peoples That E. R. Peoples, the Is Some well known local mer- Live Wire. chant. is some live wire,
 has never been denied by anybody However at that. it can safely be said that his capacity has always been underestimated for In the light of recent events any other appears as nothing.
 Mir. Peoples is interested in the California association placer mining claim on Goldstream, just below the famous TT" of the golden days of the camp. Numerous other people are also interested in the ground, which. for a number of years, was in litigation. Somebody has always seen that the assessment work was done and it was supposed to have been done this year as usual
 NJ Peoples returned to Fairbanks several weeks ago from the Out side He immediately got into his business harness again, but neglect ed to look into the matter of the assessment work until almost the last thing before the end of the year. Consequently. when he did look up the records. he found that the work which was done and which had already oeen paid for by some of those interested in the claim. was not on the California at all
 Therefore, Friday morning, Decem- Der 31, saw the merchant up bright and early. He took his automobile, went out to Fox and started hiring all of the men and teams available to go 10 work at o'clock. And he secured enough labor to complete 116 hours of work before o'clock that evening. The work consisted of the partial construction ditch on the property.
 All Think Most of the people of That Santa the Tanana Valley are Is Great. now thinking of what
 the next Fourth of July or Christmas will bring. This is not true, however, of the boys at the fire hall, for each of them re- ceived one present which he will long remember, as well as the donor thereof
 The presents were counterpanes, six of 'em, or one for each individ- ual fireman's bed. They were made of Omar cigarette rugs by Mrs. Lyle Laumeister and presented to the boys on Christmas day.
 Mrs. Laumeister used considerable discretion in picking out rugs fitted particularly to the style Of each fireman. For instance, on the beds occupied by Captain Henry Gohres and Jack Hansen, baseball rugs pre- dominate. In the center of Jack OConnor's counterpane are four rugs bearing the flag of Old Erin.
 W D. (Red) Ricker's bed is GOV cred with a counterpane in the cen ter of which are a number of red" Persian rugs. These are surround ed by rugs bearing pictures of In dian maids in canoes. Which are, of course, a gentle reminder to Red" of old days at Rampant.
 Ladies' Ladies' nights at the Nights Are Panama Club, the mems Popular social club of Fairbanks,
 are getting to be quite the popular thing. They are held on Thursday evening each week and every week sees an increase in the popularity of the event a goodly number of ladies having been pres ent last Thursday.
 To some people, however, these nights are only sources of sorrow. The reason is that the particular parties in whom they are interested do not attend the club on Ladies nights That, of course, is enough to make any girl get a book, settle herself in an easy chair and read the evening away in place of danc- ing
 But now we get to the story
 IT laoms that some tjma 1act fall