The Nenana news., 1921-08-02
NENANA cREETS GOVERNOR;
 VISIT IS MUCH ENJOYED

Freak D. Browne, of the Alaskan
 Engineering Commission, Governor
 Scott C. Bone and Secretary of
 Alaska Carl Thiele arrived from
 Fairbanks by special train Saturday
 noon and spent the afternoon look ing over the town and getting
 acquainted with Nenanaites. The
 officials returned to the upper town
 by special train, leaving shortly be-
 fore six, and on Sunday they were
 on their way back to the coast Ly way of the Richardson trail. their
 plan being to connect with a steamer
 due at Cordova on Saturday
 The governor and Secreta V Thjele were met at the dock by the Cooney
 auto, gaily decorate in white and
 gold, and taken to the Cooney hotel, where brief informal reception WE held, and then to inc Tavern Cafe, where an elaborate luncheon was served, covers being laid for 25.
 The private dining room at the cafe, where the luncheon was served presented a beautiful appearance, with floral decorations in profusion, and the luncheon was more in the nature of a banquet, served in seven courses
 After the luncheon, the governor and Secretary Thiele were shown about town and later in the after noon a public reception was held at Union hall, for which occasion a brief and pleasing program had been arranged by Miss Dorothy B. de la Pole, the chief feature of which was the singing of a specially written song of welcome.
 Governor Bone, Secretary Thjele. Colonel Mears and Mayor O'Connor occupied places on the platform and the governor was first to address the large audience, after brief intro ductory speech by the mayor He assured the people of Nenana, as he had assured others elsewhere in the Northland since his arrival in the territory to assume his duties as governor, that President Harding and Secretary of the Interior Fall, and in fact, almost everyone at Washington, are deeply interested in Alaska and determined to remove the many obstacles which are retard- ing development A real Alaskan policy is taking form, he said, and the time is not far off when results will be apparent. Regarding the Government railroad, he said the interest in the project is such at Washington that very little, if any, opposition will be encountered in se- curing sufficient funds for the com pletion of the trunkline, after the gap has been closed between Hurri- cane Gulch and Healy The govern or spoke of having attended a con- ference at the capital, at which plans for the completion of the rail- road were discussed, as well as oth IT matters pertaining to the bettermeat of conditions in Alaska, and the dis cussion had convinced him of the with which Alaskan affairs are being considered at Washington !
 Governor Bone referred feelingly to the cordial manner in which the people of Alaska had received him and he referred particularly to the warmth of Nenana's welcome.
 Secretary Thiele was next into. duced and he spoke briefly and en- tertalningly regarding the activities of Governor Bone, prior tc h's ap- as chief executive of the He told of the governors many years of work at Washington as editor of two of the capitals leading papers, and of his connec- rion later with the Seattle Post-In- telligencer, where he was brought