The Nome daily nugget. [volume], February 20, 1935, Page THREE, Image 3

About The Nome daily nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1934-1938

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The Nome Daily
NUGGET
Relief Workers
To Build Roads
For Ketchikan
Two substantial projects in the
way of street and road improvements
are to be started, and three other
projects are to get under way at the
same time with emergency relief
workers, according to the Ketchikan
Chronicle of recent date.
West second street will be extended
from its present terminus at Park
Street to intersect Madison street
which is beyond the city limits, and
a road is to be built from Charcoal
boulevard extending into a region
I occupied by several homesteaders
! north of the city.
A crew will also be put to work
clearing and improving the city re
creation grounds and another will lie
started in Wacker to improve the
public school grounds mid property
there.
One block of Young street, which
is of plank construction, is to he
replaced with a fill. Fifteen men
will be employed in this project and
a crew of 50 is to work on West
Second Street.
Twenty men residents of the Ward
cove district, are to be employed
in Wacker school improvement pro
ject. This project includes clearing
the school grounds, installing a wat
er system for the school and laying
a sewage system.
Fifteen men will be occupied in
building the road to the homestead
properties with implements anc
equipment needed in the work furn
ished by the residents benefited b\
the improvement.
This road has been sought by tin
homesteaders for some time. Con
struction is to continue for an inde
finite period in order to complete a:
much of tlie road as is possible, ac
cording to Courtney Howard, engin
eer in charge of the emergency re
lief work.
The recreation park improvement
will share a crew of 135 men with
other nearby projects. The lattei
includes the Woodland avenue fil
and the North Harris street fill
Woodland avenue will be finished it
a short time while the North Har
ris street fill will require a month
or so.
Instructions left for the local en
gineer in charge of relief projects
specify a preference for civic im
provement projects such as the
building or rebuilding of the school
ground sites and recreation grounds
Following this Mr. Howard an
nounced plans are to be completed
for the construction of a swimming
pool at the recreation pmk. This
will follow other improvements
A tributary to Ketchikan Creek
Beer Creek, will be util'zed in mak
ing the pool by constructing a duni
across it. he explains.
Nome Owes Its
Name To A
(Jerk’s Mistake
Since the fire at Nome September
17th, 1934, the City of Nome has re
ceived much widespread publicity.
History of its rise, following the
gold strike, and accounts of the fam
ous people who came here seeking
a fortune were dug out of the past
and re-printed. Several stories have
been printed in the Nome Nugget,
clipped from other papers, as to how
Nome got its name.
Here is another story from the
Valdez Miner, Valdez, Alaska.
“Many persons have wondered how
Nome came to get its name. An arti
cle in the files of The Miner Feb
ruary 12, 1911 gives the story."
“A drafting clerk in the office of
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, lias
confessed that he quite unintention
ally enriched geography with the
musical monosyllable. ‘No one.’ he
says, ‘was more surprisT-d than I
when I saw the name on the map
It happened this way:’
“When the rush to the north took
place on the discovery of rich gold
deposits on the Klondyke River, the
Government found it necessary to
make more complete maps of the
country. Surveying parties were
hurried to the Held and as fast as
their notes and plats were sent to
Washington they were turned in to
us. There were many parties in toe
field and the maps were being con
tinually called for by gold seekers.
Hence for some months our,.office
was rushed night and day.
'It fell to my lot to draft a map
of the Alaskan Coast that runs south
east from Bering Strait. The map
was to he made from the field note
and plats sent by surveying parties
in the district. Such notes and plats
always contain the names of promin
ent mountains, capes inlet and the
like.
“In making the tracing of the coast
down from Bering Strait I came ar
| ross a headland for which no notes
or plates furnished a name Con
sequently 1 made a pencil note at
the point, puttmg the word Nana
after it thinking that the chief when
he edited the map would put in a
name if it had one 01 would make
up one if it did not. In the hurr
of the work and due 1 presume to
the fact that my letter a' ' look like
‘o’s', the math r was passed by the
revisers and my map sent to the
engravers in that shape.
“Imagine my astonishment when
I looked over a stack of maps just
Any Silk Or Wool
Dresses $5.00
JACK
SEIDENVERG
Nome Laundry
Joe Amarok, Prop.
DRY CLEANING AND
PRESSING SUITS
PHONE MAIN 29
East of Catholic Church
Nome, Alaska.
CITY LAUNDRY
Harry Saito, Prop.
Opposite The Bank
Clothing Pressed And
Cleaned
Laundry Work At
Reasonable Prices
TUB BATHS DAILY
10 A.M. TO 10 P.M.
Caver's Bakery
OPEN FROM 6 A.M. TO X A.M.
GOOD CUP OF COFFEE
BEST PASTRY IN NOME
Good Meals
FOR ALL KINDS OF
CARPENTER WORK
BUILDING or CONTRACTING
SEE
Ilans Petersen
Corner F'inn Alley & 1st. Ave.
Industrial Workers
Of Alaska
Meet Every First
Thursday of each Month
Nome, Alaska
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SPEED COMFORT DEPENDABILITY
Will I THE MAT
OPERATIN'!;
TWICE-WEEKLY MAIL TRIPS BETWEEN
FAIRBANKS AND NOME—LFAVINO NO IE
8 A. M. TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
RADIO EQUIPPED PLANES
Ollire Is! Up. and Slcdtnan
\OM!£, AL \SK
NOME MACHINE SHOP
W. L. SLACK AND SON PROPRIETORS
Oiii* Vim—Satisfied Customers
BOILER, MARINE. TRACTOR. ACETEYNE AND
ELECTRIC WEEDING
MATERIAL STOCKED : SHAFTING, STEEL, BRONZE,
1U SUING, BABBITT, ACCESSORIES.
Prompt Attention to Local and Out of Town Work
Telephone Black 110
engraved from my original, to see Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood
this particular headland designated organisations, Washington’s Birthday
as 'Cape Nome’. When shortly after- Friday February 22nd, at the gym
ward gold was di.-covered in the vie- nasium of the native school The
inity and a camp established, the public is invited. Admission for
camp took the same nano- as the adults will be 50 cents and child
cape and is called Nome tins day"- ren ten cents.
WASHINGTON'S
IE I K T11II \Y
i* S> 0 C 1> V V
1. Dancing in the Iiain
2. Old Style Circle Dance
3. Two thrive-; from Sihci ia
4. Telling Stni ie to Faeh Other
f) Walru- U.iwv
(i. First White Man Trading with
Natives
7. Hunting Polar Bear
8. Witch Doctor Dunce with Drum
!). Knee dance
10. Old Fashioned Dance with
Drum
11. Tap Dance
12. Old Southron Sung with Guitar
Accompaniment
13. Old Time Fire Making
The above program will he given
under the auspices of the Bering
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court for the Cape
Nome Piveinct Territory of Alaska,
Second Division.
In the matt r of the Estate of
LOUISA BLOMBERG, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Thorulf Lehmann, has
been appointed by the above-entitl
ed Court as Executor with Will an
nexed of the Estate of Louisa Blom
berg. D s eas' d.
All persons ha\-irtg claims against
the Estate of said deceased are here
by required to present the same,
duly verified, to the undersigned
Executor of said Estate, at Nome,
Al i ka, within six months from the
date of this notice
Dated at Nome. Alaska, this 6th
day of February. 1935
THORULF LEHMANN,
Executor.
Publish Feb 0, 13, 20, 37, 1935.
NOMKLIQIOR STORE
(Next Door To Fire Station)
COMPLETE LINE OF WINES AND LIQUORS
RANTER BEER 15 CENTS BOTTLE
ALSO A COMPLETE LINE OF
CIGARS & TOBACCOS
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
i').!.-, hekim; ska schedule
SAILING FROM SEATTLE
S. S. DELLWOOI) May 25th
S. S. DERBLAY May 29th
S.S. VICTORIA June 1st
S. S. DELL WOOD July 3rd
S. S. DERBLAY Aug. 14th
S. S. DELLWOOI) SEPT. Uth
S. S. VICTORIA Oct. 9th
The Victoria and Dellwood on their voyages will
call at Nome, St. Michael, Golovin and Bonanza.
The Derblay will call on her voyages at Nome, St.
Michael, Golovin, Bonanza, Unalakleet, Teller,
Cape Prince of Wales, Shishmaref. Deerin T, KAe
walik, Kotzebue, St. Lawrence Island, r.n i other
ports where business warrants.
Jas. P. Daly, Agent.