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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1911
Page
11
City council last Wednesday voted to add Fred Raap as a night police aide alongside Chief O Connor to bolster protection amid population growth. They may raise salaries for O Connor and city attorney with funds, and an ordinance to adjust payrolls and hire more fire hall assistants is expected next week.
Dr Emil Pohl died May 16 at St Matthew s hospital Fairbanks from brain and heart trouble after about three weeks illness. He returned from an outside trip and had been back only a few months when illness struck. His wife, from Portland, was seriously affected and later died. Remainders of his estate not yet settled as reports say. Kate Masters, Willow Creek roadhouse proprietor, paid a long deferred visit to the city this week.
One of the year's most elaborate weddings united Mrs. Syly Gareken and Mr. C P Chesley under Commissioner Maltby at Mrs. Gareken's home. About thirty guests attended from the area. The bride runs the Winter Refuge for the sick and Chesley is a partner in Chesley Ryan and Kehoe, a prominent Fairbanks and Iditarod business. The reception featured feasting and dancing lasting late.
Billy Barrett of Lewin & Barrett will not return this summer and will stay outside. Adie Lewin plans to arrive soon. Cullen of the Forks roadhouse on Flat Creek visited boats this week, and efforts to secure a license for the roadhouse were not successful.
Monty Downing, early camp settler and landowner on Flat and adjacent areas, returns after wintering away with his new wife. They will reside at Flat this summer. Revenue collector C. P. Rain tours the territory aboard the Evelyn on his annual circuit, to attend duties at Ophir and the Takoma, while repairs are made to broken lenses at Simpson's.
Johnstone, owner of Johnstone's pool and billiard hall, learns his insurance paid in full just before the big April 4 blaze on First Street. The payment clears 4500 toward rebuilding. others suffer greater losses while he plans a new homestead. The Snyder house at Flat City renovates for upcoming visitors, adding rooms and bunks and a drying area for mushers. Walter Thomas of Tofty Alaska revokes a general power of attorney, witnessed by E D Howe and Robert Compton, before a local notary public.
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