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The Seward Polaris &
Hi-Way News
Courtesy of Mrs. Harold Maxwell
Tuesday night we Highway Gals
met with our husbands at the
Leo Douglas home for an evening
of pleasant conversation and the
showing of movies and slides be
longing to the Ives, the VVither
ups and tire Gillespies. After
watching the pictures, we helped
ourselves to a pot luck of the
.most delicious sandwiches, salads
and cakes, while Bobbie served
steaming hot coffee. Those pres
ent were Frank and Ruby Steele.
Harry and Creo Ives and their
daughter Toots and grandson.
Lanny, Ray and Annetta Gilles
pie, Vie and Boo Witherup. Dick
and Imogene Steinberger, Mitch
ell and Linda Faulkner, Lyle and
1 Edith Douglas, Mrs. Bird, Bcb
Clark. Carol Axtel, <A1 was work
ing), “Monty Wooley" Maxwell.
Lou Anne, Lee and myself. Bon
nie Lou and Donna played host
esses to the small fry and Eliza
beth Mary Dawson helped the
Douglases with the grown-ups.
At the evening’s end Bonnie Lou
invited Lou Anne to stay the
night with her. so wL- left minus
our daughter. The evening wa«
one of the finest I've spent in A
laska.
Hector Guzman, recently i e
turned from the States, was a
dinner guest of the Vic Wither
ups last Wednesday evening .
Charlie Lean has been home
from the hospital for about two
weeks and is walking now with
crutches.
Jack Lean. Charlie's brother,
has decided not to renew his liq
uor license this year.
During the recent high winds,
the ropes holding Dyton Gilli
land's plane on Kenai Lake broke
and did oabut two thousand dol
lars' damage to the plane accord
ing to reports from Cooper's
Landing.
Jess and Mina Kobmson and
their three-month old baby son
have left Cooper's Landing to
move onto their homestead about
twenty miles this side of Horn
er. They took with them their
two horses. Jess has a now saw
mill and plans to operate it this
next winter. This summer tie will
be working on the road.
The two Jims of Cooper's Land
ing have dsieontinued their win
teer's trapping and arc beginning
their summer's mining operations
on Surprise Creek. They say that
Big Jim cuts a mean rug at Hen
ton's Saturday night dances, too.
Mrs. Pat i Helen) Gwinn of
Coop. r’s Landing was in town
(Monday and stayed overnight at
, Bea Davis’ home.
j
| Gentry Shuster made his final
take-off this season from Bear
Lake last Monday. Spring is here
and the ice is gone.
Charlie Hubbard of Mile If. \> ;s
suddenly taken seriously ill last
Saturday and. as his wife was
Outside at the time, drove him
self to the Seward Genmal Hos
pital. where Dr. Sheldon operated
on him. He is now recovering
i nicely. He recently celebrated his
,79th birthday at the Kenneth
Bakers. Charlie has been remod
. cling the house while Ora has
been Outside.
Leon Lewis is employing two
Cooper’s Landing carpenters to
j build him a cabin on the Hope
Road, i
Some of these highway people
.when they come to town sort of
' make the Forrest and Harold
Davis hom.s their unofficial
headquarters. The Davis brothers
are always irentested in the min
ing here on the Peninsula.
Morris Courson of Cooper's
Landing left last Christinas holi
days to take a trip around the
States in his jeep. He is in Con
necticut now and will soon be re
turning home.
Th > planes are really out flying
these days. Every once in a while
1 notice Annetta Gillespie on her
front porch watching. She soloed
three years ago in Ketchikan and
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Ties winsome la-s “models' a
I'ebric napkin that will never In*
laundered. The fabric. mmwoven. is
made by a completely new process,
recently patented. Spinning a"d
w eaving are entirely eliminated, ac
cording to National Patent Council.
Several continuous webs of fibers
come eiff a set of cards in a wide
strip and are laid over Vach either,
forming a "lap.” The “lap” goes
intei a binding machine which de
posits an adhesive em the face of
the material to hind the individual
fibers into place. When soiled, the
napkin is thrown away.
doubtless often wishes it were
she up th re in the sunny sky.
G. Martin, ex G. I. was out on
the highway last week, looking
for fish at Mile ti creek, but he
didn't find any.
Pretty Peggy Berger of Coop
er's Landing, who runs her own
tiap line, has given in to ‘‘the
new look” nad friends say she
is “really fetching" in her new
outfit.
The pussywillows are coming
out beautifully now. There veie
a lot of them last week around
Mile 4 bridge, but they suddenly
disappeared over the week-end.
However, don’t worry, folks!
I The*e are many more yet to
j come and some of them truly
grow to giant proportions. 1 have
some of the big ones in my house
and they like to have scared Ray
Gillespie out of his skin one eve
ning when he dropped in. I be
lieve he thought they would bite.
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TEA HONORING MESDAMES
HEATH AND ROTH
♦
Mrs. H. W. Hunt and Mrs. W.
B. Blue were hostesses at a tea
honoring Mrs. Virgil Heath and
Mrs. Harold Roth. The latter was
ill and could not attend There
were about fifteen friends pres
ent.
Mrs Heath leaves the first of
May for Anchorage where Mr.
Heath will be with Land Man
agement.
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During the argument she said.
“I'll wear mv low cut gown and
show you a thing or two.”
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Tavern owner (awakened at 5
am. by pounding on the door):
"Go ’way. You can’t have atiT
flung to drink at this hour.”
Man: “Who wantsch anything
to drink. I left Imre at closhim
time without my crutches.”
National Home
Demonotration Week
•
The first week in May has
been designated National Home
Demonstration Week. During that i
week rural women will let people !
know what it means to belong ,
to home demonstration clubs. |
Here arc some of the facts
about home demonstration work,
which is that part of the Agri
cultural Extension Service pro
gram which deals with the home.
Of the 3.107 counties in the Unit
ed States, Alaska, Hawaii and
Puerto Rico, 2,301 employ one or
more home demonstration agents.
County, State and Federal Gov
ernments contribute to this work.
Additional funds made available
by Congress have increased the
number of home demonstration
agents bp G22 in the past 2 years j
and more would have been added |
of trained workers had been
available.
The agricultural county usually
has 2.285 farm homes, and on the
average about half of the fami
lies in these hom s make use of
the up-to-date information on
homemaking brought to them
through the home demonstration
work.
The hom.- demonstration agent
is a teacher. Some of ttie teach
ing is done through the 50.000
hom demonstration clubs with a
membership of 1,102.346 women.
These clubs meet monthly. Lead
ers are chosen who get special
training in various phases of the
home demonstration program by
the agent or specialists from the
State college. Training schools
w re held for 423,000 such lead
ers last year. These leaders pas
sed on the information to their
fellow club members by means of
talks and demonstrations.
Home demonstration leubs rep.
resent about 38 per cent of the
families influenced by home dem
onstration work. Information was
used by nearly 2 million other
familis who hear about it by
reading a bulletin or an article
in the newspaper, listening to the
radio or calling the agent's office
or thy heard the agent speak at
one of their church or lodge
meetings.
The home demonstration agent
spends 60 per cent of her time
presenting helpful information as
well as giving demonstrations at
I meetings or visiting farm homes.
: Altogether, these agents reach
more than 18 million people in
meetings and vLsit close to 812,
000 families in their own homes
during the year.
Tht* home demonstration agent
has his or her office in the coun
ty seat, often in the courthouse, j
Here in a single year more than ’
1.445,000 visitors get advice on
the widest variety of home prob- j
lems. Some 1.717.696 others get 1
their information via the office >
telephon _\
In Alaska 3 full-time agents, 2
assistants, and 2 secretaries car- '
women. Offices and workers are ;
women.. Offices and workers are: j
Lydia Fohn-Hanson. University
of Alaska
Fli/ab th Oritos. Assistant to
Lydia Fohn Hanson. Fairbanks,
Room 2. Federal Building
Marilyn Johnson, Anchorage,
Room 40. Federal Building
Genevieve Wery. Assistant to
Miss Johnson, Anchorage
Mary Robinson, Petersburg
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SPRING MUSIC
RECITAL
•
Mrs. Cecil Horton is present
ing her piano pupils in a musical
playlet entitled "Signs of Spring"
Sunday evening. April 18th at 7
o'clock in the Methodist Church.
One of the interesting features
of the program will be piano
duets and trios played by vari
ous pupils with one of their par
ents. There will also be several
vocal numbers as well as piano
solos. Some of the children will
be in costume and carry on con
necting conversation throughout
/the Recital. Anyone who is inter
ested in the performance of chil
dren and their piano work is cor
dially invited.
GIRL SCOUT-BROWNIE
DEMONSTRATION
•
Seward Girl Scouts and Brown
ies are combining forces and giv
ing a d monstration of some of
their year’s activities in the So
cial Hall of the Methodist Church
on Thursday evening, April 22nd.
at 7 o’clock. Brownie Troop No.
1 will be invested as Girl Scouts
and all the girls will receive
badges in recognition of their in
dividual work during the vex.
Each group has planned a short
folk dancing demonstration, and
the Girl Scouts will give a short
play entitled "Girl Shout Week."
Refreshments will be served after
the meeting. Between forty and
fifty girls from the ages of 7 to
12 have received the benefits of
the Scout program this year, and
they are inviting their parents
and friends to come for a glimpse
of what they have been doing.
Overheard—He’s the kind of
fellow who plays like he is ;»
lawnmower every time he sees
a grass widow'.
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A tractor salesman approached
a prosperous looking farm, where
he observed the farmer slowly
and painfully guiding a plow'
drawn by a bull. Thinking that,
this offered an excellent oppor
tunity for a sale he pointed out
to the farmer the many advant
ages of a tractor.
To his surprise, the farmer said
that he already had a tractor that
it worked fine, and was at pres
ent in the barn. On his query as
to why was the bull being used
for plowing, the farmer replied:
“Son. I aim to teach this crit
ter that there’s something in life
besides romance.”
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“For managers and overseers.’'
proclaimed a great Chinese land
owner, “always give me married
men.”
. “And for what reason?” a visi
tor asked.
“Because." said the landowner,
"I abhor the muddled reports than
are sent, to me by bachelors. They
have nov ? had to explain anyhing
to a wife.”
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