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VOL. Fnls.er, Alaska
' ' . February. .4.- 1949 • • ‘-W; 5
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CO-OP nOTES
HAVE YOU ' ’ ORDERED
BABY CHICKS?
THOSE
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Drrroll.Jrqok, head of tho Co-op Warehouse,
reminds chicken farmers that it 'is tine toj
get your orders placod for spring chicks.- J
Prices ouotod.-by the Warehouse' are
Pyiilot chicks'. '
Nen Hxhpshiros, .32; White Leghorns,138;
Washington Heavy Hy-brid,.32; Parnenter
Rhodo Island Reds, .37.
These prices are subject to change on
notice given 30 days prior to delivery
date,
A deposit of 20# is requirod rith all or
ders.
C..OF C. EXTENDS1 INVITATION \
TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVEN
TION TO MEET IN PALMER
A telogran nas sent to tho Legislature this:
last reek extending an invitation to the
Constitutional Convention to-noef in Painej’
Alaska. The telegram-as spnt Tollers:
Hon. Stanley'McCuteheon: , ■ ,
Speakef-of the Rouse r‘ > .
Juneau.-Alaska •
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Ti-. T'conic of the Matanuska Valley through
the Matanuska V llcy Chiu .bcr of Qorjiorco
oxtond to you and the Cbnst'itytional Con
nittoo. for the State of Alaska a cordial
invitat ion .to .hold -the Const itut iohal Con
vent ion in Palnor, Not: and oxcclient Hotel
acccrmodations rith Dining Roan and. ;Coffeo '
Shop in connection arc all available in •>
Palmer* Ample committee and convention
rooms rill be -provided. Tfcnthor conditions
at that time of tho year aro excellent.*
Transportation- facilities are avail ahlo'-by.
train, by bus and by plane.- ;Eet us khdr.!
your special requirements at y6ur earliest
convenience so.that arrangements nay bo'
made, ' . :, .
Matanuska Volley Chamber of Co norco
Clayton Esrlingor, President
HOSPITAL . MEETING :: SOON ' j
Mr. Peters announced late this reekithat :
th&re rill be a Hospital meeting on Feb* |
15t T7atch for further information on this :
meeting in the next issue of the Settler.
36 persons turned out: to initiate the-, new'
nesting place of the Ilatanuska Volley,
ber of Commerce-in the Dining Roon of. .ih-j
llatanuska Valley Hotel on Wednesday no -n of
this peek, Among guests present were Doe
Atwood of the Anchorage Tines-,who was m ost
speaker; Rev. Armstrong of'the Anahorav-j
Presbyterian Church "and Mr, Hassnan from
the Union Bank of Anchor age ,.- . +
Mr. Atwood chose the-timely topic of. "State
hood" as his subject. He gave a verytbrief
and clear picture of the -early history of
Alaska government in order to point out ,,
just how the Territory of Alaska hasbeen
neglected by Congress during the past years,
iXirin-g the first 17 years after Alaska was
purchased fron Russia in 1867 there was no
government. This meant that people could
not gain title to -anything, they could not
got married, there was no law and order, no
courts of justice. During these .seventeen
years only two minor laws were passed.'5ne
of these established a custom office ' V,
Southeastern Alaska and the other gave a
San Francisco firm a monopoly on buying. -
furs in Alaska. •' ' " * ,
In 1884 the f irst Organip Act -has- passed;
r:hich set-up a feeble court system of four’
districts, but lack of transportation hind
3rcd the' effectiveness of the ©ourts; Hiring
this tine the'people of Alaska kep.f ‘h... -t~ '
ing meetings and sending requests" to "vusti
Lngton D.C. and finally as 6‘result-of the
efforts on the part of these pioneer people
they rare finally given a.Delegate td Cong
ress in 1906. This dole gate had no very' as
Ls still the qaso, -.hut. he could ropresehfc
;he people of Alaska Uastilngtoii ~Bl6i-.and •
save t hen the "expense of sending persons, to
rho Capital with-;thoirrploas. , "
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.n 1912.tt© seeond Organic.^qt wAsh passed"
;iving the people the right to elect their
Legislature for thevToTritory.; jK’C-'Ter—
•itory is still operating under, chi.s , Act '
if 1912. This legislature"ib greatly limit
id in its powers, in many things,, It does
lave great fcaxiftg power, as we are finding
iut,‘but it is limited ih^rogard to game
aws, fisheries, land management and niner
ils, Mr. Atwood pointed out.
Cont. on pp. 3