3ob and Bertha Glud are New comraers to the interior (but not to the Territory) and
MeQsirthy, we understand they are with the Wienricks at the McCarthy Lodge.
Mr •
Komak
•u.d Mr a, Andy Keraak spent the Memo rial D y weekend at their home here,
teaches School in Fairbanks in the winter months.
Mrs •
The Spooks Nook has been open for the past threu weeks and Bess Hackett who
is operating it is a fine Southern Cook from all reports of those who have eaten
there* ’
The Garotte received a .‘letter from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maverick who are inMount
o.in Horae Arkansas now and formerly from Oopner Center. The Waverioks send
greetings to all their many fri»r/la in this area.
. The Chitina Cash Store freer,
ceivod a shipment of fresh meat
look them ov-~r.
ing plant is in operation now and they just re
!,.nd vegetables so be sure and check in soon and
A ghostly noise emanated .from the Spooks Nook one Into evening. It was caused
by couple of spirited Musicians, ^on Sheldon of Talkeetna and Steve uoberts
oi Anchorage • Son was working over the "squeeze box" and Steve was thumping on
a warp-d guitar. Steve , *1 might point out, is a professional musician and a
very good one• Lon,being yet a neophyte, kept up his end with a little puffing•
•ho Ghost Town Gazette was happy to receive the postage money donated by it*s
ardent readers, t/a are most happy to announce that we have enuf cash on "ice"
to put out several ;» uiorar editions. ( Please do not take thi3 ao a hint to quit
sending postage money;• Please do not send more than SI*00 because this much
will pay for quite a long live at Zi a stamp, otherwise the Publisher might get
wild ad invest in an addressograph machine or someother drastic splurge.
V'o of Oh it ina evidently have the mistaken opinion that we are just as "High
Mukoy-Muk as anyone else. This mistaken opinion was apparent this past week
when a "high Glassed (so to speak) visitor and his wife from Anchorage stopped
hero but briefly v, Thank God it was brief and Tahnk God again that most of the
pooole we get in here from Anchorage are decent wonderful people who seem to
enjoy our old battered up town)•
Gere I wus, digging up _ a Rhubarb Plant for transplanting and minding my own
durn business, when up drove this character and stopped for a chat.. Veil— being
that l uin a. talkative sort, I didn’t object cent' he did all the talking. Says'
lie ” V/hat a dump this is, What is all this dust blowing around here?" and before
1 could explain that it wos just good old Copper River Glacial silt driftin' by
on the breeze,he shot me .• mother one- "Do they keep wild animals in the local
store'; ‘^hat is that terrible smell?"• Before I can tegll him that the only wild
animal around there wuz the Old Cynic when ho gets sorapthin under his hide that
he is getting ready to slam in the Typewriter for the. Gazette,’and before
I could say that the horrible smell is only amonia which e»•aped from the freez
ing plant while it was under repairt (Svidentlv this dapper don't know that.house
wives use the stuff' for cleaning things), de throwed me another real dilly, "say
Don't you have any docent places to stay around hero? V/e drove all the way ov.r
hero hut nothin but ".Junky flaces" I guess we had better go out the road and
find a halfway dec eit place, but then we crobaly won't this side of Anchorage or
Fairbanks." I just point'd at the road and told them it’w'i3 th$ shortest, b. st
and ot.!y road out of town. { Betcha this Joker and his wife use the bathroom
like every body els-.. ). _ _
Th-.- Old Cynic has boon bizzy this week no you will have' to wait till the next issue
for his Column with the exception_of the foliovring ’ward for the Cordova Times.
The OLD CYNIC slf,"HE .3EZ 7J: TYtHOUT THE LSAED FEAR OF SUCCESSFUL CON
TRADICT TO.; T'.i Vi': Thv editor of the Ce.eajva Ti-es speaks of his remarks con
cerning th-, current deplorablo ndi'rlon of the Hkrth as ’sour pessimism." Now
thw C.]d Cynic does nut want to 9-£?vr.d the sonsisiiitiss of any gentle soul but he
is dovot d to r1 ism a.id if th*. editor of a publication of the skimmed milk orde
such’ as the Cordova Times feel's bad about the "sour pessimism" of the Old Cynic,
then that is just tori bad, but nothing much can be dun about it. You know, a
pa iSimiet is a p_r.V>n win., us to live with an optimist. Of all the depressing
tilings wo raw the worst eat is aggressive, wilful optimism. ;—The above is sub
scribes ; wd sworn to by the Col Cynic.