Palmer, Alaska Dorothy M. Bell, Editor
Published every Friday at Palmer, Alaska, for the Latanuska Valley
Farmers' Cooperating .'.sso ciation for the purpose of giving news of the
Associations Jork, problems, and Accomplishments.
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A MAN’S COUNTRY? . .
That is what .'.laska has always
been cabled, but they will have to j
take their hats off to the woiaen. i
Reoei tly Frank Clark sold a team
of horses to Mrs. Bthol Kavan&ug
and her dauphcr Dorothy Clifton,Who
have a h :stead in the Fox River
Country, rho two women with their
team of horses have gone to Homer
\ hero the horses will be landed and
a I to aul freight 30 miles up tp
Fo River Valley at the hood of
Y ..hemak Bay. They have done their
own building and other hard work
that is required on any farm. The
two women have homesteads close to
each other.
Mrs. Kavr.naugh is now writing a
book about their experiences. This
should prove to be a very interest
ing booh.
Two bobby-socks girls stole a two
ccnt p . 1c r.t the headlines on a
ncv/sstv-ia-i at Broadway and Forty
Second /treat, recently. One of
then r ^.d, "British Borab Sumatra."
The other exclaimed: "'.Thy arc they
picking on poor Frankie?"
Ilxccrpts from a letter written
by a soldier on Ivo Jima.
"I don't think thr.t any fighting
mm deserves more credit then the
men who fought here.. Men sure d in
“blood, no piece of lend cost so
much.
"I he.vo h idly hcl a wink of
sleep for some time, as v: ere dug
in among the big guns and the earth
vibrates and the dirt tiicklcs "own
in your hair and eyes and blankets.„
water is "iso very sc .rco ruia we
really have to stretch it to got
enough to drink... ho .re living
on rations, but do not have any
appetite to raontion.
"The Japs can hardly be described
for the way they fight and live..
They live in holes just like rats
".nci fight th; s•"■no way..They never
think of giving up, ani lay low
during the day and coae out at night
"If you had soon thu bombardment
this p&nco got before H-hour you
would have felt sure that no one
v;as left living, but they crawled
right cut of their tunnels and put
up an awful fight.
Shamrock
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