Valley Women
Invited to
Xmas Workshop
Unique and clever ideas for
Christmas gifts and foods will
be presented at the Extension
Service annual Christmas Work
shop which will be held at the
United Protestant Church on
Tuesday, October 30.
The workshop will get under
way at 10 a m., according to
Marylou Rideout, home demon
stration agent. All women in the
valley are invited to attend.
“Bring your ideas to exchange
with other women of the Valley,”
Mrs. Rideout suggested.
Those planning to attend are
asked to take a sack lunch,
which along with demonstrated
foods, will be eaten at noon. A
nursery will be provided for the
pre-school children so that all
mothers in the valley will be
able to attend the workshop.
The morning session will be
devoted to demonstrating vari
ous holiday foods. Each Home
makers club of the valley will
offer at least one demonstration
in this section. Afternoon ses
sions, which will probably con
clude about 3 p.m., will be de
voted to the demonstration of
gifts and gift wrappings. Again
the Homemakers clubs will offer
ideas. All women, whether or not
members of a Homemakers club,
are invited to attend, Mrs. Ride
out said. “This workshop is
planned,” she explained, “for an
exchange of ideas”.
The University of Alaska lb
brary this past week acquired its
forty thousandth volume. Librar
ian John Mehler announced. The
book was one of a set of new
Encyclopedia Britannica. The li
brary is the largest in the terri
tory and subscribes to 402 period
icals. Mehler pointed out that
Alaskans can obtain books from
the university library through ar
rangements with their local li
brary.
HOMEMAKER’S
MEWS
Homesteader Club
Members of the Homesteaders
Homemakers Club met at the
home of President Midge Yer
bich on September 17. Incoming
; officers were installed by past
president Jean O’Neill, using the
candlelight ceremony.
Christmas Workshop plans
! were discussed and Letha Krus
cavage will demonstrate gifts and
wrappings. Virginia Norris will
demonstrate foods.
For “something new” a dem
| onstration of no-bake cookies
was given by Edna Johnson.
; Achievement Day musical skit
f is in charge of Jean O’Neill and
j practice is to be held Monday
evenings at her home.
Following a pot-luck lunch
club members worked on items
for our bazaar which is to be held
at Moose hall Nov. 10.
Nine members and two guests
were present. We welcomed Mrs.
Norma Phillips as a new mem
ber. The next meeting will be
held at Dorothy Anderson’s
home November 21.
Butte Club
The Butte Homemakers club
met at the Club hall the 18th.
Mrs. Blunck and Mrs. Gardner
were hostesses and there were
11 members present and seven
visitors, five of them becoming
members.
The Christmas Workshop £nd
Achievement Day were discuss
ed. Diana McKechnie will demon
strate a baked dish; Mrs. Gard
ner and Lou Sandvik will show
how to wrap packages.
Reports were given on the
Short Course by the ones attend
ing; Highlights of the meeting
were the varied bats worn by the
members; dish washing was the
penalty for ones not *having a
hat. Prizes were given.
New officers were installed
with Mrs. L. McKechnie as the
installing officer. The next meet
ing will be held at Eva Plum
ley’s.
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DON IRWIN WRITES
ON STATESIDE TRIP
Don Irwin, who with his wife
Amy, has located in Winter Ha
I ven, Florida for a month or two,
I has written an interesting log on
their travels since leaving Pal
mer a few weeks ago. At the pre
! sent time they are visiting with
their son Don, Jr., and his fam
: ily. Don is attending the Air
I Force pilot training school and
! will complete his first training
phase in January.
In speaking of Seattle, Don,
Sr., "The Old Roving Rooster"
as he signed his writing, said:,
‘‘We took a fascinating auto trip
around Seattle one afternoon
I gained the impression from this
inspection that economic and
social conditions in the queen
j city of the Northwest are not dif
j ferent from those to be found in
! most of the modern cities of our
fair land. A network of high
ways and streets lead through
! the outskirts and into the heart
of the business district. Around
the perimeter are hospitals,
schools, churches and homes . . .
! the economic life of the commun
ity blanketed by a bonded indebt
edness for various civic improve
; ments. I was told that even in
! this prosperous city there were
i some who were buying their
' homes, cars or household equip
rnent via the mortgage or sales
contract route. All of these in
cumbrances, I was hastily inform
ed, were being pried from the
reluctant pockets of the popu
lace through monthly payments.
The public debt however, is be
ing extracted through the more
respectful, but nevertheless ef- |
ficient method of city taxation
. . I though ‘Isn’t that just about j
representative of conditions in !
our homes, businesses and cities j
almost anywhere one might go
j in America today'.”
ENIMCLAW: “From Seattle
friends drove us to Enimclaw
about 60 miles away where we
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Odsather, parents of Louis Od
sather whom many of you know’.
At their comfortable country
home we had a pleasant visit
and one of those good dinners
| which only a Norwegian grand
mother knows how to prepare.
"The economy of Enimclaw is
j primarily based on lumbering
Powerful trucks roared their
way through town with big
loads of logs enroute to the saw
* mill . . . having been in many
cities and towns across the coun
try 1 remember no place as clean,
1 well laid out and beautiful as
Enimclaw
“The land, like that in the Ma
tanuska Valley had to be clear
ed of timber. There was one big
difference, the timber in the En
imclaw area is large. Some of the
big stumps were still standing
in fields along the way.
SEPTEMBER 19: “Yesterday,
by means of a United Air Lines
DOC-B we cat-walked on the
peaks of the main chain of the
Rockies from Seattle to Portland
to Denver. It was a beautiful
trip at 20.000 feet . . . the sun
was bright . . . Indian summer
haze in the air . . . the forests
etched in a panoramic perspec
tive below. Here and there a
lonely ranch . . . occasionally
little dots appeared—grazing cat
tle or brands of sheep. The whole
area appeared brown and scorch
ed, water holes drying up and
range grass short. This opinion
was substantiated by the voluble
cabbie who drove us from the air
port to our downtown hotel that
evening.
“The following day we flew
over the North Platte River Val
ley. It is an irrigated country
.arid from the looks irrigation
water is somewhat short. A
broad plain, laid out in geometric
regularity extends on both sides
of the river and is lost in the
haze of the rolling hills beyond |
AT KERNEY, NEBRASKA we
: visited our sister and brother-in- j
! law. At a roadside stand in the
! country we purchased a 30-pound
watermelon for 45 cents. But
| even after being in the refrigera
! tor for several hours it didn't
tasts half as good as the ones
wp iWPril to borrow in op 'lark
of tbp moon whpn f was a young
stpr ” Frlit/nr* nnfp A s spar-p
pprroits in fii'urp ksups of Tbp
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pxprpts from Mr Irwin's infor
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