MOVING
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ess linger and
children are moving int-o the Co-op
staff house, formerly occupied by
the James Wilson family..
WILSONS TO ANCHORAGE
James W. Wilson and family have
moved to Anchorage. They are re
siding in the Mountain View area.
Mr. W1 Ison is employed, at the
Alaska Railroad.
NEW f A RM HOOKS
The Extension Office has just re*
c ently received a supplTT of Farm
Pecord Pooks to be sold at the
price of twenty-five (2C) cents
each. This record book is a com
plete revision of the ones pre
viously made available by the Ex
tension Service, and contain space
for a crop hist or” each year, to
gether with a few valuable math
ematical rules.
A 6 A R GAIN
Miss Mary Lou Lashbrook announces
that she has a cabin for sale, and
can be houoht at a barrain if
moved at once. SEE her in the Ex
tension Office.
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PROM THE "VALLEY SETTLER"
?•: OCTOBER. 21,c 1938
There was a serious water short
age in Palmer in October 193^ too,
as we learn, by reviewing a copy
of the Settler as of that date.
It seems there were seven wells
from which the water was pumped
and that1, all but one of them went
dry. The management■of the water
system ordered that all domestic
units be turned offexcept for two
thirty minute periods each day.
No showers were allowed at all,and
all;units of the civic center were
restricted as well as the homes.
It sa’d that arrangements were be
ing made to ship water In from
Moose Creek In railroad tank cars
to meet the emergency. Later a
pipe line was laid to the Matanuska
river and water was pumped into
Palmer from there.
The following notice, was also
printed;
Due to a shortage of storage space
the produce department v/ill not
be able to ta,ke more than one ton
of potatoes from each producer.
They will not be able to take any
turnips or rutabagas either.
NOTE: The price of spuds was about
$1*7? Per cwt. at that time.
Seed loans to farmers were being
discussed at that time also, we
note that notice was made that all
farmers who had loans .should pay
them before maturity, for the in
terestfrate on the loans would jump
from b? to °.6f after Oct. J>1, -
it didn't make much difference to
most farmers though, because prac
tically no one had anv money any
way.
A new method handling additional
cows for the. farmers was explained
ft was a return for kind for kind
cow, the former was permitted to
take a cow and when she produced
a calf that was of eq ual value it
would he accepted in payment for
the cow he had received. All the
cows that were shipped in that i
year, were Guernseys.
FAMILIAR FACE
A familiar face in the Trading . v
Post is that of Mrs, Lorraine
Aklestad. After .an- absence oft i
three wear's Mrs. Axlestad is arain
.a/orkf.nf-la .the.. F-roc ary...dept.