THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21. 1947, at the post office a’
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
A. J. DeJulio_ Owner-Manager
Editor_Virginia Gallant
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ANNOUNCING
DANCE CLASSES — Ballet, Tap, Acrobatic
By Ruth Meigs
Beginning November 5th
Have time for only 20 students this year (2
classes). Write Kangas-Meigs Studio of
Dance, 915 - 6th Ave., Anchorage before
Oct. 27th if you want to enroll your child.
Notice to follow as to time and place.
AGES 6—18
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Council Notes
(Continued from page 1)
Automotive; and September,
Tost’s Service.
* * *
A lengthy discussion on the
filling of the mayor’s office re
sulted in the extention of an in
vitation to the Palmer business
man Jan Koslosky to attend the
next regular council meeting on |
October 19, as guest of the coun
cil. * * *
Committee assignments for the
coming year were tabled until ,
a mayor is appointed. Current !
committees will carry on their
present assignments until that
time.
* * *
Council members approved the
authorization for a $15,000 bond
I for the city clerk.
* * *
A request from the Valley Pres
, byterian Hospital for 60 feet of
| culvert was approved by coun
cilmen, providing the culvert is
available. It will be sold to the
i hospital at landed costs.
* * *
A second request from the lo
| cal hospital asking property tax
I exemption was tabled for fur
ther discussion.
* * *
The possibility of the City of
Palmer acquiring land for parks
and recreation was discussed by
council members.
* * *
Bills approved for payment
were as follows: The Weekly
Frontiersman, S351.75; Alaska
Communication System, S10.20;
Brooks Equipment Co., S12; Kel
logg Switchboard and Supply,
$850.36; Standard Oil, S55.41; Dr.
Clarence Bailey, $1,700; Palmer
Transfer, $25; Hartley Motors,
S9.50; J. C. Land, $12; Steel Fab
ricators, Inc., $3,228.97; and Line
Material Co., $3.75.
Piggly Wiggly Store
Opens for Business
Monday, October 18
WATCH FOR OUR FORMAL GRAND OPENING SALE SOON
Piggltj Wiggly
MEAT DEPARTMENT - OPENING SPECIALS
Open Monday, October 18
Bar-S Sliced Bacon lb. 85c
Pure Ground Beef 2 for 79c
Frying Chickens lb. 69c
u. & coooT-Bone Steaks lb. $1.15
U. S. Good Pol Roast lb. 59c
Reporters—
Notebook
Sergeant and Mrs. Stanley
Laird were honored at a farewell
dinner last Thursday evening at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Burkholder. Mrs. Laird was also
honored at a Saturday afternoon
luncheon at the home of Mrs.
Glen Persinger. The Lairds plan
to move to Anchorage this week,
where Sgt. Laird is stationed with
the Territorial Police.
The Altar and Rosary Society
of St. Michael’s Catholic Church
will hold a regular meeting Mon
day evening, October 18 at 8 p.m.
at the home of Mrs. William Bou
vvens.
An enrollment of 425 students
has been reached at Bethel Col
lege. Kansas, according to Regis
trar Eldon Graber. This compares
! wth 356 of a year ago. The fresh
men class accounts for some 160
I of the total enrolled. Among those
! enrolled are Mr. and Mrs. Diet
! rich Rempel. Mrs. Rempel is the
former Mary Colberg, daughter
1 of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Colberg.
Both students are former Pal
mer residents.
New employee in the office of
The Frontiersman is Mrs. Ann
Short of Wasilla.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Bryant re
turned this week from a motor
trip to Eagle, where Dave lived
as a youngster. While in the town
they visited the remains of a five
room house owned by his uncle
where Mrs. Bryant discovered
jseveral copies 01 ine i^acues
i Home Journal, Good Housekeep
| ing. and Collier’s Weekly. All
were dated in the early 1900’s,
shortly after the turn of the cen
tury and featured the elaborate
styles of the day. Prices for real
estate and plumbing services
seemed unbelieveable . . . plumb
ing for a 12-room house, com
pletely piped for hot water, with
a guaranteed “boiler” cost but
$200.
Card parties held in the Gran
ge Hall on the third Wednesday
of each month will begin on Oc
tober 20. The public is invited
to attend.
A total of $3,961.64 was realiz
ed in the recently completed em
ergency march of dimes in the
valley, according to Ed Smith,
chairan. Members of the Patterns
! and Pins 4-H club gave $8.12 to
i ward the fund. Additional sums
■ were given by Dr. and Mrs. Fos
ter Sims, and Mrs. Glen Woods.
The theft of several revolvers
from the Co-Op Warehouse was
reported this week to U. S. Com
missioner Dorothy Saxton. The
guns were missed Saturday mor
ning at opening time and a check
with employees showed they had
not been sold. Police are inves
tigating.
Mrs. Ruth Meigs of the Kangas
Meigs Studio of Dance, was in
Palmer this week making ar
rangements for dancing classes.
Mr. and Mrs. Vic Cottini, op
erators of Little Susitna Lodge,
plan to leave next week for the
states, where they will seek med
ical treatment. During their ab
sence the lodge will be closed,
they reported. While in the states
they plan a trip to Virginia. They
will leave October 19.
I Mrs. Marne Hanks returned to
j j Palmer Tuesday of this week,
! from Pocatello, Idaho where she
was called at the death of her
father.
Jim Wilson, commissioner of
agriculture, and Dr. Fred Hon
singer, territorial veterinarian
from Juneau, left Palmer this
week for a few days trip to the
; Homer area. On his return Dr.
I Honsinger will spend some time
! in this area.
Several members of Palmer Ex
plorer Scout troop 754 participat
ed in a splash party held at the
Spa in Anchorage last week as
the first of a series of district
events. A total of 82 persons at
tended, with eight posts and
| troops represented.
NEW BABIES
Sexton
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sexton are
parents of their third child, a son,
Michael Kurt, who was born to
them at Valley Presbyterian Hos
pital on October 6. Michael
s weighed six pounds, six ounces
j at birth. Mr. Sexton is a truck
! driver.
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Reeder
A son, Edward E. Manley, was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reed
er of Palmer on October 7 at
Valley Presbyterian Hospital. He
is the couple’s third child and
weighed nine pounds, three oun
ces at birth. Mr. Reeder is a self
employed rancher.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR j
U. S. MINERAL PATENT
M. A. Serial No. Anchorage j
027772, U. S. Bureau of Land j
Management, Regional Land Dis- j
trict Office, Anchorage, Alaska, |
July 7, 1954.
Notice is hereoy given that Wil
low Creek Mines, a State of Wash
ington corporation, whose address
is 1001-85 Richmond Street West,
Toronto, Canada, and whose At
torney in Fact, whose name and
address is below stated, is about
to make Application for a min
ing patent to 21 contiguous lode
claims and 2 contiguous mill sites,
generally known as the Willow
Creek Mines, lying within the
Wasilla Precinct, Third Judicial
District, in the Territory of Alas
ka. about 80 miles north of the
city of Anchorage, on unsurveyed
United States public lands. These
! claims and mill sites are includ
; ed in three United States mineral
Surveys Nos. 1487, 2186 A and B,
‘and 2187 A and B, and the loca
tion notices are recorded as fol
lows: 14 lode claims in Survey
No. 1487 named -‘Brassel Frac
tion Lode Claim”, “War Baby No.
One Lode Claim”, "War Baby No.
Two Lode Claim”, “War Baby
No. 3 Lode Claim”, “War Baby
! No. 4 Lode Claim”, “Lucky Shot
; Lode Claim”, “War Eagle No. I”,
•War Eagle No. 2”, War Eagle
Fraction”, “War Eagle No. 3”,
"Lucky Shot No 5”, “Lucky Shot
Lode Claim No. 3”, “Lucky Shot
Lode Claim No. 2”, “Lucky Shot
Lode Claim No. 1”, recorded res
pectively in the Anchorage Pre
cinct (formerly Knik Precinct) of
said Third Judicial District, Al
aska, in Book ( at pages 211, 194,
195, 195, 196, and Book 8 at pages
53, 107, 107, 333, 108, 89, 54, 54, and
88; also six lode claims and one
mill site in Survey 2186 A and B
named '“Taylor Claim”, ‘‘Madison
Claim’'’, “War Eagle No. 4”, “War
Eagle No. 5 Claim”, “Wilson Lode
Claim”, “Coolidge Lode Claim”,
and “Lucky Shot Mill Site”, re
corded respectively in the Wasilla
Precinct of said Third Judicial
District, in Book 3 at pages 343,
343, 344, 344, Book 4 at pages 180,
180, the Mill Site in Book 3 page
18, amended in Book 10 at page
132: also one lode claim and one
mill site in Survey No. 2187 A and
B, named “War Eagle No. 6 ;
Claim”, and “War Eagle Mill
Site”, respectively in Book 3 page
345 and Book 3 page 19, Wasilla
Precinct, an amended notice of
this mill site being recorded in
Book 10 at page 131, Wasilla Pre
cinct.
The exterior boundary of said
21 contiguous lode claims is as
described as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of the
Wilson lode Claim, Sur. No. 2186
A identical with Cor. No. 4 Tay
lor Claim, Sur. No. 2186 A and
also Cor. No. 4 Lucky Shot Lode
Claim No. 5, Sur. No. 1487 from ;
which U. 3. L. M. No. 1487 bears I
S. 59° 39' 30" E., 1278.07 ft. dist.
Thence N. 56° 12' E. 1288.07 ft.
to Cor. No. 3 Lucky Shot Lode
Claim No. 5;
Thence S. 29° 41' E. D70.00 ft. to
Cor. No. 2 Lucky Shot Lode
Claim No. 5 identical with Cor.
No. 3 Lucky Shot Lode No. 1, Sur.
No. 1487;
Thence, along line 3-2 Lucky
Shot No. 1, S. 29° 41' E. 127.35 ft.,
identical with Cor. No. 4 Lucky
Shot Lode Claim Sur. No. 1487;
Thence N. 55° 40' E., 1460.46 ft.
to Cor. No. 3 Lucky Shot Lode
Claim;
Thence, along line 3-2 Lucky
Shot Lode Claim S. 29° 41' E.,
334.63 ft. to a point on 1-4 line
of War Baby No. 1 Lode Sur. No.
1487;
Thence N. 53° 35' E., 244.13 ft.
to Cor. No. 4 War Baby No. 1
Lode identical with Cor. No. 1
Brassel Fraction Lode Sur. No.
1487;
| Thence N. 61° 45 E., 1342.15 ft.
| to Cor. No. 4 Brassel Fraction
Lode; /
Thence S. 27° 20' E„ 600.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 3 Brassel Fraction
Lode;
Thence S. 61° 45' W., 1342.15 ft.
to Cor. No. 2 Brassel Fraction
Lode; identical with Cor. No. 3
War Baby No. 1 Lode;
Thence S. 56" 57' W„ 1438.24 ft.
to Cor. No. 2 War Baby No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 3 War
Baby No. 2 Lode Sur. No. 1437;
Thence S. 49" 29’ W., 1145.34 ft.
to Cor. No. 2 War Baby No. 2
Lode, identical with Cor. No. 4
War Baby No. 3 Lode Sur. No.
1487;
Thence S. 52° 11' W., 1500.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 3 War Baby No. 3
Lode, identical with Cor. No. 4
War Baby No. 4 Lode Sur. No.
1487;
Thence S. 74° 14' W„ 1500.00 ft.
| to Cor. No. 3 War Baby No. 4
i Lode;
1 Thence N. 27° 20' W., 600.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 2 War Baby No. 4
| Lode;
Thence along 2-1 line of War
Baby No. 4 Lode N. 74° 15' E.
406.53 ft., to a point on 3-4 line
of War Eagle No. 2 Lode Sur- No.
1487;
Thence S. 88° 29’ W., 661.30 ft.
to Cor. No. 3 War Eagle No. 2
Lode, identical with Cor. No. I
War Eagle No. 3 Lode Sur. No.
| 1437;
; Thence S. 78° 01' W-, 1351.94 ft.
to Cor. No. 4 War Eagle No. 3
! Lode, identical with Cor. No. 1
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
UNDER WAY BY LOCAL
LEGION AUXILIARY
During the first week of the
Matanuska Valley American Le
gion Unit No. 15 membership
drive over one-third of the mem
bership has been renewed, ac
cording to Mary Steelman, mem
bership chairman.
“With many new opportunities
for community service this year”,
she said, “each member will have
an opportunity to serve.”
Mrs. Steelman has offered a
prize of a year's membership to
the member bringing in the most
new memberships and renewals.
War Eagle No. 6 Claim Sur. No.
2187 A;
Thence N. 84’ 51'W„ 1374.07 ft.
to Cor. No. 2 War Eagle No. 6
Claim;
Thence North 29° 41' W„ 600.11
ft. to Cor. No. 3 War Eagle No.
I 6 Claim, identical with Cor. No.
4 War Eagle Fraction Lode Sur.
No. 1487;
Thence N. 293 41' W„ 600.00 ft.
j to Cor. No. 3 War Eagle Fraction
Lode, identical with Cor. No 2
i War Eagle No. 5 Claim Sur. No.
2186 A;
Ther.ce N. 293 41' W„ 600.02
' to Cor. No. 3 War Eagle No.
Claim;
Thence S. 843 52' E., 1373.19 ft.
to Cor. No. 4 War Eagle No. 5
Claim, identical with Cor. No. 3
War Eagle No. 4 Claim Sur. No.
2186 A:
Thence N. 78° 00' E„ 1351.68 ft.
to Cor. No. 4 War Eagle No. 4
Claim, identical with Cor. No.
ui r
3 Madison Claim 3ur wo. .iioo
A and Cor. No. 2 Coolidge Lode
Claim Sur. No. 2186A;
Thence N. 29° 41' W„ 600.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 3 Coolidge Lode
Claim;
Thence N. 88° 27' E„ 1476.37 ft
to Cor. No. 4 Coolidge Lode
Claim, identical with Cor. No. 3
Wilson Lode Claim;
Thence N. 75° 11' E., 1454.30 ft.
to Cor. No. 4 Wilson Lode Claim;
Thence S. 29" 41' E., 600 00 ft.
to Cor. No. 1 Wilson Lode Claim,
and place of beginning, which
closed traverse includes 2 un
claimed tracts lying within, which
unclaimed tracts are described as
follows:
Tract 1
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of War
Baby No. 4 Lode Sur. No. 1487.
identical with Cor. No. 2 War
Baby No. 3 Sur. No. 1487, from
which United States Location
Monument No. 1487 bears N-. 533
40' 29” E., 1712.74 ft. dist.
Thence S. 74’ 15' W., 353.35 ft.
to a point on 1-4 line of War
Eagle No. 2 Lode Sur. No. 1487;
Thence N. 29“ 41’ W„ 394.08 ft
to Cor. No. 1 War Eagle No. 2.
Lode, identical with Cor. No. 1
Lucky Shot Lode No. 3 Sur. No.
1487 and Cor. No. 4 Lucky Shot
Lode Claim No. 2 Sur. No. 1487:
Thence N. 73“ 28' E., 1436.93
ft. to a point on 1-2 line of War
Baby No. 3 Lode;
Thence S. 52* 11' W., 1067.68
ft. to Cor. No. 2 War Baby No.
3 Lode, identical with Cor. No.
1 War Baby No. 4 Lode, and the
place of beginning.
Tract 2.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of War'
Eagle No. 2 Lode Sur. No. 1487,
identical with Cor. No. 1 of Lucky
Shot Lode No. 3 Sur. No. 1487 and
also Cor. No. 4 of Lucky Shot
Lode Claim No. 2 Sur. No. 1487
from which
U. S. L. M. No. 1487 bears
N. 68“ 07' 08" E„ 2063.41 ft. dist.
Thence S. 88“ 26' W„ 1476.50
ft. to Cor. No. 2 War Eagle No. 2
Lode, identical with Cor. No. 2
War Eagle No. 3 Lode Sur. No.
1487, Cor. No. 1 War Eagle No. 1
Lode Sur. No. 1487, and also Cor
No. 4 Lucky Shot Lode No. 3
Sur. No. 1487;
Thence N. 75’ 04' E„ 533.74 ft.
to Cor. No. 5 Lucky Shot Lode
No. 3;
Thence S. 84° 13' E„ 965.16 ft.
to Cor. No. 1 Lucky Shot Lode
No. 3, identical with Cor. No. 4
Lucky Shot Lode Claim No. 2
and Cor. No. 1 War Eagle No. 2
Lode, and the place of beginning.
The exterior boundary of said
two contiguous mill sites is des
cribed as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 of the
Lucky Shot Mill Site, Sur. No.
2186 B, from which U.S.L.M. No
1487 bears N. 12° 25' W., 1713.46
ft. dist.
Thence S. V 39' E„ 465.00 ft. to
Cor. No. 2 of Lucky Shot Mill
Site;
Ther.ce S- 64° 00' W„ 439.80 ft.
to Cor. No. 3 of Lucky Shot Mill
Site, a point on the 1-2 line of
Sur. No. 2187 B. War Eagle Mill
Site;
Thence S. V 39' E„ 333.90 ft. to
Cor. No. 2 of War Eagle Mill Site;
Thence S. 53’ 02' W., 287.30 ft.
to Cor. No. 3 of War Eagle Mill
Site;
Thence N. 6° 57' W„ 835.05 ft.
to Cor. No. 4 of War Eagle Mill
Site;
Thence N. 75° 08' E., 253.10 ft.
to Cor. No. 1 of War Eagle Mill
Site, identical with Cor. No. 4 of
Lucky Shot Mill Site;
Thence N- 64’ 00' E., 490.00 ft.
I to Cor. No. 1 of Lucky Shot Mill
Site, and the place of beginning.
(Containing 9.911 acres)
Signed, July 7, 1954, at Seattle,
Washington.
Published September 16, 23, 30;
October 7, 14, 21, 28; Novem
| ber 4, 11, 1954.