TT:S VAT£NUStCA valley pioneer
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lack Allman, Editor -- Publisher
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■ THE FORGOTTEN NORTH
It seems odd to us that -merchant
in the Slates are so careless with
orders from the' North. If they can
not fill the order out of their own
stock they will delay shipment till
they can rather than purchase from
a competitor and shoot the stuff
along.
Every Alaskan merchant has the
same howl and now the AERO can add
its voice to the protest'.
Oi-r particular interest is in
the ^acer situation. W- buy our
rarer from the corporation...and we
ENOW that ;the orders have gone in,
but the surrly fails to arrive.
Mr. Cronin ordered twenty-five
rea ,s of mimeograph rarer on Jan
uary 31st. It ’was to leave -Seattle
February 5th. V.L- are still waiting
for parer uren which to -mint the
Bo, it seems, we will have an
other double issue, for surely it
will be in on this next boat.
If the latter half of this issue
seems to' dunlisate some of the' news
in the fore nart you will under
stand the reason.
liar oh 21st marked the first day
of Soring....
It wont be long now before the
last snows go, and the ice leaves
the lakes,. Pretty soon theyT11 be
calling the willows *oussy-willowsf
again, and nlows will be riming
through the virgin soil of newly
cleared land,*..
John Pioneer will be hitching uu
his galluses and soitting on his
hands in antieination of a summers
work tcvard the furthering of next
year Vs fortunes.
And what a difference will be
seen with the Advent of May, as
against last May..* Roads, farms
and a busy community where last yea
were forests and silence.
Wo see all around us the meat of
accomplishment, and it is a hearten
ing thing to look men,
By next March, this city in the
vallep will be a well-established
cocum;nity t bouud together by the
lion bonds cf full cconeration and
of fixed and mutual purpose0
Those who were Pioneers will
then be Sourdoughs, Alaska will
have tried them and found them fit.
And they will.find themselves whol
ly integrated with this huge Ter
ritory which needs so many new and
ambitious settlers,
NSW STUDENTS GRADING SYSTEN
■ A :iuw grading system is to be
used in the Matanuska, Palmer and
Butte 'schools.
Its divisions and symbo-ls will
she : S--su?erior, H—high, N--normal.
X--doubtful, and F--failing.
-Bill Young and party landed down
at Dave CnkkaTs place in search of
a Saturday night bath. Imagine
their surprise when they learned it
was Sunday evening!
PROTEST LACK OE TRANSPORTATION
Mrs. lacobscn at Ceu >p 3 says
that on the nights of two recent
dances at the Community Center,
no transportation reached Cam? 3
until a very late- hour. The folks
out Gamp 8 way wish something would
be done about this, as theyTd like
to come in to the dances in time
enough to participate in the fun,..
DOT,rN TO CHINA
t
William Bennett of Tract 68,
reports that the well-drillers have
really reached down toward the mid
dle of the earth out'his way,. The
well on his property is three hun
dred 'feet deep, and at present thei
is two hundred and twenty feet of
water ih’it,,.
CHURCH NOTICE
The Camp 8 and 9 division of the
Protestant Community Church Ladies
Aid will entertain the ladies of
the COiui-iuaity Church at a noon
luncheon Wednesday, Aoril 1st at
the Manse. All who can come in for
the occasion, please do so,
—Mrs, Carl Erickson, Pres
NOTICE
Cabinet Shoo is ^ahing beds...
Colonists desiring them, drop in e
the Cabinet Shop and leave your or
•ders.
SOURDOUGH SAM SAYS: A puiet feller
is a good-deal like a porkypire:
he never jumps at anybody, but Lore
heIn th* idjit who takes a swipe
at him with his tare hand?,