TUE NATANUSYA VALLEY PIONEER
Published Thursdays at
Palmer Alaska
Lack Allman, Editor-Publisher
David Markham—Assistant Editor
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some promise the nature of which is
not clear to us.
fan some bright student step un
and explain this brilliant effort
of our law-makers?
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FERE’S TFAT HAT A'"AIN
First good laugh (one cf ‘ that
deep-down hind) we’ve had for a
long time came the other day while
listening to Hasilla’s Heinie Sni
der tell about certain cf his ex
periences. ll.e genial Hollander’s
a natural, and we cordially recom
mend him to the attention cf anyone
who is suffering from the blues....
If he can’t cure ’em, no one canl
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DIZZY DEFrNITIONS -
Schottisch: Form of Scandinav
ian physical training; Terrsiehor
eaii calisthenics; probably the rea
son behind the hardihood of the
Northern European peoples.
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Isn’t it odd that the An oho rage
Times should open a Liar’s Contest
so close to the coming Soring Prim
aries?
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personal reflection on ’Pan’, that
worst disease of all forms of 'Car
ditis’ -- Anyone with fortitude
enough to learn how to play it, de
serves to win all he can.
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AN EARLY START .
Energetic Harry Sears, losing no
time in getting started, already
shows results on his farm..
His incubator has hatched cut
200 Rhode Island Red chicks. Hell
under way in his hotted are three
thousand each of cabbage and caul
iflower plants, and 1300 tomato
plants are already up four or five
inches* Beside all that, he has a
lot of uepper and radish plants un
der good headway.
Walter Bippel had a good program
lined up, tut we h$ve not yet heard
from him. TTe , too , is building uu
for the summer by using hot-beds.
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’"r. "aoh Allman, editor,
J'atanuska Valley Pioneer.
Tohn Staller (Oklahoma) and two
otb.er parties visited my nets last
Vriday, 'arch 27, after dark, des
troying and raiding them.
Plenty snail when he knew he
could have some fish for the ask
ing, donft vou thinkr
T'e was supposed to return to
prove himself innocent Sunday, but
did not show up.
I have 5 witnesses to the fact.
Tf this keeps up one will need a
, u .rd to watch the wfarn,,f from
wa1kin' away whe n one visits a
nei; hbcr,
(si ne i) To ny Yi ckar y ous
p,S. These witnesses have been
over the trail made by these nid
ni bt erowlers.
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Fatt Johansen who has farmed
here in the' valley for 12 years
and has Jest returned from his
first visit in the States since
establishing his home here is
quite eut out by the unfounded and
vicious rumor that lie knocked the
agricultural possibilities of the
dist riot whi1e outside.
y.att says: "Dc the damned feels
think IT d have stuck with it and
developed cue of the finest farms
in the valley if I hadn’t had con
fidence in the .development of a
market. The question of being
able to produce was answered to
my own satisfaction when I har
vested my first cron the first
year after I hemesteaded.7?
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Sourdough Sam says there are
still a few angles of this project
that he can’t set through his head
One is hew ‘crm there are still so
many aliens on the job wdien good
old fashioned American ’itizens
have 1mm laid off. . .American cit
izens equally capable of filling
the shoes of those who send their
earnings to foreign countries.
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