61 130 N. Lat.
149 jl3 ;7 c Long.-,
By
"MAT/J9USKA. MAID"
"°io ducts
Yol. I
Palmar, Alaska - January 23, 1936
No. 23'
C-OOD FIGTTT "RROIIISED IN
OUR BEAUTY QUEEN CONTEST
The election of a Miss Calmer to
represent our community at the Fair
l-auks Toe Carnival has gotten off to
a ■ ;ood start and the votes are nii
ihg ur ranidly at the various busi
ness estab.! iohments where tickets
re or o c\i:< able .
We have delayed getting the nanei
out until wo could get further rul
ing? on mooted questions. Because
Anchorage listed widows among the
nominees there were those here who
refused to internret the word
T single' as it an?eared in cur con
test instructions, from Fairbanks to
exclude orevlonely married womeni
The wire in answer to our in
quiry has just arrived and states
chat widow's and married women are
ine.li gitle.
The 11st of nominees in the or
der in which their names were sub
mitted follows,
The Misses Virginia Berg, Viv
ian Stoddard, Fay Stoddard, Bern
udir.e Re it an, Doris June Hermon,
Betty Vernon, Janet Borges, Lorinda
""and, "elen Barry, Inabell Irwin,
Margaret cnodgrass, Marcellene
Venue, kathleen Cornelius, Beatrice'
McNally, Lorraine McKechnie, ^eggy
Johnson.
T*old nerI A mistake! Alice Smith
should annear between Marcellene
Venue and Mathleen Cornelius. There,
that's easier than writing .the whole
stencil over again.
Let's all get behind this contest
Let's show Fairbanks that aimer is
an uo and coming community.
On cunday at noon, by order of
the Chamber of Commerce Beauty Con
test Committee, .the nominations will
to closed and the five highest con
test,ants will compete for final hon
ors,, .it being decided that by that
time the race would be boiled down
to that number. All votes cast uo to
that time will aooly, but from then
on only the five named will be eli
gible. This, the committee feels
is the fairest manner of handling.
the contest.
Final votes will be counted at
the big dance scheduled for °atur
dav, February 8, Don't forget, it
is to be ^aimer's biggest night,
with an excursion from anchorage
and the well-known rerenaders will
be along to furnish the music.
Fe there, end enjoy the new com
munity hall dance floor.
R. F. D. ROUTES A POSSIBILITY
At a recent council meeting Nr.•
M. D. Snodgrass made a motion
that residents of the valley get
out a netit ion for two Rural Free
Delivery for the district and at
the meeting held Jan. 21, Mr. C.
C„ Frix and Don L. Irwin, .who had
been' ar.pointed 'a committee on the
proposal, submitted the netition,
together with the nronosed routes.
.ill colonists and old settlers
are urged to sign these petitions
which can be found at the Post Of
fice, the Trading ^ost, and at the
office of the PIONEER.
Phil O'Neill is in receipt of
telegraphic word that his brother
TTorry was burned to death and his
wife and child injured in a fire
at Juneau this morning.,
!isfortune seems to be dogging
the footsteps of the O'Neills. It
was only about a month ago that
another brother, Ed, was.frozen to
death at Valdez. Three weeks ago
Phil entered the hospital here
suffering from intestinal flu and
was sick enough to lose about 20
pounds in ton days.
The sympathy of the entire camo
is exntcnded to _1hil and I'rs. O'
Nv,ill in this present bereavement.
v'ind that came in gusts estima
ted as reaching a sneed of seventy ...
. miles an hour caused damage than,
will delay progress on the new T<nh
River bridge a week or ten days.
The wind, with nothing to get
its teeth into exceot skeleton
frames' and cribbing, toooled the ■
big donkey rig over onto the bar '
and swung the unfinished soan four
feet out of line, null in-" anchor
bolts loose from the nior. . vrork
had been susoended and no one was y,'
hurt.
A new and distinct whistle sig
nal will soon be announcing fires,*
so if you should hear what sounds &
like a gigantic automobile horn
just at quitting time some noon
soon don’t be alarmed. It will y
be a test. • ’*?. «
Two large Fcnmite rigs on wheel;'
have just arrived and arc now read-h
for use, narked at nresent; at theth£
garage. . 5*8%'