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149° 15' Longitude
61 30 F. Latitude
Vol. I
Palmer, Alaska November 28, 1935
No* 15
PROJECT C0MS TRU0TIOTT PROGRAM
NOT7 ’YELL ADVANCED
If labor is available and the
weather man continues to be as kind
to us as he has been, the construc
tion phase of the project will he
completed without much further delay,
Only fifteen barns remain to be
completed. The estimated number to
be built has been added to time and
again which accounts for the exten
sion of the comoletion date as set
by Mr. F. L. Biggs last fall.
At the Community Center the big
school is sheeted in and the roof
shingled. The community hall frame
is up and the heavy roof trusses
are about ready to be hoisted into
^lace.
The hospital is sixty per cent
finished inside , the south wing
being already occupied by a number
of patients.
The dormitory and staff houses
are well along and the Trad in*5'
Cost, T;,omen1 s shop, Barber shoo
and Cobbler’s shop were occupied
last week. The radio building has
oeen staked out and is ready for
clearing.
. At the power house the new steam
■ eherator is on its base and will
soon be furnishing additional elec
tric energy for lights and power.
The space under the big warehouse
is being utilized as a shop for turn
ing out concrete chimney tile. The
woodcraft and feed storage building
has the first.floor and walls roughec
in and will soon be comnleted as it
joes not require the time consuming
work of interior finish.
ITALY AND GREAT BRITAIN NOW
ON BETTER TERNS
London and Rome have quit snarl
ing at each other over the fleet
situation in the Nediterranean Sea.
Erance perhaps brought about the
setter understanding by declaring
ler intention of standing by Great
Britain in the event that Kussolini
^ook it into his head to try and run
she British warships away from the
ricinity of the Suez Canal.
Indications are that Italy in
tends to push her advances into
jthiopian territory in an effort to
^ring about a swift conclusion of
she war.
The Italian cabinet hrs asnroved
>lans for strengthening her defense
•ouncil, enlarging' its membership to
..nclude many new officers.
Dargall, an important Ethiopian
:ity on the southern war front, was
..he recent target for an air raid.
BISHOP ROM; CELEBRATES FORTIETH
YEAR AS AN ALASKAN MISSIONARY
On 'Tovember the thirtieth,
Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe will
celebrate communion at St.
George’s church in New York City
where just forty years ago he v/as
consecrated to his post as a mis
sionary. Just a week ago he cele
brated his 79th birthday.
In 1896 Bishop Rowe made his
first visit to the then little
known Territory of Alaska. He
cut his own trails into the far
districts and choooed his missions
out of the woods.
Frontier life v/as not new to
him even then as he v/as the son of
an Episcopal missionary to the Ind
ians of eastern Canada. He had
learned the use of rifle and canoe
paddle as a lad and his knowledge
of trail travel across great unin
habited districts v/as as valuable
to him as his understanding of the
nsiui73s to v:nom he Drought the mes
sage of his church*
It is a question if anyone knows
the trails and rivers of Alaska bet
ter than he does. He has been on
them all. He has rafted down the
streams, and poled and raddled up
against their currents. He has
mushed the winter trails with dogs
and measured them afoot in summer
with a heavy pack on his back.
Teaching the word of God was not
his only duty. He has nursed whole
.tribes of natives through epidemics
and he has saved a scurvy-ridden
camp of whites by his timely arri
val with part of a sack of fresh
potatoes.
He has shared his tent with a
madman whose greatest need was
human companionshin, and he has
been trail mate to a bad Indian
who bore she weight of murder
guilt on his conscience.
Bishop Rowe’s camp was open to
any man on the trail, and he was
wo 1come in any tent or cabin he
ran into on his travels; and he
was always traveling. During the
early day gold stampedes he was
often sought out for information
about routes. This he gladly gave,
but the reports of rich stream
gravels never interested him. If
he took in a stampede it was because
he knew; the men there needed spir
itual guidance, needed someone to
remind them that there was a right
and a wrong way to live. Being in
on the ground floor he had many op
portunities to stake rich claims,
but he wasn’t interested in gold.
He considered a man s soul of more
value.