T7-TS FATAITUSXA YALL3T ^IONSSR
'published weekly at
?almer, Alaska
Tack Allman, Editor and Publisher
Subscription rates '\o.50 ner year.
If by mail add 75d for no stage.
Single conies 50 locally. Sack
numbers in books of ten consecu
tive issues at 1.00 ner book,
nostoaid. Ad rates unon request.
While William Metz, a stranger
in camn, lay unon a hospital cot
battered beyond recognition and suf
fering from a fractured cheek bone,
a trial was conducted, presumably
for the uurnose of determining just
what happened during the fight that
nut him in this condition.
Defendants and defense witness
es were heard, but not one word
from the injured man was offered as
testimony, no denosit ion setting
forth his story was read in court.
Why?
Whether William Metz got his
close-to-death beating as the chiv
alrous action of three men defend
ing a woman, or whether it was just
another drunken brawl, is comnlete
iy beside the noint. The fact re
mains that William Metz was labeled
a low-down wife beater without the
cnnortunity of entering one word of
denial. He was told that there
would be no trial until he was able
to attend.
"The Commissioner himself told
me that a half hour before the
trial was held/' William Metz told
the writer.
Apparently there was no attemnt
to get his story before the court
as the nrosecutor never even saw
the comnlainant before the trial.
There are witnesses here in town
whose stories nut an entirely dif
ferent light on the whole affair
we have talked writh some of them--’
yet they were not called to the
stand. Again we ask: "Why?"
Wc are over the humn on this
daylight at midnight stuff. T~ave
you noticed how ran idly those few
minutes of dusk are lengthening?
Vrhich way will the town go?
This is a question that, comes
un every time a new settlement is
started. Those who guess right
usually make some money out of
real estate, those who don’t stand
to lose.
kith the Townshin line crossing
directly from the west into the
Community Center now nermanently
closed, there is a chance that bus
iness houses may snring un in the
hayfield south of Pert’s Drugs.
On the other hand there is con
siderable building out Finger Lake
Road. .John Bugge has sold a num
ber of lots beyond the site of his
log cabin, marguerite Liek has her
boarding house out there. A church
is under construction, and we un
derstand there has been a lot our
chased uron which a bakery is to
be erected. •
Still another chance for the
spreading out of Rainier lies along
the arooosed road running due north
from the Canter to the Anchorage
highway, r. D. Snodgrass has sold
some lots in this■section, and a
cross the main road there is a sub
division along the south line of
Hardworking Smith’s homestead.
Which way will °aimer go?
FOI'EG-ROV’F RITTNERS
Vho says you can’t raise stuff
in the I htanuska Valley? On the
Fourth of July rrs. Victor John
son served that day’s eggs and
new ootatoes, cauliflower and
broccoli from her own garden.
The other evening the mess had
deliciously crisp lettuce from
Veit ^ionc-l’s olace and the stores
are handling his green onions and
radishes. Walt says he is sorry
he didn’t riant three times as
much. Ve was forced to turn down
a large weekly order from the Al
aska Steamship Comaany.
CTTRC” CONSTRUCTION ON
St. Nichael’s Church has at
last begun to take form above
ground.’ This rast week saw the
holes dug for the foundation
riers, cement conveyed and twenty
yards of gravel hauled to tho
site,
Sunday, weather remitting,
the foundation riers will be
roured, and during the week Fath
er Sulzman hor^s to' have the s id Is
laid and some of the log walls in
nlace.
Nuch credit is due Neil NcDcv
itt who is in charge of this uhase
of the construction urogram.
Vith a break from the leather
Nan, next week will see the Par
ish Church well on its was to
cornulet ion.
FATHER TTUFBARD MAY FILH ■
EIGHT*1 WOHLER OF WORLD
During his visit here on the
third of Only Father Hubbard made i
tentative nlans for return to ^ai
mer with a view of making it his
base while taking moving nictures
of Lake George breaking through
the dam of ice thrown uo each year
by the T-.*ik Glacier.