THE 1'ATANUSKA VALLEY PIONEER
Published Thursdays by ARRC
at Palmer, Alaska
Jack Allman Editor
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Here it is Sunday evening, and
the Thursday paper not yet out. Re
minds us of the Wednesday Morning
Breakfast Club of New York that
meets on Saturday afternoons.
There really is no reason for
the club doing that, but thetfe is
an answer to the paper being late.
First, we had a mild tcucji of
the grippe, then the wind blew.
Did you notice that the wind
blew? ''ell, it did. Tents were
rioped from their frames. A two
story building of bare studs and
rafters collapsed on the lot in
back of Berts. Tar paper was
torn from shacks. And by the way,
if you’ve missed anything... such
as garbage can lids, sheets of
celoteXj coal buckets or washing
machine crates... just come down
and look in the front yard of the
PIONEER. A lot of stuff piled uo
here.
But back to the pacer. It was
impossible to do anything. The
old tent shook and strained, and
the roof popped like a cannon. On
the first morning we awakened to
find a snowdrift in the middle of
the floor. Had we not been frozen
down to the ground we Would with
out doubt been rolled Out into the
Snodgrass hay field.
','e are coming cut \Jnder the reg
ular date line in spife of our tar
diness, but after the fifteenth we
can gaurantee to come out on time.
After that date w»d will be lo
cated in our new quarters next to
the old General Office, and will
have no regular duties other than
to see that the paper gets out on
time, iur resignation is in, ef
fective the fifteenth, and from
then on the paper will be conduc
ted as a private enterprise.
Our olans are to get a press
and put out a real sheet. That en
tails the spending of no small a
mount of money and if the thing
is a success w^ will be considered
smart. On the other hand, if we
lose our undetfshirt on the deal
there will be many to tell you
that they knew we were crazy from
the start.
’'ell, you can’t convince a rrrn
that he has ’missed too many boats’
until he hate proven it to himself.
So...we will continue to have a
newspaper jn the Matanuska Valley,
in the Brefr.d-basket of Alaska.
Don’t forget the kiddies Xmas.
Contribution boxes are handily lo
cated at’all business houses.
HDSPITA!
NOTES
...side from the scd emergency of
taking care of the Emberg family
the new hospital has been a busy
place since the day Dr. Albrecht
moved his equipment in.
ITrs. Oscar Kindgren of Tract 170"
started the ball rolling by ^re
senting her husband with an 8-P lb.
baby rirl last Saturday morning.
Then Irrs. Bernard Gulberg of 110
broug'ht another little girl into
the world two hours later. It was
a close race to see which of the
two girls vc s to have the honor of
being first born in the fine new
building.
A birth that your reporter missed
on was the ten pound baby boy born
to I'rs. C. E. Rudcll the week befor
Our apologies, C. E., but wasn't it
c. girl that we ran the ad for?
alter Sandberg rather liked the
looks of those nice white rooms in
the hospital, so he slipped on a
frost covered timber while working
on the doctor’s house close by and
busted a couple of ribs and a shoul
der blade on the cement floor of th
basement.
meeting of the Natanuska Con
servation Association is called for
l*oo ?. IP. on Saturday, December
14th at the now PIONEER office.
Anchorage announces that all vis
itors to the big. Ilukluk Dance will
bo gauranteed a cood time. The
dance will be hold at the- new ice
rink and will bo under the auspices
of the Anchorage Nockey team. Nuk
luks will not be compulsory, any
thing will go, but unless you have
danced on ice in a pair of Eskimo
boots you have missed something.
Borrow a pair...bo there...and
have a big time. The date: Dec. 14.
Reverend. R. M. Frieling, Luther:,
wishes to rnnounce th-t services nr
no:/ being held at tho regular hours
in the new log parsonage on the But
Ro~d north of town.
Miss Ruth Kelly, surgical nurse,
arrived last week to augment the
staff of Dr. Albrecht at the new
hospital.
_.nd Pearl "illiems, the Red Cros
nurse who is to relieve Mrs. Made
leine Sedille, is expected to arriv
in camp tomorrow.
Sourdough Sam says that if seme
of the people in camp don’t quit
throwing dishwater rnd the like cut
into the streets there will be some
broken legs before soring. "Chee
chr.ko Glaciers,' he calls those
domes of ice, rnd claims that they
have caused plenty of dangerous
falls. Better harken tr Sam.