Vol# I
Palmer, Alaska..April 16, 1936
No • 35
CLINTON JONHCON "O.’IE ON
TRACT 1-18 A TOTAL LOSS
The fine log house of Clinton
Johnson was burned to the ground
last week when fire of undetermined
origin broke*out in the kitchen,
spreading with such rapidity throu
ghout the house ibal; it defied com
bat ,
Ids., Johnson, who had been
washing, was out in the yard hang
ing up clothes when the kitchen
burst into flames. She called to
Clint v.ho was slashing about 150
yards from the house, re rushed up
and received some rather bad burns
about the face and hands trying to
reach the fire extinguisher. Even
then it was too late to do any good
and by the- time a neighbor could
reach the nearest■telephone, fif
teen minutes away, the whole house
was in flames.
The Colonial Volunteer Fire De
partment covered the four miles of
bad road in the record time of 9-J
minutes, but there was little good
it could do other than cost a guard
to keep the fire from running off
into the woods and bring Clint to
the hospital for treatment.
Too much stress can not be laid
upon the necessity for more'fohones
to be installed throughout the pro
ject. When waste material beside
the log home of Bill Smith caught
fire on Easter morning he gave the
alarm immediately over the phone in
his house. The fire was just eating
up under the eaves when equipment
arrived and stopped further spread
ing. Fad it been necessary for him
to run a mile to the phone the re
sult might have been very different,
The Johnsons,•who lost everything
but the clothes on their backs, wil]
live in the Wilding house on Tract
105 until arrangements are made for
resettling their own place.
A lesson in thoughtful generos
ity may be gained from Anton Ander
son’s two little girls who gather
ed together a number of their toys
and asked their daddy to take them
out to tie little Johnson children
who lied lust theirs in the fire,
LEGION DANCE SCHEDULED
The American Legion Post of ^ai
mer will hold a dance at the Com
munity Hall on Saturday, Anril 25th.
Music will he by the Serenaders
and an excursion train will run up
from Anchorage with a lively crowd<■.
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EDSLOSKY FACE FROM LONG TRIP
Leo Koslosky is back from a six
thousand mile flying trip through
the interior where he has been buy
ing fur and stocking up with native
made goods for the family stores
here and at Anchorage.
Loo says that things are look
ing up inside, that everyone is
preparing for a big season in the
mining game and that there are more
prospectors in the hills this year
than there has been since the war.
That the Eosloskys have confi
dence in Palmer is evidenced by
the recent doubling of their store
space. The nev/ portion, that which
was former^ the recreation parlor,
now contains the grocery department
while the other half of the Eoslos
ky Block will cabry clothing, no
tions and hardware.
PALIZEH C-2TS NEW WATER TOT TER
Have you noticed the workmanlike
manner in which those 3 steel-men
have gone at the job of erecting
; our new 70 foot water tower? No
sooner had the material arrived
than they were up in the air put
ting it together.
Under $ilas Isom’s direction, and
with the help of,Wilbur Ingram and
jRay HcCartney, the Seattle Boiler
. Works contract is well under way*
When completed the 75,000 gallon
tank will furnish water under
pressure to all the buildings in
the Community Center,
Unlike earlier construction of
this kind_ the new tower and tank
is being put together in one piece
by arc welding instead of rivets,
[i will be u’ the conventional
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