61° 30' IT. Lat.
14Sf 15' W. Long.
Vol. I
Calmer, Alaska July 9, 1936
Nos.46-47
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SUE WAS A GRAUD AND
GLORIOUS FOURTH
. In fact, she was such a grand
and .glorious fourth that we missed
another issue and have to run a
double-header again.
With fine support from everyone,
including the weather man, ^almer
had an Independence Day celebration
equal to that of many larger com
munities throughout the Territor^n
From the start of the parade till
the break-up of the dance -- and ev
en on into the morning of the 5th
there was something doing ever^r min
ute.
Visitors from points as far away
as Seward thronged the Center and
closer neighbors from Uasilla, Mata
nuska, the Fern and Lucky Shot nines
and other nearer points swelled the
crowd to really metropolitan propor
tions .
* utartmc off with a oarade at
least a quarter mile long, the day’s
festivities furnished almost contin
uous entertainment for the visitors.
From the reviewing stand Doctor
Charles E. Bunnell, President of the
university of Alaska, was welcomed
to the valley hy Don L. Irwin.
Doctor Bunnell in his address ad
vocated Statehood as a goal for Al
♦ aska, advised everyone to olan and •
build with an eye toward permanency,
indicating and drawing attention to
the fact that boom mining cams and
mushroom settlements without the
stability of agriculture behind
them to keen them alive have done
little toward nreoaring Alaska for
a star in the Flag. Doctor Bun
nell’s talk was received enthusias
tically by his audience.
Immediately following the address
the Color guard of the local oost of
the American Legion raised the flag
on the new sixty foot mole before
the school house. This cereuomt was
followed by community singing led by
Frank Ring.
After the lunch hour there were
races for the boys and girls under
•;,he direction of Anil 0 ’Fie 11 and
an exhibition ride on a bucking
orse by Dill McCormick.
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5400 CHICKENS ARRIVE
WITH VERY SI 'ALL LO SS
tT. s. Roksbergen, ooultry raiser
of Lynden, Washington, and success
ful bidder to suooly the colony
with 5400 White Leghorn outlets 10
weeks old} brought his three car
loads of birds to Palmer last week
with .a loss of only about J of lfo,
and this in suite of the long wa
ter voyage with sudden changes of
temuerature in the shin’s hold.
An interesting angle of the
shipment is that these birds were
chosen as to sex when only one’- day
old. This was done by a method
discovered by the Jauanese a short
time ago and only one cockerel was
discovered to have sliooed oast
the examiners.
55 MORSES ARRIVE AND
MORE ARE COMING
Three car loads of horses, con
taining 55 animals, arrived last
weeh and were immediately distrib
uted by lot to those of the colony
group whose orders could he filled
hy this number. Drawing was made
alphabetically.
There were some fine teams in
the shipment, one of the classiest
being drawn by Bill Hynek of Tract
if 91.
Six hundred sheen and four sheen
dogs are due to arrive Saturday Ju
ly 16th. There will be forty more
horses with this shipment and 1600
more chickens wall be coming in
later.
LOCAL LAN SLATED
FOR T-T3RO A'.'ARD
On the evening of the Fourth
John C. Manning, Special Agent for
the Carnegie TTero Fund Commission,
flew into" Anchorage from Valdez
on the last lan of his long trin
from ^ittsburg, ^a.
Mr* Manning was hunting for a
Roy Tinton who had frozen off a
part of both feet and crinuled one
hand during a four day battle with
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