ConT t
cm be obtained to finish the woik
There is only a few days labor
loft end when done we will have
a numb e r - one storage.
The cannery started canning wild
cranberries this week and the
product has caused favorable com
ment from those who have sampled
itu Throe hundred pounds of fresh
berries were recently shippod out
side as an experiment and it is
hoped this years operations can
be used as a basis for expansion
next year.
r:JV/ COMMUNITY CLUB HOUSE
The ARRC has granted permission
to the Hilltop Homemakers Club,
to use the Earl Berry residence,
track 140, for a Community Club
house until such tine as it may
become occupied. This permission
also includs using the Club house
for C urns .unity meetings of the
District 'Jivic Council and the
North Star 1-H Club which is
sponsored by the Hilltop Home
makers Club.
There is a he ting stove in the
house now and arrangements' are
being made for a cook stove.
In the future, those attending
the Council meeting will bring
lunch the same as in the past
and coffee will bo made in the
kitchen furnished by the person •.
acting as host or hostess.
Howev r, there is no lamp in the
house and everyone is asked to
bring a lantern.
The next regular mec ting of the
Civic Council will be hold Sept.
25, in the-now Club House. in
the future, it is planned to make
the District meetings a social
gathering place to meet and visit
with friends and neighbors; where
community problems will be dis
cussed on a congenial basis.
CAR DESTROYED BY FIRE
Loon MacNeven was greatly sur
prised when ho got up Thursday
morning and looked out to seo
his car on fire.
The neighbors noticed the smoke
and rushed over with fire extin
guishers to give aid. By this
time the fire had burned the en
tire inside of the oar and melted
the rear glass.
The cause of the fire is not
known. Several theories have
been advanced. One is that the
battery may have caused a short
some place and become hot enough
to ignite the wood or a spark
from a cigarott may have dropped
on the upholstery and smoldered
all night.
TO ORGANIZE ATHLETIC TEATS
Everyone interested in athletics
is invited to attend the first
meeting of the Palmer Athletic
Association,to be held in the
Community Hall Monday evening
at 8: p.m.
The purpose of this meeting is
to organize both boys and girls
basketball teams for the coming
season.
The time will come this winter
when we will challenge and be
challenged by Anchorage and fair
banks. The only way to be pre
pared for those occasions is to
organize 'now and have fun pract
ising.
American dahlias rr oduco sugar
twice as aweet as cane .or beet
sugar at no more expense. Dutch
dahlias grow as high as 700
bushels .of tubers per acre . Here
'•.iay be a future industry for
Alaska, where the growth of plants
is more rapid than in the States,