THE VALLEY SETTLER is published
every Friday by the Matanuska Val
ley Farmer's Cooperating Associa
tion at Palmer, Alaska.
Mng. Editor: Mrs. Marie Wilson
Typist: Ina Belle Irwin
Subscription rates: $1.00 year
by mail: 1.50 year
mailed anywhere: 10^ copy
This paper is issued for the pur
pose of giving information and
news of the- Matanuska Valley Farm
ers Cooperating Association's
work, problems, accomplishments,
and also nov/s of local and general
interest; and to help foarer the
cooperative spirit of the farmers
of the Matanuska Valley.
When the normal routine of every
day affairs overcomes our plans
and foresight for the future; when
we become so mentally stale that
the entire world looks dark and
we soc things from the wrong an
gle, it is time to do something
drastic, about it.
Go soe a good show - visit a nei
ghbor whom you have been promising
yourself to see for months. Take
a trip around the Community and
study the development of crops,
gardens and everything in general.
This mental cramped Condition is
not an unusual situation; to the
contrary, it is quitO normal but'
extremely dangerions. Dangerous, .
because it builds up a pelsonod
mind which can bo warped and twis
ted until people and circumstances
appear to be the opposite from the'
truth, Thus people become radicals*
enemies are made, friendships are
broken.
In time, people become strang
ers in their own homo, ^’ho world
isn’t wrong, we arc, No man or
woman can live by him or herself. '
Association among congenial friend^
discussions on topics of Ooneral
interest, music and interest in tho
general welfare of our fcllowmon
will help greatly to rounfl out a
perfect personality and make us fit
cooperative compa.nions to our fel
lowmen and a benefit to our com
munity.
• MEETING OF PAIR SUPER
INTENDENTS
There will be a meeting of all
Pair Superintendents in the gym
Tuesday, august'30, at 8 P.M.
Flcase be there.
Those who have not turned in thoir
entry blanks to Mrs, Wilson for
the beautification contest, please
do so by the first of September
so the judges will know who has
entered.
Adult season tickets aro $1.50,
children season tickets are 500,
the ages being from 8 to 15,
Some of the prizes offered this •
year are for the Individual Farm,
Garden and Poultry ft*oducts dis
play, The following are the pri
zes* 3s t, $25; 2nd, $15; 3rd",
$7.50.
Individual Farm Display- - Priz
cs; 1st, $15.00; 2nd, $10.00:
3rd, $5.00,
Tho Best Dairy Cow will receive
a sweepstakes prize of 10 sacks
of mill run hay.
On September 2, Friday afternoon
and evening, will all people
bring in your exhibits? This in
cludes everything except baking
exhibits, which must be in by
9i3*0 A.M. Saturday morning as we
war$t to begin judging at 10 A.M.
v
Thqjsc .who enter livestock or
poop.try will bo admitted to the
Fui^r. You must feed your own
stefck and take care of it. Feed
will be furnished. Also, bring
rur ovm halters for your stock,
as we do not have any here.
There will bo some demonstration
work &ivcn on Sunday, Sept, 4,
ir. tho dining room of the school
house on the control of root mag
gots, and treatment of seed po
tatoes, for disease.
Wc hope that as people of tho
Valley, everyone will select and
bring his best exhibits to the
rci’o. Tho people come here to
see whot we can raise, so LET*3
SHOWN THEM.
Vernon Moreman
Fair Superintendent