VALLEY SETTLER
Published every Friday by the Mutanus
ka Valley Farmers Cooperating Association
at Palmer, Alaska, for the purpose of giv
ing news of the Association’s work, its
problems, its accomplishment, and news of
local and general interest*_
By Li H, Allen
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When it va3 learned in Palmer that
Hoag Sheely had furnished the thousand
dollar bond which enabled Mrs. Johnson,
Mrs. Moffitt, Mr. LaRoso and Mr. Klein to
drag the board of directors of the MVFCA
into court, the effect upon a lot of long
timers in the Colony wag electric. How
well they remembered the early days in
the Colony under Mr. Sheely when they
were not allowed to pay cash for anything
they bought, no matter how much they want'
ed to. They ask themselves and other,
"Does Mr. Sheely's "bonded" interest in
the injunction suit and recall election
have the official sanction of the ARRC or
is Mr. Sheely just being big heartodly
helpful from the standpoint of being a
competitor of the MVFCA in the milk busi
ness in Anchorage?
Mr, Sheely is now a member of the ARRC
board of directors, has twice been gener
al manager and was formerly a member of
the board. From, the beginning Mr.Sheely
claimed to be interested in the formation
of a Co-on and to be working for its suc
cess. In fact, Mr. Sheeley formulated
the policies that governed the Co-op dur
ing its early history, acting, as executive
director. A dummy board of directors was
acting as representatives of the Co-op but
had no real power of any kind.
It is pointed oUt that Mr. Sheely did
very little to promote profitable dairying
in the Valley, that he discoragged attemp
ting to sell v/holo milk in Anchorage,and
did nothing about making ice cream. The
making of ice cream, as inaugurated by Mr.
Stock, enabled the dairy farmer to get a
high enough price for his dairy products
to enable him to make a profit on his
farm.
In view of Hr. Sheely's repeated fiz
zles and General Manager for the ARRC it
just doesn't seem reasonable that the
ARRC would want to oust Dr. Hanson only
to reinstate Mr. Sheely. Sven the ARRC
is required to make some shoving of pro
gress and the record of the business, also
the oarnings of the farmers while Mr.Sheol
was manager is on the minus side.
PLAUNT - NELSON '.TEDDING TCfcIQRROV
Th6 wedding of Miss Mildred Mary Plaunt
and Lee Cecil Nelson will be celebrated
tomorrow night at tho United Protestant
church with the Rev. 0. '.V. Randall the
officiating clergyman. The ceremony will
be witnessed by a few invited friends.The
bride will be attended by Miss Janet Nel
son and the bridegroom's best man will be
Edward M. Bergan.
The bride will be attired in a white
satin dros6 made with a billowing white
net overskirt, floor length. Her bridal
veil will be caught to her hair with a
half-crown of sweet peas and she will car
ry a scatter boquet of sweet peas. The
bridesmaid will wear a white Swiss frock
with tiny blue polkadots with ruffled skirt
of floor length.
The bride will wear an Alaska gold nug
get necklace, gift of the bridegroom. Fol
lowing the ceremony a wedding supper will
bo served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.L.
Nelson, parents of the bridegroom.
The newlyweds will make their home at
Uatanuska railroad station whore Mr. Lee
Nelson is the agent. Tho wedding is a
denouement of a romance which began when
the bride and bridegroom were schoolmates
in Cheboygan, Mich.
A number of people from Primer and vi
cinity attended a basket 9icial at -7asilla
last Saturday night that was given by the
school to build a school library. Every
ono who attended the affair spoke of the
delightful cordiality shown by the people
of Wasilln and the plaasant absence of ill
will of any kind. Several hundred dollars
were realized for the library project.One
basket lunch sold as high ns $20 and two
sold for $19.50 each._
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returned to the point on the old railroad
grade at Chickaloon where they had left
their cars, they found the fills on both
sides of the crossing caved in. They
stayed at the old oil-well camp during the
days they were marooned and supplemented
their supply of food with spruce hens.On
the third day they ran out of cigarettes
and cigarette smokers will pause at this
point in our story to ehudder, "Even the,
mullen leaves, " said ./alter Cooper,"were
too wet to dry out to make smokes."
',7ith bowlders rolling around them that
weighed tons, all the bridges out over
Mooso Creek, King River and Eska, sight
seeing wasn't so good.
The party was glad, to get back to Pal
mer Friday and "leave off" goat hunting
Lfor the time being. They were able to
get their cars out Monday.
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