Riverbend Club
Reports Interesting
Meeting in February
The regular meeting of the
* Riverbend Homemakers Club was
held Thursday, February 15, at
the home of Mrs. Esther Kirsch.
The following members of the
club answered roll call with sug
gestions for Farm and Home
Week scheduled for the first part
of March: Mrs. Arvid Johnson,
Mrs. Kirsch, Mrs. Buzby, Mrs.
Ware, Mrs. Washburn, Mrs.
Archie Moffitt, Mrs. William
Lentz, Mrs. Rorrison, Mrs. Carl
Meier, Mrs. Collier, Mrs. Tunni
cliff, Mrs. Ray Cather, Miss
Florence Eby and Miss Louise
Kellogg.
A beautiful hand made patch
work quilt made by the members
of the club for the benifit of the
Palmer Library was awarded.
Miss Kellogg was the recipient of
the quilt with the presentation
made by little Miss Barbara
Lentz.
The club members voted to
take the nurses’ aid instruction
now being offered by the Mat
anuska Valley Nurses Associa
tion. Miss Eby will conduct the
classes. A vote of thanks was also
extended G. Krise for repairing
the club’s loom.
Miss Marylou Lashbrook, home
demonstration agent, was a guest
at the meeting. Miss Lashbrook
urged all members to attend the
lamp shade work shop which will
be held here March 1 and 2.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing Mrs. Kirsch, the hostess,
served delicious refreshments.
Attractive decorations at the
hostess’ table were carried out
in a Valentine motif.
The regular March meeting
will be held at the home of Mrs.
Ray Cather, according to Mrs.
Sarah Moffit, club reporter.
Annual Easter Seal
Sale Starts Feb. 25
An annual Easter Seal Sale will
be held by the Alaska Crippled
* Children’s Association from Feb
ruary 25 to March 25, it was an
nounced this week.
In a proclamation issued by
Governor Ernest Gruening oJ
Alaska, he urged the people ol
Alaska to purchase Easter Seals
in support of ACCA’s worthy
farm located four miles north oi
cause. The Governor stated ir
his proclamation that children as
well as adults suffering from par
alysis and other crippling dis
eases have been given hospitaliza
tion and needed treatmenl
through the efforts of the ACCA
USED FURNITURE
BOUGHT AND SOLD
SEE
G.A.KRISE
BmbbwbI Palmer Drug
SENIORS PLANNING
ST. PATRICK'S DANCE
Seniors of the Palmer school
are now making plans for a St.
Patrick’s dance which they will
sponsor March 17. The dance will
be held instead of the annual
Snowball Dance which was post
poned this year as it conflicted
with so many activities that were
in progress here this month.
GADWALL DUCK STAMP
IS CHOSEN IN CONTEST
A picture of two gadwall ducks
jumping from a pond was chosen
recently for the 18th duck stamp
in the Fish and Wildlife Service’s
annual duck stamp competition in
Washington, D. C. The artist of
the winning design is Maynard
Reece, staff artist and museum
assistant at the Iowa State De
partment of History and Archives
in Des Moines, Secretary of the
Interior Oscar L. Chapman an
nounced.
HELP WITH MEAT SUPPLY
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moffitt
assisted with cutting and canning
of a family meat supply at the
farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Owen
Moffitt last week.
Aaron E. Combs Named
Certified Seed Growers'
President at Wasilla
Aaron E. Combs was elected
president of the Wasilla District
of the Certified Seed Growers’
Association meeting held at the
Wasilla community hall this
month. Other officers elected
were Harold Harris, vice pres
ident; Ted Knutson, Sr., secre
tary-treasurer and Lloyd Short,
district representative to the ter
ritorial board. Ratification of
territorial policies was also made
at the meeting which was held
February 8.
A further meeting was called
on February 12 at the home of
Mr. Harris to formulate plans for
the operation of the Wasilla Dis
trict of the Association. At the
latter meeting it was voted that
Mr. Short while on a trip to
Fairbanks would present the
various recommendations made
by the Wasilla group to Irving
Abbott. Mr. Abbott is territorial
board secretary of the Associa
tion.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
Foirbonksans Are Only Alaskan Twins in Navy
Believed to be the only Alaska
twins in the Navy, Gerard and
George Hemen, 19-year-old sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Hemen
of Fairbanks, are completing their
basic training in the states. The
boys were born in Fairbanks.
Gerard, who worked with his
father in the refrigeration service,
is training at Great Lakes, Illinois,
and experiencing his first trip to
the States in his life.
George, who attended St. Mar
tins College in Olympia, Washing
ton, after graduating from Fair
banks High School, is taking his
i
basic training at San Diego, Cali
fornia. His father said that he
bad passed his Navy intelligence
test 100 per cent, a record that is
unusually good.
The two young men left Fair
banks December 28 and Gerard
writes his father that he will be
glad to see Alaska again. He is
not impressed with life in the
States.
Coffey Insures Everything!
Remember?
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