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WASILLA NEWS
Published by the IIF.RNINC. FAMILY eoii the people in and near KNIK and WASILLA. ALASKA
Vol. I. JANUARY, 1918 _S»- 8
CONCERNING 1918
Here’s Best Wishes
for the New Year
As “Cv Slocum” would say: while we
are breaking in the New Year, "we’re
going to deelar ourselves.” '1 here is
no reason in the world why this New
Year should not he a good year for
our customers as well as ourselves.
( >f course, many of us are starting in
with some sort of a sorrow back in our
minds because some of our people
have gone or are going to the front.
If that is the case, it seems to ns there
i- jtist one thing we here at home
should he doing, and that is attending
to business and boosting business for
all we are worth.
Whatever this big (iovernment of
ours has got to do it has got to he done
by every individual citizen, if Uncle
Sam is going to be able to do the job
properly. We have got to keep tilings
going not only for the future welfare
of all of us. but to lake care of those
hoys and girls too. for that matter,
who arc doing their hit on the other
side.
\\V don't want to hear any argu
ments about tic war for again, with our
old friend we are naturally and
consistently agin lighting of any char
acter. \\ e are also agin horse steal
mg. o much agin it, that if railed
uj/on, we would In only too glad to
empha-i/e our opinion along that line
with a shotgun. Since there doe-, not
appear to In- any rail fot strenuous
work of that <hara<i' r, we are pro
< reding to attend to our ow n business
to tie be,I of on ahility, and that
)ji< a I to lal- < i are <,f otli (.tnpiuiei
and >.ai*sf‘. their need As always
an op< a to aiggesiions, and il we
i . uiudi an > nil tala oi I line ail
-t,n,i tilings you would 111: e to 11 1 ' II.
<)o Willi till heglUllillg of die Sr W
'i i iii, !ii us hear ahout it and we will
-I oi out nh a i lean lap I he lug
1,1(1)1 V 'll till < OIK mil i" " e I • e e" With
, (ajulal aud any ugg slion-s you
tit.-, ha ■ will aid u» lul‘ vv are
M . tug to pl< ;im you Seal i l< 1 in
- j-s-h you a happy aud prosperous -
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A MERRY HEART j
goes twice the way f
1 By Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler |
1 The cynics say that every rose
§ Is guarded by a thorn which grows §
To spoil our posies;
1 But I no pleasure therefore lack; 1
§ I keep my hands behind my back §
When smelling roses.
1 Though outwardly a gloomy shroud |
| The inner half of every cloud
Is bright and shining:
| I therefore turn my clouds about. §
1 And always wear them inside out |
To show the lining. |
1 My modus operandi this --
| To make no heed of what’s amiss; §
And not a bad one:
| Because, as Shakespeare used to say, |
1 A merry heart goes twice the way |
That tires a sad one.
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Pick-Ups
Keouomy hysteria may have In run its
brief course before the proverbial com
mull sense of tlie American people ilis
lovers llial business as usual is ipiile
eompaiible ivitli the proper conduct "I
a wai.
I lie l 'niled Stales w ill have a pail in
the making of a peace llial will be
Iasi inj'
kiissians should know llial iiermaui
can lick any arm\ llial sio|is to lulk
SOI I.ill-all
I ook I lie vegetable palings llial ate
led lo I lie i biikeil
Skim milk liollld be used Ili a ol all
|nl (nil I I 11 It’ I e is alls It'll II mu \
be led lo lai m animals I In \ on me
i ol I api i la ese
Wbi II lln peat li leal n ale oil pi a \
Ini all and ft it pe li ll leal i ill I \
an a i i d tilt bill'll is i brullhs nti b lid
The hoys in khaki can not “bring
home the bacon” unless we send bacon
to them. Breed the sows now for a
big increase in next year's meat sup
ply.
If you want to get rid of the ravages
of the striped squash beetle next sum
mer, burn all the old cucumber, squash,
and melon vines.
Self respect with some people means
a comfortable sense that they have not
been found out.
VALUE OF YOUR DOLLAR
Everybody knows, of course, that in
some years a dollar will buy much
more than in others. This year its
value, expressed in purchasing power,
is exceedingly low. For example,
says (i. Seklen in forbcs Maiia:inc.
the mail who had ^l.imo saved in IS’.io
will be astonished to learn that iiis
thousand dollars, measured in pur
chasing power, has now shrunk to
about •'fshi.'i.
I his is discouraging. ot course, to
those who have been carefully puttitn:
money away ilurini; the past twenty
vears. It means that the money which
they thought \\;ts sale front all toss
has been steadily nibbled at by a thief
against which no walls or vaults can
furnish protection.
lint there is a hnjjhtcr side to tt. too
I lie laet that dollars will buy so little
tu-dav meal's that it s a splendid yood
lime to lav them away against the
time when they will buy a lot more
These tlnetnations in the value >"
mom* tollow laws that are pretty well
understood Popularly spe ikiti*; the
law is that action and leavliou tend to
he et|iial and that "what y>oes up must
come dou it " I he time Is cumin*;, vei
lainlv, when the pmehasin*; power of
monev will he tai ipentei than it k
to dav
NO USE
I tinei " I hat man at the round table
pel much bi'ttt'i 11sid and alien
lion than I d" I shall vomplain to
tItv manaye; \\ heie is he
Watte; "lie's the man it dr.
loitnd lable sti