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Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1935-10-17

HUNT RECEIVES IMPORTANT
RULING FROM YES TBROOK
Lieut.. Col. Leroy ?. Hunt is
in rec eiDt Of telegram from
Col. Westbrook which is Of in
terest to all colonists, The
message reads:
ANY ADDITIONAL COLONISTS DE-
STRING RETURN SHOULD UNDERSTAND
THAT UNDER RULES OF W?A THEY ARE
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ElPLOYfrEMT
UNDER WORKS PROGRAM AND THAT FED
ERAL RELIEF THEIR STATUS WILL BE
DISCONTINUED IN NOVEMBER.
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1935-10-17

FIFTY 1UAKES JIGGLE MONTANA
All you have to do to mix
drink in Montana is to put the
ingredi ents in a shaker and stand
still. Let q quake do the work,
Helena is the focal point for
the tremors and over fifty Of
them have shaken the capital city
in the past four days. Consider
able property damage has been the
result and many fami lies have
moved away until the dis turbances
are over.
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1935-10-17
ITALIO-GTHIOPIAN PEACE
is NO., A FORIORN HOPE

From london as we'll as from
Rome, come reports indicating
that not even a European war can
now stop Italy from at least at
tempting to carry out its cam
paign against Ethiopia.
The italian army continues its
air bombing Of enemy military
centers and from all Indications
is preparing to take Adds Ababa.
Aneri can interest in the dis
tant struggle has been sharpened
by a Paris report that France and
Great Britain are asking Washing
ton if the United States will
res trict Imports from Italy if
sanctions against Eussolini are
applied by the League Of Nations.
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1935-10-17
Palmer, Alaska. October II, 1885
CAMP PERKINS RAPIDLY
BEG DINING A GHOST CITY

All summer there has stood on the
wide flat below town a city Of tents
arranged with military precision in
orderly rows.
Monday morning much Of the white
canvas came down and only gaunt lun-
Der frames remained Of the homes in
viii CHI two hundred transi ent workers
had lived. BY evening they too had
disapp feared and almost half Of Camp
Perkins was a thing Of the past.
The camp functioned as complete
unit since its establishment. It was
a city by itself, and among it's in
habi tants one could find men from
every walk Of life; men who we're ex-
oerts in their various lines, but be-
cause no work was to be had in the
States had drifted into California
and Washington emergency relief
camps, and had volunteered for SER
vice up here when the call was put
out for men.
Some we're lucky ana fell into
familiar jobs - barbering, shoe
making, sign painting, or perhaps
auto and tractor repair work. 9th
ers took what came along. tyDe-
writer and accounting machine re-
pair expert swamp ed on a truck. A
fini shed must clan piled lumber, and
a teacher from a mid-We stern college
dug bitches.
Tt has been full sumner for all
Of them, and though some got way out
Of step sold their clothes for
money wi tn viii CHI to buy viii slzey and
raised he'll in general many were
Of a different stamp and are going
back wi tn what they have earned in
tact. 1t isn't much, to be sure, but
enough wi tn which to buy a few self
respec citing months Of Independence
away from a bread line.
That is what some Of them will do,
and they are the ones we would like
to see come back on the job -- if
there are to be tran 81 ent workers
here next spring, and Camp Perkins
is to be born again.
That many prefer Alaska to what
they left in the States is evidenced
by the fact that some two hundred
volunteered for the thirty odd jobs
which would last out the winter.
Another contingent leaves by the
npyt bOat and tha "a WI | ~
Evening star., 1935-06-16
The Truveler'S Notebook
BY Jacques Futrelle, Jr.

following Winter Is going the way OF
the myth about the ground hog. Some
people still believe 1t, but it just isn't
so. The Florida season, due to its
mild climate in Winter, naturally is
at its height when blizzards and sub
zero temperatures claim the North.
Smart vacation bargain hunters,
however, have learned that rents In
the crowded Winter resort centers
drop so to rs per cent for the Summer
season. The Seaboard Airline Rail-
road points out that reduced fares are
in effect on Its trains-trains equipped
with air-conditioned cars that have
made rail travel q truly comfortable
medium Of hot-weather Transports
ton. Seaboards "circle tours Of Flor
ida" include both coasts and the GEN.
tral part Of the State without extra
cost when round-trip tickets are pur-
chased to Miami, West Palm Beach or
intermediate points. seaboard has
eliminated Pullman surcharses on
round "trip tickets. The Summer feet
to the South includes four air-condi-
toned trains, operating on speedier
schedules.
CEABOARD is not alone in its efforts
~ to tell the vacation world that
cooling breezes from the gulf temper
the Southern suns rays, that fishing
Is better in the Summer than In the
Winter. B. r. Kessler, executive sec
Evening star., 1935-06-16

firxt-aid outfits and q supply Of cut
wood protected from rain.
The cabins are kept locked to pre-
vent vandalism, and for those hikers
who are not members Of the Trails
Club a charge OF SO cents q night is
made.
THE Potomac Appalachian Trails
= Club was organized in 1927 and
Its section Of the national route runs
from q few miles south of Harrisburg,
Pa. to the North Carolina border.
Members make week end group trips
under the leadership Of experienced
committee nearly every week, and on
occasions when holidays coincide with
Saturdays and Sundays more eyten"
sive journeys are made. Over the
Memorial day week end, for example,
q party of so hiked 4e miles over
mountains and through gorges In the
country near the headwaters Of the
Potomac. They spent four days ex-
ploring the trails In the Monongahela
National Forest, in West Virginia. The
first two days the party made Elkins,
w. Va, its headquarters and took q
trip through the famous Smoke Hole"
gorge of the South Branch Of the
Potomac. They forded the river,
waist deep in ice-cold water, five
times, using bathing suits and hiking
boots for their equipment, The party
then divided. one group climbing Sen
eca Rocks and the other scaling North
Fork Mountain, and the following day
they assembled Bickles Knob. The
leaders on this trip were Alvin Peter
son and Harold d. Mccoy, both Of
Washington.
At present the c. G. G. Is doing a
great deal of work on the main trail
and on the development and exten-
sion of Skyline Drive, turning many
of the veteran mixers to new expiora-
tions, particularly In the Maryland,
West Virginia and the Southern Vir-
ginia sections. The proximity OF one
c. c. o. camp has made the sexton
shelter unavailable for campers for
the time being, but the matter Is one
of comparatively small importance
considering the many miles Of trail
open and the scores Of places where
pleasant outings may be held in the
hills.
Information about the club and its
activities is obtainable from the sec
retary, H c. Anderson, 500 American
Security l. Trust Building.
Evening star., 1935-06-16

T%HE jargon Of the rails, that pic
turesque language railroaders
speak in their daily task of
Il sending the lowly switch en-
gine numbering and the crack
passenger train speeding over the
rails, Is q bit of local color the veteran
traveller acquires, II he learns 1t at all.
only after years. Comfortably seated
In his chair car, away from the work
ing parts" he has little opportunity to
observe the characteristics of the men,
or note the language, that make the
transportation game an industry
apart.
And perhaps no trade, with the ex-
ception of the kindred calling of
transportation over the sea, has such
q specialized language. Charles Laying,
who has made q study Of railroad
phraseology in the United States and
abroad, claims the idioms are 100
per cent American.
Perhaps the traveller has overheard
the conductor refer to some one as
"whiskers." That is Railroads.&c. for
. high oficial.
A dog catcher" In train that
makes all stops.
The engineer is both q hog head"
and eagle eye"
"Tallow pot" means the fireman.
Ground hog" is q switch engine.
"Crummy" Is caboose.
A conductor Is brains"
Section laborers are CANDY dane
ers" or "snipes." Their foreman Is
king snipe."
An empty coach travels under the
name Of bull fighter"
The telegraph operator is called
lightning singer"
The "high-ball" Is the all-clear
signal.
Hump" is a hill. In the switch
yard, these humps" prevent cars from
being blown or kicked" onto feeding
tracks.
A switch monkey" throws hand
switches in the classification yards.
Those who ride on trip passes are
using monkey money"
With these definitions, this sample
than q hodgepodge of words: THE
hog head and the tallow pot mounted
the ground hog and, after getting the
high ball from the switch monkey, sent
the bullfighter rafting over the hump
Just in time to make up the dog
catcher"
THE impression that Florida folds
up and dies every Spring and stays
dead on the vacation map until the
Evening star., 1935-06-16
Move to New Office.

NEW YORK, June 15.-To meet the
increasing demands Of its world
wide travel activities and the growing
importance Of the midtown district Of
New York as q travel center, the
American Express Co. has moved its
Fifth Avenue once to new and en-
larged quarters at sos Fifth avenue,
near Forty-ninth street.
The new office is q literal en-
cyclopedic world of travel in itself, u
says Ralph E. Towle, vice president
Of the travel department Of the COM
pany. 1T contains ready up-to-date
references information on all phases
of travel and its allied details"
Among the new features Is q
completely equipped department for
oversee visitors, with a sta1 and IA
cilities to direct foreign guests on
their American visits. which will be
patterned after The well-known Euro
pean service system rendered to Amer
lean travellers in the American Express
offices abroad.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
nFTAWART CTTY HOTEL

DELAWARE CITY HOTEL
Tennessee Ave-, 2nd from Beach. Rooms.
81 Lee ND. Running water. Private Baths.
Wm. Laird. Prop. Mrs. Andrew FesEo. MEr.
ATLANTIC CITY n. J.-BriEhter and mere
aftYaetfve than ever. Hetei aeecmm0aa.
Hoaa. eottagas and apartments lfurpixhed
or nnfarRfsked) at very reasonable esst.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
retary Of the Miami Chamber Of Com.

retary Of the Miami Chamber Of Com
merce, ADDS:
1.-The ideal climate during the Sum-
mer Is attested to by the official rec
ord which shows that on only six
days in 1894 did che thermometer
rise higher than 80 degrees. More
and more Summer vacationists are
coming TO Miami.
Northern visitors are gradually
learning that the climate in Miami
during June. July and August Is as
delightful and temperate as may be
found in many Summer resorts.
Miami, with its various attrac-
tons, splendid beaches and excellent
fishing, has real appeal to the Gum
mer vacationist."
THE alluring possibility of having
three weeks of vacation every
year instead Of two, with no intra-
ONCE wrath, Is the novel offering Of
transcontinental airlines. United
points out that In going to the West
Coast, IL days Of the two-week recess
from work may be spent in the Far
West instead Of about week Of the
precious time being devoted to trav-
cling over land there and back.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-07-25
Backward
Chances
FIFTY YEARS AGO

The Kintire school in which II
pupils were enrolled closed foul
months term. John Hines attend
ed the whole term without being
absent or tardy.-A destructive
hail storm cut wide swath about
ten miles west of town.-T. j
Strausell for many years proprie.
tor of the Redwood House, died.
The temperature stood at SO de.
grees for several days.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
The Little Glidden tour visited
Redwood Falls.-Fifty automo-
biles were owned by residents
here.-Rev. C. S. Nook resigned
as rector of the Church of the
Holy Communion.-Company L
returned from Camp Lakeview
where the boys ranked second in
craftsmanship in the regiment
Several social functions were Civ
en- in honor of Miss Gretchen
Hitchcock whose marriage to w.
B. Clement was to take place in
a short time.
=
TEN YEARS AGO
Mrs. Fred Ahrens died at Kim
berly, Wisconsin.-Myrtle Hart
wick of Lucan and Claude Rock
well of Lamberton were married
at Echo.-O. B. Sparks and Mrs.
w. A. Fraser were elected to the
school board.-Mrs. Emil Kuenzli
of Pasadena, California was visit
ing Mrs. III. M. Aune.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-07-25
Send the Band

wv HILE the value to the city of the pub
NJ licity resulting should not be under
estimated, Redwood Falls desire to
send the band to California for Minnesota
day at the worlds fair seems to be based
largely on the fact that band members de-
serve the trip in appreciation of past per-
formances.
Many towns have good bands for time
but sooner or later the principal enthusiasts
drop away, leaving others to carry on and
the band eventually breaks up-only to or
when the need of such an organization is
realized fully by trying to get along without
one.
Many of the Redwood Falls band mem
bers have been with the group for many
years, filling their places whenever the band
was active. To them the trip will be re-
ward for many hours of practice and con-
certs for which they received little or moth
ing. To younger members of the band, par
ticularly the members who were graduated
from school musical groups, the trip will be
an inspiration to continue in band work, as
we'll as an educational trip which many of
them otherwise might never be able to make.
Redwood Falls very naturally can take
considerable civic pride in sending it's band
for the Minnesota day exercises. While ad-
vertlSlng in far-aWay California is OF dOuDt-
full commercial value, great deal of pub
licity will result closer at home which like
producing national corn husking cham
pion, good athletic teams, college stars and
similar accomplishments helps keep the
town on the map of live cities.
Perhaps the whole enterprise might
have been dropped were it not for the en-
thusiasm which julius A. Schmahl aroused
over the matter AS former resident, Mr..
Schmahl put the city in the limelight when
he became state official. Anyone who
knows of the efforts made here for better
roads, the park and other improvements
knows also that julius has always been a
booster for his home town and county and
mighty influence for it's welfare, even
though he has not always been treated SO
we'll at the polls here. This is third very
good reason for supporting enterprises
launched to help finance the trip.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-07-25

I M JUST feelln' a mite more secure, the
| old timer said this week, since the federal
gover'me lowed as how they'll be max
in half cent and even mill coins afore long.
Not as how think sech coins ill buy any
thing, seeing as how penny amt good for
so much right now and mill, as gets it,
is only worth somethin' like tenth of not
so much.
But it indicates change in their think
in when they drop the talk about the bill
lions and decide to make the small coins to
make it easier for the small man to pay his
sales tax. I low as how the moneybags
shud feel this a big help. Wonder if any Of
'em ever iggered out what kind Of pile Of
mills 'twould take to pay the deficit, say for
one good Democratic day.
This may be a stroke of good luck for
the taxpayer but I'm afraid he'll faint dead
away when he sees the figger one of them
new battle ships will come to in mills.
Twas bad enough when they was still fig
gering it in dollars. I'm afeared too that
it's going to be tough on some of the goin'
concerns havin' these mills in circulation. Out
our way most of the good folks send their
kids to Sunday school, 'cept when they want
to get an early start for the lake, and to my
best recollection, all of 'em takes penny
with 'em, not so much cause the penny is
any purer than a nickel or small silver but
cause it's the smallest piece of coin previ-
ously known in our district. Unless mills is
outlawed in Sunday school, seems to me
some of the missionaries ill be resortin' to
bread and water about next January.
Then there's the country grocer and the
confectioneer. Many's the time he stands in
front of the candy counter waitin' for some
younger to figger which his mouths water
in for most, the likerish or the halliday
sucker. 1 imagine the decision will be just
as difficult if the kids only got mill or two
to spend.
'spect they've figgered solution to
all these problems, maybe by floating an
other tax-exempt bond issue, but if the dol
lar is goin' to be worth JUS the paper it's
printed on like lot of these here fellers
what's been crying about imitation comm
sez, then fer me, I don't know why they
want to complikate the siteation with lot
of mills what's worth only thousandth
part Of the dollar.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-07-25
Take Precautions

q WINNING and boating are extreme
= popular sports, marred only by too FIR
quent tragedies. The following rules,
observed, would save many lives:
Do not enter the water following
the eating of hearty meal or when in
an over-heated condition.
Avoid taking chances; warn others
not to.
Swim only-in waters with which
you are acquainted; confne your swim
ming when possible to designated areas
or at beaches where life guards are on
duty.
Be extremely careful when wad-
ing; many of our lakes have dangerous
"drop-offs." Wading is dangerous in the
larger streams because high water
caused by heavy rains have created
numerous deep holes.
Overlooking a boat is real haz-
ard; it is better to make two trips.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-07-25
Butter Competition
Is Largely Domestic

Oleomargarine furnished more
than eight times the volume of
competition for American butter
during the first quarter of 1885
that importations of foreign butt
ter supplied, E. w. Gaumnitz,
dairy chief of the AAA asserts.
A total of las, ,609, 720 pounds of
oleomargarine was produced in
this country during the first three
months of this year, whereas only
1884, ,167 pounds Of butter was
imported, he reports.
Imports Of foreign butter dur
ing the period from January l to
June 1, about 20 million pounds
represented about 3.3 per cent of
the domestic creamery butter
manufacture. Had butter been
produced during the winter
months in normal amounts or at
the present production rate, the
amount of foreign butter entering
this country would have been
considerably less, he says.
The Government recently has
resumed buying butter to stabilize
the market and to supply the
needs of persons on relief. A to-
tai of 3,284,500 pounds of butter
was contracted June 27.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-07-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Heiling Sr.,
and daughter, Mary, Mr.. and Mrs;
Reuben Heiling and son, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugo Heiling and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Walter and
family of Morgan were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Schwab and family Sunday.
Miss Marion Stewig spent the
weekend with Miss Alice Steven
SON in Redwood Falls.
Robert McConkey spent Monday
at the John Anderson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Walter and
Erma Polack of Morgan visited at
the Frank Schwab home Monday
afternoon.
Miss Elizabeth Wilson returned
to her home after spending SIX
weeks in Mankato going to sum-
mer school.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dussl and
family and Miss Alice Grenges of
Springfield were visitors Sunday
evening at the Wenzel Goblirsch
home.
Anton Macht and children of
Lucan visited at the Leo Prokosch
home Sunday evening.
Henry and Leonard Hauptli and
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Wheeler and
daughter, Marlyce, motored to
Alexandria Sunday to get Mrs.
Henry Hauptli and two children
and Floyd Stewig who spent the
week there with Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Stewig and daughter. Mildred who
are on two weeks vacation. Mrs.
Wheeler and daughter remained
there for a weeks vacation.
John Quesenberry and daugh-
ter, Gladys motored to st. Paul
Thursday morning where Mr..
Quesenberry consulted ply
sician.
Mrs. Janet Wilson returned to
her home Friday after spending
the week with her daughter, Mrs.
Mary Wilcox in Redwood Falls.
Miss Lucille and Mildred Bryan
visited at the w. A. Lightfoot
home Sunday.
Miss Alice Stevenson and Mar
ion Stewig were visitors at the
Henry Hauptli home Monday.
Ben Stewig Sr., and son, Floyd,
motored from Alexandria to
Valley City, North Dakota We'd
nesday. They returned to Alex
andria the following afternoon.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-07-25
Work Or Else

~ OMING AS 1T does only week after
the general order cancelling all relief
projects in the county while work is
available in the harvest fields, the ultima
tum that able-bodied men must work or get
off the relief rolls will be widely applauded
by the general public.
There has been considerable talk
through recent months about men who,
while leaning on the government for sup
mort are choosey about the type of work
they do, don't give days labor for days
pay when assigned to work and particularly
about men who refuse steady work for prl-
vate employers when the per hour pay does
not come up to the rate paid by the govern
ment even though their total weeks pay
would we'll exceed their quota on relief.
These men, we have always believed
are in the minority. A large percentage of
the men working on relief jobs were apprec-
iative of the work afforded them, aimed to
give their best and were anxious to get
steady employment elsewhere whenever
available. To some extent they were IN
f1uenced by the slackers but to greater ex-
tent, they were the victims of the stigma
which the slackers naturally brought to all
relief workers.
IF the belated order that men must
work is enforced, the result should be a
quite rapid reduction in the relief rolls. Ihls
reduction would be faster if men who were
sent to private employers two or three times
and failed to make good were disregarded
when filling quotas for other jobs, for men
who loaf when given work by private en-
ployers naturally give these employers the
opinion that all relief workers are OF that
ilk.
Children of relief clients complicate
matters for no one wants to see them suffer
or 90 under-nourished because of the short
comings of their fathers, but it would ap-
pear that some solution of this problem is
possible.
The public generally has been SYM
pathetic with the men and women who be-
cause of the depression, lost their place in
self-supporting society. The public, how
ever, has reason to be disgusted with re-
ports that perennial relief clients are not
quite satisfied with homes built for them by
the county, that fathers drink up money
paid them to support their children, that
money needed in the home goes for cars,
radios, hair dressing and numerous other
things hardly classed as necessities, that re-
lief clients refuse to let their sons 60 into
the CCC where they could help support their
brothers and sisters in healthful environ
ment.
Persons in charge of relief, like others
who serve the public either in government
or private employ, are "cussed if they do
and cussed if they don't" but their decision
to be ''hardboiled' with the slackers is pop
ular with all who will pay the bill and with
MANY who are on relief.