V. 0 0 S E PASS MINER
Bv L. H. Allen
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THE EDITOR GOSS TO HOPE
At long last the editor visited Hope -
on one of the half-dozen sunshiny days we
have enjoyed in this section this summer.
She made the round trip with Wallace M.
Nutter, Star-route mail carrier. Along
the route we had nice little visits -with
Oscar Dahl, William Fairman, Fred ',7oedemann,
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McCann and Joe Pradella.
Nov; we wish our friends in the States
might see the McCann cottage in its lovely
scenic setting on Six-Mile river. It would
make the eyes of weary New York apartment
dwellere green with envy. All white, with
its window boxes of huge trailing nastur
tiums blazing with colors, the front yard
a riot of immense poppies, petunias, bache
lor buttons and a dozen other kinds of
flowers. Inside, three cleverly arranged
rooms with many windows, built-in cupboards,
cabinets, chests which when closed are used
for divans, tables that Mr. McCann has made
and finished beautifully,radio and stand,
book shelves - and oh, folks, a piano! The
McCanns have a home-made furnace in the
cellar which functions a lot better than
most factory-made furnaces in that it gives |
out what it is intended to give out - which
is heat. They have running water piped
from a spring.
William Fairman is building a new cabin
having torn down his old cabin and moved
the logs and- lumber, One by one v/ith main
strength and by hand. - a distance of a mile
to a location along the highway.
We admired Fred Woedemann's cabin which j
is unlike the usual Alaska cabin in style
of architecture. It has an ell and gables
and an attractive front porch.
Having seen Hope, it wont be necessary
for us to see the Garden of Sden. Lovely,
peaceful, historic Hopei Such gardens'We
took five pictures in the garden ot iir.ona
Mrs. Roll, two of the Nearhouse garden and
two in Mr. Carson's garden. Mr. Roll
picked a panful of peas for us and we
counted 14 huge fat peas in several pods
when we were shelling them. We saw his
famous apple trees and the big crop of ap
ples on them. They are not so mammoth in
size as other Hope products but the point
is that any apples of any size can be raises
in Alaska.
We visited with Mr. and Mrs. Roll, Mrs.
Mitchell, Mr. Carson, Mr. Bixler and Mrs.
Hahn and the editor went along the street
snitching red raspberries and Mr. Carson
said, "Here, none of that!" and took us to .
his place and gave us big bov/1 s of over**
size red raspberries, sugar, Alaska creem
and home-made cookies. Ve saw tons of red
raspberries, strawberries, currants hanging
on the vines of Hope gardens, immense fcab
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DU. BAXTER'S PARTY RETURNS
Dr. Dow V. Baxter of the chair of forest
pathology at the University of Michigan,
and his fellow travelers, Charles Allen
and Gordon Jatts, returned to Moose Pass
from their trip to Nome and remained in one
of the Smith cabins until the arrival of
the 88 Baranof, on which they sailed for
the States.
They went to Nome by plane from Fair
banks. Said they had a delightful trip.
They found Father Hubbard at Nome, making
records of Eskimo dances and showing mov
ing pictures to the natives. Father Hub
bard told Dr. Baxter that over a long per
iod of buying films to show the Eskimos,
he had found~that their favorites had
either Charlie Chan or Jane Withers for
stars.
The dances Father Hubbard recorded were
accompanied by an orchestra of six drums.
Dr. Baxter says that the Eskimos beat
their drums up from below them - instead of
on their tops. Dr. Baxter's party helped
Father Hubbard with his recording.
The King Islanders were in Nome while
the Baxter party was there and the party
spent many hours in the workshop used by
the King Islanders for carving ivory pie
ces, making mukluks and parkas. They se
cured many handsome articles to take home
with them.
Dr. Baxter's party travels with a sup
ply of condensed foods, mostly in tins,
and on the eve before they sailed they gave
a dinner party to Mr, and Mrs. Harry L.
Smith and Miss Jorene Smith, the boys pre
paring the entire dinner with the aid of
their left over food supply. The menu
included Herbwurst soup, tinned meat, macar'
oni and cheese, biscuits, fruit salad top
ped with red jelly, chocolate pudding for
dessert.
Mrs. Ray Stafford took a rug hooked by
Mrs. Kilaurray, to Palmer and entered it
at the Fourth Annual Matanuska Valley Fair.
It won first prize. Mrs. Stafford entered
a double wedding ring pattern quilt which
was given second prize.
Wesley Laubscher is driving a handsome,
roadster which he purchased from Miss Geijs
beek.
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Pierce returned
Thursday night from Anchorage and are at
home at their new cabin.
John L. Nelson states that he viBited
Portage Bay the other day and that a lot
of men are working over there.
Colonel Otto F. Ohlson spent several
hours in Moose Pass one day this week.
Censufc taking in Alaska will begin Oct
ober 1. Two hundred enumerators are
starting the work six months before it
will begin in the States» because of the
difficulty of transportation in Alaska.