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PAGE 2 CENTRAL POINT TIMES over the shacks. Visiting with an turned from a trip around the from Central Point to Medford. world. Mr. Lundstrum, a high old Indian woman, I asked, “Who The bus driver swung into the built those houses?’ She scow way department man, was away Centennial lot and gave us a by Mabel Van Horn on an inspection trip and Mrs. led and shook her head, after birds eye view. I was more in a minute thinking she said, “No Anderson’s husband was away. terested in seeing the Univer He has a barge line which runs want white people here, only sity. Had lunch there and then to The last meeting of the Home from Tacoma, Washington to white man of God and school the museum, which is very good. Economics Club of the Central Juneau and brings up ready cut teachers.’ Point Grange was held at the I walked around to see the var buidlings. So we had a grand The next day I was invited home of Mrs. Ed Lull, with ious buildings. They are well visit. out to see the sawmill. Seems build and the gounds are well Mrs. William Foley assisting. On our way back to the hotel like there is a demand for woods The program was given by laid out. Late afternoon back to Mrs. Anderson asked me if I workers at Haines. Then again M iss Marsha Wilson. She gave Fairbanks by a different route. visited Douglas - - this is join I was invited out to see a Sal a review of her 4-H award The evening I spent at the Pu ed to Juneau by a bridge over mon cannery and the cannery trip to Chicago. She also showed blic Library. the Gastineau Canal. She showed boats. The season would open slides of the trip at the meeting. As my time was getting short me many of the houses her the next week. The cannery ten Chairman was Mrs. Don I left the next morning for Mount husband had brought in and as der boat was manned by an Ore Faber. Mrs. Edwin Gebhard McKinley Park arriving there we came to an auditorium she gon fisherman. gave pointers on the bazaar in the early afternoon. The strawberry beds were in asked me if I’d care to attend to be held this fall. We saw the sled dogs and a bloom and if the berries were a square dance Jamboree. We Ranger showed us how they were went in and I was invited to as big accordingly as the blo Mrs. Anna Tonn of Central hitched to the sled. He gave have punch and cake and watch ssom s they must be gigantic. Point and her daughter, Mrs. quite a talk on the Husky. the dancers. In fact we stayed Leaving Haines by limousine Roy Grigsby of Medford, were That evening we were enter I arrived at Haines Junction, until 11:30 P.M. The music was hostesses for an outdoor picnic tained by slides and a Ranger good and so was the dancing. Yukon Territory, about noon. at the Tonn home, recently. described different flora and Monday I was invited out to the This is one hundred and sixty Those attending were: Mrs. fauna of the park. We were up at United States Government Buil miles from Haines. Waiting for Don Wiley, Mrs. Ethel Hoe ft, three the next morning, ate bre ding for lunch with Marion and us there was a Canadian Travel Mrs. Maysel Hoeft and Mrs. akfast and off on a trip thru a friend. I wandered around in bus bound for Fairbanks. We Maud Lockwood, all of Med the park, which was interesting the afternoon, had my hair done traveled all afternoon thru more ford, Mrs. Ella Terrill and as the bus driver and hostess (which cost $3.75), and next or less muskeg with small M rs. Julia Dow, both of Eagle were quick to point out var day left for Haines on the ferry. spruce and on a little higher Point, Mrs. Amy Grisson and ious interesting things and ani The porpoise gave us quite a ground Popple, then perhaps a M rs. Wesley Householder, both mals we might miss sight as show, also saw a whale spout small range of mountains with of Lake Creek, and Mrs. Harry we passed, by. There were some snow peaks. while going up the Lynn Canal, Tonn and Mrs. Richard Dunn several bands of Caribo; differ We docked at a slip about two Had a lunch at Burwash La and daughters, Diana, Kathy ent bunches of mountain sheep. nding, 19000 feet elevation, and m iles from Haines, Loading and Sandy, all of Central Point. Our bus came just too late to stopped at Tok Junction for the near was a Japanese ship taking see a grizzley bear. The bus on logs - “Cants’ - they are night. This is a cluster of ca The YT Club met Monday for ahead of us saw him but scared called as a thin slab is taken bins and hotels and a garge or a one o’clock luncheon at the him away. Saw some Ptargamin, off each side. This I under two. We were traveling with a home of Mrs. Alice Van Sickle a bird that changes from white stand is so they don’t roll. The group that had come up on the at Myers Court in Medford. to brown as winter changes to lady driving the bus from the inside passage to Skagway and H ostesses were Mrs. Van spring. ferry was very nice. She could took the scenic railroad trip to Sickle and Mrs. Elvis Larsen. It was raining so Mount Mc n’t take me in the Volkswagon White Horse and then boarded During the business meeting Kinley didn’t show, alth o w p had bus first trip. I was a little the Canadian Inis. the date of September 8 was set caught a glimpse of it before slow getting off the ferry, so There seemed to be two hours for the next meeting at the home getting to Fairbanks a couple of she came back for me and hel time difference bet ween Tok and of Mrs. Oscar Minnick. days before, also saw it when ped me find lodgings, which ha Haines, and I hadn’t set my clock Members voted to dispense I was nearing Anchorage on the ppened to be run by Schnables, back and three o’clock (five with the August meeting. train. It’s a beautiful mountain, who has a big electric saw o ’clock by my tim^) I vas up Those attending the meeting 20,300 feet high. mill - - sawing cants for the and wandering around it was just were Mrs. Ted Hill, Mrs.Sadie The trip thru the park was Japanese. Later while I was in beautiful. Tlie sun shining so br Cyphers, Mrs. Alice Sukow, worth while and the hotel is Anchorage I saw by the paper ight. In about an hour and a half M rs. Iva Starks, Mrs. Oscar very well run. The staff is Mr. Schnable was putting up a I got worried - no one was Minnick, Mrs. O. T. Wilson college youngsers and are sawmill at Steward, Alaska to stirring and we were supposed and Mrs. Arthur Foote. pleasant and helpful, a Joy to be saw more cants for the Jap to have breakfast and leave by with. anese. Seems like the Japanese seven o’clock. At last I went The next day I was Anchorage Pomona Grange will hold have quite an interest in Alas to see what the time was, and bound. The railroad from Fair their annual picnic at Valley of kan forests, which by the way, it was nearly five - Tok Junc banks runs thru beautiful coun the Rogue State Park on July 30. tion time. don’t compare with Oregon tim try to Anchorage. Some of it ber, at least not anything I saw. That was one noticeable thing will in time be agriculture, no After I was settled in my mo in Alaska - the sun was still doubt. The trees are good size tel I walked out to Port Chila- shining at 9:30 P.M. and was and are mostly Popular and koot - Home of the Chelskoot up and at it at three A.M. I cont from pg l col 3 Birch. Wild flowers are beauti Dancers - to have dinner at got used to sleeping during day Glacier. In size it is comparable ful and lots of them. The wild light. “Halsingland,* a popular hotel. to the state of Rhode Island. rose is so much deeper pink This used to be an army base, The Inis stopped if anyone was We visited the Shrine of St. than those that bloom in th? Fort Seward, and was sold later interested in taking pictures or Therese, a church, surrounded states and with the blue shoot in when it ¿1 sbanded to a group at interesting places. One stop by statues of the Saints, on a ing star and white fuzzy flower of soldierswho had been based was at a Husky Dog Kennels. little island, also visited a park make a beautiful showing, iris there. Josephine Crumrine, a Dogs were raised mostly for near Auk Bay, then to her home was Just coming Into bloom popular Alaskan Artist, has a sport sled racing, Each dog had At one place near the rail a rest and out to dinner. showing of her Alaskan pictures its own dog house, and the mo road, way out from anywhere Next day I attended church and in the lobby. They are very in ther dog with puppies had runs. was a little log cabin and garden Sunday school and as I entered teresting. We were there at feeding time. spot worked up, it looked so the hotel I noticed a lady was While there I met a lady, a The dogs weren’t the fierce mellow and nice. A woman and taking care of the Chamber of Star Route mall Carrier. She two girls were planting the gar kind as all seemed friendly. Not Commerce, so I stopped in to den. They waved as we passed invited me to make the trip far from Fairbanks we stopped visit. She mentioned a trip by by. The brakeman said they the next day out to an Indian Vi at the “North Pole Postoffice,’ mail boat that might interest stopped anywhere for pass llage. On the way we saw two where a big wooden Santa Claus me. She didn’t know the de engers. It must be quite an moose cross the Chilikat River. stood sentinel. tails so called a Mrs. Lund accomedatlon. The village was a cluster of Then on to Fairbanks, an old strum she knew had taken the At Anchorage I met my son, shacks, with two well framed Frontier Town. Tanana River trip. Mrs. Lindstrum asked to Perry, his wife and two daugh two and a half story houses, flows thru the town. After vi ters, that speak to me and Invited me out had flown from Adak built perhaps at the turn of the siting the Chamber of Commer Island to meet me. It seemed to roast moose, said a friend, century. The sheet iron roof ce I boarded a bus to the Uni so good to see someone near to Mrs. Anderson, would call for ing had been mostly taken off versity of Alaska. It must be me. altho, thru the whole trip me which she did. Mr. and and the windows gone, but «till at least seven miles out. The I never was without good com Mrs. Lundstrum had just re stood square and loomed up big fare was the same as the fare panionship. Among them was a July 13, 1W7 7 CENTRAL POINT NEWS ! young man from Germany, that found every place that sold beer. He could carry it tho. Two wo men from New York City; a librarian and a social worker; teachers on a Sabbitacal leave; a druggist and his wife from California; a North Dakota Co uple. I believe the balance of them were California retired couples. About twenty come thru to Anchorage, and then we part ed. I was the only person on the trip that was strictly on my own. The others were with Tour leaders. After visiting with my child ren for two days and a half, one day which was spent at Matln- uska and Palmer viewing the farms and stopping at Parks or Coffee Joints visiting with peo ple, I left for Seattle on the North West Airline. One sad thing came last. A young mother from near Palmer sat by me with her Infant son. She was bound for Rochester, Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic. The poor babe never moved all night and I wondered if It was a futile trip. But another day and I was with my Rlnton children, and on to Portland where, son Richard, met me and we drove home to gether. Oregon is a beautiful place. by Mabel Van Horn R. L. (Lynn) Hamilton and wife, (Arlene), and three child ren, Christy, David, and Joni, from Portland, Oregon visited recently with Lynn’s grand mother, Mrs. Lola Ann Buck, at 136 Oak Street, Central Point Lynn is employed by Con solidated Freightways. Arlene is a kindergarten tea cher in the Portland Public Sho- ool System District «1 at Port land, Oregon. NOTICE — Committee meeting of the Crater Memorial Swim ming Pool Assn, will hold a meeting at the American Legion Hall Monday 17th at 8:00 P.M. The public is urgently invited to attend this meeting - The pool will be one of Central Points greater assets, not only an attraction for out of city chi ldren but a safe and healthy way for the youngesters to be entertained in a clean environ ment. Through the hot summer months. The public Is encourged to go to these meeting and be en lightened on this fine project. 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