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\YlL~IF.TTE LIFE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1924 Good air, freedom from all care, sun- I :~ :_ : _:_:_:=_:_: _~--~=~_.!!!!~~-..-~ - --"'="""'~"'~-'!! -!'!! -~~.!:!!=..=~"!!-!"'_ ~~~~~!!'!"!~ - ~~ Camping Days Are Gone, But, Here 's Prize Tale of All Being a T rue Story Concern· ing the Superior National Foresta And she sai led with us do\\'n or up Fall Lake, and with our three canoes in tow . Looks like a power plant on the right-way out , in the. woods . By g um! It is North ~! mnesota Power company with 50 f~et of .h~ad and power line to Mesaba 1ron mmmg towns. \Yell. that's gone, and we lan.d again. .'\nd look who is here on th1s dese rt island !-A motor truck I All aboard bags and baggage and cano~s and Doris and down an old log ratl road right:of·way. brush whipping our \'Chicle as we plunge along a four mile portage to Basswood Lake. Wind up at an old log lift , some of ~he rotten dock still there. an Ind1an cabin up the hill. \Veil, its getting good . Hills, rocks, trees . brush, water 7 water e\'erywhere, II I' lI I 87 HOYT KING (Wilmette) On a motor bus we left thri,·ing, t hrobhing, smoking Duluth, w'ith its grea t iron ore docks, and ship-yards and steel mills and iactories, and pas,cd through a beautiful residence district lying along Lake Superior like our own north hore of Chicago. And hing !-we were beyond the civilized world-except that we were on a fine, ll' vel. well-kept gravel state road. Rock, hazel brush , poplar, hirch, jack pine-and then, disappointment a potato patch, a meadow, then a school house, and soon a group of homesa town. And, hing again !-sixty miles an hour- town gone . More sec ond growth timber, rocky streams, bridges, uphill and down~ip-hold your fJreath,-like dropping in an elevator. On acros s the Cloouette. through Bwakia, Embarrass, Tower, with its iron mines and its McKinley park, past Burntside Lodge for civilized tourists. and we draw up at the \Vildcrne ss Outfitters in Ely. Great town I Streets a mile wide and all clean and level gravel. School house looks like T be Sc:oub a nd Explor ert :'-1ew Trier High school, only bigger. Six hundred students in the township FALL AND WINTER and c1·cry drop a good pure drink. and capacity for 3,000-Trustees looked SUITS ahead. These Swedes and Norwegians Seems like a great inland sea with rocky ridges and mountain tops stick. ' are a prolific race. ing out. l\"othing now of civilization COATS AND DRESSES Ely is a mining town. rich with tax except the chug of the motor boat and money from the mining interests. are now on display. Come in Have more electric lights around the the exhaust. Smells just like LaSalle and see the latest vogues for !'Quare than Michigan avenue from street I Canada'· Jobnny Cake the coming seasons. the Boulevard bridge to Rogers Park \Veil, what do you think of that? o n Sheridan road . The columns of cast iron arc Ionic in de s ig n and each A cabin way off there ahead on shore Unique Style Shop with a group of Korway pines lending carries five l.{lohcs. picture~lfll~ness to the scene. Jeff UZI CENTRAL AVE. Off W ith the Pack· .Peterson ha s our packs already filled Seeley's Canadian ranger. So this is Ph. W il. 2403 wtth a week's ration~ from the Miller <;anada. Always know Canada by the 'tore. !'wo eighteen-foot canoes. and line growth of timber. It is high noon . 1 _ two gutde s, one an Indian trapper 22 years old, and one a South Dakota I>Oy, for our party of four. Two men For Your Dru, Store Need· Call and a guide and 160 pounds of tents cooking utensils, food and blanket s fo~ each canoe, all loaded with us on a truck and we are off for the wilds. Landed at Winton. Dang! Another town-motor boat to carry us with ca.noes 111 tow. Whl'n do we get that wtlderness stuff? Rain, rain rainlast week, but litlorioua --n 'an\i lnvig?ratin~ a~mosphere today. Smell of Jack pme m the air. And here we met Doris ~vith hair so brown. and her brother Btll, on way to Pipestone Falls where their folks have a cabin. sh = ne and water and trees. J ehoseph,at 1 What an appetite ! We land 1 and Doris lands, at a pine log an.chored 1 out shore. Land cooking utensils, can' of beans good old bacon. bread and I' butter a~d coffee. Jeff's a good ol,d scout. We use his stove. and wha~ s he stirring out there? By George, tis better. and it turns into Johnny Cake; (Canadian). (Corn pone . North Caro-, Jina) and syrup. We sit down to a real table and on dandy benches and eat . (You know ~hat th!lt means.) Eat-it has a meanmg all tts own up here. After dinner (not lunch) we smoke and Jeff talks. Met a man and a woman on the Kawishiwi ri':er. Were going to Snowbank by nver. Sure they could; fellow told. them so. Jeff said, no. Have a m1le and "thre~ quarter portage . Lady says, That s a fish story." Kept saying, "That's a fi~h story" to everything Jeff told them. Sure, Jeff got sore. Let them go on. Jeff met them again at Snow bank. Says, "How about the fish story?" Lady too tired to respond. Ha ha ha! Jeff laughs and laughs ag;in ~nd then again. All aboard-Good bye, Doris. Part ing is such sweet sorrow. as Epictetus say in his "Idiot and Oddity." Good bye, good old Jeff. Be good to the next adventurers and may you store up enough pleasant memories to last you through the cold, cold winter snowed up in that little old log cabin of yours with your husky pup dog aloving you and a-growing into a big t Continued on page 19) I You Had Better PHONE Wilmette 1304 if you want to sell are n rocks make do. ( J.!OOd Real Estate fishfish! fish · unlc s then line . lang>t make 600 a We I but 1 click and 1 We them eat t Af the told A. 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