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Highland Park Press, 4 Sep 1930, p. 13

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LARSONS ARE HOME FROM ALASKIAN TRIP also refers with enthusiasm to their trip through the great redwood forâ€" est between San Francisco and Eurâ€" eaka, Calif. . These gaint redwoods, he says, are the oldest living things on earth and stand so thick that it is difficult to imagine how they obâ€" tain sufficient moisture and sustenâ€" ance to maintain their tremendous size, some of them being much thicker through than the length of his big Lincoln, and of great height. The steamer trip north was broken by stops at Ketchikan, Juneau and Cordova, Alaska, and they landed at Valdez with their car to meet Ray Larson, who came from Anchorage to join them, having shipped his car from Anchorage to Fairbanks by rail and from there drove 375 miles to Valdez. Alaskan Trip The party left the coast at Valdez in the two cars on July 9 over the Richardson highway, a fairly good gravel road, going to Willow Creek, thence southeast to Chitna and then northerly to Fairbanks, 475 miles in all. At Fairbanks the temperature was 92 July 12, but the nights were cool. They stopped in Fairbanks a couple of days, and then took the Steese highway to Circle City, 170 miles away on the great Yukon river, and among the many good photoâ€" graphs Mr. Largon brought back is one of their car standing on the shore of the river at Circle. They stopped there three days, visiting the hot springs, which are a feature of that region, and then returned to Fairâ€" banks. â€" From there they shipped their cars to Anchorage, as there is no highway in that direction and they traveled on the Alaska government railroad.. At Anchorage they visitâ€" ed about a week and then took the railroad out to Seward the seaboard terminus of the railroad, which exâ€" tends from there to Fairbanks, a disâ€" tance of about 440 miles. At Seaâ€" ward they again boarded the boat for Seattle. Thursday, Sept. 4, 1930 Trains Stop at Night Because of the scenic value of the trip from Seward to Fairbanks the trains on the railroad do not run at night, Mr. Larson, explains, and a fine hotel is maintained at Curry, about halfâ€"way, where passengers stay over night. Along the few auto highways there are also good inns or roadhouses, and at some of them Mr. Larson met old friends of his goldâ€" mining days. # While in Seattle Mr. Larson met the publisher of the Alaska News, a newspaper printed in that city for circulation in Alaska, and a recent issue of that paper contains an exâ€" tended account of his visit to the old scenes in Alaska and recounts some of his experiences in the goldâ€"rush days. + Mr. and Mrs. Larson returned to Highland Park August 10, They have many pictures and an unlimited fund of stories of their experiences that their friends find absorbingly interâ€" esting, and Mr. Larson‘s reminisâ€" cences of his experiences in Alaska in the pioneer days are especially flluminating. (Continued from page 4) Avon Residents Fight to Abandon H. S. Dist. Town of Avon residents have reached one more step in their fight to abandon the high school district for that area, which includes the villages of Grayslake and Round Lake, thru the filing of a petition with T. A. Simpson, county "superintendent of The petition, filed last week with the superintendent by Will Lang, conâ€" tained more than 600 names or more than half of the legal voters of the district. The election will be held September 6, with the polls being open from 12 o‘clock noon until 7 o‘clock in the evening. _ Voting precinets will inâ€" clude the town halls at Grayslake and Round Lake, the school at Hainesville, and the school at Avon Center. _ Standard time will be obâ€" served. This, he pointed out, would assure the defeat of the high school project. issue A pathetic story of a fatherless Waukegan high school boy who workâ€" ed all summer in order to complete his last year at the Waukegan townâ€" ship high school, only to lose all his belongings to a pair of thieves, was told last week by Sigmund Wysocki, 17, of Sixteenth street and Park aveâ€" nue, North Chicago. Fatherless Waukegan Boy Robbed of School Money and Clothing hools, calling for an election on the 20 % DISCOUNT 618 North Greenbay Road â€" Highland Park PHONE 178 Dry Cleaning Company After 31 years of successful building and maintainâ€" ing quality, and service, in DRY CLEANING at FAIR prices, we should not and will not, resort to cheap prices to jeopardice our good name or reduce our high qualityâ€" of workmanship. 5 Satisfaction and responsibility to our patrons is our motto. It is being appreciated by those that value fine workmanship and care of their fine garments. If you bring your DRY CLEANING and LAUNDRY to our plant at 618 No. Greenbay Rd., you will save 20‘;, the cost of our collection and delivery service. T HE PRESS Oldest Dry Cleaning Concern on North Shore. Reliable Laundry The youth left his home for Chicago and rather than wear a new suit which he had just earned enough money to purchase, he put it and other new clothes in a suit case and started to the big city to visit relaâ€" tives. He obtained a ride on a truck in order to save money. Shortly after he left the truck on the north side of Chicago, he was approached by two men who pulled guns on him and relieved him of all his newly purchased clothes, a $35 pair of glasses and several dollars he had in his pocket. The boy reported the theft to the Chicago police but no trace has been found of the holdup men Sigmund is wondering will complete his senior Waukegan high school. Pure, rich cream, fresh daily from the finest dairi herds in Wisconsin and frozen in our own sanitary kitchen into the most delectable frozen creaminess that you have ever tasted in any ice cream. Large and individual molds for all occasions. DELICIOUS ICE CREAM MRS. BERNITT‘S ICE CREAM KITCHEN and Deliveries Twice Daily Phone Highland Park 125 just how he year at the Bricks to order SCHOOL TRUNKS SPECIALS $27.50 $40.00 $67.50 18

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