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Tells of 25,000 Mile Trip Across U. S. To Alaskan Wilds Following is a continuation of the round robin letters sent to friends by Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Patton, on their 25,000 mile trailer trip to I don‘t know of a better way to start off the New Year, but to write up the "Saga of the Hounds." First I will bring our urban adventures perils of rural life on the Trail. Coming home from the movies the other night Sue and I had a little argument as to the state of the weather. Sue swore on a stack of bibles it was about 10 below and I maintained the prickle in my nose told me it was nearer 20. It was actually 21 below. Now can you imagine a daughter of the sunny south being wrong on the heat side? The poles on the background are radio antenna poles. These Alaska towns look like a forest, so many radios and good ones too, especially where there are no newspapers. Peoâ€" ple regularly tune in the news hour every day. One thing we notice is the frosted windows everywhere. At night it is unnecessary to pull down your shades, for even if any peeping ‘Tom should be wandering about, he couldn‘t see in. up to date, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940 Christmas has come and gone and very quickly too. I got home from Nenan Christmas night and found we had been invited out to Christâ€" mas dinner. The next morning we had our trees. Before leaving I had rustled a tree over by the airâ€" port and built a stand for it. Sue had decorated it with strips of foil so much in use now and we had quite a pretty result. Our presents were rather slim as each member of the family received an I.0.U. for his main gift. This letter is supposed to be about our four footed friends, who still are the mainstay of travel in Alaska over short distances, say up to 100 miles, and in the remoter sections. Little did I think several years ago when I was fooling with Ming and Victor‘s dogs hitched to a wagon in Highland Park that I would use my experience in hauling the U. S.mail over the winter trail in Alaska in the dead of winter. The cold up here is severe, but if you are dressed for it you don‘t notice it, and thereâ€" in lies the danger. Except on the Seward Peninsula, where wind is common, the air is clear, dry and cold and creeps thru your clothes, chilling you before you know it, if you are unwary. My face is covered with a helmet, mother knitted for me in the war. I mentioned this for fear some one might accuse me of a beard. They would be right but it doesn‘t show. I left here (from here on the letâ€" ter will be "I" for Sue graciously but firmly decided to refuse my inâ€" vitation to come along) on Dec. 9th on the freight for Nenana. Said freight was to leave at 9 a.m. but in the paper the night before apâ€" peared the notice that the time was changed to 4 a.m. I phoned for a taxi, set the alarm for 2:45. The taxi company forgot to note the change so I had to hike up town at 4 a.m. to get one. There were sevâ€" Over heavy woolen clothing you wear a parka, made either of khaki drill or fur. For hiking or where any movement is present, the formâ€" er is best as the fur parkas are too warm. The fur around the collars is generally wolverine or polar cub as these furs shed the frost from your breath the best. Your hands are covered with Siwash mitts, with a pair of woolen liners or mitts inâ€" side. I got a pair of rabbit skin liners and my hands were too warm, except on the two days we travelled in 25 below. The common footgear are umâ€" kluks. The bottoms may be of sea lion, moose or caribou hide, while the uppers coming up to your knees or over are of reindeer skin, with the hair outside. Two or three pairs of woolen socks and felt inner soles keep your feet nice and warm if you are moving. If merely riding you must wiggle your toes frequentâ€" ly. HECKETSWEILER STUDIO 7 8. St. Johns Avenue It‘s comforting to have those portraits of old friends about, but didn‘t you promise to send them one of yourâ€" self? They will appreciate it. .. ... Call our studio today for an appointment. cnlr-.-‘tfionnfi-ud go 59 miles. i Mike our guide of this summer, ride his sled as a passenger or study own, suggesting I would probably be warmer riding the kicks (the back of a sled) than straddling a load of mail sacks and dog feed. This may be due to the temperate climâ€" ate of the immediate surrounding atmosphere, warmed by the peculiar vocabulary used in mushing dogs. I"chose the latter so Mike split his team giving me 5 dogs and keepâ€" ing 10 for himself as he was using a trailer and carrying the dog feed, quite an item. We started out toâ€" gether but soon found that sugar had no intention of being left beâ€" hind, so kept my sled so close to the trailer that her end of the tow line was constantly slack. Our first nights stop was a relief cabin maintained along the winter trails by the Alaska road commisâ€" sion. Prominently on each appears the sign "This cabin is for the use of the travelling public. Be sure to leave plenty of firewood and shavings before leaving." Our next days run brought us to a relief tent. There had been an old roadhouse there, but last year the roof of the cabin started to drop so Mike is building a new cabâ€" in. In the meantime we used a tent, set up for the winter and believe me the Yukon stove sure roasted us alive. We tied the dogs to trees and gave them hay to sleep on. A couple of days travel, about 20 miles a day, brought us to Diamond the end of the dog mail route where I delivered the sacks of mail I had carried. This was the only time Mike was worried about my lateness in getting in, although he knew pretty well what had happened. I stopped at a trapper to deliver a knife we had brought along and had to stay while he put on the coffee pot and got us something to eat. One is always welcome along the trail and it is considered rude if you don‘t stop long enough to warm up and have some coffee. When I got in they had decided to wait another 30 minutes before hitching fresh dogs and back tracking. A large class of candidates will be initiated Monday evening, Jan. 22, at the regular meeting of the Highland Park lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose. Degree work will Knights roadhouse housed us the next day and there I met two old timers, Jim Burroughs about 75 and Henry Knight slightly younger, both _ of them, _ slender, vigâ€" ourous and looking about 60, Jim seemed to have & reputation of beâ€" ing a good conversationalist, in fact he could talk the ears off a billy goat. At any rate he told an interâ€" esting experience he had had, which shows the "outlook on life in the north." A woman is safe, respected and helped anywhere in the "hills" if she isn‘t on the make. Jim and Henry are "partners in everything." Means exactly what it says. Jim has several claims about 35 miles from theâ€"roadhouse which both work and share in the summer. Nearby their cabin was a young couple, also mining. The girl, about 28, happened to be about ready to increase Alaska‘s populaâ€" tion. Her husband apparently was an irritable individual who kept her in a very nervous state. At any rate the attractive young miss began to feel sick and insisted on her husband going for a doctor. Jim was her choice for nurse while hubby hiked seven miles to the Sigâ€" nal Corp station to radio Dr. Carâ€" ter in Fairbanks to hop a plane and come to the rescue. Dr. Carter arrived in time to officiate. A single room cabin was transformed across the middle on one side of which reâ€" mained Henry Knight, the pilot and beloved hubby. The lady insisted on Jim helping the Doc. be put on by the Waukegan lodge. Members are urged to attend. Moose Lodge to Initiate Large Class of Candidates (To Be Continued) Phone H. P. 435 us 6% mer, won the championship rating for early oats and spring wheat at the annual Farm and Home week sponsored by the University of Illiâ€" nois college of agriculture at Urâ€" bana last week, it has been anâ€" 1001 Greenleaf avenue, is president, and the Wilmette League of Women Voters, of which Mrs. Henry J. Brandt, 816 Forest avenue, is presiâ€" dent, hold a joint dinner meeting at which some subject of major imporâ€" tance to all citizens is discussed. This year the event will take place at Shawnee Country Club, Wilmette, Friday evening, January 26. Dinner will be served at 6:30. Once each year the Wilmette Civâ€" ic league, of which Howard Miller, The past district governor preâ€" sented each of the three honored members of the Gencoe club with a Rotary shield, properly inscribed, for their perfect attendance record. Joining in the occasion which was also the observance of the 10th anâ€" niversary of the club‘s receipt of its charter, were Immediate Past Disâ€" trict Governor Dan Walker, of Evâ€" anston, and representatives from the Rotary clubs of Highland Park, Winâ€" netka and Wilmette. During the redemption period endâ€" ed Nov. 29, 1939, the receiver paid over to the Chicago Title & Trust Community Grocers of Lake Forâ€" est, a chain store company, recentâ€" ly purchased the Lake County State Bank building, 1610 Sheridan road, North Chicago, it was learned Friâ€" day. The Glencoe club was sponsored by the Wilmette club, which sent a bouquet of flowers, and the Winnetâ€" ka club sent a birthday cake. A sum of $34,000 was paid the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust company of Chicago which acted for the bondholders through G. R. Green and company, Waukegan, and M. C. Lackey and John Griffith and comâ€" pany, Lake Forest. Plans to remodel and refurnish the Clayton hotel, Waukegan, are underway today by the Waukeganâ€" Clayton corporation, which has taken possession of the hostelry on the order of Judge Ralph J. Dady. a The master‘s deed to the property was issued by Special Master in Chancery Ernest L. Gail to the corporation last month at the end of the redemption period on the foreclosure sale held August 28, 1938. Edward Hall, appointed reâ€" ceiver of the property since the sale, made his final report yesterday and was discharged. At the time of the sale there was a deficiency of $137,â€" 405.64, mostly for bonds. The price will net bondholders apâ€" proximately 15 per cent, it is esâ€" timated. THEE HEIGELAND PARK PERES§3 CexnmentiObleatione 1a00aze07 ernmen: Commercial Papef ........ 90,000.00 â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" $1,278,007.02 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank ........ _ 12,000.00 RESOURCES Cash and Due from Loans on Collateral Loans on Real E: Insured Mortgage Banking House and Fixtures ........___. Real Estate Sold on Contract .____ THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of HICHLAND PARK writer who was to speak at Lake Forest college on Jan. 18, is still in England, it was learned Thursday. With â€" shipping traffic severely hampered by the war, Miss Britâ€" tain had hoped to fly to America in the Clipper in time to fulfill her speaking engagements, but the air service has been slowed down by bad weather and congested bookings. Consequently, the speaker has had to change her plans, and will now come by boat. The change in plans will make it impossible for Miss Brittain to follow her previously scheduled tour, but she will appear in Lake Forest four days late, on Monday night, Jan. 22. 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