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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 Alaska. Her family used to tell her to stop the warbling, but now Bobby Axt is an amateur hour protege. One night Tells of 25,000 Mile Trip Across U. S. To Alaskan Wilds Opportunity, and decided to write for an audition, just for the thrill of being heard over the radio. Audiâ€" tion she did, and successfuly. She appeared on the amateur hour broadcast New Year‘s eve, over WCFL, when she won first prize, a wrist watch, among nine amateurs with her rendition of "Melancholy Her voice is lowâ€"a baritoneâ€" sort of "blueish," Bobby says; she patterns after Frances Langford. Always looking for new songs that suit her voice, she likes the new tune, "I Concentrate on You." On the "Stars of Tomorrow" program, in which the three high winners in the Hour of Opportunity broadcast, she sang "On a Little Street in Sinâ€" gapore." Bobby says it wasn‘t done in her best key, but a little higher than is her wont, because there was a substitute pianist. Bobby doesn‘t care to accompany herself, first because she can‘t conâ€" centrate on the song and second beâ€" cause it is hard for her to transpose the music into her key. She admits to being scared at her first broadâ€" A roadhouse in Alaska, is a small inn where there is usually a tradâ€" ing post, kitchen and bun house for travellers. They occur about every 15 to 20 miles along the trail and did a thriving business before planes took over all long distance travel. Their principal items of sale for the traveler were, meals, a bed and dog feed. We lay over a day in Diamond to give Olie a chance to prepare the incoming mail. He serves about 100 natives, trappers and miners. _ _ _ Coming in the night before I had a glorious view of McKinley for many miles, but being twilight it was too dark for pictures. It is hard to realize with everything plainly visible how little light there really is. My camera has a 2.5 stop but that is not fast enough except at noon. I hitched up my team and back tracked about 4 miles to a hill, where all the trees were frost tingâ€" ed, a marvelously beautiful sight of fleecily covered branches as delicate as the finest of handâ€"made lace. The custom of spraying Christmas trees with aluminum paint apparently came from seeing the frost clinging to the scraggly, bare arms of the Tamarack, the only conifer that drops its needles each winter. Unâ€" fortunately the sky remained overâ€" cast and McK remained hidden from view. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1940 Our trip back was uneventful exâ€" cept for two days of cold, when I donned my polar clothes. One day we travelled all day, with it over 20 below and by nine o‘clock that night when we turned to it was 38 and still dropping. One of the interestâ€" ing sights are the roadsigns, there being mile posts every mile showing the distance from Nenana, and the last two relief cabins. About oneâ€" half of these signs are still in place, the others having been removed by bears, who were offended at man‘s intrusion of their domain. When the mile ended on a flat or lake a standâ€" ard was erected and the sign attachâ€" Also the trail across flats had to be staked out with willows or tripods in case it might be obliterated with EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, A REDUCTION IN INSURANCE RATES, APPLICABLE TO PLEASURE CARS, OF TWENTY TO TWENTYâ€"FIVE PERCENT ‘The aesureds are also covered in "driving other cars." FOR FURTHER INFORMATION UNUsSUAL SroRIEs 2 North Sheridan Road Highland Park, HMlincis Telephone: Highland Park 98 Automobile Insurance Rates Reduced The United States Fidelity and V. William Briddle ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE Guaranty Company about USUAL PEOPLE REAL ESTATE LOANS cast, but only a triffleâ€"through the first few notes of her song. After that, she was so intent on putting across her song, she hadn‘t time to be afraid. To most people dogs are four footâ€" ed beasts, some docile, some playful and some inclined to use their ivory, but in a team of Huskies you find each with its own characteristics. One of my wheel dogs I called Roly Poly because whenever I stopped her back itched and she proceeded to roll back and forth on her back. Grandma was her mate, being old and sedate, working like a trooper when the gait was not too strenuous. My swing dogs were strong, vigorâ€" ous beasts, Murphy, being intelliâ€" gent, shy and a willing worker, alâ€" ways on the job. Mike‘s method of keeping discipline was to gently proâ€" pel a lead pellet from an air gun at the spot most visible on the offendâ€" ing dog. Sugar, my leader, was a dainty little miss, rather playfully inclined. As a rule she was a splenâ€" did leader, being fast and tireless. Bobby continues to survive comâ€" petition. On the Stars program, one person was chosen for a week‘s enâ€" gagement at the Oriental theater in Chicago. That one was Bobby. So after "Gone with the Wind" finishes its sixâ€"week run there, she will be heard and seen on the stage. But Bobby doesn‘t intend to sit around. This week she auditioned with a Chicago teacher, to find out whether her voice is worth training and to secure entertainment jobs. Her ambition is to sing with an orâ€" chestra. Gradusted last June from Highâ€" land Park high school and a resiâ€" dent of Highwood 111 High street, Bobby is 18 now. She dabbled in various courses at high school, comâ€" mercial, home economics, nurses‘ preparatory, and took three "way back when" years of piano ,wishes they‘d been voice instruction, Bobby likes Martha Raye, Frank Sonatra, Eddie Howard. drifted snow and you are afoot. With dogs, your leader sticks to the trail. A very blonde beauty, poised and slender, Bobby is enthusiastic about singing, "crazy about it," in fact. Back to Nenana on the 23rd where I had to lay over until Christâ€" mas day for the train. As travel is slow when the boats are up, the hotel was closed and only the laye assembly room in back of the lobby heated. A half dozen beds has been set up against the walls shut in by sheets. The proprietress occupied one of these cubicles, the guests the others. Our hot water consisted of a five gallon oil can resting on the stove and cold water came from a similar source on the floor. The water being shut off, a barrel of ice cakes, kept in an enjoining closet were periodically dropped into the can on the stove. One of the most impressive experiâ€" ences I have had up here was at St. Mark‘s Mission at Nenana which takes care of about 35 native orâ€" phans. They put on a Christmas play (the story of Christ‘s birth) in the chapel. A chorus of a dozen girls, 6 to 14 years, sang faultlessâ€" ly many carols, a half dozen small youngsters recited lines including the 23rd psaim, etc. They say the natives are natural born actors and it is sure true. Those kids entered into the play, without the slightest bit of self consciousness, show offâ€" ness or smartness so common to white children appearing on the stage. It was beautiful to hear them say their lines with the musiâ€" cal accent of the native. After the play I went over to tea at Bishop and Mrs. Bentley‘s cabin, which is a beautiful home. They are a wonâ€" derful couple and beloved all over By ANNA tive of above 18. lt?"llh'fl‘ born on the lower Yukon and one January when she was six years old, her father left on his annual six weeks visit to the trappers to buy fur, leaving his squaw wife and two small children aged 6 and 4 at his trading post. Upon returning he was surprised to find the store closed and just a wisp of smoke comâ€" ing out the cabin chimney, Everyâ€" thing looked desolate and the two youngsters who greeted him were ragged, dishevelled and dirty with a sad worn expression on their faces. Come to find out his wife had died a week after he left leaving those two kids alone, miles from help in the middle of the Arctic winter. The six year old rose to the occasion and with the help of her little sister dragged their mother‘s body outâ€" side, where it froze up. She then broke in the store to get food and managed to keep the fires going in the cabin until her father should reâ€" turn. Both children came through the ordeal no worse for it, although saddened by the experience. I wonâ€" der how many of our 6 year olds, who live in luxury of modern civiliâ€" zation would have the courage and initiative to survive under similar circumstances. white and Siwash with equal gracâ€" On our way back from the Mission I was asked if I had noticed the girl who handles the curtains. I had as They say the Alaska towns were turned over to the kids in the early days and this still holds true in the smaller communities. The pioneers put on a Christmas tree, where every kid in town received a bag of candy and a useful gift. This year there was enough money to spend a dollar a piece on the gifts. In formâ€" er years and with fewer children and the stampeded on gifts up to $25 a piece were given at these parâ€" ties. The time goes by quickly and we are now waiting for the middle of the month to take off for Nome and an eskimo village somewhere in the Arctic. From what I can learn we must go up on the Arctic Ocean as far as Point Hope, if we are to see what we want. At any rate the days are growing longer, rapidly now, and in a couple of weeks we should have enough daylight for pictures and flying north of the circle. My next episode probably won‘t be written until we are back in the States as we expect to go outside immediately upon our return from Eskimo land. A special vesper consisting of anâ€" thems by the Choir and special numâ€" bers by individuals will take place at Bethany church Sunday afterâ€" noon at 4:30 p.m. The pastor will also present a brief gospel message to those who are at the service. Due to the vesper there will be no eveâ€" ning service at Bethany. With best wishes for a Happy New Year, we are, Bob, Sue and Dick. Vesper Service at Bethany, Sunday Read The Wantâ€"Ads THE. HIGHLAND PARK PRESS The First National Bank Travellers Cheques The American Express Company Travellers Cheques These checks are honored the world over. We sell them. The cost is small. Don‘t carry currency. May we not serve you? When you prepare for your winter vacation, don‘t forget to supâ€" ply yourself with that indispensible travelling companion, 1440 â€" 1940 Nineteen hundred and forty ushâ€" ers in the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing. Probably no other single event has so influenced the civilized world. John Gutenberg, native of Mainz, lived in Strassburg at the time his experimental work on the printing press was done. Secrecy surrounded his invention with outlets for his work outside of Strassburg. This probably accounts for some of the earliest survivals of printed matter being associated with Holland. In 1456 a printed Bible appeared bound and ready to be placed in a church on the outskirts of Mainz. This is known as the Gutenberg, the Mazarâ€" in, or the Forty two line Bible. The first printing to be done in America appeared in Mexico as early as 1534. By 1543 the develâ€" LIBRARY oF _ 366 KR e Recommended and Sold by Paul Borchardt Highland Frank Siljestrom Menoni & Mercer Lumber Companies â€" Deerfleld of Highland Park No Smoke No Dust It‘s Clean century. To _ Cambridge, Massachusetts goes the honor of having the first printing press in the United States. In 1640, 200 years after the Gutenâ€" berg invention, the "Bay Psaim Book" was printed in Cambridge. This was the first published book, but it had been preceded by an alâ€" manac in pamphlet form. _ A few books on the history of printing and books, available at the Public library, follow : Magic of the book, by W. D. Or cutt. Gutenberg to Plantin, by G. P. Winship. Students history of printing, by M. W. Haynes. Early American books and printâ€" ing, by J. T. Winterich. In quest of the perfect book, by W. D. Oreutt. 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