ALASKA WOMAN
ALONEJN CROWD
San Antonio, Tex., Light: Recently
there arrived in New \ork City ftotn
the interior of Alaska a little Amer
ican woman named Mrs. Ida Lilly, who
had gone to the gold country a dozen
years ago and who had lived there
most of the time since in a little cabin
several weeks’ travel by dog sledge from
the nearest seaport. She was asked by
a newspaper reporter what her first
impression of New 'i ork was, and she
said:
“I have lived for months and months
in the winter-bound camps of Alaska;
once T spent six weeks absolutely alone
on a storm-bound island off the Alaskan
coast and subsisted on what game I
could trap; I have been snowed in
when the snow was sixty feet deep and
I had to dig my way out with a shovel,
but I have never been as lonesome in
my life as in New York City. This is
the lonesomest spot on earth to me.’’
It might strike a person as amusing
that anyone would use the word “lone
some” to describe such a place as New
York City, but to any one who has
lived much in isolated regions it is well
knowu that lofty mountains, deep, clear
rivers, great forest trees, moss-covered
rocks, and doubtless, too, the great
wastes of snow and ice-hillocks of the
far north take on a companionship
which is sorely missed at the parting.
And it is true, too, that there is no
lonelier feeling in all the wide world
then to be set down in a great city
without knowing a single soul and
watch the crowds go by. To a stranger
far from home and friends, far from
familiar environments and customary
scenes, the feeling of utter desolation
that can come when the first electric
lights of a strange city begin to glim
mer, is past description and can only
be realized by experience.
There is nothing colder than a cold
heart and there is no greater loneliness
in the world than for a person accus
tomed to solitude and isolation to be
hurriedly swept along in a crowd of a
city’s street.
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A. J. Weiss, the popular and ener
getic proprietor of the home of Hart,
Schaffner & Marx good clothes, at Flat
City, gave our fair city a short visit
last Monday. He returned home in the
gloaming.
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Mr. and Mrs. Austin Horner came to
Iditarod last Monday to see the sum
mer’s first steamboat, and to witness
the departure of the soldier lads.
DRY GOODS
Mrs. Young, Flat
Watches and Diamonds
Strictly at Outside Prices
J. L. SALE, FLAT
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AMERICA'S WAR TOLL
Washington. .Tune 1. — Fifty-seven
casualties and 9 killed or died of
wounds. 23 wounded.
Monday, .Tune 15. Thirty-six casual
ties today, 7 killed or died of wounds.
20 wounded."
NO ALLIANCE IN SIGHT
London, June 1.—“There is little
present opportunity for an alliance be
tween Germany and Japan,” asserted
Premier Count Terrauchi in an inter
view with the Tokio correspondent of
the Daily Mail.
PEOPLE " ORALIZED
Washington, June 1.—Advices re
ceived today state that the Allied air
raids on German towns have demorM
i/.ed the people.
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GRABBAR-SCHOOL BOYS CALLED
Washington, June 1.—A call for 24.
074 draft registrants of grammar-school
education, to be sent to aerial training
schools, was issued today.
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Andrew, a sweet-voiced Cockney
chap, was chosen to sing in a London
slum concert and obliged with “Kath
leen MaVourneen.” His enunciation of
one line, “The ’orn of the ’unter is
’eard on the ’illy’ jarred very much on
the nerves of one man. who mentioned
that Andrew really ought to put a few
“aitches” in now and then. “Garni”
said Andy, eyeing him with pity,“don’t
show your ignorance—don’t yer know
there ain’t no H in music? It only goes
up to G !”— Saturday Night.
SOLDIER BOYS SMOKED WITH BILL
Councilman Wiliiam Nelson, our
heavy weight municipal lawgiver, while
on his “shift” at the Merchants cafe
kept a box of fragrant cigars near the
cash register, which were free to the
new soldiers during their stay in the
town.
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Judge and Mrs. E. B. Hunt, of Flat,
were visitors in the great city early in
the week.
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Let us voluntarily deny ourselves now that
the needs of our Allies may be supplied, lest
the ultimate demands of our enemies must of
necessity be satisfied by the unwilling sacri
fices of future generations.
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L,ast Saturday morning, June 1, our
old friend Boreas, proliaoly just to re
I mind us that lie wasn't so far away, and
that he would be moving back this way
!in less than three weeks’ time, !
sprinkled quite a little snow in this vi
cinity.
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One hundred and lifty fox furs valued
at $70,000 arrived in Seattle recently
from Alasaan fox farms. The shipment,
said to be one of the most valuable ever
received in Seattle, consists of 00 silver
| and pure black fox furs, and lOOof vari- ,
I ous other grades. A special guard was
detailed to keep watch on the furs,
which were sent to New York.
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Michigan Done for mosquitoes and
i gnats, sure killer, supplied by J- W.
Farrell, onlv.
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WHAT 1 U. S. ASRS
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One meatless meal each day.
One wheatless meal each day.
A wheatless Monday.
A meatless Tuesday each week.
A wheatless Wednesday.
A porkless Saturday each week.
(Meatless means without beef, mutton
or pork.)
(Wheatless means without bread,
cracker or cakes made of wheat Hour
alone.)
RED DROSS FUNDS
In last weeks issue of The Pioneer it I
was announced that the local Red Cross 1
had $1,000 in hand ready to remit,
l'pon figuring this all up it was found J
to be $1,017.,"0 which was prepared for j
remittance on May 71 to be followed on j
Monday by $400 more, making a grand j
total sent out to date from this District i
Chapter of $7,784 2-7.
This is good work, but there is no
end to the legitimate demands of the j
Red Cross 'j^ork. and out efforts should ]
be continued indefinitely, and MUST lie
maintained at high speed for the dura
tion of tiiis war.
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ABOUT THE MAIL
Holy Cross, .Tune 3. The mail car
riers (WuIf and Lawrence) wintered at
Anvik, and have been unable to travel
up the Yukon river to Kaltag for mail
on account of the heavy run of ice
which has continued up to today. They
will probably he able to leave Anvik
today.
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Mike Blanuska. who has been in the
Behla hospital during the past few
weeks ri covering from a broken col
larbone, was in Iditarod last Tuesday.
FAREWELL TO
IRS. DR. REED
On Friday afternoon of last week,
Mrs. Phil Keith, at Flat City, gave an
afternoon tea to the ladies in honor of
Mrs. Dr. J. Wilson Heed, and on Sun
day evening last, the V. F. Jacobs
gave her a farewell reception. Mrs.
Hoed and children left on the Wash
burn for the Outside, while the doctor
will stay until fall, to look after his
practice, and the hospital work.
The doctor, who is surgeon of the
local military board, came in with his
family to bid them goodbye, and also to
assist?'in safely embarking the first con
tingent of selective service men to go
out from this point.
Jeremiah Wynne was among those
who were in Iditarod ttie early par of
the week fare-ye-weiling the soldier
bovs.
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