Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-07

accepting the charge at Dulce DIR.
Strong was a well known physician in
southeast Missouri, and also in St.
Louis, where he had practiced for
years. He was a personal friend of
Secretary Hitchcock, and through the
Secretary secured the appointment in
Indian service"
Cards were issued by Mr.. and Mrs.
James Polk Gillian last Friday an
nouncing the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Lulu Carmen, and Mr.. Howard
Raudell Woodside of Flat River, Mo-,
on Wednesday, October %, 1901. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. w.
A. Humphreys at the parsonage in
Arcadia. The minister vas enioined
as to secrecy and for q whole week the
young couple kept their secret from
the world. The bride is one of our
most popular and lovely young ladies.
She numbers her friends by the score,
and possesses those traits and graces
W. all admire and adore in lovely
woman. Mr.. Woodside has won a
a prize, he is to be envied of men, and
we have no doubt he will in every way
prove worthy of and merit the good
fortune that ia his. If he does, he will
in all things be a model man and hus-
band! The REGISTER extends its on
CALCULATIONS to Mr.. Woodside and best
wishes to his bride. May every hap
piness be theirsi
The following from last Sundays
Kansas City Star. telling of the expert
ences in frozen Alaska of a lady born
and reared in Ironton will be of inter-
est to many of our readers: s'Mrs. Rose
H. Leech. who is given credit for hav-
ing ventured farther north in the Alas
kan country than any other woman
ever went alone, is in Kansas City, at
the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Elizabeth Leech, 2740 Locust street.
She left Seattle, Wash, for the land of
gold a year ago last May, and from
that time until her recent return to the
states she lived and travelled alone.
Mrs. Leech summed up her experiences
last night in these words: Very few
women should go to Alaska alone. They
haven't the philosophy and the pluck
to stand it. What particular kind of
philosophy is necessary to fortify a
woman for such an experienced" The
ability to laugh at you w misfor-
tunes was the reply. Mrs. Leech
evidently became very proficient in the
exercise of this happy principle. She
went to Alaska for the purpose of gath
ering material for newspaper and
magazine articles and she was prepared
IN nnI,,ra tho urO1scf fhof 0omo GMonE
of my friends in Chicago advised me to
take at least a revolver for company,
but l said | would be more afraid of
the revolver than / would of anyone 1
was liable to meet in Alaska Was
presumption correct?' 1T was. /
was treated better there than / had
ever been treated. A woman need
have no fears in Cape Nome or Teller,
even though she be alone. Many of
the men are rough and their appear
ances are not conventional, but they |
have good hearts and they respect a
woman Mrs. Leech spent last winter
in Teller, a seacoast village a short dis
lance south of Cape Prince of Wales
and ninety miles north of Cape Nome.
She was in the latter town six months
and in Teller a year. During the long, |
cold winter the people devised numer-
Gus schemes for enjoyment, but the pro-
ceeds of the entertainments they gave
were nearly always applied toward
paying the funeral expenses of pros
pectors who had frozen to death, or
purchasing fuel and food for
others who were in danger of starving
perishing from the intense cold.
Mrs. Leech originated and named al
club that has the distinction of being |
the farthest north dramatic club ever
organized. 1t is called the North Pole
Dramatic club; and it's members
include such inhabitants of Teller
are gifted with Evolutionary
or Thespian aspirations. sOne
thing can be said in favor of our
clubs entertainments said she.
They are unique. Probably there are
others like them. Our programmes
are typewritten, for we could not have
them printed. / was the secretary of
the club and had the pleasure of play
ing some of the parts. / must tell you
how we came to have improved foot
in our opera house. We had
been following the time-honored GUS
tom of Illuminating the house by
means of candles stuck in beer bottles.
One day / thought the lighting scheme
might be bettered, so we placed oil
lamps in a row on the front of the
stage and put refectors behind them,
SO as to throw the rays to the stage.
Can you guess what the relectors
were? Bright, shining stewpans. The
thing worked beautifully, and on the
first night the temple of drama, built
of cheap lumber, was so flooded with
light that our patrons could hardly
stand the glare. We have dances in
Teller, for there are nearly forty wo-
men there. When we had our first
dance there was SO many Eskimo dogs
on the middle of the floor that the
walters were almost shut out. The
same trouble was not experienced a
second time. An Eskimo loves to
watch a dance, he loves to see a play,
and he is very fond of our music. We
have plenty of these strange people,
clad in furs, whenever the social set
gives a function The Eskimo is an
interesting individual, and it would
not be difficult to Americanize him. /
had an exciting experience when /
took a ten-mile ride behind reindeer,
but | remember but very little about
the outing, save a vision of plunging
deer legs and flying snow. As to the
cost of living in Ta1Iar v0, nav form