Gunnison news-champion., 1914-12-25

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mises fsoG essnns~ou. and nee~.~ssases
sse's ssoppsnG over nsxef eosn gsss.e
and coming. .; NsuHsta Hos sprnSs. .
aeis9nsfui hesl;h resort sssaas~d nesr
TgnIcni Doase.
TIE arp 10 Tin Cup eosers the same
distance. sad W summer this .r,y ,e Dr.
ll9htfsl. bus - rais. sssst@ by the
suy,erintenasns come when the deaent-
fui hsgh~ays ARE covered with many feet
Of sao~. or q; ,ssst when the weather
" too cold for ons to think mach about
anything except how she can Keep her
hands from freezing. aud st the same
tine keep her horse from ~snaer,ns
out of the road.
II would be extremely foolish for the
superintendent to start on one of these
winter drives without some mesns of
ksepins wsrm. Hiss EAsterly uses a
CLARK Heater, . small carriage stove
burnine charcosl and oil She also
usually heats small piece of quartz
rock. and places it inside her muff. then
# her horse rs Of the usual meek livery
stable variety. she finds no trouble IN
driving with her hands inside the muff.
which insures warm hands daring the
entire trip. OF course fur coat Is IN
d,spenssble.
One winter while driving to Coche-
topa. q school fourteen miles from Gun
nison. Miss Essterly came to . place
whe~s an ice jam in Coshetopa creek
he'd flooded the rood for some distsnce,
forming . sheet Of ice, almost impsss-
sble. The horse, after q little wsy,
stopped and refused to be persusdsd to
20 ANY farther. After several minutes
Of futile urging, Miss Essterly got out
Of the buggy, unhitched the horse, and
led him = mile or two GROUND . hill
where the road wss again free from ice.
Here she tied him to . convenient tree,
went back to the buggy, pulled il across
the icy stretch, to where the horse wss
tied, hitched up again. end proceeded to
Coshetopa.
A similar incident happened in Ouray
couaty, when the superintendent ives
driving through forest on her way to
. school meeting. A large tree fell
across the road just few yards sheed
Of the horse. II yes impossible to turn
around in the smsll space, end there
wss no other road to travel he'd she
even been sble 10 turn GROUND. So
happened TO have . small and somewhat
dull hatcAet in the buggy, end withCut
further edo, set bssvely 10 work 10 chop
the fallen tree in tive. After some time
she succeeded, and with greet desl Of
effort, lifted the end Of the tree fer
enough out Of the road to drive past
For several weeks she bore on the
palms of her hands, several large blis-
tiers, rs reminders of her experience.
These are only very few of the ex-
periences Of . county superintendent on
her various trips. They are not all
humorous; indeed, q great many are
pitifully sad
The entire distance travelled by Miss
Easterly during the past year, on her
visits to schools in this county, is two
thousand, six hundred and thirty three
miles. -ELINoR DIXON.