The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-11-10

Fourth week end, payday, enough
in itself, but two of US Jared better.
The superintendent and his wife with
his secretary took US in her Evinrude
to the head of Trout Lake. With the
exception of about four hours for
lunch, supper and portages we were on
the water from eight until eleven. We
judged from the map that we had
gone about sixty miles. We even had
the excitement of being lost for awhile
as we missed the narrows in the dark.
The following week end was spent
at Virginia attending the District
Teachers Association. The meetings
were held in their splendid high school
building. While there we went thru
one of the largest saw mills in the
United States. We also took the car
to Hibbing where We saw large open
pit mine. At the new Hibbing we saw
the three million dollar high school
building in construction. 1t was in
teresting to see the new town in the
making.
Week end number six was canoeing
weather, so seven of US took three
canoes and padded across to an In
dian trail. We saw number of huts
and at one place We saw the Indians
smoking fish in sort of tepee made
of birchbark. We passed the place
where their pow-wows are held. We
hope to attend one before we leave.
But the last week end was perhaps
the most thrilling of all. The super
intendent, his wife and little boy, Sec
rotary and four Of us girls started
out at six o'clock Friday night for
the superintendent cottage on the
farther side of the big bay. The wind
came up, but hating to be pikers, we
agreed to try the trip. The water was
very rough and l in the prov: looking
for "deadheads," surely had the full
benefit of the ups and downs of the
waves. We kept on going however
! until we got stuck on reef. We had
decided to spend the night at one Of
! the nearest cottages by that time.
However we passed it and went thru
the narrows without knowing it. We
discovered about nine o'clock that we
! were lost with no idea of where we
were, except that we were on Lake
Vermilion, in rough sea, with a
strong wind, and threatening clouds.
| We landed on the nearest shore and
by some good fortune we landed safe
/ w., built a fire, warmed up, and ex-
plored with flash light what we found
to be an island with a very rocky
shore. If it hadn't been for the little
boy and the clouds we would have
made camp and waited for morning.
AS it was: we started off for lights
; which we had seen from the other side
of the island. These proved to be at
the air compression plant. The engine
of the boat in which four of US girls
were, stopped but as we thought we
had simply been running too low, we
did not flash our help signal. The
wind dashed US to shore and we did
our best to keep the motor off the
rocks. Just as it began to rain we saw
signal from the other boat returning
to US. We responded with our sig nal
and before long we were at the plant.
From there three of US hiked to town.
We girls stayed to get lunch ready
while the superintendent drove back
for the rest. 1t was five o'clock be-
fore we thought of going to bed.
It may be an anti-climax to even
mention what we are planning for the
eighth week end. But five of us in
tend to hike to Ely, twenty-five miles
from here. But even hiking in this
section may prove exciting.
Tower is one of the oldest ore mines:
While it may be old and, as some call
it, "Sleepy Hollow" town there is
so much of interest around it that we
enjoy being here At any rate "we're
here because we're here" and with
skating, skiing, snow shoeing. Univer-
sity Club, and the budget" in view
the cold weather doesn't daunt me.
Gladys D. Smith.
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