Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-22
TEACHER REC0UNTS
INTERESTING STORY
OF LONG JOURNEYS
RETURNS FROM TRIP TO ALASKA
AND n AW A I IAN ISLANDS
STARTS OUT TO SEE WORLD
AND GOT ALONG NICELY.

Eight years ago Florence Lowe of
Streator was teaching country
school in Otter Greek township and
was ranked by County Superintendent
OF Schools w r. Foster as one of the
best on his staff of La Sale county
rural teachers. yearning to see
more Of the world seized her and, feel
ing q call that lured her from the four
walls of the Otter Creek schools, she
rendered her resignation and went cut
10 the great western prairies.
She started out to explore parts Of
the world hitherto unknown to her.
She has succeeded and taken the drab
from the colcr scheme of a teachers
lie. gaining much enjoyment from the
exploration of cut of the way places,
at the same time following digni.
fed profession, acquiring a comfort
able income, a quarter section CT land
and all Of her globe trotting expenses.
Reports Of her travels and the sue
cess she has acquired have perco!ated
back to La Sale county. and when on
Wednesday Miss Lowe, who is taking
n years rest from teaching, walked
into the court house she was one Of
the most interesting visitors who had
called at the county superintendent
Office for many a moon. Questions
brought out stories of the western
mains, frozen Alaska, an island in the
Pacific ocean LEGO miles west of
Juneau Alaska, the island of Oahu,
HPwaii, and even the Mauna LOa vol
caro-
When she left La Sale county Miss
Lowe went to Montana whore she Sc
cured a position in a country school
She made applicatin for a government
claim. choosing 100 acres of land not
suited to agricultural purposes, but
which her knowledge of geology in
dicated might contain oil She re-
mai--1 in Montana for four years,
teaching and proving up on her claim.
Incidentally oil has recently been dis
covered not far from her quarter sec
tion.
After she had obtained a clear title
to her land Miss Lowe went to Alaska.
In the winter she taught in tho
schools in Juneau and in the summer
she taught in summer school across
the bay.
The following year she went west
in the Pacific 1000 miles from Juneau,
where she remained for a year on
small island where the Guggenheim
interests operated a copper mine She
was principal of the school there.
From this island she went down to
the island Of Oahu, which is near
I1owaii Gho rpOa n cd i'm tho schools
there for two years, making frequent
trips to the island of Hawaii and the
Mauna Loa volcano. She was eX-
tremely anxious to see the volcano
crupt, and spent as much time as she
could on the edge Of the crater. Once,
she said, the lava rose to the edge
Of the crater, and everyone in the lit
tie town near by jumped into autos
and rushed out to the volcano, where
the awaited to watch the predicted
eruption, which never occurred. Two
weeks after she left the island the vol
Cano eruptcd
She returned home in the summer
fer a years rest and vacation. How
ever, after visiting her friends she
was offered a post by a lycoum bu- |
rcau of Des Moines, Iowa, booking lee |
ture courses. From Ottawa Miss |
Lowe went to Des Moinos to take up |
her new duties. Her territory will be |
in Montana.
She has already made arrangements |
to teach in the Philippines during the
coming year and incidentally to ex-
plore new territory.