Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-17
Miss Gladys Jones Is
Champion Outdoor Girl
RECEIVED HIGHEST HoNORS AT
OUTDOOR EXPOSITION HELD
IN CHICAGO

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nal correspondent by Miss Gladys
Jones, Eagle River, Wis. who has just
been selected as the premier outdoor
girl of the United States by delegates
attending the National Outdoor Life
exposition being held at the coliseum.
Queen Gladys" bears her honors
gracefully and the crown rests easily
on her shapely head That she shows
modesty in discussing what she terms
everyday life is evidence of the fact
that she considers her adventures in
the North woods where she has lived
all her life, as ordinary circumstances
She speaks of her brushes with death
in the same light manner that the city
"flapper" would discuss walking
around the rear end Of a street car,
not knowing just what was in store.
Queen Gladys" lives at her fathers
lodge, which is picturesquely situated
on PickereI lake, II miles from Eagle
River. She spends the entire year
there and one of her duties, which she
accepts in. the line of pleasure, is max
ing the hike to Eagle River for the
mail, a trip that must be made on
snowshoes alone, sometimes covering
miles on snowshoes, just for the exer-
cise
In the summer time, she spends
much of her spare time in fishing and
her brother AYERS she is one of the
best anglers in the country. She has
4O-pound smuskie" to her credit and
25-pounders are of common occurrence
Her outdoor program also includes
camping trips and horseback riding.
She is an admirable guide, knowing
every foot of the territory for miles
around She knows the best fishing
grounds and has been of immense as
sistance to guests at the summer
camps, escorting them through the
wilderness and indicating to them the
choice spots for fishing, hunting and
the collection of flowers. BY way of
introducing one of the joys of her ma
tive country to the delegates, she
brought along a carload of arbutus
aud gave each visitor to the Coliseum
a liberal portion
Her life has been filled with adven-
lures and while she declines to dis
cuss them, considering them all a
part of the days work her friends
wax eloquent when they talk of her
spirit and nerve and GOODNESS under
circumstances that wound leave the
city flapper historical for a week
She tried to divert the conversation
when one of her friends Thursday
night told of the time her horse,
frightened by the sudden appearance
of bear, reared and threw her.
Gladys did not see the bear and did
not know of its presence until the
panic-stricken horse became unman-
ageable and tossed her into clump
of boulders and bolted leaving Miss
Gladys unconscious.
When the riderless horse, snorting
and apparently in a state of terror, ar
rived at the lodge, searchers were i'm
mediately sent out in all directions,
but while they were beating through
the woods, the cold night air revived
Miss Gladys and she found her way
home. The bear, presumably, was as
badly scared as was the horse, and
made off without attempting to at
tack her.
The greatest achievement of the
acknowledged queen has been in rescu
ing lumberjacks who are lost in the
woods. Last winter, while snowshoe-
ing back to the lodge in binding
storm, she came upon a lumberiack,
dragging his half frozen body along.
He was hopelessly lost and about
ready to give up the fight for life
when the woodland queen came upon
him. Half supporting him. she guided
the despairing man to her own camp
where he received treatment for froz-
en- feet, hands and ears. After he had
been thoroughly revived and sstimulat
ed with coffee and food, she accom-
panied him eight miles through the
binding storm to his own camp and
then tripped back home.
It is nothing, she says airily. Any
one of you would do just as | did.
But the fact remains that few Of her
hearers could have assisted a prac-
tically dying man through the storm
swept mazes of the forest, let alone
finding their own way to safety. Her
life is replete with just such adyen-
lures but she declines to consider
them as anything out of the ordinary.
While attending the exposition, she
has been induced to visit few of the
shows, although she does not permit
these engagements to interfere with
her set rule Of early to bed and early
to rise. She is the first to appear at
the Coliseum and she rarely remains
later than p. m.
Asked how she would like to live in
Chicago or any other city, she tossed
her splendid curls and replied emphat
ically she would not desert Pickerel
lake and her beloved woods country
for the finest mansion in the world.