The Kusko times., 1937-12-03
TvEET FAMILY ENJOYS LIFE IN FAR NORTH
By FERGUS HOFFMAN Nn The Alaska Dai.y Pressl

AIr. and Mrs. James MonAgle were getting acquainted with their three crsndehildr n and .neir son-in-l1w today and the children were solemn lv ms speeting ''Monagle Grandma and Menagle Grandpa pa"-wl1o had prom ise5 2. take tn n 10 something caIle4 .aas.e soon.
 The chairln's mother. Mrs. E. S. Tweet, is Mr. and Mrs. Monagls's daurhter. Graduated from Juneau Hirh Schoo. in 1918, she studied at Bellingham Normal School and re- turned to Alaska 10 teach, Dut 12 years ago, she me: E. s. Tweet in Tellzr-where this story begins.
 Teller. 150 miles north of Nome, has been the center of Mir Tweet's world since 1903, when his parents moved from Minnesota, bringing their infant son with them to the hr.tie post. He has not been Out side since. With his parents and three brothers, ha holds 2 partner ship in Tweet ard Sons, gold dredging company.
 ''I met Mrs. Tweet waile she was teaching school in Teller" he ex- plainad today. 1fTe were married and for J2 years we have bazn p.Gn- ming to come ta Juneau U see her no1her and fs-har, bat s1re-h'ng al- 7raTz aEs. s3 prevent Us from mak- irg tta trir- sa-s year. -Isa ert'~e een7snr ae.aea eo boss the work instead af Icing he work boss IS.
 
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 The TE= e family VII spend two or th7a= weeks here baf2rs going Cu-z.ze to spe7G ete winter. They 5-a1 k-i-E where they gre going n-aybz through the Panama Canal when the winter gets too long IT he States'-but they're going 10 have grand time, for t will be the first Outside trip that four Of the five Twests have known. Mr. Tweet does IT. remember the States and the three children. Evelyns Phyllis, s, and Edgar Glen, nine months old, have passed al their lvzs at Teller.
 The children a-e r@2l Alaskzns. Thy dent ike real milk-canred rlilk was all they ever knew before they left Teller on the airplane week ago. They had never seen tree uLtil they made the aerial jour ney, ani they have never seen 2 moving picture show. But "Monagle GranGns," as they call her, is going to fix that:
 "EFe're going to see 2 lot of nov fes, now that we have our grand children with us for .ae first tiu1e," Mrs Mcnagle exclaimed. Mike, Rose Ellen, our two other children, will be home soon, 50 we are going to have a real family reunion"
 B1t Taller is the real home Of the Tweet family, So they will be going home in t,3e sprng. In Teller, the Tweets say, you get perfect radio reception from Europe 24 hours g -ay and tie regular news broadcat F---r London a. , o'cl3-k n the even .n~ is dailF event. They keep up with -he world by listening to the English broadcasts from Paris, Ma drid, Rome and London
 However. Mrs. Tweet has to do her Christmas shopping early in Tel Ter. The average open season Is abou: 100 days, during which the first ship from the south arrives around Jls end of June and the last boat about the end of September Mrs. Tweet orders hew Christmas supplies in July, so they will arrive on the last September boar.
 We even heard Juneau 3 few times this summer" Mrs. Tweet said. The European reception is better, Of course, because it comes straight across the North Pole, but We also listen in on the States and Canada"