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(By Howard Lyng)
Continued from last Issue
There are a number of scat
tered. small settlements on the
way up to Mountain Village. At
one of them. Fish Village, I en
countered Teetchuk Westdahl.
^dr. Westdahl would like to know
the where 5abouts of bis daughter,
mary, who some years ago married
Roy Buck.
- Mt. Village is a sizeable vill
age situated on a high bank of
the Yukon, and contains in add
ition to the numerous well con
s ruetod log houses, the Govern
ment Hospital, Bureau School,
Catholic Church and Shephard’s
trading post.
Dr. Corthell, who was in Nome
last summer is in charge of the
Hospital, assissted by two reg
istered nurses. Billy Riley, old
timer of the late nineties, is the
hospital janitor. Rev. Paul O’Con
nor is in charge of the church,
and is a very companionable and
interesting cleric. Mr. and Mrs.
Vesper . are highly regarded as
the local reindeer supervisor and
teacher, respectively.
There are perhaps some of you
who remember Tom Shephard, old
time trader. His younger brother,
Norval Shephard has been operat
ing a trading post first at Andreas
fky and then at Mt. Village for
the past tertty-flve years. His
lovely wife is the daughter of a
former Government teacher named
'Sickles who for many years taught
school on the Selawik where Mrs.
Shephard was raised. The Shep
hards have two fine children and
are especially proud of tehir little
golden haired daughter aged 4,
who speaks excellent Eskimo, and
knows the right places to grunt,
j Words are but feeble Instruments
with which to express the un
stinted hospitality these kindly
people put forth to the occassional
traveler.
Leaving the lordly Yukon I
began the traverse of a part of
the vast unchanging stretch of
tundra that lies between the Yu
kon and the Kuskoqwim commonly
called the “Flats.” The winding,
twisting Kashunak brings you to
the trading post of Charley Heck
man, 100 miles by the river from
Mt. Village. Heckman has a real
old time post and-^the trappers
come from long distances to trade.
Heckman will be remembered In
this section as Joe Dexter’s part
ner In the saloon (business in Coun
cil during the early 1900’s. Char
ley is the proud father of 4 ro
bust sons, and confidently expects
them to develop into mighty hunt
ers, trappers and traders, to carry
on when he seeks surcease from
his labors. Heckman has been a
continuous resident of this div
ision since 1898, what might be
termed a real old timer.
Another 120 miles down the
Kashunak is 'the trading post of
George hephard, Alaska born and
raised. He is located about 8
miles from Hooper Bay, and is
the iNephew INorval Shephard of
Mt. Village. George, while in his
early thirties has been a success
ful trader on the flats for a num
j
her of years.
We traveled back to the Yukon
at the same time, and I had occ
asslon to spend o few days In his
company. He is a fine type of
the typical Alaskan and Is going
outside to visit his mother this
summer, his first trip out for 11
years.
I don’t know whether I am bor
ing you or not, but is seems to
your scribe that this narrative
would scarcely toe complete with
out a toit of discriptive comment do
voted to this littel < known and
seldom tralleved area of our nor
thern Alaska coast. The natives
living In this section are an ex
tremely backard people. They
live,’ and maintain their exlstance
in an atmosphere of unbelievable
squalor. Their villages with the
exception of the one maintained
at Heckman’s post, are mostly
underground. Many of these vil
lages are tout a short distance
above high tide and subject to occ
asslon&l disastrous high water.
You will perhaps recall the floods
r * I
Tif—geverai wars ago and their
terrible results. This section ap
pears to be a fertile field for the
hospital, school and missionary.
There is. however, one glimmer i
of intelligence to ibe discerned in ,
the miasma of general ignorance- ;
I; seems the male contingent of |
each village subscribes to the |
quaint custom of erecting or dig-1
ging one place in the village sac- j
red to “men Only.”
Here the tribaf ceremonies ana;
and dances are indulged in, vio
lations of the tribal law are heard j
land rules and regulations of the
village are promulgated.
Arriving back in Mt. Village I
found Andy Olsen, who in the
early days* mined here on Center
Creek, most seriously ill in the
! hospital. Johanson was also a
j patient suffering from scurvy. Dr
Car; hell while stating they both!
I were in a precarious condition.
,felt optimistic over their recovery.
Most of this discoursive comment
has dealt with the physical as
i poets of the southern end of our
division. Perhaps a few words de
Ivoted to the mental perigrinations'
|of our neighboring fellow citizens
would not be amiss.
An article of this sort must ,
necessarily be (brief, so I will touch l
j upon hut one subject of their our- j
rent thought. This subject how-;
ever, is and has been uppermost j
in the minds of all. I refer of J
course to the co-called depression. (
The consensus of opinion, con-1
curred in by the majority, seems j
to be" tnat the appelation ‘‘depress i
ion” is a misnomer. It should '
have rather been termed “repress
ion.” A short elucidation will pear
haps explain this apparent idlocyn 1
crasy. j
For the past sixteen years the !
viciferous minortiy has heaped a
mountain of must-nots and shall- j
noits upon us until there has j
been but very little freedom of
thought or ' action left. Prohibit
ions and regulations became so
numerous that the very soul of our
people was fast becoming stult
ified and atrophied. We seemed
to have lost even the privilege of
smiling and the inherent right to
play and laughter.
These people, and surprising to j
state, a great many others whose ,
voices are being heard for a cha-'
nge in the councils of the nation,1
seem to think that abolishing a
few score of these economic, and
moral restrictions might restore to1
us, at least a portion of the origin [
al Constitution of the United j
States.
When this Is duly accomplished j
we may experience the novelty of ^
again walking about as free men, j
and have the opportunity of once j
again demonstrating man’s super-.
iority to unnatural conditions.
The Journey ' back down the ■
river and across to St. Michael
and Fnalakleet was accomplished
without any untoward Incident.
The one lasting impression
that I bring back regarding these
stalwart people who are carrying
on in the scattered outposts of our
last frontier, ds one of fortitudp.
resourcefulnes and a full quota
of the milk of human kindness.
The spirit of the Plonerr still
carries on. They are meeting the
present and the future with the
same earnestness of purpose and
the same high hopes that were
theirs in the halycon days of Alas
ka’s, and their own youth, when
all the world was young.
CHURCH NOTES
KEDERATMi i lit l!< H
Ttev. K <1 ’Forrestor / . .
Sunday school at 11 a m.
Evening worship at 7:40 pm.
7:40 Evening: Baccalaureate
Service.
Worship Service lead by' Young
People's Group.
Vocal, Solo. Miss Margaret Erven
Violin Solo. Richard Lee.
Sermon: Youth; "Its Assets and
Liiatbijitles.”
HA CCA LA Fit,KATE SERVICE
The annual Baccalaureate Ser
vice will be held at the Nome Fed
erated Church, tomorrow evening
at the regular service hour, 7:40.
Young people of the Church will
lead in the service, the order of
which is as follows:
Prelude: Miss L.M. Forrester.
Call to Worship: Miss Virginia
L.onien. .
Responsive Reading led by Wil
son Scott.
Vocal -Solo; “Purer Yet and
Purer." Miss Margaret Erven.
Scripture reading: Miss Phyllis
Robinson.
Prayer: Miss Marguerite Lee.
V-iolin Solo: “The Old Refrain”
Richard Lee.
Alfred Lomen Jr. will be (hair
man of the Worship Service'. Ush
ers will be Leigh Rolbinson., Homer
Roberts and Andy Roberts. The
minister will preach on the theme:
Youth: “Its Assets and Liabilit
es." Seats will 6e4 reserved for
he. members of the High School
Graduating Class.
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