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iskvu December 12, 1935
No. 17
ITTTLE DIXIE JO1X3 MOTHER
.HTTP DOST VnLI.J T EIGHT
A merciful Providence has taken
'.ittie three-yea:?-old Dixie Emberg
:o join her mother„
Prom Saturday morning when the
accident occurred, through Sunday
v/hich sav: the deatii of I:rs . Emterg,
and all day Monday and Tuesday till
"our o’clock Wednesday morning,
Dixie1s brave little noart fought to
retain life in her charred body. It
■'a s a 1 o s in g b a111 e .
What Dixie suffered during those
long days no one i/ill know. But she
didn’t whimper* Obedient by nature,
hie did everything she could to co
operate with those trying to help
ker. Told to take wator for her
oarched throat she would open her
mouth though the effort brought main
md her little pink tongue —as in
■ tar11inr contrast to her f1ame
• 1 ackened cheeks.
Incapable of facial expression,
t vras the mute p]ea of her 1ash
ess eyes and an understonding of
fne- pain she was endurring so bravely
.hat kept Doctor Albrecht and his
■.taff. cf nurses expending avory af
"ort to ease the little patient’s
...uffaring and give her \ hat comfort
chsy could.
Interest extended oeyona the
'■■■■.lid of the hospltc.1. Interest, not
f the morbid variety, but the clean
concern of hum one beings \r s fe.lt on
very hc.nd, for admirati xn of grit i:
•Jose * o the surface in all mankind.
Seldom has a whole community been
o gripped in the talons of agonizing
suspense as were the people of the
alloy during Dixie’s fight.
Sourdough carpenters and laborers
ho have long since forgotten that
h e y e v or ha d f ami lies stooped an y -
no coming from the hospital and in
ert irced of her condition. Groups of
colonists and members of the staff
mode plans for sending her to a
■ iastic surgeon \hen she got we 11
-o chat she won lab * t be left w ith
.’ovs, and they discussed her chance;
he lowered tones,
"'hen word came that Dixie had losi
• hero were men who nodded understand*
lag and turned away, saddened as
■hough she were of their own blood.
D±xie ’ s mother T■/as turied Tuesday
•; f t ernoon in the Palner Ceme tery on
the flet beyond the s c ho o1.
New all that was mortal of Dixie
sleeps beside her in a tiny coffin,
:~orne there to her last resting
■lace by little children of the camp
ho knew her and loved her.
The coldest registered here this
week was eighteen below zero.
BOTH EITB3RG BOYS DOING '’BILL
Though bodily burned about their
hoods, both Emberg boys ore getting
along in fine shone, reports Doctor
Alb re clit.
A feoture of the accident that
didn’t come out until after we had
reported the fire explains why Tru
man was so badly burned on the face
and hands. Ho was making a sled ir.
a room adjoining the kitchen. Dlier
he heard the explosion he rushed
through the burning room and stum
bled out into billows of wind-whip
ped smoke. Hr. and Mrs. Emberg an.
the baby were already out, but Tru
man didn’t knew that. He dashed
back in and crawled along the flooi
on his hands and knees hunting for
the others. It ’'osn’t until he
came out the second time and George
grabbed him that he knew they were
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George, Truman and Dixie’s lit
tle brother and sister, Ronald and
Phyllis, all wish to express their
sincere thanks to all the colonist?
and corporation employees who so
willingly offered their help both
at the fire and during the ensuing
bereavement.
Did you hear about Ted Giblin
sounding off? "/ell, here’s a part
of what he told a Duluth reporter.
3 ’’Only one of the 15 St. Louis
County families mho were to he "pi
oneers” in Alaska will remain in
?the Ilatonuska Valley after the
next boat leaves, due Dec. 8 in
Seattle.”
He also soys that the experi
ment cost him Jl,lC0 in cash and
labor, that there is ice under
neath the tep soil the year a
round and that he wore a sheep
skin coat all summer.
The schoolhouse, ho says, is
not completed. He’s right there,
but he’s all wot when he says the
3children receive lessens only once
every two or threc v;ooks.
: Wonder where that 1,100 bucks
-comes in. The day before ho left
he told the boys in the commisary.
’’Believe me, I took the corpo
ration for ride.”
Then he left here the corpora
tion pave him jj>166.Cl according to
his own s t a tern on t.
'Jq can’t figure v:hat the one
cent was for. Iaaybe it was sc he
can buy a cost card later and write
back to tell us all he is sorry for
pulling out. 0. D, L'Blam has
spent considerably more in asking
for a tract to come back to. He is
nov/ in Seattle , ' nd dying to return