Emma Miller, nee Skistad Emma Miller was raised in Dawson. Her parents Nels and Alice Skistad owned the Arlington Roadhouse.(("The Colourful Five Per Cent: Arlington Roadhouse information." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 4 January 2002.)) Emma Skistad received on-the-job- training in elementary education in Dawson for a year and then travelled to Wernecke to teach school in 1932. She was well liked and accepted. She returned to Dawson after the Wernecke School closed at Easter in 1933 and married Jimmy Miller.((Shannon Cooper, "Elsa School Reunion: History of Elsa School." Manuscript, July 1996.))