Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-16
Tho Editorial Excursion.

Presuming that the readers of tn
BULLETIN have an interest in tn
.errant wandcrings of their servant
the editor, and also acknowledging
stheir right to demand that he Civ
an account of himself after the ex
.crcise of so unwonted an indulgence
ms weeks absence from the tripot
in pursuit of health, pleasure, ant
immunity from care and toll, WI
will endeavor to give more or les!
intelligable detail of the incident.
and events of the Second Annua
Excursion of the Iowa Press Asso
citation as we had opportunity t.
note them.
SIS Armed with the magical bits O.
card board, which are the antidott
to. the insatiatc demands of railroad
conductors, and accompanied by
our DISQUALIFICATION the exper
fence of last year taught us was not
the least important item of baggage
necessary on such occasions-we
started for Marshalltown, on Tues
day morning Of last week, and in
due time were set down in Ackley
at the junction of the Central r. II.
of Iowa. Here we found that we
had been made the victim of mis-
placed confidence in a newspaper.
Before leaving home we had figured
out from the time table of the Cen
trail of Iowa, as published in one OF
the local journals in that vicinity,
that connection could be made at
Ackley with the morning train on
the Illinois Central. When we got
to Ackley we found that the said
time table had been obsolete about
six months, and that we would have
TO sleep in the dull and dusty town,
which leads us to infer that the en-
terprise of some country newspapers
is peculiar. Taking the disappoint-
.ament as philosophically as the cir
cumstances would admit of, we took
to hotel, and, in due time, to bed,
where we slept the sleep of content
. ment until aroused at o'clock in
the morning by the advent of a
score of quill drivers, just arrived
by the night train, who, tired, hun
CRY and sleepy, were, in the absence
Of accommodations at the hotel,
obliged to roam about town, or
perch themselves in all sorts Of at
titudes upon the chairs and tables
in order to get wink of sleep be-
fore the breakfast hour. In view of
the multifarious tribulations Of the
late Corners, we were conscious Of
more lenient judgment toward the
ezanimate newspaper and its obso-
.lete time table.
Eight o'clock next morning found
the party, all cares forgotten, a jolly
crowd on the cars of Gilman's road,
headed for Marshalltown, where we
arrived about IL o'clock and were
Immediately taken under the hospit-
able guidance of a committee and
placed in comfortable quarters. The
hotels were already full, but the ele-
giant homes of the citizens were
thrown open to the excursionists in
a spirit of the most hearty and un-
stinted hospitality, and all soon
found themselves completely at
home. We were quartered at the
residence of Mr.. J. H. Calhoun, OF
the reception committee, and one OF
the most energetic and public spir-
tied citizens. To the attentions OF
himself and his estimablc lady we
were indebted to large share of
the pleasure of our stay in Marshall
town. The programme Of the day
in that city we have given in an
other place and need not alludc to it
here.
THE START.
Wednesday morning, the sth,
saw crowds of the editorial party,
almost all attended by one or more
ladies, vending their way to the
depot of the Central road, where the
thoughtful generosity Of the Presi-
dent of the corporation, Mr.. Gilman,
had caused to be provided special
train of six elegant cars for the con-
veyance of the party to St. Paul.
The morning was superb, and the
excursionists, numbering about ESQ
persons, nearly one-half of them
ladies, without an exception in cx-
uberant spirits, took seats in the
cars and at the 81 gnal commenced
the journey to the hyperborcan
regions of St. Paul and Duluth.
Accompanying the party was the
Marshall Cornet Band, which dis
coursed excellent music on every
appropriate occasion. The fertile
fields of Central Iowa stretching out
on either hand with their growing
promise of plentiful harvest wav-
ing q greeting to the passing train,
the fitful alterations Of shade and
sunshine, the woody dell and anon
the billowy prairie, were grateful
sights to the emancipated slaves Of
the pen, and were duly and enthus-
iastically appreciated and pancgy-
rized.
FgI MASON CITY'TREATs.
poccinO Albion. LiScOmb. Union.