The Newtown bee., 1893-12-01
Litchfeld County News.
NEW PRESTON.
AN Er1srLE FROM E. R. BEEMAN.

AN EPISTLE FROM E. R. BEEMAN.
 We received very interesting letter on Saturday, from E. R. Bceman of Lakeside, who is at present enjoying an extended visiting tour among relatives
 in the West. We should be glad to see
 the letter entire in public print but in or
 der not to take too much valuable space
 in THE BEE at one time, we simply state
 that Mir Beeman left his home with his
 daughter, Mrs Mary Waller, on the
 morning of September 20, for Chicago as the first stopping place. Meeting his
 son, Edwin R. Beeman, Jr., there, they
 all remained visiting the exterior and in- terior of the White City for four days,
 and like some others Mir Beeman saw so
 much that he writes he really has nOth
 ing to say, feeling that words are, for
 once, inadequte to convey to the mind of any one who has not been there, the | myriad points of interest and curiOsities
 and wonders to have been seen there. | From Chicago the entire party rode on
 to Minneapolis, arriving October ,, at
 the home of his son and daughter. Mir | Beeman remained in this thriving, pleas
 ant city for three weeks, visiting the
 principal points of interest and trade l therein and in the adjacent St Paul, mak- l ing mention particularly of the flour plant of Pillsbury & Co.,, the great in-
 dustry of Minneapolis. He gave up an | ontirn Io, in ,,oer;po tbr0urh tho r,ills
 and forming slight opinion of the mag nitude of the business done where B, 900 l barrels of flour are rolled out daily for l the worlds consumption. The amOurt | of wheat requisite for producing the l above amount of flour is ID, 1000 bushels
 of wheat, and still machinery has not
 reached that state of perfection as la
 Dor saver. Mir Beeman was surprised at
 the small number of men required with l the improved mills and rollers used, to perform the seemingly vast amount of
 work every day. The same seemed also | apparent to him as he visited the large l timber mills of that city. Situated | about Minneapolis are several lakes, some of them being quite popular re-
 sorts for pleasure seekrs and the city
 toilers, all which Mir Beeman had the 1 pleasure of visiting and by which he
 was reminded of Lake Wacamaug, on the
 shores of which he has passed his life
 time. October 23, Mr Beeman bade his
 children in Minnesota adieu, and came
 to Chippewa Falls, Wis, where his cous-
 in, Seymour Strong, has one of the
 largest stores in the city. Here he also found one of the largest saw mills in the
 northwest, and with Seymour and his brother, Homer C., at Euclair Mir Bee-
 man passed another pleasant week. On
 the 29th, he came to Godfrey, Ill.,, four
 miles from the city of Alton, on the l Mississippi river. Here by the hills and and valleys and woods and streams, he
 was also reminded more of home than
 at any time since his departure from
 here. While at Godfrey, he enjoyed a
 ride one pleasant autumn day by steam
 CT to St Louis p miles, and electric cars 10 miles flu ther to the city, which | seemed to him a solid, rather smoky
 city of 500, GOO inhabitants possessing
 one of the most beautiful parks in the
 world, and the wonderful iron bridge
 across the river over mile in length.
 The village of Godfrey boasts of the
 Monticello ladies' seminary, which ac
 commodities l50 pupils with board and
 tuition, and was founded and presented
 many years ago to the state by Capt Godfrey, father-in-law of Mrs Lodema Curtss Godfrey, formerly of Warren, Ct.
 Leaving Godfrey, October 3l, Mir Bee man came to Waverly, Ill.,, over nearly the same way which he traversed with his brother and friend, John Ackley, 40 years ago but the change in scenery had been such that all now seemed new to | him. Where then was one vast prairie that the eye could see for p miles in all | directions, the whole is now divided
 into farms bounded by highways in one
 mile squares, the roads being fenced by Osage orange hedges, four feet high. l Besides shade and forest trees have been | planted and grown so fast that through | the section Mir Beeman rode from God
 frey to Waverly, it seemed to him as
 well wooded as any part of Connecticut There, where the farmers raise from 100 to 200 acres each of corn every season, oats, etc., accordingly, where many of the farmers keep at least 100 steers each, as many hogs, and from 20 to 60 horses.
 MT Beeman has passed the month of No- vember at the home of A. A. Curtiss, l Inc fov 2 | in Waverly, and who is a son of Homer | Curtiss, who went from Warren, Ct., | 1885, and built the first house in Waver- ly 1886, and lived there to the age of 90 years, before death called him away. We were so much interested in reading Mir Beeman's letter and deemed it might 1 be somewhat so, to some of the readers of THE BEE here and in Warren, that we have made the above use of it.
 A PERSONAL WORD FROM OUR SCRIBE. We received pleasant call from the editor of THE BEE, last Friday evening, who refreshed our memory by inform | ing us that we had commenced our sec ond year of correspondence for his pa- per. We commenced last year for him, something as the child begins to walk,
 fearing and trembling lest our first fec ble efforts might be our last and many times we have laid down the pencil with disappointment and chagrin that much more sense had not been written, even if less words were written. But MT Smith has been most lenient with us, and so