The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1897-07-08
THE EDITORS VACATION
He Spends Three Weeks in the
Twin Cities, the Windy City
and the Big Beer Town of the
World.

The annual vacation for the editor and
wife, was celebrated last month in q
very pleasant manner indeed. On the
1lth ult. we left Hope for few days
rest. Reaching St. Paul the following
morning via the Old Pioneer Line the
Northern Pacific railway.
While there we visited Atty. and Mrs.
j. F. McMahon, whom we found enjoy.
ing life hughly and doing a good law
business. j. Farmhouse and wife, form.
erly of Valley City, were also looked up,
and we found them doing very
tlattering grocery business at No. 200
Rice street. After spending a day with
relatives of ye scribe, we sojourned over
to Minneapolis where Atty. E. ]. Nc.
Mahon, N. H. Emmons, C.J. Paul. and
many other old time Hopeites are locat.
ed, and all are prospering.
Wednesday morning we arrived in
Chicago over the ever popular Burling-
ton Route and after good nights rest
in the finest Pullman sleeper ever built,
and bountiful breakfast in the peer
less dining car of this popular road, we
felt as fresh as daisy. And by the way,
we want to say right here, that we took
that Finest Train in the World" of
which the Burlington people is telling
80 much about. And it is indeed a
beautiful palace on wheels.
After remaining in Chicago a few
hours, the writer was taken suddenly ill
and our program changed. Our visit to
Ohio and Indiana was abandoned, and a
trip ocross Lake Michigan on tho beau
tiful steamship Virginia" of the Good.
rich Line, to Milwaukee, was substitut.
ed. After weeks stay with friends in
the largest beer manufacturing city in
the world, where many places of interest
were visited in the wholesale district.
the handsome public and private parks
etc. Among other places of interest was
the National Soldiers Home, one of the
most delightful institutions man ever
set foot upon. There arc 2,3O8 old yeter-
ans, at this writing who find comfort.
able home. Among them we found ono
or two from North Dakota, and many
who were here in early days. From Mil
waukee we again crossed the lake to
Chicago, thence to Prairie du Chien.
Wis, where Mrs. Aliens parents live.
Here we remained week and attended
the commencement exercises of tho city
high school when the class of '07, eleven
in number, graduated. Miss Amelia
AOAAos u JouAt3SA SiotCA VI WIS. Allou,
was one of the number. She stood high
in all her branches and delivered beau
tiful class poem written by herself.
While there we drove out fifteen miles
in tho country viewing the crops, and
visiting more relatives. We were then
in the section of country that Hon. j. j.
Wamberg, Judge and Mrs. King, Hank
and George Ferris Mr. and Mrs. Wake
man. H. S. and S. D. Curry, AL. and Bill
| Williams, L. o. Finn, and many other
Steele county folks formerly hail from.
Speaking of tho crops, no place en-
route did we see as good growing crops
as right here in North Dakota. The
grain in the eastern states is backward
same as here. The same cold snaps
have visited them. There is no question
but what the northwest is just as far
advanced and several per cent better of
than the overstocked east Never have
we heard 80 n,uch complaining of "hard
times" as while in those large cities
The number of unemployed is wonder.
full. We say frankly, that in our mind
thero is no country like the northwest
Here in Steele county we are as well
fixed as anywhere, and far better thar
many.
Let's all stick to North Dakota, anG
the wheat belt of the world will bear uf
fruit ten fold.