Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-12-21
A BOYS LITTER
Interesting Letter From Frank Weller Ten
Years Old, to His Cousin, Frank
Christopher.

You can see the American boy in
every sentence Of the following lettar.
which is we'll worth reading, being
very we'll written for boy of his age !:
Arkansas City. Kan.
Dear Cousin Frank:
thought l would write you let
ter about what they are guing to do
in Arkansas City. Well. for the first
thing Roy Ronney, that is the son OF
the Ronney in The Ronney- Davis Mer.
| Go. has bought the Fifth Avenue
hotel; that is that great big hotel l
told you about that has gone to rack
that cost $3.50, 900 or $500. 900. II is
all gong to be fixed up like new. He
has already ordered the toughs and all
the people that live in it to get out
and is fixing it up now. He has bought
The Fifth Avenue theatre. that is the
largest in Kansas and the SWEETEST
and has leased it to the best manager
i'm Kansas. who is also manager OF
The Winfield theatre in Winfield. that
is the county seat of our county. We
have as good attractions as cities here
now. None of our plays will he less
than SIS in the parquet. We are
going to have Sousa's band next Fri
day; we have already had Banda
Rosa, that's the finest Italian band in
the world. We also have fine or.
chestra at our opera house. Our opera
house seats 1900 people. We will
soon have electric cars to Winfield.
the county seat, Genda Springs, a
summer resort nine miles west OF here.
1t has about 500 people and has pop
factory and the springs. There are
seven of them. and they are all differ
ent havors. They use the water from
Nos. five and seven for manufacturing
pop. There is little lake there and
boat house and it has two OF the
SWEETEST hotels in the state and a
large bath house where the people go
and take baths in the Genda water.
You can 20 and get all the water you
want to drink free, but to haul it
away you have to pay. / don't like
the stuff. The place is we'll noted
in both Oklahoma and Kansas. The
fire whistle is blowing right now.
o, yes. I just went out to see where
the fire was, il was 800 N. 3rd st.
They are going to run the car TO the
Chiliico Indian Schools: these are the
largest in the u. 8. Your mother and
Grace saw them only they are lots
larger now. forgot to tell you some
thing about the opera house last year.
Weber & Fields, you've heard of
them, they were at Atchison, Kan.
and they weren't no good there, SO
the manager here wouldn't have them.
We have got the finest fire department
in the state, three horses, black. roam
and white. They took state prize at
Topeka. We have got the finest mills
in the state, except the ones in Tope-
ka. The reason the town is going
to be so big is because they have struck
natural gas and will soon pipe it into
the houses and buildings. We have
got fine depot, the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fee depot here, with the
Harvey eating houses in it; and four
other railroads these are the Frisco,
Missouri Pacific, Kansas Southwestern
and Midland Valley, so we have five
railroads running in here. Tell your
mama my mama will write to her
soon. We are all we'll. We're are
going to have pottery and cement
plant.
wrote this to you because you
think your town is so smart.
Your cousin,
FRANK WELLER. JR.
P. S.-Papa sells groceries and
things to Genda Springs and 60
with him there every time on Fri
day, and 60 to two other towns with
him, sometimes three more; these are,
Portland. Ashton and Guelph, Kan
sas.