Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-13

Patricia Methour, a petite, dimpleG
checked woman of twenty, doing a
| pedestrian stunt. or as she pleases to
call it, "Piking to the Pike spent
Thursday evening in the city at a local
hotel, after enjoying the band concert.
! Miss Methour is not a globe trotter, nor
4 is she taking the long tramp she has be.
/ fore her because she needs to get there
and has not the money. She is walk
| ing from Minneapolis to ST. Louis to
take in the Exposition, with view of
making it pay her in the end and if
nerve and apparent tact will avail she
will win out
Miss Methour has been making the
smaller towns along the way and has
studiously avoided newspaper people
remarking last evening to choice ac-
quaintance at supper They're good
fellows. but such bofes in case like
mine" Miss Patty was for couple
of years a chorus girl. but through the
Offices of friend secured position
as reporter on a st. Paul paper.
which occupation she followed for a
| couple of years. About tho first of
August it dawned upon her that she
would like to see the exposition, and
for the trip, yet she did not like to lose
time and at the same time spend her
savings Suddenly happy thought
was hers. with her experience gain
ed III the newspaper business, why
could she not make the trip on foot,
| take a camera. keep her nose for news
busy and prepare splendid set Of il
| Illustrated articles on the trip which
she would be able to dispose of at a
neat little sum, which would at least
compensate her for her time and the
cash expended? She could and she
! would. She at once communicated
with literary friend interested in the
publication of a western magazine, the
name Of which she refused to state and
made arrangements TO dispose of her
story should it prove of sufficient mer-
it. OF this question she alone assumed
the responsibility of Judging before
hand
Started August 10.
She started from Minneapolis on
August 10, and arrived in Ottumwa on
| the 9Th Of September, making the dis
lance of $50 miles in about twenty
eight days. She was laid UP at the
| home of a friend, however, for four
days at Bel1nond, with a Slightly
sprained ankle. She passed through
Faribault. Owatonna and Albert Lea
Mimi, Mason City, Belmond, Williams
and number of other towns of less
Importance before reaching Nevada
From here her route will be through
Bloomfield, Moulton, Kirksville, Paris
| Mexico and other towns in Missouri
She expects to reach st. Louis abou
October l, thinking that she will be
able to make the latter end of her tril
with less effort than the first.
! Miss Methour while walking wears
short dark gay golf skirt, gra.
sweater and crush hat and heavy sub
stantial tan boots. She carries a stou
walking stick and her small amoun
of baggage in small travelling bag
which she fastens over her shoulder:
with sort of a harness. Asked if she
was not occasionally frightened b.
men whom she might meet on lionel!
spots of the road she remarked Il an
not afraid of any man on earth, but
, am afraid of farmers dogs, and no
boes. For these carry this display
ing a trustworthy looking S2-ealibre
double action gun THE many people
whom ] have met treated me most de
lightfully and if l do not realize a cen
from my trip will have enjoyed ;
most delightful experience, such as Blu
/ few women have enjoyed"