Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-04-26
to live in California. Wcll|
never go back on Iowa.

never go Ddck Oh iowa.
They had a very unique way
of registering. The names of
the counties were printed on
large cards and each placed in
a different tree with book and
pencils hung beneath. While
we were craning our necks
among the eucalyptus and pep
per trees hunting for Pottawat-
fannie and Harrison we did not
mind it at all for hundreds of
others were hunting for their
counties in just the same way.
Among the 100000 people there
we considered ourselves FORUM
ate in finding a few from home
Mrs. Lew Hammers and
daughters from Council Bluffs
and Sherm Morehouse, once of
Loveland. Have since met Mr..
j. K. McGavren and the Bar
nett boys OF Mo. Valley.
We got a little touch of Iowa
the day we visited Pasadena
saw a snowstorm up in the
mountains about four miles
away. On Orange Grove ave-
nue., Pasadena, are the homes
of so many millionaires that it
is known as "the mile of mill
ionaires." Robert j. Burdette
and wife own and occupy one
of these palaces.
At South Pasadena is the
Cawston ostrich farm of $50
gigantic birds, where visitors,
on Matching days, may see the
young ostriches kick from the
shell before their every eyes"
and see George and Martha
Washington making their last
nest. All birds are named and
registered.
A few days ago we visited
San Gabriel Mission, about nine
miles out from the city. This
old mission is of adobe and tile
and was founded in l771. The
walls are five feet thick at the
base in order to support the
heavy tile roof. Two of the six
bells were stolen several years
ago and the history of them re-
mains a mystery to this day, so
the "chimes" are a thing of the
past, but the remaining four
are still used Mexican fashion.
The interior Of the church is
also very interesting. On the
wallis are twelve valuable paint
ings of the Apostles brought
over from Spain 1876 years ago.
The fixtures of the altar are all
from Spain and Mexico. Be
meath it repose the bodies of
several of the early mission
aries. The altar is said to be
just as it was in the long ago
when The early Spanish settler.
the Christianized Indian and
the pious Padre knelt and
chanted their prayers together.
In the baptismal room we saw
the fount which was hammered
out of copper by the early mis-
sion Fathers. The same silver
chalice is used to dip water
from the we'll in the corner of
the room, that was used in the
baptismal service of more than
5000 Indians. There is some
thing very fascinating about
the study of these early Span
ish missions, a little bit of his
tory peculiar only to the Pacific
coast region of our country.
There are a great many
beach resorts within but a few
miles of each other. For in
stance, one can go to Redondo
take an electric car for Del Rey
then on to Venice, from there
to Santa Monica and so on. At
Redondo one may see the ships
load and go out to sea. see the
fishing schooners unload their
catch of halibut, take a hot salt
plunge, go boating, fishing, play
golf or tennis. At the ebbing of
the tide, men and boys wade in
"knee Deep" and get out CLAIMS
with rakes and forks.
1t is said that over in Paris on
the tomb of Napoleon one may
read the names of all the great
battles in which he fought ex-
cept Waterloo. Now we started
out to tell some of the beauti-
full things about California and
keep the Waterloos in the back
ground, SO we haven't said a
single word about earthquakes,
or fleas, or the frost they some
times have out in the orange
district. With good wishes for