The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-08-21
Home Again.

Home Again.
The automobile party that left for the
Duluth region three weeks ago are all
back after an interesting journey of over
a thousand miles, as the road runs,
through the far-famed Park and Lake
region of northern Minnesota, which
has probably no equal as rural sum-
mer resort on the American continent.
10 make the trip by train only gives
one slight conception of the beautiful
scenery that is there, for the railroad
had to evade places that are most inter-
e,sting to the eye and seek the more
feasible and less expensive route.
The party did not reach Duluth, as it
was found that the last hundred miles
had never been visited by an automobile
nor would be for the next twenty-five
years, as the road goes through swamps
and an unsettled region that is hardly
passible with the lumber wagon. This
information was received at Wadena
and here the program had to be changed.
1t. was found that to get to Duluth one
had to go around by st. Paul and north
through the eastern part of the state and
Wisconsin. This the limited time would
not permit and the party concluded to
saunter south and strike some lake and
camp and send for the rest of the party
who had gone to Duluth via train. They
went south from Wadena along the
Great Northern Bemidji line to Eagle
Bend, Clarrissa, etc., and circled back to
Clitheral, on the Northern Pacific Wah-
peton line, and pitched camp on Battle
Lake, body of water eight miles long
and some two to three miles wide. This
is considered one of the finest lakes in
state and full of fish, from the black
bass to the ever-ready- to-bite ''croppy'
and the familiar bull head.
The second day the rest of the party
arrived in camp, making thirteen in all,
of whom were f. G. Warner and family,
G. G. Thompson and family, of Pembi-
ma, and Lawrence G. Warner, wife and
daughter, of Warner, Ill. A week was
spent in camp apd bathing and fishing
was the daily program, after which part
of the crowd took the train for home
while the rest went by the auto route
via Fergus Falls, Pelican Rapids and
Lake Park, and returning via Crook.
, ston and Grand Forks.
For vacation a trip through north
ern Minnesota with an automobile is a
treat no one can conceive who has not
, made it. Winding roads between lakes
, and creeks, skirted with heavy timber
up and down hills with picturesque
views of some body of water in the dis.
f lance, and fine camping places almost
f anywhere, with fish in abundance, is
what one will find for over hundred
miles in distance. The country is well
t settled with class of people who are
l familiar with the tourist and ever ready
5 to sell products of the farm at reason
I able prices.
3 A word for the automobile. A thous.
: and mile trip over all kinds of roads
: sometimes at thirty mile speed and al
3 other times less than five is test thai
: requires more or less attention, and on.
3 wants to be prepared to roll up sleeve.
y and adjust what requires adjustmen,
Q and not be afraid of ether getting hi
hands dirty or beingdelayed in his pro
gram.
: Considering the severe test machines
: are put to on trips of this kind it il
y wonder there are not more accidents
: than there are. But the auto is faith
! full if you do your part. At Detroit W,
d saw machine that had gone through ;
f wreck which was SO mangled that it w,
j. hard to make out what make it was.
+ belonged to doctor who in compan,
:. with another party had run into a tre
r and the tree was too stiff to yield an,
! the machine was smashed and the own
a er had his arm broken in two places
s On the hilltop overlooking Eagle Bend
:, a quaint old village, party in touring
s car spent two. days awaiting repair
It from the cities before they could 90 on
7. And thus it is. The automobile is me
% everywhere and the journeys made ar
d something phenomenal. At Battl
g Lake there are over two hundred ST
IS Louis people spending the summer, an,
o some of them have come there for thei
II vacation for the last twenty years, an,
II several come and return via the sut
lnow.