Mower County transcript., 1908-12-02
SANTA MONICA, CAL, Nov. %.

come. here to the ocean to 60 in bathing
and fish. They are jolly lot. We
spent all the forenoon going over the
grounds. They have church, read
ing room and hospital on the grounds,
and every thing as far as we could see
to make them happy and comfortable
in their old age. God bless them, they
deserve it. In the afternoon we drove
up along the ocean. The road follows
the beach for 60 miles with just room
for team. The mountains come
clear Gown to the ocean aid a drive
has been cut and blasted out making q !
beautiful drive. Some times you are
low enough so the sprays throws up on |
you, then you are eight or nine hun
dred feet above it. We drove up until
four o'clock then finding place wide
I enough we turned around, and came
back, stopping. once in a while to pick
up shells and kelp or to watch the seals
catch fish. I wished had kodac and
could have sent you some views OF the
over the rocks. Every one enjoyed
the day and voted it red letter in our
lives.
We have been pretty busy ever since
we got here, some work to do, lots of
sightseeing and then we have to fish
some, as we all like to fish, and it is
nicer to catch them than to buy them,
so we. go fishing nearly every day.
| 1 am the champion fisher SO far. r al
ways bring home a fine bunch: And
don't you dare tell anyone. but nearly
always catch mine with .silver hook
and at night come marching >proudly
in, basket I'M hand, pole over mysshoul-
ders and a dozen beauties laying 'shug1
in my basket: Say, But they took: tine
and taste finer: Come out and ! will
show you how it is done even It yo9
are from Missouri.
Well, last week, Father Green said
he thought we ought to go in some
business, so we talked it over. He
wanted to start an ostrich farm but 1
would not listen to that for when
Marcus Drlesner, Jake and Bud get
theirs to going, they will glut the mark
ct with eggs and feathers. Then only
the rich can wear those expensive
feathers, but all the poor can wear fine
Plymouth Rock plumes so we decided
to make it a chicken ranch. We are
saving all the tin cans and bottles, sc
when Bud drives his auto here for the
winter we can give them one feed
We rented a piece of land for S18 pei
month, then We got wire netting and
fenced it in, sowed part Of it to grain
planted vegetables on the balance and
are going to make the hens hoe them
for us. While we were building it
lot of natives, they call them :Greaserk
here, hung around and Father Green
said, II bet them fellows will steal oul
chickens, I think you better put the
tent up here and will sleep in it and
see that they don't" So we put the
tent up. I got some hooks up just
over his bed. My marlin rifle and two
double barreled shot guns next, then
Boctor Pierson loaned me bis revolver
when came out and father puts that
under his pillow. He is afraid it might
90 off in the night so he takes the
: shells out and lays them on the stand
by the bed. Now think our chickens
will be safe, for you know he is SO deaf
he couldn't hear gun go off ten feet
away, but he thinks he is all it. He is
to do the buying and am to have the
, experience. While I was fixing the
tent he took sack, went to the beach
and gathered shells and broke them ul
with q hammer sand he has nearly a
! barrelful. Says he used to pay Holmes
Is cents per hundred for them and car
get them for nothing here. ! expect