The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1909-07-31
VISITING

Mrs. G. w. Lee and Party Roy
ally Entertained by the Bonneys,
Former Stark County Resi-
dents-Having Great Trip:
Oakesdale, Wash.
Leaving Butte early Saturday morning
July 18th, we stopped off at Drummond,
taking a side trip to Phi]ipsbure to
visit friends. While there we rode in
an automobile for miles and saw people
fishing in creeks not far from the snow
capped mountains. We stayed there over
Sunday and went to the Episcopal
church but the service did not compare
with our littlechurch at Dickinson.
Monday morning we took the main
line of the N. p for Missoula. There
we stayed just between trains and were
very glad to get out. People thronged
there 10 register and when that was
over they would knock each other down
getting on the train. The police had
no control whatever. AS soon as the
trains stopped they climbed through the
windows in order to get seats. The N.
P. certainly needs more coaches to sup
ply the needs of the public travel. One
pays the same as the other and every
one wants seat, but all along many
had to stand. They would let them get
ON the train knowing there was not
vacant seat. We were very fortunate.
Our train was late getting us into
Spokane at midnight too late to hunt
friends so we went TO hotel. The next
morning we breakfssted at very fine
cafe. We then looked over the Spokane
stores. After dinner we took the obser-
walton car to see the city, costing us
one dollar for three hours and half
ride. The multi-millionaire portion is
very beautiful, so many grand homes
and the lawns and yards around them
being just as nature made them. The
statue of the boy who was killed during
the Manila war by the natives while
cruising on one of the islands stands in
his father yard in memory of him.
The falls are beautiful as the water
flows over the huge rocks. They have
many fine churches and schools, one
lay Catholic school for boys and one
for girls, the only school of its kind in
the northwest.
After spending two days in Spokane
was ready to 90 down to Oakesdale to
visit old time friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bonney, with whom every one in Stark
county is acquainted. Arriving there
July 21st, Mr.. Bonney met US at the
depot and took us to Hotel Oakesdale
of which he is the proprietor, and
you all know there is nothing one could
say more than that it is we'll kept and a
good table set with good things to eat
cooked by Mrs. Bonney herself. Here
we are having most enjoyable time.
We went to big orchard, picked and
ate cherries until we announced we bet
ter leave for home, taking pail of
cherries with u.s.
The next day Mr.. Miller, who lived
at Antelope once, happened in from
Spring valley and. although l never met
him. nothing would do but we must 20
down to his home. where he has just
started up meat market. grocery and
hardware store. So Mr.. Bonney and
took the Inland Electric car and went
down the next day and we found just
two miles from there on a beautiful
farm. well kept, a very nice family.
We had our dinner there, eat fruit and
spent very pleasant half day. Their
name was Fisk and Mrs. Fisk was a
sister to Mrs. Alice Chamberlain of
Dickinson, now of Minneapolis, and
they belong to the we'll known family
of EllisOns who once lived at Richard
ton.
like this Palouse Valley very much.
It is the only altitude l have struck
since leaving home which could breathe
good in, it being only 1. 1000 feet higher
than at home. All kinds of fruit grow
here in abundance but the apple crop is
light this year. Vegetables and potatoes
are fine. They grow mostly hay but
there are big fields of wheat up in the
hills and down the hills. through the
valleys and they farm around the hills
as some of them are so high they can
not do otherwise. There are acres of
grain now being harvestd. Wheat is 80
cents bushel. The corn looks sickly.
They have early frost here preventing
good corn crops.
The town of Oakesdale is a quiet,
homelike little town having five church.
es, one beautiful high school building. one
flour mill, several grain houses. three
depots, many general stores and drug
stores and not one saloon. South of
here eight miles is grand old noun
tain called Steptoe. On the top of it
there is hotel where people used to 90
for rest but now it is quite delapidated.
l am having such good time dread
leaving but Tuesday the 9th will 20
back 10 Spokane and find my way to
Springdale where Mr.. and Mrs. Baldwin
live. We will remain there for three
days before going to Seattle.
MRS. G.. W. LEE.