Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-07-21
A GOOD LETTER
From Dr.. And Mrs. Beers, Who Are
Visiting Their Children Out
In Salmon, Idaho.
Salmon, Idaho

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July Is, 1910
Dear Misunderstanding to our
promise, will try and tell you little
about our trip out here. Would
have written sooner but the first
week we were here was not able to
use my right arm at all, rheumatism,
l guess. l could neither comb my
hair or dress myself but am better
these last few days. Weleft Omaha
the evening of the first of July over
the Union Pacific and got to Denver
Saturday morning at two, s O'clock
got breakfast, then took a 'sSeeing
Denver" touring car, which accomo-
dates eighteen people besides the dri-
yer and guide. It's surely a beauti-
full city, or the part they took us
over and we were out about two
hours, then came back and hunted a
good place for dinner, for our break
fast was so poor it didn satisfy
long AT $50 we took the Rio
Grande for Ogden, then the Oregon
Short Line for Pocotello, then on to
Armstead, Montana, which we
reached at 2:30 on the glorious 4th,
bat it didu't seem so glorious to us,
for we found out there would be no
train for Salmon till the morniug of
the 9th, az they only run trains yet
every other day and they had gone
out on Sunday to accommodate those
that wanted to go to Salmon to cele-
brate. This was great disappoint-
ment to US, to be 1O1 miles from
those we expected to see by Tuesday
evening at any rate. We wished then
we had stopped at Salt Lake.. as we
first planned, but we were, held up
for enough at the little town of Arm
stead, only S11.5O for our accomeda-
tions there and Sc apiece to ride on
the freight train into Salmon, but
we made it in one whole day. We
found the children all at the traiu
with surry and dray to get us and
baggage. Charities have very nice
home here, of their own, 6 rooms,
besides bath and pantry, and lovely
boy 16 months old today. He and
his grandpa are surely "chuma,"
wherever you see one you are sure to
find the other. Oh! the scenery is
fine out here, and all the way from
Omaha here held sights for us, who
had never been farther west. This
morning the clouds hung way below
the mountain. Charities family and
his wife's mother and father, Mr.. and
Mrs. Conlee and DR.. and l went to
the Hot Springs last Sunday and
spent the day. Charley is busy all
the time and cannot take us out very
much any other time. Ormsby is
working in the Pioneer Store where
Clio is assistant book keeper. She
has been on the dry-goods side now
for nearly four years in that store.
Everyone is so scciable aud nice
here, we don't feel like strangers. We
went to Rebekah lodge with Charities
wife last Wednesday night and saw
her installed into the second Chair
They have fine l. o. U. f. hall
here. The Grand Master of the State
of Idaho did the installing. At Arm
stead there were abont half dozen
people that Ormsby knew, waiting
tor the train, that helped to pass the
time for us. We went upon the
mountains, went fishing and everY-
thing we could to pass away the time
The town was 80 full of people the
night of the 9Th when the train came
in from Salmon that they couldn't
near all get places to sleep and walked
the streets all night. We were glad
to have our rooms the4.. The Jour-
nal left Tuesday evening seemed like
a letter from home. Make it as good
as you. can for awhile at least. Must
close with regards to all inquiring
friends.
Your Friends,
DR.. and Mrs. L. A. Beers