The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-08-10


had actually accomplished for them,
We sat on Che platform Of the
sleeper and for county after county
saw fields Of corn less than half
grown completely burned up ny the
drouth.
After We entered Texas il was
some better and the further south
We went the better the conditions
save in given localities and certain
sections Of the state which did not
look to us rs though there was much
to he expected at any time.
On Thursday morning at about o
O'Clock We pulled into the far famed
city of Galveston, where We We're
promised three things, our annual
bath, but in the surf, cruise on the
gulf aloag and beyond the sea wall
and "A dinner that would make our
mouths water for a year every time
we thought of IT, To say that all
three were highly enjoyed puts II
mildly, for to ride the waves of the
bay and have them sweep over you
and TO feel the thrill of ocean waves
beating upon you, is an experience
that we cOvet for all who read this
sketch. To take boat and see the
city built upon the very bosom Of
the deep, the waters driven back by
the filling in Of sand and shell aud
soil; to see the great sea wall that
protects that splendid city from n
recurrence of the fearful disaster OF
II few years ago; To- see from the
boat the great million and II halt
dollar hotel built on the very ground
where once the channel through
which the water flowed and the sand
and shellwe hauled by dredgc boat,
and then to enjoy the sight of a
great German vessel with 400 emi.
grants aboard just entering the har-
Der, and to feel the cooling ocean
breeze, and much more, makes me
hungry to return. The dinner, well,
GU: man Levi, who had charge at
that part, fed his 81 children fully
up to the measure Of promise. Shall
give the menu? ] dare not, for II
did the remembrance would pre-
vent my enjoying the simple fare
so well prepared by the good house.
wife at home, and II would make
you all 80 hungry that the two ears
would have to be multiplied by two
or four to take care Of the crowd
that would go to enjoy IT the next
trip.
| ASP. IN. We started for the Land
OF Promise, or as they call il "The
Sugar Bowl" of the United States
We rose early that morning to see
the first gliinps of the border land
but were disappointed, though We
should not have been, for we had
been told that ii would be disap,
pointing until We had gotten within
10 or ~ miles of San Juan. Texas
About II u. III. Friday we wcr,
served dinner and then we all hcgar
to look with care and soon were re-
warded, for We We're nearing Har
linger, Texas, where we hranchet
of and which is itself in the Ri,
Grand bottom, and but for the over
flows, raises crops that make n Mis
sourian sit up and take notice. Thcl
as we neared the destination ",
passed through Mercedes, beauti
full town with gardens and well bull
homes, and farms that tell of pros
, perity In spite OF overiiows, for W,
were still on first bottom. Then al
! p. m. the train whistled, stopped
! and We all with gladness stepped
upon the platform of San Juan
Texas, our destination, a new tow
surrounded by an entirely new
country save for the rapid inroad,
which the people had made in clear
ing, breaking up, planting aud build
ing upon more than $500 acres il
and around the town since January
1911. Here we found 4 automobile
There are more than fifty OF then
In that one new county, waiting t.
show us through the sugar Bowl.
II | should tell you that after rid
ing more than 400 miles and land
ing loo further south, and then tina
same day riding 60 miles further il
automobiles through dust and heat
that the breeze was so cool and tn
: air so fine that we came In Mt nigh
3 feeling but little or no more wear,
, than we do each summer day In Mis-
souri,, you might question it; bu
r should tell you that the ext mornin,
1--we felt fine and wanted more yol