Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-12-07
GEORGE KABR1CH.
Mexico Citizen in the South
Visits J. D. Ellis in Okla
homa.

who is spending the remainder of /
the winter in Florida. writes the .
following concerning his trip to /
that southern cline:
started on that cold Sunday /.
evening of the II of November f,
when it showed, sleeted and frozc /
everything in Missouri. | board F.
ed the Red Flyer, got to Kansas
City two hours late. and all the
trains had gone over the Western
Road, and what crowd was lett
in the depot. There are twice as
many people go thru there than
thru the depot at st Louis Al
. p. IN. we started for Parsons.
Kan, stopped two hours, took in
the city; when two hours late, ar
irving at 3 o clock in the morning.
tired and sleepy, and no one there
to meet me, as | had sent a tele-
gram to Jeff Ellis and wife not to
meet me as | could not tell when
we would arrive. 1t was showing
and cold and near to zero.
[ went to the nearest hotel. The
next morning they sent close
carriage for me and | soon thawed
out. ! remained five days in Mus
kogce, Okla. II is booming and so
is land there. While sitting
around the office with jeff Ellis |
bought five pieces of land, and
sold them in five minutes after
buying them, but | only got one
third more than ! paid for them
and deeds were made to them in
place of TO me. | started from
= MuSkOgee at noon Saturday. the
18th, for McAlister, Okla. !
stopped "A half day and took in the
town. Nothing struck my fancy
except the Shriner Temple. II is
t Just grand. Then | started for
. Little Rock, Ark. This state ]
, can t say | admire much; too hilly
: and rocky, and too many. pin oak
grubs in looking over those noun
tains and brush-I wondered how
the Yankees ever routed the
, Rebels out of Arkansas.
> Got to Memphis, Tenn. in the
r morning Of the 18th. 1t being
5 Sunday morning, | stopped half
day, took in the sights of the city
t and the Mississippi River Can't
say | was struck on this place, Toe
many negro huts-l0 times more
A than Mexico has. When | arrived
r at Muskogee, Okla, not wishing
:. TO be bothered with my trunk,
a bought a ticket to Jacksonville
h Fla, and sent it ON, not thinking
0 but that they would send me th'
d nearest way, but instead the.
y sent me, as the boys sa.
d round Robinhood' barn. tnru
|. states, as you will see, and it tool
me four days instead of two days
as on the Dixie Flyer. From
n Memphis we went to Decatur
a Ala. then on to COrinth, Miss
Here we took in the sights. The
on to Columbia, S. Carolina, froI
II there to Chattanooga, Tenn, an
q. Lookout Mountain. We stoppe
J one day at Chattanooga and lOol
"A ed over the city, battle fields an
V cemetery, and looked at tn
lv soldiers graves. 1t made l
p. Shudder at the thought of thoui
+ andS that were slaughtered neeC
# lessly. Saw Cumberland MOul
n tain and other battle fields an
vi can t see how sherman could tax
he as big an army thru Georgia as |
al. did, for in these mountains, a
ol officer in the Rebel army Sai
n "the Rebels killed more Yanke,
, - than there were Rebels IN the
or own army lie said that now
of was glad it went the way it iii
or as they were all now for Il
ar Union. From Chattanooga v
,ls went to Charlotte, n. Carohn
and on to Brunswick, Ga, and
Bristol, Tenn. Next was Atlant
Ga. Here we stopped half da
his took in the great city, the Fed'
al Prison and the city of the de-
we of the soldiers. They claim tn
.pe 10000 were buried at Atlanta al
,u- Garietta.
les We also went thru Huntsvll
IN. Alabama, Greensboro. \. Can
lima, Dalton and Brunswick. G