The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-10-09
News Snapshots
OF the Week

visited New Haven and Bridgeport,
had a shore dinner at Savin Rock, a
picnic at a pretty beach, where I was
interested in the coming in OF the tide.
Mrs Buchanan and l enjoyed a de-
lightful call upon Fannie Crosby, the
famous blind hymn writer, and had
the pleasure of hearing her recite her
last poem written four days previous
to our call. I could write whole let
ter about the places I visited during
the pleasant week spent at Milford.
From Milford I went to Hartford
where I spent three days visiting my
nephew Theodore (Buster) Hudson,
who is student at Trinity College
and will graduate from there in 1914
at the close Of the school term. In
Hartford I passed the home of Mark
Twain and saw the tree under which
he loved to write.
Five days I spent in Simsbury,
Conn, with Mrs. Doctor Bridge, who
as Miss Grace Fuller lived with me
one year, 20 years ago, when teacher
in the Sank Center public school. DR..
Bridge is the Greek and Latin teacher
in large school for boys. In Sims
bury I saw old elm trees over four
feet in diameter. Good byes were said
all too soon to friends in Simsbury,
and I was on my way to cousins in
Waltham, Mass, where spent nearly
three weeks, doing Boston, Concord,
Lexington and other interesting places,
and spending two days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Smith and family, who took
me to some very historic places in
Boston. Their home is in Summer
vile, and if there was anyone in Sank
Center whose ears didn't burn, it was
some one the Smiths didn't know. for
questions were asked and answered
to beat the band. Then one warm
afternoon my cousin, Mr.. Leslie, put
me on board the boat Belfast" and 81
sailed out upon the ocean blue find
ing myself the next morning at three
o'clock at the mouth of the. PenObscot
river. How beautiful was the sail up
this dear old stream of Maine. AT
eleven o'clock | was met at the wharf
in Bangor by dear cousin, and went
to her pretty home in the suburbs of
Brewer, Maine, where l spent three
weeks. visiting her and four other cou-
sins living whereabouts" A week was
spent at Foxcroft and Dover with cou-
sins, Dover being my birthplace. A few
days were spent at Richmond, Maine, on
the Kennebec river in the country home
of a country cousin had never before
seen. and he was a good one, and had
a fine family, and gave me the great
est drives through the lovely Maine
country, where the pine tree is ever
present. This cousin is at the head
of a company that manufactures Bug
DEATH" q powder for DISCRIMINATING
the busy potato bug and every insect
that infests plants, vines, etc. Maine,
you know, is the second potato raising
state in the Union. 1t is first in rocks
From this place I went to Mexico,
Maine, on the Androscoggin river,
where | visited the sister of Steven
Barnard, Mrs. Elizabeth Richards, who
is also the aunt of Jennie Barnard
Rice and Myra Barnard Parker, who
live in south Sank Center. I found
this dear lady we'll and active, and
she was glad to see me | can tell you.
Mexico gave me the sight of the big
gest hills saw in my travels, the city
being entirely surrounded by them.
Leominister, Mass, was my next
stop, where were other cousins and
the mother of the bug Death" cou
sin. Here I visited the bug Death"
factory, going over the plant and try
ing to absorb all the information given
me. At Leominister also had the
pleasure of an afternoon with Mrs.
George Miller, who when she was Ella
Campbell taught in Sank Center.
I was the first Sank Center person
Mrs. Campbell had seen since leaving
this city q years ago. ...... So.
Palmyra, N. Y, was the next point
visited, being the home of niece
of Mr.. Tobey's. Two happy weeks
were spent here. The family being
all grown up we had jolly times. A
daughter now married and in home
of her own, spent six months in Sank
Center few years ago. We visited
Rochester twice by trolley, seeing the
beautiful city and its parks in COM
pany with an unmarried daughter, who
said I was the only person she ever
found who could walk enough to suit
her. left this pleasant place for
auckland, o., to visit the other mar
ried daughter of the Tobey family,
and after four days bought my ticket
for st. Paul and set my face towards