Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-03-20
OUR WEDDING TKlr.
BY L. N. Day.
Pastor of Evangelical church.

Celebrate with trip to the Pacific
coast, cur silver wedding anniver
sary.
BY securing substitutes for ou1
three churches from among neigh
boring pastors so that the field
should not suffer the lack of service
from our absence, their consent was
readily obtained.
ly 9, so on the Monday following
everything was ready for the 8
weeks trip to begin.
In tle gray dawn OF the early
summer morning, armed with a
couple OF grips, prepared with two
tickets a yard long and supplied
, with plenty of touriot checks, the
/ silver anniversary for which we had
waited so long was duly launched
'@' The first lively incident, and
breathless experience occurred when
! the passenger train Whistled into
the station before our grips We're
/ closed, or the home doors locked
and the depot five blocks away.
But the Milwaukee at Cresco from
lack of competition is very accommo-
! dating. so when the conductor saw
in the distance our struggles, the
train crew waited to graduate
us-that We were not left behind
and we thanked them profusely.
Before the summer sun went down
We were already beyond Fargo
appropriately named) North Da-
kota, having spent five minutes in
St. Paul changing cars. The sec
ond hearbreadth escape the first
day out.
The daylight ride through Mime
sofa and into North Dakota was
very interesting. With grain in the
shock in Iowa, to see in Dakota tie
dark green fields of unheaded wheat
showed how great the difference in
seasons seen in one days travel
northwest.
From St. Paul to the coast the
Northern Pacific furnishes an ex-
cellent route through scenic
country. Its equipment is superb
and the train men very courteous.
The dining car service is very rea-
sonable if you are not too carniv-
erous. Their special advertising
feature is the big baked potato
When daylight came again we
We're still in Dakota, but the level
fields spreading out like floors had
given way to great hills and buttes
The straight and gradeless road bed
of yesterday had become serpentine,
| and went winding up the deep
gulches and later in the day we
We're we'll advanced into the rocks
of the Rockies with attitudes and
peaks rising higher. That after
noon we passed by the battlefield of
the Sioux and U. S. soldiers, where
General Custer and his brave men
made their last stand, the place now
naked by appropriate monuments,
| and the little town Of Custer.
BY the middle of the afternoon
We landed in Livingston, Mont,
where our first stop was made, as
this is the northern gateway to
Yellowstone Park.
The park, however, is 81 miles
south and is reached bv a branch
road with one train a day serv-
ice, and as the train only. leaves in
the morning we found good &C
commodations near the depot.
Livingston is quite a western city
and waiting to enjoy the exhilirat-
ing effects Of fresh mountain air
we wandered over to the Yellow
stone river park, only to be driven
away by the most insistent, un-
civilized, illmannered mosquitoes.
No sooner had We stepped from
the train than we. We're accosted by
the query, Are You going
through Yellowstone Park to
which we replied in the affirma tive
The first man represented a
movers covered wagon, supplied
with a driver, a camping Outfit,
which would drive you around the
park loop of 100 miles, and serve
dinner over a campfire. and in the
evening pitch tent wherever they
happened to be, and serve supper
and breakfast, trip requiring five
days for $4,000 each. The second
solicitor would furnish conyeyance
Tor the round trip, buggies and
stages, and permanent camp ac-
commodations fer hhe samA prlccl|
A third offered the same proposi-
ton exactly, b t being longer in
the business and very popular
among turists they could afford to
ask $1,000 more
The fourth plan was for similar
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