Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-03-27

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ests" is interesting, for the trunks
and limbs of the trees are knotted
and buried, so that with little i'm
agination you may see many cur
ious things. The ''wedded trees
are two great pines joined together
by a strong arm some 80 feet from
the ground. At Willow camp on
Willow creek, 80 named from the
uncommon sight of the common
willow we spent our first evening.
Fishing was a great temptation here
but few trout were tempted by the
spook hook bait offered them. Wife
informed me that a certain man 8
name was Knight, and determined
to form his acquaintance, I walked
up to him with out stretched hand
and friendly smile, and said: "Your
name Is Knight-my name is
Day" Then we laughed and intro
duced our wives and enjoyed our
distant relationship just discovered.
On reaching Tama county on our
return, lady who was an old ac-
quaintance said &: II don't suppose
you met my sister and her hus-
band in Yellowstone. They were
there about the same time you
were. /" We replied, There were
hundreds Of people there which
made it hardly likely. But what
were their names?" She said:
''Knight," and we said Eyes, in
deed, we met Them"
In the evening the great bonfire
of pine logs and branches was soon
ablaze, and the "Savages''-drivers
and the "dudes''-men tourists,
with songs and impromptu addresses
and the lady cooks and tourists,
"palefaces' helping, the first ev-.
ening passed quickly. On the dy-
ing embers a great corn pepper
was shaken and a free pop corn
treat was passed and passed again.
The next morning, July II. the
grass was frozen stiff and white
with frost.
Our coach contained eleven per-
sons beside the driver, and was
drawn by four horses. The drivers
i try to entertain their patrons with
| series of jokes peculiar to yell
| lowstone. Unusual phenomena
cause many honest questions to
arise and the ''Savage's answer usu-
ally makes all laugh but one.
What makes so many dead trees?"
ooh, a company of school teachers
passing through the park a few
years ago talked them to DEATH
"How do they measure the depth
OF the hot pools?' why. when,
they are frozen up in winter they
pull out the core and measure it,
| A boiling pool is pointed out as
the place where bunch Of soldiers
were scalded last winter. Every
body asks 'how?" ooh, they were
skating and fell through" On ar.
irving at the camp noon or evening
the first duty is to register.
Good meals were always prompt
ly served. Although embarrassing
conditions sometimes arise. Once
word came to camp that 100 guests
would be present for dinner the
next day, and that night the bears
broke in and ate up all the bacon
and bread. They could not send
for supplies and no telephone was
accessible, so the soldiers helped
them out or there would have been
some hungry people.
students who spend their summer
vacation, paying the expenses Of !
their trip, or making some money
during vacation for their return
college. They are bunch of
bright and happy young men and
women.
Yellowstone is near the source Of
four great rivers. The Colorado, the
Snake, the Missouri and Yellow
stone. Small streams fed by ever
melting snow and frequent rains
abound, and form small lakes and
many rivers. Bubbling springs and
boiling pools, and spouting gey-
sers feed the streams which are
soon transformed into mighty riv-
ers, with frequent rapids, lovely
and sthundering waterfalls.
Yellowstone lake at an altitude OF
7,741 feet, IS over S miles across
with ESQ miles of shore line, and is ,
reputed to be the highest naviga-
bic lake in the world. A large
steamer seeks the patronage of
tourists and plies between several ;
camps. The lake has a beautiful :
distant shore line of pine forests, .
surmounted on the east and south 6
0y mountains on whose sides is