Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-18

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over the c. L n. w. TO Chicago. the
Pennsylvania Lines 80 Cincinatti and
the Queen 6 Crescent via Gnlatta'
nooga, Atlanta, Birmingham. etc, &C
the Crescent city, returning over tbs
l., & n to Cincinatti With stoEroTer
privileges at all points enroute
The first place We stopped 10 visit
was in Kane coanty in northern IN
nois. Here the writer and Bob Eddy
worked in a machine sAop So years
ago when we were kids and hEaEe a
faint recollection of trying to drown
Bob in the Fox River when we ware
in Swimming and Bob ceIld nnl 40
anything when we got out. tie could
not run fast enough,
Great Dairy Region.
This is the great dairy section ~
GltaaiR EhseTything is MAX. There
are several condensed milk factories
in the towns along here where theT
put up the milk in condensed form
The factories employ hundreds Of
hands the year around and pay good
prices for the milk. biany farmers
draw from twp 10 seyen hundred dol
lars per moEtA for the product.
Farmers told me that these factories
had been the making Of that couStry-
Land prices baFe become almost pro-
hibitige.
Why not Try 10 get n Of those
factories started IN N5atertown with
its millions OF acres OF rich farming
lands tributary and immense railroad
facilities ! am going 10 try. il NJ
one else viii, Such companies dc
not ask for any bonus-just show
them that they can make money here
and they will DO the rest
Foot and Mouth Disease.
We wanted 10 get out and visit
some OF the farms in the Reighbcr-
hood but everything was q~aarantined
on ecu of the foot and mouth dis
ease. II is surely q terrible scouTEe,
Hundreds OF the finest herds are be
ing slaughtered in order to stamp OUT
the plague, There is much friction
between the state authorities and The
farmers. the latter claiming that
many herds are being slaughtered
where no disease is apparent
After visiting a few days at Car
pentersytlle with friends and reia-
i ttves we went on 10 Chicago.
We took the sleeper at Chicago and
got to Cincinnati some time the next
morning and changed cars for the
Queen & Crescent railway, crossed
the Ohio river and on down tarough
old Kentucky.
Through kentucky and Tennessee
Az Lexington we could see the tomb
OF Henry Clay and wife and al High
Bridge, a few miles below, where
two beautiful rivers converge, on the
side OF the bluff MAJ be een the
cabin of Daniel Boone. built by him
when he plunged into that western
wilderness to trap and fight Indians
In 1869. The scenery all down
through Kentucky and Tennessee is
very interesting and beautiful.
We arrived at Chattanooga. Tenn.
and put up at the hotel Grand for the
night, a beautiful new freproof build
ing much after the style Of o1r ossn
Lincoln. The management and ger
vice are perfection and the charges
very reasonable. After a good nights
sleep and breakfast we stroiled out
to see the own and I think this is the
most beautiful, interesting and his
torical little city / have ever seen.
1t Is built on the Tennessee river and
surrounded by wooded hills, great
bluffs and Lookout Mountain over
hanging the river. its peak piercing
the clouds 1000 feet above the blue
waters of its base.
The National Cemetery.
After taking In the business part
OF the town We got into an auto with
other tourists and a guide and drove
out through the National Cemetery,
Missionary Ridge and the battlefield
of -Gh!akamauga. All are owned and
kept up by the national government.
1t is all d beautiful park. In the
National Cemetery 1900 Union SOL
dicIs sleep under the green sward,
their resting place marked by a small
marble slab, while their brothers who
were the grey and fought for the lost
cause sleep under the same green
sod and spreading trees close by, un-
marked but loved and respected by
all true americans. They did their
duty as they saw IL. They were our
brothers.
C~hickasnauga Park.
Chickamauga Park and missionary
Ridge are laid out in beautiful drives.
the road following the general line
Of the battle. The old cannon be-
longing To the different batteries,
both Union and Confederate. are in
The position facing each other that
they held on that September day in
1859 when 10000 of the best boys on
earth Of both armies we're reported
Faaad wounded and missing The
firing lines seem to have been only.
a few rods apart. Each state that
had troops there has erected monu-
rnents showing the position held By
them, With small tablets giving Il
hrief description of the part taken in
the engagement BY the detachment.