Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
DOING THE Two ExposlTIoNs
DIR. Porter at Frisco and SanDiego-
Personal Mention of Many

SANFRANcIsco. CAL, November, ~
DEAR EDIToR:-After 8 week at San
Diego fair | came up to Frisco That
little Exposition at SanDiegois a je vel
1t has the finest buildings and flower
beds that any show probably ever had
Peter 0ftedahl guided me through il
three days and he and his estimable
wife were very helpful TO me They
have lovely bungalow in East San
Diego. saw Rev. +. W. Straw who
has a charge outside the city and met
Bert Bellows, who married Miss Ham
mond Of Viroqua SanDiego is a city
of rooming houses and hotels. There
were about 40 hotel autos and buses at
the station, and score of men and
wome n along the street ready to enter
tain tourists The climate is lovely;
too warm in the winter to get up h
frost and too cool in simmer TO raise
good crops of corn. There is lots of
sunshine and the strawberries are sweet
er and of finer flavor than ours. The
people, too, are full of sunshine, and
everybody is lovely. In Los Angeles
learn, live John Casson and III. P Proc
tor, Jr but | did not know it / re-
greet that old not see Jane Butt in
SanDiego. She is teacher in the
state normal school there, and busy ali
the week. /, yesterday, called on a
Mrs VanStrum in Berkeley Forty
years ago she was a sweet little girl of
six or seven in my school in DeSoto.
She was Carrie Stevens then, and her
father a merchant there She has a
lovely home, and son and daughter in
the University. She tod me that Hi
Bellows, once the jolly hnstiing pioneer
farmer on West Prairie, IS very low
and would not know me Ed Minshall
lives near by where have a room.
close by the Exposition gate His two
boys are bright lads, the larger 0 e
nearly as big as his father, and tn
other one has a season ticket 70 the
Exposition and has absorbed a lot la
that way. saw Howard Minshail
there, and Ed is breaking him into the
express business.
The Exposition here is not as exteE-
sive as the one at Chicago or StLouis,
but the whole thing impresses me as
being more gloriously beautiful than
any Ihsveeverseen Such lofty arches;
as high as the pylons of Xarnak a good
deal more beautiful Traian's arch
and that of Constantine and those of
Paris look small beside them. The
Tower of Jewels spsrkles in the sun
light, and at night is illEnined. Look
ing through the colonnades, across
fountains, statues, arches, lagoons, one
has some glorious vistas.
wish every prospective mother in
the land could study this far for y
week for the next generation would
have more of beauty and goodness in
I Aro Hoo,sa 81 >.
today in the Wisconsin EXHIBIT. She
got letter from Governor Philipp
thanking her for being so attentive, al
ways at her exhibit on time. A gov
eminent official mad reported her to the
governor She told me to give her love
TO the people Of Retire ~ aoe said IL
she ever did any more institute work
she hoped to be sent there. The"Daily
News" wrote her up, said she has over
100 Jerseys and an income of $l2, 900 a
year from them 'If women would
seriously buckle down to dairying they
would forget the superficial city life;
there would be no divorces, scandals
and strife" She had a small but in
tensely interesting exhibit and grandly
represents Wisconsin in Agricultural
palace. The Canada exhibit here is the
one saw in Brussels in 1910, and at
Client three years later 1t was the
best thing there ard one of the best
here. 1t goes to SanDiego. as do lot
of other exhibits. am glad they are
going to have permanent show there.
The east should know the west better.
Rooms are plenty and reasonable and
the cafeteriss and restaurants very
good. The world has moved let since
Chicago fair. Automobiles, flying ma
chimes; talking from New York to
Frisco, cure of hookworm disease, yell
low fever, cholera and malaria banish-
ed 1t is nearly eleven and the expo
sition grounds are beautifully illumined.
1t is cold here, 40 to so degrees. c.v.P.