The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1915-07-16
AN INTERESTING LETTER.
Mrs. John Lacey Writes Entertain.
inlly Of Her Trip to California
and the Exposition.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALF !
July 4, 1915, 1

AFTERNOON, ! thouHht would write
Few lines 70 the old nome paper, and
teil you ABOUT my western TRIP we
Ieit nome wednesday noon. the 2oth
OF May. ~ the pouring ram, anu "
continued 10 rain until noon the next
DAY, when we came into Denver. Tie
corn ana nay helds all through Ne
Dfsska ana Kansas were under wafer,
ana torrents rushing IN every little
hollow ana ROADWAY. AT Denver We
were 10 lay over, 1our hours, ana were
svinR ON s,gn,.see,ng UP ovel the
~ wv ws " Wy 'ss .sus"s :
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wv os'e
when we lett Denver, we began TO
see nature WONDERS we Travelled IN
signt OF Pikes Peak Tor nearly DAY.
lexpected 70 see IL rising Tar above
the surrounding mountains, but there
1e ,n nany osneI points .,n $780,, ~ MN.
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oesSI'oe tne g,AnueuI. ~ oo.n s,ues,
IWxs .,s,ns pe!penu'Su'AI'y nu"uIeus
" IeeI auo'e US, anu LOOKING Is
tney wouIu gome uown on US Any
minute, Anu ! MAS reay eau wnen
esane OUT. lneIe we're o,heI places
OF InteIesl we wanteu 70 see, out
went oy " ,ile niant, anu we we're 20
sleepy anu tireu, we cou'u not stay
awake 10 see them'
We came Into salt Lake City, saw
the Mormon Temple, and also the
Tabernacle. Tie Temple Is built OF
granite and isvery beautifully but no one
Is allowed In IL, but the Tabernacle II
open TO visitors, and II Is 50 perfectly
built, that although IL will hold thou.
sands OF people, you can at any time
hear a whisper. Next We came TO
Ogden, Where We again Changed roads,
this time 10 the southern racine
We crossed the Great Salt Lake.
which IL sixty miles across, and a
great part Of the way there are double
tracks. The water IL so heavy with
salt, that nothing can live In II, and
boats have never successfully sailed
on II. We soon came TO the noun
tains again, and TO me, the grandeur
and magnitlcence OF the Rockies can
not compare with the beautiful seen.
cry through the Sierras. ] have often
read Of the evergreen mountains, but
never imagined u could be so bexuti.
full. We went through blue Canon,
with the American river at the bot
tom, and from the train, II looked TO
be only q few feet across. We passed
through Reno, In Nevada, and climbed
the Reno I'LL j." j suppose most OF
you have heard OF IL, Passed Lake
Tahoe, q famous summer resort OF
California. We went through forty
miles OF snow sheds; many places, the
snow was higher than the train. hut
,he sun sh9ne 80 pr,Rntly " dld nor
IeeI so"' We passeu ,n,ough Saara
Inento. anu Into lne valIe!, which WAS
ABOUT tIie hIst laIunlhg country We
hau seen since iea'ihR Nepfaska
We came Into San Francisco al .
O'Clock saturday night, and on &C
count OF some misunderstanding as to
the time the boat would arr I've, sister
was not there 70 meet me, but ] had
her address, and had no troubl TO
lind her, and u was certainly a happy
meeting, III. first ~ eight years. We
rested sunday, and on Monday we
starter on our Hfst sislIt seeing tf'p,
TO the Cliii House, and was great y
disappointed In i ! had cad 81 u
so often, and had seen II pictured, a.
overhanging the water, and the old
one did, but II burned few years
ago, and the new one Is built farther
back, with a balcony In trout, reach
ing TO the edge Of the cliti IL Is
built on q rock, one hundred feet
above the wateF and Is noted as the
place where all celebrated people from
ell over the world are entertained. A
few hundred yards from the cliif are
the world.famed Seal Rocks, where we
saw hundreds OF sea Hons sporting In
the sun.
We went through town, into
the large stores, ran exclusively by
MAYS Ma Church, ON one OF The largest est
Catholic churches In the city, the tirst
time I WAS ever I'm Catholic Chu Fch