Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-10-04
A Joy RIDE''

gti III ONE ule!hOlN Wnen tueN
take long hike-as. for instance.
to Kansas City 'or bust as it
is the view of the trip as q whole.
that enables one to compare local
ohscurty or backwardness with the
enterprlslng, the beautiful, and
progressive, of older communities
II is with this thought in mind that
the writer rohearses the following
story.
1t was bright and early on a
Friday morning when Comraae
Samuel M Howard's 5 Overland car
pulled out of Gettysburg. with an
editor and Will French. chaii for
Unida, to pick up Comrade Henry
{. Spencer. bound for Kansas City
to attend the fiftieth encampment
of the National GA. h On the
suggestion of friends previous to
starting, it was decided to 90 thru
Arlington, Brookines and Sioux
Falls, to get best roads. which
came near being our undoiug. In
addition to meeting with inferior
roads, our chatf. got called down
by blue coated cop in the city
of Sioux Falls, when rounding
street corner, thru misunder-
standing of his )ordship's syra-
tions.
From Onida we went to Blunt.
thence east along the ''Black and
Yellow Trail as far as Brookings
where we turned South and went
down the Sioux valley We were
at Arlington at 1:30 pm. the far
end of the first day, after
making a run of 2lO miles,
reached Sioux Falls at one
o'clock the secoId day, arriving at
Jefferson S. D. on the Sioux river,
IL miles from Sioux City. at 8 D
m. where we spent our second
night. Thus far we had two "blow-
outs" Coming down the Sioux
valley we must have crossed the
river five times, over It's tortuous
course. seeing some fine soeuery
and a thrifty country. however.
Here We crossed the river again as
we entered Iowa. and were dee
lighted to find a paved road for the
next seven miles miles which took
us into and thru Sioux City.
For the second days run Cur
''speedometer' registered 1876
miles. Only about twenty min
utes were spent In Sioux City. the
third day of our hike, the
time being limited if we made
Kansas City before the mildle of
the encampment, even. After
leaving sc. our first town was
Sloan, next came Onawa. then
came Sioux river and Little Sioux
two towns a mile apart, after which
we decided to stop to see how or
what Iowa watermelons and musk
melons tasted like. AS luck had it
we stopt hard by the or
chard of a good Wood
man and his family; this was
not discovered, however, till after
we were compelled to adjourn fur
ther proceedings by the right front
wheel of our car "bustin9' and
compelling stop to get repairs.
Unfortunately these were not to be
had short of Council Bluffs, some
fifty miles away. Uncle Sammy
and our chaff.-(after deciding the
merits of the case while filling up
on watermelons, muskmelon, ap-
piles etc)-were fortunately favor
ed by our host, Neighbor w. M.
Conyer, having some business at
the next f. R. station of Mondamin
Iowa, where they GOT the train the
same evening The rest of us"
(the writer and Comraae Spencer)
were most agreeably entertained
by Neighbor Conyer's estimable
family. when we were not strolling
thru the orchards or along the ave
nues overhung by walnut, maple.
or cottonwood trees. At this place
the road laid not far from the Old
Muddy, while elsewhere the river
bottoms did not seem to be popul-
ated, the highway being laid along
the foot of the bluffs at these
places. The corn here was from
Al.