Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-12-20

the Agriculture course. They teaSn
everything there that man wants
to hnOw about farming and / think
that any young man can not learn
|any too much about farming.
The next day about fifteen min
utes after twelve, we started for Chi
lcago. We had cur supper on the
train. 1T cost us from fifty cents
to a dollar a piece and we did not
get much either. We reached Chi.
|cago about nine o'clock that eve
ming. / didn't think it was Chica-
go, but it sure was. We walked for
a little ways into a building where
We had our pictures taken. 1t was
about a mile from there to the ho-
tel. When we got to the Y. NJ. c. A.
Hotel we signed our names to a
card. Then the man gave us blue
card on which was the number Of
our room, also a key. The key and
room had the same number. We
took the elevator to go to our rooms
My room was on the 9th floor. AS it
was about half past nine we went to
bed. The next morning we were all
up bright and early and after break
fast we were ready to see what Chi
cago looks like. First thing was to
find the elevated railway and soon
we were on our way to the Chicago
Stock Show.
The first thing that took my atten-
tiOn when we entered the show
building was the number of men
riding on saddle horses. Next came
man driving beautiful pair of
hackneys. We spent the day in look
ing over the different kinds of stock,
such as horses, cattle, beef and
swine. l thought that was a great
sight. 1t was most interesting to me
to see them judging those heavy
black horses. We stayed for the
evening show, and l enjoyed seeing
them drive with six horse draft
teams in harness. The way those
magnificent animals came in the
ring and did stunts such as cutting
the figure eight and many other fan
cy moves which thought wonderful.
They also had band of musicians
from the Highlands of Scotland
playing bagpipes and the bass drum
and snare drum. The fellow playing
the drum surely could handle the
sticks. They also had polo game
and hurdle jumping on horse back,
"a parade of pure beef cattle. They
also judged some of the fancy driv-
ing horse classes On Tuesday we
went through the stock yards and
saw some Of the carload lots of fancy
beef cattle. Afterwards we went
through Armour's Packing House.
the place where they dress hogs, cat
tie and sheep. We saw the dressed
meats hanging in the cooler and also
went through the canning depart
ment, after which Mr.. Armour inyit-
ell us TO dinner We went to Ar
mour's dining room and had din
ner and had most anything that you
could think of that was good to eat
On Wednesday we went to Sears
Roebuck Catalogue House. We were
parts of the building We were also
invited there for dinner. 1 can tell
you these people know what boys
like to eat. They had everything
that l could think of.
After dinner we took street car
to Lincoln Park OF course we could
not expect toseeany flowers this time
of year except in the green house,
because all the flowers were put
away for the winter, but We saw all
kinds of birds and animals there in
their natural way OF living as near
as it is possible in captivity.
Next we went to Lake Michigan.
thought it was fun DO see the big
boats sailing on the water and TO
see the waves come rolling in.
Thursday we went to Garry. Ind, to
look over the steel works which was
very interesting to me. In the eve
ming after we got back to Chicago,
We were entertained by moving
picture show at the Y. Nj. C. A. Ho-
| tel. Before finish my story, must
tell you that this hotel has 1900
rooms in it,
Friday we visited the Ford Mfe.
| CO., and many other places of inter
I est. In the evening we saw slides
of Lincoln Park Scenery in the Hotel
which was very in teresting. The
animals looked just as natural as
life. 1t showed the grizzly bears
there in the large caves in the rocks
and the running water.
At 1880 that evening we started
for home. | came direct from Chi
cago to Cedar Rapids, there l chang
ed cars for Decorah getting into De
corah about three o'clock in the af-
ternoon, Saturday.
! | am very glad | was in the Corn
Club this year ard am going in agair
next year and hope that there will
he many more boys and girls who
will enter the Corn Acre Contest, OF
the Baby Beef Or some of the other
clubs for next year. l have enjoyed
the club work and have learned a
great deal about corn and will try
to raise as many bushels as they dc
anywhere in the state.
LELAND McMILLEN.
Age Twelve, Hesper Township