The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-06-15
Colorado Letter.
Hudson. Colorado, June 5.

Editor Reporter and Decatur COun-
ty friends-As it is impossible for me
to write all of my old friends, l will
take this method to let you all hear
from us.
The first thing. | know you all
want to hear how we like our new
home We like the country fine and
sure enjoy living here. The air is
always so sweet and fresh, and we
have had such lovely weather since
we landed here last January. There
has not been single day but what a
car could run, that is, l mean Ford,
for am not familiar with any other.
Our crops are looking fine. The
corn is all up nicely, and we have
most of ours worked over once. we
have as lovely potato patch as you
ever looked at.
| Well, | know most of you people
have the idea that we Colorado folks
never have any place to go, but
hope before finish my letter you will
change your mind. We have Sunday
School at our school house, and May
2Sth we had Sunday School rally at
Hudson This town is about the size
of Decatur. There were seven Sun
day Schools present three from the
country and the others from small
towns. Our Sunday School decorated
hay rack for the event to haul their
crowd on There were forty of them
when they got loaded up, besides sew
eral went in cars and buggies. Some
thing near 500 people were present
that day They had splendid pro-
gram, which occupied the time from
1890 a. m. until 4:3O p. M. Then a
, short program for the evening. One
thing which l enjoyed very much was
the lunch. We all took filled baskets
and spread our dinner tOgather in the
hall, and had a real picnic dinner out
of it.
Now / must tell you about our
pleasure trip to the mountains. We
are only about 80 miles from them,
and it is a beautiful sight, especially
as the sun rises. We can see snow
from our windows every day. Yes
terday morning, June 4th, jim, | and
our little daughter, accompanied by
Ira Bennett, wife and little son raul,
started for Estes Park, town which
is located near the top of two peaks
called the Twin Sisters These peaks
are near Longs Peak, which ranks
next to Pixies Peak in heighth. We
left home at $3.50 a. M, went to Long
mont, city about 25 miles from
here One of .ColOrado's noted flour
eral factories. From there we went
by way of Berthoud and Loyeland.
Loveland is very beautifully located
town about the size of Leon. From
there we went to Loveland Canyon.
saw Loveland Falls, which was a
very beautiful scene. The water has
a fall of something like so to rs feet.
AS we drove along up the canyon at
times it looked rather dangerous, for
On one side of us it was several hun
dred feet to the top of the mountain,
while on the other 80 or IS feet to
the stream of water. One very cur
ious thing was it looked as though we
We're going down hill, but still the
car could not pull us on all the time.
When we started down that afternoon
we could see we had not been going
down hill, for we had to use the
brakes and no gas. We reacher Estes
Park about 1890, and ate our dinner
under the shade Of some large pines.
We spent some time in climbing the
bluffs and gathering flowers and pull
ing little pines to bring home with us.
There is wild rose up there, just
like Iowa wild roses, also blue grass
and plenty of dandelions. After din
ner we drove up to the snow. The
road goes on over the divide, but we
thought we had gone far enough, SO
we started home. We came home by
way of Lyons, which is much short
er route than the way we went, but
there are not so many sights this way
as the other. Lyons has the nearest
railroad to Estes Park, which is 20
miles away We had trip of about
$50 miles, and secured sixteen views
of mountain scenery with our Kodak.
We reached home about O'Clock and
certainly felt as though we had seen
a few of natures wonderful works.
Living close to these wond 7rful fea-
lures, enables us to spend very en-
joyable outing with little expense,
just good Ford and little gas.
If any of you are coming west on a
pleasure trip don't be afraid to come
out here. We will try to show you a
good time. We want to go to Colo
RADIO Springs before the summer is
over, and ii don't get too lazy | will
write another letter. Yours truly,
Mrs. Jas. T. Bennett.