Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-10-04
we found nearly every farmer

)!OW luO. iluCli Oi tue laleSUluu
being We; TO do. / ne road was
lined by TALL tree almost contin
uously, orchard, corn field or
woodland making the view seem
like one continuous park.
1t was not till 3.45 p m. the fol
lowing lfourth) day that we got
started again. Aftar passing Mon
damlu and Missouri Valley, we had
a fine stretch of some twenty miles
of paving, OF rather rock road,
which took US INTO Council Bluffs.
Here the writer does not know
lnst what happened we'll sol
emnly affirm that Chai. Will
French and Uncle Sammy hadn't
had anything stronger than water
to drink for several hours thev
occupied the front seat all the
whllel: but they ran INTO the city
park, which laid at the top of a
bluff overlooking the city, and af-
ter making several turns up hill
and down hill came to the point at
which they entered the park.
None of US knew which way to
turn next to get down into the
business section. Luckily we
found at last couple ladies to put
us on the right road. (We would
suggest to the city dads of Council
Bluffs, by the way. that they should
put up more guideposts in their
charming park.
The night of the fourth day
found US in Glenwood Iowa, anoth
er beautiful little city. with paved
streets, many handsome residences
electric lights etc. From here we
divurged off southeast to Burling-
ton unctlon, to visit an old com
rade III arms of ''ouT boss where
we had many narrow escapes from
getting balled up" again. This
side trip was also made returning.
when we had a sight of hyinp
machine, off at some distance.
The hills were 50 n.lAerous cover
ed with their big trees that we
We're unable to tell the point at
which it came Slowly down. Res
ldents of the little town (Plattc
City a short distance north of
Kansas City, informed us that it
was one of the features of their
county fair.
Getting back again on the 20 X
standing for Omaha Kansas Cityl
Trail ? at Shenandoah, we rapidly
passed the pretty cities of Mary
vile, Savannah. St Joe and one
on two others, Tuesday, entering
Kansas City, our destination. at
little after nine o'clock, thirty min
utes later finding fine accom- dations
at the Sexton Hotel, which was the
headquarters of the G.. A f.. also
SO. Oak. department. This made
US Journey of nearly or quite 500
miles. No effort was made to keep
record of the distance after the
speedometer played out, on our
third day, the other reason for not
dong so. was our long detours,
which did not GIVE us q true record
OF the direct distance from our
starting point to &C.
The writer decided from the
start that it was two much of a
contract for blm TO chronicle the
adventures of our chatf.. so we
can't say what he was doing In the
meantime, while we-the writer
was taking in the city. Wednes
day forenoon was taken up with
Watching the preparations for the
Grand Parade of the 6. AR.
being the first the writer had ever
witnessed. With packed streets
and dense humanity, this came off
IN the forenoon, two hours being
necessary for the marchers to pass
given point. One of the most
noted features in the parade was
Ghe urom corps from the Sioux
Falls post. who were dressed in
costume representing the colonial
days of l776. Our "Comrades'' in
the afternoon had business and Wis
It's aplenty with their chums of '6l
to q; the writer never learned
what our chaff. was doing lin the
afternoon); but when we heard a
elty-cha crying for passengers
for 2O-mlle ride out to the bluffs
this finan le4L =