Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-26
LAD WRITES ON
VISIT TO SHOW
EDGAR HoLLENeEcK, WHO WON
COUNTY CORN CHAMPIONSHIP
TELLS OF TRIP.

! IellS Of INV.
! Edgar Hollenbeck of Eldon route
No. 2. who won the county acre corn
championship, has written letter TO
County Superintendent Gardner telling
OF his trip to Chicago to the Inter
national Live Stock show, which was
given him as his reward. His letter
in full. 1ust as he wrote it. follows:
I I was surprised and delighted when
received telegram Nov. 80 notifying
me l had won first place in the Wapef
10 county corn club work. AS county
champion I was entitled to the free
trip to the International Live Stock
exposition at Chicago
i | lost no time in getting ready Tor
the trip. Dec. l at 1926 a. m. ! LETT
for Ames where all the club boys met.
My father met me at Oskaloosa ann
went with me to Ames.
saw so many things that interested
me on the trip. One grand sight was
big herd of black cattle On farm near
Eddyville They were shaking fat.
think they were about ready for the
market.
i saw many nice residences and bust
ness places in Oskaloosa; also noticed
they are rebuilding Penn college. This
was my first trip to Des MOines and
never saw such high and large build
ings, but say! wait till | arrived at
Chicago | never tried to see to the
top of the high buildings there. Al
Des Moines we took the interurban FOR
Ames and arrived there after dark.
Saturday the corn club boys visited
1.-THE agricultural college and were
shown around over the college grounds
One place that interested me was the
veterinary building. One thing ] not
iced they had no cement or board
walks. but so many pat hs made Of Gin
ders, leading in various directions to
different buildings. of the college
grounds. We visited the museum az
Morril hall and saw so many animals,
seals walrus deer. possum. coon,
skunk. squirrel. etc. We thought they
were real live ones. they looked so nat
ural but they were mounted. We saw
so many pretty birds. too. and an
ostrich, hawks. owls. etc They too
were mounted.
Sunday morning we went to Sunday
school and at 1912 we boarded the
train for Chicago. They reserved two
special all steel coaches for the party
There were ninety boys and two girls
that won in the acre corn contest. We
all had suuper in the dining car and
arrived in Chicago about 10 o'clock. AS
soon as we alighted on the platform
some one took flash light picture of
us for the moving pictures. Mr.. Bishop
placed our badges and hats on us be-
loFs 70
1.-The Y. NJ. C. A. hotel where we were
entertained while in the city. The
hotel is rireteen story building with
eighteen hundred rooms. The corn
club boys all roomed on the ninth floor.
Monday we spent at the stock show.
: Such great numbers of stock so large
ard fat: some they called calves weigh
ed nine hundred pounds; all colors,
some snow white ] saw COW at the
stock show that weighed $500 pounds.
would like to own some of those
fine horses, they We're so well trained.
They had fire WAGONS with horses
hitched to them in the ring, how they
did turn corners and race about-never
got tangled or mixed up and always
come out all o. K. We saw some hne
ridin~ horses. Some ladies rode around
. the ring the horses came around and
jumped over some poles that stood
four or five meet from the ground and
the riders never fell off and never held
to the bride reins. Tuesday we went
, through the Union Stock Yards and
saw so many cattle, sheep and hogs. \
new breed OF hogs we noticed were all
black except white band around them
, between the head and shoulders. We
boys said they wore collar. Inc!
lare called Hampshires.
| oil, ok
ing house We visited the pork depart
: mept first. The small hogs. after they
were butched and dressed were sent
down a slide to be cut up and made into
ham and breakfast bacon and the large
, hogs were sent down another slide 10
} be made into fresh pork,
Thursday we rode ont on the lake.
Mr. Bishop said we better not ride very
: far on the lake for we might dream all
night, so we Went the REMAINDER oi .il1
,way on the railway to visit the steel
: works. We saw them put the pig iron
in the furnace and saw the iron melt
and separate and run away like red
water. We saw them make long rail
like they lay on railroad tracks only II
was several rods long when it came in
sight it was red hot and moved along
2 on rollers. AS it passed along they
turned water hose on it to harden or
temper it. Say the steam did roll,
The same day we visited Sears Roe
buck & Co department store. You
} would think their plant town itself
) There are TWENTY-FIVE hundred en-
ployes. They provide recreation grounds
| for them. flower gardens. athletic fields
base ball diamonds. tennis courts etc
when we entered the building the
tower is 225 feet high and the merchan-
disc buildins is nine stories. When you
} are in one of those high buildings and
look out over the city. the street cars
look as small as chickens. Their wall
paper mill turns out forty-five thou
sand stxteen-yard rolls per day
The grocery building is of steel rib
bed concrete. with seven acres of floor
: space. The guides took us all through
, , the different departments. They served
: a four course dinner to the club boys al
noon They have kitchen. lunch room
dining room. main dining room, and
counters in cafeter" where thousands
|, and thousand are serIel each noon
: we also saw them use the electric
! shears to cut off fifty bed blankets al