The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-08-11
cARLBERG WRITES OF TRIP.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlberg, son
and neice, returned ON Saturday
from an extendid Western trip,
and i'm the following, w. f. tells
of their splendid trip:
OUR TRIP TO YELLOWSTONE

of their splendid trip:
OUR TRIP TO YELLOWSTONE
Kenneth. Clara Stiles, my wife and
left Sisseton July 10, 1916, i'm our
siN-cylindcr REQ for Yellowstone
Park and points i'm Montana. We
made for the Red Trail which runs
west from Fargo until it joins the
Yellowstone Trail at Fallon, Montana.
Our first seventy miles was mud, wa
ter and more mud. but the REQ,
which was later named Faithful,
brot us through it ALL
Our route then led us to Valley
City, Jamestown, Bismarck, west to
Custer, Montana, then north to Grass
Range, where we visited A. ID. Carl
gave us a royal reception. We were
all glad to see A. b.. six feet-two
tall. and very stout. feeling fine, and
some busy selling land.
We then left for Lewistown and
there we we're received with out
stretched arms by the Browns. DIR.
and Mrs. and their dear children
looked good to us so far from home.
From there we left for Great Falls.
In the mountains about 40 miles from
Great Falls we ran into a real storm.
The strange road. the wild and high
mountains, very high wind, light
ming and thunder with pouring
rain. made this trip just a little hard
on the nervous system, and the drive
In the mountains afterwards made 1t
sry uncertain as to our return home.
A slip Of few inches might have
been serious; SO serious. in fact. that
II that big REQ slipped of we would
have been delayed until 1t dried up
in getting It back on the road again.
We arrived at Chinook on July 10,
picked up Mrs. Goebel and daughter
and drove to Malta. where Ed. was
working. While there we stayed
lover night in Hiram Goebel's claim
shanty. This was some treat; It was
real western life. We had already
become SO tough we we're almost
afraid Of ourselves. The next night
we camped at the little palace on
Mrs. Ed. Goebel's homestead, where
we ate, drank. declared war on the
prairie dogs and had fine outing.
We left Chinook July %, for YELL
lowstone Park. We passed through
Great Falls, Helena. Livingston. Cor
win, Hot Springs and arrived at
Gardner July 26. We left this sta
tiOn at 7:45 p. M, for our tour
around the Park. What we saw in
the Park will not attempt to de-
scribe. can only say it is a WON
derful spot on this earth. and while
there are some marvellous and beau
|tiful scenes, it reminds one that
Hades is very close. Steam leaking
through the crust of the earth, and
water and mud bubblingon very
side. geysers playing, squirting wat
err and mud in mad fury, made us
feel like saying: oh You nice devil.
i'm be good"
AT the first station in the park we
suddenly became acquainted with six
very handsome young ladies. They
were driving a six cylinder REQ and
were all dressed i'm mems full suits
of khaki. They were from Livings-
ton. l introduced myself by saying,
Some fine bunch of ladies, and
some fine carr They answered by
saying, "Some fine car is right"
REQ folks always become acquainted
at first sight. In this case it very
nearly became love at first sight, but
there was no serious trouble be-
tween my wife and ]. From this
time on there was something doing
wherever this gang landed. Our yell
was, "One. two, three. four; three,
two. one, four; who the h are we
for? The soldiers! Or the Shaw Pow
ell Camp. the Canyon Hotel or any
other good thing.'
| We left the Park together and we
were invited by one of the ladies to
dine with them at their home in Liv-
ingston. This was accepted by us
and thoroughly enjoyed.
We drove the Red Trail going out
and the Yellowstone Trail coming
home. The Red Trail is the better
road. Our speedometer registered
3100 miles. We were gone twenty-six
days. We made only one tire change
,during the entire trip. We averaged
IL 1-2 miles per gallon of gasoline.
We had many races and we always
came out ahead.
no one can hope tom AXE trip
over such rough roads with as per-
feet a score as we did. We had a
real good time and enjoyed our trip.
but Roberts County an Sisseton look