Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-07-26
MRS. BRAKEMAN WRITES
She is Enjoying Life at Camp Kret-
skee at Lincoln, MINI.

letter from Mrs. A. Brakeman, VINO
is enjoying life at Lincoln, Mimi,
which we publish below:
Camp Kretskee,
| Lincoln, Mimi,
July %, 1916.
Dear EDITOR
Lincoln is only a summer resort.
There are a few houses, a Yeoman
hall, church, school house, one gen.
eral store, one boarding house, large
hotel, three story building; the din
ing room seats 60. Mr.. Mayer is
proprietor Of the hotel. He also has
a large stock farm of $50 acres, on
which he keeps from 10 to 100 head
of cattle, milks a large number of
cows, ships his cream to Minneapo-
lis; has large barn 112 feet long,
which holds about rs head of cattle;
has four men to work for MIN. He
does his work with oxen, has brides
on them and drives them with lines.
He puts up from 175 to 200 tons of
hay. He also ships lots of stock. de
| has several cottages built which he
| rents on the lake shore for the sum-
mer, and number of row boats.
There are people at the hotel board
| ing who come from Buffalo, N. Y,
to fish. They are building the Jeffer-
son highway through here from Min
lneapolis to the coast. They are work
ing on it here now. 1t keeps me busy
watching the trains that go through
here as you see all kinds. | was
counting the cars on a freight the
other day and there was 80 cars on
or if1p 4 Irh ha
that got out of sight | counted one
going east with 20 cars. You never
see one without 60 to 100 on. | al
so saw a passenger go through with
30 coaches on, another with Is.
They are all large trains, or at least,
they look large to me, as ours are
so small in DEBORAH. The Flyers go
through so fast you can hardly count
the cars. There was silk train
went through Tuesday loaded with
silk; the ears looked like baggage
cars. They lave one car on with sol
diers in to guard the train. 1t came
from the coast, going to Minneapolis
This is a great place to see sights,
you don't see in DEBORAH. July 9th
we went across the lake to a ball
game between Lincoln and Rail Pral-
Irie. l didn't enjoy the game very
much as | never go to ball games,
but | did enjoy the boat ride. We
Jail had ravenous appetite for sup
per. There were six of us in the
coat. It's lovely out on the lake.
Tuesday, July IL there was an en-
campment at Brainard, 20 miles from
here; Tuesday several extra trains
went through here to the encamp-
ment. While on the train to the en-
campment friend from Wadena
wrote me they were expecting me to
visit them the coming week. so l will
go Tuesday the 18th, its 40 miles
from here. He and his wife were both
old school mates Of mine in the long,
long ago at Freeport
Well | have made my visit at Wa
dena, came back last night, July %.
When | went up l was met at the train
by my friend, Mr.. Garfield. The
train was nearly two hours late. Our
engine failed, so that they had to get
another engine from some place down
the line toward Minneapolis. My
friends planned 4 trip to Lake Madge,
SO miles by auto, to their daughters,
Mrs. Bessie Perry, who has a cottage
at the lake. The other daughter,
Mrs. Parker and Sam Hugh took
their large touring car which carries
eight. 1t was just eight when we
got started on our trip. 1t was
lovely day and a beautiful ride
through the country We had fine
driver who knew how to run a car
all right. We made the trip in less
than two hours. The camping
grounds are perfectly lovely and kept
very nice. The lake is not very large,
miles long and two wide, with
sandy bottom. The cottages are very
nice; some of them with very large
porches, like rooms. They are all
furnished with everything to keep
house with, also wood and ice We
arrived at the lake little before ten.
Our friends did not know we were
coming. so were quite surprised, but
they all knew the foot" and came
rushing out. We certainly had a fine
time. There were twelve of us sat
down to fine dinner, if we were out
SO miles from town-Coffee with rea!
cream, potatoes, pork chops, green
peas, cucumbers, sliced lettuce, on
ions, blueberries, two kinds of cook
lSS, UTSdu anu outer. we also STAYED
for supper. Left the lake at half past
SIX Tor Wadena, arrived there before
nine. We all enjoyed the day and it
VIII be long remembered Mr.. G..
went fishing, caught nine lovely large
fish. We older ones enjoyed watch
ing the young folks go bathing. There
were ten in bathing; four of the
young ladies are quite good swim
mers They dive off spring board,
duck. swim on their backs, do a lot
OF things. Miss Helen Parker was
having a house party, entertaining
her school mates who graduated
when she did. Mrs. Parker is wife of
the banker, Mr.. Parker. She is also
an Eastern Star and belongs to sever
al other societies. | had very love-
ly time and all tried to make my Wis
1t pleasant for me urging me to come
again. Mr.. Garfield is Past Com
mander Farragut 1872 and Quarter
Master and Co. Agent OF Wadena-
Co. State Relief. also Justice of the
Peace and sub mail carrier. Popula-
ton of Wadena 2,300, there are sew
Ell churches, Methodist, Congrega-
tional, Catholic, Swedish, Evangeli-
cal, Presbyterian. Lutheran, two hos