Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-07-19
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THE HOME NEWS
Former Resident Writes Interesting
Letter From Her Present Home,
Which Will Be of Interest
to Friends Here.
Roma iowa July 1e

Boone, Iowa, July 10.
To the EDITOR
Again. MIR. Hoogenakker, you have
deprived us Of an issue of the Audi
bon Republican. What have we done
the copy of July 5th, and will you
please send us one, as we do not wish
to miss any of the "doins" in Audi
bon, on paper, as 1t is not possible
for us to enjoy them in any other
way.
AS l am writing, will tell you
somewhat of our welfare, and of the
prosperity of our town. We as a
family are very well. l have not
been so stong fer many years, as now,
and Mr.. Creveling makes his GUS
tomarily daily trips down town and
has also made fine garden, wnich
helps much with us in solving the
high cost of living problem. Corn
has been very backward with us. In
til of late, it is catching up. Other
crops are fine and the country is
very beautiful.
We had fine celebration here
July 4th, got under the auspices Of
the city federation of Woman's Clubs
With the celebration of our national
day was combined the dedication of
our fine new park and park pavilion
Sixteen acres of the park and he
10000 pavilion are a gift to the city
from Miss Emma Herman, one of our
own Boone women. To her gift the
city added land to make a park of
sixty acres. in as beautiful a piece of
woods as is often seen. Much work
has been done there this season un-
der the direction of a landscape gar
dener, and we have a park a credit
to any small city.
OF other gifts to the city by Boone
people, are our beautiful Eleanor
Moore hospital, Ericsson Library and
Chaplin Masonic Temple. You see
that with the enthusiasm we Ameri-
cans always feel for July 4th and the
ceremonies in honor of our new park,
and the stirring events now agitaling
our country, we had enough material
from which to produce a day of great
interest
The fine street parade combined il
Illustrations of all features of interest.
You may be sure the Red Cross had
a prominent part, for Boone is wide
awake on that subject. l have made
little housewives" or needle books
for the boys going from us until l
can almost see everything kakai col
ored
After the dedication of the park
ceremonies we had a pageant called
1.-THE Melting Pot which was fine,
hut hard to describe, being a very
elaborate affair. The Governor and
party arrived Just ps it began and
the close attention they gave to it
and their evident enjoyment of it, was
quite compliment.
4. After dinner came the community
singing, the Governors address.
sports. etc. l cannot report on those
from a personal obs ervation as after
dinner Mr.. Creveling and myself left
the grounds and went Ave miles up
the inter-urban to the grounds of the
River Outing Club" where we met
our son and family and continued to
celebrate till pretty late for old peo-
pie
l will say that for all the high
prices of material. a good amount of
building is going on here. A new
addition has just been opened and
much paving done and much perma-
nent side walk being put in.
am proud of the grand part Au-
dubon is doing in this war. The
whole thing is too terrible to say
much about, and words fail to express
it any way. For a long time ! was
with w. j. Bryan-"Peace at Any
Price"-but now l pray to live to see
the Kaiser and all like him bite the
dust" and l shall be proud Of the
part America takes in bringing about
that result. But may 1t come soon.
Our boys go very soon now. |
cannot go to see them off, or do not
feel now l can, but hope to go to see
them all come back victorious. But
that seems too much to really hope
for
Our Chautauqua is now in session
and has an excellent program. This
letter is becoming too long, but |
must speak of the great delight 1t
was to me to see so many from Audu-
bon at the Biennial at Fort Dodge in
May Meeting them and other old
friends from other parts of the state
and the fine address and faultless en-
tertainment given us. has been an in
spiration ever since.
I will now say goodbye" with
the assurance that visit from old
Audubon friends will at any time give
us great pleasure at 1872 Marshall
street, Boone, Iowa.
Rhoda Uyman) Creveling.
Our city flower. the nasturtium. is
now blooming profusely and it makes
our yards look very gay.
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