Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-04-19
VISITS FORMER MEXICO
PEOPLE N CALIFORNIA
- SD Cc-rtspoaasnee

CsNscrria. --rcOd friend and prince
ist rooG fellows. VIII H. Norris ex-
'Csxast Clerk Of AuarAin County,
No. prs ne IN his machine and vhisk-
"a ne T. Mor1is Bros store. There
Il MT Otis Morris, formerly Of Mex
Sco h-s xho has been in business in
iStacasoa fer a good many years. /
riEsea 5 days with VIII Morris and
family. finding them ali happy, aid !!
w1s delighted TO find Mrs. Morris
greatly recovered from a recent i'll
ness.
Norris Bros. have built an immense
husiass as statsoners, office and
school supplies, having live, up to
d4te stores at both Stockton and No
aesso. OTIS took me in his machine
to MODESTO, thirty miles south of
Ssoektor. to show me that store.
I There net Ed Morris and wife and
Mrs. Roy Morris. Roy being out Of
toSn that dzy, / nissed the expected
pleasure q seeing him. Mr.. and Mrs.
I'd taak ne for = ride, and rubber
nsck- trip ever Modesto - it's a de-
lsgAtful. VsEy modern little city. They
have = beautiful home there, but at
r-esszt i've at their fine ranch near
the toWn.
IL the Morris Bros. Modesto store
IS y0zzg woman, keen, quick of wits,
and Of exceptional business ability,
who, IS girl was with the firm when
they were N Butte, Mont. They are
fortunate to have her again with them
in California. She is now a widow;
and IN conversation with her she told
ne but that was just for my
ears. Anyway, I'd like to go back
70 Modesto sometime soon.
On the way back TO Stockton, Otis
stopped at a store where one Of the
nain state highways and a main
eross road intersect. looked in for
a few minutes on Nat Norris and his
happy, healthy looking family, then
we whizzed along close to the country
road speed limit Of thirty miles per
hour; and soon we were sitting with
our feet under the table that groaned
with good thingsa prepared by Mrs.
OTIS and her daughter, Miss Eloise.
The latter visited in Mexico and Aux
vase last Fall, and made masculine
hearts ache in both places when she
returned to California. In due time
il was / that groaned with those good
things from that table. After spend
ing the evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
Otis Morris and their son and daugh-
ter, went home with viii Morris
and couldn't help but have thoughts
Of good old Mexico, Mo-, after day
spent with so many people of that
family name that is so prominent in |
the old towns past history.
In Stockton l also met Mr.. Harri- |
son, father of Mrs. Otis Morris, and
brother of our Mr.. Ed Harrison; at |
his grocery, and jolly, jovial Everett |
Holland and wife, and her mother, |
Mrs. John Criswen - the latter
spending the winter in Stockton. Mr.. |
Criswell had just left for home in
Mexico a few days before. In the
evening, when / told. Will and Olive
Morris children that I was going to
leave in one hour for Los Angeles, l |
thought surely that war had commenc-
ed, for Immediately l was completely
surrounded and l was ordered to sur
render. With Clara and Olive and lit
tie Virginia talking all at once and
William telling me l was a prisoner,
/ had the fiercest siege and most low
ing battle of my life. At the station.
an hour later, l got disentangled from
those many little arms, but not from
those loving hearts - and never will
just as my train began to roll
away.
The porter had heard me say that I
was enjoying the lovely spring-like
weather in the midst of winter time.
and he said to me as / stood on our
fast moving train: "Say, boss, If
you likes it here you certainly will en-
joy yo'self when yo' get to Los An
geles. "The Rambler y
DR.. J. c. PAsQUETH.