Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-02-15
Communication.

T.. II. Deur:
Dear Friend Clem--Mc re-
ccived a box of very fine Iowa APP
piles this day Via express. and Il
want to most sincerely thank you
i for he kind remembrance. They
came in excellent shape after the
1850 miles of travel. and to say
they We're mighty fine don't en-
press ii. They sure have he real
Iowa apple flavor | tell our
| friends hey are Jonalans. I
may he mistaken in The name. but
not IN The quality Our only re-
greet is they won't keep at our
house. for we arc apple hungry
Well. | note from the daily pa
per~ you have had some cold
weather. and m mighty glad to
miss it, No winter here to speak
of. I'm fact am unusually pleasant
season so far: lust warm and
|halmy. only two days without
sunshine since we came Nov.
| but Il cold wind from the
northwest as write IS whooping
| iii up at Il 25-mile clip, Indicative
of IL storm IN your country COM
ing this May We usually Get the
tail end, but as it reaches This
(. part OF nclc sans domain its
force is nearly spent and ihc zero
part pretty We'll ihawcd out. so We
take our medicine without much
OF that dark brown taste one gets
= up in Iowa,
our little ciIy is full of tour
lists. more here NOW than at any
thine before. and more coming on
every train and boat Some OF
these will remain until everything
is ihaWed out up north. others for
: a few days or weeks. Many of the
latter arc touring tho state. here
this week and gone tlle next.
tllOWcNer. one thing is sure, some
: hing doing oNcrN day and lots of
Ipcuple 10 tallc a maud. 4 fellow
! don have time to GEL homesick
Nearly every state is represented.
Many OF them have AN organized
society and hold very interesting
mcelings weekly. have plcnics.'
) excursions by boat on train every
/, day in the week, besides a Pastmc
Pleasure club in rum blast every
, day except SUNDAY. The club
: takes in cruqlci. roueue. check
crs and chess quot and horse
shoe. all held in thc cily park.
which is right in the center of lhc
:. burg. This is moi all The amusc-
menis. -Four picture shows, run
nne every day except Sunday. and
! a Zinc heater. all The different
chIWch drnonlllatl ions and school
entertainments. every fralcrnal
society down to Il booiblacks
[ union. and This is moi all: moon
light boal rides ON tho hay with
music and dancing on he side.
. rho CITY pays for three band
concerts every week. one McdncS-
DAY afternoon, one Saturday night
and one Sunday at 3 D. m. On
saturday evenings everybody
takes night off. find their way
Ia Central avenue. some TO shop,
others to sec the sights. Side
walks are twenty feet wide and
filled With the crowd. For six
: blocks or moro autos are parked
along next To the walks as close
as they can get excepting i'm
FROM of hydrans on both sides.
The avenue is brick paved. 100 fl.
wide. brilliantly lighted: street
tears in the center running every
; ten or fifteen minutes. With the
monk of autos, the clanl of street
cars and the noise of fairly good
naturcd mob one might think he
was ON the Pike al Chicago cen
tennial. Everybody Out for a good
time and not clothed i'm the garb
! OF a Laplander. either. The city
; has paved this avenue from
Z Tampa Bay to Boca Ccga Bay,
! seven miles. on both sides of the
) street car tracks. or to Davista,
; The golf links, and Jungle. where
connections are made with boat
llne for the several islands few
miles across Tie bay. Board OF
; trade officers arc doing every
thing possible to help care for he
rush of tourists now here and
' still coming for the tourists are
the whole cheese'D. They spend
lots of money to make This de-