Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-09-11
FROM SUNNY CALIFORNIA.
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Editor of the Good Old Herald
| see by the weekly locals that
some of the Lancaster friends come
to southern California to spend the
winter. What a change from the
cold and snow l think this is the
finest climate in the world. 1 often
wonder why everybody don't live in
California. / have lived here three
years and expect to remain the rest
OF my life. This is a good place to
make money. Wages are good and a
great demand for laborers. This is
a great health and pleasure resort
the year round. Many women make
good money renting rooms for which
thtre is a great demand. | am max
ing a good living and saving money
IN a little cottage for which / pay SIS
a month rent. l rent three rooms
n use two and receive $40 a month
for the three rooms. l also take care
of a little girl five years old. She is
a very dear child. Her people receiv-
ed from the government last week the
first installment for her support, /
think about $50 for three months, as
her father is in the army. have
saved 5000 in the last year aside from
my general expenses.
This is a great climate for beauti-
full flowers, especially roses. They
have a rOs tournament on New Years
day each year-doats covered and
! loaded with roseS-and many other
kinds of flowers. Geraniums and Flu
schias grow up to the second story
windows. I have seen climbing ros-
es running over two stories and to the
top of the chimney. We don't have
many birds and insects here. The
nightengales sing beautifully from
about midnight till morning. l live
only about three blocks from the
ocean but l despise the bathing suits.
We have feas here which are a great
pest but / never heard of one in Los
Angeles where 1 lived the first year
/ came direct to DIR. Youkum's Home
where they pray for the sick. | suf-
fered for years with rheumatism but
am completely healed. He has a large
home in a suburb of Los Angeles
where there is no charge made for
room or board, treatment or anything
else. 1t is for sufferers of all kinds
and all who are down and out. He
takes in all drunkards who come
clothes and feeds them and prays for
them. Many are healed and reform
ed and if they go away and come back
a dozen times he takes them back
He has three thousand acres up in the
mountains where he keeps several
hundred. 1t is away from any place
where liquor is sold. They do farm
ing and raise all kinds of fruit, and
have a goat dairy The men work
without pay, just for a home. They
only work a few hours a day. At the
home one morning when the rainy
season was on | counted 105 men and
27 women. All men sleep over the
buildings without side stairs. Women
and men are not allowed to have
much to say to each other. They have
a meeting after each meal. There is
a prayer tower where someone is
praying day and night for the sick.
Dozens of requests come every lay
for prayer. They are received in the
office md then sent to the tower. We
read them and pray for their healing.
Many are healed but not all.
l would be pleased to have any of
the Wisconsin people call on me here.
/ don't get much news from home on
ly through the Herald except when
my son, DR.. NARROW of Bloomington,
writes to me.
Mrs. A. M. Preston formerly
NARROW of Lancaster.) 237h Locust
Ave-, Long Beach, Cal.