The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-02
TELLS OF FINE
TRIP TO HOME IN
GOLDEN WEST
MISS CLARA MOULTON, NOW A
RESIDENT OF PASADENA, CAL.
WRITES TO LOCAL FRIEND.

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a resident of this city recently sent
to Miss Kate Lamb, who with her in
valid mother, lives at the home cf
John Rossman, just south of the city.
The letter is a splendid word-picture
of the trip and owing to the fact that
it is too long for complete insertion
in one issue of the paper, it will be
carried over until next weeks issue
and continued in it.
Miss Moulton's letter is as follows !:
Pasadena, Calf, August, 1918.
Friend Kate:
/ am going to begin this letter but
l am net sure when / will finish it
This is certainly a wonderful country,
but think one would enjoy it much
better to land here along in January
some time as the contrast would be so
much greater We had some very hot
weather when we first arrived, but
see from the papers that it was all
over the country the same Last
week most of the week was rather cool
and cloudy which was very unusual
for this place. so the natives all said,
had a slight shower one day.
There is scarcely a day that we do
not hear an aeroplane and of course
kid fashion have to run out and look
also from some points in the city one
can see as many as eight balloons up
at one time over at the aviation field.
l have always thought in my own
mind, that cedars and evergreens
were grown in colder climates, but /
guess / was wrong as / wish you
might see some of the giant pines
here, they also have wonderful cypress
hedges, which / do not care for much
in a city; they might be all right on
a ranch for wind break. They have
over 200 different kinds of Eucalpti
trees, some have wonderful blossoms,
i have seen the red cnes in blossom
and it is sight, they have what they
call the blue one, / have not seen the
blossom on these, do not know what it
is but the young trees have quite a
blush tint from the distance. One
can hardly picture Fucshias growing
as high and large as small trees, ger
aniums as high as the tops of the
windows and higher. The Bougan
Villa is a beautiful vine. grows very
thick and one can scarcely see the
leaves when it is in blossom, some
small bungalows are nearly covered
with it; it is one flaming mass of col
or; do not know just what you would
call it, but it looks to me like what
we used to call Magenta. The OLE
anders are wonderful and as large as
good sized cherry trees, many of
them. The roses are of course won
derful because there are so many of
them and they blossom all the year
around There is another tree, / do
not know as | can spell these and /
have no dictionary at the present; it
is the Jackaranda, the leaves are
much like fern and the blossoms are
large clusters of purple blossoms and
each blossom looks like a bluebell.
Then there is the Crepe myrtle which
has q beautiful old rose blossom on.
To me the trees are wonderful for OF
course our naples do not have much
Of blossom on and about all we have
are the fruit trees and once in q while
loctus. The Ragged Robin rose
makes beautiful hedges. Then there
are what they call the Acacia trees;
they are black, yellow and blue; the
yellow are very fragrant.
We have not been on many walks as
yet, we are quite aways from down
town, it isn't / know, but sometimes it
seems nearly as far as it is out to your
house, of course we could take the car
but have to save little now and then
so walk most of the time. and when
we have been down town and back
that is about all the walk we want for
one day. We. did go one night up to
what they call Monks Hill, it is quite
high and we get a wonderful view of
Pasadena, Altedena and the noun
tains. This is the place where they
go to have a sunrise prayer meeting
orr Easter Sunday. The mountains
look near enough to reach out and
touch them at times but / guess will
not attempt to walk to them for a
time at least as / think they are about
eight miles away. If / should have
asthma and hayfever there is line
about three or four blocks from here
that they call the Asthma line above
there no one is supposed to have it.
We have not been to Los Angeles
but once as yet; we were taken over
one day to the Allied War exposition
but spent our time out there so did
not see much of the city. That even
ing we stayed in and attended the
Michigan club meeting.
i will tell you little, perhaps more
than you want, about our trip.
have written about this same thing
to several people; / made copies;
could not work my brain enough to
think the whole thing out so many
times and then it saved work.
wrote a couple of friends in Belding
and asked them to pass it on to some
of my friends, then / wrote my broth
er, George, and he sent it to Howard
somewhere in France We had his
first letter from there, or rather his
folks did and sent it on to us.
We left Belding, as we planned, on
Thursday afternoon. the 18th Of July,
stayed all night in Grand Rapids and
left for Chicago the next morning. II
was very dirty and hot ride to Chi
cago, we arrived there somewhere
along about $3.50 p. m, should Judge
were transferred to the Union depot
by the Parmlee bus line; it certainly
looked queer to think Of company
using horses on a bus in this day and
generation but such was the case; we
went to see about getting berth for
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