The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-06-05
Former Surrey Woman Writes From
Seattle.

Former surrey woman writes From
Seattle.
Seattle, WASH, May %, 1919.
Dear Friends Of Surrey and Vicinity:
Well, as I promised to write to so
many and failed to do so, I'll write
letter publicly and it will benefit you
all.
First, I'd like to ask if all Of you
are dead, for we never see any Surrey
news in the Independent. We people
that used to live there like to see
Surrey represented in it's columns al
so.
Well, l can truly say l like it here
better every day now, and am feeling
fine since getting thru my weakened
condition after the flu and damp wea-
Their which we sure had all winter.
The last month we have been seeing
some of Seattle's fine scenery for we
have been taking different routes to
go down to the city, and have been to
several of Seattle's best Parks. Wood
land Park has animals and birds from
all over the world and has about IL
or Is buffalo and bears as big as cows.
There are some of the prettiest
graveyards out here you ever saw.
We live by the woods now and it
suits US better than living so close to
other folks, which are SO thickly set
tied over in town. for we can walk
thru woods with it's running creeks,
and wild ferns and wonders of nature,
the pretty lockwood trees are in
bloom now. | was up on Queen Ann
Hill last week to visit the school and
saw them put up new flag pole. All
the school was dismissed and we all
watched the derrick lift it. Talk about
noise, with six hundred kids yelling
and whistling. 1t was exciteable.
Our camp-meeting this year will
begin June % at the shores of Green
Lake at the north end of Woodland
Park. It is surely lovely place.
The roses, lilacs and all kinds of
flowers are blooming now and they
are surely beautiful, l never saw a
flower so pretty as the rhodendron,
the Washington state flower.
Welty is still working. in the ship
yard. Has worked there about eight
months now and he likes it better
than digging wells, ha! ha!
Some wanted to know if anyone
suffered thru the strike last winter.
l can say, no, not that know of, for
the union loaned money to the poor
people. They are looking for the
Mooney strike here in July that we
read about all winter but ! don t
think it will last lonp l hope they
got enough of it last winter and work
now while thew can. There are quite
a number of Surrey and Minot folks
out here and it seems like home to see
their smiling faces. Jim Hockinson's
live Just one block from us and their
daughter, Mrs. Clara Cornabe, lives
close to US on the other side, so you
! see we have good neighbors. and
Mrs. Cornabe were talking to man
the other day from Minot. He said we
came from a better state than we
landed in, but everyone to his own no.
ton. He was a horse trader and |
don't see many horses out here, it's all
street cars and autos. The street car
lines have sold out to the city now, SO
they are painting the cars all green
now. They run oftener and give bet
ter service to the working class Qf
people. The cement macadamized
road is coming along fine. / can see
them working at it across the canal
from us now. It's all thru Ballard
now.
Well, I hope you all have bumper
crop so more Of you can come west
this fall.
Wishing you all an enjoyable sum-
mer, from a friend.
MRS. WELTY WOLFE,
w. 724 Arganda ST.,
Seattle, Wash