Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-25
Family Located at Los Angelo.
Where the Roses Bloom Almost
the Year Around
SAYS COST OF LIVING
Is HIGH In THE WEST
Family Has Visited Many Beautiful
Places and Others Remain on
the Program

the Program
Mrs. Grant Weidman, who resides
near Ableman, has received a letter
from Mrs. William Hackett, which
reads in part as follows:
will try to answer your letter
which came just as we were moving
so | am a little late, but will do bet
; ter next time. We bought a small
place just outside Of the city limits
We have a fine garden, about twenty
fruit trees of different kinds and a
regular California house of five rooms
and a larger sleeping porch. We
have fine place for chickens and
rabbits. l wish you might see our
little home. am sure you would be
just as crazy over the beautiful roses
and other flowers as / am. From here
we can see long chain of mountains
: and since the rains they are certain
| ly beautiful, the sides are SO green
and the tops glistening with snow.
] old Baldy' is in this chain and looks
to be about mile from us, but in
reality is fifty miles, although it is
only eighteen miles to the other
mountains. I never tire of the noun
tains or the ocean and I really can
not say which l like best. Lynn has
been to the foothills several times
hunting, but not as far as mount.
Baldy. He says he is going there
when he has a vacation.
/, Health Is Excellent
| You asked me how our health was
out here. Well, Will is just fine, not
lame at all and works every day. He
and Lynn both work for the South
ern California Gas company and like
their work very much. Will is so
in love with California that he says,
| he would not go back East to live
| if they would give him the best farm
there, and I'm sure I wouldn't. | have
| gained twenty pounds since we came
and never felt better in my life. It's
the grandest climate one can Imagine
right here: what it is in other parts
| Of the state we can't say. In summer
| it is hot in the sun at noon, but al
ways cool in the shade and very cool
nights, in fact we use the same
amount of cover the year around. We
have a little fire mornings and even
ings this winter but not what you
would call fire. We burn our waste
paper and a few sticks of light wood
or light the gas for a short time. We
have had several fine rains but not as
much yet as the ranchers and gard
ners want.
| Cost Of Living
| AS for the cost of living here its
| high, but as / have compared our
prices here with the prices back
there it's cheaper here. Of course II
| one is looking for high priced food
! it's easy to find, and it's also easy
to find cheap. Meats here are very
good and reasonable, too. We get
i fine roast of beef for from IL to TIC
! per pound. Eggs now are AZ c; but
ter 66c; sugar 15c; and no limit to
amount. The best flour is $3.50 a
sack.
/ Many Beautiful Places
I could tell you of so many beauti-
full places we have seen, and SO
many more we want to see, and will
when you come out. When we read
of the cold winter you have had back
there we just say well if people
back there only knew what they
don't know, they would come to this
land of sunshine and flowers and
not stay there and shiyer"
All Like 1t There
am sure no one could say they
didn't like it here and be truthful
about it. We have only talked with
two people / think who said they
ed the cold and snow best. Well. they
are welcome to my share of it any
way. We are just outside the city,
but we have city gas, lights, water and
a five cent car fare. The car line
is two blocks from us and very good
service as the cars run every five
minutes; also have free right to
city schools. There is large school
about three blocks from us where
Jessie goes. There are over nine
hundred pupils going there. The
school system here in Los Angeles is
splendid; all schools have night ses
sions where anyone, old or young is
free to go and they teach any line OF
study or trade; all is furnished even
material for such work as dressmak
ing, millinery, cooking, and so on, for
Cirlo 0f coursa fho hovS are also