Warren sheaf., 1920-08-25
An Account of Trip to ..-...."
! Yellowstone National Park
BY the Editor of the Sheaf.

BY the Editor
The editor and members of his family
making the trip to the Yellowstone
National Park returned home yester-
day (Tuesday) afternoon, after having
travelled more than 5000 miles by auto-
mobile and pursued Nature to its most
concealed recesses. We have also had
the exceeding great pleasure to visit
with many old time friends as we'll as
to form new friendships along the way.
For kind hospitality and courtesy to
strangers, the people of the west are
not eXcelled. =. =
In our first and only letter to the
Sheaf since we started on the trip, we
left our readers at MinOt, N. D., on
July so. Since then we have really
been too busy travelling and sight see
ing to write at all. We will now try
to gather up in our memory, the best
we can, the threads of sthe story Of
this wonderful trip and tell our readers
some Of the things which we saw and
experienced. But no pen, however
facile, can adequately describe the
| rugged beauty Of our American
scenery .r u ~ rs :
We were delayed half day at Minot
owing to broken spring in the car,
which had to be replaced by a new one,
| therefore we were unable to leave that
town until about noon on Friday, July
80. Owing to our late start from Minot,
we could only get as far as Williston
the second day. We found lodging at
a good hotel, and as we started out
next morning Saturday. July 31), we
called on Will Wattam, who spent
some little time at Warren and Angus
many years ago. He is employed in a
large department store at Williston
and doing we'll. DR.. G. s. Wattam, of
Warren. is his uncle. We also called
at the Burk Lumber Company's Office
but Mr.: Burk was not in, therefore we
delivered greetings by telephone to him
and family from the Aug. A. Johnson
family Of Warren. Mrs. Burk and Mrs.
johnson are sisters. We have found
that people who have lived at Warren
some time or other, or who have rela-
tives or friends living there, are always
glad to meet people from that: town,
and therefore we make it point al
| ways to call on as many as possible in
our travels. It also cheers us. to meet
friends and acquaintance from former
days, even if time allows but hand
shake and a moments. exchange of
greetings. Williston is a livesand pro-
gressive little city, beautifully located
on the banks of the Missouri river and
in rich farming district. Crops this
year were looking fine. Before leaving
| Williston. we must not forget to men
! ton the splendid gravelled road by
which we entered the city and which
has been completed eastward about 80
miles. It was great relief to get onto
this road from the unimproved prairie
road we encountered in the hilly and
roughly broken country west of Minot
We had now motored across the
great state of North Dakota. a distance
of about 400 miles, At Mondak. a
small village about 20 miles from
Williston, we crossed the Missouri ri
yer on ferry. and were then on
| Montana soil. As soon as we had
crossed the river, we left the Glazier
trail, which had guided us across the
plains Of North Dakota. and turned
our car in southerly direction, with
Glendive, Mont, as the next objective
point, our aim being eventually to get
onto the Yellowstone trail-some 80
miles west from Glendive. From Mon
dak to- 'Glendive the road runs up the
Yellowstone river valley, distance of
about hundred miles, through a very
fertile irrigated farming district with
splendid crops.
We arrived at Glendive about 3 p. m.
and after lunching resumed our journey
westward hoping to reach Miles City
before night fall. Some 40 or so miles
out Of Glendive the road passed
through very hilly and broken coun-
try, with steep hillsides to climb and
innumerable turns and twists OF the
road, that put to a severe test the skill
of our two boys, Edgar and Oliver, who
were ~the chauffeurs, but they were
equal to the occasion, and guided the
car as steadily and easily as on the
level roads around Warren 1t was
nearly ten o'clock in the evening when
we pulled into Miles City, somewhat
tiref Of course; but in good spirits.
After good nights rest at a hotel we
were ready next morning, Aug. /, to
| resume our journey westward. The
I trail follows the railroad more or less
closely the entire distance up the val
ley of the Yellowstone river. The river
has in fact levelled the way for both
the railroad and the trail. We arrived
at Billings little before 6 p. m. Edith
at once called up Miss Daigle, friend
of hers, together with whom she for
| merly taught at Sandstone, Mimi, and
after we had our supper at restaur-
ant, she and our entire party had
the pleasure to. meet her and to ex.
change a few pleasantries., We con
tinued our journey in the evening
wishing to get as far on the way to
Livingston as possible before putting
up for the night. It was almost dark
when we left Billings, but the road
which we travelled was we'll lit up by
the headlights Of the numerous cars
which we met, many of which were
returning from tour Of the Yellow.
stone park. "A hundred cars at least
were met on the road to Laurel, 1a
miles from RfllinRs where urn decided