The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-12-01
ARE TAKING IN
THE WONDERS OF
THE GOLDEN WEST
SAYS LOS ANGELES BOOSTERS
MANY TIMES BELONG TO TRI-
PIE JOINTED LIAR CLASS

We are in receipt of the following
letter from "Hub" Engemann, one Of
the publishers of the Banner-News
and one of the party of ten who left
here early in July on their interest
ing trip to the golden west.
His letter follows:
Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. IA, 1920
Dear Ed. and all:-
Well, as / have been chided
thru the columns of the paper and
also by special letter will at last take
my pen and try and concentrate my
mind long enough to write you all a
nice long letter regarding things in
California as they are or rather as
they appear to me, after three
months time here.
OF course much Of what / know
of this country is hearsay, and /
have come to doubt considerable of
that and to believe that good many
of the enthusiastic boosters of Cali
conscious, riple-jointed liars.
/ don't mean that they are liars in
tentionally, but they have got some
blamed for being elated over, and
once started they don't know when to
stop. For instance, | had always
heard that they never had an cleo
trical storm in California that was
unheard of. But the fact is. since
we have been here there has been
two such storms. OF course when
confronted with such evidence these
prevaricators tell you it is $50
unusual. Well. it must be at that
as over at Pasadena, suburb of Los
Angeles, one man died of fright dur
ing the first storm. Pasadena is a
residential city Of about 10000 pop
ulation and numbers more million
airs and also many of the multi class
Of any city of its size or any size
in the country. Mr.. Wrigley, of the
chewing gum fame and the Buschs,
Of Anheiser- Busch fame. which by the
way is-now but a memory of the
damp past, and many others of the
well known and unknown millionairs
have pretensious mansions there. One
driving down Orange Grove Ave,
wonders why they want so many no.
tells there, when looking at the fine
private homes.
California has wisely laid out a
system of pavement thru the entire
state and no matter which way one
goes from here they are always sure
of having a good road to follow. And
every Sunday afternoon Wises' folks
and ourselves enjoy a drive out to
some place of interest as to amuse-
ment or scenic beauty. Last Sunday
we were down to what is known as
the Palisades. at Balboa, and to say
the least we certainly all enjoyed
ourselves. The party consisted of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Howard. Mr.
and Mrs. Sy. Griffith and daughter,
Of Ionia, Wises folks and their cous-
in, Miss Mildred Osgood and friend,
Mrs Kelley and Mart. and myself. Of
course most all wore the convention
al hiking clothes which are about the
same as a soldier of Uncle Sam in
kahki uniform, and no doubt the good
people of Belding would be greatly
surprised if they could see the fam
liar figures of Mrs. Wise, Kelley and
Howard arrayed for a hike, but they
are very common sight here and
on a holiday, or any day, one can see
many women dressed in this sensible
outing outfit, especially at the cleo
trio r. r. station where they start
for the various outing places.
But to tell you about the Palisades
Ii sure is a beautiful spot and we all
had dinner there, up on the rocks.
Had roasted weaGies and bacon along
with the rest and the dinner sure was
fine. To set there and eat and listen
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