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LOCAL PEOPLE
WESTERN BOUND
ARE ENJOYING TRIP
LUCKY IN FINDING GOOD CAMP
ING PLACES AND AVOIDING
MANY HEAVY STORMS

Dy local lTlenuS VI tut w iSc diit
Covert families and Hub and Mart
Engemann, now on their way to the
western coast. They are getting on
well and are now on the other side OF
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The two letters which follow are
from 'Hub" and Martin Engemann
and were considered good enough to
be of interest to our readers.
LOGO miles from Belding. (
Overton, Neb., July 20, 20.
Dear Ed. and all
Well, as we have made lit
tie better than one thousand miles
(1060) now have a few more i'm
pressions of the country in which our
course lies.
First, | must tell you about the
beautiful little town of Jefferson, la.
It's center square is taken up with
the county courthouse with a fine
lawn all around and facing it from
the other blocks around are the bus
mess houses, all of which are neat
and trim. For the large towns.
guess Cedar Rapids, Ia, has them all
beat as it sure is a pretty city.
Through Iowa it was mostly hilly
country and when | say hilly, don't
mean that we came to a hill once in
while, but just one hill after an
other, up and down and up and down,
no level stretches between, but
guess about one day of it was all. A
beautiful wide river valley and then
it was level but could see the bluffs
one ither side. Thru Iowa we saw
more of the beautiful corn fields.
Mart went out in one and held the
leaves up and they were already 3
feet high. Most of the way thru
Nebraska, we have followed the
Platte river valley. Where We stop
ped last night they had had an awful
storm. The hail and wind had ruin
ed field after field of corn. In some
of the worst of the fields the stalks
were broken off about 6 to 9 inches
above the ground and everything else
swept clean, only the stubbles left of
what had been fine fields of~corn.
We have been lucky and missed
several bad storms and had no rain
until tonight, when it is sprinkling
a little.
We see many amusing things along
the way, for example, one town had
up a sign board as follows. "Speed
limit, 10 miles per hr. Look out for
women and children Behind the
humor of it one might see bit of
the chivadry of the knights of old.
Another read thus: "This is Wood
River, pop. 1900, no dead one count
ed"
They sure have some great tract
ors pulling graders on the highway.
We have travelled on a slight up
c.~oJ- o11 Jav al+bonnb ~ caapnad
level. We are now on an elevation of
about 2400 feet and can look up the
road as far as the eye can see, gen.
orally seeing a town ahead but it
always is much farther than it looks.
They sure do some speeding on the
Lincoln Highway as is evidenced
by the numerous dead birds, rabbits,
squirrels, golfers, etc. laying in the
jack rabbit took about one hop ac-
cross the road in front of our car
today.
I All the rivers so far have been
all muddy water. 1t looks queer to
see the muddy brown water whirl-
ing along.
Well / guess / have covered most
everything in small way so will
close for this time.
As ever yours,
"Hub".
BY the time this reaches our read
ers the tourists will be in the neigh
borhood of Rawlins, Montana.
Lodge Pole Creek, Neb.
Near Potter, Neb., z, %, 20
Dear Mother and ALL
We are camped over
Sunday at Lodge Pole Creek. Went
up to the next town to go to church
but found no Catholic church there,
so we must spend the day in camp.
We are camped next to an old
bach's by the name of Myers, he has
lived here years. He gave us ra-
dishes, lettuce and all the milk we
want, wont take pay and took us on
trip over the table land and Lime
Rocks. He took us up where we
could see for 26 miles in one direc-
/ tion and II or Is over to a town OF
Sidney in the other.
The man whose land we are on has
5000 acres here. i guess he is the
largest land owner in these parts.
According to this man Myers, I'VE
should see the mountains tomorrow.
We travelled pretty slow the last 3
or 4 days as it was indeed new kind
of country for US to see. We are not
going to Denyer as we loitered too
long in other places already, so we
struck back into Nebraska after a
couple days in Colorado and will get
into Wyoming about noon tomorrow.
We are up 400 feet now. / don't
notice the difference but you can see
better sure enough.
This old fellow pointed US out some
Indian graves and also some of white
people marked with rocks They were
killed in an old fashioned massacre.
We are about $50 miles from Salt
Lake and will stay there next Sunday
If all goes well. We have had few
miles Of pretty deserted country al
ready but we are getting used to it
now. This is sure the only way to