The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-07-21
ALL GOES WELL
WITH BELO|NG
TOURIST PARTY
ARE WELL INTO NEBRASKA BY
THIS TIME. LAST HEARD
FROM AT WEST SIDE, IOWA

We are in receipt of the following
letter from "Hub'' Engemann, who
is one of the party of local people
who left here on Saturday, July 10
on an overland auto trip to Los An
geles. Since the receipt of this let
ter a card was received which was
written at and sent from West Side,
Iowa The party should be by this
time in the neighborhood of North
Platte, Neb. and perhaps by the last
of the week will be somewhere near
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Near Wheatland, Iowa,
455 miles from Belding,
Wednesday evening, July IA, 20
Dear Ed. and ALL
Well here we are, all
snug in our camp and ready for an
other night of good intensive sleep.
We surely appreciated the good wish
es of all our friends who wished us
well and our arms were quite tired
from handshaking, in fact Bill Co
vert's arm was so lame and stiff that
when he went TO turn corner he
could not move it and we vaulted
over a ditch.
The first night out we pitched our
tents on the shore of Paw Paw lake
and stayed there until Monday morn
ing and it sure was a beautiful place.
There seemed to be a plenty of fine
fruit in Michigan fruit belt. 1t look
ed fine and also the beautiful corn
fields of H., where the corn is al
ready above the fence tops, and field
after field of it, but very seldom does
one see potato patch and then small
cnes. saw three along .our 1873
miles today. Oh! but the farms of
Ill. sure are beautiful and level and
the crops so fine and plentiful.
The boys are just figuring up and
the 1st day we made 113 miles, the
End day of running 104 miles, the
3rd day 105 and 1873 miles today at
an average of % miles to the gallon
of gasoline
The second night out we camped
about miles from Hammond, Ind
and Mart. and / went up to Chicago
and saw cousin Clem and took him
out to our camp and back again after
breakfast in the morning. The third
night, just beyond De Kalb, H., by
the way / am sending you this news
paper letterhead with the request
that you send them a Banner-News
They got a little dope from us for q
write up and this night we are camp
ing on the banks of the Wapisipicor
river, or some such name, it sure is
muddy stream about " as wide as
Flat river. We crossed the Mississ-
/ ippi river this morning, to Clinton
Iowa over a great high toll bridge
We have stuck to the Lincoln high
way most Of the way except where
we detoured and we have had pretty
fine roads and splendid weather. Once
it looked very much like rain, but
it went by before we got to it and
after a few miles we see where they
had had the storm, where the tree
branches were blown off and also the
smoking ruins of a house. We pas.
sed through Plainfeld. ILL.,, the day
after the bank there had been helC
up and robbed of $4,000, no one was
hurt, altho some shooting was done
Well, / must close as all the others
have turned in.
/ We have our spot light in our tent
and it is giving fine service, believe
me.
Give our best from all of us to al
our friends and tell the world we are
/ having the time of our lives. Old Mr.
Wise, 78 years old, is the youngest
one in the bunch and this morning
for exercise of us men run foot
race and he came in ahead. That is
not bad for showing us up, Hey?
Well, everything is lovely on the
"Wapsisisipipisspicon" river so good
night.
From
Hub" and party.