Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-06-09
A CALIFORNIA LETTER.

Mr.. A. L. Sherman,
Lancaster, Wis.
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find check for
$3.50 to bring the Herald to us for
another year 1t is like a letter from
home and we would surely be lost
without it.
Must tell you tho that we think the
editor has his wires crossed" about
the "dark-horse" candidate for pres
ident and that he is boosting the
wrong man, but suppose that is
where an editor" has the best of us
so will not say more about the po-
lltical question.
We are still enjoying California
very much and even tho we wish
many times that we were not quite
so far from our old home and friends
we have as yet no serious regrets to
make for the change. Are not perm
anently located here and are still liv-
ing III apartments but hope before
the summer is over we will have
found a comfortable little bungalow
some place in Pasadena or So. Pasa-
dena. If we are successful hope that
a good delegation of our Lancaster
friends will give us a chance to en-
terrain them at some time during the
winter of 1920-21 We will be very
glad to see them out here tho regard
less of whether we have a "home" or
not and | am quite sure that anyone
would enjoy the winter months at
least in Sunny California" (You see
am already becoming somewhat of
a California booster.)
Just now it seems almost like mid
summer to us as the harvesting is
practically all done and the fields are
brown with shocked grain Instead
of threshing the grain is mostly baled
and used as hay, so the farmers here
miss all the fun of feeding a thresh-
ing crew for several days or weeks
each year
There are still quite few straw
berries on the market but red rasp-
berries, logan berries and dark red
cherries are very plentiful The
peaches, apricots, figs and English
walnuts are beginning to make quite
a showing on the trees althO there
will not be as large a crop this year
as they had last, we are told
The late magnolias are just begin
ming to bloom now, many of the beau
tiful waxy white blossoms measuring
from to 10 inches across. The pink
ones will be in bloom a month or so
later they tell us.
The fall flowers Cat home) such as
asters, chrysanthemums, saliva, ETC.,
are nicely started now in the parks
where this winter they have had pam
sizes, stock, and other flowers of which
/ do not know the name or can not
think of just now.
We have had a few quite warm days
this last month when the thermome-
ter got up to SO and SO in the shade.
They tell us that it will get some
what warmer than that during August
and September but the nights will be
cool like they are now Before 10 a.
m. and after 4 p. m. even on the hot
test days we have had it has been nice
and cool and by 8 D. m. we would al
most forget that we had had any sum-
merry weather. Everyone seems to
carry extra wraps with them no mat
ter how warm it is if they do not ex-
pect to get home until evening, so it
looks to us as tho we have change
OF season out here every day.
Suppose it will not be long now
uhIAl WI. d1u MIS-. II. Abrams tine
last OF our Dec. End party to return
home this summer) will be rambling
into Lancaster in their Liberty Six"
Think the west proved quite attract
i've to them too and we are just sell
fish enough to hope they cannot be
persuaded to stay away from south
ern California more than few
months.
The other former Lancaster peo-
pie who live here or at Hollywood,
we see quite often and they, like us,
take great pleasure in reading their
weekly paper from home"
Must bring this to close now or
you will feel like charging US $500
for the Herald to get even with me
for taking up so much of your time
reading sthis scrawl
With kind regards to you all,
Respectfully yours,
Wy