The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-12-10
Club Girl Writes Interest
.ingbofHer TriptoC Chicago


l want the people of Grenada coun-
ty and surrounding districts to know
what a wonderful trip the citiz ns of
Charleston, Miss, gave me when they
sent me to Chicago.
First, l shall tell you why they gave
1t to me. l have been a member of
the Poultry Club for four years, writ
ing a yearly history and keeping a rec.
ord of my work each year. These rec
ords we're sent in to the fair, then to
A. & M. College, where they were put
on file. Now that I have fought man
fully onward until / have earned my
diploma, the head authorities judged
my record and decided that / was the
girl from this district to whom this
wonderful trip should be awarded.
There were 40 girls and boys from
Mississippi and twenty-five other
states were represent d, but MisSis-
sippi was termed the blue Ribbon
State" and l am sure that we are very
proud.
/ left home for Starkville Friday,
November &c, at IL m, accompanied
by Miss Donaldson, and arrived at
Durant at 2:15, where Mrs. Ally met
Us. We mad TO wait two hours SO we
went to the hotel and met four other
girls who were to be with me on the
trip. At Ais we left Durant and ar
rived in Starkville at about 1880. A
taxi was at the station to met US
and they carried us to the Y. M. c. A.
a the A. & M. College. Miss Susie
v. Powell served us dinner that even.
ing; Mis- es Johnston and Tunison
served breakfast the next morning and
we had lunch in the boys mess hall
the next day. That was quite a
change. l had never seen as many
boys together Before, so l really en-
joyed the sight and could hardly eat
for gazing on the crowd around me.
We, the Mississippi crew, left
Starkville about $3.50 Saturday, and
reached Chicago Sunday afternoon at
4:4O. We took a taxi from the station
to the Atlantic Hotel, where we had
reserved. We had dinner and
then went to our rooms. After we
wrote the home folks a line we de-
cided that we would need no rocking
go to sleep, so we retired.
We went over to the Victoria Cafe
for breakfast, after which we went
on the elevated railway and went
to the International Live Stock
Show to spend the day. We had lunch
and dinner that day at the Interna-
t'onal Live Stock Cafeteria. Tho next
day we had breakfast at the Victoria
Cafe. going from there down to the
Y. Nj. G.. A. Hotel with Mr.. Kerlin and
the boys. We then went out to the
slaughter house to see where they
were killing hogs. sheep, cows, etc.
Each hour during the day they killed
three hundred COWS and one thousand
sheep. They allied 10000 hogs each
day. Think of the poor beasts that
are slaughtered each day for the sus.
of the people Of the United
We observed each process.
rhe killing, cleaning, the putting away
O be cured and the making Of sau-
age. The next thing Of interest was
our visit to Armour's soap factory,
% the largest in the world, where
hey make all kinds of laundry and
.oilet soap. We had dinner out at
he Armour dining hall that evening.
| very elaborate course be ng served
n our honor. af' er which Mr.. White
made an a~fter-dinner talk on farm
PRODUCTS and their prices. After this
decided that we had seen enough
ona day and caught the car for the
Wednesday we visited the Chicago
Board of Trade and Stock Exchange,
where they were buying and selling
produce. Next we went over to
he Boston Observatory, the highest
,uilding in the city, which Is 26 stories
Id in the air. From this place We
,ould see ali the streets of the city
dr. E. Wilson served us lunch out at
lis packing house. We spent a very
pleasant evening at the Princess The
tire.
We visited the Mccormick Interna-
ional Harvester company and were
erved lunch Thursday. In the after
DON we visited Sears & Roebuck. Mr..
.oebuck carried US over the building.
t is a wonderfully large company
hey have $4,000 employees and We
urely did see some wonderful sights
here. From there we went to the
Show and saw the different
inds Of fowls. OF course this was
cry interesting to me, being a poultry
Tub girl.
Friday morning we went out to the
90 in Lincoln Park. Yet the most
'onderful sight was to be seen. Mar
hall Fields, the largest store in the
7orld. We were served dinner oul
here. BY this time we decided that
re had seen as much Of Chicago as
could afford at one time, so We
hOmeWard.
We returned to the hotel, collected
ur baggage and were off to the sta!
We left Chicago about 6 o'clock
nd arrived in Grenada Saturday, noon.
18th a hurried goodbye to Mrs. Alley,
1T faithful district agent and chap
rone, and the other girls, l hurried
tell the news.
Feeling that this is the entire ac-
of my trip according to myi
nowledge and to the space, l will
ave it to you to imagine for your
Elves how thrilled / was over the trip