Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-07-06
ATTY SHEA WITH
ELkS TO COAST
Decorahian Joined Iowa Delegation
At Des Moines Yesterday Co
ing to Grand Lodge Re-
union at Los
Angeles.
DELEGATE FROM
DEBORAH LODGE
- Will be Made EnRoute at All
s ne Show Places in the West.
Makes Delightful Trip.

1t will be just one grand recep-
tiun after another FOR the Iowa Elks
and their wives who travel from
Des Moines to Los Angeles on the
Iowa Elks special to attend the
grand lodge reunion in the big Cali
fornia metropolis, July 10 to Is.
Attorney Parnell Shea departed
Monday to join the Iowa Elks at
Des Moines on the trip to Los Ange-
les, going as a delegate from the
Decorah lodge. The trip will prove
a delightful one for the popular
young attorney, and he will have
the privilege of seeing a lot of the
country, besides enjoying a great
program by the Elks in Los Angeles.
The hll-steel Pullman train will
steam out Of the Rock Island station
ut Des Moines westward bound at Z
p nj on Tuesday, July 5. Delega-
tions from Des Moines, Waterloo,
Iowa City, Fort Dodge, Charles City,
Cedar Rapids, Sioux City, Council
Bluffs, Davenport, Muscatine, Bur-
lington, Fort Madison, Keokuk, Ma
sen Gay, Decorah, Newton, Center
vile, Creston, Clinton, Marshalltown,
Dubuque and other Iowa cities will
board the special. In addition to the
Iowans brother Elks from Aberdeen,
Yankfon, Watertown' and Huron, S.
D., and from Hastings and Lincoln,
Neb., will be on the Iowa special. :
George T. Reddick, chairman of
the transportation committee of the
Iesa State Association Of Els, has.
been working for weeks On the de-
tails for this special and announced
Saturday that practically all of the
reservation space has been spoken
for As result of the early applica-
tion of the Iowa Elks for a special
train, made last January, the Iowa
train will be made up of the latest
model Steel Pullmans. The train will
be routed over the Rock Island to
Colorado Springs, Denver G. Rio
Grande to Salt Lake, Western Paci-
ic to Sacramento, and Southern Pac-
ific to Los Angeles.
The first big stop will be at Colo
RADIO Springs, where time will be af-
forded for a motor trip to Pixies
Peak, Manitou, Garden of the Gods,
Cave of the Winds and other famous
Colorado scenic places. At Canyon
City open cars will be attached to the
train so that passengers may en-
joy the wonderful scenic beauty of
the Royal Gorge.
There is to be stop at Glenwood
Springs, where the tourists may take
"a plunge in the famou open-air-
SWIMMING pool. At Salt Lake, the
next important stop, an unusual en-
tertainment has been planned in the
way of an organ recital in the Nor
mon tabernacle.
When the special reaches. Oroville,
Calfh ehe commercial club Of that
city and citizens of the territory ad-
jacent vill be at the station to show
the Iowans what that section of Cali
fornia is like. Fruits and flowers are
promised for the ladies and other
products for the men.
Down at Sacramento there is to be
an automobile ride thru California's
capital city and big reception at
the Elks home.
These are some of the big attrac-
tions now listed on the program, but
it is announced that other stops will
be made en- route if it is possible,
especially between Sacramento and
Los Angeles, in order that the Iow-
ans may see California towns and
cities.
No Unusual decorations have been
planned for the train except that on
the end of the observation car the
wording, iowa Elks' Special will
fash forth in brilliant electric lights.
Headquarters for the Iowa Elks in
Los Angeles will be at the Hc el
A,s4aniria. Hon. J. c. Murtagh. of
Waterloo, viii be in charge of the
Iowa headquarters and it is expected
that thousands of Iowans viii regis
ter a. tire hotel.
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