Decorah public opinion., 1921-12-28
A. {. KENYON
IN CALIFORNIA
Decorahian Drilling for Oil, Pitching
,Horseshoes and Catching Big
Fish Out at Los
Angeles
ORANGE GROVES ARE
BEGINNING TO RlPEN
Says Iowa is Well Represented and
The Climate is the Best in
The World.

+. Kenyon, formerly of Decorah
locates him in California, where he
is putting in his time drilling for
oil, fishing and pitching horseshoes
in the delightful cline. He enclos-
ed a number of horseshoe games
official scores which he participated
i'm and won. Scores of eleven games
Mr.. Kenyon won were as follows:
81 to AZ; Sc to 81; 81 to AZ; 20 to
Al; 81 to 81; &C to 81; 62 to 26; 55
to As; GA to as; 81 to 3S; so to 80.
The latter game which he won so to
SO is so point game, and the three
best men at the state meet at Glen
dale were in and made more
ringers than al the men at the
meet. Kenyon got third money. He
pitched after the state meet, as he
didn't enter it. He had 20 matches
and lost 8 of them, winning every
single handed one. We believe now
it is up to. l.. McConaty, Frank
Headington, VIM. Sexton and few
other Decorah champs to go to
California and show those experts
how to pitch. Mr.. Kenyon's letter
follows:
Los Angeles, Cal.
Dec. 20, 1921.
Lear Editor:-As it is raining to-
day, for the first time in three
months, cannot Pitch horseshoes nor
go to the oil wells, as Clarence has
gone. One of the wells is thirty one
hrndred fret ana they have 'ot %
oil now, but they think they will go
to the deep sand. They are drilling
two more, one is down 1000 feet, the
other $500, and the tools in the hole.
He expects to finish one of these
by Feb. first.
am sending you the scores of
some of the match horseshoe games
have been taking part in. You
give them to VIM. Sexton or Frank
Headington.
Have been going fishing to the
Beach at Santa Monica, and catch
them off from the pier, but the other
day we drove to Long Beach, where
they have fishing boats to accommo-
date so people at SIPS fare each
for the day. Well we went out Is
miles before we began and it was
pretty rough. remember of seeing
the Catalina Islands. had caught
33 mackerels, all three Founders.
could see them jump up after the
bait, and the water was 40 feet
deep. Oh, but i got sick, and they
took me down in the cabin and be-
hold there were seventeen others, al
feeding the fishes. | never tried il
again, and talk about heaving uI
Jonah, boots and all. One of my
party caught shark eight feet long
on a small hook, and they had to
shoot him five times with high
powered gun before they got him
They got several two or three fee
long.
| We are we'll here and hope al
of the people in Decorah are the
same. How is the oil proposition
coming in Decorah, and have you an!
sleighing? We are having regula
June weather here. The oranges arr
beginning to ripen now and it il
} some sight to see. This is some cit.
too, in time it will be to the top
Well it is, | suppose, one of th'
best climates in the world. Iowa il
represented here | want to tell you
Tell the Decorah Horseshoe Clul
if they had eight or ten of the mem
bers of the teams they have out her,
: they would sure win the flag, a
they average better as you can Sc,
. by my scores. Give all the boy
my regards and don't forget to CIV
Sexton and Headington the scores.
Sincerely
A. f. KENYON.
141 No. st. Andrews Place,
Los Angeles, Cal
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