The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-10-20
TRIP OF PROF. AND MRS. DODGE
Harvey, ILL.,, Oct. n, 1927

harvey, ILL.,, Oct. ~, tszi
Dear Citizen:
Some Of your readers may be In
trested in a glimpse at a few Of the
mountain peaks Of our experience
for the past three or four weeks.
During the G. A. r. National En-
eampment, at Indianapolis. Scptem-
Der $3.50, we lodged in the hospita-
BILE home of Judge +. r. White, grad
uated from Berea College In 1881.
Mrs. White is also a capable attor-
ney, now Deputy Attorney General
Of Indiana. Both are authors Of law
books. Then we spent one night nj
Jackson Sanitarium. as guests Of Mr
and Mrs. Charles Cliff, the managers,
and formerly of Beres.
The Encampment days were Of alb.
scrbing interest. with some personal
responsibilities. was one of the
few detailed 10 speak in a leading
church on Sunday. A large audience
was present, including many old sol
diers and some former friends; and
all went well. Gen. c. F.. Adams,
Bishop Samuel Fallows, and were
the committee TO visit the Relief
Corps convention and give addresses
conveying the G.. A. X. greetings.
also served on the committee ON res
olutions, the most important Of the
Encampment. Mrs. Dodge has a new
responsibility in having been elected
by the Relief Corps convention To the
chairmanship OF their National Com
mittee on Legislation.
Among the interesting visits made
Stree are the following: At this
place with James Leonard Jones,
Helen Kneeland Jones', and their four
promising children: at the home Of
John X. Jones and Lille Griffin
Jones, formerly of Berea: with the
family Of e. Il. Russell, quondam
visitors ut Berea. with whom Mrs.
Dodge's sister. Mrs. +. +. Kneeland.
known in Berea. makes IL her home.
At Chicago we had delightful little
visit with Miss Rose Oller. former
Berea student and member of our
family. now holding an important
position in Marshall Fields book de-
partment. At Woodstock, where
Mrs. Dodge was long teacher In
Todd Seminary, we visited Prof.
Noble Hill, who is the principal and
a Berea graduate in 1898, our Mrs.
Elizabeth F.. Rogers, Carol Hill Tsy-
lor, Miss Sybil Hendricks. a former
loved Berea teacher. etc. At Sub
lette we were guests Of DR.. VIM. T..
Barton's brother. John j.. formerly Of
Berea and Lancaster. He had wide.
ly advertised a sermon by me; and
I had two or three times their usual
audience. At Aurora we had triple
pleasure In visits with Anna Dikin-
son, nov wife Of DIR. Thos. J. Lam
bert, with Miss Jennie +. Davies, a
well known Berea student in the S0's,
and with Miss Martha Sproule, Of
Bcrea's 1911 class, and for several
recent years teacher Of Natural Sci
ence in Jennings Seminary.
The major part Of one week has
been spent in visits Of vital in
terest 10 me. but not with persons
known to Citizen readers. Therefore
| can properly say only that in diff
ferent towns of Western Illinois we
found four sons and daughters Of
cousin whom tenderly loved when
was six years old and she thirteen
or fourteen, whom I saw but once
afterward and who went to the Great
Beyond several decades ago. These
newly found relatives Of mine now
seem like "own folks"
We have stopped here for a sup
visit, on the homewsrd
way, and expect to reach dear old
Berea' early next week.
Leyant Dodge