Manchester Democrat., 1921-09-14

with the market dull at is to 20 h.,
leather &c lib. They Travelled ON thru
Utah to Salt Lake City where they
put up at a good hotel They went
out around the city and heard the
great organ at the customary MONDAY
recital in the Tabernacle built by
these Mormon people they say, with
out nail or-bolt. From there they came
East into Wyoming on to Laramie,
where they camped in a beautiful park.
Thus far they had followed the Arrow
head or old Mormon Trail up TO Salt
Lake City thence over Lincoln High
way East. They left Lincoln Highway
at Laramie to go southerly into Colo.
over the Continental Divide Then
down the east slope Of the Rockies
to Fort Collins, Colo, a beautiful city
among stately cottonwood and apple
and cherry trees for which this sec
ton it noted. Here still at about 5000
TT. elevation they rested a few days
visiting their friends Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Stone, formerly Of Delhi, Ia
Then easterly across Colo, via. Star-
ling and Julesburg onto the Lincoln
Highway again. as they entered Ne
braska, along the North Platte River
thru many prosperous towns on 10
Omaha having crossed the State on
"a straight line. Crops looked fine at
Omaha Crossed Missouri into Iowa,
still along Lincoln Highway the best
posted road. that is the signs are posi-
tive and very plain to follow from
Council Bluffs, via Carroll, Ames, to
Marshalltown, Waterloo, then to Della
ware. where they visited Mrs Chad
eayne's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ.
Kingsley, and other relatives for three
weeks then started on again to Cedar
Rapids then at Clinton they crossed
the Mississippi into Illinois, where
they found concrete roads fpr aDout
110 miles to Geneva, Amona, Joliet,
hcross into Indiana to South Bend,
southeasterly across the state into
Ohio via Sandusky, Canton to East
Liverpool, across the Ohio to West
Virginia into Southwestern Pennsyl
vania down in the coal and coke pro-
ducing region. Near here at Dunhab
they visited friends and incidentally
coal mine l Il miles under ground,
a blast furnace, where molten metal
ran like river from the open fire,
q Solvay process plant where all the
smoke from coke ovens is corralled
and ammonia and coal tar products
obtained, nothing going to waste ex-
cept some hot air. From here they
crossed several ranges of the Alle-
gehanys to Cumberland. Maryland,
then over the Blue ridge mountains
to Gettysburg, Pa, where they visited
the famous battle field of Civil War
days, marked by the many monuments
in honor of famous leaders. From here
northerly thru many busy manufactur-
ing towns of eastern Pa, up along
the Delaware River across upper New
Jersey to Suffern and Nyack to cross
the noble Hudson on their last day
They travelled 1905 miles used 255
gallon of gasoline, about gallons OF
oil and 8 old tires that they stared
with, but which would nave been re-
placed very soon anyway, and their
old Studebaker 1864 is going to take
them back to Van Nuys over another
route across to Denver, Colorado,
then via the Santa Fe Trail much
more Southerly across country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Person Mr.. and
Mrs. Olaf Nicholson drove to oelwein
Sunday.
Miss Mabel Nelson spent Saturday
with her aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Olaf Nicholson returning to her home
in Chicago Sunday.