Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-06-08

M. e. church workers, and wished t
, see the little ones as this was alon
our line of the work. She asked us +
sit moment while she made investi
| cations, then she would show III
through this famous institution, which
she kindly did, but it would take time
| and space to tell all about it, thu
sanitary part Of it, the disinfectinl
qualities, the sterilizing of the cooking
| ustensils, but it was the kindness Of
this little overseer that attracted my
attention, who thanked us for com
ing and gave us all the required in.
| formation. There were about seven OF
perhaps eight hundred inmates, some
OF them in bed, and as we passed
through the long wards, she had 9
smile, caress, or a gentle pat, f0l
each little patient, as they eagerly
rushed forward to embrace her, which
cheered them at once.
Another entry in my Diary Of De-
cember 81, when I was little home
sick for old Iowa friends. All! sad
sweet years, Alas! how quickly dc
| they fly especially when one is going
| swiftly down the decline of years, to
that bourne, to which we are all en-
route.
The last day Of the year 1920, is
a bright sunshiny day, and all is
well; no clouds, so storms, are WIS.,
ible in the horizon, which is character
istic of happiness, so we have much
to be thankful for, even though we
have our ups and down in this life,
and are going rapidly down the stream
of time, but are in the hands of the
great unknown, who doeth all things
we'll
1t seems but yesterday that made
my first entry in this 1920 diary, but
the years go by SO rapidly that am
at a loss to realize the fact. April
20, 1921, an ethereal day in this
mountainous country Oh the unspeak-
able beauty OF an early April morn
ing out among the mountains, just
as the near by mill whistle is sound
ing the hour, to go to work, and out
on the trail, on the second bench OF
Ricker's mountain, near where we are
located for the present, on the English
ranch, to attend the fruit and grader
for Ned.
1t is not every person to whom II
is given, to reach his ideal, yet mine
lis attained, as / was on the second
bunch of the mountains at O'clock
and could look down upon, my ranch
home-thence down on slumbering
Addy and my own little home in the
near distance. Oh! the brooding
4 dreamy, peace of it all How it posses,
ses the soul and lulls into forgetfuI-
mess, the cares and trials of the
past. was out on the trail of q
Chinese pheasant which / had sighted
then April 24th four days later, was
4 strange phenomina to me, bright
| sunshiny morning and a little later
| in the day, we had a veritabie snow
| storm, up here overlooking Addy and
the Coloille Valley. | made p:e-planl
pie for our dinner, and while | was
preparing the same, the snow was
Just pattering down all around me and
could sit here in the west window
| and look up on top of the mountins
which is on the same eighty, on which
the house stands, and | see it covered
with white mantle of snow, still
the day was warm, and balmy. On
Sunday, May 4th of this month we
got started little after four o'clock
in the morning, Ned, Merl, Tom and
myself, and drove in Ned's Haynes,
to Spokane, distance of seventy-two