The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-10

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people of America there 8. more to
see right here in America gan in any
other country in the wo and some
of the finest scenery. In cpany with
Mrs. Trubshaw we left January Is
for Washington, to deliver the North
Dakota vote. We knew before we
started that it would be a great trip
and that we would see things that
would leave a lasting memory-and
we did. Before giving any details of
the other places visited we are going
to take up our visit to the national
capital. We arrived on Saturday aft
,ernoon in this beautiful city and i'm
mediately went to the Raleigh Hotel
to get located and to rest up. We
did not call up Congressman and Mrs.
Young at our arrival because we
knew that if we did they would i'm
mediately get busy giving US a good
time so we put off this duty until Sun
day evening when we called up the
Young apartments. Upon inquiry for
Mr.. and Mrs. Young we were inform
ed that they had gone to church You
see our congressional family keep
up their piety in Washington swell as
in Valley City. We asked "what
church," The Congregational church
was the quick reply. All right we said
we will 60 to church too, so Mrs. Trub-
shaw and the writer got some sort OF
location Of the church -. there are
many in Washington-and took a
chance Of getting to the right one and
we did. But we struck an evening
when one of the great Congregational
ministers Of the country was holding
special preaching services and there
were perhaps two thousand people at
this church and as we got there late
we, were ushered down to one corner
of the big auditorium and consequently
when the rush was on after the SER
vices we failed to see Mr.. and Mrs.
Yound in. the big crowds. Anyway
we went to church and enjoyed it, just
the same, listening to a great SER
mon. The next morning Mr.. Young
suggested we go to the capital and get
rid Of our official duties and then we
were to he entertained by Mr.. and Mrs.
Young. We did so. Mrs. Trubshaw
going along ard when we arrived at
the ccngressman's Office we found that
he wss already attending a meeting
of the committee, ways and means, the
most important in congress and OF
which Mr.. Young is a leading mem
ber. He had left orders with his Sec
tary Miss Dunn to take US
down to the committee room
which she did and for time we en-
joyed listening to various ones argu-
ing tariff revenues before this great
committee. Then Mr.. Young took US
over to the vice-president and we dis
charged our official duty. From there
we visited the senate, house of repre-
sentatives, supreme court and other
interesting points in the capital build;
ing under the guidance OF our con-
gressman and we had really magnifi-
cent time of it that morning. From
that time on Mr.. and Mrs. Young
were real busy entertainers, doing ev-
erything that was humanity possible
for them to do to see to it that we
were taken to all the interesting and
historic points in and around Wash:
inpton. First let us tell you OF our
impressions of the capitol city.
When you first arrive at Washing
ton in that magnificent union depot,
especially on your first visit. your one
great effort is to get to your hotel ana
get a room and sort Of settle down.
this we did, taking taxi and OF course
going down one Of the minor streets
thus our first impression of the capl-
tol city was not up to what we
thought it should be. Sunday beng
the following day and not desiring "
spoil Mr.. and Mrs. Young's sabbath
the writer and his wife decided to go
hiking around to see the city for them
selves and we stepped from our hotel
onto beautiful Pennsylvania avenue,
S,ne Of the most beautiful and wide
tk>oughfares in the world. Most OF
the Smain avenues and streets OF
Washington are wide and clean, lined
on either side by stately and handsome
buildings, many Of them OF white
marble and of historic as well as arcn- en-
itectural granduer. As one looks up
nd down this great thoroughfare ne
ysees at one end the stately capltal
building with it's handsome dome and
stately wings and approaches, Wnlle
mile away from the capital building
at the other end Of the avenue IS the
White House where the spotlight IS
always shining brightly all through
the days, months and years-it is the