Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-01-12
DIR. Johnson WRITES:
FROM EVERETT /, WASH.
TELLS of Climate Conditions and
Former Kandyohi County
Residents
1922 Oake Ave, -
Everett, Wash, Jan. 4, 1921

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|! Editor Willmar Tribune.
+ promised you and your readers
that would write you now and then
about my Impressions out here and
so I will begin at the beginning Of
the New Year, ~ = = =
/: Personally speaking, it is won.
derful experience to me to pass a win
ter in this climate. We have had
considerable rain lately-so they say
here atlyway-yet I have not felt it
dlsagreeable so far OF course am
not out in the rain working, or NOV
ing about much, yet those who are do
not seem to mind it., The great fea'
ture about this rainy weather out
here is that it is always mild when
1t rains and especially just after, be-
cause as the storm moves east over
the continent the balmy Pacific ocean
air moves after it and warns up what
would otherwise be cold and damp
atmosphere. Altogether this climate
SUITS me. We have large Groom
bungalow with no storm doors or win
doWs and only one moderate sized
Wood heating stove. We can heat the
house in 10 to IS minutes. We never
Keep ire at night yet the house is
comfortable never less than so de-
grees above In the morning. Indoors
or outdoors, wherever you are in mo-
ton you are comfortable, but a small
fire night and morning to take the
dampness out; of the house, If YOU
want to sit down, is necessary nine
weeks out OF the year. ''+'
notice that it is necessary espe-
'cia1ly for newcomers to keep them
selves properly clothed and their feet
warm and dry. With this proviso |
believe the climate is very healthy.
sFhe main ailments here are rheuma.
tism, catharr and bronchial asthma.
stu, some who were troubled with
these ailments in the interior get
we'll when they come here. If they
acquire these ailments here in chro-
mic form they usually have to move
up east of the Cascades. The people
as a rule look rosy, healthy and
plump, more so than any other place
that l have seen in this country. |
lay that to the equable climate that
permits outdoor life the year around.
The nervous tension so notable in
Minnesota and the Dakotas is also
absent, and people out here are not
rushing about like they are in Min
nesota.
/ really wonder at myself how l
can be contented to pass the time
without rushing about. = OF course /
am not idle entirely as go about the
city and country, and read all my
spare time, as we have an excellent
public library and I have had chance
I to review literature that l am inter
ested in. And time passes, O, how
quickly. = -. =
Last Sunday, JAM, 1921, we and
another family, Nels sHampens, for.
merly of Belgrade, Mimi, were, out
visiting at Olof Walin's, three miles
LOut on the Snohomist Interurban line,
The Walin's used to live in RoseIand
| and are we'll known to the people and
related to- several families at Svea
and WillmGr. They moved in this
fall from Alberta, Can, to their pres
| ent home, beautiful and spacious
house on 5,acre ranch, miles from
Everett: Well, we had a glorious
time at the Walin home and felt as
If we belonged to one family. Some
of Minnesota people may think that
a five acre farm is nothing. Yet ]
will venture to say that the Walin's
will soon make more net profit out
of their 5-acre farm than the majority
of farmers Will out of 80 acres in
Kandfyohi Co.. However, don't jumu
at conclusions that everybody out
here is getting rich on 5-acre lots
because the majority of them are not
but some are, and the Walin's are OF
that class. It is here as in Kandiyohj
County, some farmers. are thrifty
prosperous and efficient, and some are
not, and so of everybody else. =,
The John N. :Fahlstrom family for
merly of Kandiyohi and Wiilnar also
live here, 2106,. State Street, Everett
Wash. They ere valued friends 81
ours, and together with. all the rest
Of the Kandiyohi Co.. Colony here
makes us feel very much at home, moi
to mention our new found friends and
neighbors. Then I persume you have
heard of Seattle, little suburb o.
Everett, up the sound about Is or sc
i miles. There are ever so many Kan
diyohi Co. people, Corteledges; Hud
sons, Sperry's, D. C. Abbott's, Krause.
Stendahl's, and others too numerous