Phillips County herald., 1922-02-17
Neuv York Letter

4 lily to drive to New York, in two Ford
cars. He built small bungalow on,
one of the cars and furnished 1t with
spring beds and an oil heater. thus
making it very comfortable in all
kinds of weather. The family all
slept in the bungalow except the two
young men, Harold and Loren. who
had tent and slept on the ground.
They visited friends at Hubbell and
Thompson. Nebraska, and at St. Jo-
seph, Missouri; spent Christmas at
Jacksonville. Illinois, and camped sew
eral weeks at Westfeid. New York;
but not being quite satisfied with that
country continued their journey to FL
mira, New York.
The following is letter from NJ.
q. just received by George and Emma
Lockwood of this place:
Dear brother and sister
II am going to write to you tonight.
We got here two weeks ago last
Thursday. camped in feed barn the
first night, then got some rooms and
moved in on Friday. We had two
rooms the first week at four dollars
week. Then we got another room.
We now pay five dollars week for
the three furnished rooms. We have
cook stove, table, eight chairs, rock
ing chairs. couch, cupboard, clock,
looking glass. dishes enough to set
the table, and cooking utensils. Then
there is water in the kitchen and gas
for lighting it. They also furnish
heating stoves for the other rooms,
four bedsteads with springs and
lamps for lights in the bed rooms. A
man and wife have the rooms up
stairs and a young man has room
downstairs in this side or the house
and several other parties have the
ether sides of the house.
Screened nut coal is 81 per ton at
yard. Flour. is from 81 to $2.15 a
sack, potatoes 35 cents a peck or
$1.30 per bushel. Granulated sugar
is 5h cents per pound by the pound
or by the hundred. Bread cents
for pound loaf. cabbage 4 cents.
onions 10 cents, boiling beef from 8
cents up, steak 16 to 80 cents. pig
shoulder 1919 cents, side pork Is
cents. sausage and hamburger 2
pounds for % cents.
Elmira is a pretty nice little city.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 inhabi-
tants. have not been in all of the
stores yet, but they have some pretty
nice ones. Beats Holyoke a little,
but is II small beside some that we
were in. Cleveland. Ohio. is the larg.
est place that we saw. 1t has nearly
100000 population. We stayed over
night in Buffalo. New York: It has
about $4,000 population. Harold.
Loren and I walked about four miles
around town that night. Imagine me
driving Old Dan at the rate Of 10 to
IL miles per hour a-straddle OF a
street car track through city like
that. It was easy. Some streets
have one way traffic only. That
means one way ON one side and the
other way on the other side. each
keeping to the right. with no travel
crosswise. That is only in few OF
the most busy places. Then there
are traffic cops on vne busy street
crossings. who stop the travel one
way for awhile and then the other
way
We had very good trip for the
time OF year. Good roads until the
first night after we left ST. Joseph.
then II rained and showed n little.
then thawed. got muddy and slippery
on top. frozen underneath. At Han.
nibal. Missouri. II sleeted until we
had about u half inch af Ice on the
ground and Il stayed frozen until we
got to Springfield. Illinois. by put.
ting on our chains we got along very
well. There we struck paved road.
Then We had paved. oiled or gravel.
ed roads most OF the way. We struck
Lake Erie at Cleveland and followed
the lake shore to Buffalo. Then we
turned southeast 10 Elmira. This
gave us n paved road all the way
over Il truck service line. You see
there was quite lot OF snow came
while we were at Westheid. The
trucks broke out the road and we
got along fine.
Well, this country looks pretty
rough ElmIra is In the Chcmnne
river valley. The valley IN fine, but
not very wide. The hills are high
and steep on each side. Then there
is u good many creck1 running IN on
each side. We have not found any.
thing that suits us yet. There IN