The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1922-09-01
A Month Among The Lakes

We returned last week from a
months visit to the Park region of
Minnesota accompanied by our IA
mily. It was pleasant trip through
out and enjoyed by all save the time
we were under the weather with a
bad cold which is still standing by
us to certain extent.
It is a pleasant thing to be able
to get away for a vacation and it is
equally pleasant to get. home and
settle down to routine work after
shirking duty on others for that
length of time.
It was the last part of July when
we took the notion that a motoring
trip among the numerous lakes of
Northern Minnesota would do us
good and we left via the Jefferson
Highway across the Red river for
the south. The road took us to Hal
lock where we shifted off to Thief
River Falls and Red Lake Falls.
To let the rest of the world know
that we were off on vacation we
called at The Enterprise Office at Hal
lock and informed Editor Bouvette
that we were off on a furlough. We
did the same at Argyle where we
called at the Banner office and found
Editor and Mrs. Kemp busy at work.
At Argyle we encountered rain and
motored through mud for probably
rs miles, or within a few miles of
Bagley.
We spent the night at Red Lake
Falls arriving about six o'clock which
was good time made considering that
we left home at two o'clock in the
afternoon. At Red Lake Falls we
found the town dressed in it's holiday
attire getting ready for the county
fair, but everybody was disappointed
in the weather conditions. We call
ed at the store of Leo Spillane but
owing to the early hour in the morn
ing the proprietor was not in so we
started On our journey. Mrs. Spill
lane was formely Mrs. Chas. LaFond
of this place, and they have an at
tractive business place in that city.
While the roads are graveled in
many places as far as Bagley we
found a good part of the road un-
finished with clay surface which
put the Red river black loan in the
shade for slipperiness during rain.
Lots Of power in the machine and
chains on the hind wheels landed us
in Itaska Park in the middle of the
afternoon. We scanned the numer-
Gus number Of camps TO see if we
could locate Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Will
son of Bathgate among the number
but failed. We knew they were
somewhere in the neighborhood from
previous arrangements. After a
brief delay in the park we went on to
Park Rapids where we spent the
night, arriving there in due time to
take much needed exercise before
supper. - .,,...,
Park Rapids is fine place Of pro-
badly a thousand Inhabitants. It is
we'll built up and surrounded by a
we'll settled community. For many
years it was the terminal Of the
Great Northern branch which starts
firm Sank Center and now ends at
Walker. It is surrounded by num-
erous lakes and the population at
this time of the year is increased by
hundreds of tourists either staying
in town or camping around the lakes.
Our destination was Backus, or the
LaMoure camp where the late SEN
ator LaMoure spent most of his time
in recent years, and which is the
property Of his son J. LaMoure of
this place. J. E. Lee of Neche owns
a we'll arranged cottage on the same
tract and it was in Mr.. Lees cottage
we spent our month enjoying the
surroundings of Lake Portage. We
even had access to Mr.. Lees cold
Town" canoe, made at Oldtown,
Maine, which is famous the United
States over for a safe boat in large
bodies of water.
During our stay in camp we mot
ored to many lakes in the vicinity