The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-02-03
WASIYING1ON
Letter Of Mrs. Fred Goodwin Tells Of
Their California Life.

A letter received this week from
Mrs. Alice Tillotson Goodwin viii in
terest MANY friends in Washington,
Chelsea, Williamstown, Orange ana
Corinth. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Goodwin
and three young sons left Chelsea last
fall in their Buick Six and crossed
the continent. taking a camping out
fit along. which they used during the
entire journey.
They are now pleasantly situated
in Bellfiower, Cal. n new town with
about 4,Co0 population, nine miles
from Long Beach, 10 miles 70 Los An
geles, 81 miles to South. Pasadena and
l2 miles to Whittier; one church, Pres.
byterian; one bank, bakery, lots of
stores, electric lights, gas, electric cars
to Los Angeles every few minutes,
and bus to Long Beach There are
so many autos one could ride on Amer
lean avenue any day and see more
cars than in the whole state Of YER
mont.
Items Of the letter follow;
1--WE meet hundreds OF them every
time we go to All Newman's. who lives
at Willowville. two miles this side Of
Long Beach | do not stay home long
enough to write many letters, but can
read all that come to me. Letters and
clippings seem pretty good to us, and
we have been blessed that way SO TAR.
Am sending Il picture Of our house, 80
You can see what we look like on the
outside. 1t looks small. hut we have
FIVE good rooms and bath. and fine
screened porch across the back, with
couch bed, and there il also room
enough for a breakfast nook,
"Last Saturday we went TO Downey
to an orange grove and got six dozen
oranges for GO cents, as nice ones as
Won ever saw. A man picked them
right off the trees for US. He had 10
acres in oranges. think the or
ange groves are the finest sight in
California. This week Fred is paint
ing All Newmail's house. 50 ! 80 with
him rather than stay home alone all
day. All the boys are in school l
take my sewing along. OF course my
homework is not done extra well, but
that does not trouble anyone in Cali
fornia. They all leave their work to
go.
aThere are 10000 autos in Long
Beach and vicinity; $500 pass an hour
never 20 into Los Angeles that i
terrible. Fred has an own cousin in
Los Angeles and we have got TO go
and see him and family some day. but
] Just dread it. X Is the worst Of
any city ever saw.
II like Long Beach and would like
to live there if il was not for the
boys. ] thought | did not want them
III the heart of the cry, pnt 10 The
rate we are growing here, we snail
soon be in Los Angeles and Long
Beach both. We can see Signal Hill,
Long Beach. from our porch, ii i 80
level here all through this section.
my throat is not any better a. yet,
and never expect it viii he. Fred Is
certainly better; do not know wheth-
er the trip or California climate has
made the change, but he II the best
for several years. Elmer has had no
trouble with his head this winter,
which shows that it was the cold eli
mate. There Is lots Of work on these
acres here. We have a few hens, ex
pect to have many more next winter.
@Mrs. Hattie Granger wished to be
remembered to her old friends. It Is
lust a nice ride to her home
Everything in California il buy
and sell, and usually good profit IN
selling. Everyone says we are in luck
to get our house all furnished and
surh nice little place. do not see
any here / like better