The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-19

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up on top where the Captain and his
two pilots were, A hearty old warbte
Hello boys" greeted us. where YOU
from, and where to, amt got any
mule. whiskey on va have your
mop" was our reply. All right that's
the way. You see we have a crew
on here just looking for all they
can lick up and we cannot afford to
be hung upon a bar by a bunch like
that. Then, says the cap as it was
R:SO. Have you had dinner?" Mop
I"Come along with me, go get the
other two boys" and we had din
ner delux also supper and breakfast !;
| bath, shave and clean up for Mem
phis in the morning. Yes, it was a
swell up to date modern river steam
! er and we got the best service from
very pleasant acting, and fine for
service, Negro maid
When We left at Memphis the cap
tain and pilots we thanked and took
their names and address, they also
asking us for ours and where We
were going and all. They wished us
! pleasant trip and said they were
delighted, If they had been of any
help to us. and II we were ever in
distress when they passed us 10
Just wave a white handkerchief the
.symbof-that they were coming
empty barges and we should give
'em the high ball on their way
past us upstream. We sure will.
Now l wish the secretary of the
club would write three letters Of
thanks TO the following addresses:
Captain w. M, Crow, care West
Kentucky Coal Co., Paducah, KY.
Pilot ]. S. Martin, care West Ky.
Coal Company. Captain II. B. Nya,
care West KY. Coal Co., all of PA
with a little note as best you
know how and If you will please
send me copy Of same extend OUT
club welcome TO them il ever in our
city, and accept my thanks.
Tells About Memphis -.
Now we are at Memphis a hDst-
ling. bustling southern city Of 800, 1000
population. We camped on a little
river, Wolff by name which always
meets the Mississippi at the Post
Office and twas right handy for mo
and a pack sack for Christmas mail,
all the world should be jealous of me
when leave dis post Office. Girl at
the general delivery window took a
hand full of letters out of "a" pocket
in the rack. and gave me all but
two. then four packages. Received
just nineteen letters and wish 20
thank all club members for the kind
remembrance through this hollow
log as a megaphone, now did you all
hear meah.
I'VE all dressed as much Cannuck
like with moss on, etc., and put in at
the. commercial appeal, the editor
beng a welcome spectator and lis
tener to our story checked it all
down and it would be in Thursday
mornings Commercial, leading Mem
phis paper and would be distributed
then to our home papers The Free
Press and New York News, by the
Associated Press. However, the
Thursday edition of the Memphis
paper did not contain a not for it
or have we seen it since. What had
the Free Press received did you read
anything
Vicksburg and you can publish a
a place any time you wish. New
Workers. think our club Is just it
since my Christmas mail arrived.
There is a reason" TOO much
rustic in that big place" so they tell
me you have to most fight for a
camp site along the Hudson and
Harlem Rivers.
Big Steamers Pass .
"Weowna Yacht and Canoe club
members pay, after being vouchered
for by two members of the club as
worthy of acceptance into the club
as a member, ten dollars initiation
fee, plus $500 year dues, plus S24
a year house rent, or locker dues; as
there was no chance for site for
their own club house. Have been
organized twelve years. Every one
must have their canoe and equip
ment before being taken into the
club. Mississippi river is poor
place for pleasure parties in canoes
as it is too big and wind is mean
at times even Tor motor boats Well
you know what for canoes. clearer
than the Minnesota down TO Alton,
ILL.,, and like you would mix up a
dish pan of half brown clay and wa
ter down here, still we have to drink
| it if we want water.
big steamers pass us every day
up and down, some big government
oil burners here too, and some
transfer boats, monster at Helena,
Ark, which transfers. parts OF rail
road train across to the Mississippi
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you people will have to pardon
my finger plintS on some Of this let
ter as l have to fire up professionally
and have no towel EVeryb--y rides
mule back down here. Monster
land slides into the river all along
here pictures will show camp scenes,
Memphis, Pickney, Arkansas, Friars
on a Levee concrete likes a big
break in Leyee, etc. Cotton fields
! look like nursery of small apple
| trees, with a ball of cotton on each
| branch Stalks grow about/three to
four feet high and an inch through at
| the ground, flowers are red or first
white then turn red and finally into
brown pod containing the cotton.
Plantation owned by one colonel con-
tains his modern home and dozens
of little white darkie> homes on stills
here and there about the thousand
! and more acres OF cotton and corn.
| All white corn grows down here.
| We can hardly understand these
south ern darkies' lingo.
Southern States joke
Arkansas and Mississippi states
fare a joke for beautiful shores, can
hardly land and most places you
can't We have TO start picking a
camp site at $3.50 which makes a
| log evening OF it many times. Get
UP before daylight mostly so as to
be off at $3.50 or $3.50. River is a