Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-16
CALIFORNIA,
LANDO DREAMS
TheO. Calvin Writes Herald
of Adopted Land.

A. L. Sherman, Editor Herald,
Lancaster, Wisconsin.
My Dear Sir
Enclosed please find $3.50 for which
pleaseextend my subscription for the
Herald another year [ wouldn't know
how to get along without the Herald
away out here in the far west as it
keeps us posted in all the news and
doings in and around good old Lam
caster.
Oh, how I longed to be in Lancas
ter on Decoration day. But that can
never be again as | am now in my
four score and sixth year.
Decoration day we went to Sawtell
the old soldiers home, about eight
miles from here. Went to their GEM
etery where there are thousands of
our old comrades buried. There is a
crooked driveway all thru the ceme-
terry and all the graves face the drive
way regardless of the way the road
runs, and every grave in the ceme-
terry has a beautiful bed of flowers
on it.
The Worlds Playground
I say that southern California is
the playground of the world, as tour
lists come here from every corner of
the earth. Many in autos from the
middle west. Some will stay, others
will go home and then come back, as
we did, and that was once we made
no mistake You that anticipate COM
ing here must have business, a pock-
ct full of dough, or expect to work.
But mind you the soft jobs are all
taken. They say a few Sundays ago
there were by actual count 1924 tour
lists landed from trains in Los Angeles
in one day. All the cities and towns
in southern California get as many
tourists as we do in proportion to
population. California is land apart
from all others, like no others and
distinctively itself
1t is of all lands the fairest and the
most blest, beloved of all mankind and
adOred by those who are to it's man.
ner born.
1t was the dream of deep sea wan
dererS and of the wanderer upon ev-
cry new found inland trail when the
world was young, and it is today the
mecca of all mems dreams in every
cline. To find romance in California
it is to California you must go.
Years Ago and Now
On the shores of the bay of San
Diego one will behold the spot where
the first habitation of white man was
reared on the western shores of our
America. There were no railroads in
America then, no telegraph, no means
of transportation except by sailing
vessels at sea and wagons or OK carts
on land. And now there is Los Angeles
which is well called the wonder city,
a metropolis sprung from desert sands
and out of ancient dreams to sit as
queen upon the shores of the sunset
sea. | would say that if any man any
where were to let a whole lifetime
pass without seeing California he
would commit a serious, and in these
times of easy and rapid transporta-
ton, an ineXcusable mistake.
California glories in it's thousands
of miles of paved highways that are
more than good-they are the best
that money can buy.
Because of the proximity of ocean
and desert California is both warm
in winter and cool in summer.
Wonderful Roads
The thousands of miles of paved
highways in California-one better
anywhere, which are maintained in
excellent shape-enable motorists to
tour the state under ideal conditions.
When going to the beaches at any
time of the year we find the shores
lined with people in bathing and
children playing in the sand Oh, to
be kid once more. When out riding
in the country we see great orange
orchards loaded with golden fruit
and along all the boulevards are lined
with all kinds of fruit and vegetable
stands.
And Many Children
Last spring when Los Angeles took
the census of the city there were
$4,000 more children of school age
there there were a year ago. And the
city fathers say they have to build a
new school house for every week in
the year to have school houses enough
to keep up with the growing popula-
ton, and every new school house has
to have an average of not less than
sixteen rooms and they are all built
out of steel, concrete and brick and
all fire proof
Pasadena is city about II miles
from Los Angeles and on every New
Years day they have what is called
the Tournament of Roses. They have
floats made to represent many things
and all covered with roses and flow
ers. 1t takes about two hours to pass
certain point. 1t is something Won
derful to see, and to see it once you
will always remember it.
Respectfully,
THEO. CALVIN.
"CaSting Contest, for MaIfnnianS