Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-02-13
Herald Disoheys Orders.

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! from l.. G. Wheeler was received by
the Herald man last week. Mr..
| Wheeler tells us not to publish it, but
| the letter is so interesting that our
| judgment over what is good reading
will prevail over his. And besides he
| is too far away to do more than utter
maledictions or punish us vigorously,
and editors are used to that. Here is
Mr.. Wheeler's instructive and neWsy
| letter:
! L. G. WHEELER
535 East 62nd Street North,
Portland, Oregon.
January 81, 1924.
| A L. Sherman, Publisher,
| Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Dear Sir:
| received your statement for 1924
| subscription today, and herewith en-
| lose check on Union State Bank to
| pay same. | hadn't. forgotten the
matter, but in fact had planned on
sending it this week. l am still in
terested in the haps and mishaps of
my former home, and have to rely on
the Herald largely for news from
there. What few correspondents l
have back there would make poor re-
porters or newspaper men, as they do
not write of many things / would like
to keep informed of.
40 Above at Portland.
On the bottom of your statement
you write 20 below on January IT,.
Here it is around 40 above 1t is very
rare when it gets below 20 above
zero, and in fact / believe the coolest
it has been this winter was Is ABOVE,
and | think once since | came west it
was 16 above. A few days ago my
brother dug carrots out of our gar
den for a meal, and they hadn't been
frozen enough to hurt them. They
continue all winter here to dig base
ments with teams and scrapers. To-
day the weather is rather spring like
and balmy. AS / look over my left
shoulder / can see the foot hills of
the mountains through the window,
and back of them the Cascade range
Of mountains with snow all along the
horizon, with Mt. Hood dominating
all with its towering majesty and
snow draped splendor. 1t scarcely
looks to be more than fifteen or TWEEN
ty miles distant, though it is about
fifty miles. 1t surely is wonderful
sight to watch it day like today
when it is so white with the sunshine
on it and surrounded by a blueish
hazy background. Very soon, as the
sun gets lower, it will gradually turn
to pale pink, then to golden rosy
tinge, and as the shades of night low
er, will shade Off to a lavender, then
blue, and finally to dim black
shadow The sunsets are often Won
derful in it's colorings, showing the
most gorgeous colors, both in the east
and west. When conditions are ia
vorable we can see from our home not
only Mt. Hood, which is unObstructed
from view by any buildings or trees,
but the tip of Mt. Jefferson to the
southeast and Mt. ST. Helens to the
northeast through the trees. All
perpetually covered with snow. In
the Willamette valley there is no
snow at the present time, though we
had light covering of snow for q
little more than week around
Christmas. Until quite recently we
could see roses in bloom across the
street in a neighbours yard. We have
had a pretty severe and cold wind a
time or two recently, so / suppose the
roses got discouraged.
Golf Addicts Keep Playing.
We feel the temperature most here
when the east or northeast winds
blow off the mountains. They surely
do blow pretty strong too at times.
Yet it takes considerable to stop the
golf bugs from playing. Our home is
near one corner of Rose City Park,
so we can look down into it at any
time, it being in sort of depression
or gully. 1t was formerly the Rose
City Speedway where they held horse
races and other sports in times past.
There is a mile track down there yet,
but it has been given up for racing.
and golf links constructed, so there
is seldom a minute but we see some
players making the course. They
even play if there is snow on the
ground, though / don't see how they
can keep track of the balls in the
snow. Snow or rain seems to make
little difference to golf fans.
Sacred Order of HOOt Owls.
I gather from one of your recent
editorials you are radio bug. / can
sympathize with you there, as / have
the malady also. / have an OUTFIT
made myself, a crystal set, which is
good for all local broadcasts. We
have four stations in Portland which
broadcast programs at various times,
though the Oregonian is the most
powerful and has the best programs
/ believe on the coast, or was until
recently. / think more powerful
statio- is building at Oakland. How
ever the Oregonian programs fill up
the time so much and are of such
quality it is quite sufficient for us.
Every night from eight o'clock on
more or less, all evening we get radio
entertainment, lectures, vocal and in
strumental music, orchestras and va
rious varieties of same including the
order of 1.-The Keep Growing Wiser