Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-08-27
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SCOTT'S EMULSION
RICH I'M coD-LIvER Oh. AND
HEALTH-GEVING viTAMlNs

fields. Teyhoma lease, near there,
they looked for a friend employed
there. Camped for the night about
four miles west of Wichita Falls
Had plenty of cool water and few
mosquitoes. Soon after leaving camp
at daylight, saw a lovely old fash
ioned house-Engiish style, SO diff
ferent from those they had been see
ing. Next town was ST. 10. Mo-
ticed, nearing that place, an excep-
tionally pretty Catholic church
building with many gables.
AT Gainesville, next reached,
bought dozen canteloupes for 20
cents. Camped at farm house and
with members of the family there
had music. Miss Parmiter had her
violin along on the trip, and played
on that. Southmayd, Tex, was the
next place reached. The soil in that
section is very rich and crops good
Saw several deserted log cabins. In
the town of Bonham, next passed
the streets are very narrow. An in
teresting place is Texarkana, a
town on the border of Texas and Ar
Kansas railroad town Here, as
/ it began to rain, the two ladies went
into house for the night MFR. Par
miter staid at the car. At about
$50 next morning left Texarkana
/ through mist, over sandy ard gravel
4 ed roads. Negroes We're hauling
watermelons from the patches. The
1 Parmiters bought two melons for 10
cents. Just day or so before they
had paid 40 cents for one. at Hobart
I Okla. Crossed some streams of clear
faY, oi7,er Il
/ ed by the rain. In crossing one
stream the water came up even with
the lights of the car,
Went through a mountainous re-
i gion to Hot Springs, Ark, a noun
tain town, where many people go to
get their ailments cured Saw many
supposed invalids sitting on porches
j OF the houses. There are many bath
houses erected over the springs
F~hich one supposed to have the cura-
tive properties. From Hot Springs,
over the hard surfaced roads. We're
continually passing cars loaded with
people The Parmiters saw Ford
ahead of them try to pass, big car.
The Ford went over bank and
landed right end up, on four wheels,
with nobody killed and nobody hurt,
and the machine not damaged.
Along here saw car with people
from Burkburnett, Tex
At about this time the Parmiters'
foxterrier Burk who was member
of the party and was having the
time Of his life on the trip. guard
ing" the people, ETC., came racing
along to join them. In the excite
ment and interest of things going
on, when they had gotten back into
the car, after being out for a while,
they had forgotten about Burk.
They saw elderberries along the
way, in bloom and with fruit Trum-
pet vines were growing wild, in pro-
fusion. Farther west these vines
are carefully cultivated All along
the highway from Texarkana toward
colored people, and negro settle
ments, and what always fits m nicely
with such-cotton fields.
Houses perched on high founda-
tions looked much different from
others that had been passed. For
ests, with many vines, and much un-
derbrush, We're passed.
Came to the White river on the
DdHh VI WHICH luey CdHpeu. EeOplt
from two other cars were camping
here. Miss Parmiter while in camp
here used some of the time in prac-
ticing on her violin. 1t was while in
this camp that the others of the
party had joke on Mrs. Parmiter
that will last them to laugh on, for
some time, and they might be sing
ing to her Harry LADDERS famous
song-''It's nice to get up in the
morning, but it's nicer to lie in bed"
She concluded it was about time to
get up and prepare the morning
meal, and so she did Then she sat
down to wait. She kept on waiting,
but the stars in the sky refused to
dim, and the other people of the
auto party didn't rise, so she asked
her daughter to look at her watch
and see what time it was. Miss Par
miter replied that it was o'clock
Mrs. Parmiter had been up about
two hours.
At noon that day they reached the
long toll bridge across the MISSISSIPPI
pi, with its heavy traffic. They
went into Memphis, Tenn, in pour
ing rain They viewed the beauti-
full Park Way section, and left Mem