Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-10
MY TRIP TO MEMPHIS

tried to write to newspaper, but the
trip am going to write about was so
wonderful that / can not keep it all
to myself. / feel that I must pass
it on, and I do hope it will be an en-
couragement to the boys and girls
so that they will do their very best
next year.
The trip which I was awarded for
good work in Dairy Calf project was
free trip to the National Dairy
Show at Memphis, Tennessee, as a
guest of the Minneapolis Journal.
The Minneapolis Journal also spon-
sored this trip for eleven other boys
from Minnesota. We were in all
twenty Eight from Minnesota.
left Askov 1920 a. M, Friday,
Oct. IA, and arrived in st. Paul at 1:45
p. m, where l was met by Mr.. Len
non, the 500 Line representative.
That afternoon we went to see good
show. At 7:45 p. m. we were ready
to leave for Chicago. Just before the
train pulled out Journal photo
grapher took a picture of their guests.
We had not gone far before the
porter came and made our seats into
berths where we slept soundly and
comfortably. We were, however, early
risers. When we woke up we were
two hundred miles from Chicago.
When breakfast was ready we went
into the dining car where we wrap
ped ourselves around some good ham
and eggs and coffee. AS we arrived
in Chicago at 9:15 Saturday morning,
all eager to see the big city, we were
met at the depot by special bus
which took us to the Blue Valley
creamery where we discovered that
we did not know everything about
dairy products. We saw how they
sterilized the cream, which took out
all the good and bad bacteria and
how they manufactured cone culture.
They gave us a sample of this cul-
ture which tasted almost like butter
milk.
We then went to Michigan park
where we saw ship like the one
Columbus came over to America in.
From there we went to the Tribune
tower, the home of the Chicago Trib-
une. This tower was completed in
1925. 1t is 465 feet high and is "a
stories and easements. 1t gave us
a thrill to be elevated so high up
in the air and get up on top. We
also had a birds eye view of Chi
cago.
From there we went to the Lincoln
park where we stopped a short time
at the zoo. There we saw almost
all kinds of animals and birds, as
zebras, elephants, leopards, lions,
tigers, hippopotamus, ostriches, pea
cocks, parrots, eagles, etc.
Then we went to the Field museum
where we saw the two biggest ele-
plants that have ever been caught
and stuffed were pictured off as if
they were fighting, and the deer run
ming out of the woods where they had
kicked up the snow. The mountain
goats were pictured off up in the
hills and mountains. From one of
the windows I could see Soldiers
Field where Dempsey and Tunney
fought If the Chicago people stopped
and looked at us too much we let a
Minnesota yell fly at them.
At 6:15 p. m. we left Chicago.
When we woke up next morning we
were in Tennessee. The first we saw
there was a cotton field. Most of the
negro farmers have a small patch of
cotton and cow and mule or two.
We got to Memphis 500 a. m, Sun
day morning. We all decided to go
to the Methodist church for the NOR
ming services. The minister gave a
nice speech about us from Minnesota
and asked our state club leader, Mr.
Erickson, to give talk, which he
did.
Monday, Oct. II, we went on a trip
around the city of Memphis. We saw
a state university and hospitals and
drove across the Mississippi river and
back and across the Arkansas line
where we saw negroes picking cotton.
The Shelby County Farm Bureau fur
nished the bus for these trips.
Tuesday we went on IS mile tour
which took us to a large consolidated
school, where we were all treated
with very nice punch. This school
has an agricultural building, a man
ual training room, and gymnastic
room, besides all the school rooms.
We then went on and stopped and
picked some cotton and persimmons.
We then visited a cotton mill where
we learned lot about cotton indus