White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-12-20
ANGLES SAY THEY LIKE
new KENTUCKY HOME.

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| new KENTUCKY HOME
Writing from Woodbrrn Ken.
tucky, on December 8, w. s. Angl.
who with his family left White Bluffs
November 20 on the 1000 miles jour
ney overland, to their new Kentucky
home, writes interestingly of the lat
ter part of the trip and the safe
arrival Of the family at their des.
tination. His letter follows:
I'VE arrived Wednesday, Decen.
Der 4, about 1880 p. m. We happened
to stop at the store where the post
master was loafing and he came
around to the house with US and
we just turned on the lights and
lit the gas and were right at home.
Several Of the neighbors came in
immediately and offered TO take us
in for the night or to do anything
they could to make US comfortable.
They are A. very friendly. and
courteous people and we like them
very much.
"The country and the route are
just as / expected. They had some
zero weather Sunday and Monday
before. we arrived; the coldest for
the time of year for 81 years. so
yvery one, thought we would be
frozen when we got here bit we
all made the trip in good condition
except Dorothy, who caught cold
the last day and was in bed for two
days after we got here. She Is all
right now and will start to school
Rena Belle and Lewis started
Friday. Naturally, they don't like It
as well as White Bluffs High.
~ wrote you last from Gallup,
New Mexico, think, just after we
the Painted Desert. Well,
that ended our beautiful scenery but
there were lots of interesting things
close at hand that claimed our at
tention, It seemed that we had just
been lifted out of America and de-
posted in Mexico, as the buildings
were ell adobe and the people seemed
to Be all Mexicans. m
? 1--WE arrived in Santa Fc about $3.50
Thanksgiving Day and decided to
stop for the day. We drove all
around and gave the. town the once
over and it seemed to be more
Of a Mexican town than the others.
A white man ran the camp where
we stopped for the night. The cabins
were new adobe as was the office,
but his house, which was right near
by must have been hundreds Of years
old. It must have been the house OF
some rich senior when Santa Fe was
a village. m m
4'The weather had been beautiful all
the way but when we left Santa
F'e we ran right into a snow storm
and it costinued until we reached
lower levels. The altitude there was
over. 1000 feet. The snow turned into
mist which froze on the Windshield
a. we. got lower and tllis, kept on
Until, late afternoon. It was SO bad
we had to stop every few miles and
Ecrape the windshields. We made our
usual milage though by driving un-
til dark and went into camp right
on the Texas border. We slept in
New Mexico but went across the
street into Texas to get our supplies.
It was clear but with cold north
wind sweeping the plains for the
next two days. We did not see many
people but there were thousands Of
cattle. That did not reduce the price
of steak, though.
I'VE encountered our worst roads
IN Western Oklahoma. I don't know
how We or the cars either stood the
pounding we got that day. I never
saw anything to equal 1t anywhere.
What struck me as queer about it,
was that 1t looked to be the richest
section Of the country we had gone
through, outside Of California. There
we're miles and miles Of beautiful
well kept farms with buildings and
:encest In the best condition II ever
Jaw anywhere, but the roads were
abominable. As we neared Arkansas,
here were decided improvement in
cad conditions and in Arkansas we
lad paving most Of the way but It
was very narrow, as asYsrough and |
ortuous 50 we could not make good
ime. B
II want to say right here that out
ide of California and Western Okla
iona, farming conditions looked
,ery, very poor.
I'VE entered Tennessee at Mem
his and went into camp soon after
ve left the city. We started our last
lay from there and it was six above
ero that morning. We travelled over
he Andrew Jackson highway all
he way through Tennessee and it
'roved to be the finest and most
continuous stretch of pavement we
lad encountered. The farms and
country generally were beautiful and
ooked prosperous and there were
more large and beautiful homes than
my where else along the route. The
ZONES in California or anywhere else
:an not be compared with them.
I'VE entered Kentucky just. at
lark and Of course have seen less
II it than other states we had been
n. We will have lots of time for
seeing it, though, we are going
o like it too. Kindest regards from /!
rom all Of us to all Of our friends"
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