Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-07

C,,0ohine Pixies Peak, near Denver
5as,rited in this article, one of a
.ias Of letters sent back to the Daily
nisnatch by S. T. Peace, one of a
,n,v of five Henderson people who
f.,ondad the convention of Rotary In
..,,otional in San Francisco. He has
~, returned home, but this story
s mailed from Yellowstone Nation
- park on July 1. 1t follows in full
rr ro,ltc home June 80 / like Idaho.
rho mountains have enough grass for
'boen ard cattle. The farming land s
,,ors level than this jolting train
,,,o,id indicate. Flows are never
a,swn by one horse but by two or
thrae or four horses. The farmer rides
hebind the plow like we do when SOW
mo peas at home. Some of the plow
soots carry an umbrella over the far
MGR Being a town farmer, that is just
nv number. A baked Idaho is the
host Irish potato on earth. The potato
bouses are over one hundred feet.
long. covered with dirt. They have 2
front door and back door large
enough for a large wagon to pass
thrmgh. Each potato house is large
enough to hold three or four carloads
II potatoes. Farmers here work all
day Sunday.
# is impossible to appraise proper
X any city by simply going through
il in q sightseeing bus. It is my i'm
pression that Denver is the prettiest
and best kept city we have passed.
All residences have neatly kept yards.
with very green grass The lesson :
we'll taught here that if you want \
nice grass lawn you just must use n
great deal of water.
At the base of the granite post Of
flee building here there is a long
stone bench. above which in the stone
is cut. IF thou desire rest, desire
thou not too much" On this bench.
as we passed, an old tramp lay asleep
Now what was his idea of too much
rest?
Without exception, wherever W.
have been, each city or locality has
had the longest this or longest that
in all the whole world. / have done
my best all along to uphold my home
town and keep it on the map. 1 have
told everybody, everywhere, that my
home town, Henderson, North Caro-
lima has the most discussed underpass
in the whole world We are now on
our way up to Pixies Peak, which has
the highest highway bridge in the
world Proving that our underpass is
greater piece of engineering than is
this bridge is going to be rather the
biggest job in the world, hut I am
right far from home, you know.
Denver Rotarians gave us our
greatest reception. They also gave us
walking sticks for the old and large
silk scarfs for the beautiful The re-
firing president of Rotary is a French
man. One of the scarfs was given
his wife. She acknowledged it will,
thanks for the nice, beautiful table
cloth
We are now approaching Pixies
Peak, which reminds me that on our
Rotary special train there is a Peacs.
a Pace, and Peake. May our scram>
bled eggs never get mixed.
A day later-We have now seen
Pixies Peak. Mark Twain used to say
that whenever you wanted to take q
summer vacation just go into your
pantry crawl up on the top shelf,
close the door, and put a cinder in
your eye. Perhaps he had never suf-
fered the thrills of climbing Pixies
Peak. Pixies Peak is nearly three
miles high, it is more than twice as
high as the tallest mountain east Of
the Mississippi river We went up in
an automobile made for the purpose
and which cost $4,000 each. These
cars carried ten passengers each. The