Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26
BY-PRODUCTS Of LIFE
No. Ia.
BY Eben Hearne
Ito be coptinued.)

~ tIlC IL11uuIC WCoOs HI July VI
year my sister and / greatly enjoyed
visit to some near relatives in indie
pendence, in Jackson County on the
central western boundary of the State
of Missouri, ten miles from Kansas
City. We visited in the home of a
sister of our mother and in the home
of a first cousin of our father. These
relatives happened to be living in the
city of independence and our visit in
each home was an exemplification of
the trite saying, killing two birds
with one missile"
The relatives at different times
had been guests in our own home IN
Pocomoke City. We boarded a train
at Baltimore and travelled north
through York, Pa, and at Harrisburg,
Pa, we proceeded west over the Penn
sylvania Railroad, over same route
we took when we went to the Worlds
Fair in Chicago in 1898. At Chicago
we changed cars for Kansas City, Mo.
over the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad. That route took us
through a part of northern Illinois
and through the states of Iowa and
Missouri-over a part of our great
country that was entirely new to us,
which made the car ride more in
teresting than ever. It gave US our
first view of the great prairies of the
West, about which we had read and
wondered at since our childhood. The
wide open spaces, the vast fields of
waving corn presented sight worth
beholding, surrounded by the far-dis-
tant horizon. We found that the
grandeur of the wide open spaces had
not been exaggerated but what we
had read of them was true to nature.
On our train, we became acquainted
with the obliging conductor and the
brakeman and they were most help
full to us in describing our novel sur
roundings and pointing out places of
interest along our way. The route
seemed to lay through an open coun-
try over much of the way and there
were very few stops made. We ar
rived in Kansas City in the afternoon
around o'clock and soon boarded a
train en- route to Independence, ten
miles distant and in a short time
reached the home of our aunt and her
family who gave us hearty welcome
in typical Southern style. During our
stay in independence our relatives
did everything in their power to cause
US to have an enjoyable visit. We
became very much interested in the
historic city of independence. It was
founded in 1927, and for many years
was the headquarters of the over
land route to California and both the
Santa Fe and the Oregon trail started
from that point now; it is largely a
residential suburb of Kansas City.
independence was occupied by the
Mormons in 1875, and during that
period it was noted rendezvous for
their emigrants. Later the Mormons
moved on farther west and finally
settled at Salt Lake City, in Utah,
where they assisted in building up a
city, which since 1847 has been the
seat of the Church of the Latter Day
Saints. The Great Mormon Temple
will seat 5000 people and it possesses
one of the finest pipe organs in the
country and at stated times the SER
vices and music of that great Temple
are broadcast to the country by the
radio.
Through the courtesy of our rela-
tives, we made frequent trips to Kan
sas City and we saw many of it's at
tractive features. It is one of the
great cities of the middle United
States. 1t has become an important
junction for trans-continental train,
bus and airplane travel. It's Union
Station is one of the largest Railroad
Stations in the world. It has several
spacious parks and one hundred and
twenty-five churches. On a Sunday
evening we attended a service at the
Independence Ave. Methodist Church
and heard sermon preached by Rev.
VIM. A. Quayle, who few years later
was elected Bishop of the Methodist
Church.
Kansas City, Mo. and Kansas City,
Kansas are located on the Missouri
River opposite to each and being con-
nected by bridges; they almost seem
like one city, although they are in
different states. We also had the
pleasure of seeing something of Kan
sas City, Kansas. independence is in
the midst of fine agricultural Sec
ton of Missouri. I enjoyed a delight
full carriage drive from independence
to the town of Lees Summit, dis
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