The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1951-03-01


rant at least Claude was (and
| considered him one of my boys). |
But / found they lived about 4Ol
miles from Hobbs so never got to
see them. Then l looked up Mr..
and Mrs. Dudley Brand. Mrs.
Brand is the former Susie Brewer
of Kosciusko and a cousin of Mrs.
John Howard Beall of Lexington.
We had nice visit with. them
and then took off for Lovington
to see Billy, who was not off from
work, so we rested and waited.
He arrived about 4:30.
Later in the evening Bill, his
date, Ethel, Conway, and | went
to a place out of Hobbs for din
ner where there was soft music
and dim lights, along with good
food.
Next morning the four of us
took off to Carlsbad. Having mis-
sed the first tour by about five
minutes, we had to wait until IL
o'clock. We took off in a mist
of snow to the mouth of the cave,
and were in line ready for the de-
scent when that time came. If
there hadn't been rest periods
every once in awhile, | would
never have made it. My brakes
were about worn out when we
arrived at the bottom, which was
about $50 feet below where we
started. Six hundred and
visitors saw the worlds largest
caverns that day, only three from
Mississippi. We had lunch in the
cavern after the first half of
trip and tried to get out of g.
ing the other half. but was kid
| ded about getting old. didn't
, see how could make it, but
couldn't afford to be called
Sissy"
There were elevators to bring
us up from the caverns, FORUM
ately, for if there hadn't been, I'd
have been compelled to spend
some time down there, as / would
never have made it back up. If
you plan to go out there and go
through, take my advice and
walk a little, and have your
brakes adjusted before you start:
When we reached the face of
the earth again, there was ter
rifle snow storm with the wind
blowing about 20 miles an hour.
OF course l was panicky. l am
afraid of mountain driving any,
way, and having to go down
through the snowstorm, l didn't
know whether l would live
through it or not. Some one had
said that all roads to the south
were closed, and of course that
did not help my feelings any.
But we took off to Lovington. 1t
was beautiful sight, and for
tunately for us the snow was not
sticking to the road so we made
it fine.
| On Wednesday morning we
left Lovington with no definite
destination in mind but wound
up by going by Roswell. From
there to Globe where the noun
tains are pretty high, lots OF
mountains were snow-capped but
the roads were clear. So when
we got there, we decided to &C
on to Phoenix, Arizona. Friday
i we made it as far as Mesa, SUI.
I burb of Phoenix, and spent the
night.
| Ethel tried to call Noel anc
Christine Wallis, former Lexing
ton People. Mrs. Wallis will be
remembered as Christine Doty
But Christine had been called to
California, where their only son
is stationed in camp, and he was
desperately ill. Noel, however,
was at home and we did get in
touch with him later. He came
Saturday morning and said we
had to move to his house, which
of course DIDN'T make us mad.
/ BY the time we left. their son
was better and Christine was COM
ing home that day.
Saturday afternoon Ethel and I
drove over to see Mr.. and Mrs. J.
j. Mace. Mrs. Mace is the for
mer Rosalie Fowler of Owens
Wells. Mr.. and Mrs. Mace took
us for long ride and showed us
all of the show places among them
being Campbell Back Inn. set
back with a mountain for a back
ground. 1t was beautiful place
with many flowers in bloom such