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Tells of 25,000 Mile Trip Across U. 8. to Alaskan Wilds In this week‘s issue of the H1quâ€" LAND PazK Press is a continuation of the Round Robin letters, written to Highland Park friends by the Robert Patton family, during their 25,000 mile trailer trip across the United States and up the west coast to Seattle, Wash., where they emâ€" barked for Alaska. They began their trip May 26, 1988 and returned to in time for the opening of school, in order that their son Dick might reâ€" _ Because of lack of space, the letâ€" ter was omitted from last week‘s isâ€" sue of TEE PrEss, Each letter or episode is divided in two parts, due to the length of each, so that a comâ€" plete letter covers a period of two weeks. The following is a continuaâ€" tion of the first episode which apâ€" peared in THE PrEss issue of Nov. Our troubles are over and Sumâ€" ing‘s working great, getting a daily bath from the heavens above. Some one told me that the west is arid but evidently we are timing it just right to catch all the local showers. Sante Fe is a most interesting town where one of the oldest churches in the country is found, built back about 1540 by the Spanâ€" airds. We spent two days here viewing the old town, the Indian pueblos, etc. One day we drove way up in the mountains and I tried w‘ ease our expense account by catchâ€" ing a few trout out of a tea cup of water. I saw them, I coxed them, I offered them the freshest of salmon eggs direct from cold storage but they didn‘t like my looks. It even rained all the time I was fishing and I got back to the car looking like a drowned rat, with Sue fussing over the deepening shadows in the west and thinking of the steep roads ahead by the light of a silvery moon, if it stopped raining. The good book, "The Lure of the Southwest" put out by Rays Wibles company to extol the beauties of the country and tell how they could be better enjoyed when using "Mobilâ€" gas" told us to be sure to see Acoma "The city of the skies." It appears an Indian tribe built their pueble on top of a Mesa, rising 500 feet out of the plain with sheer cliffs on all sides. In order to reach it you climbed up steps cut in the stone with hand holds similarly hewn. We went up and were well repaid for our efforts, also paid well for the privilege. Right here let me say all the gold diggers are not in N.Y. C. A motley crew live in New Mexâ€" ico with dark skins. The first request was $1.00 a head to see the sights, then $1 for a camera, but when I started to take pictures I was inâ€" formed a movie was five bucks. Each Indian lassie then wanted the most she could get to have her picture took. Any way I got a lot of picâ€" tures and hope they turn out good. Grand Canyon is a magnificient spectacle, too vast to be beautiful, too barren to be pleasing. A great work of art by nature but both Sue and I felt rather negative emotions instead of being buoyed up by someâ€" thing surpassingly beautiful. The distances, the depths are too great to take in, although at sundown some of the drabness turns into soft pastel shades. An artist would apâ€" preciate the high lights and shaâ€" dows. The comfort of a trailer was shown reaching the north rim. We got to Flag Staff about 4 p.m. too early to put up for the night, so QualityCleaners RELIABLE LAUNDRY 322 N. First St. _ Phone 77 Adults . . . . 40e DRY CLEANING CO. First house north of Central arenme om Kast side of Street DILL‘S HOME BARBER SHOP HAIRCUTTING 21 North Second Street 15 Years in Highland Pork Telephone H. P. 5435 Phone H. P. 178 DAHL‘S AND Three hours later, no camp, and a m-,uâ€"::‘bhdd‘& road and for the night. We comfortable. lohx-lhmru of room in the trailer and is very easy. The only thing we both don‘t like is making up the big bed. It is hard work. Each morning I haul out and start the hot water Bryce Canyon is really gorgeous, a vast arena filled with minarets of every size and shape tinted a wonâ€" derfully pretty shade of pink. You come onto them suddenly after crossâ€" ing a dusty barren plateau. There are 13 separate amphi theatres each with its own colony and grotesque outlines. Words cannot tell the story of the beauty, the oddity, the unusual sights that so unexpectedly pop into view one after another. We stayed at the lodge having left Sumâ€" ing in a church yard 60 miles away. Everyone told us the appropriate time to see the canyon was by sunâ€" rise. Sue and I got up, we shivered, we froze, we congealed, our teeth ichamnd but we saw the sun appear in the east and decided our beds were more attractive. Bryce Canâ€" yon is outstanding, something so unâ€" expectedly beautiful, as to be inâ€" conceivable. You simply can‘t picâ€" ture it and photos are drab in comâ€" parison to the real thing. there is hot water to shave, heater and by the time I am dressed Zion National Park is a rugged box canyon with sheer precipices several thousand feet high boxing it in. It is beautiful and the floor of the valley with its green is a welâ€" come relief to the barreness of the aired country. Behind our schedule we pushed on, seeing Boulder Dam and enjoyâ€" ing a much needed bath in Lake Mead, with the temperature 110 plus. Our thermometer wouldn‘t go any higher. That night we left Los Vegas, Utah at 9 p.m. to drive mcross the Mojave desert. Heat and more heat and we got here and are roasting in cool mounâ€" tain air. Sequoia is glorious, the most beautiful spot we have found. There is a fine grocery store where Sue filled her insides last night on steak, which she had bought. Episode I draws to a close, we sure like the trailer and being gypâ€" sies. We even tried out the tub on Dick the other day and it worked perfectly, but after hauling water for him, I decided I could go dirty another day or so. Ellen Tempner of Highland Park appeared on the program of the Barâ€" well Goodfellowship settlement for a musicale and tea at the Elks club Sunday afternoon . . . Marjorie Kurtzon, who is attending Connectiâ€" cut College for Women at New Lonâ€" don, Conn., is active in dramatics there . . . she is acting as coâ€"chairâ€" man of the costume committee for "Our Town," fall production of Wig and Candle, dramatic society . . . the Thorton Wilder play, a Pulitâ€" zer prize winner, will be given in the new Frank Loomis Palmer audiâ€" torium fall. . . And they tell one about Marina Barufi, Highwood . . . the devoutest of Catholics . . . who couldn‘t bear to see her little granddaughter manâ€" handle a little doll dressed as a nun . . . even to the rosary . . . so she took the doll under her protecting wing. . : . Francis N. Bard has to his credit the invention of an internal comâ€" bustion hammer . . . and has asâ€" signed the use of the patent to Gas Tools patents corporation . . . Doris Carlson is secretary to a Waukegan lawyer . . . following the successful completion of a course at Lake Colâ€" lege of Commerce . . . Lydia Zanâ€" otti clerks at the Highwood Naâ€" tional . . . Faustina Cassidy dittos at another National store down the North Shore. . . . Read in the church notices . . . 11 a.m. Sunday service, slightly damâ€" aged, greatly reduced in value . . . could it be referring to the service . . . or is the sermon so titled. . . . Elizabeth and Frank Peyraud exâ€" hibiting paintings at the Chicago Galleries association until Nov. 25 Read The Wantâ€"Ads Alhem ... which was opened this As ever, Bob, Sue and Dick Richard J. Lyons to Address Youn; Young Republicans, to be held at the Hotel Karcher, Waukegan, on Sunâ€" day, November l’,.--m 2 o‘clock p.m., will feature J. Lyons, of Libertyville, Republiâ€" can candidate for governor, as its banquet speaker. The convention will be opened by Robert McClory of Lake Bluff, chairâ€" man of the Lake County Federation of Young Republicans, who will reâ€" port on Young Republican activities during the term of his administraâ€" tion. After a report of the seeâ€" retary and treasurer of the Federâ€" ation, the meeting will break up inâ€" to committees, for which all interâ€" ested persons may appear. The comâ€" mittee, which will include resoluâ€" tions, constitution, organization, proâ€" gram, credentials and finance, will prepare reports which will be deâ€" livered when the convention reconâ€" venes at 4 p.m. to pass upon the reports of the various committees and to elect its officers for the sueâ€" ceeding year. e ha s Tickets for the banquet may be obtained from Young Republican repâ€" resentatives or at the Hotel Karâ€" cher, immediately preceding the banquet. Among the local Young Republicans who will participate in the convention sessions are: Hugo Schneider Jr., chairman of the Highâ€" land Park Young Republican Club; Mrs. Grace Jacobsen, secretary of the Lake County Federation; Mrs. iMnrglret Simmers, William Veech and Mrs. Edith Krater, At 6:30 p.m. the Young Repubâ€" licans will hold their convention banquet, at which Richard J, Lyons will speak. â€" A committee in charge of the conâ€" vention is planning light refreshâ€" ments for those attending the conâ€" vention who do not care to particiâ€" pate in the more serious business of the convention. The convention is open to the public and all perâ€" sons, young or old, interested in Reâ€" publican party politics are invited to attend. Cook Your Thanksgiving Dinner With a Fast, Clean, Carefree You‘ll enjoy its timeâ€"saving features, sparkling beauty, tastier results â€"every day for years to come! 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