A TRIP ACROSS THE CONTINENT
"The Cranks Turn the World"
(By Judge D. F. Morrow)
Yes, there was the Dog; store right
on one of the big* streets in Chi
cago. They had the Esquimo Spits,
the poodle, the collie and a lot of
other kinds of dogs and puppies for
sale, ,"but the old time farm dog
and the hound was conspicuous for
his absence. I did not walk much
more, for night had come on, and I
had read in the papers that lots of
folks get killed in that big city.
Some gunman turned a rapid fire
gun loose on Mr. Swiggins and killed
him the day before I got there and
I didn't know but what they might
want to take a crack at me, 501 just
went back to the Union station and
got ready to take the 8:10 San Fran
cisco Overland Limited. And do you
know, when I started into the depot,
there was that fellow with the Ford
who had fixed his tire down near
Cincinnati, standing right at the head
of his Ford and had one hand on
his crank and the other holding on
the cap, that is where you water
a Ford, and was turning- that crank
with all his might. I stopped and
watched him. He stopped, blowed
a little, and then began cranking
again, and in a hurry. I guess he
thought the Limited was going to
start and he wanted to get an even
start with us. It was not long till
his engine began to give out the Ford
staccato and he bounced in and off
he went, and so did I. Soon I was
aboard, and such a train you hardly
ever saw. There were sleepers. Din
ners, buffet, observation and club
cars strung out along the track,
seemed to me for a quarter of a mile,
and one big engine to pull the whole
copush, and it pulled it alright. Now
the club car is the smoker, as well
as a club car. I went into smoke,
for I have the habit, not to club,
but there were many in there for
the club. They had many kinds of
spring and mineral water in bottles
to sell and lots of the clubbers were
buying it, pouring it into glasses and
drinking it. I guess it was good
water for they would bat their eyes
and smack their lips like it tasted
good. The most of them would, but
some of them kinder looked like
it burned their throat and their eyes
would water like they might begin
to cry, but they didn't. I soon
went to bed, wondering if my Ford
man, his cripple tire, wife, and
babies and fishing tackle was still
following us in his Ford.
Next morning I awoke to find we
wore passing Council Bluff, lowa and
crossing the Missouri river and soon
we were in Nebraska and at Omaha
City. This is, or was the state of
the late William Jennings Bryan, of
free silver days back in the eighties,
and the Scopes evolution trial in
Tennessee in 1925. But such things
as these pass and so are we on the
Limited passing.
But there are some things the
Limited can t pass, the airplane gave
her the bobilink and on it went, but
I said nothing else can't do it for
it seemed to me we were running
40 miles an hour and rounding into
Columbus, Neb., and just across one
of the streets as I batted my eyes
and looked out what do you think
I saw, well I hate to tell it, but
there stood my Ford man. This time
be had the hood off and the smoke
was issuing from every pur of the j
little engine like it was on fire. It
was panting like a tired dog. Our
train stopped. The Ford man tink
ering over his engine a minute, pour
ed some water down its throat and
before the Limited called all aboard,
that fellow was at the wheel and on
again on the Lincoln highway to
ward San Francisco same as our
Limited was. You can pass an air
plane and you may pass a Ford, but
the trouble is the Ford won't stay
passed.
Some wonderful farming country
we passed through in Nebraska, most
as level as a floor, and as far as j
you can see, and its so until you
come to Wyoming. This is the state,
as well as Texas, to take off your
hat to when you cross the border
lin*s. For Wyoming, as well as j
IF-exas, has a woman governor. Ma
Ferguson is not the only governor
that can wear bobbed hair and tell
folks to sit up and take notice or
they won't get pardoned. No siree,
Wyoming's got one. But the plains
begin to turn first" into bumps and
then into barren mountains, and we
are now at the Aspen tunnel, a mile
long or more. It's so long when you
are the middle both ends closes up
and'.you can't see out at either end
too, but
you can seeaayught. Passing
: through.the tunnel and you arc at
- the top of the mountain, start down
, a gradual 'decline but not violent,
t' following- a creek made by the melt
• ing snow. Soon we are in a valley.
: The sun was shinning hot, but you
• can look up and the peaks are all
i snow clad. They say it stays there
f all summer and one fellow said
' | some of the snow had been there
. e\%r since Adam was born. It
' never melts, I guess its been there
if quite a bit.
On the 30th day of April, 1926,
I know there is plenty of snow up
there and down where our train was
it was so hot the cook put out the
gas in the stove and fried eggs in
the sun. I did not see him, but
it was hot alright and snow in sight.
We stopped at Evanston, -a consider
able town for two minutes. The
elevation here is 6,747 feet above
sea level. Our next stop was Ogden,
Utah. Got there at 2 p. m. and left
there at 1:20 p. m.—forty minutes
before we stopped. Watches were
turned back so the sun could catch
up with us and the man in the Ford.
I stated a while ago, that when we :
were passing- through Aspen tunnel j
it was the top of the mountain and |
it was the top of the Rockies and j
from this point on we are on the '
MM HHOSEWHO WAIT
fIaSK MAY BE TOO LATE
M io June 15,
W These Pictures are ACTUAL photos of work iij progress at Lake Lure.
Fl\ These are all part of the $6,000,000 PROGRAM, running through 1926.
■M "IK This tremendous work was financed BEFORE offering a foot of ground FOR
(Cw)j Prices of home sites in Luremont on Lake Lure, its first residential lakeside
park, are based on SOUND VALUES in lake resort locations. The develop
(Uv) ment work goes on no matter how much property is bought by the public.
That is why the South is "sold" on Lake Lure. That is why the recent of
fering of Luremont home sites has resulted in a veritable scramble for the first
ry7 choice 'locations that threatens a "sell-out" by Opening Day, June 15th.
IMA llPeople from the larger cities in North Carolina and South Carolina are snap
\l/P' . ping up the Luremont offerings ahead of the arrival of the summer crowd from
» I I the South. They are due a profit if they want to sell later.
)CAQr I Carolinians! .Where else CAN there be a GREAT resort lake in the Land
I f of the Sky? Lake Lure has been in preparation FOll THREE YEARS. Such a
vfmg) ]r program cannot be achieved OVER NIGHT. . '
SRf Where else is there a CHIMNEY ROCK? BOTTOMLESS POOLS? Such
j/j\ golf, tennis, boating, fishing, bathing, such water sports? Such admirable loca
/i \ * -?' y on the principal scenic highway, the main artery from the mountains to the
v$&?) If you have never seen Chimney Rock, Hickory Nut Gap and Chimney Rock
\*> m■> Mountains, there is a treat in store for you. If you have been there, but not re
cently, you will be AMAZED at the progress, at the SIZE and SCOPE of the opera
tions. This is the BIGGEST JOB in the Land of the Sky—in the whole STATE
(sM£\ OF NORTH CAROLINA today. It is the ONE outstanding playground develop
[wattmm ment of NATIONAL CONSEQUENCE.
JfeftA ■ r-*T J r '™' a Visit the Lake Lure Branch Office. Get acquainted with the program through
VIJ I imt \ \ pictures, maps, and paintings. Then make a trip to the property as soon as posdble.
I & I -Dam. now faff :,-§s^
Purchase o/8,500 acres and cost of
j' i V Lake Lure Dam and Hydro-electric '
61 W . Commodious, ..com- $«50,ooo o£ advantage for home
FIT " ~r n tortable, safe Pullman- tod^?* SXO avmg an folk: before the sum
n[ regular trips through Hotels and other company buildings. mer crowd arrives
* y* Jf all the Carolina cities $2.500,000 from the South. Opet
/%ss\ , within a day's travel! Purchase of Chimney Rock, scenic ing Day June 15th.
Transportation free to Inn aiul Until then, there will
those interested, with- improvements, $600,000 be range of choice and
(olfe! ' 1 out obligation. Golf course, club buildings, etc., no price increase. '
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foSs\ ■■ Phone 3232 Phone 3650 Phone 28 Phone Bloi mar District Manager
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Settle on LAKE LURE
THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1926
j plateau lying between the Rockies
' and the Seria Nevadas or the
; mountains sloping down toward the
; Pacific Coast and to California. All
i tho country lying between these two
great ranges, for the most part are
barren. Of course there many high
peaks that are snow clad, but there
are some plains and valleys and
many of these arc at this season
ciad in green. The smell of the
flowers and vegetation is often fn
the air along these places.
Ogden, where we had to turn our
watches back is not very far from
Sah 'Lake and Salt Lake City, but
over this lino of railroad we did
not pass the city, but crossed the
lake and they told us the bridge was
30 miles long. It is some bridge, I
guess we will lose the Ford man this
time, for there, is no bridge for
autos, it's just a railroad bridge. The
i country here is all in Utah. This is
the state settled up by Brigham
Young and his Mormon fellows. They
used to have as many wives as they
wanted under the Mormon idea, ex
cept the deacons of the Mormon
church, he could have but one, be
cause the Bible said the deacon must
be the husband of one wife, and the
Mormons said they believed the
Bible. I guess the deacons felt
kinder lonesome, with just one wife
and everybody else with just lots
of them. If the law hadn't stopped
them, by this time, they would have
had to had a lot more courts to get
divorces, if it is ir* Utah like it is
i
everywhere else now. Salt Lake is
unlike any other I have ever seen,
there is not a boat nor fishing smack i
to be seen anywhere on its surface. I
There are no fish in it. It is rightly
named. For they say it is 20 per
cent salt, so briny that a fish can't
live in 'it.. Around the edges of
the lake can be seen from the train,
even if it is going so fast you have
to bat your eyes to look, a white
frost looking surface, 'but it is not
frost, it is salt. No wonder the fish
can't live in it. Just .after crossing"
the lake there are miles and miles of
plains, and by a bat of the eyes from
your car window, you would think
the ground was covered with snt>w
but it's not, it's salt, or alkalin, they
call it. No sign of vegetation no
where. We haVe read that salt is
savious, but in this case it is a killer.
To much of anything is no good, it
takes variety to give spice to any
thing. Salt is good but better to mix
it with something else. But now
we have reached a valley of fruits
and flowers greet us on every side,
and so does the Lincoln highway,
and the man in the Ford. For the
first thing I saw after getting be
yond the glare of the salt covered
surface, was my mah out in the road
patching another tire. I reckon it
was another for he was on the other
side of his car, but running that same
old pump up and down like he was
at Cincinnati, 2,000 miles back yon
der. I reckon it was the same man,
for he had a woman and some babies
with him, for the children, were out
in the sand playing. AnyKow I know
it was a Ford, if it's not the same
man, woman and children, it is a
Ford for they are like flies, they are
everywhere.
From my window, where I am
pecking on my typewriter, trying to
write this article,. I can now behold
a wonderful grazing country, and
the sheep and cattle of a thousand
hills and plains, for we are passing
out of Utah and coming: over into
Nevada, the state of grazing «and
mining. This state was once upon
a time, and is yet, so far as I know,
noted for its silver mines. And it
; has another note-worthy historic
j fact, in 18Di>, when the Cleveland
panic was on in good earnest in the
United States, it is said every bank
i in the state busted but one, and the
| officers of these two were so scared
! that they all turned gray and got
j bald headed over night. That was
j bank-busting some. But now it is
j one. of the best states in the Union
and at Reno, they can get a divorce
; quicker than anywhere else in the
world and more of them. Not only
this, but they have some of the best
towns and cities, and they are clean
and beautiful. Fine railways, good
| schools and roads, and no banks
j busting at all .
May the second, I got off at Reno,
spent Sunday, found it modern in
every particular. Good hotels, ele
gant depot, built of solid cement. If
the divorces they hand out are as
good as everything else looks aroun'd
there they are A-l.
VVt: UUY OK —nil,kiwl&!
i.«t real estate. We can get what i
you want or sell what you need j
at the right p»ice. 'Sales* conduct j
ed. A general real estate bus:- i
ness. See lis before you ituy o» j
«t-Ji CYCI.OXE AUCTION C-0., j
l City :>2-tf J
GOOD ONE ON
POPULAR CITY MERCHANT
"The boys" are telling a good one
on a certain well known Forest City
merchant. "They' say" a wag en
tered his store recently and made a
purchase, giving in exchange a
check. *
The merchant did not scrutinize
the check very closely, but sent it
in to the bank with others. Imagine
his surprise v.'hen the check was re
turned to him, marked "no good."
Then he looked at the signature
and this is whaf he saw: "You're
Stuck."
Of course, after a hearty laugh
the joker paid the bill due the vic
tim of his joke.
CYCLONE AUCTION CO.
GETS A NEW NAME
Doubtless whoever named the Cy
clone Auction Co., had in mind all
the characteristics of the name, and
they have certainly lived up to it.
When it comes to quick action and
dynamic force, they are running
true to form, having well earned the
great reputation of "always selling."
All of which leads up to the point
we wish to make:
A correspondent in Illinois last
week, wishing to communicate with
the Cyclone Auction Co., addressed
his letter to "The Storm C 0.," For
est City, N. C.
Anyway, that stands for action—
and that's what the Cyclone Com
pany is noted for.