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; FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1923.. r ICS two THE CASTONIA DAILY GAZETTE El RETURN TRIP GASTOMA SHRINERS SAW MUCH WONDERFUL SCENERY Glories of Sunrise on Pike' Peak Are Truly Indescribable - Majestic Splendor of the Rocky Mountains Leaves Indelible Impression on Minds of all Last Stop Was at Denver. (By Mrs. Juanita C. Garrison) placed theft by men. Xo natural frass or shrubs, but all cultivate. It shows what determination ean do. (Denver's park system is dWi.led into two divisions: (1) city parks and ' boulevards; (2) mountain parks and highways. In the first division there are thirty-nine parks, including seventeen supervised children's playgrounds. There are eighteen mile of improved parkways. And Gastonia can not find room or money for one! We spent the afternoon sightseeing, Tn mv list article I promise! not to i me to tell this the colors ha.i lisappearei shopinng and resting, ami at ll:UU Jnat . w 1M,0ie anv more luit several ami a very faint glow was seen from the night we started home. TireHf Yes, bnt have asked me to complete the trip, so EXTRAORDINARY SALE here I am again. 1 appreciate me kin-i-uess of the editors of the paper in giving paee to these articles and am certainly grateful for the many kind expressions from t'liemls as to the interest shown them. We left Salt Lake at i!:"-' p. m. and were a.hise.l to retire early as the .our, try through which we would travel next day would be very beautiful so it would be wise to get an early start with 'he ncenery. Some professed to have ie-u surfeited with mountains, but they were on hand as early as any next morning. We came through the Kc.-k.v Mountains for miles and they are rightly named. I j did not dream there were so many ro ks in the entire world as we saw that day. (Some mountains would seem to he one huge rock, others looked like a mas oi had "put tl.etll together. o regular were the different strata; some were just ordinary" brown or gray rocks ami others looked as if some artist hud given them the rain bow tints with an immense brush. It was mountains everywhere, with line and there a waterfall, and finally the Arkansas river wound its way along the aide of the track, but the mountains rose right up from the river bank on the one side and the sme on the other side of the track. Occasionally the valley would widen out and we would see small farms with tiny homes. These looked very lone ome to us and we decided we did not eare to live here. Many of the rocks in the mountains were copper colored and I snow suppose there is still a great deal of cop per in them. Just about lunch time an open car known as the observation car was attached to the rear of our train for those who eared to get n full view of the Royal !orge, through which we were to pass. Home of our party took advan tage of this, others rode on the tender of the engine, and some craned their necks from the windows. The verdict of all was the same. It was royal indeed and a sight never to be forgotten but very dif ficult to describe. It is a very narrow place the track has to run and from the track on either side the mountains rose some of them two miles high. They were nil of rock and varicolored. Near the 'base were a few wild flowers, but for the most part it was only the majesty of the mountain itself. AVe crossed the swinging bridge that looked as though it was suseiided in the air, but we were over it too quickly to get frightened. This was a miniature (fraud Canon, to us very wonderful, to nil beautiful, but to t those who had seen the (irand Canon if was very small. The entire day was passed in the moun tains. As I have stated before, we missed the fern9, rhododendrons and trees of our mountains. These were just rocks. How many times that day we exclaimed, "There are rocks enough here to make good roads all over the world." At 10:00 o'clock that night we pulled into Colorado City. It had been decided that afternoon we would retire early, get up at 12:30 and make the trip up l'ike's Peak to see the sun rise. It was rain ing and still the moon was shining. That is some of us retired, while others decided it would le better to sit up all night. At 1:00 a. m. we were all out at the station for the trip. It was a sixmile ride on the street car to Manitou, Colo. Then another street car to the foot of Tike's I'esik. It was very dark, but no rain was falling. There were some who were pes simistic and thought we would never see the sun rise, but the climate there is like in all mountains rain one minute and sunshine the next. The road up the peak is a cog railroad and each engine takes just one car. These cars carry :M pas sengers, so our crowd had to divide. The engine is on the rear of the coach and pushes the car up. The track is nine miles long and goes straight up the moon taiu. For the most, part it is the high rock mountains on one side of the track :md a deep precipice on the other. The engine pushes for a while as though it Vere no effort, but soon it sounds like it is about out of breath and reminds one of what the child said about a Ford car, when it starts up hill it ay, "I can make it, I can, 1 ''AN." bii with a jerk into low it moa n, 1 , a u ' " Thus it seemed with the engine. T said. "I will, I will, I will." but su.i.leuU it stopped as if it said "I won't." When it stopped it slid back about six feet, anil then if you wanted to know how everybody felt ask some of the ;;ist,,nia men. After one of these stops as the moon came out from Ixdiiml a cloud and everything was bright as day. the con ductor called our attention to a lake just below us. He asked what we thought the size of this lake, and various estimates were given, the largest about one half acre. He told us it covered ninety acres, having recently been surveyed by the I'nited States government, and that it was five miles below us. There was noth ing between us and that lake on that side of the track but the rocks that jutted out of the mountain side. A slip here did not create the most delightful sensation, as you may well imagine, "When the moon was behind the cloud the ear was dark. This made things seem more weird. A cold wind was blowing that seemed almost a blizzard to some of us, but at 4:00 a. m., just as we reached tie- top, Old Sol burst forth in all his glory. Y seemed to be on the very top of the world and from horizon to horizon were spread an array of colors no painter rouM ever copy. If he made an attempt yoa would say, "How unreal!" From . the deepest crimson to the palest pink, with, great dashes of orange and bine, changing with the rapidity of a kaleido- scope. la almost lets time than It takes ever be no matter how .many tunes it oc curs, aii. I I cannot imagine any one look ing at it as commonplace. In all these w. to lets one is brought nearer to 01. None of this majesty is the work of a. an 's hands. The tup of the peak is covered with is all sizes and makes one think of a rock ipiarry. It looks as if some !aut chamgang had been at work break ;:g i k. The top is not s.i very large, in.; not small enough to make one dizzy. T'icre is a small two room house here and they had lug tires roaring in tile stoves. It felt good. There is a Might, of steps up to a ery high observatory for those wl.o wish to e;o higher, but to the most of us we were high enough. Some had Hose I as if they J.iuicii was sei u-d I ere and of course there were cards and souvenirs to buy. Some sent telegrams from the highest te!er:i-!i station la America. l'ike's l'eak is 1 l.tioil feet above sea place the glory had been and then clouds I all well and happy. The next day we be iovered all. It was a miracle ami will ' gan to realize we were nearing home as it began to get warm. We came through the wonderful wheat fields of Kansas. Acres were being harvested and we were told the granaries were still full of "last id. while others foil short winded year's crop. They can't get cars to move it, so they claim. Still we are paying a big price for tiour and millions are said to be starving. I forgot to say we saw so many fields of sugar beets in Califor nia and Colorado. They looked like fields of turnips. Sunday night we pulled into Kansas City. Only a short stop was made at the ' I'nion Station and we were glad to be j on the move again for it was very warm, j That night we went through the Ozark j mountains and it was the roughest part of the trip. The engineer was making tune and we turned those curves so a, I been on a long, hard run. j swiftlv we almost fell out of the berths and were glad to see daylight. Monday was spent passing through Ar kansas, Mississippi and Alabama. The his; named was the most dcsola'.e. Here the train seemed like the slow train throiiL'h Arkansaw sure enough. It was level, but fioin the place we started up in the tram is only halt as high as Mount sw:linis everywhere. The tram had been Mitcheil. The road is entirely different, I m.,rked before we left ft.th the Oasis em however, this one going straight up. We ,it,m ,,,j on ,.ai., ,.nr something such as looked down on Colorado City, but could ' r.astonia, N. C., to Portland, Ore.; Char no! distinguish anything but the streets, oTN, to ort lai,d, Ore.; Oasis Patrol; which at that distance looked like rows j , ).lsjs Had, etc. At one small station in a truck patch. It was very cold, they! ; Arkansas the children ran up to know na l had a snow storm a few days before, ' w,.it llow we represented and some surprise there was very little i thought the bov had spied the fat ladv and was sure it was a real circus. Another hot, sticky day. We pulled into Memphis that night and were so Irifts on the north but to our It was in deo sMc ot the house. j There is an automobile driveway to the I top, but it is twenty three miles long. A garage is on top and quite a number' made the trip tiiat way, but I believe ij prefer the cog train. They claim they I have never had an accident and that the 1 train could only slide back a short dis tance until the rings would lock. It took very much less time to return and 7:00 o'clock found us again in Manitou. We were glad we went, gladder to fie safe down again, and no one wished to witness the glory of another sunrise right away. We took cars here for a drive to the famous Cave of the Winds and the Oar den of the Gods. The first is reached by a road that winds round a high mountain. At several daces you can see the road three places above you and once below. It is a one way ruad, so there is very little danger. The cave entrance is at the top of this mountain. The cave was dis covered by two lioys in lsso. They were on a pii nic and saw an opening in the side of the mountain and began to ex plore. They must have been brave little fellows, for when the guide turned off the light it was as dark as midnight on a very cloudy night. There are sixleen rooms, all well lighted. From the ceilings hang most wonderful stalactites, while from the floors rise as wonderful stalag nites. These were ages forming and the shapes they have taken resemble the finest art of the sculptor. Iits wife with all the things she so unwillingly started the journey from Sodom is there in her pillar of salt, the Virgin Mary is there in pure alabaster. One room is called the Room of the Fluted Curtains. Here the stalactites and stalagnites hail formed perfect curtains th:-t looked as though they had been gathered back on a rod and all the beautiful colors of the rain bow showed through them. One place was .filled with tiny creatures that it did not take a very vivid imagination to see might be the figures of Dante's Inferno. In one n om the formations looked like bat wings and In another a perfect slice of bacon with streak of tat and streak of lean was suspended in plain view. While possibly not so iarge as many caves it is wonderful and beautiful. One room had a wire netting stretched across part of tiie wall. Into this had been l'b:ced innumerable haitpins of every va riety. They told us this was the old maids wishing place and if an old maid or anv single woman plaecd a hair here in the year she would be mated. s a sure thing many have 'ried, but had only the guide 's mud as to the sol'. A f'i-r ! ii cars again ' i .'. I William glad on waking next morning to see our own mountains. How good they looked covered with green and flowers blooming on the sides. It was nice and cool, too. Asheville was reached about H:.'!0 and the first of our party left. lis. Then all along the way we dropped them until tne Gastonia bunch began figuring on leaving the train at Newton and taking another C. & N. W. for home. This we did and were safe in Gastonia at i:00 o'clock Tuesday, duly 6th. We had been away twenty-two days, had traveled eight thou sand miles, through twenty-two states, without an accident of any consequence. We were so grateful to all the train men for the untiring effort to make the trip both safe and pleasant. No crowd could have been more congenial and we are all Imping to go west to Frisco in M22 with the Shriners again. The hos pitality of the West is wonderful and I know of no finer hosts than the Shriners. pin trip through the cave we took and. traveling through the anon we came to tho it .ard.-n liv ev w a-'e Ulostly ,,f :l r with the vivid table paradise rnuld wander Some one or Tiiem. an sieam iiiiiit. ro of miihrooms. ing the Ibid is was filled wit I To the unimagina " a large tract of i immense rocks three have the job tor in this won- saw many, nmnv "d variety but to the soul imagination it was a veri in which the imagination i' will naming these rocks. perhaps manv had named on entering you saw a large ''e right into a big field I'-'issed tl Id ladv wash- viewed the camels kissing tL .....la ."ing. saw catne.irals. and the graces. How I longed 'o or naming manv mor f derfnl rock formation things-. "We drovv back t i v,l. ra do swings nml boarded our train for Denver for our last stop. We reached Denver about 2:00 p. m. To our surprise we were met by the Shriners from F.l .Tebel temple and nowhere on our trip did we meet with more hearty welcome. Wo were the forty seeond temple they had entertained, but thir hospitality was as fresh and spo. taneous as though we had leen the first. We were taken first to their beautiful temple, which is complete in every detail rind then to the Kenmark hotel. The manager and nearly all the officials were shriiicr. so the freedom of the hotel was ours, rooms, baths, etc.. were free, and you may believe we made good use of them - '"-. Denver is a beautiful city and V wa surprise,! to find everything had hee JOY IN THE BLACKJACKS. Yorkville Knquirer. Again the blackjack country has come to its own ami is rejoicing in the return of the old time prosperity that was so common throughout that section previous to the world war. By the blackjack country especial reference is had to the southeastern cor ner of Bethesda township. There are other blackjack localities in the county; but none so extensive as the Bethesda blackjacks and none other exactly like them. Readers of the Yorkville Knquirer gen erally know in a general way what resi dents of the blackjacks know to an abso lute certainty, that although they have potentially the most productive agricul tural soil in this whole section, without the application of plenty of potash, it is of but small value. The breaking out of the world war put the price of potash out of sight, when blackjack fanners were no longer able to get potash, their cotton c rops were cut in half, ami all other crops suffered al most in the same proportion. All kinds of hopeful theories were ad vanced when the potash supply was cut ofT. Among these theories was one to the effect that the soil having already been sweetened" up with potash bv coii 'U'loiis applications ov.r a great many vears. perhaps no disastrous results would follow- the skipping of a few applications. I":i-'t it did not turn out that way. The crop of 191o showed the effects of no pot ash, and the crops of 1 1 ?, 1H17, !)S and 1!'1!, each showed n little worse. Farmers who had prospered for vears previous even on the lower price's of other days, hem me greatly discouraged in ll'lo and some of them seriously con sidered the idea of getting out of the blackjack country on to other soils. In fac t some of them really did get away. But apparently it is all over now and things are getting back to where they used to be. Although prices were higher last winter, still it was possible to get potash in abundance, and during the spring the blackjack people applied the precious substance most liberally. The cotton and corn fields through the blackjacks are smiling again as of old. The corn is up from knee to waist high and the cotton, of "greasy green" color, already growing at a rapid rate is be ginning to shado the ground and pro mises to go through the July and August droughts if they come, without rusting in the least. The farmers of the blackjacks are all taking heart again and it is a beautiful prospect throughout the whole section. Summer Complaint Quickly Relieved! "About two years ago when suffering from a severe attack of summer com plaint, I took Chamberlain's Oolie and Diarrhoea Remedy and it relieved ms al most instantly," writes Mrs. Henry Jewett, Clark Mills, N. t. This is an excellent remedy for eolie and diarrhoea and should be kept at hand by every family. " OF SHOES Beginning Friday, July 16th, and running through Saturday, July 24th, we have placed a 20 per cent discount on all low Shoes Oxfords and Pumps. Take advantage by buying what you can use in Low Cut Shoes now and next Summer -this is cheaper than you can buy them then. We give you here some idea of the saving on your footwear. MEN'S OXFORDS All $20.00 Oxfords at $16.00 All $19.00 Oxfords at $15.20 All $16.00 Oxfords at $12.80 All $15.00 Oxfords at $12.00 All $14.00 Oxfords at $11.20 All $13.00 Oxfords at $10.40 All $12.00 Oxfords at $9.60 All $10.00 Oxfords at $8.00 All $9.00 Oxfords at $7.20 All $7.00 Oxfords at $5.60 All $G.00 Oxfords at $4.80 ETC., ETC., V N".-o ( ' -s l 'N '. v ,-- v C pr:;s ""ii WOMEN'S OXFORDS All $15.00 Oxfords at $12.00 All $14.00 Oxfords at . . . $11.20 All $13.00 Oxfords at $10.40 All $12.00 Oxfords at $9.00 All $11.00 Oxfords at $8.80 All $10.00 Oxfords at $8.00 All $9.00 Oxfords at $7.20 All $8.50 Oxfords at $6.80 All $8.00 Oxfords at $6.40 All $7.50 Oxfords at $6.00 All $6.00 Oxfords at $4.8b All $5.00 Oxfords at $4.00 ETC., ETC., Come early to get the Best Selections of Styles and Sizes. Nothing sent on approval or charged at these prices. Howell-Armstrong Shoe Co. Ride on Goodyear Tires inThat Sturdy Small Car of Yours It surprises certain users of small cars to find that they can obtain Goodyear Tires at a first cost ordinarily not greater,, and sometimes less, than that of other tires. This initial value, as well as the very low final cost, results from the apaliation of Goodyear experience and care to their manufacture in the world's largest tire factory devoted to 30x3-, 30x3V2- and 31x4-inch sizes. Such facts explain why more cars, using these sizes, were factory-equipped last year with Goodyear Tires than with any other kind. If you drive a Ford, Chevrolet, Maxwell, or Dort take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy real Goodyear value and economy; equip your car with Goodyear Tires and Heavy Tourist Tubes at the nearest Service Station. DobleiSbri" $ tl50 All -Weather Tread 30 x Goodyear Single Cure Fabric, Ip V I - V Anti-Skid Tread JL III - - w ' I I ":- A t l ' J Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubea cot no more than the price you are aiked to pay for tubes of less merit why risk costly casings when such sure protec tion is available ? 30 x 3V4 size $a50 in waterproof bag . . 1
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