Thursday, July 22, 1937
Doughton Woman
W Writes Of Trip
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MAKES TOUR OF WEST
HSees Many Things of Interest
While Traveling in Num
ber of States
VISITS GRAND CANYON
The following account of a re
cent trip through the West was
written by Miss Sallie Woodruff
of Doughton.
Our party made up of five
members including J. Sam Gen
try, my mother, Mrs. W. H. Wood
ruff and two sisters Mrs. C. C.
and Miss Alma Wood-
WJfuff left Elkin, N. C. May 31,
*1937, for a month's vacation tour
ing some of the western states.
The first day we drove through
the Smoky Mountain National
Park, the Cherokee Indian Reser
vation and visited "The Hermit
age," home of the seventh presi
dent, Andrew Jackson in Old
Hickory, Tenn.
From Nashville, traveling over
the popular Broadway of Amer
ica, we crossed the great Mississ
oppi river and visited Hot Springs
National Park in Arkansas. Here
we took in the alligator and os
trich farms as well as the hot
springs and bath houses.
The drive thru Texas was rath
er long, taking the state length-
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wise as we did, going through
Dallas, Ft. Worth and Elpaso. We
visited the exposition grounds in
Ft. Worth but were a few days too
early for the exposition. Prom
Elpaso we crossed the Rio Grande
river and went into Mexico for a
day. Needless to say we got quite
a thrill out of this part of our trip
as it was our first time out of
the United States. Then to Carls
bad Cavern in New Mexico. This
Bth wonder of the world is a lime
stone cavern reaching three and
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
one half miles underground. In
this underground wonderland one
sees numerous stalagmites and
stalactites still growing and each
one has a glistening drop of wa
ter on its tip.
From here we went to see the
Grand Canyon of Colorado, truly
a wonder of the world. It is a
terrific trough worn by the Color
ado river containing hundreds of
mountains and peaks painted by
constant changing colors un
dreamed of and unimaginable un
til the spectacle is actually seen.
It is said to be the greatest ex
ample of erosion ever discovered.
My words are too shallow and
wasted in trying to describe this
one-mile deep, ten to twenty
miles wide and and hi&dred and
sixty-seven miles long marvel.
Boulder pam, the most gigan
tic piece of workmanship ever
undertaken by man, was our next
breath-taking curiosity. A concep
tion of the magnitude and sheer
grandeur of this masterpiece of
work can be obtained only after
viewing it. They say the amount
of concrete used in the construc
tion would build a standard six
teen-foot highway reaching from
Miami, Florida, to Seattle, Wash
ington. The dam is 730 feet high
and at its base, it is 660 feet thick
while at the top it measures 45
feet wide, and is 1180 feet long.
A day's drive from Boulder
Dam through the Mojave Desert
then over palm-bordered high
ways through verdant valleys in
which orange groves and vine
yards flourish within the shad
ow of snow-capped mountains
brought us to the homes of our
relatives in the cities of Los An
geles and Long Beach where we
spent a most enjoyable week.
We took a trip out to Catalina
Island from Long Beach. This
was an enjoyable three hour
steamer ride thirty miles out from
Los Angeles harbor. From here we
took a glass-bottomed boat and
viewed the submarine gardens
and deep sea fish in the clear
sparkling waters of Avalon Bay
which we all enjoyed very much.
A drive thru Hollywood, the mo
tion picture capitol of the world
and Beverly Hills, brought us In
to Pasadena where we saw the
Pasadena Rose Bowl, a huge am
phitheatre built by nature and
seating 7500 people where each
New Year's Day "Tournament of
Rose" festival and parade is held.
A trip up to Mount Wilson
brought us to the Lick Observa
tory established in 1904 by the
Carnegie Institute of Washing
ton, D. C., stands the largest of
all telescopes.
On Sunday night we heard
Aime Semple McPherson preach
in her Angelus Temple.
Then going up the Pacific Coast
we visited "Grants" and "Se
quoia Parks" where we saw the
largest known Sequoia trees. The
"General Sherman" tree ha§ a
base diameter of 36.5 feet and is
272.4 feet high, acknowledged to
be the largest and oldest living
thing on earth. Age estimated at
over 4,000 years.
From here we went to San
Francisco, crossed the $77,000,000
Oakland-San Francisco Bay
bridge 8 1-4 miles long. Window
shopped in Chinatown where more
than 10,000 Chinese live conduct
ing a thriving business in both
oriental and American custom.)
After journeying on thru Ore
gon up to Seattle, Washington,
we dropped back making the Co
lumbia River drive to Pendleton,
then through Southern Oregon
and Idaho to Salt Lake City, Utah.
We reached here Monday noon in
time for an organ recital In the
Mormon Tabernacle on the
grandest pipe organ that was ever
built. Nowhere else in the world
is there a bathing resort like the
Great Salt Lake, where you bob
about like a cork where the salt
supports you on the surface of
the water and you can't sink. It's
waters are 22 per cent salt.
From Salt Lake we went to
to Rock Springs and Kimmerer,
Wyo., visited a sheep ranch and
went out to the shearing corrals,
saw expert shearers removing in
two minutes the entire blanket of
wool from a sheep's body with
hand shears. Then up to Grand
Teton National Park. This park
protects one of the most outstand
ing massings of snow-capped
mountain spires in the world.
High and magnificent they rise
skyward in improving grandeur,
along the eastern base of the
range, protected by heavy forests
are seven lakes in alpine settings
which mirror the lofty Teton
summits in their blue waters.
Just north of Grand Teton
Park is Yellowstone National
Park. Here the geysers attracted
our attention more than anything
else. Jim Bridges, an old frontiers
man, made his magnificient rep
utation as a "liar" almost entire
ly upon his tales of the "yellow
stone," but finally, indisputable
proofs of the region's weird at
tractions were carried back to civ
ilization and now, no one doubts
the glories of the Yellowstone,
and it is every American's birth
right to see and enjoy them.
Steam puffs and flumes arise on
every hand and one can soon see
the spectacle is tremendous. Old
Faithful is not the highest or
largest geyser, but its clock-like
precision has made it world fa
mous. Visitors can be assured of
its eruption every slxty-fivfe min
utes, when its hot waters are
thrown 150 feet in the air.
Leaving the Yellowstone we
motored out the Cody or eastern
entrance of the park thru the
Sylvian Pass and the Shoshone
National Forest. From here we
came directly home through Ne
braska, lowa, Illinois, Indianapo
lis, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio and
the coal mining sections of West
Virginia and Virginia. Having
been gone thirty days, our car
registered a 8,980 mile trip. "We
had visited 22 states, Mexico and
Catalina Island and had been in
9 National Parks. Arrived home
29th day of June with less than
one half dozen flats as our only
car trouble the whole trip thru.
PLEASANT HILL
Last Saturday night and Sun
day being our regular meeting,
the pastor, Rev. I. W. Vestal,
preached two very interesting
sermons.
Rev. A. B. Hayes of Hays, N. C.
preached a very inspiring sermon
at the church on Sunday night.
Bobby Joe Darnell, son of Mr.
Rastus Darnell, celebrated his
third birthday in a party at his
home one evening last week. A
number of games were played at
the conclusion of which ice cream,
cake and watermelon were served
to the following guests: Jennie
and Jimmie Yarboro, Ruby and
Ruth Crabb, David Church, Peggy
Ann, Grace and Katie lee Sim
mons, PraUline Simmons, Betty
Ray, Colline Transou, Glenn Dar
nell, and Raymond Church.
Miss Josephine Simmons, of
Jones ville, was the week-end
guest of Miss Venious Lyons.
1 Mrs. Mattie Darnell honored
her husband, Mr. Clarence Dar
nell, with a surprise birthday
dinner, Sunday, July 18, at their
home. Nineteen guests were
present.
The "Sunshine" quartet sang at
Friendship church Sunday at elev
en o'clock.
The "Happy Day" quartet sang
at Copeland Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Jonah Lyons had
as their guests Sunday evening,
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Settle and
Mrs. Julie Edison of Wilkesboro,
also Miss Hester Settle of Raleigh,
N. C.
The modern automobile Is
equipped with every conceivable
gadget except an automatic fly
swatter.
TOWN OF ELKIN
Elkin, N. C.
PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1938
ESTIMATED INCOME:
Assessed Valuation
Estimated $3,000,000
Debt Sinking General School
Rate Service Fund Fund Fund Total
Interest .75 $22,500.00 $22,500.00
Sinking Fund .15 $4,500.00 4,500.00
General' Fund .45 - $13,500. 13,500.00
School Fund .15 $4,500. 4,500.00
Licenses 1,000. 1,000.00
Polls 380. 380.00
Street Assessm'ts 1,000.00 1,000.00
Miscellaneous 100. 100.00
$1.50 $22,500.00 $5,500.00 $14,980. $4,500. $47,480.00
Less 5% uncollectible 1,125.00 275.00 749. 225. 2,374.00
Net. Est. Income 21,375 5,225.00 14,231. 4,275. 45,106.00
ESTIMATED EXPENSES:
Police Department 2,070. 2,070.00
Fire Department 1,830. 1,830.00
Streets 4,600. 4,600.00
General 2,350. 2,350.00
Executive 1,570. 1,570.00
School Fund 3,700. 3,700.00
Debt Service 19,000.00 5,000.00 24,000.00
Refunding Expense 2,000.00 2,000.00
Contingencies 375.00 225.00 1,811. 575. 2,986.00
Total $21,375.00 $5,225.00 $14,231. $4,275. $45,106.00
The budget in detail may be examined by any tax payer
upon application at the City Tax Office.
Published by order of the Board of Town Commissioners.
PAUL GWYN, Clerk.
July 7, 1937. '
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