v.39, no.1 (Oct. 1929) pg.5
In: North Dakota School for the Deaf, 1929
academicJournal
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Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. ; THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER 3»£>< -&GXrvyv! Jkry strip to Georgia On the eighth of August we started our trip down to the South! At one o'clock we left our home town and didn't see it again for a month. We met our sister near Grand Forks. The next morning we left for Granite Falls, Minn., where my sister was spending her vacation with our old friends. Along the road from Grand Forks to Fargo we saw many threshing although it was too early; but we had had less rain than usual in July. When we entered Minnesota, we saw many thousand acres of corn. Some was tall about seven feet high. At six o'clock we arrived at Granite Falls. I drove the car from Moor- head, Minnesota, to that town—199 miles in five and one half hours. We were planning to leave for the Twin Cities at noon but we changed our minds because my sister was going to be married on that day so we stayed all afternoon. At five I had a new brother-in-law from Minneapolis and now they are living there. We arrived there about midnight and in the morning* we left my sister who got a job there and she said she liked it so well. We continued on our way to Eau Claire, Wisconsin to see my married sister whom we had not seen for four or five years. We stayed there for two days. I forgot to tell you something about the Twin Cities, We saw Montgomery Ward's store and I thought it was beautiful. Part of it was all white. We crossed the Mississippi River. Eau Claire is a large city with about 40,000 population. It has twenty-six churches, a normal school, a day school for the deaf, a saw mill and some factories. I surely enjoyed fhe city very much. In Illinois we drove on paved roads. Illinois had large corn crops and some fruit orchards. My mother's sister lived there so she decided to see her as she had never seen her at all. Can you imagine it? I couldn't. After that we went to Terre Haute, Indiana, a somewhat large city. I tell you Indiana is fhe best state I ever saw, because it had fine crops of fruits, ...
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v.39, no.1 (Oct. 1929) pg.5
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lake, Devils |
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Zeitschrift: | North Dakota School for the Deaf, 1929 |
Veröffentlichung: | North Dakota School for the Deaf Library ; North Dakota State Library, 1929 |
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