Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 17 | Requires Literary Talent to Tell Such a Tale

REQUIRES LITERARY TALENT TO JELL SUCH A TALE I I Ink Fairly Flows From the Facile Pen I of Texas Texa Tour Describer Every man has stories of ever Wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- trips but the following description description tion vies with the the tales from the pens of some of our literary contemporaries If enthusiasm like this grows wild and flows free in Texas we in the West wish some som kind friend in Texas will lasso a I. I few and nd send them to Salt Lake sa said d E E. A A. Sharron sales manager for the Utah Idaho Motor 1 company local of Mitchell I cars Heres Here's the yarn Looking forward forward for for lor months months' for an auto trip through north Texas at last the day arrived All ready read After a good downpour of gain ram rain the trie evening be before before before be- be I fore we set tet out at 6 a a. m m. though do of rain and mud for a a. weeks week's delight with loved ones Humming along the sand saud road here and there deep mud holes slippery hills into Sulphur Springs Texas thence on to Greenville roads improving improving improving ing enjoying the early eaily morning breeze On to Farmersville over some pike and very rought black muddy roads thence only thirty min minutes minutes' tes' tes time over a fine tine pike into l IcI McKinney Texas a beautiful black land country arriving at 11 30 11 30 a a. 3 m m. On to Celina Celma humming along as happy as the birds ot or the air air to the right of us to the left of us us changing landscape pf f rejoicing icing fields field harvests of rich grain fine country hornet homey broad high prairIes emerald me meadows dows and I distant purple e hills ever enchanted the travelers on and on Higher mounted old Sol and hotter grew his beams and yet we rejoiced On to Pilot Point on onto onto onto I to Valley View soon on a good pike road arriving into Gainesville at 4 30 I Sunday afternoon where a goo supper and a hearty welcome awaited us Monday morning we motored out to see Red river seven miles mUes north of Gainesville found quicksand and red- red looking water but very low could see far into Oklahoma from the cliffs Visited the girls' girls training school a state institution now under construction four miles east of Gainesville consisting consisting consisting consist consist- ing of several hundred acres on a fine pike pile road After a few days das of pleasure with hone h folks reluctantly said goodbye I and left via via Fort Worth through an another another another an- an other garden of Eden lovely broad prairies ric rich t 1 green fields fine and cool water Arriving at our destination miles due south of Gainesville at 7 p p. m m. only to find our friend gone gone bought bought a new car and was on his journey to east Texas However However However How How- ever we gladly accepted the hospitality of some new made friends in this fine country home as an oasis in the desert And to say we were most royally royally roy roy- I ally entertained but puts it mildly