| Show CELEBRATE MITI WEDDING anniversary k 7 Z e e 4 2 HIP covered wagon days with their hardships and thrills when buffaloes buffa loei roamed the plains and indian raids were feared seem like moving picture fiction to the younger generation but mr air and mrs david D carlton audubon road indianapolis indianapolis indians indiana who will celebrate ce lebrat their sixty second wedding a anniversary i nov oth 1926 1026 recall how real rea those days were their reminiscences of the pioneer lays daya when they the drove from wichita kan to fo daran barango Da go colo cause the eyes of their grandchildren to wi widen len with excitement mr air carlton carlton has fravel graveled raveled rave led ed by b wagon fro mccast to coast f that trip from kansas to colorado I 1 was a hazardous one said mrs mra carlton the thought of part of it makes me shiver yet when we crossed the great divide divid the janov w was is falling so heavily we see ahead of f iii us arid and t tair carlton was desperately 1114 that was a terrible time but we mado I 1 it t in in spite of all the hardships we had a warning that the indians were going on the warpath karpath while on the journey too and a number of travelers got together and formed a wagon train for protect protection iori but we c were abt harmed by the I 1 indians 1 I had another indian scare at Dura durango rather father was captain calta in of the militia dompa companies nies there and we lived over the armory one morning mo rii I 1 handed out guns to the set se t tiers alers all morning wondering what they wanted so many guns for in ohp afternoon I 1 heart a dom commotion motion on the street I 1 in 11 front of the armory and stuck my head out of the winlow window seeing men rushing back horseback A bullet zipped past me get back in there mrs carlton some one shouted from below I 1 got all right jor for I 1 had seen the indians were on their ponies riding furiously and that the towns mein we acre re shooting as they pursued them I 1 was alone and frightened nearly to de death abi but the tha indians indiana were quelled and went back to their reservation Xe wl which ach was abl about out r twelve miles froni from our to town W n they had come into town to tear up things tho the men had anticipated the trouble however and were armed ready to defend themselves and we the town as I 1 heard later when mr air carlton came home mr carlten has a record as ho he has voted in seven states for president his first ballot being cast for Abra abraham haril lincoln iri in 1864 he served in the civil warp war enlisting from hiram college under james A garfield later infer president he is an alert lively man with many interesting stories of early days at his tongues end 1 I had a ners personal onal acquaintance with two of those presidents for whom 1 I voted he said mr garfield was was a fine man and william McK mckimley McKin ioley tey was a jolly good fellow and a remarkable man mr mckinley used to visit my father for father was a politician when we lived in ohio and I 1 learned to know him and became very fond of him mr and mrs carlton both were born bom near mantua oj 0 lived on ad joining farms were max mar od d in that county and their children were born there they lived in many states their last home come being in california before con conling coming ling to live with their daughter mrs charles A Gard gardena and mr gardner mr air and mrs carlton have visited in heaver deaver county se several v eral times and have many warm friends here mr air and mrs carlton have their own suite quite of rooms however and keep house they have two children mrs gardner and a son karl S carlton milford utah six two children there has never been a death in the family said mrs airs carlton among the children or grand grandchildren childre n th the L picture hows ow s mr air and mrs carlton cailton |
