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Show :i LOCAL TEACHERS I RETURN FROM TOUR k fj Participated in Omnibus Trip, k. America's College on ! Wlieels. K j Misses .Florence Foremaster, Mat-? Mat-? tie Pendleton, Evadean Crosby . and Addie Savage returned re-W re-W ccntly from a two months' la; Omnibus college tour, America's ! college on wheels, which they be-xj be-xj gan May 29. at Winfield, Kansas. J The 350 students enrolled traveled k! in two bus trains, and in addition f) to pleasurable sight-seeing trips, i'i took a summer course In field bi-5: bi-5: ology under nationally recognized j8! instructors. They visited forests, l; gardens and fields in a first hand j study of tree and plant life, and j:1 nationally famous aquariams in i a study of smaller animal life. )i; In preparation for the trip bais-es bais-es were sent to Sioux City, Iowa, i Lincoln. Neb., Oklahoma City, and 5j Dallas, Tex, those cities being the ' college enrollment and meeting !j centers. All were brought to Win-J3 Win-J3 field where the jomney began. 51 They were first taken to Fort jjj Smith and Little Rock, thence k! across the MissLssippt river to 5 ; Memphis, Tenn. Included among u the interesting sights visited were 5 1 the noted Cyprus swamps, rice 'i I fields, old plantation homes and J j cotton fields, the old slave market, Shrioh battlefield and the great t Muscle Shoals electric plant in Alabama. They saw the modes of 1 transportation along the Missis- sippi! the old southern cotton I mills, historical Chattanooga and the ?reat Smckies. 2 i They enjoyed mountain hikes. camped in eroat forests. s.iw the beiutiful mountain church of Mt. : i LaConte, observed southern moun-i moun-i i tameer life. visited President ; Johnson's old home, the modem ! j Elizabeth rayon mills. Fort CSv-s-i w. ell natural bridge. Lexntg'on. ; WtuhJr.fton and Lee Cnirers.ty. the Virsrmia nul:t.v-y ar.vien-.y. : 'tombs of Lee and "Stonewall" 1 J,oksc. the farmui Harpers : Ferry. John Browr.'s fort, and : Barbira Fr-.tohie's home. In Wa.O-.mit.'n D. C. tl-.ey vs-itod vs-itod the national cip'.tol. and wore p!t;c-rrapi".?-i with Prs.d-T.t ' iivver and cth'-r W!t:' liu.v of-Scti. of-Scti. 5-ooia: rtc.u there inud-ed inud-ed th. W.h;r.c'..:r. n-..-n ;m;.: Lincoln r.r'-oru, C r-rAn an c.illi rv ar.J Fror art sillorj-. the r.auor.al rnn.ourn. ar.J th lrary of c.Tr. fho 5-:r".v: of rrin"-and rrin"-and o:'.a- int. vit. ' ohur-h-; r.-, .Vrlinon ooni-. A;r.r.dr.. ; and Mr Verr.o.-. ! At .V-j-.aivi.s :.:- v-.t- ! t.v nav.il aodj''. o il c:-r. !..- j iitey went- thrcuzh Independence Independ-ence and Congress halls, the "home p: Franilm and Betsy Ross house Delaware jiver to Trenton, x. j. G1L5. several cays wre spent in Xew York City where side trips were made to the Statue of Libertv. Battery park. the Aqtiariam. Grant's tomb, various churches cf international note. Sronx Zoological Zool-ogical gardens. Chinatown, the American and Metropolitan museums, mu-seums, Fifth avenue, and Coney Island. They also mace a trip across the Hudson to West Point, to Sing Sing prison and Bear mountain. From New York they went to New Eaven. Conn, then to" Boston Bos-ton where they saw Fanuel hall, Paul Revere's home. Bunker Hill, the site of the Boston massacre, Boston Common. Cambridge, Harvard, Har-vard, Museum of glass flowers. Lexington. Concord, the Minute Man bridge, the old North church, and the great Lynn shoe factories. factor-ies. In. Salem they visited the Witch house, Hawthorne's birthplace, birth-place, the Esu. - seven Gables. and many other places historically remembered. From Portland. Me., they trav' eled through birch forests to Quebec, Que-bec, Canada, where they visited the Plains of Abraham, the Wolfe-Montcalm Wolfe-Montcalm monument, Parliament building, the Shrine, the Sacred Stairs, and the great Cyclorama. Following the St. Lawrence to Montreal, they made a motor boat tour of the Thousand Islands and viewed the Niagara falls, the St. Lawrence rapids, and the Lower Ontario, Toronto, from the Canadian Ca-nadian side. Taking the Lake Shore drive to Detroit they crossed the border at Winsor, Ontario, and made a supervised tour of the Fsrd factory fac-tory and other places of interest. At Chicago they visited the forest preserve, field museum, art institute, insti-tute, Marshall field, the fair, the I stockyards and industrial centers, and made a sightseeing trip over the loop district. At the University Univer-sity of Chicago they enjoyed a lecture on astronomy in the immense im-mense panatorium, where a miniature minia-ture universe with its constellations constella-tions of stars is set in the great ! orcujh; the stars into view and j displayed various ether phenomena j throuih th; aid cf "electricity. , I tne world at present, though Phiiadelphha.""" " j They crossed the Mississippi : ' Clinton. Iowa, over the Lincoln highway, and made a brief tour ' c: the educational institutions at Ames. The students transferred at Lincoln and Omaha to the i lines which took them to their various homes. |