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Show ENJOYING THE WESTERN COUNTRY Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bennett of Greenville, Illinois, are visiting with W A. Taylor, the local cigar and stationary sta-tionary dealer on Grant avenue, also J. Gabe Taylor of this city Mr. Bennett Is a locomotive engineer engin-eer In tho Vandalla line running, between be-tween St. Louis and Pennsylvania points. This is his first trip to the west and both he and his wife are much pleased with what they have seen, having already viBitcd Portland, Port-land, San Francisco. Los Angeles and other coast points. This Is also the first time that either has been in a mountainous region and both are determined de-termined to make tho ascent of Observatory Ob-servatory Peak before leaving Ogden. Mr. Bennett stated that western prices, In wages as well as living expenses, ex-penses, are far more satisfactory than those of the east. "Freight engineers In Illinois got from $140 to $150 a month," said Mr. Bennett, "while in the west they evidently evi-dently make from $190 to $215. I can't see that the cost of living Is any greater out here than back where I live. Clothing Is certainly cheaper in Lob AngeleB than In any place I was ever In. Restaurants are JiiBt as reasonable rea-sonable in price and this cafeteria proposition, which seemB so popular on the coast, is unknown back there "Wo were visiting some friends in Los Angeles one day and had been asked to dinner. In showing us over their little home, half an hour before meal time, I observed the rather disconcerting dis-concerting fact that there was evidently evi-dently no preparation, whatever, being be-ing mado for dinner. The 3tove was cold and the pantry was almost bare of vltuals: yot the dining table was nlcoly laid as if for a feast The lady did not seem concerned at all over the prospects of getting dinner, but conversed pleasantly In the parlor quite at her ease. "I had begun to whet my appetite for a cold lunch on canned goods when a covered wagon drove up to tho dining room door and delivered a big tin case. In three minutes we wore sitting down to an elaborate and complete dinner, all steaming hot and fresh from the caterer. It was a new stunt to us, but that's the way hundreds hun-dreds of families live in Los Angeles, at least for one or two meals a day, and the idea seems to bo a practical one. Wo are delighted with Ogden and would like to live here some time." Mr. and MrE. Bennett will leave in a few days for Denver and thence return re-turn to their homo. |