Ii é. é: (top lob) Myra and group 0! he! Iriondr door. the Virginia Real (loll) Myra and Illendr It'do in a ham drawn pm" can with in! fork" or the mint (right) A! the beachmrnap- 15o! mm on October 22. I905. (left to right Iland- ing} Leland, Mamma Choral, Tom. My". But and 201010. (tooled) Edna and Clear. mapped to their belts. two young girls strode into Pacifir Grove Sunday evening. dusty and hungry but bright-eyed and happy after a journey on fun: all the way {mm San lose , . "lt tool; tn three days," says Mrs. Cook.” and we really weren't seared, \Vhen it gut dark, it was black and we were getting tired There didn't seem to be any plate or anyone elic in the world but the two of us. Finally we xpnttcd a sped: of light and we headed for that." She laughs: "\Ve had our revulvers," a statement incon- grunur with her dainty aptwarariCe tnday. "llut we found a little house where a Mexican family wax living and they offered us a supper of beans and we penuaded them to let us“ sleep on the floor." The newspaper account tells. of their trekwthey made Coyote from San lose by noon. spent the night at :t farmhouse and on Saturday the two girls Nlithel Cook and Myra Checku- started out at sunrise, walking a mile and a half before break- fasting at the Willard farmhouse. They reached the Henry Miller ranch in’the forenonn. "From there we went to Sargent. following the Southern Pacific track which rum close tn the road. \V/e rested at the bridge. taking a few shntx with our rcvtilvcrs at birds circling about and getting some pretty views with our camera. and then went on toward San Juan and Salinax. "\Ve r.pent some time at San Juan, Viewing and taking pictures of the mission. Eating another hearty meal. wr- were off again at 5:30 for the walk over the mountain trail." After the night in the cabin where "the good rcnora greeted us kindly. give us supper and showed us to a small room. gave us blankets and here. with the 6 x 9 floor for a couch, we slept as tweetly as if on down. "Starting out Sunday morning we made SJlinas, ten and one-half miles. by noon. This was the most wearisomc part of the trip. we grew very thirsty and could not find any water until we met a tramp who showed us a spring. "With a lift from judge Wallace, we rearhed Salinas where we had a big meal and were off again on the lart eighteen miles. We rested at L1guna Seca. and asking at the door of a small cabin for a bite to eat, we received some bread and tea. At Montercy we were met by a group of friends who walked the rest of the way with us to Pacific Grove." The concluding paragraph of the account reads: "Taken GAME 3- GOSSIP :4L/63057’ #43 ,‘fl. .‘ Aunt Hattie and Mn. Check in the lamin patient in Canada altogether. the wall; was great. according to the way the girlfi tell it, and when a permn has time and isn't afraid, it beats riding on the same old dusty train and miwing the beautiful sights that Cannot be seen otherwise." Some of the "sights" which Mrs. Cook has experienced in more than a half century in Pacific Grove are the development nf the tity with wide streets apartment buildings and shops where once the canvas tentr stood; the gradual decline of the bucolic life along the ocean front; the cutting down of trees and forests for homcrites, and the ever-increasing entourage of touristt along the ocean from. But she lives with several of her children and. at times, grandchildren in her tidy home. surrounded with blue statice, white daisies and red geraniums, within sound of the Pacific Ocean and a short distance from its rockhnund coast. "loving it more as the yean roll by," she admits. Page Thin photo ol Myra'r lather, Fred role» while on hunting trip , OCR Text: Ii é. é: (top lob) Myra and group 0! he! Iriondr door. the Virginia Real (loll) Myra and Illendr It'do in a ham drawn pm" can with in! fork" or the mint (right) A! the beachmrnap- 15o! mm on October 22. I905. (left to right Iland- ing} Leland, Mamma Choral, Tom. My". But and 201010. (tooled) Edna and Clear. mapped to their belts. two young girls strode into Pacifir Grove Sunday evening. dusty and hungry but bright-eyed and happy after a journey on fun: all the way {mm San lose , . "lt tool; tn three days," says Mrs. Cook.” and we really weren't seared, \Vhen it gut dark, it was black and we were getting tired There didn't seem to be any plate or anyone elic in the world but the two of us. Finally we xpnttcd a sped: of light and we headed for that." She laughs: "\Ve had our revulvers," a statement incon- grunur with her dainty aptwarariCe tnday. "llut we found a little house where a Mexican family wax living and they offered us a supper of beans and we penuaded them to let us“ sleep on the floor." The newspaper account tells. of their trekwthey made Coyote from San lose by noon. spent the night at :t farmhouse and on Saturday the two girls Nlithel Cook and Myra Checku- started out at sunrise, walking a mile and a half before break- fasting at the Willard farmhouse. They reached the Henry Miller ranch in’the forenonn. "From there we went to Sargent. following the Southern Pacific track which rum close tn the road. \V/e rested at the bridge. taking a few shntx with our rcvtilvcrs at birds circling about and getting some pretty views with our camera. and then went on toward San Juan and Salinax. "\Ve r.pent some time at San Juan, Viewing and taking pictures of the mission. Eating another hearty meal. wr- were off again at 5:30 for the walk over the mountain trail." After the night in the cabin where "the good rcnora greeted us kindly. give us supper and showed us to a small room. gave us blankets and here. with the 6 x 9 floor for a couch, we slept as tweetly as if on down. "Starting out Sunday morning we made SJlinas, ten and one-half miles. by noon. This was the most wearisomc part of the trip. we grew very thirsty and could not find any water until we met a tramp who showed us a spring. "With a lift from judge Wallace, we rearhed Salinas where we had a big meal and were off again on the lart eighteen miles. We rested at L1guna Seca. and asking at the door of a small cabin for a bite to eat, we received some bread and tea. At Montercy we were met by a group of friends who walked the rest of the way with us to Pacific Grove." The concluding paragraph of the account reads: "Taken GAME 3- GOSSIP :4L/63057’ #43 ,‘fl. .‘ Aunt Hattie and Mn. Check in the lamin patient in Canada altogether. the wall; was great. according to the way the girlfi tell it, and when a permn has time and isn't afraid, it beats riding on the same old dusty train and miwing the beautiful sights that Cannot be seen otherwise." Some of the "sights" which Mrs. Cook has experienced in more than a half century in Pacific Grove are the development nf the tity with wide streets apartment buildings and shops where once the canvas tentr stood; the gradual decline of the bucolic life along the ocean front; the cutting down of trees and forests for homcrites, and the ever-increasing entourage of touristt along the ocean from. But she lives with several of her children and. at times, grandchildren in her tidy home. surrounded with blue statice, white daisies and red geraniums, within sound of the Pacific Ocean and a short distance from its rockhnund coast. "loving it more as the yean roll by," she admits. 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