Iowa Old Press
Estherville Enterprise, August 8, 1906
SEEING THE NORTHWEST
J. W. Daniels and Family Make Overland Trip to Aberdeen, South Dakota
BATH: (correspondence) in Aberdeen (S.D.) Daily American, Friday, August 3, 1906.
J. W. Daniels and family of Estherville, Ia., were guests at the parsonage yesterday. They were on their way to Aberdeen having traveled the whole distance, 350 miles, by team and surrey. The trip was made in eight days, the longest day’s journey being fifty-five miles. They report their trip as being a most delightful one, passing between continuous fields of grain all the way, through portions of Iowa, southern Minnesota and South Dakota. They most emphatically pronounce the crops through which they passed in South Dakota, superior to the rest.
While at the parsonage Mrs. Daniels exhibited a valuable historic relic and souvenir of the Civil War in the shape of a field glass, presented to her by her father, Brigadier General L. J. Blair to whom it was given by General Sherman on the famous march “From Atlanta to the Sea.”
Mr. Daniels purchased an 800 acre ranch at Scatterwood last fall, and has brought his family up to see the country with the view of settling permanently in Aberdeen, where he can better superintend his ranch.
[transcribed by L.Z., Jan 2022]