Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1920 — FORMER CITIZEN TELLS OF WONDERS OF CALIFORNIA [ARTICLE]

FORMER CITIZEN TELLS OF WONDERS OF CALIFORNIA

I The following letter is from Mrs. Carrie Brenner, a former resident of this city and we know it will be appreciated by our readers, i Santa Cruz, Calif. December 19, 1920 Mr. L. H. Hamilton, Editor RePublican, Dear Sir:— ! I want to thank you for sending me the address of Mr. and Mm. W. !L. Wishard. I also want to congratulate you upon the arrival of your little granddaughter. I am always very much interested in any i mention I see of your son, Fred. He was certainly one of the bravest of the brave. He was always ' the favorite with me of the boys ; who carried the paper and we would often have a little visit, especially if I happened to have a fresh snpply of cookies, which, as I remember, Fred, as most boys are, was very fond of. I hope that some time be may find it convenient to visit Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is about ninety miles south of San Francisco, a very popular summer resort on Monterey Bay. Many people come here for the winter as well as summer. We have a wonderful climate, never extremely warm or cold. I can pick a few ripe raspberries almost any time during the winter. I have peas in bloom, also strawberries. We have had an unusually rainy winter, but it has been dear and warm and the sun quickly drys things off after a rain., It is a great sight to see the boys daring a storm. I have my own home here, just a block from the Bay, which may he seen from my south windows, and from the north windows the Santa Cruz mountains. I often watch the lights of the lighthouse, which is about two miles out. The big redwood trees are about six miles north of here, and the National Redwood Park about twelve miles, ft is a wonderful trip to': the park, mountain road all the way. Thanking you'again for the information, I remain Respectfully yours, I MRS. CARRIE BRENNER,