The following lei (or from Mrs Hello Coddington, formerly of this cityand beloved hy our older cltlfcns^ will be read with interest. Mrs. Codding-ton is of the salt of the earth and herfriends remaining here are delighted to know that she is still well and rn*joying life to the fullest. She writes:Long Beach. Caifornia. June 9. 1920. Hear News:In renewing my subscription to the Weekly News, I take the opportunity of enclosing a word of greeting to my old*time friends, the Kditor and Mrs.Rogers.Ton yearn have paused since ! it necessary to break up my home in Mt, Pleasant after a residence thereof nearly forty years. It was truly the “Breaking of Home Ties ” and no place In all this beautiful world will ever seem so good to me as Mt. Pleas ant, Henry Co., Iowa.As the News—the “Weekly letter from Home” has been coming to me during this decade—sometimes finding me over the mountains and hy the sea, and sometimes by the latkes of Wisconsin and Michigan, how many rhanges it has chronicled in the old home town.As I read the paper now. 1 find^ com ! paratlvely, few familiar names andthe saddest of all. is the thought of how' many names of old-time friends are now found on tablets of stone at Forest Home.I find the Looking Backward columns of the paper of much interest and enjoy reading history from theiafiles of the Mt. Pleasant News. j |(With best wishes and cordial greetings. I remain, as everlt;Your sincere friend.Belle CoddffigtondLETTER FROM PARK WILLIAMSC