This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fox Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1047 Message Board Post: Grant County Herald Lancaster, Grant, WI Wednesday, June 20, 1928 AROUND THE WORLD Platteville Miss Tells of Adventures in Land of Celestials. PLATTEVILLE--Miss Frances FOX, daughter of Free FOX, formerly of this city, on a trip around the world spent six months in Japan and China [and] says "In China one adventure was to go 500 miles inland with a return student going after 7 years in America. We made a trip to a family village so far back woods that there was no road, but paths between rice fields, and not one vehicle of any kind except wheelbarrows. I was the only non-Chinese in the party, and no foreigner had been there before. The people gathered by the hundreds to see our procession. The student and I rode horseback, and the villagers couldn't get enough of seeing me make the animal gallop. I think nothing so fast ever happened before in that place. There was much feasting, guns of welcome and firecrackers, and the people were unbelieveably kind to me." Mis FOX's letter was written from the steam ship Edavana in waters off British India between Penang and Rangoon. Miss ... [clipping cut off here]