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■ Of MOTORISTS
- tdATHistory Per
■L.ion frosslaul Into
flA Highway Story.
I what more beautiful
■word and how expres
B(] while defined most
K an hundred different
■ ‘ a] breadth, its hugh
never yet been ful
■raved except in the satis
■ and enjoyment of its
■es. But here we are, as
Kg of our trip and a start
■ |torv of the homeward
■ bo desire to exploit our
Knees and with a hope
Kr readers will not regard
■narrative as a means of
K in the public eye and
■we venture upon the
L perhaps the false im
L that in what we have
Kthers may be interested
Krticularly those who have
K across the country, or
■visions for the future of
pleasurable recreation.
in the country who
I Hose to nature, enjoys the
Kg of friends and acquain
■ in the town or city, the
Bjng with other men and so
Bn, does the town or city
B revel and delight in the
Be places, the restful, peace
Buntryside, far from rail
I and all of commercial and
less activity. The change
lion, of thought carries one
■the delights of a nature
■stirs and animates, that
■hes a different life, that
■es over in enthusiasm and
Ig and develops th'e man in
■erent world, that is enrap
|g because it is new and un
Ired and how much we all
Ithe new in life,
lese sensations are not quite
Ideating, even if they are
Imadeto so appear,but if our
liage is strong, excuse the
ling exaggeration. Go drink
me fount yourselves and
h you have enjoyed a vaca
Itour, the new life, the stron
blood, the harder muscle,
renewed mind will tell you
it is so, and we indulge the
! and prospect that tourist
> will increase from year to
> that their pleasures may
hared by all, until great
ways form arteries of easy
_• i . . .
- **v*ivov VVUlUiJ ni
ortheast Arkansas. This is
>e chorus in which we all join.
||e terminus of our trip, Mar
.a‘’ Missouri, located about
lght? miles east of Kansas
j City, in the best agricultural
county of Missouri, has been ex
ploited by our co-correspondent,
and while Marshal] contends
with Carthage for the distinc
tion of being the prettiest town
jin Missouri, we are sure that the
beauty of the city and the hos
pitality of her people have been
j sufficiently dwelt upon,
i Though loth to leave the par
ental home, our call to business,
!work and home could no longer
be resisted and the return trip
! was begun Thursday afternoon.
Crossing the Missouri at Glas
gow, after good-byes to two of
the home circle who had accom
panied us thus far, we crossed
jthe hills of Howard county,
passing through Fayette, the
| home of Central College, the
i leading Methodist school of the
j state and returned to the bluff
; banks of the “Big Muddy” at
jRoch'eport, where we made con
nection with an old pike road
iway into Columbia. Forgetting
the hurry we were in, we found
jtime to make a circuit of the
! beautiful state university
grounds in this city of 12,000,
: where a iarge shoe factory also
I contributes to the prosperity of
jthe people, as well as from the
several thousand students.
Columbia is nearly entirely
paved with brick and her build
jings are very uniform in color
and construction. This is the
county seat of Boone county, |
too, and the county took its j
name from that early Western
pioneer, Daniel Boone.
While the sun was dropping
behind the hills, we made an ev
ening run of 25 miles to Fulton,
where the editor enjoyed three
years’ of schooling at Westmins
ter, one of Missouri’s best col
leges, even if the statement is
far from established in the re
cord of the writer. Here, of
course, we had to show them a
round, to tell them of college ex
periences, where the professors
lived, where different things
happened and before leaving
next morning, to show them one
| of the state asylums, where the
whole party threatened to leave
us if we didn’t get them out of
Fulton.
The trip on into St. Louis was
not particularly eventful. The
Moving Pictures
i at the Opera House
18 Reels Per Week.
THE FERRETTS
A detective is sent to capture
a gang of counterfeiters. He is
captured; also a man who was
sent to rid the place of rats, but
his pet ferrets gnaw the ropes
and they escape. —Drama.
(SELIG)
THE SHERIFF’S SON
An extra good Western picture.
Made in Montana. Full of excit
ing and interesting situations.
Western.
(ESSANAY-)
LOOK NOT UPON THE WINE
Farce Comedy
(BIOGRAPH)
A QUEER ELOPEMENT
Featuring Grace Lewis and
Edward Dillon. A sure comedy
(BIOGRAPH.)
Good Music and Pictures.
ADMISSION, 5c and 10c
Minneola hills are a slight ob
stacle to fast going, but they
were soon discarded from our
troubles and in the work now in
progress, the high concrete
bridges under construction to
make easy the hills and reduce
the grades one might easily
forsee within a year or two, a
I thoroughly modern and perma
nent highway, prepared for
travel in winter and summer.
In Missouri 'he people don’t
talk much el ;e but automobiles,
and if one is not interested,
he d certainly be bored- They
are working to establish a well
graded highway to share in the
$10,000,000 now being raised
by the National Association of
which $5,000,000 has already
been pledged and with which it
is proposed to macadamize or
gravel a national roadway from
coast to coast. Already upon the
Missouri highway you meet
many machines flying pennants
from Los Angeles, Denver, In
dianapolis, Detroit and the oth
er cities of the country, partic
ularly of the West.
Reaching St. Louis about 8
o’clock Frida v nffprnnnn. wp
happened to a puncture down on
Olive street in the retail sec
tion. Well, we imagined Nor
man Wolff, Ike Goldman or
some other city friend would
come whizzing by and enjoy the
discomfiture of our party. But
they didn’t and the driver soon
picked up the feminine group
down on Washington avenue,
where they had been shopping
and were put out of the store at
5 o'clock to sit on the doorsteps
and w’ait.
Next morning, Saturday, we
shook the dust of St. Louis from
our garments and hiked for De
Soto, reaching there at noon, af
ter several more punctures. This
roadway is all rock, but tolerably
well worn. The hills are a mile
long by actual register, and the
scenery after leaving St. Louis J
rivals that of the Rockies or '
Alleghennies. These hills ap
proach mountains in size and
equal them in beauty. The tier
after tier of heights, the valleys
that reach far back, that burst |
into view as you round a curve
and are as suddenly removed to
others beyond as a swerve in the
road unfolds as marvelous scen
ery as one could wish to see or
artist portray.
rrum i/eouiu, vse mtu a new
ly worked roadway into Bonne
Terre and then a pike through
the lead mining belt of Missouri.
Bonne Terre, St. Francois, flat
River, all with their big smelt
ers and a population of 10,000
people, and none of them incor
porated. “Personal Liberty”
has a strong hold upon this peo
ple and town councils, mayors
and city government are regard
ed as unnecessary restraints.
Spending the night at Farming
ton, our next day carried us
over the worst roads of the en
tire trip and while the route was
not much more than a trail, we
took our time and really enjoy
ed the diversion, the experience
that adds to a cross-country trip.
A fine macadam roadway led
us into St. Genevieve and out
This is an old river settlement
and while the Mississippi has
abandoned it and chosen Illinois,
the people haven’t. The town
was very quaint in appearance
and would have afforded much
interesting study to tourists
who had time. We didn’t. St.
Mary’s, on down the river, was
next in our line of travel and
Perryville was the noon hour
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stop. And that afternoon it
rained, but Perry county has a
system of gravel roads that is
the best upon the whole route.
These gravel roads extend in ev
ery direction and make model
highways, except that one’s
speed is limited by reason of
‘‘hog backs", which are ridges
thrown up at intervals down ev
ery hillside to protect these
roads from washing and they
have served the purpose admir
ably. These gravel roads have
a macadam base and are a mar
vel of excellence for durability,
wear and all kinds of weather, j
Reaching Jackson and 'ape 1
Girardeau, only ten miles apart,
we spent Sunday night in the
latter city and next day cover
ed the remainder of Missouri in
spite of showers and hills,
through Acquilla, Bloomfield, I
Dexter, Campbell, across the)
St. Francis into good old Ark
ansas and spending the night at j
Piggott.
The last day’s run from Pig- j
gott, through Rector, Marma
duke, Paragould, Jonesboro.
Cash, Grubbs and home was
made over fair roads and thej
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DAN HOGAN
WHIPS OfffCERS
Who Had Assaulted Him But
Officer W;ts Suspended and
Has Escaped.
Fort Smith. July ;;0.—In a
Eight between Dan Hogan, edi
tor. publisher and attorney of
Huntington, ar.d Dan Harvill.
deputy city marshal, four .-hots
were fired la>! night Tin fight
took place in front of Hogan's
home at Huntington. Hogan,
who two years ago was the So
cialist candidate for governor,
says Harvill attacked him.
In a fight that followed Har
vill was knocked down. The offi
cer then drew a derringer and
emptied it at Hogan at a dis
ance of 10 feet. The shots went
wild. When he pulled a six
shooter Hogan grappled with
him. During the scuffle the gun
was discharged twice. Both
bullets went wild.
Harvill was disarmed bv Ho
gan, lodged in jail and later
placed under a peace bom! and
suspended from office. When a
warrant, was issued today,
charging him with assault to
kill, it was found he had disap
peared.
Extra Ten Cents Sticks.
Memphis, Tenn., July 50.
Railroads entering Memphis
from the west simply put one
[over on iiir Business Men’s
(’lull, also the people, while they
[were in slumber land, according
i to local officials.
There will lie no increase in
bridge tolls. The extra 10
cents charged on the new pas
senger tariffs is to pay the pas
I sengi r’s fare from the oast bank
of the Mississippi river to the
I union depot. Congress was
I wise in passing a law in 100 1
prohibiting the bridge company
from charging more than 2
icents for each passenger who
! t*]’()sst >d the bridge.
Realizing this law could not lie
[changed, the railroads got back
at Arkansas by charging ten
cents extra for less than a mile’s
ride. Under this arrangement,,
if is said, the Business Men’s
[Club will be powerless, and as
for Arkansas, that state cut its
caper when it won for a twn
I cent per mile passenger rate.
Officials of lines entering Mem
phis from Arkansas expressed
an opinion Tuesday that the ad
ditional 10 cents to the regu
lar 25 cents for each passenger
crossing the bridge would stick..
At least, there is no intention
I of changing it.
jiwiiic-LUHjmg; iiiciue piea>aiiL
by meeting the Newport party i
near Jonesboro.
In only one Missouri county,
through which we traversed,
were crop conditions poor, and j
that was Stoddard, which had
suffered from the drouth. In
three weeks, between trips,
cotton had made wonderful
growth in plant and fruitage in
Northeast Arkansas and South
west Missouri and corn, too,
was as a rule good, though short
in some hill sections for lack of
moisture.
Real Estate Transfers.
N. B. Wishon to J- W. Shu
ford, Sl/2 of lot 185, Walnut
Grove Cemetery, $15.
Minerva J. Flaherty to Fred
A. Stuart, 120 acres 8-11-2, $5.
Ellen B. W7atkins et al to J.
N. Lovell, 160 acres 36-10-5,
$750.
State of Arkansas et al
W. B. Grant, 80 acres 16-11-2.
Try Virtues Little Liver Pills
at the City Drug Store. 09btf
Hogan secured a divorce for
Mrs. Harvill some time ago and
ely she had been employed as
nurse in the Hogan household.
Hogan w...s a candidate for first
vice president of the national
Socialist party at the last elec
tion and was defeated by a small
vote.
Stalled by Grasshoppers:
Dodge City, Kans., July 30.—
"Train No. 564, delayed 40 min
utes; stalled by grasshoppers.”
This was the report received
at the Rock Island depot here to
day. The train was coming out
of Ford when it struck a deep
cut where “hoppers” covered the
rails. The rails became so slip
pery that the drivers spun round
and the train stopped
The crew with shovels finally
scooped the hoppers off the
track and covered the rails with
sand, then the train could pro
ceed.
! II was rumored in railroad ol
fices Tuesday I hat more than
one local train is likely to be ta
ken off within a few weeks, and
that it will be impossible to
[keep them going on a two-cent
| per mile passenger basis.
A party of fourteen Boy
! Scouts from Augusta, in charge
| of Rev. A. T. Galloway, spent
I last night and today in Searcy,
en route to Heber, where the*?
will pitch camp for several days'.
The youngsters left Augusta
Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock
‘and expect to reach Heber
Springs by Friday noon. They
| paraded through the principal
streets last night and attended
the moving picture show in a
Ibody. The party is camped at
the fair ground, and will proba
bly not resume their hike to He
ber until tomorrow morning on
account of the rain which fell
today.—Searcy Citizen.
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