The Forrest City times., 1907-08-16
BIG AUTO IN TOWN.
w. h. Miller and Party, of Little Rock, Arrive Here Overland
 in Big Road Machine.

in Big Road Machine.
 Our little city was given quite q surprise, and considerable interest was aroused by the arrival here last Friday evening about six o'clock. of MT. W. B. Miller and party, of Little Rock, in big six-cylinder Franklin road car
 This is the first road car or large automobile that has ever been seen Tn Forrest City, and naturally at tracted great deal of attention. It was critically examined by the usual crowd of curious citizens, and pro- nounced wonder. It was in charge of real, sure-enough chaffeur. too, and the boys looked him over care fully, as though they thought he might be a rare specimen of some Kind of superhuman. The big ma chine found shelter at Hatchers stable for the night. The trip was made without accident to the me- chanism.
 The party consisted of MT. W. B. Miller and wife, Misses Poppy Apper- son and Hazel Bragg and MT. w. F.. Floyd.
 The Little Rock Gazette says.
 The big machine with it's occupants left the Marion hotel in Little Rock at 4 am. Friday, and the route was along tbe country roads over Grand Prairie and through the White river bottoms to Clarendon. The party reached Clarendon in time for noon, lunch. The trip through the boggy White river bottoms was the most difficult of the journey, and here the automobile mired to the hubs, so that a four-horse team was necessary to extricate it. Once again on the trip the machine was caught in the LAn- guile bottom mud, but this time a tWo-horse team served to put it in | commission.
 Roads were excellent over the Grand Prairie and the big machine travelled i at high speed, at times attaining | forty miles an hour. The only draw back was the dust, and the progress of the machine could be traced for miles by the cloud which streamed in l it's wake.
 From Clarendon the auto was run Into Brinkley, and from this point the route of the Rock Island railroad was 1 followed into Forrest City, this place being reached late in the afternoon, in time for dinner. Here the party was royalty entertained, and here the night was passed
 | payinu. Eorr n ,~1 Got urday, the tourists fairly flew over splendid roads to Wittsburg, passing Crowley Ridge. Much time was lost at the St. Francis river, which was crossed by ferry. The ferry was de- scribed as small affair, which made crossing in the machine tedious business. Three hours time was lost here. The next town passed was Par kin and the party flashed through Earle and Charlottesville into Mem- phis. The Memphis bridge was used to cross the Mississippi river.
 ACCIDENT TO MRS. MILLER.
 After having spent Saturday after noon and night in Memphis, where the party stopped at the Gayoso hotel, the return trip was begun at : o'clock Sunday morning. Crossing the bridge across the Mississippi, the re- turn trip was made by the Bald Knob branch of the Iron Mountain. This route was adhered to as far as Earle, when an angle was taken toward Short Bend, the route being through the St. Francis river bottoms. Just before arriving at Short Bend, Mrs w. B. Miller suffered severe sprain of an ankle and was taken in haste to the northern terminus of the St. Francis River railroad. Here l.. A. Wood, manager of large sawmill at this point, offered the tourists the courtesy of his home and Mrs. Miller's injury was cared for as well as pos sible. The party arrived at this point at 9:40 Sunday morning and spent the day at MT. Woods.
 When the party left this point Monday morning, MT. Wood and Henry Cupples, superintendent of the St. Francis River railroad, accompa- nied the visitors to Round Pond on the Rock Island line, in a special train. The situation having been ex- plained to Superintendent Sanders of the Arkansas division of the Rock 1 Island, he ordered the fast Memphis train to stop at that point, and the party arrived here Monday afternoon on this train.
 The car was left in charge of MT. Wood, who is an expert chatfeur, and who will bring the car into this city some time during the week
 The big auto went through We'd nesday on fiat car.