Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-09-15
SEPT. j. AUTO DAY
3'Des MONIES And Omaha 10 Join
| Hands In Effort To Promote
Better Feeling Enroute

September 10th has been set
apart for the beginning of three
day sociability run along the River
to-Riyer Road between Omaha and
| Des Moines. The affair is being pro-
noted by the Des Moines Capital, s..
the Omaha Evening News, and the
River-to-River road association.
| Four beautiful loving cups and !.
number of medals put up by the,
| Des Moines Capital and the Omaha
News will be awarded as trophies.
| The run will be made over the
River to River road and automo-
bilists from Abel, Guthrie Center,
Redfield, Extra, Atlantic and all
other towns along the line of the
River-to-River road are to be ex-
tended a special invitation to par
ticipate
Getting Omaha and Des Moines
automobiliste ACQUAINTED, promot-
ing good fellowship and increasing
interest in dirt road improvements,
are the objects for which the run
is planned. 1t is expected to make
the event such jolly affair that it
shall become only the first of
series of similar yearly events.
Early Monday morning, Septem-
Der 10, the Des Moines autoists will
assemble at some designated point,
probably the Capital office for a
group photograph. Cars will be
numbered and registered and the
run to Omaha started En- route au-
toists will join the party and be
registered in at the towns along the
route. The stop for dinner will prob
ably be at Extra or Atlantic. After
reaching Omaha the party will be
taken in charge by the Omaha auto
lists. The ladies will be given a
theatre party by the wives of the
| Omaha autoists and the men will
be put through the PAGES at the Ak
Sar-Ben den.
Tuesday morning Omaha and Des
Moines autoists will assemble at Z
or 1880 all will be numbered and
registered, and the big run to Des
Moines started. 1t is hoped to so
time the run that the MONDAY stop
may be at Guthrie Center This will
leave the short end of the run for
the afternoon and get the bunch in
to Des Moines in good season. On
arrival here the local Automobiles
Will turn hosts, and the big event
of the evening will be a banquet
dinner either at the Slavery hote or
at the new Hyperion club house. The
dinner is to be a jolly affair with
men and women all participating.
There vii be a live POSTMASTER who
will keep something doing.
Tie six medals will be put up to a
vote of the entire party :. There will
be one to the King of the Road
Hogs, His Royal Highness, the 1910
Speed Maniac, the Queen of the
Omaha-Des Moines Sociability run.
Other similar Inscriptions will be
on the other medals The voting
away of these is expected to add to
the jollity of the occasion Wednes-
day morning the Omaha automobile
lists will get away on the return
trip.
Original plans to make the run
an endurance contest have been en-
tirely rearranged. There will be no
hard or exacting conditions. There
will be no requirements. that will
add anything of a gruelling nature
to the trip. Everything will be ar
ranged, so far as possible, for the
comfort and pleasure of those par
tlcipating in the run. While the run
will extend over three days, Des
Moines autoists will be engaged in
the run only on Monday and Tues
day and the Omaha Automobiles
on Tuesday and Wednesday. Auto
ists VINO JON alOng the way to Oma-
ha on Monday will be engaged all
day Tuesday and part of Wednesday
in case they complete the entire
run. In case the weather is threaten
ing it is planned to postpone the
run until prospects are good for fair
weather during the three days.
Officials of the Iowa auto club
have taken the matter up and named
w. p. Meyer and Earl Butler as
committee to work with the secre-
tary of the River-to-River road as
ISOLATION, representing The Des
Moines Capital. Mr. Carey, sporting
editor of the Omaha News, and