University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-08-28
FARMERS OF BOONE
COUNTY BUY AUTOS
From Two Machines Five
Years Ago There are Now
More Than Hundred.
CARS ARE OF THE BEST
Pastime of Motoring is Be-
coming More Popular
This Season.
CARS ARE OF THE BEST

The automobile is rapidly coming
into its own with the farmers, judging
from the popularity with which it has
been met in Boone county within the
last year. The day has apparently
passed when it was considered use
less luxury in the country, suitable
only for town use, as the number OF
sales of cars to farmers has increased
many hundred per cent in the last two
years, and the sale of cars to farmers
has eclipsed the sale to persons living
in towns.
Five years ago there We're two auto
mobiles in Boone county and one in
Columbia, owned W. B. West. Later
F. A. Sampson, secretary of the State
Historical Society, bought car. and
for year after his purchase, there
were only two cars in Columbia. To-
day there are nearly a hundred auto
mobiles in Columbia, owned by private
persons and by automobile companies,
and considerably more than hundred
owned within the county lines.
Motoring Pastime.
Motoring is rapidly becoming ia
vorite pastime. With the additional
paved streets every year, the auto
mobile is most serviceable asset,
&c FOO hot no
improvement of the streets of Column
bia was the biggest boost the auto
mobile business ever received. Col
umbia has several long stretches of
paved streets, and the automobile
probably receives the most benefit
from them.
The roads over the county, although
bad at times in the year, are as good
as the average, and better than many
in the state. This fact, an automo-
bile dealer will tell you. is a great aid
in selling cars to the farmers An
automobile with poor roads and poor
streets is almost useless, and with
better roads. the sales and use OF the
automobile increase. Motoring trough
out the county has increased as rap
idly as in town.
Farmers Buy Standard Cars.
The ears that are bought by the
farmers are standard, in build and
price. A below-standard car is short
lived on country roads, they will tell
you, and for that reason they make
their investments good by the pur-
chase of durable and latest makes.
The garage of John n. Taylor has
sold about twenty cars this season.
The majority of the cars have been
bought by farmers, and only four of
the list OF this seasons sales of the
John n. Taylor house have been to
persons living town.
The following is partial list of
the sales of the John n. Taylor house
this season in Boone, Howard, and
Randolph counties: \. ID. Smith,
uSoi sc III. bcdSiSs, d. a. I1uuSOll, L.
H. Thee, S. E. Thomason, John Kirk
patrick, Judge J. c. Taylor, Dr. Ed
monston, Alexander Denny, Leon Fife,
Boone Denny, Wesley Alexander, DIR.
S. l.. Dewherst, Everett Hurt, Edward
Price, John O'Kee, Mrs. Finney, w.
B. Allen, L. Head, and John Wilson.
The Columbia Automobile Company
sold cars to the following persons this
season: l.. E. Maxwell, Z. NJ. F.;
Prof. w. D. A. Westfall, Empire; J.
d. Kelly, Franklin; Fred Hathaway,
Empire; J. c. Smith, Ford; j. T. Con-
ley, Z. NJ. F.; J. E. Turner, Ford; +.
H. Kallmeyer, E. NJ F.; X. F. Cum
bingham, Brush. The Columbia Au-
tomobile Company handles the Ford,
Haynes. Z. NJ F., Empire. Brush and
Flanders cars. The John y. Taylor
house carries the Buick and Hupmo-
bile
Other recent automobile purchases
in Columbia are f. W Stephens,
Kline; Z. Sidney Stephens, Kline; C.
W. Furtney. Moon. c. Il. Bowling.
Moon; G. A. Evans, Doris; and Ben
Williams, REQ.