Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-06-14
MAY SPEND NIGHT HERE
Route of Annual w. S. A. A. Has Been
Mapped Out.

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A meeting of the local automobile
association was held Thursday night
and plans made for the entertainment
and accommodation of the participants
in the 1911 tour of the Wisconsin
State Automobile Association, who
perhaps will spend the night of July
90 in Lancaster. This has not been
definitely decided yet but the local
association expects to receive notice
this week.
If the autoists stay here their visit
will be made as pleasant as possible.
An invitation will be extended to
motorists throughout the county and
weather permitting there will be
about 100 cars here beside the 40 or so
engaged in the tour. The tourists
will number about $780,
The route Of the the tour as now
planned was given in Sundays Sem
tineI as follows First day. Milwau-
kee to Marinette. with Port Washing
ton, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Two
Rivers, Green Bay and Oconto as in
termediate points. The noon control
on this days run will doubtless be at
| Manitowoc.
The second days run will be to
Wausau, with Peshtigo, Oconto Falls,
Neopit, Mattoon and Amigo as stop
ping points the noon control probably
being at Shawano
On the third day the tourists will
have plenty of work cut out for them,
and through a difficult stretch Of
country at that. They will go from
Wausau to La Crosse, via Mosinee,
Stevens Point, Grand Rapids, Marsh
field. Neillsville, Mcmillan, Black
River Falls, Sparta, Bangor and West
Salem to La Crosse. If there is any
tourist of the lot who feels that he
has not fully tested his car and him.
self on this third days stretch the
Sixty Cent club doubtless will chip
in and buy him something handsome
in the way of leather medal. II
sure is one big days run. The noon
control on this day probably will be
at Grand Rapids or Marshfeld.
The fourth day will take the
tourists over the picturesque ST.
Joseph's ridge country to Viroqua,
thence to RichIand Center, and from
theirs by way of Fennimore through
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roads of the state to Lancaster OF
PIatteville for the night. The noon
control on Thursday will probably be
at Richland Center.
From Lancaster or PIattevilIe the
route On the fifth day will be via
Mineral Point, DodgevilIe. Mount
Horeb. Ridgeway, Barneveld and
Verona, to Madison. a run Of
moderate length, but interspersed
plentifully with hills and some rough
going.
The final days trip will be from
Madison via Stoughton and Edgerton,
to Janesville and Beloit, and thence
to Kenosha, via Clinton, Delavan,
| Elkhorn, and Burlington. From
Kenosha the route will be up the lake
bp Racine and FranksviIle to Milwau-
kee.
The pilots car for the trip will be
an Overland, furnished by George w.
Browne Of Milwaukee, state agent fol
that make. The pacemaker car will
be Cadillac, offered by the Jones
Auto company Of Milwaukee. The
Thomas B. Jeffery company Of Mil
waukee will furnish the car to bt
used by the Milwaukee pressmen, il
having been rendered for the purpose
by Manager A. W. Shattuck. A
Garford car, furnished by Orrin r
Hughes of Marsh6eld, will be- used
for press purposes The Buick Motor
company of Milwaukee will provide
the official physician car.
Several prominent citizens of the
state have already signified their in
tention to enter the contest as private
owners to contest for the Schandein
cup offered to that class of competitors.