Mexico Missouri message., 1911-07-06
THRU AUDRAIN.
A Joy Ride For Gov. Hadley
Across Our County.

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the Missouri State Highway Com
mittee, composed of Colonel II II.
Gentry of Sedalia, Fred ID. Nun.
son of Osceola, f. w. Swink of
Pennington. Colonel w. A. Dali
meyer of Jefferson City, George
II. Sly of Rockport, Charles
Householder of AuXvasSe and
Allen y. Thompson of NaShau
and State Highway Engineer Cur
It's Hill, on an "oificial JOY ride"
three times across the State dur
ing the week beginning Monday
morning, July II, and ending Sat
urday evening.
The purpose of this three.timeS-
acroSS-the-State tour is to cstab-
liSh a Missouri State highway,
which is eventually to be the Mis-
souri, section of a national high
way from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciic Coast.
There are three routes pro-
posed, the northern route, south
ern route and the central route.
The officials of the Automobile
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Club of st. Louis will take the
party over one of these routes to
Kansas City, where they will be
joined by the Automobile Club of
that city. The officials of the two
clubs will then escort the Cover
nor and his committee over the
second route to st. Louis, when
the Kansas Cityclub will then
take them over the third route.
1t will be a pleasure trip and
free from the rules of contest.
Roy F. Britton, president of the
st. Louis club, has received com
municatiOns from towns along
the routes stating that prepare
tons for the entertainment and
comfort of the tourists have been
completed.
There is much rivalry among
the towns along the three pro-
posed routes. as the establishing
of highway would materially
benefit any section. Pilots from
each town will meet the party.
thus avoiding the loss of time by
taking the wrong roads.
State Highway Engineer Hill
has outlined the three following
routes;
Northern route Beginning at
st. Louis, passing thru st. Charles
in st. Charles county; Old Monroe
and Elsberry, in Lincoln county
Louisiana and Bowling Green in
Pike county; Vandalia and Mex
leo in Audrain county; Centraia
and Sturgeon in Boone county;
MOberly in Randolph county
Keytesville and Brunswick in
Charlton county; Carrollton in
Carroll county; Richmond in Ray
county, and Liberty in Clay cOun-
ty, ending at Kansas City.
Southern Route Beginning at
st. Louis, passing thru Gray Sum
mitt and Union in Franklin conn.
ty; Drake and Mount Sterling in
GascOnade county; Linn in OsaS
county, crossing the Usage River
at Huber's Ferry jefferson City
) in Cole county; California anC
Upton in Moniteau county; Sc
. dalia in Pettis county; Warrens
burg and Holden in johnson
. county; Pleasant Hill in Cas-
} county and Greenwood and Iced.
: in jackson county, and thence t.
, Kansas City.
? Central Notwithstanding a
{ st. Louis, passing thru St. Charlie
and Dardenne in st. Charlie
e county; Warrenton in Warrel
e county; High Hill and Danvill
s in Montgomery county; Williams
= burg and Fulton in Callawa,
s county; Columbia and Rochepor
+ in Boone county; Fayette in How
ard county, crossing the Missouri
a River at Lisbon; Marshall an,
p Blackburn in Saline county; Hig
ginSville and Odessa in Lafayett
County; Oak Grove and Ind,
4 pendence in Jackson county, END
, ing at Kansas City. \ number O
i notifications of this route hav
been suggested, one of which
from Fulton, Galloway county, t