The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-12-14
THE I.O.A SHORT LINE.
What the "Gasoline Burners' Are
Doing Along that Route.

w. r. Lacey in the December mum.
Der of The Motorist, the official or.
gan of the Nebraska State Automo.
bile Association and the Waubonsie
Trail Association of Iowa..
| "An enthusiastic lot of gasoline
burners recently gathered at, Qskaioo,
sa, and proceeded to do the prelimin.
airy work for new "River to River
Road" across the state of Iowa, from
the city of Davenport to Council
Bluffs. 1t was christened THE 10.
A Short Line"
1t was a fine day for a christening
and the city Of the Indian maiden,
"Oskaloosa," and the big chief, Proud
Mahaska," was filled with a jolly
crowd of drivers of black, green and
red and white devil" wagons. But
we met, drank, ate and parted all
agreeing to be good nurses to the
new horn infant, the "LO-A Short
Line" ,s ~ ,}'' ,a.
| This new route was outlined to ex.
tend from Davenport to Muscatine;
Thence to Washington, Sigourney, o.
S-K-A-L-O-O-S-A (all big capitals);
Greenfield, Cumberland Council Bluffs
and Council Bluffs to San Francis
co and Honolulu.
The officers of the new association
are: G.. s. Walling, president, Oska,
loosa; w. NJ. Kelley, Washington,
first vice-president; w. r. Lacey, Os,
kaloosa, secretary-treasurer; G. W.
Alderman, Sigourney, second vice.pres-
yice-president; H. NJ. Dickson, Knox.
Vile, fourth vice-president; Senator
Aaron Proudfoot, Indianola, fifth vice.
president; J. J. Ketman, Winterset,
sixth vice-president; NJ. Mussmaker,
seventh vice president; John
Smith, Cumberland, eighth vice
president; Benjamin Aud, Griswold
ninth vice-president c. A. Carpenter,
Columbus Junction, tenth vice-presi
dent; Frank Throop, Muscatine, elev'
enth vice president; J. B. Richardson,
Davenport, twelfth vice-president.
Done anything yet? Sure! The
road is now marked from Council
Bluffs to Davenport, with red and
white stripes, up and down telegraph
and telephone poles.
Worked it any? should say yes
Old man Meeker with Buck" and
"Bilr could go whizzing along il
without having to go into low fol
miles and miles at a stretch. l am
not lying; / can prove it by Senator
Proudfoot of Indianola. Honest "In
gun" this road is now marked from
one end to the other, and we are now
: hard at work putting up guide boards
pointing to the nearest irrigatins
ditch and danger signs warn every
driver so that anyone who travels the
EO-A Short Line will have no occasion
to say he had no time to say his
prayers before his auto was "junked.'
This is bound to be popular river
to-river road. 1t is lined with native
trees. cool and shady, along the banks
of beautiful streams. through rural
scenes unparalleled in the central
west.
The townspeople and the farmers a
long the line are very much inter
ested in it and every officer of the
f-O-A, Short Line has his war paint
on and his tomahawk and scalp.knife,
and We are going to have good roads
or somethin' doin'.
We mean business in Mahaska coun.
ty. The old wooden bridge and cul'
vert are almost a thing of the past
and fine cement and steel culverts will
soon be the whole thing. An item OF
interest-in less than two weeks af'
ter the red and white poles had been
Ipainted the entire line through this
county, about ttwenty.eight miles, had
been nicely. dragged and the whole
lIO.A Short Line IS a go-it's a peach,
a daisy. -,'
We may have not over 40 cents
in the treasury, but every one of the
gang has an awful crawfull of sand"
II money and sand won't win, what
will? We have both. Here's to the
'T-O-A" Short Line" and the other
gangs; may they all be success.
Now boys, let's all get into line
for good roads. The encouragement
Office says the law cannot be enforced
and should be dead letter. We
have a law in Iowa that an official
must enforce the law or get out of
office, and We might have the mayor
Of Ottumwa or Marengo ask to have
the attorney-general's office vacated.
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