Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-09-07
AMONG THE MOTORISTS.

Abilene Is rapidly becoming cen
tier for automobile tourists and for
parties from the surrounding towns
who often drive here for Sunday
dinners. 1t seems to be favorite
stopping place for tourists going to
or from Colorado and they are in
the habit of making this place for
their first stop west of Kansas City.
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The Santa Fe trail is marked from
end to end up the Arkansas valley
with signs telling the turns and in
dicating bad places or bridges. Now
comes this from Beloit: The work
of marking the trail on the Sun
flower route between Minden, Neb.,
and Great Bend, Kansas, was start
ed last week, when R. M. Anderson
and John Miller painted in yellow
IAN IS inch stripe on telephone poles
between Beloit and the McKinnie
farm. The first of the week this
will be extended west to Ports,
where others win continue the mark
ing to Minden. The Beloit men will
likewise mark the route to Sylvan
Grove. A number of the Beloit
businessmen have already contribute
ed to a fund to assist in paying the
expenses of marking the trail.
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Abilene ought to unite with other
towns up and down the Kaw and
Smoky Hill and make the Overland
route from Kansas City to Denver
a more popular route. 1t could !
easily be made not only good driv-
ing but by putting out markers
bring the tourists this way. This
route is falling behind others of the
state.
Marshal Engle is checking up the
town motorists on their rear lights.
The new ordinance provides that
every car must carry rear light SO
fixed as to show the license tag.
This is as much for the protection
Of the motorist as for that of the
public.
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Mrs. G. A. Hoffman's new Winton
Six will be the only six cylinder car !,
N the county as well as the most
,ostly. 1t is large car and she
Will drive it herself. H
One of the newest of the self
starting devices for motor cars this
year consists of an electric motor
which, if need be, will run the engine
lalf an hour with its own power,
before the gasoline is turned in.
The motor-a half horse power dy-
lamo-is on flange, cast integral
With the lower half of the engine
rank case. When it is desired to
tart the engine, current from a
forage battery starts the dynamo
motor running as a motor. Then
he clutch is thrown out. That mo-
ion forms contact with an cleo
ro-1po unat Tbio ,nooDat DC foct
ned to sliding gear, which works p
n the shaft of the generator. The |
ction of the magnet meshes tlS
ear into teeth which are cut on the ]
ywheel of the engine. As the ratio
etween the two gears is about ten
} one, the dynamo-motor has plen-
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Seth Fleming of Enterprise drove v
, western Kansas in his new White b
ar last week and bought a COW. The
DIV would not get out Of the road
nd the car struck it, breaking one 6
the animals legs. Seth paid $2S n
,r it and sold 1t to a butcher for
"a so he came out of it cheaply. {
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The accident Thursday afternoon u
fused by the effort of Mrs. Dutton
avoid running over boys who were \ {
tempting to climb on her car vi
Iould be lesson to the small boys
town. They have been making
practice of jumping on cars, hang
g on the rear springs, ETC., until
ey have come near serious injuries. Ia
lere is a city ordinance against "
is sort of thing and it should be ei
forced. al
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The large number of touring cars tn
ssing through town, representing Ri
most every central west state re- pr
lis this story told by Chief JUS Co
e Johnston the other day: Col ta'
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