The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-08
the CANNON BALL TRAIL
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fifth and last car was driven by Pearl
Myers, of Kirksville, and also. car
ried B. l.. Bonfoey, Ralph Goodwin
and Harry Jones, of Kirksville, and
III. N. Wheeler, of Quincy.
The first stop of the day was made
at Brashear. The roads from Kinks
vile to Brashear were good. In fact
with the exception of few miles
west of Quincy, nearly all the roads
were in good shape, with the excep--
ton of a number of culverts and
bridges. The road men here were
F. r. Easley, r. L. Millstead, T. E.
Hall, C. S. Davis and George Farquar.
Here, as in all other towns we pass
ed through, we found the people
alive to the value of good roads, and
all anxious to get in on the Cannon
Ball Trail, so that there was never
any trouble in getting pledges for the
fifty dollars required to join the
association.
From Brashear we went through
Hurdland, Edna, Knox City, La
Belle and Lewistown, and every COM
munity seemed to be enthusiastic in
behalf of the movement. At Hurd-
land the subscription was guaranteed
by G. B. Payne, Homer Black, DR.. E.
D. w. Peugh and V. Delaney; at
Edna by J. M. Hardman, J. j. Ho-
nan, v. E. Lycan, P. A. Lycan and
A. G. Bostwick and E. o. Parsons.
Mr.. Parsons joined the party here
and went with us to Quincy and re-
turn. At Knox City we met j. B.
Mckay, A. B. Anderson, Fred
Walter and L. Clark Thomas, who
agreed to put Knox City on the map.
We also had the pleasure there of
meeting Judge R. Rhodes, one of the
county judges of that county, but
who probably derives greater salts
faction in being known as the
father of DUSTY" Rhodes, the base
ball pitcher. At La Belle the guar
antors are C. S. Smith, S. D. Matt
ingly, B. F. Thompson and N. A.
Hill. G. w. Millinix, the editor of
the Star, is also helping to boost,
both personally and through his
paper. Lewistown deserves more
than passing mention. About the
best roads along the trail are in
the neighborhood' of La Belle and
Lewistown. The heartiest reception
met with since leaving Kirksville
was rendered us by the Lewistown
Business Mems League. E. L. New
Ian, C. w. Christy, A. P. Porter, w.
L. Arnold and Pratt LoWdermilk,
of Lewistown, had met us in car
at La Belle and escorted us to Lewis
town. When we drove into Lewis
town on Main street we saw large
banner hung across the street with
the emblem of the Cannon Ball Trail
upon it, Cigars by the box and
lemonade by the bucketful were
passed around, and to the hot
tired, dust covered crowd that we
were it certainly looked good.
Here we were met by car load OF
Monticello boosters, consisting of G.,
w. Machand, banker, T. L. Johnson,
r. B. Caldwell, E. H. Long and J.
T. Helms. This party escorted us
to Monticello, the county seat of the
county, where we arrived at three
o'clock p. m. Monticello is an in
land town, seven miles from Lewis
town, the nearest railroad point.
And here was special dinner await
ing us, served by the Commercial
Club of Monticello at the Southern
Hotel, D. E. Musser, proprietor.
The country round, apparently, had
been secured for spring chickens,
and everything else in proportion.
This dinner will linger longer in
the memory of the party than any
occurrence on the trip. Leaving
Monticello at 4:15, we encountered
the only serious mishap on the trip.
The fourth car broke off a key in
it's differential and was disabled and
Doris, which, in spite of the added
weight, made the rest of the party
hustle to keep up. We got into Can
ton about supper time and the
crowd could not be lined up there,
SO that it was agreed that a party
from there should follow us to the
next town, La Grange, which they
did. Several car loads of Canton
people followed us over to La
Grange, including C. O. Rain, master
of the state grange, and j. H. Wiss
and Jos. Martin, special road district
commissioners Here a big meet
ing was held and both towns voted
unanimously to subscribe their
share of the funds. No stop was
made at the next town, Taylor, OW-
ing to, the lateness of the hour, and
we went straight on into Quincy,
arriving there about 1920. The
roads from Taylor to Quincy were
the worst we experienced on our
trip. 1t is mostly levee road
across the Mississippi bottom, mar
row and full of holes. There were
three or four bridges marked con-
demned by the road overseers, but
as there was no other route we had
to take our lives in our hands and
cross.
Quincy is good town. A late
luncheon was served us at the New
comb Hotel and a few speeches made
but owing to the lateness of the hour
and the fact that we from Leon had
been up since four o'clock, the re-
ception was not prolonged. The
next morning we were shown around
the city by the Quincy people, and
some photographs taken of a few of