The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-07-11
OVER the WAUBONSIF
leon Autos Make a Trip to keokuk
to Spend the Fourth and Had
a Most Delightful Outing.

ACVu HuSVS VsohO y U'p w
to Spend the Fourth and had
a Most Delightful Outing.
Three autos filed with Leon peo-
pie made the trip to KeoEuk and re-
turn last week over the famous Wau-
boasie Trail. The party, which con-
sisted of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. F. Harvey
and daughter Florence, Miss Freda
Teale and Miss Camille Shuttle
worth, of Chicago, occupied Mr..
Harveys car, Mr.. and Mrs. j. r.
Bowsher and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry }.
Vogt occupied the second car and
Mr.. and Mrs. O. E. Hull and daugh-
ter, Miss Dorotha and Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Teale were in The Reporter
mans Maxwell Special. The party
went as far as Centervillc Wednes-
day evening where the night was
spent, the roads with the exceptions
of a few grips which had not been
dragged being in fine shape, es-
pecially in the vicinity of Corydon.
The party left Centervi]le at $3.50
o'clock on the morning OF the
Fourth, the first stop being at Bloom
the trail being we'll marked and the
roads in good condition. From
Bloomfield we travelled over the
trail through Pulaski, Milton, Can
tril and Mt. Sterling, to Farming
ton, and here we found the roads
not dragged for several miles on
zach side Of Pennington, but after
that most excellent roads were
found. Donnellson was the last stop
befor reaching keokuk, and the
24h miles from DOnnel!son to keo-
kuk were travelled in exactly 81 min
utes over mighty fine roads all the
way, the party reaching keokuk at
1880 o'clock.
We paid special attention to the
crops along the route, and with the
exception of a short strip Of country
after leaving Bloomfield, where they
had excellent corn, better than most
of it in Decatur county, we did not
see as good crops anywhere on the
trip as we saw in Decatur county,
especially the wheat, oats and mead
ows. The distance from Leon over
the WaubonSie Trail to Kcokuk is
exactly 164 miles. The afternoon
of the Fourth was spent in visiting
the big power company's dam, trip
across the toll bridge, to Hamilton,
Illinois, and in the evening tho party
visited Rand Park.
Friday moning the return trip was
started, it being decided to cross the
river into Illinois and visit the ia
nous old town of Nauvoo, fourteen
miles up the river. We expected to
find small village, but found a.
good little city of about fifteen hun hum
dred population. The country
around Nauvoo is noted for its vine
yards, some of them being several
hundred acres in extent, and i'm
mense quantities of wine are manu-
featured here. We visited one OF
the wine cellars, that of George w.
Dachroth, who is president OF the
American Fruit Growers Association.
and he kindly showed us through
the collar which was filled with wine
casks, each cask holding five nun
dred to six hundred gallons. Maui
WOO has the Spaulding Institute for
boys and St. Mary's Academy for
girls, under the charge Of the Sisters
of St. Mary. This is the town where
the Mormons were driven out years
ago, and at one time when the Nor
mons were located there it was a
city of more than 10000. From
Nauvoo we journeyed eighteen miles
up the river to Ft. Madison, where
we crossed the river on another toll
bridge, then took a branch of the
Waubonsie from Ft. Madison to
where the old Waubon-
sic was once more taken and the re-
turn trip was made without accl-
dent, the distance taveled during
the day being 1872 miles. Mr.. Harvey
and his party left US at Ft. Madison
and went to Burlington for a few
hours visit with his grandmother,
and they returned home Saturday
over the Blue Grass trail from Bur-
lington to Charlton, reaching Leon
Saturday afternoon.
1t was a very pl aeasntte gindple
1t was a very pleasant trip of al
most 400 miles for two of the cars
and Mr.. Harvey drove 4l4 miles,
and during the entire trip there was
not minute of delay with tire or
other trouble, and experienced driv-
ers say it is splendid record for
three cars to travel SO far over all
kinds of roads without single pune
ture or blowout.
AS We have to 60 back to Keokuk
this week with the Southern Iowa :
Editorial Association as guests OF
the Mississippi River Power Co., the
builders of the big uam, we will defer
our write-up of this great enter
prise until we see more of it, as no
work was being done on July 4th.
On the return trip we met the
Leon Boy Scouts at Milton, and they
were mighty glad to see some one
from the old home town. On the
trip to Keokuk, we missed them as
they had taken cut few miles
east of Centerville OF couple OF
miles and while they were of the
Waubonsie trail we missed them.
The boys were all feeling in fine
spirits and declared they were hav-
ing the time of their lives, the only
trouble being that they could hardly
get enough to eat.
Elsey-Jennings.