The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-14
Acknowledgements
Items of Interest From State
Association Headquarters.
Air Line Is Planned From Be.
lott to Colby.

The secretary of the Kansas State
Automobile association, D. z. Wat
kins, reports the largest enrolment of
new members this week of any week
since the association was organized.
This is due, to great extent, to the
fact that Bucklin, in Ford county, has
enrolled it's entire club of 40 members.
Secretary Watkins states that the
Bucklin club is the first in Kansas to
affiliate without a visit from some Of
ficer of this body. No doubt the guide
books delivered by the association,
together with the activity in having
the money derived from the new auto
mobile law spent as the law provides,
have been responsible for this increase
in membership.
AT the. present time the state as
soclation has rs counties afhlited with it
and it is the opinion of the president
and secretary that five or six more
counties will come in, which practical
ly covers the automobile field of Kan
sas.
Good memberships were also record
ed from Jefferson, Osborne, Mitchell,
Atchison, Rocks, Republic, Marshall
and Morris counties.
Meeting at Stockton.
Thursday afternoon, June II, a road
meeting resembling the one in Usage
City a few years ago, was held in
Stockton, for the purpose of forming
an air line from Beloit to Colby, be-
ginning at Beloit and passing through
Osborne, Rocks, Graham, Sheridan and
Thomas counties. There were proba-
bly, more cars in Stockton that after =
noon than ever before in the history
of the town. Boosting organizations
from all the counties along the line
were present, each county desiring the
road to pass through it. Some very
keen contests were started on this
point, but with the assistance of some
members who had been through such
meetings before, harmony was restored.
The county commissioners of these
counties were also there and agreed
to designate the county roads and have
them join at the county lines. COM
mittee of three from each county was
selected to log the route. On the morn
ing of June "A the committeeman will
start at Downs and go to Osborne,
Stockton, Hill City, Hoxie and Colby,
and Plainville, and at that time the
best road will be adopted as the Off
cial Beloit-Colby cutoff.
Mr.. R. M. Anderson of Beloit, who
is president of the Sunflower Trail,
was instrument in bringing about an
amicable adjustment of the matter.
Mr.. Anderson has confronted such
problems before and was we'll quail
fled to hold the position of chairman
of the meeting.
J. Q. Adams of Stockton was chosen
permanent president and 1. R. Mort
of Hill City, secretary and treasurer.
Later on a vice president will be
chosen from each county to cooperate
with the automobile clubs and thus
improve the proposed route.
Rocks County Association.
Previous to the regular meeting of
all the counties, the Rocks County
Automobile association, which is affil
lated with the Kansas State Autorno-
bile association, perfected its organ
ization. Fifty-two members were
taken in at this meeting and the fol-
lowing officers were elected: w. l..
Davenport, president, Plainville; J. @.
Adams, secretary and treasurer,
Stockton; J. H. Gregory. vice presi-
dent, Woodson.
twenty-five other vice presidents
were chosen, one from each township
of the counties, and it will be their
duty to oversee the highways of their
townships. The organtza-
ton will also seek to have the money
derived from the new automobile tax
expended as the law provides. Charles
Risley was selected as publicity man,
and with the harmony now existing
between the commissioners and the
organization, good results will no
doubt be obtained.
Twelve owners of Enger cars will
nm from Kansas Civ tnnnOrroU.