River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-07-24
HAVE FINE TRIP TO MONROE


In letter received at this Office
Prin. j. w. T. Ames gives a very
interesting account of his auto trip
from this city to Monroe, distance
of 538 miles, and we are sure
that Journal readers will be glad to
read it. The letter is dated from
"The Ludlow" Monroe Wis, July
10, 1918.
s. K. Morse, River Falls, Wis.
Dear Morse,-We arrived!
Our little Ford finished it's cross
country run per schedule, at $40 p.
m, Thursday. We found every
thing in the shape of roads, and
then some, and apparently the car
is ready to turn around and make
the trip back without any other at
tention than the filling of the gaso-
line tank.
AS you know, we headed out of
River Falls at ESQ p. m. on the
18th. For eleven miles we followed
the trail of ]. ]. Fosters big tour
ing car, then lost it where the trail
went east while we kept north.
Twenty miles farther on, nine miles
east of new Richmond, we picked
up the trail again, and soon over
hauled the car, stopped, apparently
in distress.
H AS we turned out to run by it,
1 it started up again and followed US
a mile, then stopped, and we saw it
mo more. We suppose it got through
to Clayton and back all right.
The rains of Friday had left the
roads in bad shape, especially be-
tween Clear Lake and Barron, but
with stops at New Richmond, Clear
Lake and Turtle Lake aggregating
so minutes, we reached Barron at
$3.50 p. m.
Monday morning at 6 o'lcock
found US headed south and east.
Our first stop was Chetek, where we
called on Bruce and Bessie AndruS,
making stop of 40 minutes; then
on to Chippewa Falls, which was
reached at 10:15. We had intended to
stop here for dinner, but threaten
ing storms urged us on, and we
made Stanley. All forenoon the
roads were good and the running
delightful, and we had made
SO miles in a trifle over hours run
ming time. 1t was sprinkling
when we left Stanley, and terrific
rains crossed our path of the after
noon, SO that we were obliged to
resort to chains, and the roads for
20 miles were exceeding slippery.
We got little of the rain, but all the
mud. Our route led through
Withee, Greenwood, Loyal and Spen-
Ger to Marshfield, run of Sc miles,
which took us a trifle over four
hours, mud included. Without
storms the whole run to Marshfeld
would be delightful.
Tuesday we delayed our start
until $50.
To Stevens Point the roads were
generally good the main incident
being an enforced detour of miles
to avoid closed road, closed for
repairs. Leaving Stevens Point we
plunged straight into the mid-Wis-
consin sand, fourteen miles of it, 6,
s, 10 inches deep, and deeper, but
with track cut through it by many
cars. 1t was hard going but the on
ly real trouble came when we met
another car. However, we were
fortunate, and the cars we met were
not in the worst spots of the road,
and we made the IA miles in 20
minutes. We took dinner at Am
herst, then drove on through Sheri-
dan, Waupaca, Weyanwega, Ere.
mont and Dale, over what were
mostly very good roads, with one
very bad hill, to Appleton, finishing
our 1l2 mile run at 4:45 p. m.
Wednesday we did not hurry tc
leave Appleton, nor did we hurry or
the road, but $40 p. m. found us II
Waupun, our days run totaling 81
miles. Except for a few rough
miles after leaving Fon du Lac, the
roads were good but all the after
noon and evening we watched bis
storms in front of rs, and we go
the benefit of them. Leaving Wan
pun Thursday morning, we made