The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-18
ALBERT I. REID TO SPEAK
WIN Give Unique Cartoon
TAX 1T Wellington Meeting.
Items of General Interest to
Auto and Pop-Pop Riders.


be well worth talking about.
There are 227 miles of public roads IN
Shawnee county, 175 miles OF Wnicn
have been designated as county roaos.
Approximately 60 miles of road have
been improved by the county On ~
miles of highway clay gravel has been
applied; 20 miles of this is on the
Golden Belt running through Topeka:
Three and one-haH miles OF sand ana
earth roads have been oiled; two ana
one-half miles of clay and gravel ROADS
have been oiled. Bridges and culverts
have been erected or installed to the
number of 146.
Big Meeting at Indianapolis.
A humber of Kansans are expected
to attend the third annual convention
of the National Old Trails Road assOci-
alton at Indianapolis. Ind. May 7-S
which promises to be attended by ap-
proximately 5000 delegates The organ
ization will be put on a stronger foot
ing to fight for $1,000 miles of macadam
or rock highways serving 6 per cent of
the population Of the United States
There is renewed life in automobile
circles due to the arrival of real spring
weather.
Topekans 1t Wellington Meeting.
May a big auto and good roads
meeting will be held at Wellington.
Clarence Jordan, the secretary Of the
Kansas State Automobile association.
will be in attendance. George H.
Hodges, governor of Kansas. has been
asked to speak. and Albert T. Reid of
Topeka will give a cartoon lecture on
good roads. The meeting will be that
of the Sumner County Automobile as
ISOLATION. There are now one hundred
and fifty members in this organization
and an effort will be made to increase
the membership to five hundred.
Oil Belt Association.
Anri1 % rnoof3n0 nf tho Oil T3o1f
Route association will be held at Gar
nett. This organization takes in eight
counties.
Log Book Ready Soon.
The log book of the Kansas State
Automobile association, which will be
the most complete publication of the
kind ever put out In Kansas should be
off the press in May. Each member of
the association in good standing will
receive a copy. The book, aside from
the logs will contain numerous maps.
Side Cars Becoming Popular.
Pop-pop side cars are now commonly
seen on the streets Of Topeka. Three
of the local dealers now have the cars
and they frequently display them on
the streets. M. E. Harding, who was
| the only member of the Topkea Motor
cycle club to show up for the Sunday
morning run that was scheduled for
the club members took his wife and
two boys to Wakarusa- He rode a
Yale machine with a Flexible" side
car.
VIII Hold Motorcycle Meets.
The Topeka Motorcycle club in ses-
sion Friday night at the Commercial
club quarters decided to hold q series
of race meets this season, including
two or three meets of a more or less
local nature and the state champion
ship meet. The first meet will be held
June 6-possibly on the fair grounds.
If the management of the Kansas
State Fair association will not allow
the meet to be held on the grounds
| it will be held on other grounds, but
| it is thought that there will be no OBJ
lection to using the track at the fair
grounds for this purpose Prizes will
be offered the winners in each meet.
| Pop-POp Run to Usage City.
! The club will have a run to Usage
City a week from Sunday. starting
from the Commerce building at $3.50
O'Clock In the morning.
| Shawnee Motor League.
| AS predicted. H. S. Putney was
named as president Of the Shawnee
Motor league at the meeting of di-
rectors and members. The directors
appointed the officers and the mem
bersr present expressed their approval
of the choice, and discussed plans for
perfecting a stronger organization.
Other officers for the ensuing year
are: Vice president. A. C. Nagel: sec
! rotary. A. G. Lewis, and treasurer, DR..
F. ]. Ernest.
| Another meeting was called for next
Friday night. at which time the driv-
er's license fee will be discussed. An
EFFORT will be made to get as many of
the local auto men as possible out to
| this meeting.
The new officers and directors ap-
pear to have an unusual degree Of
push and it Is their desire to enlarge
the club and accomplish much good
in the way Of stimulating efforts in
good roads building and other spheres
of enterprise.
Crawford sheep to Coast.
Howard Fogg. ranchman of Beri-
charge of the Crawford theaters in
Ell Paso, Texas. for several years, will
leave Topeka in a day or two
accompanied by his wife. on
coast in the interests of L. n. Craw-
| ford and his Karakule Sheep COM
pany. They started out in a Ford auto
mobile with a sheep pen attachment at
one yearling and one full grown sheep
of the Karakule kind E. G. Kinley.
| tho local Ford man. got the car IN
/ readiness for the extended trip
i VIII Hunt and Fish.
Fogg and his wife. who accompan-
led him on four previous trips from
/ Texas to the coast, left Topeka by the
i Golden Belt Route. They will go to
/ Portland by way Of Denver and Salt
Lake City. They expect to make the
ing and fishing en- route. a complete
camping outfit was provided, tnclud-
ing small tent, cooking utensils, gums,
and fishing tackle.
Mr.. Fogg expects to advertise the
i Crawford sheep at the big ranches all
along the Pacific coast. He viii have