Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-10-15

been issued by the county treasur-
er's office. While there may be
some motor vehicles without tags.
they are few in number.
Who owns the back seat In your
car? You may think that you do.
since you own the front seat and pay
for the gasoline. But II you could
hear people on the sidewalks talking
when a man goes speeding by with
the back seat in his car empty. you'd
think that the back seat belonged TO
General Public.
AAA
Along with the Jay automobile
driver put the jay pedestrian. He's
the fellow who walks by fits and
starts when he crosses a street. He
may make such good time that an
approaching motorist wonders II the
man on the ground can hold TO Q
straight line; or the ]. p. may go 80
slow It's hard to tell whether he's
moving or not. He tempts an acci-
dent and then cusses IL It comes
close.
You've heard the story about the
fellow who gathered up q wagon load
of tin cans, shipped them TO the
Ford factory and in return received
a Ford automobile and eighty cents
in money, but that's not where the
Ford car originally got the name OF
being the tin can car. The original
"tin can" Ford Is In Cedar Vale.
George Starkey. local hveryman,
has state auto license number 10 on
his Ford and, according to the tag.
which reads, "Ten Kan" he must
have the ''tin can" car.-Cedar Vale
County Liner.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Lifts, Mrs. J.
N. Dieter and Mr.. and Mrs. G. P.
Snyder returned Wednesday night
from a motor trip to Larned. On the
way out they had to leave the Lifts
Overland at Great Bend. On the
return trip the roads were fine, ex-
cept between Salina and Solomon,
where they were somewhat rough in
spots.
Jacob Gibbs, an Industry man,
met with an accident by the collision
Of street cars in Kansas City. He was
getting out, and the shock of the
car threw him onto the edge Of the
pavement, severing an artery
and bruising his head and face bad
ly. He was carried into drug store
and the artery stopped, but he had
bled profusely. He was unconscious
at the hospital for several hours,
but insisted on coming home at
once. VIM. Baldwin; returning home
from his Hidalgo, Texas, farm, took
him in charge and brought him
nome. -, =.
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The Golden Belt highway is to be
ar preferred above the Lincoln
highway, according to Joseph A.
Ware of Blackstone, Mass, who
With Mrs. Ware went through Abb
enc on the closing lap Of an ocean |
o ocean and back automobile plea
ure drive. Mr.. West drove to the |
vest over the Lincoln highway and |
m his return has come from Dem
er east over the Golden Belt. There
s practically no comparison to be
made, he says, and, he warns every
ne to take the road through CEN
raj Kansas. while you do not
ave such smooth roads as we find
t places in the east" said Mr..
Ware, IT must say that in proper
ion to the area that has to be work
d that Kansas has done remarkably
Yell with the Golden Belt for high
yay travel. OF course in Pennsyl-
ania and in York state there are
reat stretches as good as the Abb
enc pavement. We will return over
he Golden Belt to Kansas City, on
0 st. Louis, columbia, Wheeling
nd probably up to Washington and
baltimore. Then up through the
erseys and home in 48 hours. We
an make $50 miles a day there IL
70 want to-" Mr.. and Mrs. Ware
AIRY camping equipage with them
nd II they do not find hotel ac-
handy they camp
long the way.