The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-11-11
MILLER ARRIVES AT SEDGWlCk
Aato Ride Of 1873 Niles From sparta
Via Chicago to Sedgwlrk COio-
ard WithUut Accident Or Ser.
lous Trouble

ard WItoOaf AceS1ent Or Ser.
isus TrOuble
North Bend, Nebr.. Is a small place
able To procure but the poorest of
accommodations. the poorest on our
whole trip.
That night it rained again but we
resumed our journey about $50 re-
gardless of the mud, our route lead
ing through Schuyler. Columbus, Cen
trail City. and Grand Island. The
road drag being used extensively
through here and the roads well
crowned the water drains off we'll so
that the mud was not deep. but We
1t exceedingly slick and some
what dangerous on account of skidd
ing, but the rains had been SO fire.
quent the loose dirt dragged into the
rutS did not have time TO get packed
and we were able to follow the old ruts
quite easily. in fact it was almost i'm
possible to get out of them some times
but when we did We were usually
very glad to get back as We much pre-
ferred them to the roadside ditch.
Jest west of Schuyler We met large
car with four young men from Ohio
who had been to the exposition. In
stead Of making an effort to give us
half the road they merely stopped in
the middle OF the road or in the ruts.
l was unable to get our car out Of the
ruts so stopped too when yithin few
feet Of them. They did not keep US ii:
doubt as to their tactics for very long.
We had hardly more than stopped
when they were out and attacking the
front end Of our car, helping it Out
Of the ruts and when that was accom-
piished they all got between us and the
ditch, preventing our skidding until
We had gotten around their car This
was not their first experience. In fact
they had been clear into the ditch once
that morning, pulling out with rope
and tackle carried for that purpose,
and very narrow escape the second
time as they told us and we saw by
their tracks little later when we
reached the same place. Our car be-
ing the lighter they let US do the pass
ing around. They were fine, jolly. big
hearted boys and after several minutes
of visiting in which they told us Of the
terrible condition of the roads in the
neighborhood Of kearney and Lexing-
ton we passed on wishing each other
good luck on our way We reached
Columbus for dinner, having Travelled
only 32 miles. Here we were mighty
glad to learn that we could remove
chains as we had dry roads ahead.
Columbus Is a good appearing town
Was told that from the point OF bust
ness transacted it stands about next
to Omaha. The crops around here
were fine.
Reached Central City AZ miles south
west of Columbus about PAS. Here
we left the Lincoln Highway because
of its bad condition, prefering to go
prominent roads that We're higher and
dryer than to taking chances of stall
ing in some of the Highways mud holes
You see the Highway closely follows
the railroad on the level or lower
ground usually. The wheat looked fine
about here and clear into Grand Island
but the prospects for corn crop were
discouraging.
fIaying friends in the neighborhood
OF Hastings We crossed the Platte river
at Grand Island and headed south for
reasonably good we reached our friends
farm home s miles northeast of Hast
lngs in ample time for supper. hav-
made l2S miles, 80 of them through
mud before noon. The next day We
visited with friends about Hastings.
We found that the crop prospects
had been excellent hut some locali-
ties were hailed out others consid-
erably damaged while in general it
had been so wet that everything was
suffering now. AT Blue Hill. south
OF hastings the weather reports give
over Is inches of rain fall during July.
Lots OF wheat could not be cut at all.
Some were cutting on the higher
ground leaving the lower. A great
many | unde, stood were getting gas
oline engines to attach to their binders
TO furnish the power for operating the
machine and placing skids under the
machines to carry them over the soft
ground. Even then they could not
harvest very successfully as the teams;
would m!re.