The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-10-07
FROM SPARTA ILL, To DEkALH.
". l.. Miller snd Family Aat" II.
Niles And Write Aksut tn.
k0ads xnd Sights,

Roads xad sights.
W. l.. Miller and wife and littl" son.
who spent some days with Sparta rel
atives, and started for their home at
Sedgwick Colorado. via DE kalb. ILL.,,
wrote their brOther-in- law, \. J. Ste
phenson here about the long trip. II
will no doubt be of interest to our
readers especially auto owners who
may want to visit places named, and
routes to the north part Of The state.
and we give the letter below:
We left Sparta at six o'clock a. m,
June l6. Went north to White Oak,
finding the road very rough that far
Reached Marissa at :45 and spent
IL minutes with Mr.. Fingers family
Here we learned that Jim was in the
west central part OF the state so We
could not arrange to see him on our
way up here.
We left Marissa at o'clock for
Bellcville, the roads in pretty good
condition. a few rough places. At
New Athens where we passed through
water IL to Is inches deep when We
went to Sparta from Kirkwood, we
now had dry roads, the river again
about normal We reached BelleviIle
al $50, spcn: 30 minutes making in
quiry concerning the route we should
take. Decided to make Springfield
via collinville. Edwardville, Staun-
ton. Mt. Olive and Litchtieid Just
out of Collinsvillc W" struck the East
~. Louis. Springfield. Chicago trail
Fine road 20 north side OF Edwards
VILE where We found a construction
gang grading new road One team
ster having mule down in the ditch
we stopped to see the outcome and
fell in with couple # young men
who were heading for Springfield.
Proving quite cOngcnial we kent in
close touch with them until Spring
field was reached. From New Athens
on the crops began to look better, al
though too much rain was evidenced
all along. Leading into Edwardsvillc
from the south is about miles of
concrete road that surely is fine
About Ehwardsvillc were strong cvi-
denccs of a severe wind storm |
presume the storm of Sunday. June
18th, wires down and great tree,
twisted. broken and torn up by the
roots From Edwardsville the roads
are wcll cared for and marked with
>ignhoaras dcEotine direction and dis
tances of towns. Can't understand
why Southern Illinois don't spruce
mp just a little along these lines.
Al Litchfeld we drove to the Amer
lean Radiator works and visited few
minutes with Everett Steele and Earl
|inlcy We reached Springfield at
p m. and would have enjoyed stop
ping over night and looking up aomn
of our old Sparta acquaintance. but
fearing rain decided to push on to
Bloomington via Lincoln Leaving
rark. very nice place and arrived
at bloomington about $50 p. IN. hav-
ing travelled Us miles.
Putting up a, the same hotel with
MS was couple who had been to the
coast and We're returning East be
iievc 20 New York. Learning that W."
were bound for Colorado they inquired
"''at kind of car We wore driving
My answer was. "Oh. wearenot driving
= car. We have Ford" You should
lave heard him open up with praises
for III" Ford He surely would make
= Ford sales man He was driving d
5000 pound roadster and three ,imcs
during the day Il little Ford had hitch
- rr md helped his "car" ont Of dif-
ficn';y. When he had finished it mad
~ fool as thcuel: We could say 'Fnrd'
with as much dignity ~ some rsouio
say ear" A.. made 40 exceptions
bur fully assured rs that Ne would
need to give the rigl, of way 10 no CO.
- "'nr. "'rircd ~ To steer clear of
40 ~"N,a +. trail and Oklahnma.
"" h-rHlfnS'ed in E'ocminrtou and
Mt GO struck on. north TO Str.ator
vi: r. rasn. Ninonk and n rumhor Of
smaller towns. over roads some nj
which rivaied Lindell boulevard in ST.