The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-11-04

leaving the car that night l had or
dered it washed the universal and
differential creased ami c., ed for in
general. Next morning l found the
hose had been turned on the car for
a few minutes and part of the mud
knocked off, absolutely had not been
touched otherwise but charge of
$50 for work on car was reg
istered. The John Bull in me as
serted Itself Immediately. We COM
promised but still entertain very
agreeable CD recollections of the
the "Robertsons' Garage" at Ames,
Iowa, assure you. Wien a fellow
deliberately soaks another because he
has the chance and never expects to
see him again my hair begins to get
quite bristly.
Ames is a nice looking little city.
apparently doing considerable busi-
ness and Judging from the number of
cars about Town. in the evening the
farmers in general must be fairly well
fixed. 1t also has the Agricultural
College which we passed in leaving
town.
Boone, the county seat of Boone
county is also a good looking town
The country about looked good. The
Highway was very well marked thro-
ugh here.
Out of Boone a short ways we cross
ed the Des Moines river. Here was
some nice scenery. The course of the
Highway was well planned, following
IA miniature canon down onto valley,
level AND a couple al miles or so wide
the crops looking the best then up
again onto the higher ground, one long
heavy g.:-de down. a1othei up and this
strip of broken country was passed
just out OF Jefferson county seat
OF Greene county, we struck the Coon
river but no bad roads to speak of
At Carroll we left the Highway to go
to Wall Lake, some "a miles northwest
where some relatives of Mrs Miller
lives. We made practice of making
inquiry concerning roads at garages.
but at Carroll while Mrs. Miller was
phoning to Wall Lake, l got into con-
VcrSattOn with "a resident who drives
a car and took his advice as toroads to
ward Wall Lake. He sent us by way
of Auburn of all the roads i'll the
county lie could not have sent us
~arage or livery barn is the place foy
road information At Auburn we a
gain struck the Coon river About 2
miles out of Wall Lake we had to stop
and patch up puncture. The dis
tance covered that day was 1O2 miles,
arriving in the afternoon We stopp-
ed in Wall Lake a day and two nights
The young man of the family We were
visiting being proprietor of the Ford
Garage, | took advantage of the oppor-
tunfty to wash and fix up our car gen
orally. Wall Lake is nice little town
getting its name from the lakes about.
From Carroll to Wall Lake we were
impressed with the heavy acreage and
bountiful crop OF oats.
In resuming our journey from Wall
Lake we headed strainght south II
miles to Westside where we again
took up the Lincoln Highway. This
4 miles was over quite rolling coun-
try not as prosperous and productive
looking as the most of Iowa On
sCme of these hills we noticed our
motor missing at times A new ex-
periencc 1t did not bother us much
tor quite a while. but il worked on
my nerves and after about 40 miles
run determined to inspect the spark
plugs. About this time we fell in
with couple of young men, in a
Ford. whom We had passed the first
morning of cur homeward journey,
Just few miles out of DeKalb, ILL.,
They were having little of the same
kind Of trouble so we cleaned up our
spark plugs together Our trouble did
not all seem to be in the spark Mugs
and with no more experience than we
had had no engine trouble at alive
stopped at Dunlap in Harrison Cuun-
ts to have the matter looked into. With
the loss OF 4 few minutes time and 3:,c
in cash We had learned that the COM
niutat0r on our cngin" sscmc times
needs cleaning and wcs ON our way re-
jOicing that nothing serious had over
taken us. We kept in close touch witt.
tile two young men until in the after
noon Il few miles on, of Council Bluffs
ufcy stopped to camp.
They were on their way to the .x-
position. lis surprising how con
GH!al and accommodating people will
become and what a friendship will
spring up when out under these con-