The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-05-19
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Aberdeen, Miss,
May IS, 1915

interested in a word descriptive Of
Our trip down here. | thought !
would offer a short story Of it.
We left home about SIS Sunday
morning (and before having break
fast) in our splendid knight motor
Overland car intending to reach the
home Of our daughter, Willie, at ABB
erdeen, Miss, some time Sunday
night.
We soon found ourselves at Sar-
dis, where at the home Of sister
Paris and brother-in-law J. L. Jones
we had a splendid breakfast. was
personally a little hungry and took
on considerable solids along with a
glass Of water, cups Of coffee and
two glasses Of milk.
About 7:30 we left Sardis but add
ed to our party already consisting
Of my wife, Achilles, Witt, our
splendid chaueffer, Mather, and my
self, Lem Jones, the latter bound for
Adamsville. Well, we bent and
twisted, and squirmed and lodged
mud holes, dug-outs, trees. gulleys
and all forms of anti-good roads
from there to Adamsville as we had
done from Lexington to Sardis. Ar
irving at Adamsville we met sever
al parties among whom was a beau
tiful young lady, Qem Jones sweet
heart, got some water, cigars, ETC.,
and about 1920 we pulled out over
a decent graded road to Shiloh Ma
tional Park, where we found not
only a splendid system Of highways
and drive-ways but beauty on ev-
cry hand, a national park, if you
please, which is not only a place Of
beauty and a JOY forever but an
honor and credit BETTING the glori.
Gus men who laid down all they
had, their lives, that this govern.
ment, of the people, by the people
and for the people" might not per-
ish.
Leaving there we passed over 6
good toll-pike to Corinth, where We
filled our tank with gasoline, put iI
some cylinder oil and purchased {
spark plug and went on South about
2 miles to a lake supported by {
fine Artesia well where there il
plenty Of seats and shade and tool
out of our car a previously prepar
ed lunch, equaled only by another
PIT up by an experienced cook ant
O.d-fashioned home woman, wht
knows more about keeping house
milking cows and singing lullaby.
to from four to ten babies across {
span Of about twenty years than she
does about Paris styles, short skirts
lowneck dresses and woman suffrage
and there we enjoyed the lunch, wa
ter, seats and shade and rested unit
about 1:S0 p. m, when we took oul
places in the bully" car and pullet
down by Bonneville, Wheeler, Bald
wyn, Guntown, Saltillo, Tupelo
Shannon, Okolona, Egypt and Glib
son to Aberdeen, all in Miss, reach
ing there just as the sun had gon,
down.
Upon examination we found tina
our car records showed we hat
driven 1879 miles.
While in Hardin county we tool
a half mide trip and visited the Sui
phur well in about a half Of a mill
of which several years ago | wa
born; as was my minor brother, 7
A. Lancaster, and Texas Tom.
It is a long bad way from Lexing
ton to Adamsville the way we hat
to 60. Corinth, Bonneville, Tupelt
and Aberdeen are all county seat.
Of Mississippi counties. There arr
some Of the finest roads down iT
in this section yon ever saw, there
being a stretch on the way Of abou'
twenty miles Of concrete road
There is about 20 miles Of native
road after reaching the edge Of Shi
loh national park clear on dowr
here.
We drove from Tupelo to Aber
deem, a distance Of As miles in al