The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-12-06
mrs. LOGAN R. CARPENTER
Writes Interestingly OF Their Auto Trip
From Lancaster To Their Western
Home In Red Rock, Okla.
Dear Marv:-

As promised you. shall send you a
brief outlino Of our trip home from
Ky. We left Pr.achersviIle Saturday
morning. Oct. rs. in the rain. We
passed thru Stanford. Danville. Law
renceburg, Hsrrodsburg. Shelbyville,
and st Mathews into Louisville. This
is better pike than by way of Bards-
town. We drove into ouisvile about
3 p. IA. and visited over night with MI
aunt and uncle, Mr.. aud Mrs. ID. Il. Ed.
mission. Had a very pleasant visit with
them In their beautiful home aud left
there Sunday morning about 9 O'Clock
for Vincennes Ind. We had not gore
far when We found plenty of mud but
It was "A beautiful sunshiny day and we
made good time. We crossed the ONO
river over the toll bridge at New Al
bany thru POOL into Indiana We found
fairly good roads. We arrived in Vim.
cennes about six O'Clock and took IA
room for the night Vincennes has a
population of $1,000 and busy little
city. IL began raining about midnight
and rained the rest of the night There
was also quite an electrical storm that
did quite a lot of damage.
Next morning we ate breakfast at 6
o'clock and started on our way by A.
NJ. We Travelled oil day thru mud and
rain, pulling on low good many miles.
We made only 80 miles rs it was so
cold we stopped about 4 clock for the
night IN Odin Illinois. We We're pretty
well chilled and our car was sight to
see We could hardly tell the color 1t
was so splattered with mud and water.
Odin is quite mining town, also rail-
road center on the b. and o. 1t was a
dreadful cold night and next morning
the ground was frozen hard. 1t was
hard on tires but we made better time
than thru the mud and water. However
it stopped raining and the sun was
shining once more.
We stopped at Shiloh and ate dinner
and felt fortunate enough in getting
vegetable soup and fine chicken dim
ner. We could appreciate this after
riding several hours in the cold. Shiloh
was about two and a half hours drive
TO Saint LOU, Missouri
On nearing st. Louis we found spen-
did roads, the first really good highway
since leaving Ky. We did not stop IN
St Louis but drove right thru to st.
Charles and ferried across the Missouri
ri:er. From ST. Charles we drove to
Warrenton and stopped at six O'Clock
for the night.
BY this time the roads had been drag
ged and in much better condition Tor
travelling. We drove from Warrenton
to Sedalia. ate dinner in Columbia and
again crossed the Missouri river on a
ferry at Boonville and on to Scdalia for
the night. Being tired we sought TO
retire early, forgetting it was Hallow-
cen, but soon awakened tc the fact by
the band coming down our way play ing
Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight"
followed by a mass of people in every
imaginable costume, from the tiniest
to the oldest All traffic was stopped
in the main part OF the city for an hour
or SO and the crowd given full sway.
From our room on the Bird floor we
could see it all and we enjoyed it with
the rest.
We left Sedalla at eight next morn
ing for Harrisonvile Mo-, to visit a
brother. Reid Carpenter and family for
a day or two. There We treated ouI
car to shower bath whi; IN greatly inn
proved the looks of il as well as the
color. Purchased two new tires and
left there Saturday morning for Colony
Kansas, the town near where | was
born There We visited and stopped
overnight with one of my cousins who
recently was struck by lightning and
very seriously hurt, but now GONZALES
cling We drove out to the cemetery
Sunday morning and visited my grand
parents, an aunt and uace's graves.
took a snapshot of them. and from
there we drove to ElDorado. my hus-
bands old home, where father Carpen
ter settled in an early day 1t now is
one of the greatest oil fields in the
United States. The Trap Shooters have
one well producing 10000 barrels per
day. We stopped over night in ElDor-
ado aud | must say. on our entire "Trip
thru to Kentucky and back this was
the busiest place we found.
We drove from FL Dorado to our home
which looked real good to US after AN
absence of six weeks. Altho We found
it very dry wheat was looking good
Ii was wonderful trip and one we
all enjoyed. Going thru We burned "a
gallons of gasoline and made the trip
without puncture, but owing to the
weather we found the roads better GO
ing thru than we did IN coming back.