The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-05
Truman Pierson Driving Scenic High
way Scout Car Will be Here on
His Way from Winnipeg
to Mobile.
.esCOUT" LIKES AMERICA
Puppy Mascot is Happiest Member OF
the Family at Prospects of Get
ting Into Warmer
Weather.

WINNIPEG, Canada, Oct. 5.--Scout
car No / of the Mississippi river
highway left the Winnipeg city hall
bright and early Friday morning, en-
route for Mobile, Alabama, Galveston,
Texas and New Orleans, after a stay
in Canada for more than week, dur
ing which time the pilot, General
Manager Truman Pierson, of Quincy,
ILL.,, and St. Louis made number or
good roads talks to local associations
and city and government officials, re-
counting experiences along the highway
and telling of the accomplishments
for the cities on the route. Mr.. Pier
son is accompanied by Mrs. Pierson.
their daughter, Miss Muriel Virginia
Pierson and Scout" the famous
scenic highway mascot, who was pre-.
scented to the highway as the official
mascot by Mayor J. r. Beggs and the
citizens of Montrose, Iowa. scout
has been with the car since puppyhood
and seems to be the happiest member
of the party in the prospects OF get
ting out of this frosty climate.
On its way to the sunny southland
the scouting party will make stops III
Grand Forks. North Dakota, Minneapo'
Ills. Winona, Lacrosse. New Aloln'
Iowa. Dubuque, Clinton, Davenport,
;Muscatine, Burlington, Fort Madison,
Keokuk, Quincy, Illinois, Hannibal,
mo, st. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Mem
iphis, Tenn, Vicksburs, Miss, 81.
iFrancisyille, La, and Baton Rouge.
Completion of the trip of the scout
! car to Winnipeg tied Canada and the
lITnited States with new knot, road
that it is expected by the organization
| to eventually make good road all the
vay from Canada to the Gulf OF Mexl-
| 20 It is felt that this highway Will
iproye to be one Of the greatest north
| and south international roads mas
much as it passes through the very
heart of the richest and greatest val
iley in the world, the great MISSISSIPPI
valley, serving approximately lo,ooo'
loco people, or population greater
than that contained in the entire Do
minion of Canada. The new route
lis said to be the shortest and BEST
Iroute connecting Winnipeg with Mln-
ineapolis, st. Paul, Chicago, Daven-
port, Iowa, Quincy, ILL.,, Hannibal ana
St Louis, Mo-, and Memphis, V1cks
ihrrq Mobile. Port Arthur, Galveston,
and New Orleans.
In recognition Of this fact represeh-
Itatiyes of the dominion government
and the city of Winnipeg were pres
Ient to bid God-speed to the scouting
Inarty which organized the route all
the way from st. Louis to Canada
since Nav 1, when, with mud huo
ldeen the scout car drove away from
i+be Davenport, Iowa Commercial cluo,
lupder the auspices of the Greater
iDaverport committee and the Daven-
-ort Automobile club. The following
ioficials bid the scouting party an OIL
cio, sood.bye at the city hall: Mayor
- r GRAY, Hon Thomas H. Johnson
Attorney General of Province OF MANI
toba. s. R. Henderson, president MANI
+oha Good Roads association. "A. NC
C;llivrav of Province of Manitoba, A.
= Emmett, secretary Manitoba Motor
,1oag,,e los Banfield, president Mani
+oha Motor league, w. +. Tallman,
streat commissioner of Winnipeg, T..
brown CITY clerk G. Fred Bentley,
,socretarv Manitoba Good Roads asso-
citation.
M Pierson carries a message from
Mavor GRAY to mayors in cities or
low. North Dakota, Minnesota WIS
oonsin Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas,
ot;s.;ssinni Louisiana, Alabama and
Texas. It,. +ho
scenic highway officials claim that the
road from ST. Louis to Winnipeg. tol-
lowing closely the shores of the Miss
issippi river to northern Minnesota
then through North Dakota and Mani
,tnba along the banks of the Red river
Of the north, while being practically
an air line route, is also the most
scanic in the centre part of the United
States.