Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
TOM BLODCETT WINS
 HICKS RILEY'S $500;
 ], GIVES 1T TO THE ""

\ Now when it comes to putting an automobile over the rough places and pulling off enduranee tests Your Uncle Tom is right there with the goods.
 { When I put my lamps on Hicks Eiiey's offer to wager that no car except the famous Essex could un- der it's own power make the trip to Monticello under seven hours, thought to myself "It's mighty in- convenient some times to be dea- don in the church" for it is not good taste for deacons to accept wagers l always did think it was wrong eb bet, even before 1 became church deacon-especially if you lost-1 worried all day with the challenge staring me in the face and could re- eount hundred trips my sturdy twin six Ford had pulled that made the Monticello trip look like taking Die out of the cupboard.
 { finally talked my conscience in to believing that it was q sin to let Riley pull his bluff. so called up my two scouts, Marvin Jaggars and John Nyegaard and we met at the office at 10 o'clock at night and l laid the challenge out where it star Sd them in the face and the war council began.
 X hundred times these scouts and K have fought the worst roads in midnight darkness as regular diet and both the boys were raring on the bits and we decided that we would not let town chap like Riley pull any rough stuff like little nonstop run to the. village of Monticello.
 We tanked up one of the service Dtneys that we use in showing farms and city property, threw a set of mud chains under the seat and the three of us left Pine Bluff at 11:45 lh. Friday night and we made the nun to the end of the pike without a mishap, except breaking spring which Jaggars wired up from the running board without stopping the car.
 When we left the pike we split the mud holes wide open, and when we came to bad hole that looked dangerous, we cut the fence and detoured thru an unsuspecting farm CTS field, and back into the road of 6:10 Saturday morning by our 1nger- Soll watch we eased down Main street Monticello looking like three submarine cooks.
 We made the run back to Pine Bluff in six hours and 20 minutes and stopped 30 minutes for break fast, we took down Riley's $500 and Immediately turned it over with our compliments to Secretary Goodwin for the Y. M. c. A. expense budget for 1920, as we would have been ashamed to have kept the money when the drive we made was only daily occurrence on busy day with us.
 We made good sale on the trip and listed bunch of fine farms and picked up couple of good houses in Pine Bluff for quick sale as we came down the street. <.
 If you have house to sell call us up or if you want to buy bargain in city or farm property use the same telephone, No. 2615, and the same jitney that took Hicks Riley to Il cleaning will be right on the job Our office is right in front of the elevator" fifth floor, Citizens Bank building.
 TOM BLODGETT, the land man F. S.-L almost forgot part of my story jnst as Jaggars, Nyegaard and myself hit Main street on our return from Monticello, the alarm clock went off and Mrs. Tom poked me in the ribs and said "It is o'clock and time for you to get up." Prom the way you have been snoring you must have been having night mare and dreamed you won Hicks Riley's lon stop money to Monticello"
 SI still contend that it is incon. venient sometimes to be deacon ir the church. Adv