Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-01-20
I. ]. Hoxsey Gives
An Account OF
Trip To Florida

who, with Mrs. Hoxsey is driving to
Florida for an extended visit there,
in which he advocates an automobile
club for Mexico, and tells about the
good roads:
Mr.. Mitchell Mhite,
Mexico, No.
Dear MITCHELL
We arrived in Nashville today after
several days of bad roads and bad
weather. So far we have made very
slow progress on our Florida trip,
and have run in either rain of snow
every day with the exception of last
Sunday and Monday.
All the way through Illinois we en-
cOuntered plenty of mud, and Sun
day we only made from st. Louis to
Salem, I'll. Monday from Salem to
Olney, Tuesday from Olney to Evans
vile, Ind, Wednesday from Evans
vile to Dixon, KY, Thursday from
Dixon to Hopkinsville, Friday from
Hopkinsville to Nashville, Tenn, the
last hundred miles being hard sur
face roads.
From East st. Louis we found the
roads being torn up in quite a few
places preparatory for building a con-
crete road from there to Vincennes,
Ind, which will connect with the
Dixie Highway from Mama, Fla, to
New York the estimate on this road
to be $4,000 per mile for a sixteen
foot road.
/ am very much interested in get
ting a primary road through the state
of Missouri, and running through our
good little city, for it means in two
or three years people in Missouri will
be able to travel either North or
South without getting mud on our
cars.
1t does look to me like that if peo-
pie in this country where the land is
very poor, the country rough and in
not near as good condition as ours
"a afford to make the improvements
in the roads they are making, that
we, in a community Of live, up to date
business men, farmers and stock
raisers, ought to by all mean put our
shoulders to the wheel and get into
the permanent good roads game, for
it must come nj or later, and the
M we get it the sooner we will
add TO our community and our bus
mess.
/ find that in every thing else we
are far in advance of a big part of the
country / have gone through, and
during this trip we have seen quite
a few comical and interesting sights.
Near Dixon, KY, we came across a
mail carrier delivering mail on a
donkey, some of this mail being
Christmas packages just being deliv-
cred.
We stopped over night in Dixon,
and found very good food, and good
bed. Also had Arbuckles coffee, my
first cup since l was a boy. The rea-
son / know it was Arbuckles, was
that l saw the packages on the side
table.
l also see they feed the mail car
riers Donkey on Uncle Dick Brad
Ieys Checker Board feed, or at least
they use the empty bags for saddle
blankets.
AT Henderson, KY, quite an inter
esting sight was to see wagon loads
of leaf tobacco, drawn by from four
to six horses, brought into market,
and sold from three to seven cents
per pound. Of course I wouldn't
want this told to our tobacco Gus
toners, as we are getting from sew
enty five cents per pound up.
! thought the days of clap boards
to houses and barns was over,
as ! had not seen any since my uncle
used one on me to ge. me up before
five a. M, when / was a small boy.
Mrs. Hoxsey was very much inter
esteI in an old lady chewing tobacco,
but I hardly think enough to try it
herself.
In several places / was offered
papers two and three days old by !
the paper sellers, same being fresh
news to them, but | always told them
I read the Ledger and Intelligencer {
the same day they were published.
When in st. Louis I renewed my {
membership in the Three "A" Auto- {
mobile Club, the charges being only
$500 for QUITO flown members. Ad-
1922 Locust St. ]
/ would like to see Mexico organ G
lie a good Auto club, for a good t
Auto Club would be a mighty good Y
benefit to us there, and also to bring v
and tourists into our city, which /
all means more money spent in Mex
leo.
! would suggest that Clarence a
Barnes be made president of the {
Club, and that a stenographer hired l
Tor three or four hourse each day, to
answer any inquiries or business of
Ill kinds that might come up. ]
II you people will get together and a
'rganize such a club, / will offer you s
lree space for q desk and typewriter
t the Alamo Hotel for one year.
There are road questions coming up I
very day that would prove interest ,
ng to look after, and I am sure that