Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — Autos, Not Homes, Are The Desire of Many. [ARTICLE]

Autos, Not Homes, Are The Desire of Many.

Automobile registration for April and May In the office of the secretary of state, numbered 3,564. Of this number, 1840 were registered in May, the largest number ever registered in one month since the registration law was enacted. Frank I. Grubbs, deputy secretary of state, estimates the average value of machines registered to be SI,OOO, making the total estimated amount invested in automobiles in the state in April and May, $3,564,000. During the two months, the entire time of two clerks in the office has been given over to registrations. The work in the department is made unnecessarily heavy because a large number of applications sent in by mail are not properly filled out and often do not contain the address of the applicant. .