Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1913 — Mud and Tire Troubles Encountered in Auto Trip. [ARTICLE]

Mud and Tire Troubles Encountered in Auto Trip.

A letter’ from Isaac Wiltshire written at Herington, Kans., Sept. 24 th, recounts some difficulties encountered on the auto trip himself and wife and her brother, Sherman Knouff and mother are taking. He says: “I thought I would let you know of the joys and troubles of our auto trip. It is getting pretty tough now that we are qearing our journey’s end. We encountered lots of mud in Illinois and Missouri. The first trouble we had was a broken axle, 12 miles from Centralia and ankle deep in a mud hole at that. We finally fixed it up good enough to get into Centralia on and had repairs made there and left Sunday noon, went to Slater, where we had tire trouble, left there Monday morning and had more tire trouble, got fixed up at Cortler and went flat again at Independence right in front of the court house square. Reached Rosedale, 4 miles out from Kansas City, Monday night, and left ,Tuesday morning for Scranton and had six punctures on the way. Went thence to Herington and got caught in a driving rain and will remain here until it quits. We have been following the old Sante Fe route but we inquired the way of some parties and they'steered us the wrong way and w’e went 35 miles out of our road, but we finally got back on it again. We saw our first jack rabbits today, but I did not run any dpwn. This is the first good rain they have had here for five months and we have seen thousands of acres of corn fluff won’t make 5 bushels to the acre.”