Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — PLAN EXTENDED AUTO TRIP [ARTICLE]

PLAN EXTENDED AUTO TRIP

Fired Phillips and Family to Drive Through to Pacific Coast. Fred Phillips is now a gentleman of leisure with a comfortable bank account, the result of a few years of close attention to farming and stock raising and the rise in value of his real estate, and he contemplates putting in. several months the coming summer in a trip west which promises to be exceptionally enjoyable. As soon as school is out, with his wife and daughter, Grace Augusta Phillips, he plats to leave via auto on a trip through Colorado, New Mexico, the Yellowstone country and probably on to the Pacific, coast. -• The.” .expect to leave here early in June anti will drive through by * easy stages, stepping enroute whenever and whoever they desire for short time, and to return by another route, via the same conveyance. They expect to oe gone three months or more. Fred recently purchased a new Oldsmobile cne-ton truck, and on the chassis of this he will build a comfortable tent house, fitted up with all the conveniences imaginable for living, sleeping and cooking. It will be fitted with electric lights and will he quite large and roomy. Whenever they pull up at the side of the road at night and stop their car they are camped for the night, and camiped most comfortably, too. Fred has been studying up on design, and equipment for his “house on wheels” for several months and will combine the desirable 'features of such outfits as he has read of in the various newspapers and magazines. This will certainly be “some trip,” and the rest of us poor mortals who must keep our noses to the grindstone will good-naturedly envy him the pleasures in prospect.