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BAND BOYS AREJLOST IN WILDS\MISSOURII tut jji_ m, w • When One Auto Load Gets jBearings In Night, It Discovers Itself InLancaster.i1011i »IiIflt;iAdrift, in ;t Ford, five members of l the l.'bdrd Regiment band, who had set sail for Seymour Monday night at 11 oeloek, yesterday morning in the wee small hours, found themselves lost in the wilds of north Missouri, traveling up and down hills that almost would shame the Ozarks.The one ear was driven by Chester : Hyde an 1 when the crowd finally got I t its bearings, it was in Lancaster, Mo j j down near where Diamond Bill Hall j stores his elephants and tigers and band wagons and such when he brings his shows in off the road in the fall.The band of twenty members was the chief attraction of the celebration in Seymour yesterday and made a great hit, but it worked hard to get there and worked its way back.It is eighty-five miles to Seymour, j } hut there are numerous detours on j account of road construction, and 1 hardly one of the four automobiles! got through without being lost and 1 ! rolling up extra mileage. Curtis El-! liott got off the road in the darkness waked up a total of six peevish farm-I ers and still didn’t get very explicit!1 directions. ! ,I I \But coming back was just as bad. j J The car driven by Harvey P. Stearns, j , the new music instructor at the high ^ i school, went wrong as to the head • I ( i lights coming home and hours were ! *I spent tinkering with the electrical!€Ci• I.I. I system. Finally at Centerville aL I! a*i garageman was routed out and work- j I1 Jed long and loud on the car, finally; *. j getting it so it would cast a shadow je11 But the car suffered a relapse soon \ 1 after and two other cars attempted tc J ; convey it in, keeping it between them a Jto furnish light. The plan failed to)* work and the blind car struck a pile' 11 of sand the other side of Bloomfield ! ^ ani went over, smashing (».*c wnitei ctop and crushing the radiator so that * it had to le left in til today. The e crowd was divided up, Mr. Stearns made as comfortable as possible for;0 the rest of the night, and car and' **jowner were left to await the coming vof the dawn, the rest of the passengers 11being divided up and crowded into , the other cars. » 1n
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Fairfield Weekly Ledger Journal
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 06, 1922
Page 1
Full Page
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William S.
USA 06 May 2019
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