The ccntribtuors in 1913 were: ]. W. Ewbank. Chas, Anderson, F. M. Wooldridge, C. W. Richards. C. L. Alden. L. H. Lilly, George Yogler, Bank of Kimball, I). C. Mockett, J. L. Jones. C. E. Lockwood, Hubbard & Nugent, F. E. Reader, Gus Linn, B. K. Bushee. V. I'.. Car-ill. Sam Hanna. Will Young, 1. A. Tracy, [saac Roush, E. T- Dillon, P. Maginnis, I. S. Walker, Hans Nelson. Fred Morgan, F. M. Whitman, Mrs. A. L. Fort.

Highways

The greatest step ahead since the arrival and improvement of the railroad has been the arrival of the automobile and the consequent improvement of highways, so rapidly fostered by the use of the motor car. It has only been within the past twelve war- that the automobile lias come in common use. The rapidity of its prestige and multiplication looking backward eight years we find that in 1913, according to the records, there were thirty-two autos in Kimball c< unty, of which there were ten Fords, four Buicks,

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four Reo and two E. M. F. Of the remaining eleven there were as many different makes. Following- is the list with the name of owner:

Edwin Pierce, Buick ; Wm. E. Pile, Brush ; John Filer, E. M. F. ; B. A. Lathrop, Stoddard-Dayton ; John Simmones, Franklin ; A. J. Hull, Maxwell; C. T. Dillon, Reo; Geo. Ernst, Overland; Frank Goodwin, Chalmers-Detroit; F. M. Woolridge, Buick; W. B. Cooper, Ford; Hans Peterson, Ford; E. J. Dillon, Ford; Wm. Ballard, Ford; H. C. Erwin, Ford ; F. O. Baker, Ford ; J. A. Erwin, Ford ; Mr. Holladay, Ford ; Mr. Van Pelt, Ford; B. K. Bushee, Reo; W. D. Atkins, Buick; A. H. Amos, Ford; W. J. Davies, Studebaker; Hubbard & Nugent, Buick; C. E. Lockwood, Reo; J.