Mon 22 Aug 1921
Mary's Journal Entry
18 miles from Ft. Wayne. Camped in a churchyard 1/2 mile in Indiana. Slept good. Woke in the morn. & found another Ford in front of church. Stopped at Ft. Wayne for gas & oil. Drove 18 miles this morn. & no breakfast. Stopped 4 miles out of Ft. Wayne get eats oh hungry. Stopped in Huntington Ind. fixed Bill’s speedometer come 3 miles. Left town about noon gassed up at Logansport got melons on & camped in a school house 27 miles from Logansport and 23 miles to Lafayette put cars side by side put canvas over & went to bed after 138 miles drive saw more corn and hog in one day than ever in our lives
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Card Sent Home
Dear ones. We slept in Indiana last night in a church yard. I guess I was on the line for something was bunched under my hip. we got started this morn 6 o’clock have come 18 miles & are getting gass & oil it is about time for breakfast. roads fine so far in Ind. we come on the Lincoln Highway have come out of our way some. we let Bill & J- lead & we try to follow. we are feeling good we drove about 150 mi. yesterday neither of us have spedometors what a shame. so long.