An advertisement of 1912, directed to the man who waited for the price of automobiles to go down listed:  4-cylinder Ford Model T, 3 passenger, removable rumble seat for $590;  A five passenger touring car for $690;  A six passenger Town car for $900;  A two passenger Torpedo for $590;  A Model T Delivery car for $700, all f.o.b. Detroit.  The same year, Zuck and Moser advertised a Flanders 20 for $915 and an E. M. F. 30 for $1225.

          A celebration was held in Dallas Center July 4, 1912.  The following item of interest:  There were nearly 200 automobiles in Dallas Center July 4th.  At one time in the afternoon there were 165 machines in and around the park.  Many more were in other places in town."

          1969, with its more comfortable, more expensive, higher-powered cars, equipped with luxuries far beyond the necessities of the early cars, and with many laned interstate and super highways crowded by so many cars and trucks traveling at much faster speeds, and increasingly more highway accidents, makes quite a contrast to the first horseless carriages frightening the horse-drawn carriages.

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IN MEMORY OF

William H. Ellerman                                       Charles F. & Jane Ellerman

George M. & Barbara Burkett                               Geo. F. Ellerman