The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-10
LAW OF THE ROAD new HIGH SCHOOL
Automobile Clubs Want to Have
1t Observed
WILL SEE 1T ENFORCED
Official information Relative to the
Use and Abuse of the Public
Highways


The Alexandria Automobile Club
has taken up the matter of protecting
the highways and is receiving the CO.
operation Of owners of automobiles in
Sank Centre. The following notice
has been made public and in response
to request of the local automobile
owners the Herald publishes it here
with
''As the automobile club has decid-
ed to act in the matter of protecting
the highways, we believe it but right
to give fair warning to the people
who have been obstructing the roads
and violating the law with impunity.
Fall blowing will soon begin and
with it will begin the blowing of fur
rows and soil from the adjoining fields
into the travelled roadway. This
practice is contrary no law to say
nothing of common sense and decen-
cy. The law protects the road and it
is going to be protected; it is up to
the land owners whether they will
be allowed to continue using a part
of the road for cultivation by being
decent about it, or to be allowed to
seed a part of it for grain only. There
is no objection to having a part of
the road planted to grain provided the
road and drainage are not disturbed;
but when the nefarious practice of
obstructing the road is carried on,
Section 1901 of the state law will be
enforced. The club asks the cooper
alton of the travelling public.'
The section of the law referred to
in the preceding paragraph reads as
follows: "Any person living upon or
owning land fronting on public road
a portion of which is not in actual
use or needed for public travel, may
level and seed the same to grass, ex-
cept within one rod of the center"
In a circular sent out by the Alex
andIia club and endorsed by Sank
Centre automobile owners, the fol-
lowing passage occurs: ''Road over
seers very often in removing worn
out culverts leave deep trench
across the road thereby endangering
the travelling public. At times they
use the grader and heap sod, sticks,
and stones in the middle of the road
to depth that makes travel danger
Gus and at times practically obstruct
the road. Section $50 of the revised
statutes provides that anyone guilty
of such an act is guilty of a misde-
meanor."
Section IA, chapter 259, laws of 1909,
reads as follows:
whenever person walking in the
travelled portion of public highway,
or a person riding, driving or leading
a horse or other animal therein, or
driving or operating vehicle therein,
shall meet another person thus walk
ing or thus riding, driving or leading
a horse or other animal, or thus driv-
ing or operating vehicle, if such
persons are moving in opposite direc-
lions, each shall slacken his pace, if
necessary, and seasonably turn to the
right so as to give half of the travel
ed road, if practicable, and fair and
equal opportunity to pass, to the
other; or if they are moving in the
same direction, the person overtaking
shall pass on the left side of the per-
son overtaken, and the person over
taken shall, assoon as practicable, turn
to the right so as to give half of the
travelled road TO the other.
: "Any such person shall, at the in
tersection of public highways, keep to
the right of the intersection of the
centers of such highways when turn
ing to the right and pass to the right
of such intersection when turning to
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