The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-09-25
HIGHWAYS DEMAND
MORE ATTENTION
Business Interests of Denison in Dan
ger Unless Attention is Given
Public Highway About City
KING DRAG IMPROPERLY USED
City Council and Township Officers
Should Meet and Devise Plans
for Improvement.

for Improvement.
At the last meeting of the CONNER
cial club the question of the good
roads law was brought up and gen
eral discussion followed, in which con-
siderable dissatisfaction was ex-
pressed in regard to the manner in
which the public highways and streets
in the locality of Denison are kept. A
resolution was passed unanimously
demanding the public officials to en-
force the said law. 1t is unnecessary
to mention on whom the responsibility
rests for the enforcement of the law,
but one thing is certain that more at
tention must be paid to keeping the
roads in better condition or the bust
ness interests of Denison are settled.
1t is most unfortunate that the roads
leading ino Denison are in such de-
plorable condition. 1t is said that on
last Saturday four large touring cars
mired in the public highways east of
town. There is no more public thor
oughfare in the county than the road
parallel to the Northwestern track
from West Side to Dunlap.
The roads should certainly be kept
in such order that strangers passing
through the county should not have to
call upon the help of farmers and 9TH
ers to pull them out of the mire on
this prominent highway. Nothing is
SO injurious to the reputation of a
community as poor roads and every
stranger passing through the county
who has the bitter experience that
people are now having will blame the
county as a whole and not any partic-
ular locality. A suggestion was made
in the discussion at the Commercial
club that the officials and others hav-
ing any charge in the maintaining of
the highways in the locality of Den
ison should begin to improve and
keep the roads in good order. We do
not know who this may be, nor are
we supposed to make charges against
any one, but we do assert that our
roads are in poorer condition than any
of the adjoining counties, and we can
not help but feel that it is lack of
attention on the part of those whose
duty it is to keep the roads in order.
There has been universal demand
that the King drag be put on the
streets of Denison Immediately fol-
lowing heavy rains and that the op-
orator should not wait until after the
dust begins to fly before dragging the
street.
The man who invented the King
drag system of cleaning the streets of
the city says that the dragging should
be done Immediately following a rain,
and 80 per cent of the business men
of Denison agree with that method,
and yet it has been Denison's misfor-
tune to have men in charge of this
business who took their judgment
against the inventor of the system and
say that better time to drag the
street is later on. 1t is said that Mr..
Foderberg has contract for looking
after the streets and highways outside
of the city of Denison in this town
ship. Mr.. Foderberg is a good man,
and we understand he sought the po.
sition of overseer of the streets out
side of Denison. Considerable surprise
is expressed tha: he does not keep the
highways in better condition.
We are in favor of calling public
meeting by the city council and the
officials in the township whose duty
it is to look after the highways and
discover whose fault it is or whether
anybody is to blame for the unfortu
nate condition which exists in our
streets and highways. We hope the
mayor OF the city will call such a
meeting in the near future and take
the proper steps to insure better
following report of the officials of the
streets and highways. We publish the
Trans Continental Route association,
which shows how Indifferent the roads
are looked after in Crawford county:
The following is a synopsis of an
inspection trip made by President w.
G. Haskell, Secretary w. c. Rollins