The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-06-21


Sunday School at the Baptist Church
at 1000. Preaching at HOO. Ser
mon to the children; subject, 1.-The
Child and the Message. At 500
o'clock a Children's Day Program will
be rendered by the children. Every
one invited.
Attorney Scoblic. of Tyndall. visited
in Wagner over Sunday. This next
week he is going to Minnes polls,
where he will be married on June &c,
to Miss Helen Brown, of that city.
Frank Nider, of Wagner, will serve
as best man. Mr.. and Mrs. Scoblic
will spend a month on a trip en- the
Great axes.
The farmers of Plain Center Town
ship are counting on doing a great
deal of road work in the near future.
The roads in that township are gener-
ally very good but the citizens are
strongly in favor of setting an exam
pie to the rest of the county and ex-
pect to have their roads built up to the
highest point of excellence. Tney are
soon to commence work on the road
running from the old Geenwood to Ar
mour line west to Ravinia, and hope
to make that road so good that it will
become a part of the proposed Sioux
City to Chamberlain route.
Mrs. P. r. Pinard was hostess to the
Priscilla Club Thursday. The after
noon hours were devoted to visiting
and an interesting guessing contest
called, "Names of Songs" At five
o'clock all were invited to the dining
room, where the guests found places
at table attractive in its appoint
ments, with q ~center-piece of yellow
roses and place cards with the rose.
A delectable course luncheon menu
added to the pleasure of each one
Mrs. D~resselhuys was presented with
a piece of cut glass as the favor. The
club will entertain the Lake Andes
Priscilla Club at the home of Mrs. K.
P. Frink. Thursday, June q.
A meeting of representatives of all
of the towns from Sioux City to Cham.
berlain was held at Yankton Friday to
further the project of building a high
way from Sioux City to Chamberlain,
to pass through the counties of Union,
Clay. BonHomme, Charles Mix and
Brule. G. H. Henry was chosen as
chairman and L. E. Corey as secretary.
State Engineer Lea addressed the
meeting, outlining the progress of the
movement for good Roads in the state.
There are in the state 80, 900 miles of
roads that have been worked to q more
or less extent and 80, 1853 miles of I'M
worked roads. Mr.. Lea presented q
few specifications for building roads,
which, if followed. would soon greatly
improve the general condition of the
roads of our state. He advised in
building dirt roads to first consider the
proposition of obtaining perfect drain
age for the travel service. which
should be at least 1S feet in width and
from "a to SO inches high at the
crown. The road, if built of sod,
shout d be thoroughly disced and har'
rowed, and then rolled either with a
heavy roller or q traction engine.
Then after the road is COMPLETED it
should receive frequent draggings, es-
pecially after rains. In the course OF
a very few years, with this care, the
road will have reached such a state OF
perfection that it will permit comfort.
able travel even Immediately after the
heaviest rains. Such . road. said Mr..
Lea, is of vast benefit to the com mum.
ty as . whole. 1t is not only servicea.
BILE for travel by automobile but tends
to comfort AID ease of travel by means
of every kind of road vehicle. The
meeting vas then addressed by Sena.
tor H. S. Hedrick. of Chamberlain, l..
M. Gable, of Wagner, w. H. Meis, Of
Geddes. and Charles p. Edmunds. OF
Yankton. A permanent organization
was effected. with Robert Ferris, OF
Yankton, AZ president, and a vice-pres.
ident for each county, Charles Mix
being represented by George H. Hen.
ry, of Platte. Frank wynn, of Yank.
ton, was chosen as secretary, and F.
S. ~Strohbshn, of Wagner, rs treasurer.
1t was decided that the State Engineer
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