The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-06-19
Professional Men, Business Men, Farm
and Others Turn Out in Force and
Make Day Grand Success.
A Long Stretch of Road, Extending FROM the
Coates Hill to the East Branch Bridge.
Surfaced With Crushed Rock

The call to assist in building
piece of road from the Coates hill to
the East Branch bridge on Tuesday
Good Roads Day-received ready
response. Professional men, bust
ness men and farmers turned out to
lend helping hand and did it cheer
fully. Some manipulated the shovel
or the rake in spreading the crushed
rock upon the roadbed while others
loaded wagons from the cars at the
depot and drove teams
1t was indeed motley crew that
toile1 under the blazing rays of old
Sol in an atmosphere impregnated
with. granite dust. but the boys
stuck to the job continuously and
uncomplainingly although the hands
of some of them were blistered and
bleeding. With them it was work
of love-they had set about the &C.
plishment of task which they
knew would be hard one with a
determination to. succeed, and they
we're rewarded. Throughout the
ivelong day they shoveled and raked,
and then again upon the succeeding
day, setting a splendid example of
grit and perseverance. Some of these
toilers were using road-making i'm
plements for the first time in their
lives, but they held their own with
men familiar with and accustomed
to perform such heavy manual labor.
County Attorney Mcmillan was
not the least conspicuous among the
"soft-handed' boys who were spread
ing rock. He. displayed agile mus
cular movements which were adj
mired and yet envied by some of his
colaborers. Henry Avery, Frank
Goulding, Martin Brands and Gerald
Peterson were also on the job, and
kept up with the procession at every
stage of the game. Then there were
S. Winsor, John Kaliher and Denny
Byers, besides numerous other i'm
plement manipulatOrs.
Charley King handled things at
the railroad yards in fine shape
and kept the Teams on the move.
Tom Kaliher was the dump boss.
and the way in which he foreman
lied that part of the work showed
that this was not the first time he
had handled such proposition. The
roadmaking was superintendent by
Engineer A. Alden of Brainerd, and
he performed his work well. r. G.
Dunn acted as a sort of traffic man
ager, driving between the "works"
at Coates hill and the depot and
keeping the teams moving with reg
ularity
In all SO teams were engaged in
handling rock from the depot to the
point of operation, and everything
moved with clock-like precision.
The method was SO perfect that the
men were kept steadily engaged at
both ends. There were several
teams from points outside of the
county assisting in hauling rock and
we noticed among the drivers Jim
Mckenzie and Chas. Babb of Spencer
Brook. Clerk of Court Bob King,
Fred Keith, Bill Nicely and W. G.
McVicar were also handling reins.
The boys at the depot loading
wagons probably had the hardest
work, and most of those who volun-
teered to perform this arduous labor
were men unaccustomed to the use
of heavy scoop shovels and forks.
But they went to it like veterans at
the business and thus prevented de-
lay in any form or manner. John
Peterson, with hands ungloved,
was among the wagon leaders but.
despite the blisters raised by the
scoop handle, he stuck to the job for
several hours. Then there were,
County Auditor W. G. Doane. who
was acclaimed the swiftest shoyeler
OF the bunch, Ira Stanley, Swan
Olson, Oscar Erickson, E. C. Earley.
Ben Soule and others, all of whom
permitted no daisies to grow under
their feet. Those two aged veterans.
Andrew Bulls and David Whitcomb.
also handled the shovel with a]ac.
rity. 1t was really refreshing
to the average onlooker to see these
boys knuckle down to business and
never once look at the clock to ascer-