Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-26
PLAN NATioN.W WIDE cELEBRA.
TON TO MARK LINCOLN HIGH.
WAY ANNIVERSARY.
DEMONSTRATION OF LAST
YEAR TO BE REPEATED
Association Reviews Progress Of First
Year and Outlines Plans For the Fu-
eues-Sehooi Children to Hold Spe-
eial Exercises and Ministers to Give
Subject Attention.
Special to rimes-Repubiican.

Clinton. Sept 26.-The Lincoln
Highway is just one year old this
month L was in September, 1918. that
the Lincoln Highway Association an
nounced TO the nation the route OF the
longest, best and most useful road IN
the world and appealed 70 the people
o. the Country TO aid in establishing.
broadening. strengthening. maintaining
and beautfying it.
When the announcement of The
route was made and the dedication
held on Oct 81 Of last year thou
sands of cities scattered from the At
1antic 20 the Pacific held demonsIra-
lions OF their approval and support
Bonfires and fireworks marked the
ceremonies IN hundreds Of localities,
speeches weSe made 20 audiences from
New York TO San Francisco. Concerts
were given. parades held, automobile
races marked the occasion in many
cities while in al least Two instances
the streets were swept and washed ana
dances held on the Highway itself in
honor of the event. In the west az
many points along the route. half hoii-
days were proclaimed and sports and
field events were participated in oy
hundreds Of enthusiastic good road
boosters. On the Sunday following the
dedication the clergy generally and
especially along the route Of the great
road took as the subject of their ser
mons the life and the character OF
Lincoln, me man. euiogizing his
achievements and calling attention to
the memorial which had been proposed,
a memorial which typified the man
a useful memorial the kind Lincoln
himself would have desired
Much Accomplished in Year.
In schools from one end Of the land
to the other, children listened 10 talks
In which the man Lincoln was held as
the ideal American, essays were writ
ten on his character as well as upon
the memorial road TO be built in his
honor. Lincoln Highway spirit swept
across the country like wildfire, COM
munities on the route WED with each
other in rushing hnprov enents, with
the result that at the end of its first
year the Lincoln Highway Association
Is enabled to announce really won
derful amount OF work accomplish ed
and to congratulate the patriotic peo-
pie OF the country who have made this
success posi- bic.
Summary Of Accomplishments.
A summary of the second announce
ment of the Lincoln Highway Associa-
ton can best be made by saying that
out of 1889 miles Of the route between
New York and San Francisco. over g.
500 are already marked with the tn
colored marker of the association: that
work has been done in every one of the
twelve states traversed, that work is
now going on in every one of these
states. that the association has aided
the local communities m five states
with total of $40 600 worth OF cement,
and that the great route is now in such
shape that 1t is possible TO tour from
the Atlantic to the Pacific in less than
a month. Il is expected that thous-
ands OF cars will use the Lincoln High
way in crossing the country neIt
spring.
Will Celebrate Anniversary.
Preparations are being made 20 fit
tingly celebrate the first years sue
cess all along the route, and It is ex-
pected tina, the schools in hundreds OF
the towns located along .he highway
viii get aside one day late in Septem-
Der or in early October, when the SUB
iect Of the Lincoln HIGHWAY VIII De
treated upon by the teachers, and es-
says written and presented by the pu
pills on Lincoln and the road which
bears his immortal name.
The Lincoln Highway Association
has asked that the clergy again tat5e
as a subject upon the first Sunday in
November the life and the works Of
Lincoln, recalling how a year ago they
outlined to their congregations TIE
possibility OF a transcontinental nigh
way bearing his name and telling now
Of the progress made in the establish
Inent of this greatest Of al memorials
It is proposed that the local ard
state consuIs 81 the association SCAT
tered in every town, city and town
ship crossed by the route hold public
meetings at which they can tell the
people Of the progress OF the work
and extend In their official capacities
the congratulation OF the association
lIpon the success of a project which is
OF such interest TO every mar, woman