The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-11-14
GOOD ROADS
ID. WARD KING TO DELIVER Lee
TURE IN MADISON NOV. 20,
AT f.3O =. NJ.

Sec'y Martin of the Commercial
club is doing splendid work advertis-
ing the good roads meeting to be
held at the opera house in Madison
Friday, Nov. 20, at 1870 p. m, which
will be addressed by ID. Ward King.
The meeting will undoubtedly be
the most largely attended for a pur-
pose of any kind held in Madison for
a long time. Mr.. King possesses a
national reputation as a road build
er and lecturer on the subject, and
his services are in demand in every
state in the union and in Canada.
The people of this section are espe-
cially fortunate in securing his serv-
ices, and his lecture in Madison will
no doubt be the means of putting
new life in road improvement in
Lake county. Mr.. King is the invent
or of the King split-log drag and ev-
erybody associated with horses, au-
tomobiles and farming knows some
thing about the work it has done in
making better roads.
The witnesses who testify in favor
of the King split-log drag include all
classes. They range from private
individuals to the highest public of
ficials-judges, commercial clubs,
railway officials and automobile fans
vie with each other in enthusiastic
praise. 1t is endorsed by every state
highway commissioner or engineer in
the union, and is backed by the
United States government which pub
lished in pamphlet form Mr.. Kings
directions for building and using the
split-log drag.
ID. Ward King, to whose vigorous
and untiring efforts the public owes
the widespread use of this epoch
making little implement, is a farmer
whose home is a few miles from Matt
land, Mo. Although his home is still
on the old farm, now u under his
general supervision by his two sons,
Mr.. King spends much of his time
in educating the people to the merits
of the implement that so worthily
bears his anne
Mr.. Kings fame as a good roads
advocate who is able to handle a
team and a drag himself in actual
demonstration of his methods has
spread throughout the United States
and Canada. William E. Park, a Ca
madam, in verses in the Chatham,
Canada, Daily News, crowns" d.
Ward King in the following manner:
When knights we're bold and ladies
fair, and all that medieval junk,
And when for folks like us
the job of living was most punk,
When all the world was full of strife,
and dungeons and that sort of
thing,
The cuss who most extinguished life
was usually crowned king.
But we in better days were born,
when men in peace together live,
And kings are made but to adorn a
job that common people give
And earn their living like the rest at
banquets and that sort of thing
Oh, nowadays 1t hardly pays to hold
their lofty job Of king.
But there's another sort of king who
still the crown of battle wears
d. Wards his name and he has
fought the fight for better thor
oughfares
That can be built without expense.
He makes the very rafters ring
With pleadings and with arguments
and that is why his praise l sing.
For heaven knows we need good
roads-good roads to let the farm
er pass
To market with his wheat and corn
and sugar beets and garden sass,
And bring us closer to the farm and
bring them closer to the town
| And d. Ward King, for what he's
done. has pretty fairly earned a
crown.