The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-05-15
GOOD ROADS
Commercial Club Issues a Call for Y ell.
lOWst0ne Trail Day-Friday
Nav 29nd

SCdI UIle season Dy having the
first good roads day on Friday,
May 22nd. (In case of rain and
heavy roads the same program
is to be carried out on Tuesday,
May 26th.)
President, j. w. Parmley has
issued a call for 100000 volun-
teers to work on the Twin City
Aberdeen Yellowstone Park
Trail on this day, when the en-
tire road, eleven hundred miles
is expected to be worked on. In
accordance with the above, the
citizens of Milbank have decid-
ed to declare holiday in this
city on this date, and everybody
get out and work on the Yellow
stone Park Trail leading east
and west from the city. All bus
mess houses are requested to
close at noon for the balance of
the day and the Commercial
Club requests each business
man to furnish one man to work
in the gravel pit in the morning
of this day.
The Milbank Commercial Club
will pay for the gravel used and
agree to furnish all labor to load
said gravel on wagons, all gravel
to be gotten in the gravel pit on
the Harvey Smith farm adjoining
the city Of Milbank on the north.
east. The road to be graveIed
on this day is the Yellowstone
Park Trail leading east of Mil
bank, and the north branch of
the Yellowstone Park Trail lead.
ing due west of the stockyards
at Milbank, to Twin Brooks, and
the south branch of the Yellow
stone Trail leading from the
south road from Milbank to
Twin Brooks. The following
committees are appointed to
make proper arrangements for
all teams to be furnished free
for this and also to see that the
first mile Of their road leading
from this city is properly grad
ed in firstclass shape before
May 22nd.
Yellowstone Park Trail lead
ing east Of Milbank: Committee
Henry Schafer, John Miller,
Paul Pinkert.
North branch OF Yellowstone
Park Trail leading west of Mil
bank: Committee-A. Temple
ton, G. J. Koch and Dave Trapp.
South branch of Yellowstone
Park Trail leading west of Mil
bank: Committee-G. T. Oehl-
er, George Oehler, Charley Foss.
Committee of Milbank citizens
to make all arrangements toload
all teams at gravel teams at pit:
F. r. Schneider, Chas. Sutcliff.
J. F. Manley. Julius Fenner and
Phil G. Saunders.
This committee will guarantee
to be able to load 500 wagons
with gravel in the pit on this
date and it is hoped that each
section of this Yellowstone trail
will furnish 25teams to haul the
gravel on their own section of
this road. The committee will
be ready to load teams at IA. M.
and will continue to Z. P. Nj.
The Commercial Club hope to
be able to gravel one-half mile or
more on each of these three sec.
tions on this day, and thereby
start the good gravel roads that
we expect to build this summer
for two or three miles in each
direction from this city. It is the
intention of the Commercial
Club to carry out a program ex-
actly the same as this about the
first week in June and on that
day they expect to gravel the
two roads leading north from
Milbank, and the two roads lead
ing south from Milbank.
Let everybody consider him
self committee Of one to boost
and make this Good Road Day
the biggest success possible, and
we will put three times as much
gravel on the road as we did
year ago if the farmers will
furnish the teams to haul same
Roads Committee:
= G. Saunders Chairman;
F. 3. Roberts: Geo. S. Rix; J. w.
Ross: and W. J. Ferguson.
MILBANK COMMERCIAL CLUB.
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