Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-10-20
GOOD ROADS Meet
ING IN MILWAUKEE
Local Club Woman Receives Invita-
tion-Discuss Lincoln Highway
Project.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the
goods roads capital of America. The
first meeting of the Northwestern
Road Congress will be held in that
city October % to 81, inclusive, and
invitations issued by the Citizens
Business League of Milwaukee have
been sent to every good road advo-
cate in the state of Iowa, Illinois,
Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin,
North and South Dakota, hoping
that a large number will attend
these sessions of the congress and
assist in developing comprehensive
system of interstate highways and
discuss other matters Of Importance.
An auto tour over one hundred miles
of concrete highways and streets OF
Milwaukee county, a monster expo
sition of road machinery, road equip
ment, implements and material, will
be on display at this meeting and
the highest practical and scientific
authorities will discuss every phase
of road construction.
An invitation to this Northwest
ern Roads Congress has been receiv-
ed by Mrs. w. C. Burleson of this
city, a member of the good roads
committee of the General Federation
of Women's clubs. This committee
of the General Federation of clubs
has accomplished good deal during
the past few years and their
thoughts now are centered upon the
Lincoln Highway, which is attract
ing so much attention among all in
terested in the good roads move
ment. In a pamphlet explaining the
wonderful possibilities of the Lin
coin Highway it says that the gen.
eral federation of Women's clubs of
America are pushing a campaign
through their state chapters for the
Identification of the Lincoln High
way. They intend to line it with
trees and shrubs Indigenous to each
state traversed. Five counties in
Iowa have appropriated in the ag-
gregate $4,000 which is being
spent this year on improvements on
the Lincoln Highway.
This highway will run from New
York City almost directly across the
United States to San Francisco. In
Iowa the road will run about the
as the main line of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad from
Clinton to Council Bluffs and our
nearest city along the highway will
be Boone. What the good roads
and the Iowa Federation
of Women's clubs want to do is to
complete a branch road or feeder
to the main road of Lincoln High
way. Branches from every large
center will no doubt be built, and
these branches will in turn have
branches, until eventually the en-
tire country will be covered with
of improved roads, connect
ing and interconnecting every part
of commerce, progress and
prosperity. The Lincoln Highway
will be known as the first great road
and the longest road in the world.
It will allow comfortable and easy
travel across the entire United
States, thousands of motorists will
''see America first" and consequent
ly thousands of American dollars
will remain on this side of the At
lantic instead of being distributed
along European thoroughfares. 1t
will benefit our United States in
that there will be more and better
country schools with half again as
many native American pupils;
cheaper transportation, which means
a lower cost of living; "a greater in
of people, meaning more
business, more banking, more conf
dence, a greater freedom of circula'
ton and more prosperity.