Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
VICE PRESIDENT OF HIGHWAY
ASSOCIATION SAYS STATE GEN.
TER SIGNS BEEN MOVED.
"soUTA" ROAD NOT OF
HIGHWAY FALSELY MARKED
President Pardinston Points Out
FIaerant Misuse Of Associations
Signs in Open Letter to State Center
Enterprise and T.-R.-Use Of Signs
Protected by Laws.

a. r. Pardinston, vice president and
secretary of the Lincoln Highway AS
ISOLATION with headquarters at Detroit,
Mich. writes an open letter to Mar
shal! county'S consuls and to the State
Center Enterprise and the Times Re
publican in which he objects to the
false marking of the Lincoln highway
out of State Center on the south
road and calls attention to the fed
eral and state laws which have been
violated in such unauthorized use of
the Lincoln highway signs.
His letter is as follows;
There has just been brought to our
attention q condition a state center
which seems to be entirely without
warrant, and greatly to be regretted.
The announced policy OF the LIN
coin highway has been and Will con-
tinue to be that of broadening,
STRENGTHENING, shortening this great
transcontinental artery OF traffic
where ever and whenever 1t is pos
sible For this reason the Lincoln
highway was routed signify TO the
north of the center OF the village OF
State Center after a most carelu vi
checking of the road conditions exist
ing between Marshalltown and Nevada
via Lamoille and Colo, and via state
Center The decision q me ROAD
lockers was unanimous IN favor OF the
route of the Lincoln highway as 1t mas
been established and as II is now
travelled and as it Will be maintained
insofar as the moral sentiment OF the
citizens or the legal protection allowed
the Lincoln Highway Association may
be involved or concerned.
Markers Been Moved.
III has recently come to our at
+anriou. ard we regret the occurrence
exceedingly, that the copyrishted and
registered Lincoln highway marker
has been improperly placed and used
into. thru and out of the village OF
state Center II has also been brought
TO our attention that signs Placeo
nnder the authority of the Lincoln hish-
way have been removed and so
changed as to falsely direct tourists
over the Lincoln highway.
Use Of Signs Protected.
| This open letter is addressed 70 you
in Tho belief that the citizens of State
( Center are not familiar with the fact
4 that the Lincoln highway marker as
il appears so generally along the Lin
/ cof,, highway between the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts. is protected by
/ federal copyright for use on and along
I the lincoln highway only, as we'll as
I registered with the secretaries OF
( state and. in other instances WITH the
( highway departments of the various
states traversed In Iowa this highway
il registered both with the secretary
of state aud with the state highway
/ department. and the misuse OF TINS
marker has. we regret to say rendered
those who have falsely used it, llaple
4both under federal and state laws.
in order that the matter may De
corrected promptly and Immediately
This open letter is addressed, in the
hone that the local papers of Mar
I shalltown and state Center will make
/ ,1se of the same, believing that the
! citizens of those communities. inter
/ ested as they are in the Lincoln high
wav. will be much interested to see
mat the integrity of this great memo
rial highway is being maintained b1
the communities thru which it passes
as we'll S by the association interested
in its establishment as nationa
undertaking."
"A. r. PARDINGToN,
"Vice President"