The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-06-17
Town Officers Being Urged
to Observe the State Law
in Kenosha County.
UNITED EFFORTS BEING MADE

An organized movement for the pur-
pose of guide signing the main travelled
| roads in Wisconsin, under the law of
1913, which makes it obligatory on
town boards to install an adequate
system of direction signs in each
town, as indicated by the following ex-
tracts from the statute, has been start
ed by the Wisconsin Guide Sign Asso-
citation with headquarters at the Wis
consin Hotel at Milwaukee Copies Of
the law are being sent to town officials
in Kenosha county today.
Sec. 1927. /. The town board Of
each town in the state of Wisconsin
shall cause to be erected before the
first day of December, 1914, and to be
kept in good repair, suitable and APP
propriate guide boards on and along
all main travelled public highways
where the same intersect with other
main public highways within their re-
spective towns. The expense of the
erection and keeping in repair of all
such sign boards shall be paid out of
the treasury of such town.
2. Such guide boards shall be Sc
curely attached at the upper end of a
post set in the groLld, and shall, when
firmly set, project seven feet and six
inches above the ground.
3. There shall be painted upon such
guide boards in plain black Roman let
tiers not less than two and one-half
inches high, the names of adjoining or
important towns, villages or cities to
and through which said pub ic high
way leads, the distance in miles of
such town, village or city from such
guide post, and any information of d.
rection which will be helpful to the
traveller.
5. It shall be the duty of the dis
trict attorney of any county, upon re-
ceipt of a written complaint, signed by
any resident of such county, alleging
that the town board of any town has
failed or refused or fails or refuses to
carry out the provisions of this Sec
ton, to make such investigation as
may be necessary, and if he shall find
the allegations of such complaint to
be true, he shall forthwith notify the
town board in default to comply with
the provisions Of this section, and if
said town board shall thereafter fail
within a reasonable time to comply
with such notice and with the provis-
ions of this section, the district attor-
ney shall institute proper proceedings
in a court of competent jurisdiction
against such town board to enforce
compliance with this section.
The campaign for better guide boards
has been successful in Racine, Milwau-
kee, Waukesha, Dodge and Jefferson
counties where appropriations have
been made. In number of other coun-
ties in the southern part of the state
where tourist travel is heavy during
the summer months the matter will be
favorably acted upon at the June meet
ing of town boards.
In the counties already at work on
the project steel enameled signs with
white background and Prussian blue
letters four inches high and guaranteed
for twenty years have been adopted in
stead of the wooden signs with painted
letters which fall easy prey to the ele-
ments in two years. The durable enam-
eled signs cost less than the wooden
signs and the Wisconsin Guide Sign
Association is advocating the use of
the steel enameled sign for utility and
economical reasons. Secretary Bart J.
Ruddle will furnish information as to
the best method to be employed in
placing signs and will attend any meet
ings called for the purpose of advocat-
| ing guide signs in any locality.