The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-04
fine Dinner AT SPARTz HOME
Members Of Board Get Chance to See
Machines at Work Crushing Hard
Find Wealth of Material
for Future Road Improvement.

bunch of the county officials return
ed to Kenosha late Wednesday even
ing after the annual inspection of the
roads of the county, convinced of two
things. The first was that a wonder
full Improvement had been made in the
roads of the county this season, the
second that the town Of Paris and par
ticularly that part about "spartz
Corners had some wonderful cooks.
The interest in the annual trip was
divided between the showing made by
the road officials and the wonderful
dinner spread at the home of Chair
man John Spartz.
The stern end of the county is out
stripping all other portions of the
county in road building. Utilizing
wonderful natural resources in the
gravel pits in this section of the
county the towns of Brighton, Salem,
Randall, Wheatland and Paris are
building real roads. In fact in the
long trip over these towns the members
of the county board found scarcely
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could be considered impossible.
The members of the party found the
work on the roads still under way in
several of the towns. Most interesting
of this work was the work in the town
Of Paris where Kenosha hard heads are
being ground into roads at the rate
of sixty yards day. The county
stone crusher has been set up in front
of the town hall in Paris and humid
reds of loads of hard heads taken from
the farms in that vicinity are piled
along the road to be crushed. Commits
sioner Herzog declares that these
granite hard heads are making the best
roads built in the county. He declares
that the hard heads can be gathered up
and crushed and delivered on the job
at a saving of seventy-fve cents a
yard over any other material that can
be purchased.
There is a great lot Of these stones
to be gathered from the farms in the
western towns and Kenosha county can
continue to build hard head roads for
years to come without exhausting the
! supply.
The members of the party took an
| especial interest in the roads which
have been oiled this season. Every
one Of these roads were found to
be in excellent condition and it is pref
| ty certain that the plan of oiling the
roads will be continued next season.
The feature of the entertainment of
| the visitors to the roads came at noon
when all Of the members of the party
gathered at the old Spartz homestead
to be guests of the members of the
Spartz family at dinner. Three of the
large rooms Of the house were called
into service to provide tables for the
hungry inspectors and about the
tables covers were laid for thirty peo-
pie. It was one of those old fashioned
dinners which put all other kinds Of
| cookery to shame and it can be said
that the members of the official party
paid full tribute to it.
After dinner was over former State
Senator IsaacbT. Bishop Of Somers was
named as POSTMASTER and there were
short responses by Judge Randall,
Mayor Scholey, former Chairman John
I. Yule, w. T. Marlatt, District At
torney A. L. Drury, Highway Commits
sioner Herzog, and Chairman Spartz.
The most interesting talk of the whole
affair was given by ex-Sherif Nicholas
Spartz, who while nearly seventy-six
years of age. was the life Of the party.
The annual tour of inspection prov
ed a great success and the members of
the county board will be able to act
lot more intelligently on the road
question at the coming session as re-
suit of the trip.
The concrete roads built in the
towns of Somers and Pleasant Prairie
and the macadam roads in Bristol were
all given the "once overo by the
board members and the work was
found to be in excellent condition.