The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-22
improved Roads Shown on Maps.

| showing their development, has just
been outlined by the Wisconsin
| highway commission on a map of
| the state, which constituted a part OF
the Wisconsin exhibit at the good
roads congress last week at Cedar
Rapids, la. It shows the state already
well covered with highways more or
less improved under the operation of
the state aid law, 1922 miles of what
is designated as first-class highways,
| 1,O50 miles of second-class, 1880 miles
Of third-class, and 2,163 miles OF
| fourth-class.
Of particular interest are the first
class roads, as they are primarily the
main lines of travel and eventually
are to become important in the state
systems. Following these lines one
may get a fair idea of the comprehen.
siveness Of the system.
Starting at the southeast corner OF
the state at the Illinois boundary, the
highway from Chicago, which follows
up the lake shore, through Kenosha.
Racine, Milwaukee and on northward
to Manitowoc, then across to Green
Bay and continuing to the Michigan
boundary at Marinette.
Another line enters from Illinois in
Walworth county, running through
GAINESVILLE to Madison and then On
north through Necedah, Junction City,
Wausau, Merrill and almost directly
north to the Michigan boundary at
Hurley.
From Baraboo route lies northwest
to La Crosse and from there north
through Eau Claire, Cameron and to
the Zenith city across the border from
Superior.
Another line runs west from Mad.
ison to the Mississippi river at Prairie
du Chen. Another west from Eau
Claire to Hudson, just across the line
from the Twin Cities.
Connecting the lake shore with the
northwest is a line from Cedarburg
through Fond du Lac, Oshkosh. Wau-
paca, Stevens Point, Marshfield to
Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire
Madison is again connected with
the lake shore region by route via
Columbus, Beaver Dam, Waupun. Fond
du Lac to ShebOygan. Another line
from Madison runs through Water.
town, Oconomowoc to Milwaukee, An
other short line from Green Bay tc
Oshkosh connects with the west via
the Cedarburg-Eau Claire route
State Grains Win Prize.
Henry E. Kruger of the town OF
Beaver Dam, known all over the
United States as the champion small
pedigreed grain grower, has been adj
vised that he has been awarded ore
miums amounting to 1882 at the inter
national wheat show at Wichita. Kan,
from October to IA.
Grain raised by him on his farm in
the town of Beaver Dam won the fol.
lowing prizes:
First-On bushel hard red winter
wheat, bushel hard red spring wheat,
bushel durum wheat, bushel white
oats, peck six-row barley, peck two
row barley, peck timothy seed.
Grand champion sweepstakes OF
show on bushel of hard red winter
| wheat, bushel white oats
Third sweepstakes prize on bushel
of red hard winter wheat
Mr.. Kruger said that good Wiscon.
| sin soil, climate, sunshine and mud is
what produced his prize-winning grain.
Mr. Kruger, who is thirty-three
years old, was educated in the com
mon and parochial schools of Dodge
county, and later graduated from the
short university course in agriculture
with the class of 1907. He served
three years in the National Guard and
also was director of the Wisconsin
Agricultural Experiment association.
He was in charge of the University Of
Wisconsin exhibit at the national corn
exposition held at Omaha, Neb, in
1908 and 1909, where he won many
prizes on his pedigreed seeds, one be-
ing the worlds championship on the
best peck of wheat and another on
the best peck of barley.
His present occupation is farming
and the breeding of purebred live.
stock. He has been in politics some,
having been elected town clerk, which
Office he held several terms. and was
elected an assemblyman in the Sec
ond district of Dodge county, serving
two terms.
$50 '=Sf' = -.
Phillip Pardons Five From Prison.
Announcement was made at the Of.
flee of Governor E. L. Philip that
executive clemency had been extend
ed to five inmates of state penal in
stitutions and that the sentence of
one man had been reduced four years.
L. O. Showalter, who is serving a
fourteen-year term at Waupun, was
under the heaviest penalty of those
pardoned. He was found guilty at
Lancaster of statutory offense. 9th
ers who were pardoned are: Jessie
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