Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-07-28
Commission Selects Central Route
Little Falls Was Visited by
Tourists Tuesday
3e MILES OF ROUTE GOES Thru COUNTY
The Jefferson Highway Will Be of Great Value to Little
Falls and the County of Morrison, Bringing
Tourists from Everywhere

Little Falls is on the Jefferson High
way, on the originally laid out route,
known as the central route. The deci-
sion was made by the Jefferson High
way commission at meeting at st.
Paul Monday morning and it was Of
icially given out at 10 O'Clock that
morning. The choice is directly con-
trary to the last recommendation of
the state highway commission, which
urged the selection Of the eastern and
| western routes, but according to its
first recommendation.
The relay sociability tour which
started from St. Joseph, Mo-, to Winni-
peg on the Goth, arrived in St. Paul
Sunday, starting over the route again
Monday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon
at about 2 O'Clock they arrived in st.
Cloud and a few minutes before 6 the
same afternoon they arrived here, R.
L. Palmer of this city driving Little
Falls car which was one of the official
ears on the trip. He joined the party
at St. Paul.
| The members Of the highway COM
mission making the relay sociability
tour accompanied by over 60 cars from
Royalton arrived here amidst the
cheering of hundreds Of people and the
blowing of the mill whistles and ring
ing of bells. They were promptly es-
corted to the Pine Grove park, where
they were the guests of the Elks, who
had picnic there.
G.. E. Hanscom, G. D. Schwab, P. J..
Seberger, J. j. Quigley, P. r. Thielman
and Alvah Eastman made the run with
the party from St. Cloud to this city.
A. H. Turrittin represented Sauk Rap
ids from St. Paul and he introduced
the speakers.a far as This city. 80
After the people had finished eating,
Mr.. Millard introduced Mr.. Clarkson,
general manager of the Jefferson High
way, who gave brief talk. He said
that it was great inspiration to see
the great interest taken by the people
all along the route of the highway and
the good feeling that is prevalent. The
highway, he said, will not only be a
connecting link between the north
and the south but it will serve to build
up community ideas everywhere along
it's course that will be Of immeasurable
value to us all.
! Mr.. Clarkson next introduced Walter
Parker of New Orleans, general secre-
tary of the Jefferson Highway associa-
tion, who gave short talk telling
principally about his home town, New
Orleans, and what it will mean to the
/ highway as it's southern terminal and
it's future Importance as port for
the marketing of produce from the
Mississippi valley. Among the inter
eing things which he mentioned were
what has been done at New Orleans to
encourage marketing of produce
through that port, namely to construct
large grain elevators which are the
last word in elevator construction and
owned by the state, which will help to
reduce the cost of marketing, and to
solve the question of finance in such
a way that the marketing of the crops
can be financed from the time they are
grown by the farmer until they are de-
livered at the foreign ports, at the low
rate Of interest Of four per cent.
The next speaker was S. Wolsten-
croft of Des Moines, Ia., who is solicit
ing subscriptions to the Declaration.
He gave brief talk on highway mat
ters and said that he had noticed that
the highway has created much great
er community spirit and neighborliness.
Paul Nesbitt of McAllister, Oklaho-
ma, president Of the Oklahoma Jeffer-
son Highway association, was the last
speaker. The greatest Accomplishment
OF the highway, he believed, will be to
bring together the people Of the north
and the south. There can be built up
in the Mississippi valley the greatest
institutions Of every kind in the world
and the highway will be a great help
in this direction. The Jefferson high.
way, Mr.. Nesbitt said, is one of the
most important things in this country
in the past twenty five years. MI.
Nesbitt's talk was cut short by the ap-
proach of a rain storm, which sent all
the people home.
Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock, al.
though raining, about 100 automobiles
loaded with highway boosters from this
city assembled downtown and escorted
the highway commission as far as Ran
dali. Several local men accompanied
the party further on, and Mr.. Millard
will 60 through to Winnipeg.
An evidence Of the great interest
taken by most people in towns through
which the highway passes is at sta.
pies. The highway commission was
delayed near Lincoln for about five
minutes owing to a bad hill
but the delay was made up be-
tween there and Staples and the party
reached Staples on schedule time.
when Manager Clarkson told the Sta.
pies business men about the trouble
that was experienced at the hill, they
promptly got busy and within twenty
minutes they had raised the neat sun,
of $4,000 to FIX it, -, 4.-s-,s -
Much credit for the routing Of the