The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-07-25
CENTRAL LOOP PICKED
FOR NORTHERN lAPOF
JEFFERSON HIGHWAY
J. D. Clarkson Decides on Route
Through 1tasca Park and
Bemidji.
OFFICIALS SPEND NOON
CONTROL TODAY AT ST. CLOUD
Tourists Travelling in Four Cars, Ten
Minutes Apart; Talk on Good
Roads.
OFFICIALS SPEND NOON
CONTROL TODAY AT ST. CLOUD

Roads.
J. D. Clarkson, manager of the JEFF
ferson Highway association, Monday
named the Central route as the north
ern lap through Minnesota for the
Jefferson highway from New Orleans
to Winnipeg.
The cities and towns on the route
are St. Paul, Minneapolis, Elk River,
st. Cloud, Little Falls, Staples, Wa
dena, Park Rapids, Itasca Lake Park,
Bemidji, Bagley, Red Lake Falls,
Thief River Falls, Hallock and St.
Vincent.
Must Keep Up Road.
Although the route has been des-
ignated, the communities touched
must fulfill certain obligations to re-
tain the highway.
County committees, consisting of
seven men, must be organized, an as
sessment of SO mile is to be met,
campaign for membership in the JEFF
ferson Highway association must be
inaugurated at time to be desig-
mated and road constructed without
undue delay, which may be used 365
days in the year. r
May Change Route.
Towns along the way stand or fall
as unit; should one fail to meet it's
obligations, notice was served at the
meeting of the directors and members
of the official party making the St.
Joseph to Winnipeg tour, that diff
ferent route will be selected.
In that event one-half of the mile
age assessment will be refunded If
the way is changed within two years.
Officials of the highway commis-
sion accompanied by large crowd
of enthusiastic autosists left St. Paul
this morning at eight O'Clock for
trip over the Central route and to
officially dedicate the new route.
Talk Good Roads.
The tourists travelled in four cars,
ten minutes apart. There was
speaker in each car, who, upon
reaching town, talked to the crowds
on good roads until the second car
arrived. Then the speaker in that
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Members of Party.
Highway officials and good roads
boosters from other states in the
party are J. D. Clarkson, general
manager, st. Joseph, Mo-; Walter
Parker, secretary general of the high
way and general secretary of the New
Orleans Association of Commerce.;
Paul Russell, Paola, Kan; Paul Mes
bitt, president of the Oklahoma High
way association, Macalester, Okla;
O.. England, Bethany, Mo-; Edward
Anderson, Nevada, Mo-, and S. VOL
stencroft, Des Moines, Iowa.
Brief Stops Made.
Brief stops were made at Mime
apolis, Osseo, Anoka, Elk River, Big
Lake, Becker, Clear Lake and st.
Cloud. The party arrived in st.
Cloud shortly before two o'clock
where dinner was served. They will
leave St. Cloud this afternoon at $3.50
o'clock and after brief stops at Sauk
Rapids, Rice and Royalton will ar
rive at Little Falls shortly before six
o'clock. They will remain in Little
Falls for the night.
Arrive Here at Eight.
The party will leave Little Falls at
eight o'clock tomorrow morning and
will arrive at Staples at 1879 and
will have noon control at Wadena.
They will leave Wadena at 1915, will
arrive at Park Rapids at 1899 and
at Itasca park at 4:4S. The party
will take supper at the state park
and will leave there for Bemidji at
6:20, arriving in this city about eight
O'Clock They will spend the night
in Bemidji.
Leave Thursday.
At eight o'clock Thursday morning
the party will leave Bemidji for Sol
way, arriving there at nine o'clock,
will arrive at Shevlin at 1884, Bag
ley at 1912 and will have noon con-
troll at Oklee. They will spend the
night at Thief River Falls.
Prizes are Offered.
Manager Clarkson has requested
al automobiles in each town lined
up to await the arrival Of the tour
lists, and to accompany them to the
next town. They are requested not
to meet them on the road, but to hold
tshe cars in their own town, and then
to fall in behind the pilot car to the
next town, and then to drop out.
Two prizes are offered: One is the
big American flag carried by the pilot
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