The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-03
new HIGHWAY as
ISOLATION LIKELY
MOVEMENT STARTED FRID Ny
EVENING TO ADVERTISE
STEARNS-TODD ROUTE
MUCH ENTHUSIASM IS SHOWN
COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO VS.
1T TOWNS AND CITIES AND
REPORT LATER

Ten automobile loads of Todd coun-
ty boosters met at the Commercial
Club rooms Friday evening of last
week in conjunction with number of
Sank Centre citizens to discuss the
advisability Of organizing and adver-
Using an association to promote the
highway between st. Cloud and Wa
dena via Melrose, Sank Centre and
Long Prairie. Asa M. Wallace was
elected chairman and Victor Conklin
secretary of the meeting.
Hon. w. E. Lee, being called upon,
rehearsed the history of the jefferson
Highway project from its inception to
the present time. He pointed out nu-
merous advantages to accrue to this
section by the organizing and promot-
ing of a route through the garden
spot of the State, feeling certain that
many visitors from other states could
be diverted this way.
DIR. Dubois in one of his character
istic talks said that the designation
of the Jefferson Highway route was
a black eye for the entire state ind
the best interests of Minnesota were
sacrificed. He was in favor if need
be, to interest the Southerners to call
the proposed highway the cold Orig
inal Jefferson Davis Highway" He
insisted that in designating the JEFF
ferson Highway, merit was not con-
sidered and the people had been hood
winked.
Hon Frank M. Eddy, being called
upon, discoursed in his unique fashion,
coming words and phrases with reck-
less abandon. Among other things he
said:
with apologies to Dr.. J. A. Du-
Bots, of this city for plagarizing, we
have taken the liberty of interloping
the word "Davis" after the word JEFF
ferson into the name of the high
way" recently located by foreign
corporation, which stretches like a
ragged letter 81" across the northern
part of the state from St. Paul to st.
Vincent, because pumptious as
sumption of authority assumed by the
locators is a replica of the action Of
Jefferson Davis, more than SO years
ago, when he assumed the presidency
Of the Confederate States of America.
"No legal authority human or di-
vine conferred on these locaters any
authority for such action; they just
reached out their hands and grabbed
it and they paid no more attention to
public opinion, or state or local au-
thorities than did Jefferson Davis 20
the National authority in the by-gone
days.
"The outside parties who made this
location had no more authority to
form a corporation and locate and
name trail and prescribe terms and
conditions upon which it should be
built and assume charge of the con-
struction than any other body of citi-
zens, residing in any other part of the
country.
"a body of citizens in any part of
the country can form Jefferson
Highway association" and lay OUT
trails on every section and quarter
section line in the country and call
them by any name they choose, if
they desire to take such action.
ct is conceded that this corpora
ton had the right to designate the
route chosen; there is no power in
heaven or on earth that could have
prevented them from designating the
middle of the Mississippi river from
st. Paul to- Lake Itasca as the line Of
travel, if the spirit had moved them
so to do.
"There is no question but that if the
territorials residing in the cities,
towns, villages and the territory trav-
ersed comply with all the conditions
ard speedily convert this trail into a
1865" day road it will be a paying in
vestment. 1t would be paying in
vestment for the people of the state
to make a similar road on every sec
ton line in the state.
sThere is one thing that can be said
in favor of this location: 1t exploits a
part of the state that needs exploiting
and promises Improvement in a
stretch of road that needs improve
ment more than any other part Of the
state of Minnesota.
GAS a route best showing MinneSo-
ta's scenic beauties, agricultural pos
sibilities, existant good roads, furnish
ing the best hotel and garage accom-.
modations and affording the pleasant
est lines of travel the location of the
route is the grizzliest, ghastliest joke
ever perpetrated, as anyone at all IA
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