The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-12-21
Woodland Township Farmers Organ
ize and Establish Trail From
IndianOla to Lineville.

A large number of Woodland town.
shin citizens and others gathered at
Lineville on Wednesday OF last week
to affect an organization and estao-
lish trail from Indianola to Line
Vile, by way of Garden Grove, High
Point and Woodland. A meeting was
held at the Farmers 4 Merchants
bank at which meeting Luther Logan
secretary and Gene Massey treasurer,
as permanent officers OF the new
trail. Various committees We're APP
pointed and the trail from Woodland
to Lineville officially located. me
route decided upon is the usually
travelled one which is southWard over
.eastwardly, the Logan chapel, and
Luther Logans farm and intersecting
the Lineville-Pleasanton road, the
Ocean Wave trail and the Capitol
Highway trails at Pete Bright's cor
ner u miles west of the Lineville
fair grounds. Arrangements were
also made at this meeting for trip
over the line by officials and commit
tees to locate the entire trail, which
will be made within short time.
This new trail will be known as the
Red Cross Trail and the, red cross
will be the distinctive marking OF the
trail. This enterprise had its lncep-
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held at Woodland several wee ks ago
at which meeting keen rivalry de-
veloped between citizens residing
east and south of Woodland over the
location of the trail between " ood-
land and Lineville, but those faVoring
the ridge road via Sandy Point being
in majority the route was SO desig-
ton a large number of citizens favor
ing the east route led by that widely
known good roads advocate, Hon. q.
&. Dye and other prominent cltlzenS
bolted the action of the meeting and
Immediately took steps to esta bllsh a
branch line which leaves the Hlgn
Point Woodland road northeast OF
most feasible and direct course south
eastward past the G. c. Dye, Elmer
Wilson, Miles McCarty and Frances
Corder farms to Lineville. The .ad-
] vocates ana boomers OF this line
claim a much shorter and better
the Woodland meeting. Its promoters
find that about three-quarters OF a
mile could be saved by opening ur
the new road talked OF from Frances
Corder's land southwark to reach the
town limits at the west side OF Ever
green cemetery, they, Immediately be.
gan work to that end A meeting was
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and the amount of $3.50 was sub.
scribed to pay for the right-of-Way
and damages involved in the opening
! of the road and in few days the en-:
tire amount needed was raised anc
! the new road is now an assured fact
| This not only saves considerable dis
lance put cuts out two railroad cross
ings and will prove a valuable i'm
provement not only to the people
northeast and northwest of town, bu
to Lineyille itself. Active rivalry be-
tween the two lines has developed
and lively interest in road improve
ment and the two factions being com
posed of public spirited citizens, who
do things, it is certain that the trav
cling public will have, good roads be
tween Woodland and Lineville ant
will decide for itself which to take
A.e Red Cross Trail will save sever
al miles between Lineville and De:
Moines in comparison with any 9th
err established and will, no doubt
ultimately prove popular thorough
fare-Lineville Tribune.