Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-07-12
SUI visor Kuhn Has Started the Bail
a. FER ing With One of the Finest
h, of New Road Ever
b IN the County.
TRACTOR ENGl e Nd
II FOOT DER USED
All Of the Supervisors are Going AZ
ter the Road Question i'm Earn
est and Winnesbiek Roads
Will Soon be the Best
i'm the State.


Saturday evening and went over a
section of one of the finest roads we
ever saw built any place. Supervisor
j. P. Kuhn of the second district is
the man responsible for the work
and has demonstrated the fact that
he knows how to build roads, for he
has built about six miles of as fine
dirt road as ever vehicle operated
over. The work extends from Cal
mar six miles out on the road lead
ing TO Decorah. A big tractor en-
gine, owned by Joseph Klema and
twelve foot grader, recently pur-
chased by, the county were used in
the work E. NJ. Twedt was the road
superintendent and John Shimek op-
Grated the grader.
The time consumed in building the
road was only about S1s days. The
road is thirty feet or more in width,
is built up in the center and rounded
off in about as smooth a manner as
a road could possibly be built. You
will find no big bitches on the sides,
as the road is all road from one side
TO the other. Three automobiles or
teams can drive abreast with plenty
of room to spare, and four vehicles
could drive side by side, if necessary
1t is one of the finest roads ever built
here. Mr.. Kuhn has built the same
kind of road from Calmar to Fes-
tina, and before he gets through his
entire district viii be built up the
same way. 1t surely is fine start
and shows what can be done with
Winneshiek roads.
Supervisor Haugen will use the
tractor and grader on the road from
Calmar to Ossian, and go over his
district and build up the same kind
of roads.
Supervisor Williams Of the 5th
district is starting this week to build
similar road from the Ed Blount
place on out on the Calmar road to
meet the new road built by Supervis-
or Kuhn, SO when the work is finished,
it will be regular boulevard be-
tween Decorah and Calmar. E. T.
Reed will have charge Of the work
from Decorah on out on the Calmar
road. All of the other roads will be
taken care of in a similar manner as
fast as possible.
Supervisor Claude Morton will use
the tractor on the Ridgeway and De-
corah road, and build another ex-
cellent road. In Supervisor Saxvick's
district the tractor will be used and
every poor piece of road in that dis
trict will be built up. The board is
going after the road question in ear
nest now. They have been handi-
capped, more or less this year, on
account of the food and the fact of
so many bridges being taken out,
but nevertheless they are getting a
good start, and their work is going
to show results. Just give them lit
tie time, and help boost the cause,
and in a short time the roads of Win
neshiek county will be held up as ex-
amples OF high class work all over
the state.
In our opinion Winneshiek county
should own a tractor engine. 1t is
marvellous the work that can be done
with one, and it would more than
pay for itself in short time. All there
is to it, if good roads are to be built,
the supervisors have got to have the
proper machinery to build them with.
Persons who foolishly worry, fret
and stew over what is absurdly call
ed race suicide may be comforted by
absorbing this Information transmit
ted from Germany: --latest available
statistics do not indicate that race
suicide is on the increase in Berlin
February figures show that five mo-
theirs, ranging in age from 40 to 4 8
years, gave birth respectly to
their sixteenth, seventeenth, eight
ecW'h, nineteenth and twentieth
child. Three women had their four
teenth child, eleven bore their thT-
teenth, eight their twelfth, five their
eleventh and seven their tenth. The
records tell of the birth of fourteen
pairs of twins in February" Judi
cious regulation, it would seem, is
needed over there much more than
fostering prodigality.