The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-06-08
HUNDREDS WORK ON
meridian HIGHWAY
DAY IDEAL ONE FOR BEST RE
SUITS IN COUNTY'S STRETCH
OF ROAD.
LAB0RERS START EARLY
FEW UNABLE TO GET OUT BE.
CAUSE OF IMPLEMENT SCAR
CITY-DINNER SERVED.

@~N ~ 1880 - aAAC tA1AA
from the city and a much larger
number of farmers, took themselves,
teams and tools out onto the Merid-
ian road, and when clouds, which
threatened to release drenching rains
passed without emitting sufficient
moisture to cause a delay in opera
tions. Men behind the good roads
project had hoped to improve the
whole t~hirty-four miles of the Merid-
ian road in Lake county, and their
wishes were all but gratified. On
some sections of the thoroughfare
the amount of work done exceeded
their most sanguine expectations.
The day was an ideal one for nan
ual labor. There was sufficient tang
to the air to keep the workers
ing, and while there was a strong
north wind blowing, a slight rainfall
early in the day, which did not him
der the volunteer workers, kept
down the dust. Many of the crews
had dinner served to them by farm
ers' wives, near the scenes of their
labors.
Commencing at the McCook coun-
ty line, the southern end of the
road in Lake county. the first two
miles in the direction of the city, the
highway was in good condition, and
but little work was done there. On
the next mile north, vel which G. l.
Riley and DR.. w. A. Rothschild had
charge, no work was done, owing to
Mr.. Riley having been unable to Dor
row necessary implements, he had
expected to get, from Miner county
officials. Mr.. Riley and DR.. Roths-
child will get their crew out on the
road next week.
On the next mile, w. Selliger,
foreman, and Guy Mitchell, assistant,
good work was done. On the fifth
and sixth miles j. S. Keegan, John
Donohue and Ed Keegan worked
four outfits, with dumps, scrapers
and graders. On the next mile Nels
p. Johnson and w. e. Caldwell had
two large outfits engaged.
Fletcher Shirley and Frank Nc
Gowan engaged a large crew of men
and teams, operating a grader, drags,
harrows and discs. Four outfits,
with graders. plows and discs put in
a hard days work on the ninth mile,
under the supervision of Dan O'Con-
nell and Dan Dougherty. The
tenth mile had been recently drag
ged and was in good condition.
II. Campbell and Mike Cosgrove
had a large crew of men, a grader
and drags at work on the eleventh
mile. Because they were unable to
get necessary tools today, Ed O'Con-
nell and Dan McKinnon decided to
make improvements to the twelfth
mile of road next week. A. ID. Park
er and w. /. Thompson had men and
tools on the thirteenth mile.
An unusually large amount of i'm
proving was done by the men under
Peter Olson and Ed Ketcham on the
fourteenth mile of road. Mr.. Olson
and Mr.. Ketcham had eight outfits,
including nine teams and various i'm
plements. Men and teams did good
work on the fifteenth mile, under
the direction of Pete Cosgrove and
Jake Kundert. No work was done
on the sixteenth mile. Eight horses
pulling one grader and -four teams
drawing scrapers, supervised by Ar
thur Stark and w r. Stearns, made
a good showing on the next mile.
Joe Westaby and Spencer Westaby
built a substantial culvert in the next
mile. and had in operation two grad
ers, two wheel serapers and a drag.
NJ. A. Bothel and DR.. Lowe directed a
large crew, who operated graders,
wheel scrapers and discs.
A large crew of men, operating
the city scraper and other nipple
ments, under the direction of c. T..
Olstad, T. A. Johnson, assisted by
John Elfert, worked the twentieth
and tw~enty-first miles of road, lead
ing to the city limits.
Dave Beatty and Charles Jones
were among those from the city who
assisted in improving the road south
of the city.
For those helping in hat section,
dinner was served by farmers wives
at the Westaby school.
Peter Backhaus and Mayor George
Waskey had men and teams at work
in the northwest part of the city
limits, on the road connecting with
the Meridian highway. No work was
done on the first mile north of the
city limits.
+. A. Hoisington and Henry
Rohrer engaged men, teams and i'm
plements on the second mile north OF
the city and good work was done on
the third mile by a crew of which
Abe Hegdahl and Nick B~jornstad
were the foreman and assistant fore
man, respectively. A good sized
crew of men with teams and imple-
ments did excellent work on the fifth
mile.
A. Severson and G. A. Hackett with
their men and teams, were early ar
rivals on the sixth mile of road, as
were also F. j. Bidwell and K. A
Keller and their crew on the seventh
mile. Good work was done on the
eighth mile, Of which stretch Frank
Tuor and M. f. Berther were the
foreman and assistant foreman
Tony Muggli and f. c. Smith graded
up and rounded off a good share OF
the ninth mile and Matt Deragisl
and Chris Schultz had a gang anC