The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-16
SPREAD PETITIONS. !
~ secure ROADS:
CoMaERcTAL club CoNTgNtrRs
Cs4slP AIGN TO OBTAIN TIL e. :. !
MCPHERSON HIGHWAY q
WIDE. MOVEMENT lNAGURATED.
VOTERS GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO
EXPRESS REASONS For, T j
SpEARNS-TODD CHOICE

The Commercial Club of Sank Cen,
tire, through its officials and its spec
ial jefferson Highway committee,
continues to take leading part
among the towns and cities from st.
Cloud to Wadena in a strenuous effort
to induce the Minnesota Highway
Commission to establish the route of
the jefferson Highway through
Stearns and Todd counties. In Todd
county the work as outlined by the
Commercial Club is being ably car
ried on by Rudolph Lee of Long
Prairie, assisted by earnest co-work-
ers. The Todd county men are also
working out ideas of their own in
their region to secure the desired
highway. The latest move of the
Commercial Club is to circulate pc
titions addressed to the highway COM
mission pointing out the many reas-
ons why the jefferson highway should
be routed through Stearns and Todd.
These petitions have been sent by the
Commercial Club to every town clerk
in Stearns county, bankers and prom
inent business men of every city and
town, with the request in writing that
every voter possible be induced to
sign the petition. Identical petitions
were sent to the highway workers in
Todd county for circulation. The Com
mercial Club will gather these petit
tons when they are signed up with
their thousands of names and see that
they are properly brought before the
highway commission. The CONNER
cial Club makes the simple appeal:
'1The whole country wants this road,
help US with your signatures" The
text of the petition is as follows:
The undersigned citizens and tax
payers of ........, Minnesota, hereby
peLILlon your honorable Commission TO
establish the Jefferson Highway over
the following route, and for the follow
ing reasons. -..'-~
From ST. Cloud West and North
through the Counties of Stearns, Todd,
Wadena, Hubbard ana Beltrami--that
is 10 say from 81. Cloud through or by
way of st. Joseph, COllegeVliIe, Avon,
Albany EreepoTt, Melrose, Sauh Centre,
Little oauk, Round Prairie, Brewer
vile, Clarissa, Eagle send, Bertha,
Hewitt " adena, Leaf River, SebelHa,
Menanga, Hubbard, Park Rapids, Ar
ago, 1he Itasca STATE PARK, ola, to
BemidJi, for the following reasons, to-
wit:
First-This route passes through the
Itasca State PARK, auo all OF TINS par,
of the route is inside the JEFFERSON
Louisiana Purchase. This route has
easy Srdues, a SON that Is best adapt
ed for a solid road bed-yeIIoW clay
mixed with sand, and good road mater
ials, clay, sand, gravel and rocks IN
abundance, and easily accessible at all
points OF the route.
Seconu-rhis route has the best
ROADS ALREADY, practically the Whole
distance from ST. Cloud to the ltasca
Srate PARK is graoeu, ana ii mas the
best hotel and garage accommodations
OF any route proposed.
TnIrd--Hhls route passes through
more OenseIy settled part of the coun-
try, ana more towns, than does any
oLner proposed route. With good roads
i'll All ulIcCLIons easily accessible from
the country ana towns on bouh slueS,
Viii serve more taxpayers OF the state
locally, rnan any oJner route proposed.
10 -III aSLfaLe, the Number OF male Not-
erS registered IN the 1914 general cleo
ton IN me various VoClng precincts be-
tween ST. Cloud and W aoena tSt. Cloud
ana Wauena not incluued) was 4,6.i.
In those precincts through which the
Little Fails Staples route pass, only
2,7S3..
r'ourth--This route is through the
principal towns and the Central part
of the counties named, ana the Coun-
ty DoaroS Will be more justified IN US
lag Counly TunuS, IMAM ON road only
skIrting. the county. AS the Sauk
tre-a1onS.s PRAIRIE route passes
through d more popuiouS and wealthy
part Of the State than does any other
proposed fOEIe, more local interest can
be looked for, and more financial aid
LOCALLY can be eXpected-both so ne
cessary for the success of a highway
of this kind.
Fifth-This route passes through
what was once timber country now
highly developed and rich in alfalfa,
clover, cattle Dairy products, grains
of all kinds, potatoes and other vegeta-
bies; evidence to justify giving to Min
nesora the name of '"rhe Bread and
Butter State" This coupled with
splendid churches and school houses,
fine dwellings, great barns and numer-
Gus silos, will show to the traveller the
possibilities of the less DEVELOPED TIM
Der lands he will pass through ON his
Journey No better advertisement of
the States resources can be had .
Sixth-This route is by or in the
proximity of hundreds of the finest
lakes in the state, where thousands of
dollars are already invested in improv-
ments, with more to follow
therefore, and on these grounds we
pray that the said Jefferson Highway
De located over this route