The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-16
SPREAD PETITIONS
n SECURE s,IRlaADS
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WIDE MOVEMENT INAGURATED.
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EXPRESS REASONS FOR,
SEEARNS-TODD CHOICE

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Thee 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:
'.The 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
pe.lLlon your honorable Commission to
establish the Jefferson Highway over
the following route, and for the follow
ing reasons: ---'--.-,'t
From ST. Cloud West and North
through the Counties of StearnS, Todd,
Wadena, Hubbard and Beltrami-that
is To say from ST. Cloud through or by
way of st. Joseph, CollegeVllIe, Avon
Albany Freeport, Melrose, Saull Centre,
Little Sank, Round Prairie, Brewer
vile, Clarissa, Eagle send, Bertha
Hewitt, W adena, Leaf River, Sebella
Menanga, Hubbard, Park Rapids, Ar
ago, The Itasca State PARK, fola, to
BemidJi, for the following reasons, to-
wit:
First-This route passes through the
Itasca Staee. PARK, ana all OF TINS par.
of the route is inside the JEFFERSON
Louisiana Purchase. This route has
az ,or q
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
pOinIS or the route.
Second-rhis route has the best
roads alreauy, practically the whole
distance from ST. Cloud to the ltasca
State PARK is graoeo, ana II mas the
best hotel and garage accommodations
OF any route proposed.
TnIrd--fhls route passes through a
more uenseiy settled part of the coun-
try, anu more towns, than does any
otner proposed route. With good roads
iii All directions easily accessible from
the country and towns on poth sloes,
Will serve more tax payerS OF the state
locally, Inan any oJner route proposed.
To iIldslraLe, the number OF male vot-
erS registered IN the 1914 general cleo
ton IN me various voting precincts be-
tween ST. Cloud and Waoena tSl Cloud
ana Waoena not Ineluoed) was 4,617.
In those precincts through which the
Little Fails Staples rOuLe pass, only
Ass.
r'ourth--This route is through the
principal towns and the Central part
OF the counuIes named, and the Coun-
ty boaroS Will be more justified IN US
lag LoulLy IunuS, than ON road only
Sklrting the county. AS the Sauk
CenLre-a4onsy PRAIRIE route PASSES
through d more populOus and wealthy
part of the STATE than does any other
proposed foIJe,, more local interest can
be looked for, and more financial aid
locally can be eXpected-both so ne
cessary for the success of 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-
bles: evidence to justify giving to Min
nesota the name of "fhe Bread and
Butter State" This coupled with
splendid churches and school houses,
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 improy-
ments, with more to follow.
therefore. and on these grounds, we
pray that the said Jefferson Highway
De located over this route