The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-05-18
BOOSTERS COMING
FOR JEFFERSON
TRAIL Meeting
TODD COUNTY SENDING A BIG
DELEGATION TO ATTEND
MASS MEETING FRIDAY
Will PERFECT ORGANIZATION
.SAUK CENTREITES URGED TO
MAKE BIG SHOWING AT
COMMERCIAL CLUB

Friday-May 1872 p. m.-Commer-
cial Club rooms
= Come on along-you are invited.
Don't be finicky and wait to be ask
ed! It's a citizens meeting! It's i'm
portant! It's about the Jefferson
Highway! It's a question of whether
we want that splendid trail or not!
Other regions-cities and communl-
ties-have banded together to land the
plum. Is Sank Centre to lay down
and let this big chance go by? Is 1t
going on record that it is not as ag-
gressive as Little Falls, Wadena,
Brainerd, Bemidji, Moorhead, Staples,
and other cities in going after good
thing when the going is good?
AS has been stated before, Sank
Centre has more than fighting
chance to land the Jefferson Highway
and it does not take great flight of
fancy to paint in the mind what this
trans-continental boulevard would
mean to Sank Centre. For hevyans
sake-and also that of Sank Centre
let's get together Friday afternoon
and show just how hard we can push
at the wheel when we have firm.
foothold to work on.
Todd county is with Stearns county
solid. The unauthorized autocracy o.
st. Cloud in pledging the support of
Stearns county to the Little Falls
route at the Wadena meeting last
week does not amount to & hill of
beans. st. Cloud had no license to
pledge that support and next Friday
is the proper time to inform st. Cloud
of that fact.
1t was unfortunate that rain pre-
vented the joint meeting of Stearns
and Todd county boosters here last
Monday. AS it was, surprisingly
large number of country residents
came into town to give their support
to the campaign to bring the Jefferson
Highway through this region.
Todd boosters deplore that they
were unable to come. But they will
be here in force Friday afternoon.
They will come by automobile and
train from all sections of the county.
Let's give them a reception worth
while and demonstrate by our num-
bers that we appreciate the work they
are doing to get the highway for this
region. So, come on along to the
meeting next Friday.
Sank Centre has not been idle in
plugging" for the highway, but the
boosters who have been in charge
would like to get little encourage
ment from great big mass meeting.
The following taken from the Mime
apolis Tribune of Wednesday morning
shows Sank Centre has not been over
looking many bets but it remains that
the greater the volume of the moving
mass the greater the momentum when
the mass gets to going good:
members of the state highway
commission have been deluged with
petitions from residents of Stearns
and Todd counties to route the Jeffer-
son Highway through their borders
and through Wadena, Hubbard and
Beltrami counties as well, by way of
st. Cloud and Sank Centre.
"The latest petition, signed by
2,433 persons, is sent in by the Sank
Centre Commercial club, accompanied
by letter signed by J. F. Cooper,
40.
as well as by a committee consisting
of Asa M. Wallace, L. w. Gingery, J.
A. Dubois, John McGibbon and C. D.
Marshall.
'The Todd and Stearns county pc
titioners advance as arguments for
their route the following claims: The
road would pass through Itasca State
Park ,over easy grades on soil best
adapted for a solid road bed, with
good highway materials accessible; it
has the best roads already and the
best hotel and garage facilities; it
passes through a more densely settled
portion, and would serve more taxpay-
ers; it would pas through the central
portions of the counties, and counties
would be more readily justified in
spending funds on it than if it sEirted
their edges; it would pass through a
wealthy and populous section, and
more financial aid could be expected;
the highly cultivated condition of the
land would give the traveller good
impression of the state; the route is
near hundreds of the finest lakes in