The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-04
THE MEMORIAL HIGHWAY

THE MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
At the Good Roads meeting held
at the school house in Wood last
Saturday evening there was good
attendance, and there was consider
able interest manifested in this
project OF building the first cross
country road in Mellette county.
There was good representation of
business men present from Witten,
and to show that they were the right
kind of boosters they stated that they
were ready to contribute $1,000
towards the building of this road in
Mellette county, and the people cf
this county certainly appreciate this
genuine booster spirit that .s backed
up by something more than mere
talk.
The road has now been graded
about four or FIVE miles east of Wood,
and the funds available from the
county have bee1 practically ex.
hausted, SO this meeting was called
for the purpose of raising the neces
sary funds to keep the grader going
and also the cut and fill gang. 1t is
hoped to complete the highway to
the county line within the next six
weeks or two months. A bridge will
have to be built to span Oak Creek
before this Highway can be opened
for traffic. Mr.. Van Shack, the
county engineer, is a practical road
man and he is doing an A No. l job,
and We believe that when this cross
county highway is finally completed
that it viii be a road that every
citizen Of the county can we'll feel
proud of, but in order to complete
the work it will be necessary that the
people of the county be very liberal
ia their contributions to the free will
fund, or else the work will have to
stop and the road remain in an in
complete state, until such time as the
money can be raised to complete it.
1t seems to US that not more fitting
memorial could be erected or built than
this highway. While other commun-
tiles are contributing to a fund to
build monuments, Or memorial halls
Mellette county has decided to build
memorial stretching clear across
the county, a memorial that will be of
some practical use to its inhabitants,
a memorial that will go great way
to help develop this virgin country, so
if you have not contributed to this
fund, you ought to do so now and thus
have some part in the building o. this
memorial, which will be the first
really good piece of road work of any
consequence attempted in the county.
At the meeting last Saturday night
a temporary local organization was
effected by electing Fred G. Kirch,
president, j. B. Brown, secretary, and
Merrill Kaufman, treasurer, and it is
the object of this local organization
to make special efforts to raise the
necessary funds to complete the
highway from Wood east to the
county line at once. We must have
a good road from here to Winner, and
we now have the first real opportunity
we ever had of getting such a road
1t is no time to shirk now, everyone
should put their shoulder to the
wheel and push this project forward
until we shall finally have achieved
success. A soliciting committee te
solicit more donations to this Memo
rial Highway fund was appointed ani
they are out working now, Whel
they call on you be sure and contribut'
something, az much as you can, for
isa real worth while project and IL Il
g,ing to be completed, for our peopl
know no such wor1 as fail when the,
undertake project such as the build
Ing Of the Memorial Highway. Be
booster and contribute your mite now
This is the Glorious Fourth.