The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-12-11
With our Exchanges


by unanimous vote elected A. G. An
derson alderman from the Third ward
to succeed John Lauritxen, who re-
signed recently on account of illness.
Mr.. Anderson will serve until the
municipal election in the spring
Wheelock's Weekley. Fergus Falls).
The state road between Long Prai-
rie and Wadena as laid out and i'm
proved is not satisfactory to the Fed
eral government and Federal aid will
not be donated for use on this road
unless it's route is changed.
The government has advised the
county board that the road has too
many turns and has too many rail-
road crossings. The idea of the gov
eminent in assisting in road building
is to have the work permanent and
everywhere throughout the United
States the government insists as a
preliminary to putting money into a
road that it be laid out straight, or
at least as straight as possible.
The government has sent survey
ing crew to lay out the road from
.Browerville north to the county line
and the crew has about finished its
work. Between Browerville and the
county line it has eliminated eight
railroad crossings. No work has as
yet been done between Long Prairie
and Browerville. This we understand
is to be passed up for the time being
as the money available is to be spent
only between Browerville and the
county line. However, preliminary
estimate eliminates two crossings be
tween Long Prairie and Browerville
and will very probably place the road
wholly on the west side of the track.
When this is done the road from Long
Prairie north to the county line will
have but five railroad crossings. One
each at Browerville, Clarissa, Eagle
Bend, Bertha and Hewitt.
Beginning at Browerville the route
rs surveyed by the government pro-
ceeds west just before reaching the
first crossing out of town and ellml-
mates that crossing and also the cross
ing near the Hirth farm. The new
road will strike the present state road
on the west side of the Hirth crossing.
Tt then follows the state road to the
crossing south of the old Mickey farm,
when it runs west and north, elimi-
mating the Mickey farm crossing, also
the pass under the railroad just west
of the Limbert farm, and again strikes
the present state road south of Clar-
issa. At Eagle Bend the proposed new
road leaves the village west OF the
present road up the high hill. 1t elm
mates the hill and the crossing, pro-
ceeds north and strikes the present
state road near the Partridge River
bridge. 1t then follows the state road
past Bertha village and at the VIE
seke farm, south of Hewitt, it is pro-
posed, although not yet fully decided,
to have the road run straight north
mast the Scouton farm to point
straight east of Hewitt, then turn in
to Hewitt, striking the present state
road and continuing on to the county
line.
These changes when carried out
will give a fairly straight road over
The 6O-mile route and will eliminate
many dangerous crossings. The Fed
eral aid amounts to $105,O0O. 1t has
been arranged by the county board to
spand most of this on the road from
Browerville north, but part OF it is
to be spent on other state roads in
the county. These other state roads,
however, will have to meet the gov
eminent requirements as to being rea-
sonably straight and eliminating rail-
road crossing. Long Prairie Leader
s. r. Mortinson, railroad man OF
this city, was injured Sunday night
in falling from the street railroad
bridge at Sank Centre. He was on
freight train 403 going west and
while the train was stopping there nc
got off to make some adjustments on