The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-05
CUSTER BATTLEFIELD HIWAY
TO PASS THROUGH KADOKA.
Enthusiastic Meeting of CONNER
Cial Club Held to Meet With
w. d. Fisher, Secretary of Hi
way Association.

On last Friday evening spec
ial meeting of the Kadoka Comm
ercial Club was held for the pur-
pose of meeting with w. d. Fisher,
of Sheridan, Wyoming, secretary
of the Custer Battlefield Hiway
Association.
The meeting started out with
supper served at the Hotel Dacotah
and one of the largest gather
ings of the Club ever held sat
down to one of the finest three
course suppers ever served, and
the proprietors of the Hotel anre
entitled to the thanks and praise
Of every member of the Club and
many were the favorable comm
ents passed on the delicious vi
ands and the tasty way in which
they were served. 1t is estimated
that over sixty were present at
the meeting.
Following the supper and after
the cigars had been lighted up
President 0. G. Sharon introduced
Mr.. Fisher and he told of the aim
and object of the starting and put
ting through Of the Custer Bat
tlefield Hiway. Right at the start
Mr.. Fisher in most refreshing
manner plainly told the Club
members that he was after some
money, but also whether Kadoka
gave any or not they would sec
ure the Hiway through their
town. With this candid start
MIR. Fisher held the undivided
attention of the meeting for two
hours while he gave a most in
teresting and instructive talk on
good roads, their marking and up
keep, and told of what had al
ready been accomplished by the
Custer Battlefield Hiway Assoc
iation.
At the conclusion of his talk
Mr.. Fisher stated that he was not
going to tell us what amount we
should give, but that he would
about four hundred dollars. And
did Kadoka do it? Early in the
evening Mr.. Fisher remarked
that he considered Kadoka one
town in a hundred-with its live
wide-awake Commercial Club, hu-
sting business men, ample hotel
Accommodations, tourists camping
grounds, and spirit of enterprise
shown-and then he had no cha
nee to change his opinion of the
town for in less than two minu-
tes over five hundred dollars was
subscribed by those present. I'm
der the conditions as laid down
by MIR. Fisher not a cent OF this
money was paid to him nor will 1t
be until they come through next
spring with their big trucks and
crew of men and mark the road
both in and out of Kadoka.
The Custer Battlefield Hiway
starts at Omaha, Nebr, and cross
es to Council Bluffs, Iowa, coming
up to Sioux City through the Mis-
Souri, Valley on the Iowa side of
the Missouri river. From Sioux
City it comes north to Sioux
Falls, then west to Mitchell, Cha
mberlain and then to Kadoka
From here on west it passes thru
the Black Hills, part of Wyoming
and Montana and on to Glacier
National Park, and as rapidly a:
this section of the road is laid out
it will be extended on west to the
Yellowstone National Park. Hun
dreds of other highways and trails
feed into the Custer Battlefield
route and it will eventually be
come the leading route from th'
east through the scenic wonder
on to the west. In fact it is a
the present time recognized as th'
most scenic route for tourists ira
yelling west.
The Custer Battlefield Hiway ha
received the endorsement of tn
Federal Government and has bee
recognized by the State Highwa
Commissions of Nebraska, lows
Wyoming and Montana and wi
doubtless receive the endorsement
of the South Dakota Commissio
at their first meet ing. 1t wi
also be one of the best marke
hiways in the United States an
the greater portion of the fund
Of the organization are TO b
spent for this purpose, and ais
for the advertising of the rout
10 the eastern tourists.
The securing of this Hiway >thr
Kadoka has many advantage
that were readily recognized b
eus Commercial Club, and With ii