The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1920-05-27
COUNTY WANTS
BETTER ROADS

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Township Boards and Road Overseers
Protest Against Recent Action
of Commissioners
WOULD EXTEND SARGENT ROAD
Want This Continued West to Join
Sunshine Trail
A large party, consisting of town.
ship boards and road overseers from
Clement, Yorktown, Fullerton, James
River Valley and Bare Creek town.
ships, motored to Oakes last Tuesday
to enlist the support of the CONNER
cial club in persuading the commits.
sioners to make change in their road
plans. Together with a number of
local men, including F. B. Ingstad,
]. w. Bush, A. P. Guy, VIM. Zieman,
Math. Pfeifer, DIR. F. w. Maercklein,
A. H. Koch, and several others, the
party set out for Glendale to meet
the county dads, who were in session.
They had not been gone over half
an hour when four members of the
board arrived in Oakes on a tour of
inspection over the Sargent county
road. Mayor Knox took the commits
sioners out over several miles of this
highway while the boys got busy and
phoned the road enthusiasts to hurry
back from Glendale and hold their
meeting here.
After the four board members,
Chairman Walton, B. L. Nelson, Bruce
Scott and John Skoglund, had been
invited to dinner by the club the Ell
lendale party arrived home and every
body repaired to the Commercial club
rooms, where very interesting meet
ing was held. The township boards
and road overseers pointed out to the
commissioners that the proposed state
highway between Glendale and Lud-
den will not serve the purpose for
which it is intended, inasmuch as
most of the traffic between Oakes and
Glendale is over the road west of
here.
A resolution was passed asking the
commissioners to designate the Sar-
gent county road through Oakes west
to the Sunshine trail as the state
highway, and requesting that work be
started on this road first. This does
not kill the Ludden road, but simply
designates an additional highway.
Commissioners Walton and Nelson IA
vored the idea, but the others were
not so enthusiastic about it and it is
evident that considerable pressure
must be brought to bear upon them
il they are to be convinced of the wis
dom Of this move.
The commissioners agreed to make
application to the state for three army
trucks to drag the roads and haul
gravel.
Mr.. Skoglund explained his stand
against the extension of the Sargent
road because Of the fact that several
years ago most of the traffic between
here and Glendale was over the Lud.
den road, but conditions have changed
and it may be possible to swing him
over to the new idea.
He stated that the county is out of
debt and showed how it might be pos
sible, in the near future, to issue
bonds for roads. There is a propo-
sition now before the state for amend
ing the constitution in order to allow
counties to bond for good roads, the
bonds to be paid off by setting aside
certain percentage of the money re-
ceived from automobile licenses. Fe-
titions are being circulated at this
time to accomplish this very desirable
result, and good roads enthusiasts
should not pass up the opportunity to
attach their signatures to these doc
umentss We want good roads, and
we want them now. We can get them
through cooperation and everlasting
ly going after them.
The meeting was productive of
much good and the commissioners
were sent home with the Impression
that we want them to exhaust their
resources in doing everything possible
toward bettering transportation con-
ditions in this county.
A large number of out Of town folks
attended the session, among them w.
E. Dickinson, T. L. Lee, Ross McCart-
ney, A. F. Nuss and DR.. Stokes Of
Fullerton; H. K. Haldeman of Glover:
Louis Larson, Swan Anderson and
Theo. Pfeifer of Clement; w. H.
Jones, VIM. Zieman, A. F. Gramlow
and a. number of other enthusiasts,
and it is hoped that much good will
result.
Nels Wick, an employee on Their. o.
Wick farm on Route 2, was the victim
Of a peculiar accident last Friday
morning. He was sitting on the top Of