The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1920-03-25
CLUB IS DOING
GOOD WORK
Conmittee Interests Connissioaess in
Good Roads and May Put
Project Through
OAKEs WANTS WHOLESALERS
Effort Will Be Made TO Interest Re-
sponsible Parties

weekly luncheon. fFe91Qent A4erck-
lein called the meeting to order, dis
pensing with the reading Of the min
utes, and ]. N. Olson reported that
Messrs. Guy, Bush and himself, mem
bers Of the good roads committee, met
with the county commissioners last
Friday and presented their petitions.
When they appeared before the board
they found committee Of Elleuasae
citi1ens, composed Of Mayor Diekey,
Alderman Stout, Superintendent "a
Schools Faith Stevens. sud Nrs.. lGssys
Flemington Strand, there IN the in
terest Of good roads and the county
agent and club leader proposition' Tho
commissioners agreed to employ an.
other club leader TO take. the place Of
D. F. Mueller, resigned, and ststsl
that the county agent work would be
continued.
A slight conflict Of interest devel-
opsd, when the good roads subject
came up. The Glendale folks want
to use part Of the money to continue
the Sunshine highway, which has been
completed by South Dakota to q point
three or four miles south of Glendale
and bring it on through the county
seat, while Oakes advocated finishing
four miles between the Sargent coun-
ty line and this city to connect with
the completed line in Sargent county,
and also the ten mile stretch north Of
Oakes to the LaMoure county line.
It was found that there In nov n
credit Of 5000 in favor Of this coun-
ty in the treasury Of the state high
way commission, which will be avail
able as soon as plans for the roads
have been formulated. The commits
sioners appeared to be in favor Of
constructing sixteen miles Of road in
Dickey county this year. The cost, of
this will be approximately 5000 a
mile, divided as follows: $3.50 to be
paid by the county. $3.50 by the state
and 81 500 by the federal government.
It is to be hoped that the commits
sioners will make immediate arrange
ments to secure federal and state aid
and that the sixteen miles Of road will
be built this year. This will give Us
something to start on and Il We CO.
operate with the state highway COM
mission we will eventually have good
trunk roads running through Dickey
county from east to west and from
north to south.
The question Of base ball club
TOR Cakes the coming year was taken
up and pretty thoroughly discussed.
The concensus Of opinion seemed to
favor hiring two or three players and
making up the remainder Of the team
with local talent. Nothing definite
was done. but q meeting il called for
Saturday night, announcement Of
which is made in another column.
After the regular session, the board
OF trustees met and discussed the
proposition Of interesting wholesale
houses in Oakes, with the idea Of hav-
ing one or more locate here. Nessrs.
Seifert and Bast were appointed ~
an advertising committee to boost
the project and see what results can
be obtained by the use Of daily news
paper columns.
The white way committee reported
progress, but stated that it win be
some months before material can be
obtained. The matter will be taken
up with the General Utilities corpora
ton receivers, who are expected to
install the posts and other necessaries.
Club meetings are becoming more
and more popular and each one is
we'll attended. Much of the credit is
due the ladies' who are providing ex-
cellent lunches at nominal cost.