Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-01-26
PERFECT PERSHINC
WAY ORGANIZATION
Great Automobile Highway of Over
1000 Miles from Winnipeg to New
Orleans Becomes Reality.
Passes Through Warren, Argyle and
Stephen.

The location of the Pershing Way, a
task behind which the Commercial
Club Of Cedar Falls, Iowa, put itself
squarely nearly two years ago, is now
completed.
A two thousand mile automobile road
has been laid out running through the
middle west between Winnipeg and
New Orleans, connecting $50 towns.
crossing sixty-eight counties, parishes
and provinces and five states and a
goodly portion Of Canada. The organ
lzation Of the highway is largely the
work OF Herbert F. McDougal, of Cedar
Falls, who has given to the project all
the energy and enthusiasm which he
commands. Many prominent men in
all the states, as well as in Canada,
have taken an active interest in the
project. G. H. Draper Of Wells, and G.
9. Strander Of Crookston, are the Min
nesota men who have been identified
with the establishing Of the Pershing
Way.
According to the log of the road the
distance from Winnipeg to the Inter-
national boundary at Noyes is 69S
miles. From Noyes to Detroit is 213.9
miles, the road passing through the
following towns: Humboldt, Northcote,
Hallock, Kennedy, Donaldson, Stephen,
Argyle, Warren, Angus, Euclid, Crooks
ton, Delorme, Dugdale, Mentor, Erskine,
Winger, Bejou, Mahnomen, Waubun,
Ogema, Galloway and Detroit.
From Detroit to the Iowa line the
road passes through Frazee, Perham,
Ottertail, Parkers Prairie, Nelson,
| Osakis, Sank Center, Belgrade, Paynes-
| will, Litchfield Hutchinson, st. Peter,
Mankato, Wells and number of other
good towns That distance is 1867
miles. The distance across Iowa is
1923 miles, across Missouri 1907 miles,
across Arkansas 3j4.6 miles, and from
| the Arkansas-Missouri state line is
1915 miles. The total distance from
Winnipeg to New Orleans is 2,104.5
miles,
Beauties Are Many
The highway is perhaps the best laid
out of any in the country as regards
! it's varied interests. It runs from Old
Fort Garry. the Hudson's Bay company
! trading fort, now Winnipeg, down the
Red River of the North Valley, through
| the Minnesota lake region over a most
delightful section of Iowa, through the
unspOiled and most beautiful part OF
the Ozarks, the hill country Of Arkansas
and Louisiana, through the manganese
and bauxite districts of Arkansas and
the lumber and oil district of that state
and Louisiana, and then for 200 miles
| through the Evangeline country OF
Southern Louisiana where the descend
ants of those driven out of Nova Scotia
in 1867 still keep alive the language
and customs Of their ancestors and
even the negroes speak French. 1t ter
minated in the Old French section OF
New Orleans, with its quaint houses,
it's narrow streets and its history lead
ing back 200 years.
That portion Of the automobile high
way which is located in the three coun-
ties of. Kittson, Marshall and Polk. a
distance of over hundred miles,
passes thru the cream Of the Red River
Valley, famed for its wonderfully Ter
tile soil and No. I Hard Wheat The
road through Marshall county. DIS
lance Of 251a miles, has already been
built in accordance with specifications
of the state highway commission anu
last summer was given thick surface
coating of gravel. The gravel has now
been worked down, making splendid
roadbed upon which autoists can traVei
in all sorts of weather at the rate OF
sixty miles an hour, should they desire
to 20 that fast, which it is hoped they
will not do.
It viii be a big advantage to Warren
as well as to Argyle and Stephen, to be
located on the Pershing Way. During
every summer in the future, hundreds
of cars from the south, even as far
away as New Orleans, will pass
through these towns and many OF them
viii stop for repairs or supplies or fol
visit with our people. Let every
town along the line boost Tor the Persn'
ing Way.