Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-09-12

good bawling out and a warning.
me best best plan is to tie the car up
in reliable place and depend upon
local transportation, taxi, street car,
motor bus, elevated and the Old, re-
liable "shanks' mare"
Eating houses are the best in the
world with an abundance OF good food,
great variety and liberal way Of
charging, A good meal for two will
run from $3.50 to $500, not counting
tips which are generally expected.
Sea food shipped daily from the East
and the pick of the market for what
the middle west produces. One can
buy a cut of roast beef at most any
place, excellent and of quality not
to be had in a small town.
Chicago is a city of churches and
notable sight is the new Methodist
church, now under construction, at
Washington and Clark street. Its
tall and beautiful tower and spire can
be seen from any part of the city. A
sad sight is to see SO many of the old
and once popular edifces now aban-
doned or used for other purposes. In
other quarters one sees newer struc-
lures showing that the old congrega-
tions have moved to other districts
taking their church with them.
Chicago has a number of very fine
radio broadcasting stations. The in
teresting part of this is that nearly
every home has a short distance radio
receiving set, costing few dollars,
and the family group entertains itself
re from
News, the Chicago Beach hotel, the
Drake hotel and other stations. Be
neyolent persons are supplying radio
sets to all crippled and shut-in chill
dren so that the little folks can have
an interesting evening before they
drop off to sleep. 1t costs SIS to join
the Sun-dodgers club and the money
goes to buy a radio receiving set for
a crippled kid. The new Sun-dodger
has his gift broad-casted, showing the
world he isn't a tightwad.
The Illinois highway system is far
superior to Wisconsin owing to the
abundance of hard roads. This is due
to the wealth of the state and the
legal ability of the state to bond it
self. Wisconsin cannot bond and road
projects must either be put through
by county bond issues or direct taxa
ton. On the other hand, the W1scon-
sin system of trunk highways is said
to be the best laid out in the country.
Illinois hard roads are usually OF con-
crete with an occasional stretch OF as
phalt, tarvia or brick. These roads
now gridiron the state and traffic IS
stupendous. Pleasure vehicles run
side by side with farmers hauling pro-
duce to market 35 miles an hour is
the speed limit-generally observed.
Shortest route to Chicago from Ian
caster is via Platteville, Cuba City,
ShuIlsburg, to Warren, ILL.,, and thence
to Lena where the concrete begins.
From there is an unbroken stretch of
new concrete clear into Lake street
a distance of about 100 miles. Time
say 7 to s hours for the entire trip.
Eastern Wisconsin is pretty we'll
covered with hard road, cement and
macadam A pretty drive from Rock
ford, ILL.,, takes one through Beloit on
cement, GAINESVILLE on cement, 10
Evansville on cement. From Evans
Vile to Madison is macadam.
Our party drove through heavy rain
all the way from Chicago to James
Vile in four and One-half hours. From
GAINESVILLE to Madison in two hours,
rain most of the way. From Madison
to Montfort over good macadam in
about two hours From Livingston,
where the hard road ends, to Lancas-
ter, about IS miles, two hours. The
only part of the trip feared was the
Grant county end and the fears were
we'll justified 1t was mire all the way
from Livingston to Lancaster, slip
ping and skidding the entire distance
In the ditch twice and more tired from
that two hour drive than from days
drive over good hard roads.
The Herald man has been a convert
to hard roads for years. Today we
are more converted than ever. From
every standpoint the hard surface
road is a necessity and it is only
question of time, say ten years, when
we will be forced to put them IN
whether we want them or not. In
creasing traffic conditions and all
weather road use will demand it.
All in all, Grant county looks pretty
good even after a weeks visit away
and it is worth while going to get
back and feel good about living here
Everybody ought to take a vacation
even though it be a short one.
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