The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-07
ST. CLOUD WANTS
ALL COUNTY PAVING
WESTERN END WILL FIGHT FOR
HARD SURFACED ROAD FROM
SAUK CENTRE TO FREEPORT
BABCOCK WAS PRESENT
FORMER AGREEMENT WAS DIS
REGARDED AT MEETING
HELD MAY 20

The, proposed paving Of Stearns
county roads is causing st. Cloud to
use her usual tactics with regards
to anything which benefits the west
ern end of Stearns county.
Tuesday of last week, May goth,
Commissioner Ferd Borgmann re-
ceived a call shortly before noon
stating that he was wanted in st.
Cloud for a meeting of the Board
that afternoon on the paving propo-
sition.
Mr.. Borgmann notified a good
many of the local men interested in
the paving, and delegation accom-
panied him to St. Cloud which was
made up of DR.. A. F. Moynihan, DR..
y. Dh Bots, D. B. Caughren, and
George Tanner. George O'Gara was
in st. Cloud on business and joined
elegation in that city.
On their arrival they found that
Mr.. Babcock was there to meet with
the Board. Mr.. Bergman had sup
posed that the commissioners were
to go to st. Paul to see Mr.. Babcock
and was somewhat surprised when he
found that the Highway Commits
sioner was in St. Cloud. When the
meeting was called after some pre-
liminary conversation, Commissioner
Lair stated that he presumed these
present all understood the route of
the proposed pavement which he
stated to be from st. Cloud to St.
Joe by way of Waite Park, and from
ST. Cloud to Rockville. This was a
bomb shell as far as the western end
Of Stearns county was concerned, as
at a previous meeting it had been
agreed that the paving should be put
in from St. Cloud to st. Joe but the
to be served by paving from Sank
Centre east to Freeport. Mr.. Bah
cock left very shortly and before the
original proposition of paving be-
tween Sank Centre and Freeport
could be discussed with him. There
for, at this writing the paving prop
osition is as much in the air as it
was before the meeting, with the ex-
ception however, that st. Cloud has
progressed little more in her dila-
| tory tactics and has further disclosed
how she has the cards stacked. The
! delegation from the western end of
the county are not opposed to paving
to st. Joe by way of Waite Park as
| it has some good features. 1t may
be trifle longer route but it elimi-
| mates two railroad crossings and
serves two roads. The paving to
Rockville is what the western dele
| CATION are absolutely against.
st. Clouds usual attitude is dis
| played in the attempt to have the
| road paved out to their quarries.
Early this spring, however, it
looked as if they were beginning to
see the light because at previous
meeting when delegations from all
| the towns on the route were present
| it had been agreed that some of the
paving would be done in the eastern
part of the county and some in the
/ western end. The double cross sign
was put on all the fomer meetings 8
week ago Tuesday when the paving
of the Rockville road was proposed in
/ the presence of Commissioner Bah
cock and presented in such manner
as to lead him to believe that this
! was the agreement reached at former
meetings.
! We are informed that Commission.
er Babcock was in st. Cloud on the
i previous Friday and it is presumed
i that the agreement was then made
to switch the paving from the wes'
end of the county and apply it or
the Rockville road, and thus turr
down the arrangement which hat
been made at the time the delega
lions from various towns along route
i No. 8 had all met and had beer
promised by the st. Cloud interests