WAUPACA COUNTY NEWS

April 26, 1923

New Highway Signs Will Be Placed on All the State Roads

            The highway commission announces that arrangements have been entered into with all counties of the state for adequate marking and signing of roads this spring.  A new series of warning signs have been adopted and will be in effect, according to the commission report.

            Railroad crossing signs will be the present circular sign in general use.

            Slow signs will be two feet square with the corners of the sign vertical and horizontal, forming a diamond-shaped marker.  This is to be erected at dangerous hills and curves, where highways or bridges are under construction, or at any other place where the driver should show down for his own protection.

            Caution signs will be the same size, two feet square, but constructed with the sizes horizontal and vertical, or in other words, erected square.  This sign is to be used at road intersections, school houses and other places where the driver of a car is in danger of causing injury to someone else.

            Turn signs will be oblong, and are now commonly called “night signs”.  They will be used at turns only.

            State line signs will be erected prior to June at all entrances of state trunk highways to Wisconsin, in order that they may be available for use of all tourists coming into the state.

            The report says that warning signs will be erected about one foot outside the shoulder to the road and will be plainly visible by night as well as day.

            Standard markers along highways designating the number of the road will be constructed gradually the commission says.  These will be erected along the shoulder of the road, from cedar posts, projecting about four feet above the ground, the bottom portion painted black and the balance white.  Telephone pole markers are to be gradually replaced by the standard signs.