REPUBLICAN POST

January 7, 1915

 

LAST ROAD WORK OF SEASON

 

Weyauwega Village and Town Join in Lind Trail Work

 

            Last Friday morning, armed with shovels, picks, hoes, rakes, and every conceivable road making tool, all the able bodied men of the village set out to build the longest piece of road that has been built this summer by the local road builders.

            The stretch upon which the work was done begins at the village limits on the west and runs southwest over what is known as the Lind Road.

            The day was an ideal one for the workers and all pitched in with a will, and when night came, a full half mile of well clayed and graveled road was the result of the day’s labor.

            Some of the men worked in the clay pit, some in the gravel pit, and others did the leveling on the road where the material was dumped, while the farmers from the surrounding country furnished the teams.

            Some 350 loads of clay and gravel were hauled and as fine a piece of road, of its kind, as lays outdoors, is the result, and all it will cost the town of Weyauwega, is the price of the gravel.

            The shovelers in the gravel pit must have been experts for by actual time some wagons were loaded in a half minute.

            This is the last of the road work to be done for this year, but during the winter plans will be laid for work on other roads leading into the village, and as early as practicable next spring, more work will be done by the local road builders.

            The work of the residents of the village ought to act as a stimulus for the towns, and the result will undoubtedly be a fine lot of roads leading into our village.                                 -  Weyauwega Chronicle.