Graut Highway Press Bulletin.
The following report pf the activi
ties of the officials of the U. S. Grant
National Highway across Nebraska,
was made by the secretary of the
Highway, Malcolm MjacKinnon, of
Rockford, 111., who was in O’Neill
several days last week, and sent by
him co the newspapers thi-oughout the
territo.y through which the Highway
passes:
O’Neill, Nebraska, September 8:—
The O'Neill Commercial Club is co
operating heartily in the movement
for the organization and marking of
the U. S. Grant National Highway
across Northern Nebraska. This
great road l as already been organized
and marked across Illinois and Iowa,
and the action of the state of Illinois
and the counties in Iowa insures that
the highway will be completely paved
from Chicago to Sioux City, within a
decade. The marking has been begun
between O’Neill and Sioux City and
the road has been laid out between
those points by way of Creighton,
Wausa, Coleridge, Martinsburg and
Jackson. This is the direct ' route,
almost straight all the way, and has
a better- grade than other routes. It
is undoubtedly the location of the
future truck road from Sioux City to
O’Neill.
The mar..i.’.gs are yellow and black
bands wit’., the letter G painted on
them. At turns the right and lefts
are indicated by large R’s and L’s.
This vvo.k is being done by expert
sign painters, in order to insure good
work and uniformity. Where there
are no poke. lines the road is being
marked with signboards and finger
boards.
’1 j U. S. Grant National Highway
was organized first in Illinois in 1915
from “Chicago to Dubuque, by way of
Elgin, Rockford, Freeport and Ga
lena, and its name came from the
fact that Galena is the old home of
Cenc al Grant. This summer, at the
request of the Hawkeye Highway as
sociation of Iowa, their road and or
ganization were absorbed in the
Grant Highway and this extended the
road to Sioux City from Dubuque, by
way of Independence, Manchester,
Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Fort Dodge
and Cherokee. The marking was
completed into Sioux City from the
East about ten days ago.
Malcolm MacKinnon, of Rockford,
Jib, secretary of the Grant Highway
Improvement association, has been in
and near O’Neill for the last week,
making trips along the line as far as
Creighton and Wausa. This week he
will visit Atkinson, Stuart, Coleridge
and MSartinsburg, and 'next week he
will start on a trip to the communi
ties between this city and Valentine.
Later he will go to Chadron and other
points and out into Wyoming, in
which state the road will go by way of
Lusk, Douglas, Casper, Thermopolis,
Basin and Cody to Yellowstone park.
This route will be organized all the
way through this fall and markings
will proceed up until the time when
the weather becomes too cold. Next
year the Highway will be extended
from Casper westward into Idaho,
across that state and across Oregon to
Portland, which will be the western
terminus.
This route from Chicago to Yellow
stone park is the short and the
practical one, with modern communi
ties every little ways; that is to say,
no wildernesses to cross, such as are
found on some of the other routes
from the East to the Yellowstone.
Illinois and Iowa and Wyoming have
provided for the paving and it only
remains for the paving to be laid in
Nebraska. Secretary MacKinnon is
traveling representative in the West
for the American Automobile Asso
ciation, one of the powerful organiza
tions that are behind the Townsend
bill in congress. This bill provides
for the building by the Federal gov
ernment of certain main interstate
roads in which there is a national in
terest for the purpose of facilitating
truck transport.
He Knew His Daughter.
“The lata war has knocked all our
customs and traditions topsy-turvy,”
remarked the new Speaker of the
House, Representative Gillett, the
other day. “Now it is the young folk
who run things. Like the case of
William. William was in love. He
had declared his passion to the young
lady and she had passed him along
to her father. Father listened to his
tale patiently. ‘It’s all right so far
as 1 am concerned,’ the old gentleman
said, ‘but I am afraid that Janie will
rot marry jou.’ ‘Oh, don’t say that,’
the young man pleaded. ‘Has she
said so?’ ‘No,’ said the old gentle
man, ‘but from what I know of Janie,
if she wanted you she would have
taken you without referring you to
me.’ ’’-—The Argonaut.
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| 18.000 EUROPEAN
BRIDES BROUGHT HOME
_
It’s a Long M ay to the Thatched Roof
of the Village Beyond the Sea.
According to the American Legion
Weekly, the soldiers and sailors of
this country have brought back with
them from France, England, Ireland
and Scotland 18,000 brides—most of
whom, of course, are utter strangers
in the land, and nervously apprehen
sive of the first meeting with the hus
band’s relatives. The language is
not stranger than the mode oflife;
it’s a long way to the thatched roofs
and white walls of the village beyond
the sea. When the doughboy was in
France he freely admitted his long
ing for the sights and sounds and ice
cream sodas of home. Is it wonderful
then, if twinges of nostalgia afflict
the damoiselle or colleen transplanted
to the new world with all her happi
ness staked upon the matrimonial
venture ?
Some of them, of course, suffer a
bitter disillusionment. The husband
tires of the sworn allegiance, and
there are slackers and deserters in
marital even as in martial affairs.
The imported bride finds that the’ man
she married is far less solitious and
considerate now that he is back in a
land where girls of his own tongue
and social tradition are plentiful. She
perhaps is less decorative than some
of these young women; her training
has been in the more substantial ac
complishments of the home builder.
He looks for more of the playmate
tha she knows how to be; her youth
may have been spent in sobering toil,
and since the war nearly all the fun in
the world has bee in America and not
in Europe. We are bound to re
member when we institute compari
sons that Europe has been a house of
mourning when we have been a house
of mirth. We may learn to make al
lowances for features that are not al
ways frivolously pretty when we re
flect that the iron has entered into the
soul.
Let us, as we are urged to do, re
ceive the war-bride fro mabroad with
every manifestation of sympathy and
not as though she had ensnared the
doughboy into an entangling alliance.
In few instances it can be truthfully
said that she is marrying him for his
money. In most cases he is coming
from $33 a month to conjctural occu
pation. She is braving electing to
share with him a hazard of new for
tune, and she displays a valiant initi
ative like nis own when he went over
the sea to light. She may not reveal
with the nature of the American girl,
but she will, in a congenial environ
ment of answering devotion, show the
attributes of affectionate constancy
that the assurance of happy marria
ges.—Philadelphia Ledger.
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