Taken from the September 29,
1922 issue of the "LaGrange Citizen" newspaperwww.FranzosenbuschHeritageProject.org Home
Taken from the September 29,
1922 issue of the "LaGrange Citizen" newspaper
NORTH FIFTH AVENUE OPENED
Barriers Removed to Twenty-second Street -- Open to Roosevelt Road After Monday
It is a great temptation to step on the gas on North Fifth avenue. After bumping along that road for years, dodging back and forth trying to avoid the worst ruts, one can hardly believe he is driving over the same route as the car spins along on a cement pavement.
Workmen started in the fore part of the week to remove the straw and dirt that covered the cement while it was curing. Wednesday the barriers were removed between Brewster and North avenues--the stretch between North and Thirty-first was opened two weeks before--and at the same time the road between Thirty-first and Twenty-second street was opened for traffic.
The road is now in fine shape although the cut-off across the new bridge has not been paved and the old road over the iron bridge will be in use this winter. This is to allow the embankments and the fills leading to the bridge to settle thoroughly before the paving or the cement would not stand up.
The earth is now being removed from the road between Twenty-second and Roosevelt road and will be open to traffic next Monday, October 2.
Another dream of the autoists is realized!
The highway engineers recognized the great amount of travel that is to be expected over this road in the years to come and made provision for a cut-off to make a large, easy turn from Fifth to Roosevelt road. The county does not yet own the right of way for this cut-off but a spur projects to the eastward from Fifth so that the paving can be laid later.
SORRY HE SPOKE
One of the farmers having land fronting on North Fifth got real impudent with some of the work men who were digging a ditch along the side of the road and ordered them off "his land" although they were outside the fence.
So, the engineer in charge asked the county to send out a surveyor who ran a line and found the farmer's fence extended about fifteen feet into the public highway. When it was set back where it belongs it will run just in front of his porch.
Taken from the September 29, 1922 issue of the "LaGrange Citizen" newspaper
Last Modified: 01/01/2004