Leon Good Roads prizes awarded, 1908

AKES, LAYTON, TEALE

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/21/2015 at 16:35:50

Lineville Tribune
Lineville, Wayne County, Iowa
December 17, 1908

Good Roads Prizes Awarded

Last winter the Leon Commercial Club offered $75 in prizes for the five miles of road leading to Leon which showed the greatest improvement during the year 1908, the prizes to be awarded at the time of holding the Farmers' Institute in this city. The contest was placed in charge of C. M. Akes, Dr. H. R. Layton and Fred Teale, and they awarded the prizes last Saturday, the first prize of $25 being given to the farmers who entered the contest on the Leon and Lineville road, the second prize of $15 going to the farmers on the Leon and Garden Grove road, and the third prize of $10 to the farmers along the Leon and Osceola road. There was also an additional $25 offered for the next five miles of road, it being equally divided into two prizes which were given to the farmers on the Leon and Garden Grove road and the Leon and Lineville road. The contest has resulted in much good work being done on the roads in the way of dragging them, the conditions of the contest being that the road showing the greatest improvement was to win the first prize, and it was taken into consideration the condition of the road at the time the contest started.
-Leon Reporter.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2015