100 years ago: Kansas legislature discusses ‘good roads bill’

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 23, 1911:

  • “Practically all of yesterday was devoted by the [Kansas] House to the lengthy good roads bill introduced by the committee on good roads and public highways. The bill covers thirty-nine printed pages, and contains fifty-five sections. It is provided that the township trustee shall erect and maintain posts or guide boards at the forks of every state and county road, containing an inscription directing the way and naming the distance to such cities or towns as are located on the roads. The trustee is required to cause to be removed all hedge and other obstructions in highways and to remove all obnoxious weeds from public highways. It is made unlawful for anyone to drive any animal across a bridge faster than a walk or to drive more than fifty head of cattle upon a bridge at one time.”
  • “In a slow listless game in which most of the Jayhawker substitutes figured, Kansas was defeated by Grinnell last night by a score of 17 to 16. The small score indicates that neither team was in any kind of form, and that most of the shooting went wild.”