FLORENCE YESTERYEARS: 75 years ago
OCTOBER 6, 1927
Mrs. Albert Meirowsky and little daughter left Tuesday for a month's stay with Mrs. Meirowsky's sister, Mrs. Logan Graham at Liberal. Mrs. Graham will undergo an operation and Mrs. Meirowsky will stay with the family until Mrs. Graham returns home.
U.S. Highway 81, which runs from Belleville to Caldwell, may be the first highway surfaced entirely across the state. The road is paved with concrete or brick from Caldwell to Newton and sanded from Newton to the Ottawa county line, where there is another stretch of pavement. Republic and Cloud counties have let the contracts for sanding 15 miles of the highway this fall and plans are being made to sand the remaining 20 miles next spring, which will complete the surfacing of the highway across the state.
