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1UMIn Davis24th. atnarriage r Char-le young i trip t#of Jos-Fairfax, raduatedone of aryoung as nu-B.flr. and ird* He 1, grad-iattended nea two t of ther* servedHe has iat three of theVJ ;t young ture be-■ r —rom. Chill make 11of them.♦r many■ V ■t of goodunuoo ill tv h nivLnWijl Be Located X 3-4 Mile East of Old Dupont BridgeI 'H • SCRASHetion of'Vis morn-h similar tie cause eroFW. id MillenA new bridge will cross^he Iowariver soon, according to a recent■ «edict of the Johnson county* boardS . I. % 4of supervisors. The . new bridgewill cross the river just north of#Greencastle seven miles northeast of Oxford. ' *The old Dupont bridge, five and a half miles northeast of Oxfordahas not been in use for several yeais on account of the river havingsought a new channel at that point* * • ■ •and leaving the bridge out in mid-. ‘ •' ‘ i. . • • • ' . 'stream. The main channel of the\ l_. ' »• |^; ’ ’stream now flows out around the north end of the old bridge. This makes the river too wide at that point to make it feasible to repair the bridge and hence the new one.A road has been laid out north* from Greencastle to the river andlt; .the work of putting in the new* .bridge will started as soon as possi-% * * r *ble. The two spans of the old Dupont structure will be moved downS . 'and used in constructing the new one* '•It was thought for a while that the new bridge would cut the dis-r . . 1 . * ■ . ' S *.tahce from Oxford tb Cedar Rapids» . * iby three miles, but persons familiar^ . • •. ■ i 1with the-typography of the country north of the river at this point, say that it will not do this. They say that travelers will have to (go east to the Curtis bridge4 or west to apoint just north of the ollt;L,Dupon|V •. . • . .. . .bridge before finding a good road north. The rbad leading north, which will join /the new bridge goesover one of the big bluffs, for which* • lt;. * . *Monroe township is/famous, and is- • - ( \ ■' i r ,impassible or nearly so, for automo-s , kbiles. ,;-L .’vrMRS. ROBE FMrs. Rollast week she had noi twenty-ninlt;When Mrnearly thir of small ehit was not* *track of ei .. • % •twenty-nim• • *Speers kno* 1of her sistei »• • *she secure■ -■ . . ' . . » /Searcher Cwith tiothii• •on, the co sisters in a are liVing i9 •one of then other marrIk * rThere arthe family* ♦unknown...1 tBOXSOCIA
Newspaper Details
Oxford Leader
Oxford, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 27, 1921
Page 5
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John H.
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