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th. at irriage Char-young trip ta4 Jos-airfax, duated me of young as nu-r. and h He grad-tended* *i!3 two of the served He has ; three of theyoung ire be-m Chi-makeiof the'A new bridge will crosa^he Iowa river soon, according to a recent edict of the Johnson county- board of supervisors. The . new bridge will cross the river just north of Greencastle seven miles northeast of Oxford. *,j tThe old Dupont bridge, five and a half miles northeast of Oxford has not been in use for several years on account of the river having. ■ . . i isought a new channel at that point• - • • iand leaving the bridge out in mid-■ j , '' ' . r 'stream. The main channel of the. - . • *. .'m ■■ ' ,w; 1stream 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 andthe work of putting in the new* ,bridge will started as soon as possible. The two spans of the old Dupont structure will be moved down and used in constructing the new one* ,It was thought for a while that the new bridge would cut the distance from Oxford to Cedar Rapids by three miles, but persons familiarMRS. ROMrs. Ilast weel she had 1 twenty-n When nearly tt of small it was nc track of twenfcy-n Speers kiof her ab
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Oxford Leader
Oxford, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 27, 1921
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