Letters to the Editor

|Published on January 1, 2007

Here is a photo of an old-time road grader in about 1923. This
rig belonged to my grandpa, N.C. Nelson (at left) of Eureka Center
in Polk County, Wis. His youngest daughter, Elnora, 4, is perched
on the seat. Country roads during that era were mostly gravel. A
road grader was needed to level out ruts that were made after a
rain.

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