Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884

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1 Years Ago

March 13, 1924

It has been announced that Fort Meade at Sturgis will be reopened, and that by May 1 there will be five hundred cavalrymen there. An inspection of the fort was made recently, and it is now being put in readiness to receive the soldiers.

Contingent on the construction by the government of a road from Elmore to Savoy, a distance of four miles, Lawrence County will build a 16 foot grade from Cheyenne crossing to EImore, a mile and a half. If this construction work is undertaken, it will be the initial work on what, it is hoped, some day will be a highway extending thr...