Moving along

For the first time in how long - ? - we can drive from one end of Main Street to the other with only two bumps - where new pavement meets old - and it's a grand treat. Of course it is far from a speedway! Due to paving throughout the intersection of Main and White Streets and Buell Avenue, you may be held up in line for as long as fifteen minutes. If one is in a great hurry to reach the post office, for instance, some time might be saved by taking "the Scenic Route" from the new Library westward along the edge of a field of fine wheat, past the old tree lane of the Osborn and Mayer estate and then the Fireman's baseball diamond ' til - finally - you can decide whether to go to the post office or to the rear entrances of businesses on the block between the Barton Medical Center and Michael's. We cannot advise one route over the other for, 'tho Scenic it may be, the country field road is astoundingly rough and dusty.

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