Show detours bring customers tho the motoring public Is frequently annoyed by signs marked detour which compel them to leave a good road for a bad one for some gome distance they are arc even more annoyed when the new route Is not properly ni marked ar ked out and as a result they sometimes got get temporarily lost A small boy upstate quick to grasp gras the situation fashioned a few detour signs of his own which lie ho erected and which diverted traffic by his fathers house then he built in ills his front yard a small stand at which he sold ginger ate ale and lemonade to the thirsty and weary travelers and did a good bustness business until the authorities removed the signs and the street once again became a rarely traveled thoroughfare new york sun and globe |