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Show ILLINOIS STARTS. LINCOLN HIGHWAY Governor Dunne With Hundreds Of Others Begin Road Building Across the State 1 Chicago, April 1G. Governor Dun- no, members of tho Illinois lcglsln-ture, lcglsln-ture, Judges, bankers, business mon, Bchool children and hundreds of others oth-ers today began tho work of building tho Lincoln hlghwny across northern Illinois, from tho Mississippi river to tho Indiana stato Uno. ' Every ono of tho persons who wloldod n pick or a shovel will re-colvo re-colvo a chock for ono cent and a card signed by Samuel Gompers signifying sig-nifying that ho is nn honorary mom-ber mom-ber of tho American Federation of Labor. Governor Dunno donned overalls at Moosehcart, near Aurora and officially offic-ially turned tho first spado of gravel. |