Highway Markers Go Up This Week
In Ida County and elsewhere over the entire state of Iowa the handsome new state highway signs are being erected this week. In some localities, the county engineers began putting them in place Saturday, some being seen in Denison and along the Grant highway this side of Fort Dodge.
50,000 new markers are being placed along Iowa primary roads. They were to have been put up several months ago, but delay resulted from late delivery of part of the order. The necessary posts were set up last month. …
With the advent of the signs, primary No. 23, the Grant highway through Galva, Holstein and Cushing, disappears and becomes Federal highway No. 20. The Lincoln highway becomes Federal No. 30. Nos. 18 and 4 to Spirit lake become Federal No. 71 and No. 19. North Iowa Pike becomes Federal No. 18.
— Ida County Pioneer, October 13, 1926