Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-02
GREAT GOOD ROADS
CONVENTION.
| Take Place In Hopkinsville,
NY, July 10th and 18th.

In few days the Great Good
Roads convention will assemble in
Hopkinsville and the time between
now and the 10th inst. will be put
in by the management of the con.
vention in further perfecting the
many little details that are always
put off until the last moment. Inter.
est-in the convention and the good
roads movement is increasing every
hour and Hopkinsville is making ar
rangements to entertain a very
large number of people. All of the
committees are working hard and
nothing that will make the conven-
ton more attractive will be left un.
done. The committee on entertain.
ment will do all in its power to make
the visit of each and every person
who attends the convention as pleas
ant as possible and will fully sustain
Hopkinsville's wide reputation for
hospitality. This committee intends
to make everybody have good time
and that it will succeed everybody
who knows the gentlemen compos-
ing it feels assured. Hopkinsville
never does anything on small scale,
and when it starts in to have a con-
vention it has one, and a sure enough
one, at that.
OUT HUsTLING.
For about ten days or two
weeks several wide-a.wake, hustling
citizens of Hopkinsville were on
the road explaining to the people
over q large territory the object of
the Hopkinsville Good Roads con-
vention, what it is hoped and be-
lieved can be accomplished for the
lasting welfare of the entire people
by an exchange of views on the road
question and by seeing experts build
q sample road and explain every de.
tail of the method of construction.
Not only did these gentlemen sii-
it all the counties Of Western Ken.
lucky, but they went over into
the northern counties of Tennessee
aroused a deep interest among the
people there and many persons from
the volunteer State" will attend
the convention. While in Nashville
they called upon Governor McMil-
Ian, who is himself most enthusias.
tic good roads man, and enlisted his
aid and invited him to attend the
convention and deliver an address
such as the one he made at the Good
Roads convention at Jackson, Tenn,
few weeks ago. 1t is highly prob.
able that the Governor will accept
the invitation and partake of genu.
inc old Kentucky hospitality, though
at the time the invitation was ex-
tended he could not Civ q definite
answer. In their rounds these gen.
tlemen called upon the county judgy
of every county in this section and
tried to impress upon each OF them
the importance of attending in per-
con and also of appointing delegates
to attend 80 as to learn the best
method Of making good roads to the
end that they may on their return to
their homes at once set to work to
improve the public highways of their
own counties. Right here it is where
it is believed that the great benefit
from the convention will come in =
the returning delegates having been
brought to realize the advantage Of
good roads and having seen how
simple thing it is to construct them
will never rest until they have in
dueed the people in every locality to
go to work in earnest and keep up
that work until bad roads are q
thing of the past. That's why the
convention is to be held, that's why
the gentlemen having the matter in
hand are working so hard to get del