Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-13
Such Is The Concensus of Opin-
ion at Meeting of Township
Road Trustees
MEET DEPARTMENTS DEMANDS
Special Agent BoyIan Presents the De-
Mands of Postoffice Department in
Return for Rural Mail Delivery and
Trustees Vote Unanimously to Meet
Every Requirement..


room Saturday afternoon provsd an en-
thusiastic meeting of farmers and can
not fail to result in new life being
given to the good roads movement in
this county. The demands of the gov
eminent for good roads in return for
free delivery service in the rural dis
spur the farmers to action.
Mr.. G. Il. Kirby was made chairman
Of the meeting. Mr.. John I. Boylan,
the special agent in charge of the work
of inspecting Marshall county with a
view to establishing universal frse de-
livery service was introduced and he
briefly outlined what tie government
demanded. He said:
Mr.. Boylan's address to the trustees
and patrons was nothing more or less
than an ultimatum. His language was
plain and to the point. He Said that
unless the roads ware put in good
shape, and SO maintained. and that as
surances to that effect would be
pledged, there would be NO complete
He spoke concerning what would be
expected to make good roads, viz:
Proper drainage, in getting rid of sur
face water; fixing culverts and
bridges, doing necessary grading, and
cutting weeds and brush SO as to do
away with snow drifts. Mr.. Boylan
also spoke of what might be done in
after years in the way CT following up
what would be accomplished in the
drainage and grading, and that was the
crawling or macadamizing the roads.
or doing anything in the way of per-
manent improvements.
Mr.. Boylan gave his hearers to I'M
dt,rstand that he wanted their answer
immediately, as he was awaiting or
ders from Washington 10 go into an
other field if the proper assurances
could not be given here that the roads
would be improved and maintained in
good condition.
Councilman Kreutzer made a heroic
defense of the city, telling what 1T had
spent ON street Improvement and as no
one had any fault to find with the city
streets his remarks did rot eXcius' OPP,
position. MIR. Emmett Hole, of Marietta
township, believed that u great share OF
the work put upon country roads had
been wasted, but that The farmers in
his township Ware goffg at the work
more Systematically now Mr.. Kirby
told of the failure of his efforts TO i'm
prove the Nicholson's Ford road and
said that he was discouraged because
the farmers and merchants took so lit
tie interest This called forth reply
from Senator j. Il. Classen. Super
visor c. E. Arney said that under the
new law the county would have a large
sum to expend in road work and that in
behalf of the board of supervisors he
could guarantee that the county would
put into each township a sum of money
for road work equal to whatever the
township should raise i.self. He said
THAT the first work to bs done was to
grade and tila and to cut away the
trees that prevent a road from drying
as it should.
Messrs. G. F. Kirby, Emmett Hole and
James Andrews We're selected as a COM
mittee to draw up resolutions l:@press
ing the will of the meeting, which We're
adopted as follows:
1T is the sense of this meeting that
we are heartily in favor of earnestly
taking hold of road improvement mat
tiers and we pledge our full support in
making such Improvements of the roads
as will fully comply with the wishes of
the department as pres; nted to us by
Special Agent BOylan, and that we urge
the necessity Of thorough drainage by
thing and otherwise as the initial step
II, good road building"
1t was also arranged that Mr. Boylan
should prepare such resolutions as he
would wish to forward 10 the Depart
ment ait Washington anG each township
trustee would sign them. All the town
ships of the county were represented
by trustees excepting Iowa and Logan,
and there We're present as many unoffi
cially interested farmers as trustees.