Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-10
GOOD RoXbs CONVENTION.

at the request Of the National Good
Roads Aesociation,t hereby call Q
convention 10 he held at Fort Scott
Kansas, March 3Oth. 1904, for the
purpose Of discussing The Good
Roads moyemen, that 10 ore of the
most important topics of the pres
ent day. There will ne three ses.
sions of the m~-ting. morning.
afternoon aud night. Every CITY.
town, township and rosd distric il
entitled to, and ihouid send dele
gates to this CONVENTION. All coun.
". city and township officers. in
Guiding rosd es-rseers, sre'en'itled
20 s~ats Ia tltis convention and
shouId make IN Effort to- h- present
10 we'll - Representatives from all
the newsps pers, and all othefs 10.
terested In the Good Roads move.
ments. A program win be prepsf-
ed In which will be included pa.
pers on the road topics by the.best
talent obtaiusbie. In addition to
this Mr.. w. H. Moore, president OF
the Good Roads Association, will
be present and address the couveu-
ton. Also the following persons
who have taken an active part In
this good roads movement have
been invited to be present: Hon.
w. s. Jennings, governor, of Flori-
da; Hon. w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., of
New York, Hon. Jas. W. Abbott, OF
Denver, Colorado. and others.
No movement before the Ameri-
can people today is of more impoi-
ance to the agricultural and indus
trial interests than the Good Roads
movement. Miliions of dollars have
been expended by the government
in the improvement of rivers aud
harbors that are not nearly so i'm
por,ant to the American people in
general as good roads will be. 1tis
expected that by another year the
national congress will take up this
matter III connection with the states,
counties and road Districts, and that
in few year the farmers OF the ag-
ricultural regions will be enabled TO
market their products at reduced
expense of at least fifty per cent.
At this convention there will be
elected delegates to the National
and International Good Roads Con-
veption that is 10 be held at St. Lou.
is, Mo-, May IS to 81, 1904, where the
good roads movement will be die.
cussed by the most able men in this
and foreign countries. The conven-
ton at St. Louis will be held in con-
nection with the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition. The National Press
Association and the Press Associa-
tons of nearly all the states will be
asse m bled there the same week.
1t is expected that the railroads
entering Fort Scott will give a one
fare rate for the round trip to this
convention. 1t is hoped by this
means to work up an interest in
road building In this part OF the
West that will be of greater value
to the community than any other
movement now under considera-
ton. The Fort Scott commercial
club cannot too strongly urge every
one, and especially country. city
and township officials. road over
seers, surveyors, civil engineers,
and lovers of good roads generally,
to work up an interest in this con-
vention that will secure number
of delegates from every neighbor'
hood in the district of Southeastern
Kausas and Southwestern Nilsson.
ri. They also urge the newspapers
to publish this call and to keep the
matter before their readers from
now until the adjournment of the
convention. Fort Scott has ample
facilities for the caring for the del.
ega,es who will attend this conven-
ton; also q convention hall which
will seat 5000 people and which, IL
10 hoped, will be filed to lite utmost
capacity by delegates Interested in
this matter.
Write TO the Fort Scott CONNER
cial Club for any information.
Don't forget the. date. March SOth,
Fort Scott, Kas. Very Respty,
FoRT SCOTT COMMERCIAL CLUB.
P.S:-Ninety.five per cent of every
load by railroad, steamship or ex-
press must be carried Ia . wagon
or truck over . highway. II costa
the farmers of the United States
nearly three times more than those
of Europe to market al equal ton
mage of farm products over prima-
~ roads. y
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