The Springdale news., 1905-03-24
LET'S DO SOMETHING
Fayetteville Agitating Star Rout e
to Huntsville.


 two county seats, Fayetteville and Huntsville, and until recently White River has been the great est obstacle. But with the build ing of the bridge that was over come and since then long stretch of good road leading to 1t has been built which makes possible the plan of daily mail. In talking with Postmaster Campbell of the Fayetteville postoffice we find that star route between Fayetteville, Habberton Goshen, Mayfeld, Whitener, Huntsville and Hunts vile with mail wagon and hack line starting each morning from Fayetteville and Huntsville giv- ing daily mail each way to all of the offices and all the patrons along the line would not only give all the people concerned better service but at a large saving to the postal department. County Judge Williams IS also heartily enthusi- astic concerning the plan and says he will continue the chain gang's work on that road and asks the cooperation of all citizens inter- ested Tn the matter. We would suggest that all persons along the proposed route communicate with the county judge telling him ex- actly what help he can depend on them for and also start a petition asking the department for the es- tablishment of such a mail route. Fayetteville Review.
 The News Is no alarnist but 1t respectfully suggests to the mer- chants of Springdale and others who have any regard for the welfare of the town, that 1t would in order to take some step, and that, too, at once, to protect the interests of Springdale. There has been in operation for years q mail route and hack line from this place to Huntsville and intermediate points, and while the benefits of same are hardly considered now, 1t would be quite a blow to have the route trans ferred to Fayetteville. That such thing is possible can be seen by the item from the Fay etteville Review. The movement also appears to have the backing of County Judge Williams, who the Review says, IS heartily en- thusiastic concerning the plan.
 If the people have not sufficient energy to secure any new enter priSes, for goodness sakes, let us not sit idly by and lose what We have. If The News IS not mis- taken the first rural free delivery route in the state was established here and was in operation two or three years before any were se- cured by neighboring towns. In- stead of pushing this work as 1t ought to have been done, and se- curing four or five routes in every direction from the town we sim ply slept on our advantages and when We woke up We found that Fayetteville, Rogers and Ben tonville had a net work of rural routes, and 1t was only by very prompt work that Lowell, with less than 200 people, was prevent ed from securing a route running almost to our very doors.
 And again, we have for years been talking about electric lights in Springdale, but so far have nothing to show for it. It has been nothing but talk, talk, while neighboring towns have gone ahead and done things. Eight or ten years ago gentle man came to Springdale prepared to put III electric lights, but in- stead of encoura ging him in the enterprise influential citizens said no, it would not do, that more favorable terms could be secured from someone else. We'll, we