Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-04
A LETTER ANENT THE PUBLIC
ROAD SITUATION IN
GREENE COUNTY
Some Funny Flashes from the Pen
Of a Good Writer.

GREENE COUNTY HERALD.
Mr.. Editor: | write to know
whether you are familiar with any
language that can express the condi-
ton of the public roads in Greene
County at the present time. Then
maybe words in some of the foreign
languages that would fill the bill, but
l can't find any in the English, not
even cuss words, that will do at all.
| don't know any language but En-
glish therefore trust you will give
this item space ia your worthy paper
so the attention of the public may be
turned to the condition of the public
roads of the County and some of the
public may be acquainted with Ian
guage that can say it fully just like
it is. 1t is truly a shame, the roads
are so bad that / can t see how the
preachers can do their calling justice
at the end of five mile drive over
some of the woods they have to trav-
ell. Somebody is to blame, and who
is it? OF course it isn't the Board of
Supervisors; they are the worst i'm
posed on set of fellows in the whole
county, from the fact that they have
to travel over these roads and only
get four dollars day aud 10 cents a
mile. Only 10c a mile over such roads
as we have, and some of them are
forced to travel at least 20 miles and
they must go when the day comes.
Just think of it, twenty miles for two
dollars. Shame, why | couldn't do it
at this price as poor as | am, especi
ally if bad decrepit old lady in
the buggy with me for fear the old
soul would be shaken into insenSibil-
ity on the route. So you see that the
Board can't possibly be to blame, for
if they were, it seems to me, they
would take some steps in. self defense
to remedy the trouble. Then what is
to be done. The people said by their
vote that they are willing to pay to
have roads put in order, but you I'M
derstand the people don t know what
they are talking about. The Board
says, no we wont do any such thing
thea it must be that the people are
the silly ones 1t can't possibly be
the Board for we coudn t really pre-
sumo that the Board don't know
their business. OF course the Board
appoint overseers annually, but they
pay but little attention to the COM
mission and the overseers have found |
it out and are rot scared, whether
they work or not Great SCOTS; it
can't be possible that the Board has
left a gap in the commission ordered
by them, that the overSeer can Slip
out at, in case they failed in their du
ty. Pshaw, you can punch such stuff
as that into me, | have said and | re-
peat that the Board of Supervisors
know their duty, and gentlemen boys
they make it work like a charm. But
we ought not to expect the Board to
be perfect in everything, when you
consider the enormous lot of business |
that comes before them. People that
have never tried it are not aware OF
the great strain they undergo in try
ing to keep the general interest of
the people of the county in good
shape. They must necessarily tax
their mental capacities to an enor-
nous extent to fulfill their duties as
well as they do, and therefore we
should be lenient or as lenient as we
possibly can be, considering the con-
ditions of the Lublic roads they are an
eye sore, but it's so hard to locate
the blame, therefore | ask again
what shall we do? | saw fellow yes
terday with a pulled eye, perhaps
he had been driving over some of the
best of our roads. He couldn't have
been over the worst for his eye did
not look bad enough. However he
should be lenient toward the Board,
they cannot afford to be growled at
for they have hard time of it on
such short pay and mileage.
Respectfully,
M