Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-18
ACTION TAKEN
FOR ROAD WORK
IN ANDALuS|A
Booster Club Committee Pre-
sents Project to Commission
ers, who Formally Approve.
OTHER MEETINGS PLANNED
Plan for Organized and Systematic
Improvement in Townships Meets
With Ready Favor.

At meeting held at the Rock Is
land Club yesterday the first definite
steps toward the good roads project
of the Rock Island Boosters club were
taken. The meeting was along the
line of the good roads discussion at
The last meeting of the Booster club,
when A. N. Johnson, highway engin-
eer of the state, addressed the mem
bers.
The Booster club committee yester-
day invited a number of representative
men from the rural districts, includinG
Supervisor John Upton of Bowling.
Supervisor ID. W. Matthews of Bowl
ing, former Supervisor j. G. Britton
and Supervisor Albert Hofer of Anda-
lusia, and the members of the Anda,.
lusia township board of highway COM
missioners, NJ M. Boney, Fred art
man and Albert Guyer. Postmaster
r. e. Little of Milan was also present.
Long Discussion.
The committee and its guests spent
three hours in discussing the good
roads project, and every phase of the
project for which the Booster club is
working was gone over thoroughly.
rhe sentiment seems generally to ia
yor the King split log drag method of
road improvement, and it will probably
De adopted in the majority of the town
ships.
The steps taken by the Booster club
seem to meet with the hearty approval
and cooperation of the people of the
outside townships in all respects. In
the past there have been various good
roads projects in the county, and a
few have been carried through, but
others have been dropped and forgot
en-. Never has there been so compre-
bensive movement as that which the
Booster club has started, and the peO
pie most directly benefited-the farm
ers-are taking hold of the project
with an interest and enthusiasm that
assures success. There are hundreds
of miles of roads in the county. and
scores of these roads lead directly Or
| Indirectly to Rock Island. The. benefit
| of the road improvement. therefore
| rs plainly a mutual one for Rock Island
and the rural townships. The Booster
club has taken the matter up with q
view to organizing good roads move
ments in all of the townships of the
lower end of the county at least, and
assisting in every possible way in the
work of providing all of the townships
with well graded and properly dragged
| roads.
AndaIusia Board Acts.
AS a result of the long discussion
yesterday, the highway commissioner!
of Andalusia, who were all present a
the meeting, took definite action alpns
the lines outlined, and resolution
was adopted accordingly. The text o
the resolution is as follows:
Resolved, BY the board of highway
commissioners of Andalusia township
Rock Island county, Illinois, that W,
favor the Improvement of public high
ways by means of the King log dras
where possible, the dragging to b.
done by the taxpayers when ant
where this board may direct and a
the rate of compensation per mile es
tablished by law. tSigned)
IN. M. BONEY,
FIRED f. HARTMAN,
ALBERT GUYER,
Board of Highway Commissioners
This resolution officially starts tn,
movement in Andalusia. The authori
Ity of the highway commissioners j!
such that the roads are certain to b,
dragged Systematically, either by tn,
property owners or at their expense.
! Others to Follow.
II The action of the committee yester
day is to be followed up with othe
meetings of like character in tn,
near future, and the highway Official
of the other townships will be invites
to come to Rock Island and conside
the roads project with the Booste
club representatives. The work. viii
first be taken up with the nearer town
ships, Bowling, Black Hawk, Soutl
Rock Island, and later Coal Valley
Rural, Drury and, Buffalo Prairie
81 The aim is for organized and sy:
ltematic action in the matter of goo
roads, and cooperation .betweenth il
terests in Rock Island and the prof.
Z terty owners and officials of the othe
) townships. The plan of the committe
: OF the Booster club is one that,readil
) meets with the favor of the author
tiles of the rural townships, and tn
! success of the movement is a practie;