The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
MAY BULDTURNPIKE
GOOD ROAD FROM SELMA TO AU-
 TAUGAVII.LE.
Citizens of Two Counties VIII Meet aAd Discuss Plans-Rev. Alex. ander Hood Dies ia Sum-
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Selma. Oct. 20.-(Special. )--A con- certed movement is to be made by the commissioners of both Dallas and Au- tauga counties. for the building of a splendid turnpike between Selma and AutaugaVille.
 The commissioners of both the coun. ties have agreed that such road Is badly needed to connect the two coun- ties and as the citizens of Autauga County and the business men of Selma want a good road substantially built between the two counties 1t is very probable that the work upon building this road will be started within tho next few months.
 During Thursday morning some of the commissioners of Dallas County will meet some of the commissioners of Autauga at the line between the two counties. With the commissions CTS from Autauga County there will be a number of citizens of that county who are in favor of the building of this road and from Selma with the Dallas County Commissioners there will go number of business men.
 At this meeting of the citizens of the two counties the plans and means of building this turnpike from Selma to Autaugaville will be fully discussed. In the party which will go from Selma to the meeting at the Autauga County line there will be Judge P. H. | Pitts, Dr. W. c. Phillips and Julien | Smith of the Dallas County Court of Revenues. w. T. Atkins and J. Tep- per of the Commercial and Industrial | Association Good Roads Committee, besides several business men. Among | those from Autauga County there will be County Commissioner White Jones 1 as well as other commissioners. | The agitation of the building of a | turnpike from Selma to Autauga Coun- | ty brought it up at a recent meeting 1 of the Commercial and Industrial As 1 sociatiop. A Good Roads Committed was appointed with W. T. Atkins as l chairman. Since that time Mir. Atkins has made two trips to Autauga County and he said that the citizens are anX' ious for that city to build a good road as far as the Dallas County line. Mir. Atkins took the matter up with | Commissioner White Jones of Autau- | ga County who Is in favor of building this road. He also took the question up with the County Commissioners oi Dallas County and the meeting which l will be held Thursday at the line be | tween the two counties will no doubt | result in the commissioners of both counties beginning work at once upon 1 the road.
 There are but two difficult points along the road from Selma to Autau- | gaville One of these points is sand bed just at the eastern extremity of I Selma and the other is a sand bed two | miles long just across creek in Au- tauga County. The city of Selma has l promised to build a permanent road ] over the sand bed on the outskirts of the city and 1t is proposed that the merchants of Selma will ia1se fund for the building of a hard road over the two mile stretch of sand Tn An' tauga County.
 These two sand beds are almost i'm. passable for a team without a load l during the summer months and It VIII take several hundred dollars to build good hard and permanent road through them and over which team | with a load can be driven.
 The question of building a good ana | permanent road from Selma through l the western part of Dallas county into | Perry county has also been agitated It is likely that as soon as the matter of building the road to the Autauga county line has been settled that ac- tive steps in building the road into Perry county will be taken up.
 It is also very likely that number of the members of the Selma Automo- bile Club will attend the Autauga county gathering. The automobile club since its organization has been work ing hard for better public roads throughout the county.
 Death of MT. Hood.
 Rev. Alexander Hood. aged seventy three years. one of the best known