The Green Forest tribune., 1908-06-26
Highland Freezes.
Harvest is over. The berry crop is ripening.

Harvest IS over.
 The berry crop is ripening.
 Corn crops are looking very promis- ing.
 R. E. McLoud of Berryville was a visitor, at the home of J. M. Jones Friday night.
 Mrs. s. L. White is spending few days in Green Forest with her mother, Mrs Jane Webb, who is sick.
 Mrs. H. s. Coleman attended the teachers institute at Green Forest last week.
 Rev. c. T. Edwards filled his regular appointment, at Highland last Sunday, preaching to large and attentive congregation.
 Highland people were much interest," ed in the article on the road question by MT. Lewis published in the last weeks Tribune.
 The conditions which he described are nothing new to us, except that our district is only two miles from the flourshing little burg of Green Forest and the roads are almost impossible.
 It is true the heavy rains of the present season have damaged many sections of the public roads, but the damage, with us was very slight as as our roads had been so systematic ally neglected ever since the present law went into effect, that practically we have had no roads for several years, but go to town over rock piles and through gullies.
 We have tried to be patient, patriotic and public-spirited. We have donated the work that has kept strip of land open so we could by heavy jolts and hard pulls, get to town and back in less than twenty-four hours. We have paid our taxes, and when warned by the overseer, so to do, have labored four days each year, on the other mans road. Until recently, we have made no serious kick about the continued, persistent and aggravating neglect of our roads.
 We do not object to donating work to help build and maintain public high ways; if our taxes are not sufficient to put them in condition to be travelled, but it is as bitter as gall for our tax money to be expended in another part of the township, our free labor, requir- ed by law worked in other neighbor- hoods, while we must neglect our crops and donate more free labor if we keep open wagon road to connect us with our town.
 We believe the present road law is a failure because of it's own defects, or because of the manner in hich it is administered. It has not proven satis- factory in our neighb orhood, and we will gladly support movement which will cause iour next legislature to sit up and take notice of the awful con- dition of the public highways in the rural districts of our state.
 And, luther, we believe the people should take advantage of the columns oi our county papers to discuss road laws, and endeavor to decide upon one that will contain some good points, and ask our law makers to let us try it.
 In our opinion, some states have an ideal road law, shortly stated as follows: Each road district is co-extensive with it's school district and votes its own road tax; this tax expended by the overseer or the commissioner in the district in which it is collected; the rate of tax ca be increased or decreas- ed, year by year, according to the needs of the road, or, the amount of Improvements which the voters of the district district desires to make and which cannot be accomplished by the free Iabar.
 We hope our next overseer will en- deavor to give us some of the benefits of the present law.