Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-03-17
AUTO OWNERS
HERE TAKE HOLD

1t was very much feared that "Good
Roads Day next Saturday would pass
unobserved in Montour county but il
now seems probable that the local
automobilists will take up the matter.
The Pennsylvania Good Roads as.
sociation in its Statewide campaign
has issued call for meetings to be
held in every district on next Satur.
day, March 10, to be known as "Good
! Roads Day" Every man and woman
is asked to assist in the great campaign
to secure good roads.
The call issued asks that persons in
| terested arrange at once to hold a
meeting in the nearest hall, school
house, or store on Saturday evening,
March 10, 1910. to form a neighbor-
hood Good Roads association.
After the meeting the name of the
chairman elected is to be sent to How
ard Longstreth, secretary of the Penn
sylvania Good Roads association, Phil
adelphia, who will arrange for "a meet
ing of all these chairmen within the
county for the purpose of organizing
county association. These i'll turn
will elect a representative to the
Pennsylvania Good Roads associa-
tionS.
In many of the townships where the
supervisors are organized the latter
will hold their annual meeting on
Good Roads Day." when prominent
speakers will be heard and questions
pertaining to good roads will be dis
cussed.
Unfortunately Montour county is
one of the few in the State in which
the supervisors at present have no org
anization. The township supervisors
association of Montour county was
organized in Danville on February I,
1907, with w. B. Moore of West Hem
lock township, president. The first
meeting, which was highly success
full one with representatives of the
State highway department present,
was the last one, no call being issued
subsequently for a convention.
Under the circumstances it would
seem that what support Good Roads
Day is TO meet with in Montour coun-
ty must come from individuals.
The automobilists of town, everyone
of whom is an advocate of good roads,
are showing interest in the matter.
These gentlemen for some time past
have been in favor of forming an
Automobile Club, for the sole pur-
pose of remedying some abuses that
occur in road construction They now
see an opportunity to accomplish their
purpose by falling in with the popular
movement and observing Good
Roads Day." meeting and electing
chairman as directed, thereby assisting
i'll the State wide campaign to secure
good roads. Several automobile own
ers have expressed themselves and
Judging by the enthusiasm manifested
by them by next Saturday there will
be something doing.
a leading automobilist inveighed
heavily against the practice of haul
ing large stone upon the country roads
and there leaving them lie until worn
down by traffic. Roads thus treated,
he said, were rendered impossible for
automobiles last summer. The same
roads are now in pretty good condition
but he is afraid that before the sum
mer is half over other sections
nearby will be spoiled in the same
manner. This practice, he declared,
is an abuse in the eyes of the law and
is the first thing that the automobil-
lists of Danville will seek to abolish.
Mrs. Margaret Hilland, aged 70, was
found lying unconscious in a Pitts