Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-02-18
Want BETTER ROADS,
RESIDENTS OF EASTERN POLK
HOLD ROUSING MEETING.
Say Their Roads Are Already Good,
but Desire to Make Them
Still Better.

Near-Salemites of the Polk county
side are getting busy on the subject of
road improvement, and from the ten
or of numerous expressions by re-
sponsible people there will be all kinds
OF things doing along this line in the
near future in that locality.
Brush college literary society, under
the able leadership of Mr.. A. Ewing,
one Of the overseers at the Wallace
fruit farm, set aside its regular pro-
gram for last Saturday night and gave
the evening to a discussion Of road
improvement.
There was a good attendance Of men
and women residents of the district.
though the night was bad, and not
withstanding the disappointment
caused by the absence of the principal
speakers scheduled for the evening,
the meeting was a success. 1t soon de-
veloped that interest in better roads
was decidedly contagious, and the So
ciety voted unanimously to follow up
this meeting with another at the earli-
est date speakers can be secured.
Mr.. Charles A. Park, manager Of
promise of DR.. James Withycombe, of
the Corvallis college, and ex-Judge
Scott, of Salem, both road enthusiasts,
to be present and address the meet
ing, but both were prevented from fill
ing their appointments. Both promise,
however, to make good at later date,
and the name of Judge Lionel r. Web
ster, of Multnomah county, has been
added to the list of available speakers.
Mr. Park was authorized by the socie-
ty to confer with these gentlemen or
any others he might be able to secure
and the people of Brush College look
forward to another rousing good roads
meeting in the near future that can
not help but bear fruit for the still
further improvement of thoroughfares
in this progressive community.
Since the meeting of Saturday the
possibilities of the revival of an active
good roads spirit have been expanding
in all directions Enthusiastic resident:
are now unable to understand why the
steep hill and long dangerous grade
near the Steiner place, about mile
and a half out, have been allowed tt
remain so long in it's present condition
/, The long angular hill at the Stonebrinl
place is another one that must sooI
give way to the progress of the com
munity, and already the people ar
concluding that these two hills coul'
, be pulled together into an almost i'm
J perceptible grade at cost that woul'
r not amount to a 1.-THE of the value o
the improvement to surrounding prop
erty.
Several other lesser hills that nov
cause very hard pulls could be reduce
to make this one of the finest drive
/ leading out of the city and source o
pride and value to the residents alon
it.
l The road branching west to tn
Brush College school house is one 70
which there is equal solicitation. Tw
e steep pulls near the residence of Byro
Harritt are booked for early reduc
tions, as are numerous other Jesse
t bad spots on toward and beyond tn
a Olson, Emmett and Winslow places.
The old road leading south frol
Brush College. almost abandoned b
t reason of it's condition, could be mac
quite passable at no great expense.
The good roads contagion is ais
It rife at Michigan City, where the res
dents admit it is not altogether out
place. Neither here not at any OF II
e other points is there any disposition
disapprove of the movement for be
ter roads which once started, bids IA
It to go on and on.
1t is not to be understood, in vie
Of the enthusiasm for road improv
IL ments in this section, that the roa
here are any worse than in any 9th
direction. On the contrary the roa