The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-11
race question, and "Jack'sp oldmamny
ought to become quite d feature OF
Brooklyn society.
ANinD9sT AND COOP I,0ADs.

AMHERST AND GOOD ROADS.
Amherst Is, indeed, n pioneer
county when 1t comes to good roads
II was tho first to issue bonds fol
them. a meeting was held at Amherst
Courthouse Monday morning to con!
slider the question OF building more
roads like the excellent ones which
have already been constructed In AM
hcrst county The Lynchburg News
tells US about this gathering.
The encouraging feature or the
meeting OF yesterday Is that Amherst
county, which was a leader in tho
work or good roads building, mas
found the results so encouraging that
It's people are ready and anxious to
vote another bond issue of consider
ably larger proportions that the sys-
tom OF permanent modern highways
may be extended all oyer the county.
The meeting at Amherst Courthouse
yesterday morning was a. business
meeting pure and simple. II was the
meeting OF a people who had learned
in the school of experience that 1t
pays to have modern roadways in
their county, and they came to tho
meeting with their decision made up
Ito continue the work. That their
ends Will be achieved and that shortly
Is foregone conclusions.
Therctts one point that was distinct
sly brought out by the meeting at Ans
herst Courthouse yesterday. and that
is an absolutely unqualinedly vindtca-
ton of the claims or the advocates
of good roads. Amherst county was
the pioneer county to issue bonds for,
good roads. The first issue was $780,
goo. The money resulting from this
issue was spent iudiciously and under
the advice OF experienced road en-
gineers. The work of building the
roadways was Entrusted to skilled con-.
tractors, assisted by State labor, and
the work has been wen done No
money has been misspent, and there is
no charge that any of 1t has been
wasted. On the contrary, taxable
values lave been increased along the
whole distance of the new thorough
fares; the people OF Amherst have
tasted of the convenience and bene-
fits of good roads and to-day they
are Overwhelmingly in favor OF Issuing
more bonds for roadways even before
all OF the proceeds OF the first Issue
had actually been paid out.
They have the progressive spirit
those Amherst folks. and II they build
more good roads like that near Lynch
burg they Will become the banner
county of the Commonwealth
( Here, again. is an example OF the
fact that once you construct GOOD
thoroughfarcs in a county, it's people
are not satisfied until they build more.
More good roads is the cry in the
counties that have them
In the case Of little Joe. Brown.
the Governor of Georgia, it appears 20
be pretty is rs pretty does The
Hoke Smith people. we are informed
~ the Macon Telegraph. mo- longer
sheer at the looks OF Brown. No
onger ask have you seen hin?' No
onger charge men;a. incapacity. and
10 longer insinnatc ugly and nas.y
.hings, They seem to have cut thei,
,Se-teeth. 50 to say. in the matter OF
tecency. II they had a ,nodicun Of
political wisdom. they would not make
he hopeless fight in which they are
low engaged. As we look at it from,
he outside, Georgia has had its stom-
lch fun OF Hoke.
Has anybody seen Cromer, Cromer
Il Alabama? What will he do after
lie leaves the Governors ONCE? ne
nd Hoke Smith and Ham" Patterson
night organize another zweibund.
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Speaking Of that thought parallel IN
he matter OF suspense" in the Grip
zen case, we would say to the alwa,
Yirginian-Pilot that per-
laps we received our thought by tele-
athy, as we are always receptive to
What our contemporary sends out In
he form of "thouSht-waves.''
".The greatest literature" says COL
ler's Weekly, us written in verse;
Tot so; a thousand times not so. Col
ler's Weekly is not written in verse.
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Evidently there are some connois-
eurs In Norfolk. A man down there
as just received some Imported
cotch whiskey, twenty-five gallons Of
!, at twenty-five dollars the gallon. 4
his is eight dollars the quart. whyij
idn't he buy liquid gold and be done
18th IT?
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The Augusta County Argus dis
uses at length this week personal"
nd "impcrsonal" journalism. II con-
ludes thus: 'Gentlemanlys Journalism
oes with personal journalism ana If
ne cannot fill the bill in this par
Icular he should get out as unworthy
nd a disgrace to the profession
tight!
1t was only a voice ever the telr-
'hone a few minutes before 2 o'clock
estcrday. the voice OF some unknown
erson with a grievance; but It sound
d for all the world as ifNit might
ave belonged 10 Gala CHER, the as
ASSN who tried to murder Mayor
iaynor, There are lots OF his sort all
Yer the country, and they all belong
o the genus sneak
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Unlike the Hon. James J.gJeffries,' II
ne HAMPTON Monitor says, " nited