The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-08-11
Good Roads Convention.

ISOLATION will meet at the court
house next Saturday at IL.
O o'clock to perfect a permanent
organization. The committee ap-
pointed consisting of Mr.. w. P.
Bane, chairman of the board Of
county commissioners, Mr.. P. F.
Patton, chairman of the board of
road supervisors and Prof W. s..
Shitle, chairman of the board of
education, have been actively
STRIVING to arouse interest In this
laudable undertaking for next
Saturday They have become In
touch with various school commit
tees throughout the county, and
eventually this will mean the or
ganization of townships for good
roads.
Following is timely article
from the Spring Hope Leader,
which will be of material benefit
to all who may read it, as it is
without doubt from the facile
pen of one who has bad roads to
contend with:
TEN GOOD ROADS COMMANDS
MENTS.
Il. Thou shalt everlastingly
keep at the good work, and let
nothing discourage thee.
2. Tack thou board over
those treaeherous holes in bridges
and thereby save the bones of
both thine and thy neighbors
valuable horses.
3. Thou shalt trim out all
brush and hedgerows bordering
the road, and the. sun and the
wind of thy Creator may keep
thine highway dry, and that pass
ers-by may not be suffocated un-
to death.
4. The noble drag being thy
handiest and most efficient wea-
pom, thou shalt WELD it twice a
week at the very least, and once
every day will be so much better.
Blessed is the man who useth the
drag for his fellow mans sake.
5. Thou shalt open all drain
bitches at the side of the road
bordering thy farm, lest the wat
er collect in low places and from
a mure In which thou or thy neigh
Dor may get stuck, whereupon the
recording angel hstenenth with
great pity to wicked works and
swapping of the whip.
6. Toss thou those aggravat-
ing and damaging stones from the
track of thine highway; for thou
| grittest thy teeth in anger and
thinkest wicked sayings when thy
vehicle striketh them. And they
do knock the stufing right out
of thy buggie and wagon wheels.
| Likewise do they trouble and in
June the noble horses.
/ z. IF thy neigbor be shirker
and doeth not his full share OF
| improving the roads, let not this
put a damper on thine enthusi.
tsm, but rather get a good exam.
pie and show by thy works that
thou art truly an honest "boos-
ter" and not hanger-on. Then
shall thy neighbor blush with
shame and fell constrained to fol.
low thy shining example.
8. When thou drivest to town
put thy spade in the buggy. Ii
thy cometh to one of those ruts
which do cause thee and thy
neighbor to swear when passing
over, fill thou it with few spade
fuls of dirt. Thy neighbors will
bless thee for it, and thou mayest
save big repair bill on thine own
vehicle. And the low places al
the approaches to bridges, thou
shalt treat in like manner with
the same good effect.
/ 9. IF thou has been guilty
of throwing brush or any kind OF
trash into one of those small
drains bitches along thy farm GO
thou straighway and remove the
obstruction. Or if thy neighbo1
has committed a like offense thou
shalt intercede with him till he
| also removes those hindrances and
opens up the bitches. For a road
with bitches across it, or down
| the main track, is an abomination
| and course in the sight of every
mortal who laboriously travels
over it.
| 10. Do thou all this and as
much more as seemeth good
Preach thou to thy neighbor, and
to thy neighbours son, that good
roads are never a happen-so, not
a vegetable that springeth up in
a single night, but that they are
natural result of mortal man &
untiring efforts. And remember
thou these points.