The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-01-25
CAMPBELLSVILlE
STREET.
Discrimination Of City Council in
Passing Ordinances for I'm.
prOVemeRES.
SIDE WALKS AND MORE LIGHTS NEEDED

The people residing in other parts of
the town who have nice concrete side
walks up to the very doors of their
houses and plenty Of light to guide their
footsteps on dark nights, have very
little idea Of what the people on the
Campbellsville pike have 10 contend
with along this line, especially during
the winter months The inhabitants of
the East end and those residing along
the Comprehensive pike are compelled
to wade the mud and slop most of the
time during the winter and the dust
sometimes ankle deep during the sum-
mer months to get to and from their
houses. There are no sidewalks beyond
the cemetery on the Campbelsville
pike and when persons get to the end
of that they can go down the hillside
and take the mud the balance of the
way, when there is mud and dust when
there is dust. On every other main
road leading out of town there is con
crete sidewalks on at least one side to
the city limits, and the number of
lights will double those on the Camp
bellsville pike The question is why is
it that the city council is so partial to
certain sections of the town, when pass
ing ordinances requiring the build
ing of sidewalks and the installing of
more lights We need two more lights
beyond the Russell creek bridge on the
C-ville pike and we need sidewalks onat
least one side of the pike to the town
limits just like the other roads have.
The citizens in that part of the town
pay their taxes every year to help make
Improvements and fix conveniences for
people in other sections of the city 1t
is not fair and just, and if the town
Board will do the right thing it will see
that we have sidewalks and lights to
the town limits on the Campbellsville
pike Just like all the other main streets
leading out of town have 1t is a poor
law that does not effect every citizen
alike, and the property owners along
the pike should fare just as the
other citizens of the town have. If
they will not build their sidewalks
without being forced to, there are five
mighty rulers of men in Columbia who
have compelled people to do things and
they can do it again if necessary. 1t is
a fact that live just over the corporate
limits, but am here most of the time,
however. ! have close relatives and
friends who pay town taxes on property
and besides this all the people living
along the pike as well as those in the
mill district, with possibly few excep-
lions will stand behind me in what |
have said in this article, and again we
people down there are just as worthy
of some of the Improvements made by
the expenditure of public money as the
citizens of any other section of the
town. 1t is true that one member OF
the city council resides on the G. vile
pike and another resides on a street
that intersects the pike, but it is safe
to say that both of these gentlemen
will be heartily in favor of any ordi-
nance brought before the council upon
the question of sidewalks and lights for
that part of tine city, and it is to be
hoped that before many months have
passed the city council viii see that We
get the improvements we ought to have
along the pike and other places in that
community in the way of sidewalks,
lights, &c.
Fred Mclean