The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-02
JULY 10 AND fl
 WAS SUGGESTED
TWO DAYS FOR BUILDING OF THE HOT sPRlNGS-MT. IDA CON
 NEcTlNG LINE.
People of Montgomery County Will Call Meeting When Judge Thur ston p. Farmer Will be
 Present.

Judge Thurston F. Farmer has au- thorized Hon. Clip Witt of Montgom cry county, to call a meeting of the road building enthusiasts of Mont gomery county for any convenient date after the Confederate Reunion in Little Rock. when the final plans for building the Hot Springs-Mt. Ida rc adway will be taken up and passed on. Judge Farmer announced that he would visit Mt. Ida and attend the meeting whenever it was held.
 The Montgomery County Times in d cates that the people of that end of the proposed roadway believe they can complete the work in two days. Here is what it says.
 South Fork township has taken the first step in the preparation of plans for the great road making hoi- days Monday and Tuesday, July 10 and II
 An informal preliminary meeting of leadintg citizens and business men of South Fork township was held in Mt Ida last Saturday afternoon. II was intended that this should be friendly gathering of men who have lthe interests of the entire country at heart, and with this feeling of good will in their midst, it was impossible to formulate definite plans without first consulting the citizens of every community on each side of the road from Mt. Ida to the western edge of c rland county
 Therefore. no business was trans acted and no organization was per fected. A good road from Mt. Ida to Hot Springs was the theme of harmo- nious discussion, but the prime object of the meeting was to extend fra 1 ternal invitation to all of the good citizens of South Fork, Center, Cry stal and Bear townships to join us in discussing and formulating plans which will eventually make this great highway an assured fact
 We are anxious to complete the road in two days, and. in order to ac- complish this. we need the harmonious cooperation of every ablebodied man residing in the townships materially benefited.
 The work will be easy, but the or gan.zation of the forces to accomplish it will be difficult
 For this reason the citizens of Mt. Ida have taken the initiative by issu- ing call for mass meeting of the residents in the vicinity of Dilce. Sil- yer Fir Crystal and Bear, to be held in the Joplin school house on Satur- day. May 20.
 This call is indorsed by every good citizen of South Fork township, with Hon. Gibson Witt. G. H. Speer. J. R. Howell c. J. Watkins, w A Brakefield. Dr. w. D. Freeman, |. L. Beavers, D. Peters, WI. l. Howell w. D. Sandlin. J. NJ. Scott. J. D. Wilmington, Dr. r.. s Kennedy William Alley and George Sherman as their spokesmen.
 At this meeting free discussion will be granted, organization will be effected, viewers and road captains will be appointed local meetings for the various districts will be arranged, blanks for the signature of voluntary laborers will be prepared. and solici. tors to secure these signatures will be appointed.
 Mt Ida business men have already agreed to close their places of busi- ness on these two great road building holidays and there is no doubt that all other work will be suspended from Mt. Ida to Bear, when the sigma passes along the line for the great work to begin.
 Five hundred able-b bodied men. and a porportionate number of horses, wagons and scrapers, will complete this great highway in two days.
 Garland county offers the use of It's road-making tools. and, we arc told, they have even granted the services of their best overseers
 The work Is as good as accomplish ed and before the August term of the circuit court We shall have, between Mt. Ida and Hct Springs. one of the best highways in the state"