The Sentinel=record., 1911-06-21
MONTGOMERY CD.
 IS ENTHUSIASTIC
RECOGNIZES THE GENEROUS AID OF HOT SPRINGS FOR THE
 MT. IDA HIGHWAY.
Will Do Their Full Share to Promote and Complete the Inter County
 Roadway.

Department of Agriculture at Wash
 ngton aas promised an expert road builling engineer to survey and lay out the new hghway:N
 Colonel Elias w. Rector, of Hot Springs, has started the ball rolling oy heading our cash subscription blank with donation of $l00. This sum, will be given for the improvement of the Hot Springs to Mt. Ida road. on the condition that the highway will be of a permanent character and built under the direction of capable engineer.
 Secretary George Bedding, of the Eiot Springs Business Mems Leagu 3, has assured Mir. sherman, secretary Of the Cool Roads Association, that he will be able to raise from s40O to $500 on similar conditions.
 Then, besides these assurances oi cash, We have positive promise from Judge Farmer Of Garland county, that he will secure for us the use of be- tween thirty and forty scrapers and three modern road graders, all Of these tools and implements to be supplied free of charge and placed along tAes proposed read st such points as the engineer and the road captains may direct. This latter courtesy extended to us by Garland county is a greater sacrifice than most of our readers realize. It means that these implements must be gath erel up from the sixteen road dis tricts of Garland county. placed on wagons and hauled over many miles of rough roads to be placed at our convenience. And then, after the
 work of the two great road building days is done, all of these implements will again be gathered up and re- turned to the various districts from
 whence they came
 Do you realize that this means aa expenditure of several hundred dollars on the part of Garland county for. the betterment of the roads in Mont gomery county.
 In consideration of all of these kind offers of assistance from our most friendly anu generous neighbor, it is incumbent upon every able-boded man residing in the entire territory adjacent to this highway to come for
 ward and sign his name, agreeing to perform two days of voluntary labor on July 24 and 25, or to donate the use of teams or wagons, either or both, as they see fit. We are glad to report that numbers have already shown their interest in this great work, but to accomplish the results for which we are striving we still need hundreds of signatures.
 The members of the executive com mittee urge upon every holder of a petition for voluntary services to get busy at once and secure the twenty signatures required to fill the blanks
 Let us at least show Garland county that we have sufficient pride in our own welfare to merit the unbounded interest she has shown toward US.
 South Fork township proposes to come out to man. On these two great road working days all good l citizens IT business men, bankers, clerks, lawyers, doctors, editors, farm- CTS and laborers propose to come out and affiliate on a comioon level, in unanimous response to the dictates and commands of our respective road captains.
 All persons oliing petitions are re- spectfully urged and requested TO send full sheets of signatures to George Sherman. secretary, at Mt. | Ida, before July i, in order to give the executive committee ample time to compile the names for the use of the engineer and road captains.
 A response to letter written by the secretary, requesting the sery- ices of governent road expert, was received from Honorable Ben Cra- yens several days ago. It was full of assurances, and We are now pract!- cally certain that we will secure the presence of one of these experts to assist us in laying out the roai. Ne sotiations for an engineer are also but as this matter is al- most entirely in the hands of Judge Farmer of Garland county, we will be inable to make a report until after he first meeting of the executive committee. which will probably be ield some time next week.
 We expect to have one of the best 'oads in the state before August l. f we fail t will be because you have .hsfked vour dutv ag a citizen and be-