The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-05-31
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take lo deny lhel good roads are
boon tp any community The geoa
roads movement is inel beginning Ia
Texas and elections a. determine
neither bonds shali be- issued for
their construction afe being planned
fof ia cyefg section ~ the state
Eliis county is the pioneer ln
road building under tine upN law
Which makes 81 possible for counties
to be- subdiudod for the purpose of
issuing bonds The WaAahachle dis
trict was the FIRST one created iu
Texas under that law The work
achieved by this district has been re-
gafded as something marvellous by
good roads experts The roads CON
nructed IN this district are looked
upon as being the best in the state
and when other counties take hold
Of the idea of improving their high
ways a delegation OF prominent citi-
zens Is invariably sent here 10 in
spect the pixies The latest deieRa-
tion 20 come on a mission of that
kind was composed OF about forty
citizens of Bell county, who arrived
here Tuesday afternoon, made a trip
over the roads aud attended an edu-
cational meeting at the Elks club
that night The trip was made in au-
tomobiies and on account of acct
| dents one or two OF the machines
| were late In arriving The ear con
| veyinE President Lanham of th'
| Temple GOOD Roads A asocfatfon did
nor get here until . O'Clock at night
This trip was planned and conduct
ed by the Temple Commercial club.
The secretary OF the club WIN NJ.
Woodall, came along with the dele
CATION The election in the Temple
district has been ordered for July !,
and the amount of bonds to be voted
on is 100000 There are sixteen
voting boxes in the proposed district
II was originally planned to bring
three voters from each voting pre-
cinct. two of whom were opposed to
the issuance of bonds for the i'm
provement of the highways of that
county When the party departed for
home Wednesday morning the num-
Der of opponents to the good roads
was greatly reduced. Some of those
who came here were bitterly preju-
diced against good roads but they
had not been in the city three hours
before they were converted and re-
turned home as enthusiastic over
the proposition as were those who
have been leading the campai n in
Bell county Those who made the
trip over the roads here declared
they were the best they had ever
seen and that they were going home
to work in dead earnest for the
bond proposition.
After an inspection trip had been
made over the roads the party re-
turned to the Rogers hotel for sup
per Later in the evening they as
sembled in the Elks' club and lis
tened to a most entertaining adj
dress by Judge O. f. Dunlap, presi-
dent of the Citizens National bank
Mayor e. b. Prince presided and eX-
tended a few words of welcome to
the visitors He then introduced
Judge Dunlap, who said he was glad
to greet the citizens from Bell
county. He said Ellis and Bell were
closely related by reason of the fact
that both were organized the same
year, in 1850 He said Bell county
was little larger in area than Ell
lis, but that the agricultural pro-
ducts of the two counties were about
the same. According to the last cen
sus the population Of Bell increased
about per cent while that of Ellis
| increased about s per cent He said
| the possibilities for the increase IN
population in the two counties with
| in the next ten years were beyond
the dreams of the most visionary
Judge Dunlap then took up the
question of transportation and said
! that the proposition of getting the
! products of the farm to market was
| one of the biggest problems that now
confronts the counties of this state.
/ He spoke of the changed conditions
and said people were beginning to
wake up to the need of better high
! ways. In referring to the law under
which counties may be subdivided
4 Judge Dunlap said he regarded this
as one of the most important pieces
I of legislation ever enacted by the
/ legislature OF this state He said that
under the old law this county would
never have succeeded in authorizing
I bonds for the construction of good
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