Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-08-09
Zachary WANTS WIDER ROADS.
He Has to Take the Tall Timber Too
Overwhelmingly Time.

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Seneca, r. II. D. No. 3, Aug. s.
Editor Courier: 1t looks this morn
ing that we are at the beginning of
a continued wet spell, as it is now
raining and the clouds from the
south. This will end all farm work
so far as cotton and corn are con-
cerned, and we will enter on that
good old-time custom of Laying by"
Well, 1T Is time to have a few days Of
recreation after bearing the heat and
toll through June and July with the
mercury ranging around 100 degrees.
But now the good time mas come
when we can have time to enjoy our
papers, and visit our neighbors, eat
watermelons and discuss who has
the best acre of corn, Of which there
are good many, both demonstra-
ton and individual. There seems to
be q spirit pervading the whole COM
munity to see who can have the best
corn, and we have some very fine
patches in this section. Somebody
IN the upper part of the county is
going to get beat.
You will pardon me, as am di-
crossing from what | wanted to say.
While going to Seneca a few days
since l saw some fresh dirt thrown
In the road, which reminded me that
the county officials were yet alive.
Everything has been so quiet since
the famous election, that l did not
know whether they had come out of
their hiding place or not. Well, we
stood by them, and will do it again
II there Is another uncalled-for act
passed by the Legislature. The ac-
ton on the part Of the voters proves
that they are satisfied with the pres
ent county government We have al
ready tried the township government
and found it to be farce. Why
go back into the old rut and clog up
again?
Now, as the present admnistra-
ton Is In power for the two years
that they were elected for, let us as
citizens do all we can to help them
develop the county. The time has
come when we are compelled to have
more road-not longer, but wider
as TINS Is the day Of automobiles, of
which there seems to have been a
full crop hatched this spring. It Is
getting to be unsafe for ladies to-
travel the roads alone, as many of
the drivers run at speed of thirty
or forty miles an hour, and it seems
that some Of them think all the road
belongs to them. For my part, they
get 1t, and ] am out in the cotton
field, thicket or in the ditch, which is
not calculated to improve any ones
temper.
Now we hope the county board
Will help us out Of this dilemma by
widening the main roads of the coun-
ty to from twenty-five to thirty feet,
thereby getting rid Of the bitches and
banks along the highways to hold
the water in the road, or convey It
on some other persons land. | want
to say right here that no one has the
right to cut bitches, or build banks,
on the public road, and then cry out
| IN aHoud voice and say, y am in
taNoTpt GOOD roads and tho up-build-
inc oN my county"
| 49, N SIS, commissioners, let
us i.tve a widening out, tearing
dow banks, filling up bitches, and
setting back telephone posts. Come
down and let the good work com
mence In Providence district. We
will give you hearty welcome.
With profound respect for the
board, | remain, yours for good
| roads, JR Zachary