The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-07-27
State Highway Commissioner
Launches Movement for Bet
ter Highways in Grady
County
TO AFFILIATE WITH
NAT. ORGANIZATION
Local Club Starts With a Small
Membership but Expects to
Grow Officers and
Directors Elected

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Col. Sidney suggs, state highway com.
missioner officers and directors Of the
Grady County Good Roads association
were elected as follows:
Geo. W Caldwell, president; r. NJ.
Cochran, secretary w. S. Kilgore,
treasurer; Dr. e. L. Dawson, vice sses-
ident; executive committee. j. II.
Miller 3. g Loyeioy Charles Rey-
nolds, NJ + Ikard, J, B. Burton.
The association was organized with
- members, but Col suggs says that
from that number he expects this as-
ISOLATION to grow into a large working
force for good roads. The people Of
Ninnekah have expressed a desire to
get into such an organization and they
will now have the opportunity.
Col. suggs, as state highway com
missioner, is organizing county good
roads or highway associations. and IN
hts work along this line he hopes to
further the interests OF the stare by
these organizations
1t is pointed out that il we are to
get any assistance from the national
capital we must first organize and
then we are force with something
back Of the undertaking. That high
way building Is no longer a local az
fair, confined only 10 township road
building and improvements Is set
tied fact; It - now more than county
wide, state wide, or even district
wide. but it has become a national
movement, and Oklahoma cannot al.
ford to be lelt out Of this movement,
neither can Grady county
II we are TO get any Of the money
that will be appropriated by the ma
tional congress for public highways
and we certainly hope TO get It. We
must first get together and get an
insight TO the road needs OF our com
munity, and get from among us a man
or men who can look into and after
these matters and get him IN the state
meetings, then into the district anu
naf nal meetings, and thereby have
representation. says Col suggs
The time is not TAR distant when
Mr.. Land Owner win have to answer
some questions before he rents his
land the time is coming when it viii
be as hard 70 rent out a farm tnat
rs inaccessible as Il is now to rent a
dwelling house In an unpaved district
OF the city The tilier OF the soil, the
man with the hoe is beginning to look
after his opportunity TO market his
products after lie has raised them as
surely and az carefully as he ooks
after getting place to raise them.
A club has been organized In Chick
asha; It has a very small beginning,
but from this number Of members It
Is possible II our people win only see
the necessity Of II to build a large
organization, aud the number that arc
now in the association are going to
use every means at hand to build ar
a strong organized force with a great
number OF members. It requires 80
members to obtain a charter from the
state association. and after that rum
Der has been secured then an moneys
coming into the association VIII be
long to The association. except The 81
per year each for 30 members, for tn,
maintenance Of the state association
Each member IS given free subscrip
tion to the associations Good Roadi
magazine which Is OF itself wen wortl
81 per year
r. NJ Cochran secretary Of the as
sociation, SAYS
There are numerous and sundrl
ways by which roads may be improved
and almost any kind of improvement
IN this county would be better thai
present conditions, but there does no
have to be IN each locality a suppl
Of any one material for road building
as many materials can be used an
used to great good and profit to tn
neighbofhood, and 10 get the benefi
Of these natural resources 1t is onl
necessary to get our people organize
and TO using their mental powers an
the work viii start