The Green Forest tribune., 1913-08-08
EVERYBODY ADS IN
 BUILDING HIGHWAY
MoRRlLTON STORES AND BusL NESS OFFICES CLOSE ON
 ROAD DAY.
1 500 RESPOND TO THE CALL
V hile Men Work, Women and chih dren Wait on Them-23 Miles
 Built.
Western Newspaner Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Morrilton-Fifteen hundred men re- sponded to the call of County Judge J. w. Johnston last week and spent 8 day working on the road between Nor ri1ton and MartinYilIe As a result, Conway county can now boast of 23 miles of dirt road as good as any in the state. The workmen were aided by 125 teams with graders and scrap CTS, and more than 300 women and children assisted in the movement by furnishing dinner, carrying water and running errands. Every business house in Morrilton was closed for the entire day and hardly an able-bodied man re- mained in the city.
 Many of the business men left the city the night before and camped along the route of the proposed work and at i o'clock in the morning Representa- tive Carroll Armstrong threw the first shovelfull of dirt. Wagons loaded with workmen and tools, commenced leav- ing Morrilton at o'clock, and from then until 7:30 the exodus continued. The s o'clock automobiles loaded with women and filled with lunch baskets started out by parallel reads, coming into the worked road at various points, where dinner was spread for the work men.
 Judge Johnston ordered every road overseer in the county to report on the road from Martinville to Morrilton with teams, machinery and tools and the road was divided into sections with one of these experienced road build. CTS directing the workmen every mile and a half.
 Every township in the county is pro vided with road grader, three teams and scrapers, and these, in addition to the free labor and tools made the work progress remarkably fast.
 The road project started in Morrill, | ton when a mass meeting of the busi- ness men was called and the project outlined by Judge Johnston. It was enthusiastically received by all and as. q result the One Day Road AssQciae tion was formed with an initial mem- bership of more than 100. A member ship committee was appointed and at the next meeting, three days later.
 reported more than 100 additional members from the city.
 Morriiton's business men have fos- | tered and put through many projects for the betterment of the county, but in this course they were unanimously united. Business and professional men rot only went out and did a hard Gay's work themselves, but hired extra workmen and teams to assist. Spring field, Martinville and Hill Creek resi- dents also joined in the movement, and did thei< full share of the work The road from Morrilton to Martin vile was considered the worst in the county, and to complete a good road, | three miles of practically new road had to be built. At one place wood en bridge 35 feet long was built, and l fills made on both sides of it for a distance of more than 300 feet, at some | places more than five feet deep Sev- eral other small bridges were put in. | fills made, trees cut down and stumps blown out
 Business men who had not done C
 hard days manual labor for many years, but who had become rich in the mercantile world, worked side by side with the laborers.