The Adair County news., 1913-03-05
A Voice from Marion.
Feb, 2 1913.

Feb, 2 1913.
Editor News
Some folks will say it's not Cager's
business to NEEDLE with the affairs OF
Adair county, but think differently,
for l have more relatives and friends
in Adair than any other county. AS
for the good roads and bond issue, L
have lived long enough to know that
just about what we pay for is what
we get. The same will apply to good
roads. If man wants a good road
from his home out to the pike in this
county, he builds it or pays for it.
The same will apply in Adair county.
If you all want good roads all over the
county, then all must unite and pay
% cents on the 500 and you can soon
have good roads, and then in time
with the natural benefits of good de-
rived from having good roads, the
debt will be easier paid each year.
Even if the next generation has to
finish paying the debt, they will thank
us for what we have done, and never
know the difference in paying taxes,
for they can pay so much easier with
good roads to travel over.
When l start to 60 through Green,
Metcalfe and Adair, the roads are all
dread, and they are simply some
thing awful at this season.
We have in Marion county l20 miles
of pike supposed to cost $1,000 per
mile. We have six pixies going out of
Lebanon, and chen cross pixies all
through the county, and we would not
sell our pixies to-day and go back to
roads like you have in the three coun-
ties mentioned above, not for $1,000 a
mile. We haul 5000 to 5000 pounds
with 2 horse team, and l suppose you
have same on C-ville pike to Column
bia, then it takes three loads to get
one load out to Gradyville.
The people of Adair county certain
Iy don't realize what good roads would
be worth to them.
The 100000 spent by the people
and for the people and paid to the
people in your own county, and all
this money earned by the same peo-
pie, goes right back into the same
pockets except the working man does
the work and gets the pay more than
the men who pay most of the taxes.
Think these thingsoyer for yourself.
Don't listen to any body. Wake up
and think and then think again and
again, and see for yourself. Realize
it is your own county, your own taxes,
your own roads. 1t never gets out of
the family-not one dollar of the
money will leave Adair county except
for the machinery to do the work
with.
AS for placing yourself as Taylor and
Green county are now, that is not
worth naming, because the case is en-
tirely different. Their money goes
out the county to corporations and for
a Railroad that benefits only a few.
100 miles of good road in Adair county
would benefit every man, woman and
child in the county, black and white.
When the 100000 has been spent in
Adair county in the next two or three
years to build 100 miles of road, L
mean pixies, and all that money paid
20 the working people of the county.
they would be better off than they
have ever been, the most of the work
eeing done between crop seasons.
Then as before stated the rising gen
Grafton will pay the debt easy Oh ac-
count of facilities and value of good
roads.
Now if have overstepped the line
by this writing | beg pardon for it is
because | love Adair county AMI her
people and will always feel an interest
in their good. When l cease TO feel an
interest in my home county it will be
when l have crossed over Oh the other
side.
ReSpt.,