Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-11-27
Boone Way Campaign in
South East Kentucky.

the campaign IN South East Ken
lucky. Tuesday night they met
with the Commercial Club at Lon
don and had speaking at the court
house "Wednesday There were
good LooS.ers present at 9th
meetings; lmOng them were L. A.
Pollard, II. ]. Mo Ell, W. h. POyn
ter. H. Y. Pennington, Il. Boyd,
f.. W. Hackn( y, { clarence }. Sip
pie, W. R. Hackney, w. c. Kehr,
J. b. Eberle!n, Judge Brown and
j W. Feltner, who gladly joined
the State Good Roads Associa-
ton and enlisted in the fight to
push Laurel to the front In the
work of constructing Boone Way
through the county. The men,
bership is expected to be increas-
ed to forty working boosters.
They intend to prt secute q cam
paign throughout the county and
have the Fiscal Court take action
i'll the matter similar to that of the
Rockcastle Magistrates.
The clmpaigners held a meet
ing with the Cor lin Commercial
Club Wednesday night when the
gospel Of good roads and the
manner Of securing state aid was
delivered and described to eager
and attentive listeners. Ten Of
the progressive citizens joined the
Association whose mission was
explained to be an organ ization
with headquarters at Louisville
whose aim and purpose was the
dissemination of information la all
the counties OF the state on the
subject Of state aid and its man
ner of working. The list of the
Corbin live viii es who C st their
lot with the Kentucky Good Road
Association and the Boone Way
Boosters, are as follows: Dr.. j
H. Parker. b. j. Edwards, James
Downing, James T. Nelson, w
Fl Gambler, II. j. Ballard, l.. J.
Ballard. Chas. E. Nelson, l. N.
Bryant and E. L. Skinner. Many
more will add their names to the
roster. Everybody in Cerbin hs.
taken the road fever. Mr.. Wood:
IN his talks, explained that there
we're three ways in which state ale
can be secured: By either bono
issue, ia zation or private sub
scription, or bva com bination O
two or all three of the plans. He
further stated that when the mon
ey was placed in the hands of tn,
Fiscal Court the state will advanc,
an equal amount as put up by thu
county no matter in what m anne
the court raises the funds. II
county, however can receive NOR
than per cent of the state roa'
fund in one year which will be i
the neighborhOod of SI2, 900 an
the same amount each fOllOwin
year. It is calculated that th
$ cent tax lev ed by the late &C
of the legislature will be 5000. 90
. per year The state furn ishe
engineers to survey and lOcat
: roads, make plans and estimate
without cost to the cOuntie:
Where a county does not take ad
vantage of opportunity to secur
this state aid the 5 cent tax
= pays into the state road fund WI
be used to assist in buildin
:, roads in those counties whic
J. make application and meet tt
conditions of the road law. The s
1 roads are let out by contrac
and bonds are required OF contra
= ors. The construction is under II
supervision of the state and e
erything connected therewi
m ust be properly carried out
u contractors thereby assuring fir
class roads. Jefferson county W
= pay into the state road fund $12(
] 00h per year and can only dra
e out SI2, 600. so it is seen the rio
re er counties will aid the less &c
D tunate portions of the State
D. The COrbin boosters are wor
ing on the plan of having Boo
Way DETECTED from the Car
D. Ground route and brought tn
this place from London, thence
to Grays and Barbourville. Tt
put up the strong argument Il
the road is already graded FRI
London to Corbin over the alb;
!. doned robbed of the l. & N.
u whole distance, except posi-
three miles, 1t is magnifc
g grade, six miles of which is