The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-13
SOMETHING DOING
IN AMELIA COUNTY
Continued From, Second parcl

! continued from SECOND rage
labor problem and the scarcity of farm
! hands.
Il Is Mr.. Mehaney's purpose TO make
| Paradise Farms" and that IL the new
name to the 615 acres, corn and alfalfa
| farms. with potatoes and other readily
| salablo vegetables and grains az side
| issues for pin money. Corn and alfalf;,
| farms Well. that means beef and dairy
cattle. hogs and sheep. for the corn
and alfalfa. with other grasses viii be
| but raw material to be manufactured
! right here on the place into beer. bacon.
mutton. butter. "tc. " win take time
to make paradise Farms" all OF This,
but Judging from the strictly business
and eminentiy successful start that has
| been mode nm sure il Will bc only
= short time.
Speaking OF tho labor proposition:
! end in this small and progressive
eigh6orhood that what ia termed tho
annual wage and bonus system pre-
| walls. ! am not sure. but should not
wonder IL MehafTcv brought il from
| ohio Intelligent. upright ard am
bilious Young white men arc employ ed
! and paid so much per month in addt-
ton to board and then a contract ia
entered into that If tho young man
makes good-that is 10 SAY. makes his
employers business his own. his om-
Dloyer's best interest mis- own and
works and accompiishcs things ac-
i cOFOlnCI:---nc is 10 De iI9iU a. the
end OF the year an additional amount
Dor month. say, So per month. as q
Bonus. and that comes al the end OF
the year In a lump sum. il Ito has
made good. The bonus system works
@cl so far.
word about the roads in this coun-
~. As is probably we'll known by
Inany readers of The Times Dispatch
Amelia County has been backward IN
The matter Of good road making. y
majority of the people have for one
reason OF another been opposed to
/ either count: or district bond issues
10 raise fund for improved roads.
and they have depended entirely on
the usual road tax and county levy
| for road work Perhaps ! am taking
some personal risl, In saying It, but
| | do believe the up-to-date farmers
| in this circumscribed neighborhood are
| more progressive than their ncighbors
In other sections OF the county and II
they could have their way Amelia
would soon vote bond Issue and build
good roads all through all of the dis
| tricts The grounds for this belief
| are herewith given: The men Of this
neighborhood being progressive In all
| things determined to have at least
some good road to travel and haul
! things over. They got all the money
/ their district was entitled to from tho
| county treasury and then went down
/ INTO their pockets TO Increase the fund
| sufficiently to get out OF the mud. They
/ subscribed literally TO tho fund. and
! thus five miles OF as good sand clay
highway arc TO be found in BRUINS
I wick, Luncnburc. Nottoway. Mecklen-
burg or any Of tn" other progressive
! good road counties OF Virginia. These
4 five miles are known AS the Cicnito and
! MattoaX Roads and people have jour
! neyed horc from all parts of the county
7, TO see them. It has been said that the
/ best good road maker In the world is
a good road. This has proven true
/ hero. The people who came to see the
Genito and MattoaX Roads have become
believers in improved highways. The
! first result of this awakening was the
/ engagement from the state OF large
/ force Of convicts. nifty or moro, which
all Of the past summer have. been max :
/ ing roads in the other districts Of the
county. and I ana sure. from what I