The Cairo bulletin., 1914-04-05
Aaaociation of Commerce and Auto
mobile Club Making Elaborate
Preparations for April l5
LADIES INVITED TO
GRACE THE OCCASION
Barbecue to Be Served to the Hungry
Horde at Noon-A Whole
Steer.

Good Reads Day, designated by
| Gcverncr Dunno as April 18th, VIII
/ be celebrated in Cairo, and celebrat-
| Cd right The Cairo Association Of
CCrmerce mas taken hold of 1t with
| its usual prosressiveness and the
forces. ably led by w. F. Crossley,
! President of the Cairo Automobile
club, are making plans to do real
work, rot to have just a useless celc-
| bratioa. but to tackle that bad piece
of roal between Paticrdalc and the
Cache bridge and do things to it.
Telsgrams and long distance calls
have been sent out in effort to secure
a Russc' Road Plancr for the day,
land it is expected that the manu-
| facture,s viii lend the use of orc
cf thoir machines, as the Asso2a-
tion has offered to ray the freight
both ways and it will be good ad
vortisament for the machine even ii
| 1t !s not sold here.
+ Road Commissioner Kesslcr IS
busy locking up all the county equif-
ment 20 see what can he made OF
service and no detail Of the prcps"a
tory work is being neglected.
| Whether the overalls have been or
dered has not been stated, the great
assortment of sizes which will oe
necessary may tax the stocks of the
LEGAL merchants to considerable &C.
gree.
Arrangements for the barbecue
are being made and it is the inten-
/ tion to ask the cooperation Of the
ladies through the Cairo Woman's
club and it is hoped that they Viii
lena their presence upon the ocoa-
sion AMI add grace to the serving of
the barbecue. A whole steer will be
roasted over pit with charcoal
fire in the most approved fashion
1 Ii III tSSioll mas btHH SIdulcu ~
Oscar Herbert, to use the grou0ds
at the half way house and the hur-
CRY laborcrs will be fed there ut
noon, Il is hoped that their rep2st
will be rendered by the fair hands
of the ladies AMI that they will t..
spurrcd to the utmost exertion by
the encouragement of these same
ladies.
| dispatch from aurora, H..
states that twenty mllionaires viii
don Dveralls and work on the roads
there on Good Roads Day and that
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor has
issued Union cards to the volunteer
workers, who will be paid by chects
Of one cent for their services.
A popular delusion that the good
roads movement is primarily for the
benefit Of tie automobile owner
should be contradicted by every
thinking citizen. This fallacy cali
best be answered by the farmer,
who knows the increased cost of get
ting his produce to market when his
teams are able to haul only tha
lightes- loads. He can tell the OK
act profit which has accrued to him
by road improvements in his locality
His wife knows the dreaiy monotony
of the long months when the inn
passable roads rendered. it impos-
sible for her to so to town when the
deadly lonesomeness and longing for
communication with her kind have
nearly brought on insanity, when
the children could not &c to school.
and the exhausted provisions could
not be replenished.
i A professor in western college.
who has made study OF the sub
ject, claimed that insanity was most
prevalent among farmers wives and
attributed it to lonesomeness, and
stated that where the roads were
such as to make possible periodical
visits 20 town and to neighbors the
records showed an astonishing de-
crease in the number of cases of in
sanity in the country.