The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-11
.L0VELADY ASKED ID. NAME DELEGATES ID
 GOODROADS MEET
State Association Will Meet at Montgomery October Elaborate Pro-
 gramme Prepared

Dr. R. F. Lovelady, president of the board of revenue of Jefferson county. has received communication from the Alabama Good Roads association asking the board to appoint 25 dele gates to represent Jefferson county at the eighteenth annual session which meets in Montgomery in October.
 The association has sent out similar letters to the probate judges of the several counties of the state, to the mayors and>presidents of Commercial clubs sand to the heads of other civic organizations asking them to appoint similar number of delegates to the convention. The letter received is as follows:
 Dear Sir-The Alabama Good Roads association will hold it's eighteenth an- .nua1 session in the auditorium of the Exchange hotel. Montgomery, com mencing octob6 2l-2s.
 President May of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce: William A Gunter mayor of the city of Mont gomery, and the governor of Alabama join the association in an effort to make the coming meeting the great ;, est convention the association has ever held. They officially extend cor dial invitation to you and the dele gates that you appoint to attend this meeting.
 Asked to Name Delegates
 We are instructed by the executive committee of the association to ex- tend hearty invitation to you to at : tend this. convention as a delegate and to appoint 25 delegates to represent your county at the convention.
 We feel assured that you will se- lect men interested in good roads and who are able to attend. We want to ask you that you notify them of their appointment and urge them to attend. &e will also notify them as soon as We receive their names and addresses from you.
 The association for the past IS years has done a great deal of work Tn encouraging the construction and maintenance of improved good roads m Alabama. It is still encouraging and promoting the good roads cause through speakers press and literature and doing everything it can to take Alabama out of the mud and put her at the head of the alphabet in build lng and maintaining good roads,
 The convention will be educational as well as entertaining. Some of, the best equipped men in the country will duuresS the convention on the Ques- tions of location. construction > and maintenance of roads. federal and state aid and the progress of the road move ment will be reported from all. sec lions of Alabama.
 Meeting Will Be Important
 This convention will be the most Important meeting that has ever been held in the past IS years from the fact that recommendations will be made to tthe Alabama legislature for. state aid amending the good roads laws of the state and such legislafion as is neces- sary to advance the cause of good roads in Alabama
 We fully realize that the county without good roads is a dead one. and We want to help make every com munity in the state live one. Will you not come and bring a good dele- gation from your county. Literat,re anu programme giving further infor nation will be sent
 "Please send list of delegates to I. A. Rountree, secretary of the Alabama Good Roads association, postoffice box sS6, Birmingham; also a list of your delegates to the leading daily papers of the state. and give the same pub licity in your county papers
 Hoping to hear from you promptly. we are, yours very truly.
 ALABAMA GOOD ROADS ASSOCIA-
 TON.
 John Craft. president.
 J. A. Rountree, Secretary"