Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-10-02

lat Frankfort each year at tn,
present property value. Two pei
cent OF $500, 600 90 is SI2, Zoo. 60
That means that if Rockcastlt
County will put up next veal
Twelve Thousand Dollars, or any
SIN alier amount, that the state will
put up an equal amount, thus
giving US Twenty Four Thousand
Dollars 10 spend on our roads
next year and every other year
that we will do the same thing,
There is another wise provision of
this law.
One great trouble with road
building in Kentucky, has been
the lack of system. This law
provides that In order to secure
this state aid, the money must
first be used in building roads
connecting county seats, Think
what it would mean TO ROckcastle
County 10 have splendid road
leading into our county from
every county seat around us. And
then. after they are built, we can
use the same means to build
other roads in the county. If we
will take advantage of this oppOr.
tunity, in less than ten years, we
can have a splendid system of
pixies connecting every part Oftne
county. But, you say that the
county cannot raise this Twelve
Thousand Dollars. No, it cannot
do it by taxation, because the Fis-
cal Court can only levy 25cts on
the Hundred Dollars for road pur-
poses, but are there not enough
wide awake men and women along
these various routes who own
property in this county to sub
scribe what the county annOt
raise: At one time there was of
ters from people along certain
roads in the county to subscribe
half the amount, if the county
would put up the other half, but
then we could not do that, but
now if the people will subscribe
one fourth, We can build them and
believe they will do it. One
man has told me that he will give
a Thousand Dollars on the roak to
the Lincoln county line. am
sure that the Fiscal court, If they
will, can keep the roads of the
county in as good shape as they
now are and have at least $6OO0,-
% surplus to put into this work
next year. The question now be-
fore us is: What are we going to
dc about it: We are going to
have to begin next year to pay
that 81, 500 into the state treasure,
whether we get any back or not
Are we going to sit down and see
that money gotO build roads in
other and more wide awake coun
ties? Or are we going to work
and get So, 900 for every time we
put 81 10000. If we do not take
advantage of the oppOl tunity, our
part will go back into the general
fund the following year and be
distributed among the counties
that do apply for it. 1t is a gold
Ell opportunity for the poor coun-
ties of the state Jefferson county
which will pay into this fund $120,-
600 90 every year cannot get one
cent more out than Rockcastle
County, if We do our part. The
question is up to you. Are you
gong to get behind your Fiscal
Court aud ask them to apply for
this money from the state? They
will do it, if you ask them. They
are men of intelligence; men who
, know good thing when they see
/ ii; business men, but they are
: your representatives and they do
, not want to do thing that the
people oppose. cannot build
) roads. 1 do not even have vote
in the action of the Fiscal court.
r l am 10 more in this movement
= than any other citizen of the
county and that Is why am writ.
= ing you this article, but let's ask
] our FiscafCourt to begin right
now to get ready for this good
f work next year. If we ever have
e roads in Rockcastle, we must be.
2 gin sometime, somewhere and why
, not now?
I Yours for start,
8 E. r. GENTRY.
= All you who have torpid liver
q weak vigeSti IN or cOnstjpate6