The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1915-04-23
LINCOLN RIGHT IN LINE WITH
HIGHWAYS MOVEMENTS
Men Appointed To Actively Repre-
sent Stanford at Enthusiastic
Meeting of Commercial Club

al Club held here Tuesday night, al
which time three delegates were ap.
pointed to represent Lincoln at q
meeting of the Boone Way promoters
at Mt. Vernon Monday night, at sc
o'clock, and were also instructed to
attend the Dixie Highway Conference
which is to be held in Louisville to-
day, and to get into communication
with the Lexington people who are
working for the routing of the Dixie
Highway through the Blue Grass Sec
ton of Kentucky. The representa-
tives of the Commercial Club named
were Mr.. j. S. Hooker, Judge James
p. Bailey and Shelton Saufley. In ad-
dition to these regularly accredited
delegates it is planned to have quite
a delegation of prominent local citi-
zens go to Mt. Vernon next Monday
to boost for the Boone Way and at
the same time let the hustling other
counties along the route, which have
so recently distinguished themselves
by the voting of large good roads
bond issues, know that old Lincoln
and Stanford are prominently on the
map, and do not intend to take a
back seat in the good work which is
being accomplished. They will assure
their friends and neighbors of Rock
castle, Laurel, Whitley and other
mountain counties, that Lincoln, the
first Blue Grass county coming from
the mountains, will meet the road
making mountaineers with open arms,
and not only with words of common
dalton and cheer, but likewise with
deeds of cooperation and conse-
quence.
At the Dixie Highway meeting in
Louisville and to the promoters at
Lexington, as well as at Mt. Vernon,
the fact will be made clear beyond
bubble that Stanford and Lincoln
county intend to be right in the front
row in this good road movement
which is assuming such gigantic pro-
portions at this time. They will be
shown that as a center of interest,
both from an historic and scenic
point of view, no county in the state
can approach the inducements that
Lincoln has to offer, The matter of
Lincoln's good roads and preparations
for further road work and improve
ment, both through local appropria-
ton and with the state aid funds
which have been allotted it, will be
gone into at length, and it will be
shown that no other county consider
ed for routing either of the proposed
highways, will do more toward max
ing ideal thoroughfare conditions
than will Lincoln.
The meeting of the Commercial
Club proved an enthusiastic affair.
Some 25 or 80 of the leading business
and professional men of the city
were present in the Courthouse when
President j. G.. McClary called the
club to order. He read the invitation
sent out by the. Mt. Vernon Boone
Way booster Band in. connection with
them - inss<vil = izst > .5e 4ei;d In
Mt. Vernon, and invited an Informal
and general discussion of this matter
and the Dixie Highway proposition,
which has been so fully discussed in
the public prints the past several
weeks.
Among the first speakers was Con-
gresham Harvey Helm, who is en-
thusiastic over both the Boone Way
and the Dixie Highway projects and
has made special study of the his
toric and scenic inducements which
Lincoln county and Stanford have to
offer to travellers from the north and
south. Mr.. Helm recalled the building
of the old Logan's Fort and suggested
that nothing could be done which
would prove more interesting or at
tractive to visitors touring through
Kentucky than to see a reproduction
of the old Indian fort which was one
of the landmarks of the pioneers of
Kentucky for long while in the early
days. He said that he would like to
see a reproduction made of that fort
as nearly as possible on the original
site and urged that the Commercial
Club take somesteps to have it done.
He pointed out that one hears much
of the forts and Notifications of mod
ern times, such as the forts of Liege
and Namur which held out so long
against the Germans. People are in
terested in such things at this time,
and he believed that a world of trav-
elers through the country would even
go out of their way, if they had to,
to see an exact reproduction of an
old fort which was used by the pio-
| neers of Kentucky in their werfere
against the Indians. He also pointed
out other historic features which
were to be found Immediately around
Stanford. He reminded his hearers
lDGI LlnCOlH COunIy CURTAINS ShC
| home of the first Governor of Ken
lucky; that the first brick house
built in Kentucky, the old Whitley
house, still stands a few miles this
side of Crab Orchard. He said that it
was his information that the first
church building erected this side of
the Allegheny mountains was built
right here in Stanford, and he would
offer, at his own expense, to recon-
struct this old church house, if the
Commercial Club and the people of
Stanford would undertake to recon-
struct the old fort and other works
of the pioneer days. Mr.. Helm de-
clared that no county west of the
Cumberland mountains offered van
tage point for a finer view than can
be obtained right at Halls Gap, few
miles south of Stanford. He told of
other scenic and historic points of in
terests, and urged that it was up to
Stanford and Lincoln county to take
prominent part in the great move
ment which is now under way and
growing all over the nation for better
roads, better highways of travel and
greater opportunities. He urged ac-
tive cooperation in both the Boone
and Dixie Highways and was literally
applauded when he sat down.
Various questions regarding the
plans of the Boone and Dixie High
ways brought forth short talks by
Messrs. ]. s. Hooker, Will Shanks, w.
M. Bright, C. Hays Foster, Will Sew
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