The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-09-02
DIR. WHITEHEAD WRITES
ABOUT GOOD ROADS
Tells Of The Big Improvement in
His Neighborh00d.
REGULAR new YORK R0I|I.EVARD

enough to allow me little space IN
your columns 20 say few words
about the work that is beng done
on our roads out in this re k Of tie
woods The question has been ash
ed me so many times about this
road | am having built through my
farm that will take great pleasure
in giving the facts to the pubic.
Leading out from Scotland N eek i
there are two GRAND TRUNK LINES,
or public roads; one is the road from
Scotland Neck to Tarboro and the
other from Scotland Neck to Enfield
by way of Cofield's Bridge. These
roads run almost parallel for several
miles. The distance through my
farm from one to the other is two
miles and a quarter, a very rough
and hilly country.
For fifty years my venerable cd
grandfather, and after he passed
away my father, kept this path mot
road) up for the benefit Of the pub
lie. Some things are alright until
the third and fourth generation, Lu.
we boys didn want u follow INTO
their footsteps, and digging up
LIGHTWOOD STUMPS in the middle of
Halifax county pig path didn't ap
peal to us. So three years ago |
went before the county commission
ers with a proposition land by the
way, have been going ever siCca)
TO loan the county the money with
out interest for any number CT years
if they would build this road They
finally considered the proposition
and gave the order to work the road
And tits simply wonderful how MIR.
Dickens has done this work-far be-
yond the expectations Of everybody.
| He first gave US g turnpike from
Beech Swamp Bridge to town. You
could year these old horny hands Of
toll make these remarks: Il de.
G clare it's great!' First time been
anything done to this road in thirty
a years." etc.
:, The first of July he began my
e road, and to show you what prop
e osition it was, several years ago
e made an effort to get the govern
/ ment to put me a mail rout, through
l. here. ] used CD all Of my station
e or, writing to them, gu. ..,.,.,iy .:lf )
;. sent a man down here to go ovel
$ The route. This path goes through
q a swamp called Cow Hall He
e went back to Washington and wrote
II me that Bull Hail" was too mucl
1t for the United States Government.
sc Mr.. Dickens will como'ate thi
+ work in a few days. and it's a beSu
u ty In fact, | will stake thousane
q dollars, yes Sounds pretty good 70
o these war times), five Thousand tha
no county in North Carolina Cal
send the equipment here and do tn
work in the same length Of time
Mr.. Dickens is an expert IN his lin
N and when it comes to system be vii
at compare with the Pennsylvania rail
1T road. Not one cross word have
h heard him say to the convicts.
D. To my mind the very best law th;,
10 this county has passed in twenty fiv
Al years Mr.. A. P. Kitchn pulled OF
IN last winter through th- legislator
u when he had passed this road law t
n give we people in this end of tt
t. county some good roads. Wiliiar
e Jennings Bryan in his famous speed
1t out il Chicago said unie>s the couE
ne try prospered grass and weeds woul
Id grow in your main street.
he What's more beneficial than goc
n, roads to the farmers? Take ~
o. for instance couldr't mark !.
Oh crop before LAY. | came out her
ed two years ago from Tarboro on
I'd stretcher, ard am now fit con
to psnion for Daniel Boone or Dayi
e Cl ockett {better not ask .larl Bow
is e~s), have lived in the woods 50 lorl
in II we can keep bsytier Dioa-Iis {
ly the job many months and ever
I'd farmer and citizen rally to The SUI
on port of this Joint Commission in
i'll short time instead Of as it was sa
in ye olden times, that all good roar
lead to Rome, it will be said, q
good roads lead to Scotland Neck.
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, / wa.
gh t. invite you and THROUGH Y
oh the Joint Commis isslon, tie ii!ehws
We Commission and the Board OF Cou
V. ty Commissioners out here on Fl
en day, September 2rd. to take ris
d