The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-07-01
TO BUILD NORTH AND
SOUTH HIGHWAY
THROUGH COUNTY
Bates County Will Qualify te
Secure Ozark Trail. En-
r thusiastic Meeting at
Rich Hill.

The Bates County Auxiliary
to the Ozark Trails Association
was organized at Rich Hill Tues
day afternoon, June 29th, at d
meeting of road enthusiasts rep
resenting the Butler, Rich Hill,
Adrian and Hume Commercial
Clubs.
The meeting was called for the
purpose of organizing for the
selection and improvement of a
north and south road through
Bates county which will qualify
as a part of the famous Ozark
trail.
| The meeting was called to ord
er by E. f. Bean, editor of the
Rich Hill Review, who in a brief
talk welcomed the visiting road
boosters and rendered to them
the hospitality of the city. The
meeting was organized by the el-
ection of j. f. Dowell Of Adrian
temrirary chairman and j. B.
Bryant of Hume temporary sec,
retary.
| Upon motion by Chas, w.
Mcfarland that report of the
Ozark Trails meeting at Inde-
pendence, Kansas be made the
meeting: A. H. Culver responded
and briefly outlined the work of
the association. He called atten-
tion to the fact that Cass. Bates
and Vernon counties had been
chosen only tentatively as
route through which tire trail
pass and stated that the roads in
these counties are much below
the standard set for qualification
as a part of the trail He also
made the statement that eastern
Kansas is striving to be designat-
ed for the. trail and that much of
the travel from the south is al
ready being diverted west into
Kansas from Nevada.
John D. Moore outlined to
the meeting the plans of the Ne
vada Good Roads organization to
build straight line route from
the southern to the northern
boundary of Vernon county and
suggested that Bates County
adopt similar plans.
W.. f. Duvall suggested that
an organization be perfected
the several Commercial
Clubs of the county with the pri
mary object of building high
way north and south through the
county. which upon its compile
ton would be tapped by high
ways to the towns upon the out
skirts. of the county. He stated
that already Foster and vicinity
has raised $500 to be applied on
the construction Of a road to
Butler. Mr.. Duvall said that he
had talked to many farmers in
various sections of the county
and that nearly all We're enthus-
astic for good roads and ex-
pressed willingness to contri-
)ute literally toward their con-
,truction.
Major F. H. Crowell told of
he progress made in road build
ng in the county and urged that
10 time be lost in putting a north
o south road in shape to qualify
or the Ozark trail. II
w. w. Ferguson. upon being
to speak said "the
vay to build good roads is to
'nild them" He urged an or 3,
for a north to south {
Dad and said that the entire at .
ention. of the organization /.
hould be devoted to that end. {
John d. Moore made motion t
hat an executive committee he t
Drmed to take the matter in S
and, the committee to be COM t
osed of two members from each a
f the four clubs, Butler, Rich
ill, Adrian and Hume. This t
lotion was carried and the meet. 0
lg took a fifteen minutes recess c
, allow each club to select two u
representatives. The gentlemen p
elected to form the executive |,
were: Il
Butler-W. F. Duvall, A. III. l,
ulver. Il
Rich Hill-John Klump, Jr.,
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