The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-05-20
THE BOONE WAY
FIRST OFFICIALLY ROUTED HIGHWAY ACROSS STATE
OF KENTUCKY
ENGINEERED BY AN OLD CARRARD BOY WHO HAS NOT FORGOTTEN
THE LAND OF now"

| is one of us. Though we will still allow
Garrard to say ''our JIM: know
and felt the want of modern highway
thru our domains. where sometimes il
occurs for five months out of a year a
four horse team will get stalled and
''mired up" with an empty wagon.
Your good people down wonder" don I
comprehend our situation up here" in
these everlasting hills" shut off and
isolated from wagon transportation
months in the year. You don't appre-
ciate the blessings that surround you'll
This road proposition which our old
Jim tackled and has been successfully
financed has placed him on the highest
pedestal of Mountain appreciation and
the proposition to erect a monument in
his honor, while yet living, will be car
ried out and Mt Vernon, his home, will
be the place of its erection.
The many honors being conferred up
on Mr.. Maret are as much appreciated
by the people as by him, and that is
saving a good deal. all Of which he
acknowledges in his modest way saying
he is mighty glad to have been made
the instrument to accomplish some
thing of such vast benefits to his people
and his country. The meeting at Crab
Orchard last week was one of the hap
piest of MIR. Maret's career, when he
met that big delegation of boosters
from his native county, Garrard, in
their committee rooms at the famous
Crab Orchard Springs. A number of
these good friends he had not seen for
nearly forty years. (Mr. NJ. says don't
get it into your head that he is old, that
he is yet boy, if you have any road
propositions to trot OUT.
Among the friends met after 80 years
was James N. Denny, Arch Walker
and Arch Kavanaugh. Imagine if you
can mans feelings on an occasion
like this. Our good roads man recog-
nized each, after the absence of all
these years with the exception of Mr..
Kavanaugh whom he took to be Will
Kavanaugh. brother. To mention all
the Garrard friends individually would
tax your columns too heavily.
BOONELETS.
Lancaster and Garrari county came
to the meeting loaded for bear. They
got the bear and hauled it home.
Organization counts. No community
should count on getting there" with
out it.
One of the pleasant questions asked
by number of the friends. was; lis
this our Jim Maret who was telegraph
operator at Hyattsvile in 1876?
Keg Mason who was at the meeting
and "our Jim" were kids when Lam
caster court house was under construc-
ton and had many races around over
the foundation OF that structure before
the bricks were laid.
Now see what the Lancaster Com
mercial Club went and done.
The originator sends greetings to all
Garrard friends and citizens and con-
graduates everybody on the happy
solution of the vexed question of rout-
ing the great highway.
The Boone Way Association is now
a permanent organization to be per-
petuated for the purpose of doing
things; among them will be to work in
unison with the great National High
way Associations Including the Lincoln
Highway that will run from New York
to San Francisco and the Dixie High
way from Chicago to Miami. Florida)
joining our forces when the time ar
riyes for demanding Federal aid to
highways. The backing Of congress
men Of the twenty states, thru which
these roads pass, will do the work when
the time arrives.
Branch Boone WAY Associations will
be organized in all the cities and
towns along Boone Way.
Lancaster was the second TO get
markers placed lat every mile) over