The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-07-16
GOOD ROADS ENTHUSIASM
PERVADES THE COUNTY
w. C. Kelly and Assistants Out on
the Work of Survey.

County is producing a feeling of
optimism all along the line and
everybody is getting ready for the
big day, July 20.
w. c. Kelly, chief engineer with
his assistants, is out going over the
route, which, we understand, will
not be materially changed from the
present line thru the county towards
Memphis, excepting to straighten
the lines in some places The great
work to be done on the road leading
to Troy will be from the Mott place
to the hill near the Troy-Hickman
road. The line will be changed
from the Mott place to eliminate the
hills and turns thru to the old w.
M. Walker place. This is one of>the
most primitive roads in the county,
positively dangerous for the present
highway travel and traffic. All the
roads will be widened if the people
are generous enough to sell the
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understand the hills and hollows
will be leveled to a five per cent
grade. The widening of the roads
will be necessary for the proper
drainage. There can be no good
roads without drainage. The Pa
ducah-to-Memphis highway is de-
veloping rapidly. This is the name
of the route, although some are
trying to wedge in the names of
other towns. w. G. Reynolds, of
this city, one of the originators of
the project and plans, the chairman
of the good roads committee of the
League of the West Tennessee Busi-
ness Mems Clubs, is a member of
the organization and one of those
responsible for the naming of the
road to be known as the Paducah-
to-Memphis highway. Therefore for
the various towns along the route
to create trouble of some kind.
The committees appointed for road
work July 29 will be named in prop
er order for business when the time
comes.
The work of preparation for the
highway working day is at hand,
and in many cases the actual work
has begun. In order to properly
handle the thousands of people who
will go out to work on this day it
is thought best to appoint overseers
for each mile of road and in some
cases this overseer will appoint 9TH
ers to assist him by subdividing.
General overseers.-Ed McAlister,
w. M. Mailing, w. L. White. From
Jordan to Union City, Tom Reese,
Tom Harpole, w. P. Nash, George
Bufford, William Stalcup. From
Union City south, S. T. Wade, A. B.
Campbell, George Moody, Charlie
Herring, Wade Wiley, Caesar Palm
er, Turner Joyner, John Tomlinson,
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pointed from Troy and Obion dis
tricts.
To secure autos.-Rev. G. M.
Zwingle, Claud Andrews.
Water committee.-H. o. Head, R.
L. Kersey, J. A. Morgan.
Dinner committee. - Jordan to
Union City-Mrs. Tom Harpole, Mrs.
j. F. Bludworth, Mrs. VIM. Stalcup; |
for Union City: Mrs. Joe Prieto,
Mrs. Geo. Dahnke, Mrs. Pink Mar
shall, Mrs. Joe Moss, Mrs. Sam
Brummel, Mrs. R. T. Roberts, Mrs.
J. B. Adkerson, Mrs. Clarence Cloyes,
Mrs. Mamie Beck, Mrs. C. V. Jones,
Mrs. AL Alexander, Mrs. Arthur
Tittsworth, Mrs. ]. ]. Melvin, Mrs.
w. L. White, Mrs. ]. w. Woosley,
Mrs. ]. F. McMicael; from Union
City south Miss Ruth Wiley, Mrs.
Ed McAlister, Mrs. Tom Scott, Mrs.
w. H. Latimer, Mrs. Jas. Mott. 1t
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will appoint many others to assist
them in carrying out these plans.
In fact everybody is expected to
work on this day, and that all will
bring dinner. This will be the
greatest day in many respects ever
seen in Obion County and all of
West Tennessee. The boys will car
ry water to the men at work. Bring
your shovel and pick or some tool
to work with. Let the foremen get
busy securing hands, teams and
cash-anything you can get that
will help build roads.
Autos will run from Union City
to the road work, beginning at 6 a.
N. and will carry the men first
then come back after the ladies to
look after the dinner. They will
start from Court Square. Send all
dinner baskets also to Court Square
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