The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-08-27
CAMP PA|GN FOR ROAD
BONDS PROGRESSING
Most Favorably- Committee
Sure of Victory for Brick
Road Issue.

The campaign committee appointed
by the Palatka board of trade to car.
on the campaign in favor of the pro
posed bond issue for brick roads ir
the East Palatka, Federal Point, Or
ange Mills, San Mateo, Palatka
Heights, Peniel and Rice Creek dis
tricts, roads which are to center in
Palatka, is we'll pleased with the out
look of the campaign which will come
to an end on the 14th of next month
when the election is to be held. Dr.
H. A. johnson, the chairman of this
committee, has some IA members to
assist him in the work, and these
have been picked because of their
willingness to work for this PROPOSE
ton, which holds SO much for the fu-
ture prosperity of Palatka and the
outlying districts. The committee is
seeing every voter and on every hand
is meeting with gratifying encourage.
ment.
That the bonds will carry seems
to be a foregone conclusion.
The committee met last night al
the board of trade rooms and hearC
reports from committeeman repre-.
senting the various precincts, ano
these gave evidence of still greater
encouragement.
The committee has authorized the
following unanswerable reasons why
the people of this city and district
should vote for this bond issue:
1) 1t directly conects US, by a
complete system of splendid roads
with every progressive city in east
Florida.
(2) 1t makes thousands of acres
of the best lands in Putnam county
Immediately available for settlement
and accessible to Palatka and the
markets of the world.
(3) 1t is a positive necessity for
any live, progressive community. We
cannot afford to fall behind.
(4) Good roads, passable at all
times, are the arteries of commerce
through which the wealth of trade
must and will flow.
(5) The prosperity of communi-
ty depends of necessity upon the pros
perity of it's people. The prosperity
of its people depends upon the pros
perity of the surrounding cuontry.
Progressive people will not settle in
an unprogressive section-not when
there are progressive sections a few
miles further on.
CO. Good roads (and none but
brick are any longer considered as
good) are the badges and ear-marks
of progress, the assurance of pros
perity.
CO With good roads we are a part
of the progressive world.
(8) Without them we are merely
a bad place in the way of a good
road.
(9) We are known by the company
we keep-progressive or non-progres-
sive.
Q0) 1t pays to advertise-if you
have anything to advertise. Cool
roads are at once an advertisement
and the evidence of the thing adver-
tised.
(11) We do one of two things:
We go forward or we stand still and
ale left behind.
(12) The Hastings-Bunnell Sec
tion is a growing, prosperous com
munity traversed by brick road soon
to be completed, and which will lead
to St. Augustine and Jacksonville, as
we'll as to Miami on the south. At
present we enjoy splendid trade
with the Hastings-B -Bunnell communi-
ties. Unless we connect Palatka
with this road by a road passable at
all times, we will lose the greater part
of the trade we have, as we'll as all
opportunity to share in the future in
crease.
(13) The value of this years po-
tato crop grown in the Hastings-Fed-
eral nt-Orange Mills-East Palatka-
San Mateo vicinity is conservatively
estimated at one and a half million
dollars. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
IMPATIENTLY AT OUR DOOR.
By building these brick roads, we
OPEN THE DOOR, INVITE HER
INTO OUR BEST ROOM AND
URGE HER TO ABIDE WITH US
PERMANENTLY.