Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-28
DIXIE BEE.LINE HIGHWAY.

Are YOU interested in the Di xie
Bee-Line Highway being routed
through Christian county? If 80, it
is time for the people of Christian
county to bestir themselves. Do you
know that in Muhlenburg and Logan
counties the citizens are thoroughly
aroused and enthusiastic in preparing
broad highway, connecting at Mad
isonville in Hopkins county, and in
making this preparation they have
opened highway so feet wide. Have
set the fences back, cleaned out the
uHderbrush, and haze rolled and
graded same under the supervision
of the Government Engineer, Mr..
Whitaker.
Now all this work has been done.
by the farmers and citizens adjacent
to the proposed highway for the pur-
pose of showing the Dixie Bee.Line
Commissioners of View that they are
anxious for the route to be designat-
ed from jacksonville through Green
vile to Russelville, and joining there
the Dixie Highway.
They propose to convince the Com
missioners that it is 20 to 30 miles
nearer from Evansville to the Dixie
Highway by this route, and show
further that their roadway is of suf-
ficent width to take care of the pro-
posed DiXi Be Line Highway from
the Lakes to the Gulf.
The County Courts of each of
these counties have made appropria-
tons. pledging each county to con-
struct standard pike up to specifi-
cations for highway.
Now what does Christian county
propose to do about it? Are we to
remain Indifferent, and risk the 10
Commissioners, who will view our
roads about the 18th and 10Th of
September. togratuitously designate
the Dixie Bee-Line Highway through
Christian county without any effort
on our part, or without our citizens
along the proposed route setting
back their fences, and showing that
we have roadway Of sufficient
a0idth to be iRUiting as a National
Highway.
AS matter of fact there are num-
erous places from the Hopkins coun-
ty line to the Tennessee line where
the present roadway is not One-hGLf
the proper lOidth. There are uum-
erous places where the citizens cy
united effort, l0ith telO: days lOorE
of the pillow and split log drag, could
change the width and appearance of
our roadway to be inviting to the
Commissioners, and possibly be the
means of securing this route.
Are the farmers and citizens living
along the proposed route through
Christian county willing to do this?
If so, the time is very limited, and
we should get busy at once. Each
Of you call up your neighbor and ask
him 20 Join in with you, and let's set
a dsy, and call on the citizens in
Crotton, Kelly, Hopkinsville, Casky,.
Pembroke and Trenton, also the cir.
zens living along the GAINESVILLE pike,
to join in with us and do as other
counties have done. Show to the.
Commissioners by our enthusiasm
and work that we are determined 10
make all preparations and comply
with all conditions that may be nee.
essary for the Dixie Bee-Line High
way to be routed through Christian
county.
Just moment, 90 you realize that
in the construction of a National
from the Lakes to the Gulf
that the promoters of the Dixie Bee
Line Highway expect within a short
time to secure Federal aid, and 10
have congress designate this route
as National Highway, and to some
day in the near future see a national
boulevard constructed along this
route from the Lakes to the Gulf.
Following these suggestions udggr
Knight and President r. E. Cooper,
have united in call for a Mass.
meeting at the Court House next
Monday at 10 o'clock a. M, for all
parties interested in the proposed
lines of the Dixie Bee Line leading