The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-17
MADISON COUNTY
IDEA IS NOVEL
MEETS IN DIFFERENT
TOWN MONTHLY.
County Roads Good and Meetings Are
Largely Attended; Take Women
and Children Along and Picnic;
Many Beauty Spots.

The policy of the Madison County
Good Reads association is one that
could be emulated with profit by ev-
ery association in the state. Madison
is a prosperous county with manv
comparatively small towns and no one
center that is dominant. The asso-
citation holds its meetings monthly,
and each time in a different town. The
women and children are invited and
the occasion is made a sort of a mo-
t~orists' picnic. The plan has proven
very popular. The roads Of Madison
county are excellent for motoring and
these monthly meetings are largely
attended in the summer time, the mo-
t6rists travelling from n end Of the
county to the other in order to be
present. The officers of the club al
ways make it a point to induce the
members Of the board Of county COM
missioners to be present at these meet
ings, 50 that they may be able to abb
sorb the views Of the automobile own
ers as regards road improvement first
hand.
Take Band Along.
One Of the organizations Of which
residents Of the county are proud IS
the juvenile band of the Orphans
home, which is situated at Twin
Bridges. This band is made up of
bows, the oldest Of whom is not more
than IS years Of age. An excellent
musical organization has been created
out Of this material.
A recent meeting Of the Goo!
Roads association was held at
Ennis, probably 40 miles from Twin
Bridges and in another valley. The
band was bundled into four big motor
ears, and taken to Ennis. The trip
was made by way of Sheridan, Lamin,
Alder and Virginia City. At each
of thes. points the band boys climbed
out Of their machines and rendered
appropriate selections. The result was
the largest turn out Of ears that has
occurred since the organization OF the
Good Roads association was perfected.
Madison county has been visited by
hundreds Of automobile tourists dur
ing the past summer. Aside from the
ordinary travel, the great artificial
lake Of the Madison Power company,
an offshoot Of the Montana Power
company, and which is in the Madison
valley, has attracted many motorists
from Butte. The lake was stocked
with front some years ago, and IS one
of the finest fishing preserves in the
state. On any fine Sunday of last
summer hundreds Of cars could be
counted on the shores of this lake.
People Good to Motorists.
The people who make their homes IN
the Madison valley are OF the right
sort. and it is not necessary for any
suggestion to be made to them to be
courteous to the wayfaring automo-
bilist. That is ingrained in them. 1t
is a county that was for many years
IF somewhat isolated because of the lack
of railroad facilities, and its resi-
dents contracted the habit of being
good to strangers. They have never
yotten over this habit and, even now,
when they have railroad communlca-
zion with the outside world, they are
rood to the stranger and make HIM
feel at home. Motorists who have
had occasion to travel through the
county are quickly made cognlzant OF
this attitude of friendliness, and 1T al
WAYS makes them want to make the
trip again.
Aside from the trip to the power
company's lake there are many PIE
turesque places along the wcll-madt
roads OF the jefferson. Madison, Ruby