The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-05-23
IMAM IOWA TOWN or less THAN
.~ 5000 PEOPLE ""
RE SOLVED:
That this community
wants and is going
TO get more good
pavemertS.
NUlS is a resolution to which ev-
z cry citizen can subscribe.
I If We mean what we sa. We
shall ,rnt tho T.lXpp,pufs

shall get the pdvrmentS.
What other places have done this
town can do.
Good pavcmputS mean increased
property values. health. beauty and
comfort ami municipal prUgrcsslvCness
all along the line.
Good paven4ents are no longer lux
ury that only big cities can enjoy.
They are a necessity that no progress
sive municipality can do without.
We can't afford it: oh. yes, we can.
What we can't afford is TO founder
around over rough. dusty, muddy
streets.
What Other Towns Have Done.
A few years ago there seems to have
been concerted movement among
Iowa municipalities to pull themselves
out of the mud. Now any number of
towns in that state have pavements as
good as New York's or Washington's.
These towns include Charles City with
5000 population, Webster City 5000.
Winterset 5000. Bloomfield $3.50. In.
dianola $500. Boone 10000. Shenan.
dOah 5000. and Hamburg with only
1000 people.
or course Iowa towns are not the
only ones that have pulled themselves
out of the mud. Oklahoma was built
to order state-that Is, ii did not grow
slowly; it sprang into being-and what
do we find there? Enid. Tulsa. Shaw
nee, Chickasha. FL Reno and other
towns with hard, smooth pavements
such as are usually associated with
old, rich and populous cities.
1t would require page Of this paper
to catalogue the smaller communities
that have proved that where there is IL
will for good pavenents there Is also
a way to get them. This is the teach
ing of an investigation that mas ex-
tended across the continent from Rock
Hill. 5. C., through the little town OF
West Plains. Mo. to Roseburg. Ore.
A Prime Essential In Progress.
No time was wasted in big cities. for
that would have proved only what we
all know-that there good pavements
are considered prime essential OF
progress and always 20 along with 1t.
What was sought for was evidence
that no community is too small to be
well paved.
This investigation developed stories
of municipal uplift that do not get into
the magazines, but that are no less
enlightening and inspiring on that ac-
count
Let's start at Rock Hill. S. C.. a town
of 1900 people. IL had never had any
modern payements until year OF two
ago. Then. after n great deal OF talk
the authorities decided to ask for bids
on asphalt paving for two or three
main streets. The owners OF the abut-
ting property were to pay their share.
or course some OF them objected.
On one OF the streets was piece OF
property owned by two ladies. who
made a regular campaign against the
improvement on the ground that they
could not afford II anu were so sue
cessful that the city aud the contrac-
tor agreed to pave up 10 Their property.
skip IL and resume the work on the
other side. But before this actually
happsned the ladies came down 10 the
city hall. signed petition To have the
street paved In front OF their property
and joined the ranks OF ''asphaltettes."
In this same town the secretary Of
the chamber Of commerce had been OF
fered q pierre OF property for 500 on