Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-02-25
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JOHN e. JACKSON.
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We have had mass-meetings after
mass-mcetings at the Court House
and the attendance of these meetings
proved clearly the sentiment of our
people on the question of good roads
and another bond issue. These meet
ings demonstrated clearly that we are
determined to have good roads and
that the only way to have good roads
tied that this district could issue bonds
for road building, the next and great
est question to be solved was on what
roads was the money to be spent
Very properly, this question was
turned over to committeeman repre-
senting various sections and neigh
borhoods of the district. The COM
mittecs went over the situation very
carefully and made their report. This
report, while it did not build good
road by everybody's door, met with
the approval of the majority of the
voters. We felt that everything was
i'll pretty good shape, all things con-
sidered, and that the bond issue would
pass without very serious opposition,
but such was not he case.
A few citizens of the Town of Taze-
well and community, and we have no
right to question their sincerity, had
meeting and decided that the mon
ey should be spent entirely different
ly than reported by original and le-
gally appointed committees. AS the
writer understands it, this meeting
was composed mainly of the citizens
of the town, and many of them anti
bond men at heart. The writer is not
going to comment on all the report
of the road committee of this meeting,
but there is one item that deserves
serious consideration and that is, al
lowing the town of Tazewell, the sum
of $4,000 for the Improvement of the
streets. There is not a voter in the
district who is not fair minded enough
to agree that the town is entitled to
fair and just proportion of the bond
issue money, but for the citizens and
business men especially, to ask and
endeavor to exact the sum of $4,000
is simply out of the question. The
country people art not going to sub
NIT to it. The writer, while not
citizen of the town of Tazewell, gets
his water, lights, fire protection, etc.,
out of the town, (and for nothing y,
is booster for the town and proud
of it, but he firmly and honestly be-
lieves that it is our county people
who made the town, and if you turn
them away, we will soon go back to
Kerosene lamps, carry our water from
the spring and put out our fires with
old fashioned bucket brigades. AL
most every dollar that has been spent
on our roads has increased the wealth
of our county seat. 1t has put mon
| ey into the pockets of every mer-
chant in town ut the expense of our
county merchants; it has helped to fill
up our schools and empty houses and
churches; it has enabled our farm
ers to to bring their produce to town
and thereby give us better and
cheaper market.
1t is all right and proper to have
good sidewalks and paved streets, but
first get our country folks out of the
mud and enable them to come to our
town with some degree of comfort,
how much better off our town would
be if we could and should make ev-
cry citizen of the county proud of
the county seat and glad of the OPP
portunity to go there.
We had better spend more time and
money in putting up decent hitching
posts and sheds and less time in try
ing to get lions share of the bond
issue money. We might stud our
sidewalks with diamonds and pave
our streets with gold and exclude the
county people-grass and weeds would
soon take possession.
The county people can live without
the town, but the town people cannot
live without the county people; Meth
er can grow and prosper without the
other.
One more matter your correspon-
dent wants to speok of is this: Why
not the town let the county people
spend their money where they please
1t is not up to the people of this
tvs money shall be spent.
We have had an experimental per-
iod in road building; we have found