The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-06-16
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
MAKE A STATEMENT,
Road Building Urged and Proposed
Issuance OF Bonds Explained.

To the People of Grenada County:
AS men commissioned by you to serve
you as members of the Board of Super-
visors OF Grenada county, we feel that
1t is not only duty We owe you but
ourselves, also, to make statement of
the proposed bond issue of 500, 900, 90
for permanent road work, which will be
before our body for final determination
at the July meeting, unless the re-
quired number of petitioners make the
proper protest on or before that time.
The people of the county are aware
Of the sentiment for permanent roads
throughout the whole country and we
are pleased that there is a strong de-
sire in Grenada county to learn some
thing from the good lessons being
taught at other places and to appropri-
ate what is learned to the social and
economic betterment Of our own peo-
pie: In truth and in fact, the matter
of better roads, of permanent roads,
has ceased to be cause for debate, and
the only thing that concerns counties
and states just now is, ''how much can
be invested in road building?" In obe-
dience to this sentiment for road build
ing petitions were filed with your Board
to make of districts /, 8 and a Sepa-
rate Road District and for the issuance
Of bonds by those three districts for
the purpose of making better their
roads. Happily there was a strong
sentiment even in these three districts
to have the whole county join in the
better roads movement. thereby estop-
ping even the probability of divided
purposes and of dividing lines within
the county. When we assembled at
Grenada this week we found that those
representing the three districts were
willing 70 call off what they had asked
for provided the other two districts
would join in, hence it was that we be-
gan to consider just how this could be
done and the surest way of making the
whole county one in purpose in this
great work. And we are pleased to
inform the public that on Friday we
adopted an order which provides for
the issuance of 500, 100000 in road
bonds to be used in opening up, con-
structing and maintaining the roads of
the five districts of the county, and in
order that our people may fully under
stand what we did and our plans in the
use of the money to be derived from
the sale of the bonds, you will observe
from the order of the Board that we
specify in detail the roads to be opened
up, to be constructed and maintained.
Every district in the county will get
fair proportion of the money to be
expended, every district in the county
will have some of its most important
roads greatly improved. When we
finish what is proposed in road building
we are sure that we can go from one
end of the county to the other on we'll
constructed and well worked road; we
feel that distance will be shortened and
that the property values in the county
will be increased far beyond the amount
of money used.
To say that any one of US or all of US
got just what we wanted would hardly,
be correct. Every part of the county
made some concessions and we wish to
remind one and all that nothing great
was ever done without the spirit of
compromise. We have done the best
we could and we confidently rely upon
the good judgment, the spirit of fair
rnindedness and progressiveness of the
people of the county to back us up in
this forward movement which we believe
means the dawning of better day for
Grenada county. Better roads means
better schools, better farms, more
church going and more ready access
to,market.
We repeat, that it is our desire that
the people of the county fully under
stand what we have done and what is
/ proposed, hence this frank statement
which we publish over our signatures.
We have not acted hastily or unadvis-
edly, but the step was taken after sew
leral days of deliberation and much dis
cussion. and we are gratiied that so
many Of our good friends from every