Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-11-29
IROADS MASS MEETING
HERE FRIDAY, DEC. 7
Meet in the Afternoon at the Court
House to Organize Audrain
County for the Ozark Trail
LIGHTFooT TO SPEAK
Delegates From Other Counties VIII
Attend-Eyery Road Man Should
Attend the Gathering

A mass meeting in the interest Of
good roads will be held in the Mexico
Court House on Friday, December Z,
at 2 p. m. The meeting was called
Wednesday by Judge Alex Carter,
who is chairman of the Jefferson-City-
Hannibal division Of the Ozark Trails.
The object of the meeting is to organ
ize Audrain County as unit in the
Ozark Trails Association.
M. D. Lightfoot, Springfield, Mo-,
vice president for Missouri of the
Ozark Trails Association, has been
invited to address the Audrain coun-
ty meeting. He has expressed his de-
sire to return to Mexico for this
meeting.
Delegates from other counties in the
Jefferson City-Hannibal proposed
routes will attend the Audrain county
meeting. Road boosters from Perry,
Mo-, already have notified Judge Car
ter they will be present.
Road men and farmers Of Audrain
County who are interested in good
roads for their county are especially
urged to attend the meeting at the
Court House on December 7. Several
counties have already organized and
Audrain must be organized before the
big division meeting which will be
held at jefferson City at date to
be decided upon.
The Ozark Trails Association is the
biggest good roads organization in the
United States. W. H. (Coin) Harvey,
Monte Ne, Ark, is president. 1t has
successfully promoted many trails
throughout Arkansa, Texas, Oklaho-
ma, Kansas and New Mexico. The
association officers are public spirited
men who are not seeking office, but
are genuinely interested in good roads
and cross-country trails and they are
spending freely of their time and
money in this work. Harvey and
Lightfoot were in Mexico in October
and were greatly impressed with the
interest taken in their work by our
citizens. Both men promised to re-
turn to Audrain county for another
visit.
Judge Carter was the delegate from
Audrain County to the Ozark Trails
convention which was held in Chanute,
Kan, on November IA, Is and 16 Of
this month. He was sent by the
Chamber of Comerce Of Mexico. Judge
Carter took leading part in the work
of the convention.
The Ozark Trails Association has
90 miles of trails finished and
proposed. It's officers have laid out
what they call tentative route across
Missouri-from Southwest to North
west. 1t starts from Chanute, Kan,
to Nevada, Mo-; thence to Eldorado
Springs, Osceola, Lowery City, Mount
! Zion, Warsaw, Cole Camp, Versailles,
Eldon, jefferson City Fulton, Mexico,
and Hannibal. This route is only ten
tative and any community that is in
terested has chance to get on it.
Every citizen of Audrain county
should be interested in the Ozark
= Trails, because this county has an ex-
cellent opportunity to locate perma-
q nent route. 1t is possible that the
Springfield and Boonville routes will
merge at Mexico and continue east.
The county must be organized and
: delegates appointed to represent this
! county at the Route Convention in
: jefferson City. This will be done at
: the meeting on Friday, December the
7th.