The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-15
ALL TOGETHER.
Governor ~Brumbaugh Has Named Thurs.
day, May 24th as estate Wide
Good Roads Day."

Harrisburg, March IL: Cover.
nor Brumbaughha has issued Proc.
lamation fixing Thursday, May
"a, 1917, as State wide Good
Roads Day." In bis Proclama-
ton the Governor reviews the
causes which led to the fixing of
this date and calls on all citizens
to do their share in making the
day memorable in the forward
movement for good roads.
The Proclamation is as follows:
WHEREAS, The demand for
good roads in this Commonwealth
is universal and increasingly in
sistent, and
WHEREAS, The rapid develop
ment of our transportation routes
is essential to the wellbeing of
our people. Our great agricul-
tural interests are largely depend
ent upon the development and
upkeep of our highways. There
must speedily be established an
all-year satisfactory h g way
service from our farms to our
markets and market stations.
Producer and consumer alike re-
quire this service. With the
steady increase in the number of
automobiles used by our people
in passing from one business
center to another the Importance
of good highways is increasingly
manifest. As we open our State
to visitors and citizens alike we
shall find the scenic splendor of
Pennsylvania increasingly ap-
pealingand our highways increas-
ingly important; and
WHEREAS, In every town and
city and in many rural commun-
tiles many Of our citizens, imbued
with high civic purpose, have
formed important bodies to pro-
mote GOO roads, organizing VOL
UNFAIRLY associations such as
Chambers of Commerce, civic as
sociations agricultural organiza-
tons automobile clubs, county
organizations and state highway
organizations, all of which is
service of the loftiest character
and worthy of all commentator.
These together with the press of
the Commonwealth have all
commended the plan of observing
a statewide good roads day; and
WHEREAS, on Good Roads Day
in 1916 upward of fifty thousand
citizens gave freely the day to
work upon the roads, five thous-
and eight hundred and sixty
nine teams were given and one
thousand one hundred andtwenty
one drags added to the success
of the effort. Approximately
four thousand seventy-two miles
of roads were treated. The
judges of the court in many
counties Joined the Executive in
issuing proclamations. Many
splendid women provided free
luncheons for the workers. Many
large corporations with cordial
good will gave of their men to
aid the movement, and generally
our people entered with zeal and
intelligence upon the effort to
make the day the great success
its purpose merited.
THEREFORE, | Martin G.
Brumbaugh, Governor of this
Commonwealth, fully in accord
with the most enlightened and
progressive spirit of our people
and anxious in every way at my
disposal to encourage and support
the people, in their laudable de-
sire to secure good roads through
out the Commonwealth, to the
end that this statewide interest
may be heartily promoted and
that we may speedily secure a
system of highways worthy of
our people and their activities
and that, even with inadequate
appropriations we may establish
safe, comfortable and permanent
avenues of travel, do make and
publish this proclamation:
That each and every supervis-
or of the several townships in
this Commonwealth is obliged by