Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-09

PHlC, FINE BLUFF, ARkl | pendable transportation stages of the
 water in the Arkansas river. There is. however. increased activities upor
 the part of the federal government
 which some day. we hope in the neal l future will result in the government doing it's duty to the Arkansas river 1 We are continuing our agitation for 1 the building of the branch lines from Wadsteine to Gillett, and from Monti- cello to Pine Bluff.
 Roads.
 The building of good roads continue
 to claim the greatest interest Of the organization, and this year has made
 Wond 1rful progress along that line. In
 our own country the roads to tho com
 presses and oil mill industries to the
 east of town have been completed, and
 in the west end, in the lumber dis
 trcts. I'm extension of West Sixth was completed last summer, and now Sixth avenue is being extended south and west, so as to make almost a com plete circle from Sixth avenue to l Thirteenth avenue. The link between i the Sulphur Springs pike and the city pavement, on Cherry street, is one of our best improvements. The link be- tween the Dollarway and the Grant county pike is now being construct ed, and will be completed probably be- fore the end of this year. Contracts have been let for sixty miles of road on the north side of the river, and this has claimed our active attention and interest for several years, and especially since the completion of the big free bridge, and a good part of one of the district Number Is has been completed. and work has start ed on Number IA, this will cover tho entire northern section of our county, and connect us with Lonoke and Ark anSaS counties.
 We are, as you know, continuing our work to extend our bikes to Cleveland county, and to help Cleveland county build pike east and west thru that county that would connect us with Cleveland Dallas, Calhoun, Ouachita, Bradley and Drew Our contribution or donation of S2,000 to the good peo- pie of Cleveland county to aid them to bridge Saline river has been a great factor, in the final and early consummation of their propect
 During the summer of 1916, your secretary and member of your board of trustees worked necessarily, and made many automobile trips thru Southeast Arkansas, campaigning for good roads, and these trips resulted in i passing a special act in tho legislature of 1917 creating the Arkansas and Louisiana highway, that starts at Grady the end of our pike, in that di- rection, going thru Lincoln, Desha and Chicot counties to the Louisiana line, 1 where it connects with good roads Monroe and New Orleans, and will, in time become the shortest and best route on the Jefferson highway to ! New Orleans. The good counties men toned have all passed resolutions thanking this organization for it's as sistanca, and at different times have made us their special guests, in ce!c- brating these events.
 Educational
 Our interests never lags in this inl- portant work, upon which depends the very foundation of our happiness and prosperity. Our relations with our city school board could not have been more pleasant. and cooperative, and . we recall with great pleasure the work of our special committee, ap- pointed at a special call meeting, of Your beard at the urgent request of members of the school board and whosH work caused the enactment of the delayed legislative authority for the construction of tho beautiful S200,- 900 high schol building, now being comnleted, and which it was feared would have failed of passage but for the activities of your committed Our country schools, both white and col bred, claim a great deal of our time and attention.
 Pub ic Utilities.
 Thcsc the people of Pine Buff are exceedingly proud of, and the chamber of commerce apparently is their 'home." Our work to conclude the long pending controversy between the Pine Bluff company. and it's employees. regarding the one-man crew and the ten-minute schedule, was happily and terminated. The recent changes in the lighting system. not only gives us the best lighted city in the states. but permits us to continue to truthfully assert that we have the best water, light and street car sys- tenn in the South |,
 The Southwestern Telephona and Telegraph company, thru it's able , and splendid qualifca- tions of it's commercial agent. con ( tlnues to serve it's patrons with the ; least possible unavoidable complaint. It's toll system continues to reach out In all directions in our trade territory, and thru our cooperation has ob- slif nTI lN rl,t, [
 tory of the Pine Buff and Arkansas ( river railroad, and, as soon Is material , ,an be had this line will be recon { St ;'I1rt ad from PoyJol +o tI,o .,.4,.,