The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-04-23
ROAD QUESTION WILL NOT DOWN
A Farmer Presents His Honest Sen
timents and Some Facts Per
tinent to County Welfare.

Editors Leader:-Will you please
allow me small space in your pa
Iper.
The time is drawing near when we
jshall select our candidates and sup
port them in the coming election,
| and there is no more important Of
fce within the gift of the people
than that of member Of the Board OF
Supervisors, and for these positions
only the best men should be selected.
AS there is no moxe important ques-
tion before the rural district popu-
lation today than Good Roads,
think we should ask each gentleman
Inspiring for this position these ques-
tions:
| Are you in favor of good. roads?
Are you in favor of spending the
peoples money and building good
roads which has been borrowed three
years or more for that purpose and
which we are paying taxes on?
Last, but not least, are you in Ia
vori of keeping our old roads in pass
able condition through winter and
spring months? Lots of hauling
must be done, such as feed stun and
fertilizer. What is more important
to the farmer today than good roads
in order to haul his produce to the
Brookhaven market and other mar
kets of the county? If the roads are
impossible for our products winter
and spring, we might just as well
live one hundred miles from Brook
haven.
We should have some system in
keeping our old roads in fairly good
condition until they are graveled,
but we are short of this system in
Beat of Lincoln county, Miss, al
though there are enough teams,
hands and equipment assigned for
this work, understand, to keep 1t
in such condition.
/ dislike very much to criticize;
but these are the actual conditions
in our part of the county and we
have been patient indeed since last
fall, and we think these holes, which
are in our roads at this time, should
be nxed Immediately.
There is a hole near our place at
the present time impossible for cars
to get through. I have helped no
less than ten or twelve cars out Of
this sloppy hole the last two weeks,
the last one being at one O'Clock last
night, party going from Magnolia
to Wesson on account of his father
lying at the point of death.
Those in authority have been not
ified time and time again about this
special bad place, but no help beck
ons to our calling. worked on this
place one half day free of charge to
the county but / had no slip to han
die the dirt and obtained very little
success. 1t is a shame to say-it but
our mail rider each day is now
bringing in his buggy few pine
tops and placing them so he can get
across.
The hands and teams 1t would take
to flx this place are worth from s1il
to $125 q day TO q farmer at this
busy time of the season, as he needs
them in the fields, as crops are al
ready seriously delayed, and why
should the county pay farmer to
do this work when they have three
hands, 6 or pair of mules, tools,
ETC., hired to do such work? They
passed over this bad place twice the
last two weeks and their camp-i is in
hollering distance of the place.
However, this is ont the only bad
hole. There is a string of them all
the way from Arlington church to
the gravel roads.
Yours for better roads,
w. E. Brent.