The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-29
D.C-D Highway Activities

D.C-D Highway Activities
Secretary and General Manager D..
A. Palmer Of the pC.D Highway
writes an interesting letter from head
1uarters Of the association at cana
iian. Texas. concerning the work that
3 being done aud that is proposed to
Do done during the next three or four
months.
Ar Palmer calls attention TO the
act as general manager of the p-C-p
ne has been appointed member "l
he Federal Highway Council, and that
within that council he has been made
l member of the Advisory Committee.
This gives him considerable prestige
IN national highway matters and ne
Expects to be able to secure material
benefits for the D.C-D and all the
country which it travcrscs.
Mr.. Palmer also says that he has
devoted considerable time in securing
road bond issues i'm many counties IN
.hrer states through which the D't-D
,asses with the result that about SN'-
200 900 will be expended for roads IN
:hese counties and that the D.C-D VIII
get its fun share from these funds.
7.
-eport of the finance committee as rem
lered at the convention in Ardnor''
This report provides budget Oh
$40 600 for the coming year app"f-
ioned among the counties i'm the three
states traverscd by the highway
Among all of these counties the HN'
portionment Tor Carter county Is the
arcest. being $3.50. OF this amount
sIOO is charged to Ardmore, $2OO To
Wilson and $50 to Lone Grove.
The next highest assessment is
gGOo which was levied against Roger
Unls and Comauche counties in Okla
hona and Denton county, Texas.
we are in receipt Of literature sent
out by the National Association OF
owners of Railroad Securities setting
forth IN considerable detail reasons
and arguments for return of railroads
to their owners, and for their control
following such return Any member
Interested in this subject should caII
and examine this literature.
Probably on account of the neat
here have been less calls for service
and less demand for the imitation oI
new things during the past week tlah
in any week for six months past. HOW
oyer the office force has been tho'-
oughly busy trying to catch up VII"
routine work that was necessarily me-
lected to some extent during the uH'
usual rush Of business Of the past seN'
pral weeks We hope that one more
slack week viii see US with every
thing up to date and with the decks
cleared for new action, including aI
least two days on the Arbuckle noun
tain road.
w. A. Hail. living in the northeast
ern suburbs of the city, brought IN
one of the largest pumpkins that mas
been exhibited i'm Ardmore for many
wears. 1t was 50 inches in cireun-
ference and weighed Approximately ~
pounds ON account of an injury 10
the stem of the pumpkin, decay ma"
begun and after remaining ON 'Nlllpl-
tion two days it was found TO be rulneu'
If if had been possible to preserve TINS
hie nugget of nature for exhibition al
the fair it is quite probable that MI
Hall would have won blue ribbon
4 blueprint map Of the Indian Tran
.ocean.to-ocean" highway viii soon DE
in the hands of the local headquarters
of the organization and Colonel SuEsS
viii make use of it in tour covering
the route completely in Oklahoma from
Hollis to Idabel. Copy for the blue
print has been forwarded TO the head-
,,,o,.+e,,,. nf IN, Associated Highways OF