The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1919-04-16
SULLIVAN TOWNSHIP
CLAIMS RECOGNITION

otilef townships have OGtten Rail-
rohls and Sullivan Would have Dirt
Roads at Least, Says Correspondent.
Editor of The Advertiser:
write relative to the work Of the
highway Commission. l see from
their report that they recommend a
changc OF grade Of road from Clinton
10 Laurcns, which has been reported
as the best auto road in the state. Now,
lets go back little in 1878. While q
member OF the Legislature / voted for
Dlll to appropriate 100000 to build
railroad from Greenwood to Spar
tanburg, and $4,000 to extend the
ROAD from Iaurcns to Grecnvillc.
neither line touching Sullivan town
snip. Why did l do it? Because Lau-
| rcnS county needed help at that time.
Laurcns was onc-horse town; with
| RobinSon Hotel, few commercial
houses and q number Of small shops
where you could get all the booze you
wanted She had shade trees along
the streets with chairs for the clerks
to sit in. About the time Of the Crews
riot my faithful body servant Sam.
VINO had gone with me during the Civil
war, had a petty case in court and
when the trial came off, lost his case.
lie returned from Laurcns very much
disappointed and indignant at the ac-
tlOn of the court He said, 'MarSc Joe,
i'aurons is no place 10 hold court. They
ought to turn her out" mention this
to show the condition of Laurens at
that time. Princeton is 20 miles to
Waterloo, s miles to Laurcns, 16 miles
to Gray Court where we have been
paying taxes on railroad bonds for a
number Of years and no direct benefit
received. Now justice demands that
the Highway Commission should build
the first line of good roads from Lau-
rcns to Princeton in lieu Of the tax
Sullivan township has paid the coun-
ty for railway bonds. At Princeton
you connect with top-soil road to
Grccnville and PclZcr and from Pei
|
The question might be asked, why
should the Highway Commission paral-
lei the line Of railway If the taxes tC
be paid is for the benefit Of the tax
payers? 1t looks that Fountain Inn
Gray Court and other points in the
county should be satisfied with the
$l5O,0OO investment which they have
been enjoying for years and let Sulli,
van township get a little of the $780,.
600 voted. Why bless you, when they
wanted to vote the road bonds, they
sent strong delegation from Laurcns
and Gray Court to Princeton and hat
speakers from Grecnvillc to persuade
the township to vote for the bonds, ant
we voted It, Now, ask those same
men who were at Princeton, to sec that
Justice is mectcd out to Sullivan town
ship. The distance from Kinards tC
Fountain Inn is &c miles From La,,-
rcns to Enorcc IL 1-2, Laurens to Cross
Hill and Vaughnville 23; Boyds Cross
roads to Waterloo and Puckctt's Fer
ry, 10; Laurcns to Princeton 49, The
point | make is that the funds will be
exhausted before the Highway Com
mission reaches the Princeton line un-
less they build our line among the
first, which is rightly deserved We
dOst want to be like a poor man at a
frolic; vote and pay taxes and get
nothing
The action Of the Highway Commits
sion in changing the road from Clin-
ton to Laurcns which Is regarded a
| first class auto road bed is typical that
they don't mind spending money. 7
warn the voters Of Sullivan township
to be on the alert. that there is dan
| ger ahead.
Respectfully submitted,
j, b. III'MBERT