The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-27
der any circumstances.

serious accident, where life depends
on the doctor reaching them on
time I? One life saved, pays for an
ENTIRE ROAD SYSTEM protect
your family and loved ones by as
sisting the county, the state and
the Government in Building road
by your house that will be passable
at any season of the year, and now
is the accepted time while the Gov
ernment stands with out-stretched
arms and an open pocket-book and
says come out of the mud and
mirey clay, we viii meet you half
way, and not cnly that, but will
give you better mail and rural ex.
press service as soon as the roads
are completed. They are anxious
to extend this service to you but
cannot under the present road con-
ditions.
Now we can get this government
assistance if we viii get busy and
start building some roads, the m on
ey is to be prorated, based on the
amount of the good roads being
built in each county ON a 80 per
cent basis, that is, we put up so per
cent of the money and the govern
ment sc per cent, but we will not
get anything il we continue to stand
around and curse the dipping vat
law the fish and game law, the dog
law and other laws, and topics that
would be useless to spend any time
or thought on now. What we
should do is to get busy and start
building some roads so we can get
some of this appropriation; and un-
less-we do, it win all go to other
counties where they are building
them, and we will be left in, the
mud to get out the best way we "a. |
I'VE IVA simply IN Dor1ssl.l.
these mud roads, just as the cnhsd-
rem of Israel were in Egypt making
mud-brick, but the Lord sent them
a leader (Moses) to lead them out,
and he did so; if he had not what
would have become of him? He
would have been discharged and
another leader put in his place that
would have led them out OH "ifI
he would only send us some lead
ers." Now as none of our former
county officials for all these years
have done anything to lead us out
of these mud roads, let's look
around and put in some real lead
ers, that can and will go forward
and get results, and help instead Of
hinder in this great work of building
some real roads.
The other day / was talking to a
farmer that started over to his
neighbor's 2 miles distant where he
was offered corn at $1.30 per bush
ell, but after he had pulled through |
the mud A miles and his team about
worried out, he asked about
the condition of the roads the |
reminder of the distance and learn
ing that they were almost impossible
he paid 81 so per bushel rather than |
try to go the other three miles, now
say for illustration the load was 20l
bushels he was out $500 in good |
money in a single day on account Of
bad roads, or more than enough to
pay a good supervisor to work a
whole day. devising plans to get bet
ter roads, and say that during the
same day 20 farmers in the county
were hauling corn under the same
conditions, they were out $4,000 in
money absolutely lost, for which
they will never get any return, or
enough to hire the best board Of
supervisors that the people could
elect, to work a whole extra day to
devise the best plans to build bet
ter roads, to say nothing Of the
amounts lost by the farmers in the
county that were hauling ties, tim
ber, lumber ETC., the same day with
their wagons not over one third to |
half loaded on account of the mud. |
These are the conditions the peo- /
pie of Tishomingo county are facing
every day; and the time has now
fully arrived far a change; and just
at this time comes the offered as
sistance OF the Government; so let's
clear the deck for action, by getting
all the drones and obstacles out Of