Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-01-29
Very Respectfully,
J. C. SHEPPARD.
Supervisor Broadwater Re-
organizes for 1919.

To the People of Edgefeld County:
AS Supervisor of Edgefeld County
l appeal to you to cooperate with me
during the present year to put our
roads in better condition. 1t is diff
cult to make the people realize what
good roads mean and are worth to
them, besides the money saved in
preventing wear and tear of vehicles
and the hard pulling on their stock.
They enhance very much the value
of real estate, promote education,
make the county more attractive, and
are really the greatest civilizers ever
known. My ambition is to help the
people of the County to secure hard
surface and properly drained roads
throughout the County. With this cb-
iect in view, l have discussed my
plans with many fellow-citizens, con-
cerning my conclusion to adopt the
following plan for road working for
1919: that is to divide all the public
highways | in the County into sections,
then will endeavor to appoint some
public spirited man living near the
same as overseer Of that section. His
duty shall be to organize the labor in
the community of said section, and to
receive contributions, labor and other
valuable things suitable for road con-
struction to be used on the roads in
his section My intention is then to
confer with the said overseers and to
have an appointed time for having
the machinery of the County with
persons to operate the same on such
sections, and at the same time to ask
the overseers Of that section to have
Ia certain number of volunteers from
his list for road work, without COM
pensation from the County. l favor
the return to the townships money
paid as computation tax, and wish
that the law was so written. will un-
dertake to make application of this
tax according to that view. We have
a great many miles of public roads in
Edgefeld County and it is impossible
to put all of them in proper repair
with the tax raised by the present
method, and I believe it is better to
have the system above referred to,
than material increase in the tax
levy to the extent that is necessary
to make good roads.
Of course, there are people who
will oppose this mehod, but knowing
the people of this County as well as
l do, l feel that we have enough pa
triotic people in Edgefeld County
who will volunteer their service and
the use of their stock, vehicles and
hands ten days during the year when
ever it is necessary to secure good
roads.
1t must be realized that roads can
not be made without material and
labor. The County is absolutely un-
able to furnish labor under the pres
ent system for this purpose, but feel
certain that the labor can be supplied
along the roads with such help as can
and will be given by the convicts
without any loss to any one.
In the next issue of the paper, |
will divide the principle roads of the
County into sections and will expect
the people along the various sections
to organize and let me know of their
organizations by the 18th of March.
The people of the County with
means should compete with one an
other in their contributions to the
public roads, and of course each con-
tributor would have the right to say
which section of any roads should get
the benefit.
If any section of any road so divi-
ded as above suggested do not organ
ize and cooperate with me, l will do
the best l can for them anyway, but
I do not see how we can hope to have
as good roads as those who have such
organizations.
NV reason for constructing the
Divie Highway through this County,