Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-04-02
MADISON DOES Her
PART FOR HIGHWAY
Enough Money Raised By Pri-
vate Subscription To Complete
Link OF Federal Road

III NoNANA II w 1dSSltI GU.
Old Madison has done her
part nobly and well.
The $27, 600 which had to be
raised to insure the building of
Madison's part of the highway,
was completed at the meeting
mere Thursday afternoon. A
tabulation of the contributions
made by the Lancaster pike farm
ers and others who are interest
ed in securing good roads, is
being made and the Daily Regis
ter hopes to be able to publish it
in a few days. 1t is sufficient
now to be able to say definitely
that the amount needed by SUBJ
scription has been secured and
with the assistance of the Madi-
son Fiscal Court, which is
standing boldly for a good roads
policy, Madison's part OF the
government highway will be
built.
Practically the entire member
ship of the Fiscal Court were
behind the campaign, but ethe
hardest work was done by a
number of progressive citizens
along the Lancaster pike. All
did good work, but if any one
man worked harder or more
faithfully than MIR. w. o. Burke,
of Silver Greek, the Daily Regis
ter hasn't heard of him yet. Mr..
Burke was on the job constantly,
and assisted by Tom Baldwin,
Jr., just up from sick bed made
a personal canvass of every man
who might be expected to con-
tribute a cent to the big cause.
Messrs. Speed Taylor, M. {. Gov
ing and many oilers die fine
work, too, in fact almost every
man along the highway worked
hard and dug deep for the fund.
All were enthusiastic and heartily
congratulated at the meeting
Thursday afternoon.
Madison'S action now com
pletes the string for Boyle voted
her 2C-cent tax a few weeks ago
and Garrard voted her $4,000
bond issue Tuesday. The other
counties to the west Of BOYLE
have done their part, and the
great amount that the govern
men will spend on the highway
will now be available.
Speaking of"the steps that viii
be taken now, the Danville Mes
senger said:
Mr.. G. G. Appelton, who repre-
sents the State. Road Department
in this disrict,- left here tlG,
morning for Frankfort, where he
will take the matter OF surveys
etc, up with State Road Commits
sioner Boggs.
The Federal road will be con
,structed of some hard-surfaceC
material, to be selected by the
various counties through which
it will run and approved and built
by the national Government
The highway through Danyillt
will start at iardyville, in tiarr
county, where it connects Will
the Jackson Highway, runs iron
there to Greensburg III Taylo
county, Campbellsville, in Greer
county, Lebanon, in Marion coun
ty, Perryville and DanvilIe il
Boyle county : to Lancaster Vi;
Camp Dick Robinson in Garrard
and then on to Richmond il
Madison county where it will COZ
meet with the Dixie Highway
All Federal roads must start ol
a national highway and end on
national road. This is the rea
son it has been necessary for al
of the counties along this pro
pose route to agree to pay thei
part of costs.
The citizens of Green and Tay
lor counties raised money by pri
vate subscriptions; the citizen
of Marion voted 20-cent roa
tax; Boyle voted a 15-cent roa
tax, and Garrard has vote
bonds.