The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-01-26
DIRT ROADS ONLY
FOR THIS COUNTY
Senator ]. Howard Moore Will Intro
suce Bill in Senate This Week to
Hold Bond Election in April on
Question of $6oo,oo0 Issue
Good Roads in Abbe-
vile County.

proposes to prevent the building IN
Abbeville County of any hard sur
faced road, but provides that $780,
900 be spent for dirt roads.
The measure provides for the
holding of an election in this county
April 3 to decide the question OF
whether the people of the county
want roads of such character and
also provides for Highway commits
sion, named in the bill, to have
charge of the sale Of the bonds and
the expenditure Of the funds. A
sinking fund is provided for in the
measure. The members of this COM
mission as named in the bill follow ::
Supervisor W. A. Stevenson ex-
officio member, J. Allen Smith, J. S.
Stark, Joseph Hicks, T. O. Kirk
patrick, S. J. Wakefield, J. c. Ash
ley, A. Seldom Kennedy J. R. Lo-
max, R. L. Barmore and J. A. Gil
liam. The members of this corlmis-
sion are to receive no compensation,
except actual expenses, and are to
be bonded in the sum of $4,000.
The bonds to be issued are to hn
known as Highway Improvement
Bonds of Abbeville County; shall be
in denominations of $1,000 each,
shall be serial coupon bonds, to run
for such terms of years as the COM
mission shall deem advisable, but
none less than 80 years or exceeding
40 years; shall bear interest at the
rate of not exceeding five percent.
It is proposed in this bill to build
the following dirt roads:
|. Abbeville to Mccormick County
line by way of j. A. Gillian, R. w.
Knox, John McGaw, known as Cal
houn Mill road.
2. Gililam's Gin House to Nc
Cormick County line by way of
Lebanon Church, Mrs. Gilbert, DR..
Sherard place, known as Island Ford
Road.
8. Fork of road at Hill Place to
Mccormick County line by way of
Dave Wardlaw, Norman Cason to
Clatworthy's Gross Roads, known as
Snake Road.
4! Abbeville to Greenwood County
line at. Cedar Spring House, known
as Dr.. Pressly place, by way of L. a.
Jackson, Mrs. R. L. Winn, j. F.
Sutherland, known as Cedar Springs
Road.
5. Abbeville to Greenwood County
line either by way of W. A. Steven
son or Frank McCord.
6. Abbeville to Greenwood County
line by way of J. r. Lomax, George
Mundy, Buzzard Roost, known Is
Hodges Road.
7. Abbeville to Greenwood Coun-
ty line by way of r. H. and J. A.
Stevenson, Richardson place, W. L.
Cason place, A. F. Calvert place,
known as Douglass Mill Road.
s. Abbeville to Due West, by way
of R. B. Ferguson, Long Cane
Church, w. ]. Milford, Buck Stand
Ellis Brothers, known as Dpe West
Road.
8. w. L. Dawson to Douglass Mill
Road by way of Pierce Bowen, T. w.
McCord and W. W. L. Kellar.
10. Due West to Donal3s by w.
of James Todd place.
II. Donalds to Anderson County
line, parallel with Southern Rail
road.
-. Donalds to Greenwood Coun-
ty line by way of John Dunn and
William Singleton.
13. Donalds to Greenwood Coun-
ty line near Ware Shoals by way of
R. L. Barmore: Razor place, James
York place.
ID. Maddox place to Anderson
County line at J. A. Black place by
by way of Watt Johnson's place,
James Williams and Rev. R. w.
Burts.
IS. Due West to Anderson County
line near Honea Path by way of JAS.
Pruitt, The Hook, Ashley Store, J. Ra
Pruitt and J. A, Brock and the Kay