The Crittenden press., 1920-05-14
Crittenden County Roads
BY E. JEFFREY TRAVIS

The weekend brought a good many
citizens into town, 'cussin' and dis .
cussin' the roads
Bob Gibbs AYERS that the roads in
his community would bog buzzard; |
Perce Brasher thinks II dangerous to
undertake to go anywhere, even to
Sunday school, except on foot or in
flying machine; Tom Ed Walker says
travelling On his roads is not so bad
II it would not give you seaslckness,
so muddy: Charlie Hina says the
Salem road is in fairly good shape ex
cept there is about eighteen inches 0;
stuff on top that renders travel a
little laborious Uncle Dick Cruce
and Jeff Clement, the most optimistic
Of all callers and commentators, blame
mostly the unusually wet and freezing
weather that we have been having
rather than the county road engineer
and the overseers for our extremely
muddy roads at this particular time.
jeff says If It gets so he cannot go
on horseback he will walk, or go
around. Uncle Dick is feeling good all
over Mr.. Rees, with his crew Of
helpers, are now surveying close to
his place, and he can imagine a good
road If the wolf never comes after
the sheep Uncle Dicks good road
spirit cannot be equaled or outdone
by anybody unless it Is Jack Baker
Jack says, run 'er thru any of my
fields you want to. own both sides -
Uncle Dick says, "Td like to save the
pond. but if it takes it, let 'er go. I'm
fur ye."
hope all landowners along this
right-ofway will be as enterprisng
and public-spirited as these two men
and help instead of hindering TIE coun
ty in this much.needed improvement
The more trouble over rights-of-way
the greater cost there will be to the
county: the longer We will be in get
ting the road. and still the landowner
will get no more for his lands, prob
ably not so much should he take il
into the courts.
It is proposed by some of the citi
zens OF the Dycusburg community tc
have Mr.. Rees, while he Is here, sur
vey the road from the Marion ant
Princeton road to Dycusburg, and the
project is being considered by those
in authority, but W. will not know un
i'll the division commissioner comes
again
+ Back to the mud AGAIN. Really,
I think there are a great many of u
, who have mud on the brain" whel
r we try to travel or think about work
I ing on the Crittenden county roads
inst now. A thousand times in m
life. yea! thousands of times, have
1 arrived at the point where | though
) had bumped square up against tn
/. immovable, with no avenue arount
i over nor under. but have been gettin
e hy these fifty years. 1t looks now tha
the Crittenden county roads are pas
an uSiESs w iidN uiC VIC SOihS w Wv
r We all want to know. ! don't believ
n the roads have been any worse
e these fifty years. still they tell us "
Il have spent more money for plov
d and teams than ever before; that II
funds for roads and bridges has bee
smashed into worse than ever. We
D. what does 1t signify? 1t signifies
d wasteful, spendthrift sort of syster
y What do you say to having every abb
SC bodied citizen from eighteen to eight
81 or any other age as to that matte
become a road hand, and landown
and teamster be required to work h
Y team on the roads as many as six da!
y each year. il necessary without p
for said teams or implements. Th
-. " will save the S. 10000 to $1,000
- spent on our dirt roads each year al
give II to us to he used with sta
,, aid in building some permanent roaC
~. We. under the present law. can c
,a used under state supervision and wi
,is si.O0 worth of work done for Soc,