The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-10-15
The Commercial, Union City, Tenn.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER Is. 1920.
LIONS CLUB AT RIVES
GOOD ROADS MEETING
Former Mayor McNeill to Head Move
ment for New Road.

or Union City motored 10 hlVeS last
Tuesday night and met with a mum
Der of representative citizens of that
community in the interest of good
roads.
DR.. Turner, president of the club,
opened the meeting, and the quar-
tette was introduced in America"
and some other fine selections. The ]
music was by Messrs. Quinn, Jones,
Andrews and DR.. Anderson, e. L.
Crystal minister, was presented and
proceeded in one of the most intelli-
gent and practical discussions of
good roads ever heard here. In the
first place the minister is man of
we'll ordered mind and good English,
and he is an interesting speaker. He
was reared in Kentucky where the
country is famous for good roads,
fine horses, beautiful women and
pure water (?). Naturally the
schools, who're the roads are good,
are more or less favorably affected,
and he related the circumstance OF
a country school he had known
which had grown in twenty years
to remarkable proportions-from a
little red schcclhouse to a central
school sect with campus and cluster
of fine school buildings. This was
in his native State. Moving to one
of the Southern States he saw the
CONTRAST little neglected school
house used portion of the year
when the roads were passable-there
being no improved highways and no
progress in public education. Mr..
Crystal drew the picture of good
roads, modern schools and civic prog
ress in, contra1t with primeval roads,
deserted schools, Eackwood3 farming
and sluggish commerce. He stated
that money intelligently invested in
good roads is saving to any COM
munity. Good roads cost less in the
final analysis than the Losses sus-
tained in communities where the ar
teries of commerce, public school
highways and military roads are
neglected. The spiritual interests of
these communities are also dwarfed. |
The church interests become DOR
mant for lack of general attendance.
The active, living church is the one
where the roads are good and attend
ance is permissible at all times of
the year.
This address YVES the key note of
the meeting and before the close ev-
cryone had become imbued with a
mutual interest in good roads.
DR.. Henry Oliver, the club orator,
was present and he made another
one of those enthusiastic appeals for
a good roads spirit between the peo-
pie of Number Four and Number
Thirteen.
The president of the Obion County
Good Roads Association, w. G. Rey-
nolds, made an address concerning
the good roads movement in the
county to the effect that private en-
terprise would have to take UP the
work in Obion County, the State
Highway Commission having set us
back to twelfth place in line for pub
lie highway construction, and there
being no Federal and State road
funds .now on hand construction
would be deferred until new appro-
priations were made.
Mr.. Hugh Smith, the active and
sustaining power of the local good
roads movement, was called on, and
he made some statements concerning
the construction of the Gibbs road
and the obligations Of the Lions Club
towards the people of Rives. The
Gibbs road was selected because the
club was operating in unknown
quantities and thought best to limit
its initial undertaking to a mini
mum distance and scope of construc-
ton. The test was made and the
club feels safer now to meet the
people of Number Four in any plan
Of cooperative road building.
r. H. Rust, H. A. Bransford and
DR.. Anderson all had some timely
to make on good roads
and more particularly the road to
Union City from Rives.
DR.. Turner turned the meeting
over to Mr.. McNeill, who in turn s
called on Mr.. Clint Callicott, Mr.. 9
Walter Warren, Mr.. Claud Bolts and i
others, all delighted with the sug-
gestions made and ripe for coop !
erative movement with the Lions /
Club in building good road to I'm l
ion City. II
Organization was proposed and Mr..
McNeill was elected president of the
Rives branch of the Obion County I
Good Roads Association, Mr.. Claud I