The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-01-02

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send a good sized representation to
the annual meeting of the Montana
Highway Improvement association
which will be held in Billings on Jan
uary 9th and 9th. A special car will
leave Wolf Point on January 9Th and
will pick up delegations from Mon
dak, Poplar, Wolf Point, Glasgow,
Bowdoin, Malta, Harlem, Lehman and
Chinook. 1t is possible that they will
be joined at Havre by a bunch of good
roads boosters representing the Ro-
tary club or a good roads association
from Hill county.
The following delegates from nor
thern Montana have notified L. E.
Jones, secretary of the Glasgow cham
Der Of m and secretary-treas-
urer of the Northern Montana Devel-
opment association, of their intention
to attend:
Scott Hart, county surveyor of
Roosevelt county.
O. T. Stennes, who will represent
the Northeastern Montana Good
Roads association.
r. E. Patch, Roosevelt county COM
missioner.
R. M. Conner of the Poplar COM
mercial club.
o. M. Christinson and L. E. Jones
of the local chamber of m
s. J.. VasBinder, Bowdoin.
R. E. Richardson, Malta.
r. v. Bottomley of Harlem, who will
represent the Northern Montana De-
velopment association.
W. R. Baird of the Harlem Devel-
opment association.
F. B. Polly, representing Blaine
county.
H. B. Brooks of the Chinook cham
Der of commerce.
C. R. Hauke of Chinook, represent
ing the Milk River Valley Develop
ment association.
A. S. Lehman, representing Lob
man and Blaine county.
It is understood that R. V. Bottom
ley of Harlem and o. T. Stennes of
Wolf Point will represent northern
Montana on the program. The pro-
grams were mailed from Billings and
up to the time of going to press had
not been received at the local cham
Der of commerce. It will be published
in the Courier next week.
During the past year the Montana
Highway Improvement association di-
rectly and through the large number
of subsidiary organizations through
out the state have established a spirit
of cooperation that will soon make
good roads in every section of Mon
tana a reality. The various members
ia the different localities of the state
have exhibited every desire to further
the aims of the organization and have
worked in harmony to accomplish the
one great purpose Of the organization
as q whole.
The Ten Commandments for good
roads which was adopted by the Mon
tana Highway Improvement associa-
ton and Eastern Montana Good Roads
association are interesting enough to
be again reproduced:
/. Thou shalt have no other roads
before thee except highways, broad,
level and permanent.
2. Thou shalt not spend thy peo-
ple's money in building highways I'M
til thou hast secured a deed and title
to the right-of-way.
8. Thou shalt remember always that
the shortest distance between two
points is a straight line, and build
thy highways accordingly.
4. Thou shalt not build culverts
and bridges far above the grade of
the roadway, for if thou doest, when
the multitudes bump against them
they will bemoan thy lack of intelli-
gence, and curse thee.
S. Thou shalt not build roads of
gravel and thus waste the substance Of
thy people. Road bond issues are not
thy heritage only, but the heritage.
of future generations, and if thou
waste it on temporary construction
thine own children will rise up under
the burden of debt and call thee stu
pid and without vision.
6. Thou shalt mark thy highways
plain and often, so that the wayfarer
thereon, though a fool, shall find his
ltvay.
z. Thou shalt not make the turns
ln thy highways a right angle turn,
thereby endangering the lives of thy