The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-04-02
LIONS CLUB RALLY
FINE SPEAKERS
AND GOOD ROADS
Ladies of the Cumberland Church
Serve Dinner.

thru the generosity of the Elks oi
Union City, the Lions Club was
able to entertain a number of the
good roads speakers of Tennessee and
members of Che County Court OF
0bion County.
A regiDter of the list shows a ros-
ter Of some one hundred and fifty
or more around the tables and every
body dressed up with good roads
. expression.
The dinner was one of those affairs
possible only to the skill of the la
dies, and especially the Cumberland
ladies who have been called upon
frequently on occasions like this.
Mr.. House, one of the State High
way Commissioners, was the first
speaker DR.. Turner called on for an
address. Mr.. House first paid his
: compliments to the ladies, stating
that tho he had been a candidate in
Weakley County in a number of
races he would like to run once more
for the privilege of electioneering
with the ladies.
But speaking to the point Mr..
House said he came to Obion County
to make some statements setting
forth as clearly as possible the atti-
tude of the State Highway Commits
sion with respect to the Bristol-to-
Memphis highway thru Obion Coun-
ty. Last July the County Court ac-
cepted proposition from the State
Highway Commission and a resolu-
tion was passed accordingly to the
effect that the county authorize the
issuance of $15O,O0O in bonds, to be
used on the Bristol-to Memphis high
way in the county, routed from the
Weakley line to Union City, thence
to Troy and Hornbeak and to the
lake to connect with the lake road.
At the January term of the court
an amendment to this resolution was
passed, which called for the exten-
sion of the road from Troy to Obion
and Glass and thence to Hornbeak
and the lake.
Mr.. House said he did not come
here to criticise anyone but to call
attention to the fact that change
had been made in the original reso-
luton to cover more territory and
for that reason the State Highway
Commission could not accept the res
olution as amended, and therefore
unless the next April term of the
court rescinded it's action in adopt
ing this amendment, the Federal and
State aid for such road would not |
be available. There were, said Mr.. |
House, numbers of counties ready |
for survey, and but for the fact |
that he refused to recognize the res
olution as it was amended by the
County Court and put his surveyors
in the, county, it would have been
ACNCO6GIy w aDduuOh JuO WOI uCIC |
and answer other calls, thereby de-
laying the work in Obion. Mr..
House said he felt sure that Obion
would rectify this error when it was
thoroly understood that he could
not proceed without the sanction of
the Federal Commission, and the
Federal Commission had already
adopted the resolution as passed in
July, 1919.
Mr.. House said that we would have
to become reconciled to the fact that
we could not have at once all the
local roads we needed. The trunk
lines must first be served as provided
by the U. s. Department of Agricul-
ture. The point is often raised that
people should be left. free to locate
and build their own roads, but, said
the speaker, have the people ever
made any provision independently
for good roads? !
The next speaker was Mr.. Joe
editor of the Dresden En- (
.erprise. He remarked that he was ]
not familiar with our local road
matters, but in his own county he
had been very much interested in |
yood roads, for twenty years enlisted :
n the work in his county. A road
vas proposed thru Weakley running /
forth and south, but this road, which I
vas intended to develop some of the I
lest country in the county, was tenn
,orarily abandoned in order to join g
he State Highway Commission in I
he building of the highway east and
vest thru the State, the Bristol-to- t
fomphis Highway. n
Mr.. Moore, business man of Nc
Icnzie. was present and responded \
o call for some remarks. He was T