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
Bcb Gibbs AYERS that the roads in .
his community would bog a buzzard; /
Perce Brasher thinks II dangerous to
undertake to go anywhere, even to
Sunday school, except on foot or in a
flying machine; Tom Ed Walker says f,
travelling On his roads is not so bad |
II II would not give you seasickness, !
so muddy: Charlie Hina says the
Salem road is in fairly good shape ex,
cept there is about eighteen inches o;
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 1t 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, I'D like to save the
pond, but if it takes it, let 'er 60 I'm
fur ye"
| hope all landowners along this
right-ofway will be as enterprising
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 it
into the courts.
II Is proposed by some of the citi
zens of the Dycusburg community to
have Mr.. Rees. while he Is here, sur.
vey the road from the Marion and
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,
'hink there are a great many of ug
, who have mud on the brain when
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
l arrived at the point where though
; | had bumped square up against tn
+ immoyable, with no avenue around
I over nor under, but have been gettin,
9 ny these fifty years. 1t looks now tina
the Critterden county roads are pas
all using What are we going to do
= We all want to know. | don't believ
II the roads have been any worse Il
these fifty years. still they tell us W
Il have spent more money for plow
l. and teams than ever before; that tn
funds for roads and bridges has bee
smashed into worse than ever. Wei
J. what does It signify? It signifies
u wasteful, spendthrift sort of system
!! What do you say to having every abl
&c bodied citizen from eighteen to eight!
u or any other age as to that matte
become a road hand and landowne
and teamster he required to work HI
y team on the roads as many as six day
each year. il necessary without pa
for said teams or implements. Th
y. " will save the IS 10000 to $1,000
- spent on our dirt roads each year an
give It to us TO be used with stat
~ a'd in building some permanent road
a. We. under the present law, can g
NJ used under state supervision and wit
is Sl00 worth of work done for Soc.