Alma record., 1921-03-10
ITHACA MEETING
BOOSTS HIGHWAY
Gratiot Good Roads Association
Held Fine Meeting There
Monday.

One OF the most interesting good
roads netting that has been held in
.his part Of TIE state in months, was
Tie session Of the Gratiot County
Good Roads Association held in the
armory at Ithaca. which was attended
by nearly three hundred people from
various parts of the county, including
number from this city
Among the speakers at the meeting
wer Phil. T. Colgrove, w. NJ. Bly,
ant and other good roads men Of
note in Michigan Moving pictures
Of road work, and road conditions
was one Of the features Of the meet
ing.
The meeting had been called to
boost the Colgroye road, which if it
should be approved by the state leg
stature and constructed would trav-
erse Gratiot county to the south Of
Alma.
A resolutions committee appointed
at the meeting brought in resolutions
looking fer the betterment Of the
township roads of the county, and
which follow closely on an idea that
was suggested in The Record nearly
six months ago, in which an ade-
quate patrol system was advocated
on the township roads Of the county
The resolution which was passed
without a vote being recorded
against it follows:
believing that the experience OF
Gratiot county during the last year
proves that the patrol system will
greatly improve all classes Of roads
whether gravel or earth, and believ-
ing further,
THAT all the people Of the county
are Stitled to have brought to their
own doors, as much as possible Of
the benefit of the work for good
roads, AMI believing further,
THAT for some years to come Il
will be impossible to reach all parts
Of every township by state, trunk
line or county roads, and that such
state and county reads can only serve
as the great arteries of travel Of
which the township roads will con
tinue to be the feeders, therefore be
il
Resolved, by this association, that
we most cordially endorse the follow
ING plan Of township work and town
ship patrol:
81 Each township be divided in
10 two or more patrol districts.
"2. A competent man with team
and wagon be employed for each
district and furnished a road grader.
That he shall give six days of every
week through the summer exclusive
~ TO the road work of his district.
either using the grader, filling holes
with gravel or doing such other work
as may be required.
"3. That we fully recognize the
Importance Of putting all state aid
roads in proper repair and the full
and complete maintenance Of the
same and that nothing in this resolu-
zion shall be construed to conflict
with the repair and proper mainten-
ance of such roads.
IL. We further recommend that
highway commissioners in the va
rious townships be chosen solely with
refernce to their fitness and not on
a partisan basis, that patrol men be
employed for the season and be paid
wages which shall be uniform
I throughout the county thereby avoid
! ing friction between townships and
the county. We further recommend
80. That a vote be taken at each
Of the township meetings on the ques-
tion Of adopting the patrol system
for the township with as many patrol
men, not to exceed four, as is prac-
tical in view Of the other work to be
done in the township.
"6. That copies Of this resolution
be sent to the township committee
men Of the various political parties
and to the supervisor highway com
missioner and clerk Of each township