The Adair County news., 1922-10-24
BIG SHOW COMING.

county clean all OF the Bushes, BrlarS
and filth from their farms where the
county roads runs. The concert of
this show will be held in the Adair
county court house at Columbia, Ky,
and will be free to every one to, enter
who fails to comply with this request
Now land owners of Adair. county, l
did not make this law, but am go
ing to enforce it. am going to be-
gin soon to go over every road in the
county and l know who owns all OF
the land along the road side, and 1
am going to see that every one who
fails TO comply with this law gets the
limit Of fines that may be coming to
each one Of you. L have not got any
thing against any Of you personally,
but l am going to enforce the law Co
best of my ability. took the oath
of Office and made my Bond as your
County Judge, Notwithstanding the
fact every day or two, some Wooid
be guardian for Adair county, comes
into my office and takes a great de-
light in telling me that / am a one
termer and also telling me what sue
cessfuI terms that some former OIL
cials had put up and so on. Now, L
want to say to this class of favor
hunters that possibly that they are
right about me being one termer,
but by the eternals am going TO let
you know who is your Judge while l
am in Office and not forget it for years
after 1 go out, and as TO the former
terms, the books Of this court will
show what successful terms has been
pulled of and who pulled. Now, 1
want to say to every OVerseer in the
county who has not got his time in to
get it in at once and to those who
have put In their six days and where
there road is in bad shape, issue an
emergency call and warn in al hands
and make them work until yoazslyads
are in good shape and mean for you
to get busy right now and don't delay
for winter is right now on us. 1 want
to say right here that water ruins
more roads than all combined traf1c
over our roads, and see that all roads
have the proper drainage We also
have an epidemic Of fellows filling up
bitches along the roads and resorting
ta.aIl kinds of obstruction on our roads.
II any community is bothered By any
of these WIRED, dirty raScais, l
want all overseers or private citizens
to report them to me at once and
when 1 get through with them. I
will have it impressed so deep in their
shallow craniums that they will stop
and think three times before they
will undertake to stop pig hole four
miles from county road. Now, 70
make long story short every man,
woman and child in Adair county
wants good roads, but there is about
ninety per cent of you that want the
other fellow to build them and if we
had eleven commandments inlt the Bi.
ble in the place of ten and one OF
them had read: Thou shalt not
work any road" there would be more
reference made to the eleventh com.
mandment than to all of the other ter
Or il we had some commandments
that read like this: '"Thou shalt not
kill or thou shall not steal, if you dC
the same day those shall work thu
road, I" we would never have heard Of
murder or paddock factory. So get
ting down TO brass tacks, you had just
as we'll get busy and work the roads
for am going to make it so unpleas
ant for those who don't that the only
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remedy will be the suicide route AM
be hauled over rough road to you
last resting place, where the sweel
fumes of birthstone will be your las
DESERT.
You;s for good roads,
c. G. Jeffries, J. A. G. c.