The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-04-28
MT. HERMON FOLK DON'T
WANT NEW ROADTORIVER
Employ Counsel to Fight Move to Build Lateral
Road By Foreman Stock Farm-Proposed
Road First Suggested by W. L. Cohoon

Black Head sign post thru vir-
gin territory to the Perquimans
County line. If Mt. Hermon
township is to get any sort of
road out of the funds available
after the roads under contract
are completed, Mt. Hermon pre-
fers that road to follow an es-
tablished route, directly benefit
ting the largest possible number
of land owners.
Certain members of the Pasquotank
Highway Commission are in favor of
the construction Of a new road that
would particularly benefit the Foreman
Stock Farm Development and at the
same time open up lot of new ter
ritory in the county. The Commission
ers favoring this project present good
many arguments in favor of it, but
they are in to hear a lot OF opposl-
ton. The following is a petition cir
culated this week by irate Mt. Hermon-
ties who have employed Attorney ]. c.
Brooks to represent them:
"TO THE HONORABLE FASQCO-
TANK HIGHWAY COMMISSIONS:
"The undersigned, land owners and
fax PAYERS of Mt. Hermon Township.
having been informed that an effort
would be made to induce your Honor
able Board to build a hard surface road
from Black Head sign post to- Short
Crooks or Perquimans County line, by
route that would run said road
through the J. W Foreman stock farm
and the farms of Geo. II. Winslow and
the heirs of Exum Chappell, respectful
ly protest against such action by your
Honorable Board and assign as the
grounds of their protest the following
reasons:
"That the route above indicated If
off the usual line of travel and would
necessitate the building and draining of
new road for two or three miles,
through desert land, all of which would
be attended with considerable expense.
If the old road, which turns off opposite
Elisha Harris residence is. adopted as
the route for the hard surface road.
il would be in the usual line of travel,
over an old road bed which is drained
and would pass farms owned by the fol-
lowing named persons: Elisha Harris,
Elijah Whitehurst, J. G. Brooks, c. A.
Only, Mrs. Thomas Tuttle, Mrs. L. A.
Bundy, Salathal Butt, II. p. Perry, j.
Walter Perry, J. Clayton Davis, s. A.
Morgan, J. W. Foreman, ]. A. Woods
heirs, Alphonzo Davis heirs, Noah
Bright Jr., Exum Chappell's heirs, Mrs.
Bell Sivils. Geo. H. Winslow, J. w.
Perry and John Butt. This route would
run practically to Mt. Hermon Church
and by Pasquotank Station on Norfolk
Southern Railroad, where the farmers
in that locality get their lime, guano
and ship their grain and truck crops.
There is very little or no difference in
the distance in the two routes. Besides
the farms above mentioned by which
the hard surface road would pass, if the
old route is adopted, there is quite a
number of farmers who would be mate
rally benefited, who live off the old
route but in close proximity thereto,
whereas if the new route is adopted
they would be q mile and half or two
miles from a hard surface road and
would have to travel that distance, off
the usual line of travel, over dirt
road, to reach the hard surface road.
The undersigned request that before
final decision is made by your Honor
able Board that they be given an op-
portunity to be heard"
The petition is signed by: J. D. Butt,
P. Miller, H. H. Perry, w. NJ. Lane,
o. ]. Lane, Charles Godfrey, j. E.
Lane, ]. X. Layden, T. S. Ownley, n.
B. Brothers, W. w. Jennings, E. r.
Jennings, H. D. White, w. L. Nixon,
Chas. i. Sawyer, J. f. Perry, W. B.
Weeks, G. L. White, r. n. Cofeld, G.
H. Winsow, Mrs. S. P. Lane, S. 7.
Lane J. z. Bundy, Lemuel Wilson, ].
W. Perry, Noah Bright, Jr., J. c.
Brooks, T. G. Perry, J. B. Ownley, B.
d. Winslow, ]. w. Hyatt, Jr.; ]. c.
Russell, L. Perry, c. L. Munden, p.
A. Bundy, R. C. Russell, c. A. Bundy,
J. G.. Davis, John r. Matthews, Walter
Combs, Kizzah Combs, S. A. Perry, E.
Sample, Lucy Sample, c. f. Cartwright,
+. Russell, Noah Bright, Sr, T. NJ.
Ownley, H. G. Bundy, Naomi Bundy,
Lonnie Bundy, Pattie Gregory, Sarah
o. Ludford, David Morgan, Y. w.
White, Eva White, ]. C. Bundy, Julia
Bundy, Martin L. Butt, Sadie G.. Butt,
Rosetta Butt, J. H. Whitehead, Denaie
Thompson, Nathan Thompson, c. A.
Whitehead, NJ. P. Bell, Matte Bright,
c. G. Bright, NJ. L. Godfrey, Rufus F.
Chappel, Glennie Wood, J. f. Wood.
Belle Sivius, Wilson Sivills, ]. T. Own
ley, Mae Ownley, J. H. Munden, Cleo
Munden, ]. B. Lowe, Katie Lowe, ".
A. Ownley, W. f. Whitehead, Alice
G.. Whitehead, J. A. Harris, Mae Har-
ris, Miles Harris, Rebecca Harris,
Preston Harris, Georgia Harris, Isaiah
Brothers, Lizzie Brothers, Jerry Me-
bane, Caroline Mebane, c. l.. Winslow,
Johnnie Winslow, John l.. Wood, r.
l.. Daniels, Mrs. Eula Wood Daniels,
S. A. Morgan, Mrs. Annie Morgan,
Louis Godfrey, Rebecca Godfrey, Sala-
thial Butt, Pauline Butt, H. P. Perry,
Mary Tuttle, NJ. A. Davis, Charles Da-