The Monett times., 1922-09-15
ROAD MEETING AT KINGS
PRAIRIE SCHOOL


The Kings Prairie Community Good
Roads Club No. 2 held a jollification
in honor of the completion of another
mile of gravel road, at the Kings
Prairie school house last Saturday
night.
Frank A. Wightman was the main
speaker and addressed the crowd as
follows:
My Friends and Neighbors:-
. / have been invited to come and
celebrate with you the completion of
1922 activities in road building and
talk few minutes on the subject
that l love, and that is Cooper
ation."
You all know that this is a great
world and it is a good world and
practically everything in it is all right
except the people. They are tie only
things l can see that is wrong.
A lot of fellows are now going over
this country trying to reform US folks
trying to get us to make some
Achanges that will make farming con-
ditions, community conditions and
every other fellows condition better.
OF course their advice is free and we
can take it or leave it alone, that is
our business.
But yor myself, | have come to the
conclusion that there is nc use to
complain, find fault or \ do much
knocking on the other fellow or his
method of doing things. We gain few
friends and accomplish little and adj
vance our purpose slowly.
/ believe we, in this community
have become fully convinced that We
were dissatisfied with the conditions
of our highways, in fact, we were sc
hampered and so delayed in going tc
and from our market, our church oil
school, especially during the period NJ
the breaking up of winter weather
and the following spring months, that
we all wanted to change doctors ant
medicine, as our complaining anc
fault finding, our cursing and praying
.availed US nothing in way of better
, ment OF improvements on our time
or muddy roads. So we changed
doctors and medicine too, and became
| active liz Community enterprise, III.
cooperation.
] leave it to each man, woman ant
child who lives on Kings Prairie Il
answer. For my part, / am satisfied
You have demonstrated not only tt
Barry county, but to the world tina
cooperation WINS. We in this com
munity worked out our own problem
and we have merely scratched th'
/ surface. Organized barely two years
we have built more permanent hare
surface roads for ourselves and neigh
bors to travel, on business OF pleasure
bent, than has been built through j.;
period hardening back to the days o
frontier settlement by your fore
| fathers.
/ Just go back to our first meeting
some two years ago, when only six o
seven men answered the call, thel
look to this army of Interested folks
At that time we agreed cooperation
would lift Kings Prairie out of tn
Lmud. Today we have some eight
active members who are proud o
their accomplishments and justly Sc
for we have to our credit four and
half miles of good gravel, grade
roads, asking only for maintenance
way of drag each time rlt appear
Just to iron out, and for years t
come have a road to the church, to tn
4 school house and to our markets,
I All this is accomplished by gettm
together and agreeing to forget, or a
least to forsake the old doctor and HI
medicine. to wipe the slate clean an
with face to the rising sun marc
forward as one man under one flas
on TO victory
t May God in his wisdom give u
courage TO be unafraid to continue o
and on until cooperation is bywor
| in each household and our public hlga
ways a credit, benefit and a thin
of delight to both man and beast, an
that we have forever discarded tn
old remedy, opposition.