'.hot M lata Hurt A toy, wttMa ■
mdfaie of U «to:
Airy. Of thta HbBm. iTVft'iaaeo
Now lots go iMte Mi Nt if
< oacrete Mi oil rood to
Sforto, 16 aitao
Concrete road to
Winston, ..... li nsilos
Oocrrtt and oil rood Iwiu
to Stotoovtn*. . . . • mite*
Oil rood to WnUafeoto, - ft aittae
Oil road to Dobeea. imnilrf
and now being ballt by
Um •tot*, » ■iloi
Making a total of U miles of mm
crrtc and oil readb landing into El
kin within a radios of 1ft miiaa—this
against Mount Airy'. M mUm. Of
EOdn'i ft* miloa, IS 1-t «f It la oaa
mto against Mount A try's 14 1-t
' miloa. Wo contend that the aban
figures spaak tho troth t—etmhglg.
«s to what* tha state and mntjr
lands aro being apont.
All agrao that the rooord should he
kept correct ao wo mat eahaUt a few
mere figures. It is charged that.
"about »16U.000.00 m ipant
on tkt om mad (Wi Mi—t
Airr-Lmrpip mi"
AD of Mount Airy teaashlp'* roads
w*r« built by boni money nttd by
the tax payers of -taunt Airy town
ship. with the exception of 1 1-t
miles from White Plaina lasdinr to
ward Roekford. In the days when the
townships war* doing their own road
work and up-keep Mount Airy towa
ahlp voted a total of SMJM road
funds, with a tax levy of M cents to
pay off the beads and keep up the
reads. But when it hsean advisable
to make the road work a county-wide
proposition Mount Airy townahip
went into it unanimoualy |ivin| up a
local tax rate of >0 cents far road
up-heep aad is paying instiad a rate
«f 40 cents—Just twice as much. With
the townahip money we built the
Lowgap read as far as the Stewarts
Creak Hue, aad Stewarts Creek moa
ey built h to the leaa Richards place,
leaving U milea to the foot of the
mountain that wis built from eonaty
funds at a coat of ttMOO. Aad seat*
thing leas than $80,000.00 was repair
ed to Wild the S 1-t milea up the
whara^the*OraiJ^OM^Man^had peeT
My preahed John Fetger, W. P.
Carter, at aL, that hs would asset the
ftrteads would htw the |Mph helium
this read cost Just twtoe what tt did
la Mb.
Elkia. the County
and the Highway
•ion. U the darp tha
done in Um dark. Tha
newspaper ha* far weak
oriag that the auditors report
made pub he. A Tribune
tive aaked a wakar of the Caunty
Board of ComeUakwwra If tha audit
waa ready far publication and waa
told that K would ha i«ady far pub
licatioa in doe time. This waa a aatia
factory answer, heeiaae k ia the bual
neaa of the Board to tra Heart Ha own
buaineas without the dictation from
any newspaper.
It ia reported however, on good au
thority. that saaw of tha facta
known iu th«
The County
not triad to injur* Mm character of
two aai oa the Highway „
Before the Graad Jury
tioo of the a adit, tha aw
alleged to hava
trading, and that the
The Caunty Highway
SI50.000.00 of the
lnierrntin$ Item* OUnm
Mount j/fry .Vrirg 21
ty-one Years Ago
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•d From ike File* of The
Yeart Ago Thi* Week;