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IBER 3, 1926. Commissioner of vital iin _ peo 1? of (Say of good roads. We hove had t-Cbminis^'oner C ay county for tix or eight years, and during this time we have s ent between three and four hundred thou-, sand of dollars. Have we got full^ value returned for the amount of money spent?- We have something like twenty-four miles of highway constructed and under Construction in the county; but my understanding was, the State, when the Leg stature issued the seventy-five millions of bonds, was to construct and maintain a highway between each county seat. If this be true, the State wae obliged to build the road from the Cherokee county line t» the Macon eounty line, and, now, all we have to show for our three’ hundred thousand al ready spent is two or three miles of road'on Tusquittee. I am, and always have been, in {avor of good roads, but the question is: Do our county roads improve under the management of a Highway Commissioner? I say they do not. We are'paying between four and five thousand dollars road-tax money each year, and yet, our county roads are in no better condition than they were when they were worked entirely by free labor. The trouble is, very little of our tax money is spent on the roads. It goes to pay salaries and to hire road-overseers, and about a Seventh of roads W ' half-heartedly; because people are not willing to do something for which they have already been taxed to have done. I know a man who pays thirty dol lars road tax each year, and, yet, the road by his home has not been worked in six years. Does he receive full .value for the money he invests in good roads? If the people in Clay County would he aa particular about the money they invest in county government as they are in private business, we would have less expense and better government. There are two plans wljich I be lieve are better than our present one. First, work the roads entirely by free labor with free overseers—we save our taxes and have just as good roads. Second; work the roads by taxation with a supervisor for each township, who shall draw $2.00 per day for actual time spent on the up keep of the roads, and who shall be responsible to the Commissioners for Hie upkeep of the roads, and, who shall allow each man the privilege of working out his road tax. Let each tax payer of Clay county ask himself again the question: Does a Highway Commissioner Pay? VAN LEDFORD. This paper publishes the above -letter from Mr. Ledford, expressing his views on the County Road Ques Mr. W. T. Hunt, who runs a daily express*truck between Hayesville and Murphy had the misfortune to wreck his truck but Saturday afternoon as he was coming out of Murphy toward Hayesville. As he. was coming down the grade approaching the narrow -bridge over .Hiwassee Riyer. another car gofcig toward Murphy entered [ READY TO CARVE THE PUPDfr& By A. B. CHAPIN W6Ll,*U«, WRISTMAS SAVtj E—Funds -31 I II DSC. 1026 (—i — —• TOCAiTfi ft J.S. ROWLAND 43£Hjsquitile DIED TUESDAY Mr. J. S. Rowland, age 44 died Tuesday, November 23rd, at the home of his father Mr. R. L. Rowland on Tusquittee, funeral services were held at the Tusquittee Baptist Church conducted by Rev. F. B. Garrett. Mr. Rowland was formerly a mer chant of this county but had been in Tennessee for some time until several months before Ms death. open to any one who wishes to ex press their opinions about matters of importance. Nation’s Eyes on Al. ■ iY^’H'n 11 Summary of Clay County ... AggjtVReport The writer was emp’oyed a coup’e of days last week by the County Cerent to do stenographic work in making up his annual renort to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and these are some of the facts he reports to the Government. First, that he worked 300 days, had 12 vacation days and Christmas as a holiday. How many have worked this many days and taken this few holidays? This three hundred days his report showB has been worth to Clay county $33,795.43. His report shows that there are twenty-five people with from 100 to 200 pure bred hens, that there are twenty-five people with from 75 to 100 pure bred hens, fifty people with over 60 hens, that was the direct re sult of County Agent work in the three years the agent has been at work. And the report stated further that there are over 1250 pure bred hens in tbe hands of the farmers not included in the previous group. This report stated t^at the Agent had records that hens would pay $2.00 rer year clear profit over and above their keep. 7600 hens at a profit of $2.00 per hen is $15,000.00. This report stated that the cream station has paid in a year $6,870.43 for cream which, under the following system is figured profit. The skim milk at 50 cents per hundred fed to hogs and the increase on -his cattle from blooded cows and -registered bulls will pay for the keep of the cows and the manure will pay the farmer for. his} labor, leaving tbe aforesaid amount as clear profit to the. men who milk cows. The:work done on soils by the use of lime this year will pay the farmers $4800.00. The work done in orchard work has been-worth $1125,69 to the farmers. The Farmer’s Co-Operative Association of Clay cot ' fdirectly and indirectly made ! worth of saving to the county. ' Thetotal " MISSES KILLIAN AND HOGSED ' have wreck Miss Ora Killian and Miss Toby Hogsed ran together Wednesday afternoon the 24th, doing consider able damage to both cars. A front wheel was smashed and fender broken on Miss Killian’s Chevrolet roadster and axel bent and fender smashed on Miss Hogsed’s Ford coupe. The wreck happened just East of town on High way No. 28. Miss Killian was going East toward Elf and Miss Hogsed was coming into town. Slick road and rain on windshield seemed to be the cause of the mishap. The occupants of neither car were hurt New Oil Drill lAXTOCAtTIR | SUMMARY OF LAST WEEK’S NEWS ITEMS Sixteen killed and scores injured by explosion of fuel ta^ik of the steamship, Norweign tanker Mantilla as she was being repaired in dry dock at Sparrow’s Point, Baltimore. Accidental ignition of gas in fuel tank is blamed for the tragedy. J. B. Halford, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Halford, of Azalea was burned to death in a building which was destroyed by fire last Friday. TRe west is shivering in the grip of a zero temperature which swept over the Great Lakes. Minnesota is dig ging out of snow drifts six to eight feet deep. Five great lakes freight boats are at the mercy of the icy gale which lashed the entire lake area, three days ago. Queen Mane, of Roumania who has been in America for a month and traveled over 10,000 miles of our country sailed on the Liner Beren garia last Wednesday. The Queen had to shorten her stay in Ameri ca on account of the serious illness of King Ferdinand. Bootleggers attempted to burn the Chapel Hill Baptist church, eight miles from Asheville on the Asheville Hendersonville Highway, last Tuesday night. Parts of the building had been saturated with kerosene and set fire to. Garland White Operated Upon In Atlanta MfTWlandiWhlle, son oft Mr. and Mrs. J. Ri White was taked to- a hos >ital in Atlanta Sunday, November 21st, and was operated on the follow ing- day. He is reported to be getting along nicely. Ray White another son of Mr. and Mrs. White, who has been right ill with typhoid fever for several weekB is improving. Hayesville Beats Murphy Quintet The Hayesville High Schrfol de feated the crack Murphy High School quintet in a thrilling basket ball game on the Hayesville court last Friday before a large crowd of spectators by the score of 14 to 6. The Hayes ville team held the lead from the be ginning and was never in serious dan ger of being overtaken by the losers. Penland and Kitchens were very suc cessful in finding the goal. Cherry and Beal, as usual, were on the job | as guards. Rogers is a very reliable | forward but failed to break lose in this game as he often does. Line up and summary: Hayesville (14) Murphy (6) Pos. ' F Penland (6) .Haney (3) F Rogers (2) .Hembree (2) C . Smith
The Clay County News (Hayesville, N.C.)
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