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Identifier: southerngoodroad1915varn (find matches)
Title: Southern good roads
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Varner, Henry B North Carolina Good Roads Association
Subjects: Roads Roads
Publisher: Lexington, N.C., Southern Good Roads Pub. Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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in the spending of the money to see that the peo-ple of the state got their money baek in every iiistance. South Carolina. In Chesterfield eonnty, there is being waged an intelli-gent, enthusiastic campaign for a sjstem of good roadsfor the entire county. The plan is to have every town- on a poor road; and if jou feel lonely and out of theway. there is nothing that will do so much toward help-ing this condition as Good Roads—they make themiles short, as the Chinese say. Every farmers wife.should be a Good Road Booster, and should at alltimes, and in every possible way use her influence andher voice to the improvement of the highways and roadsof her township, county and state. The farmers wife,above all others, wishes the country to be a pleasantplace in which to live, and in mam^ cases, few thingswould do more to bring her in t(nTch with her neigh-bors, and the outside world than would be the buildingand maintaining for all time of The Road ThatRuns bv Home. Good Roads allow Mothers
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ship in the county issue bonds and build a system forthe whole county, under the supervision of a competent _engineer. In this issue appears a photograph of the group ofmen who are leading the fight in their respective town-ships. The cut was sent to Southern Good Roads l.iy;\Ir. LaCaste Evans, of Cheraw, who is famous through-out his section as the Good Roads Pusher. The elec-tion comes oft on the second Tuesday in Hay. Sir. Evans is carrying his good roads campaign intothe homes of the people. He has addressed recently tothe women of Chesterfield county, the following ap-peal : The Road That Runs By Honni is the road inwhich yoii are vitally interested, because it is the onethat makes it hard or easy for you to go to town, orto church, or to see the neighbors, or for the childrento get to school. The distance from all these places de-pends not alone upon the number of miles that lie be-tween you and them, but to an almost equal extent up-on the kind of road >ou have to travel ove

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