Identifier: southerngoodroad1914varn (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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-claring for two days labor, raised $200 by private sub-scription to be applied on the roads in connection withthis special free labor. This office is at your command for plans and speci-fications and I trust that between now and that dateall officials in each county will get together and ar-range plans of work. A special pamphlet for this oc-casion will reach you about May 10th. but in the mean-time do not let an opportunity pass to agitate and stiryour people for this occasion. An attractive piece of trade literature is the new cat-alogue just issued by the Koehring Machine Company,of Milwaukee, Wis. It is No. 19 and the handsomest ofthe series. The catalogue is devoted exclusively tothe famous Koehring Concrete Mixer and containsmany very beautiful cuts showing the Mixer at workunder all sorts of conditions and on all sorts of jobs.There is much information in the booklet that -vvillprove of great value to all contractors who have con-crete work to do. SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS May, 1914
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GOVERNOR HENRY D. HATFIELD, OF WEST VIRGINIA May, 1914 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS Butt cf WtBt Hirgittia Executive Department A PROCLAMATION: To the People of tbe State of West Virginia, Greeting: Whereas. The urgent need of good roads has brought tous one of the greatest problems of this day of unprecedent-ed progress and is recognized by all as a commercial improvement that will result in the greatest good to the greatestnumber; and Whereas, There obtains a unanimity of opinion that no effort or expenditure could bring quicker, surer or greaterdividends than that directed toward the construction and improvement of our public roads; and Whereas, In this State the people are fully awakened to the benefits that will be realized from better roads, linkingtogether in ties of closer relationship the different communities and affording avenues of commerce; and Whereas, The construction and betterment of roads is a matter of direct concern to every citizen; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Henry D. Hatfield, Go

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