Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1924 — Page 6

What do Better Roads mean to Adams County? I IF’.. Indiana adds 911 miles to high- . way System under Federal plans | t. . - | The greatest problem and the most important work for any j - TIU 1 V "jf = community at this time is Better Hoads. This is the automobile I i t i-rb fi"TH' •* |Sva/-r" r L! age and the millions of cars each day traveling up and down the I | ’ r highways of America have made it necessary for each community iSilj ~ !j*\ s jl -t ' which desires to keep step with progress, to see that roads are conic “""V ~ ’ffr II structed in the very best and most economical manner and then b^sg^U^ r j.j%^f a maintained. Adams county right proudly boasts of more than 700 1 ° n l miles of macadam road. During the past two or three decades we " I‘.yT>'rn yAd _. * have replaced the old mud road, impassable several months in the ~ "year, with stone surfaced highways which have .paid for themt: i/YT 4*- 1 selves in various ways and made it possible for our people to enjoy l'3&vv' e ' the pleasures and profits of automobiling. But with the increas\^rk: ‘ ” «*1 number of cars and the consequent larger amount of traffic, * y~r ~ .-y , J £ * * come demands that the main arteries be widened and improved. \ <v The State Highway Commission organized a few years ago, 1 Pi^-' — iZjk** j is doing a wonderful work. More than three thousand miles of f* *' “ highways in Indiana, touching every county seat have been taken —t-*4f over and improved and this work is to go on until the old Hoosier j* $ state highway Recently the commission submitted a plan to the Federal c system „ Highway Bureau for 911 miles of additional state highway, inINDIANA eluding the road from Huntington to Decatur and east to the state ? 'NdANA state • ' U-tB,l 1 7 F? 'S v •»***• f I «H Cr«wf«rW Wot*r & Zafcrt —system anti it is believed w ill be accepted. The map shown here- > ~ - • • } with gives the complete routing of the new proposed highways m H IGKWAV CfOMHir-SfiloS — :JTT3M -.- i :i .t' ■* | —-» -|—addition to the old. (Courtesy Indianapolis Star) , S - . - . . . i Adams county has more \%r • ■ 1 i * rwo state highways will than 700 miles of Macadam W C apDrCClSlte &QVcintcigCS • make this a center of travel roads, covering every town- • 1 • 1 and traffic. The north and ng several °* location on mam highways Z . state from Cincinnati to We expend each year The Decatur Industrial Association appreciates the Grand Rapids and north ahout SIOO,OOO in maintain* . . nnd south from those • interest manifested by the State Commission and urges erne. [joints. the co-operation of the people of this community to take We should all be inter part in the plans for a better highway system. It’s a The proposed east and ty superintendent in tak- great work and means much to this city and county in Cleveland to CWcago and ing care of these highways. the years to come. This would give Adams county a west from those Help the officers en- north and south line from Cincinnati to Grand Rapids ffrea t centers of business | force the laws and help and north, and an east and west main artery entirely and population, them to prevent destruc- through the county, Chicago to Cleveland. We believe f ti°n of the roads hy heav > this one of the greatest boosts the city and county has mnlmissimi which 6 Ts strivLet » s keep our roads the had and we want to impress upon the minds of our peo- j ng t o make Indiana’s best Pl e that this means more than it did fifty years ago to roads the best in America. secure majn railway lines. J The Decatur Industrial Association

DF.fATm DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1924.