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Show Will Erect Memorial to "Father of Good Roads" Joseph H. Weeks, "the real father of good roads in Pennsylvania," who established es-tablished the first comprehensive system sys-tem of highways and who was the first president of the Keystone Automobile Auto-mobile club, is to be honored by the erection of a $35,000 memorial In Swarthmore. Funds for the memorial are being raised through the efforts of the Keystone Key-stone Automobile club and by popular subscription. The club has purchased a plot of ground triangular in shape at Baltimore avenue and Chesjer road, in the center of which it will erect a memorial monument, the center feature fea-ture of which will be a bronze plaque containing a relief map of the state ' highway system established by the Sproul act of 1911, which act Mr. Weeks was instrumental in having written upon the statute books. The memorial will be in the nature of a small park, in the center of which there is to be a sunken terrace circular circu-lar in form and at the bottom of which the plaque will rest. It then can be viewed from every angle. Mr. Weeks died in 1919, and plans for the memorial memo-rial have been considered ever since that time. |