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Show I Road Meet-I Meet-I ingls Called I Saturday U Chairman Cronqulst, of tho board IB of county commissioners w.ib in Loll Lo-ll gan yesterday making preliminary aril ar-il rangements ror tho road convention J tliat Is to be held In tho court houso H next Saturday. Ho find his colleagues II on tho board desire a largo nttend-I nttend-I nnco of tax payers at tho meeting as I thero are somo rather vexing problems prob-lems confronting tho hoard Just now and tho advico of. their constituents Is desirable. Asked regarding tho things that will bo discussed, Mr. Cronqulst said yesterday: In tho matter of roads all sorts of demands are made. on tho commissioners commission-ers and many wonder why wo cannot Krant them nil, a thing that ii natural natur-al since tho nverago citizen Is not in possession of tho facts concerning concern-ing tho finances of tho county, that lll permit him to form an Intelligent opinion as to theso th'ngs. nut ho should bo In possession of those facts "lid wo wnnt to help him get them o that ho wjll bo nblo to judgo us fairly and perhaps advise us. Not many pcoplo realize tho fact "at a great many of our bridges nro 1 nablo to bear tho wolglit of tho heavy ratichlnory that has como Into ' o county in tho last ten years, and l'at vory soon wo shall ho up cga'nst Jfcr.s difficult problem ns to that. Only & '""' Saturday tho commissioner from n ,h north end of tho county brought .m ' a resolution p-ovldlng for tho ro- M imr or rebuilding of no loss thtin ten mortatit bridges In his scct'ou. Of B rrir8o wo cannot make t!iom and " oro aro a great many other things S 'hat wo cannot do which peoplo think Jo should do, At tho mooting wo m ' opo to havo nil theso things brought it and discussed. Wo havo approx- Mcly $23,000 to spend on tho roads o' tho county this year, and It Is Bo'ng to bo n task to dlstrllmto it "nil spond it to the gratest advan-M advan-M Ka Wo liopo to got tho peoples !!ew Plnt as to that on Saturday. "cn thero Is the state road question tho spoclnl levies for stnto roads, tho matter of bonding for hotter rouds and a good many other topics that can bo profitably discussed. Personally, I Mm of tho opinion that tho 'oftcnor a public oinclnl consults tho people tho less likely Is ho to go wrong and I am sure that If tho peoplo peo-plo will turn out to tho meeting on Saturday and thon volco tholr follngs freely, profit will como from It, both to tho peoplo and tho commissioners. |