Width of Public Roads

Editor, County Record
Will you please tell me and for the benefit of your subscribers what is the width of the public roads as required by law?
Several of our county commissioners do not even know the law upon this subject, and I want them to see this article.

J.

Dock, May 29

The statutes of South Carolina require the county roads to be twenty feet in width.

The County Record

June 10, 1897

Indiantown News

If the county supervisor will travel the road from Indiantown P.O. to Rhems, his nervous system will have to be very strong, or it will be shocked. The road is plowed up, corn and cotton planted in it. Now I am one of these who think it folly to work all the bad places in the road, when all the high, good places are plowed up and made as rough as driving across a field. There is room right here for "reform." Will some trusted "leader" take a hint?

Photo: County Supervisor Benjamin Britton Chandler


This section was visited by a very heavy rain on Friday 30th. Grass was quite vigorous before but will take on a new life since the rain.


Corn is exceedingly small and a very bad stand; bud worms have played havoc with it during the late cold snap.


Cotton is recuperating slowly from the effects of the late frost. Fruit does not seem to have suffered from the effects of the frost, except figs, which were killed.


Tobacco transplanting is being pushed by Col. McCutchen and Dr J.S. Cunningham, whom, I think, are the only tobacco planters left in this section.

The County Record, May 6, 1897

Items of Local Interest

The mornings have been quite cool for some days.


The office of Mr. S. McBride Scott has been painted and otherwise improved.


The heavy rains last week were gladly welcomed by the farmers who had oats heading and young corn.


Rev. W.D. Moorer and Mr. Edwin Harper expect to leave today for Wilmington to attend the Southern Baptist Convention.


The Supervisor has a notice in this issue of The County Record relating to plowing into the roads, which should attract the attention of those who practice this misdemeanor.

The County Record, May 6, 1897