SNOW IN THE TOWNSHIP
(A Communication)
It was with considerable difficulty that merchants, workers, and motorists were able to struggle over the township roads during the recent heavy snowfall. While we confess to the fact that we are seldom subjected to such immense snowstorms, nevertheless, we feel that appropriate measures could, and should be taken to properly meet even these extraordinary conditions.
Excuses for unopened public roads several days after the storm do not adequately suffice for the ordinary citizen who desires to know the reason for such negligence. The farmer in an outlying district, who has a right to ask when the roads will be opened so that he can safely pursue his business, is entitled, at lest to a civil answer from those in authority.
We also wonder why it is more important to open the rod to East Brookside, than it is to give the farmer adequate facilities to bring perishable goods to the market.
We feel also, that if necessary to make roads passable, and that if efforts were made to clear roads as the snow fell, it would have meant much and saved considerable time and anxiety to motorists who, instead, must travel in one way traffic at the risk of life and much expense.
And, finally, we might suggest to those in authority to build a funeral parlor, so that when they neglect to open roads, even in dire need, to safely convey to the cemetery the body of some bereaved family, the said family can be comforted in the fact that the body of the deceased can be properly taken are of until those in authority finally decide to open the roads and assure a safe and fitting burial.
—An Ordinary Citizen.
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From the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 24 January 1936, via Newspapers.com.
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