1922 Oakey Streak Newspaper, Butler, AL submitted by Laura Leigh Elmore ***************************************************************************** USGenWeb NOTICE: Libraries and individual researchers may download this file for personal, non-commercial use only. Any other use requires written permission from the transcriber. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ****************************************************************************** This article was found in the Greenville, AL Public Lirbrary, Genealogy and History Room Greenville, Alabama, Friday May 26th, 1922 Commission Approves Oakey Streak Route Forty one Butler County citizens, headed by Judge C.F. Winkler and Hon. J. Lee Long, went before the State Highway Commission at Montgomery Thursday with a plea that the road linking Greenville with Andalusia go by way of Oakey Streak, a distance of 26 miles, be ordered instead of the two miles at Garland completing the road running due north and south, and this will be done. The Butler County Delegation was very cordially and courteously received, and immediately after the opening of the session they were given precedence over the other business and Judge Winkler addressed them in a most forceful and convincing manner, setting forth reasons that the change was asked and stating that this section through which the road was desired had no roads, that they were twenty miles from a railroad, and further that the road asked would serve more than 400 heads of families. Judge Winkler has gone to much pains in this matter, having himself assisted in the census of the territory. His speech was very favorably received and on motion of Senator John Craft the order for the road was put. The chairman stated that, under the rules of the Highway Commission this was out of order, as, before a road can be discontinued thirty days notice must be given. Acting on this rule, Sen. Craft stated that he gave notice that at the meeting of the Highway Commission thirty days hence, he would make a motion that the road heretofore adopted by the Commission for the Butler and Covington County Highway be discontinued and that he would further make a motion that the road from Greenville by Oakey Streak to the Covington County line be adopted, which was unanimously carried. Sen. Craft made the motion, which was carried, that an engineer be sent to go over the road and select the best route. This will be done at once. The delegation was delighted with the outcome of the trip. The road is now assured and it will fill a long felt want and be one of the most needed and most serviceable roads of the county, and as a State Highway, will be possibly better built and kept up than many of the other roads. It has a decided advantage in being part of a highway too, in that the State specifications under the present system call for a much wider road than could be built if the County alone had the construction of it. At noon the entire delegation repaired to the Exchange Hotel, where the Greenville business men of the party were the hosts at a delightful luncheon. During the luncheon short talks were made by Judge Winkler, Mr. Long, Dr. Bolling Crenshaw and several others. Included in the party were the members of the Commissioners Court and men from all parts of Butler, as follows: H.O. Norsworthy, C.V. Campbell, D.R. Jernigan, Commissioner J.C. Herring, H.L. Huguley, Judge C.F. Winkler, R.A. Beeland, J.J. Hughes, J.B. Hughes, J.F. Pitts, J. Lee Long, Leo Kern, Jesse Cheatham, Ed Winkler, R.S. Corry, J.B. Stanley, Commissioner R.H. Watson, Commissioner J.D. Steen, W.T. Steen, James Steen, J.R. Heath, Dr. Lewis Jernigan, J.W. Hickman, A.H. Wood, Jake Heller, P.H. Jernigan, E.H. Smith, J.C. Campbell, Jack Pitts, Claude Nix, Will Waller, Commissioner John Golson, C.E. Whiddon, Mrs. J.C. Campbell, Mrs. Tom Russell, Ralph Peagler, J.H. Johnson, Claude Wilson, D.P. Nix, Leon Russell and D.M. Powell.