Telegram from the Citizens of Broad River Township to Locke Craig, 10 August 1916

Telegram from the Citizens of Broad River Township to Locke Craig, August 10, 1916
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Marion, N.C., Aug. 10th, 1916.

Governor Locke Craig
Raleigh, N.C.

Honored Sir, we the undersigned citizens of Broad River Township, McDowel County, respectedfullly petition for help to build raods. We are cut off from markets and are packing in supplies from Black Mountain. Loss of crops and lands is great but we need most of all roads and as promptly as possible. All who are able will help with team and labor.

T. B. Ledbetter, J. Ledbetter, W. H. Morris, I. W. Stoued, J. H. Garrison1, W. B. Hudgins, J. H. White, W. L. White, J. B. Dalton, M. A. Burgess, W. G. Garrison, Joe Garrison, J. L. Hudgins, J. A. Stroud, W. A. Nesbit2, A. J. Dalton3, J. B. Whitesides, W. F. Stroud, C. W. White, O. F. Frady, E. L. Kelly, A. E. Curry4, S. E. Curry.

9:35 P.M.

1. Most likely James Garrett Garrison.
2. Most likely William Carson Nesbitt.
3. Most likely James Alfred Dalton.
4. Might be William E. Curry, brother of Sidney E. Curry, also a sender of this telegram.