In 1929 the town of Clinton approved an $8,500 bond issue to pave with brick, a popular new paving surface. Mayor Joel R. Hitt and the Board of Aldermen re-introduced a corvee labor ordinance requiring all males eighteen years of age and older to pay five dollars, in lieu of six days of labor, to help pay for the paving project. Assisted by two workers, Louis Turner, an African-American World War I veteran, laid the brick on portions of College, Jefferson, Monroe, Leake, and Main Streets.