The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-03-22

Swanton.
Mr.. Henry Lee has moved on the
Drv Hollow farm. We are glad to
see people moving to this neigh
borhood.
We are sorry to note that Mrs.
George 0 Brian is very i'll at This
time. She has been a great sufferer
for MANY years.
John Conn has started black
smith shop here. All work brought
or sent will receive prompt attention
and will be done ut a reasonable
price.
1t is understood that our town
will have a millinery store and
dress making establishment, to be
opened the 18th of April.
Miss Jennie Murphy, Of Keyser,
was visiting friends and relatives
here last week.
Miss Emma Hamll passed
through mere Monday on her way to
Wilson, W. Va.
Mr.. Howard Nethken closed his
school last week. He and his
brother Freeman We're in town Sun
day saying goodbye to the fair ones.
Mrs. G. NJ. Miller was on Il trip
to Baltimore last week.
Mcssrs. Sweet and Shackelford
shipped over 1, 900 pounds Of flowers
Monday to ill Easter orders,
Robert Brown was in town Tues
day. He contcmplates buying
property here.
Jerry Mankis was in town Sunday.
More Testimony for Wide Tires.
A correspondent for the Breeders
Gazette gives his observation and
experience in regard to wide tires
as follows
wish to give my observation
and experience | have "a LAT OF
teams to look after aud we have uu
the farm but two narrow-tIrea
wagons. In the spring OF 1891
when }hauling manure the wagon
WITH three inch tire and the one
with one and One-half inch both
went to the field together. the loads
being equal. When in the field he
broad tired drove in and unloaded !;
the narrow stuck. -Four horses
were put to it to get it to the place
to unload. The condition of the
field was the same broad tires on
top of the ground, marrow tires in
ground about eight inches
In addition TO Wiuwood Farm
Mr.. Sunman also owns the largest
saw mill plant IN Southeastern
Indiana, and now his foreman there
uses wide tires on all wagons, none
being less than four and one half
inches. The common dirt roads
(clay) have no stone on them in
this country, and roads that are
used by common farmers are cut to
pleces-all rut and mud-while the
roads used by the log wagons are
solid and fit to drive over at all
times.
In the spring Of 1892, we had a
couple of mule teams to hel p plow
"a wet piece of ground. | was IN
the field when thev struck it the
mules which weighed near to nine
hundred and fifty pounds each
mired to their knee and were I'M
hitched to get them out. Then |
ordered one of the heavy draught
teams to try to plow where the mules
could net, and they completed the
Job in q good manner. They
weighed 1,790 and 1,S40 each
From my observation and actual
experience. having under my charge
more horses and wagons than three
or four farmers in this section of
Indiana, | am led to believe that
the wide tire is the ad-maker and
| the narrow tire the road breaker
and horse-killer. Where | cannot
90 with a wagon with tire four
and one-half inches wide and a
team Of Clydes weig thing from 500
to 1.S00 pounds each, no man with
narrow tires dare go with the same
load, no difference what his team
may be.
Give us wide tires and compel
farmers to use them and we will
have better roads than we ever have