Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-05
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News OF Iowa From Hun
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.
POOLING THE FARMERS.

| POOLING THE FARMERS.
ICedar Rapids Republican,
| Reports have come to this paper
! from various parts Of the country tha'
travelling statesmen, or peddiers "lti
wagons are securing the country tax
ing orders-and the notes of the farm
ers The farmers who buy dresses Tor
| their wives and suits for themselves
from such parties need not be surprised
! to find that they have been swindled
There is little or no responsibility tha'
attaches to such go-about merchants
| The best way to buy goods is to buy
of houses that are reliable. Peddlers
of the kind described are often able
| to make poor goods to appear as GOOD
There is often a marked falling OIL III
| the quality of the goods between the
| time of the taking of the order and the
delivery of the goods. 1t is easy to de-
ceive, in both dry goods and clothing
! The inexperienced eye can not de-
| tect where in one piece is faulty ano
another good. Shoddy when new looks
as well as the genuine stuffs. The only
| reliance that buyers can have in sucE
purchases is that they are dealing With
houses of established regulations
houses that are in business not for to-
day only, but for many years. It's tho
man who is here today and there to-
morrow who finds 1t easy to cheat
The merchant who expects to meet his
customers next year as we'll as this
year is the merchant who is going tc
| ~ - Ia
| There is only one bit of advice that
can be given in such matters. and ir
/ all business matters, and that it t.
deal with people you know and whom
you know to be reliable.
NEW YORK'S STATE ROADMAKING
| [Keokuk Gate City.l
] The state engineer of New York is
just now engaged in examining bids
for. contracts to improve the states
| highways and awarding contracts un-
der those bids. A large proportion
of the contracts covering the appropri-
alton of $4,000 for road improves
ment made by the legislature has al
| ready been awarded.
The contracts to be awarded vii
really embrace an expenditure OF ST.
| $4,000 as the counties have appro-
priated an equal amount with the
state for road improvement. The
contracts already awarded are for tho
| Improvement of roads in the counties
of Erie, Oneida, Schenectady
| Onondaga, Rensselaer,, Washington
Rockland, Albany, Montgomery, Full
Iton,A COPELAND, Chenango, Orange, U.s.
| ter and Broome. Some of the roads tc
| be improved run out from an arc II
| the vicinity of Buffalo, Utica, Troy
! Nyack, Norwich, Canajoharie anc
Binghamton. The state engineer II
his last annual report stated that nifty
nine miles of road had thus far beer
improved, at a total cost to the state
| of 100000 The sum of $4,000 hay
ling been appropriated this year, 1T /;
reasonable to think the number OF
miles of improved road will be doubled
before the year ends, and that there
4 win be fully 100 miles of improved
roads. Surveys had been made a
the beginning of the year for the i'm.
iproyement of roads in thirty two coun'
ties. The aggregate length of these
roads thus surveyed was ga miles
| The state engineer also states in his
annual report that there have bee.
built or are now in course of con-
struction fifty-one macadam roads 10.
Gated in nineteen counties, which viii
aggregate, when completed, 1341!
miles in length, at an average cost o,
/ S7,955 mile; and also five earth roads
/ located in Orange county. aggregatine
! 1861 miles in length, at an average
actual cost of S2,134 mile These
| dirt roads in Orange county are now
under construction.
An interesting subject discussed II
the report is the supervision of roat
construction by county authorities
1 With the hearty approval of the state
| engineer the last legislature passed
a bill adding new article to the high
way law in order to increase the coun-
ty supervision of highways. The neN
! law says that the board of supervis
ors of any county may appoint {
county engineer. This engineer is Il
give his entire time and attention t,
/ the construction and improvement O
/ highways and bridges. Among his du.
ties will be that of personally examin.
ing the various formations of grave
and stone in a county for the purpos,
of ascertaining the materials bes
lavailable for the Improvement of high.
ways. After consultation with TIL,
| commissioners of highways CT towns
he is also to establish the grades o
roads that are to be improved. An
| other of his duties is to supervise ant
! direct the maintenance of all highway
4 which have been constructed and i'm
proved by state aid The state en-
| gineer especially desired the creation
of system of county supervision o
highways in order to have the road
already improved by the state takel
care of in a thorough manner by loca
authorities.
Another noteworthy feature of TIL,
law is that which authorizes a tow
board of any town which has adopted
the money system of repairing high
ways to provide for the construction
of existing highways or the recon-
mendation of the county engineer
This provision opens the door to tn
/ Improvement of highways by COUNTIES
independently in the state.
| OF what does a bad taste in you
mouth remind you? 1t indicates tina
! your stomach is in bad condition an,
will remind you that there is nothing S,