The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-02
Coed Reads Movement Tnaugur.
atsd by Officials.
Meetings Planned to Re Held in
School Districts.
PARKHURST is BUSY.
County Engineer Has 1000
Miles OF Roads on Hands.
Figuring ON Brick Roads Twenty
Feet Wide.

The good roads agitation through
| out the country and the enthusiasm
which has been aroused on this sub
ject is well exemplified in the board OF
county commissioners and the newly
appointed county engineer, v. r. Park
hurst. Methods and means of a well
mcintafned system of good roads are
constantly the topics at the meetings
of the board. Limited means have
been provided by taxation so far, but
seven times the amount previously
raised has been levied for the year of
1910. The best methods of procedure
have not been decided upon.
Valuable suggestions as to methods
to arouse general cooperation
throughout the country were received
today by Mr.. Parkhurst from j. H.
Miller, superintendent of the farmers
Institutes and agricultural extension
of the x s. A. c. at Manhattan The
services of W. S. Gearhart, highway
fered provided dates can be arranged.
Five Day Campaign.
Mr. Miller suggests a county school
house campaign bracing four meet
ings a day. at o'clock, 1920, 1870,
meeting in different districts. Five
night meetings would also be on the
program conducted by Mr.. Gearhart,
the county engineer and the county SUI
perintendent, Mr.. Eby. The advisable
ity of such campaign will be taken
I'D by the engineer and superintendent
at once
The attendance of Mr.. Gearhart IS
pro missed also for the meeting of the
Farmers Institute of Shawnee county.
of which Bradford Miller is president,
and to which the county engineer has
solicited the attendance of the town.
ship trustees and the road overseers-
In the matter of methods to be en-
ployed the uncertainty of the commits
sioners as to how to make the means
cover the methods is evidenced in the
fact that the bids advertised for for
road ask bids on both macadam and
brick paving twenty feet wide. The
bids will be in Oct Is
All parties concerned are hoping the
brick will not be too expensive Hun
dreds of Topeka people traverse the
road at least as far as Cages park
every day. It has become a popular
driveway though the dust from the
worn macadam is almost insufferable.
Several blocks of the road are within the
city limits and the council has prom
ised to bear their share of the burden
of paving in whatever method the
county decides upon.
Wants Good Road
o. E. Walker, owner of the Park
View farm overlooking the Gage park,
who circulated the subscription for the
original Improvement and surfacing. is
again to the front in an endeavor to
has offered to head a subscription with
a liberal amount to secure that end. It
is his opinion that the road extending
west from the corner of his place
might be neglected at this time to help
the eastern section. That portion re-
ferred to is not travelled so extensively
and is in very good condition.
The one spot of brick paving now in
the road has borne the traffic we'll and
is as good as the day it was laid which
is strong argument with the commits
sioners for the adoption of brick paw
ing.
Still the board can not afford to bear
the entire burden Of the paving. There
are too many other roads needing at
tention. Will the residents and bene-
ficiaries subscribe to a fund? That is
the question upon which the brick road
twenty feet wide and joy forever de-
ponds.
There are thousand miles of roads
in Shawnee county which must receive
said County Engineer Park
hurst. 1T is lucky my office was
created September 1, and not in the
spring. Now I shall have time during
the months when work would be i'm
possible to go over the highways and
make plans and estimates for their inn
provement upon which to begin work
in the spring.