The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-05-03

( WIN McEl.lesa returned % Aenion'
OHIO last week to work.
! 8lr. Dawson fodef aud little niece.
( Alberta Morris, were guests Of ne
family Of +. j. Barnes Sunday as was
also III. Harnes sister salIie Barnes,
All 81 Little Falls
Evans Trippett and little son were
on q visit to his parents at Little FAILS
SATURDAY and sunday
Ghy.Honlt. 81 Falrmont, was q guest
Of his parents here Sunday.
Mr. Reason Pyies. who died Friday,
a notice Of whose death appeared in
the west Virginian3 had been a tran.
sient resident Of Hoult for three years,
but spending part Of his time at other
places with relatives, In that time he
had made many friends here and had
many sterling qualities and while not
a person to make many intimate
friends he was respected BY the people
and viii be missed generally.
The quarterly meeting here satur.
day and Sunday, conducted by District
Superintendent G. b. Smith, was fair.
IL attended and the sermons Saturday
night and sunday morning by Rev.
Smith we're extra; good. and We hear
much favorable comment on them.
we noticed an trticle in the West
virginian about the half dozen road
machines in use in the county and the
good work being done on the roads
under the direction Of Engineer Shut
Ellsworth, etc. Now, we don't want
, to always knock and kick, and yet
there are different sorts Of criticism.
Constructive, obstructive and destruc-
tive, and, IL We critlclse 1t is in the
hope that We may arouse people to a
desire for better roads. If such great
and good work. is being done on the
roads We are willing to leave it to a
vote Of the people who "pay the I'D.
der" Yes, we have some old road
machines, have had them for years
That is not due to; any new manage
ment or policy, and It is also true that
they are being hauled around over our
roads at cost to the taxpayers of
about 500 per day, but it would take
very optimistic person to say they
were doing much good. A good road
machine is a good thing In its place,
but when we see the way they are
used we sometimes feel that their
place is in the scrap pile, for it has
gotten to be such regular thing to
depend on the machine entirely that
four or six horses will be hitched to
1t and start, and where the ground is
favorable, some dirt will be scraped
from the edges tq-the center of the
road, and there are @bonlders- and
stones in the way it is raised and
slides along, miles being covered and
nothing Of value dbne. . :" 2
In a particularly muddy 5pieee Of
road the other daykwe3sa*sa man .br
boy carefully picking out the stones
and throwing them by the roadside
ESsniSIl stdas sIie q :lhah bdiaE
These. stones Z we've -pats .in several.
years ago and many more really
should.be broken ip and dirt put over
them; but the regulation way to doc,
tor mud hole is to scrape in loose
clay and make more mud.
Now, II entire dependence was not
put in the road machine and some
practical work put on. the roads, the
machine would be all right to keep
dirt roads in proper shape, highest in
the middle, but as an entire depend.
ence they are a fake, and II can't
show any reader a piece of road right
here over which road machine has
been lately and has not been improved
two cents worth, then l Will eat my
old hat
FRITZ