Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-10

under those Of the large city stores We
are thus Enabled to sell Woltex suits
from $3.50 up, instead Of $500, as IS
usually asked We make a CORES
ponding saving on skirts and top coats,
and would consider it pleasure to
have you call and inspect the line.
PHILLIPS BIG STORE co.
plish. He also dwelt upon the neces-
sity of tile drainage of roads.
Sides With Governor.
Representative F. A. O'Connor OF
New Hampton urged the creation OF
the Office Of county engineer In draw
ing up the proposed good roads bill to
be presented to the next legislature.
He said in this connection:
II believe we should have an officer
known as the county highway engi-
neer. He should be graduate civil
engineer, If possible, but II not he
should be man possessing exception
al qualifications in the practical re-
quirements of his Office. To his care
and supervision should be entrusted
the construction Of the permanent
roads of his county. The selection OF
the particular roads to be improved |
would leave in the discretion of the
board of supervisors When that body
had agreed on the portion Of the road
to be constructed permanently, 1t
should be the duty Of the engineer to
assume control. He should perfect his
plans and specifications with as much
care and caution as the builder OF a
modern skyscraper or the constructor
| OF railway system The work there
after should be let by contract and
be under the direct supervision OF the
county engineer. AS to whether or not
he should be charged with other du-
ties such as the employment of the
labor, the payment of claims and bills,
the purchasing of supplies, etc., am
| In doubt. It appeals to me that 1T
might be better If he were relieved
from these incidental duties and that
his work should be largely in the ma
ture of the overseer or architect of a
building. He should be charged with
full responsibility for the construction
of permanent good roads and should
in the prosecution of his work be un-
hampered as far as possible"
President ]. A. Gun of the thresher.
men called the joint convention togeth'
er in the evening. He pointed out that
the threshermen were pioneers in the
movement for good roads and bridges
and that they were vitality interested
in every movement to secure them
He pledged the good roads delegates
that the threshermen were with them
in their efforts.
]. G. Cottrell Of the threshermen
president of their association, advocat
ed a plan which will give the state
highway commission absolute jurisdic
ton in the building of roads. He said
the commission should survey all
counties for roads, lay down the plans
for the roals, and then see that they
are built according to instructions.
He also found new way to dispose
of the 100000 hunters license fund
over which the hunters have been sc
worried lest it be turned into Other
channels. President Cottrell suggest
ed that all this fund In excess of $35,
900 be used on the highways.
To Awaken State Pride.
| Lafayette Young sought to awaken
state pride in the hearts of the roaC
delegates. He asserted that in this
lay success for the good roads move
ment, for good roads were necessary
for better Iowa and citizens anx
ious to see Iowa in the lead would lenC
their support to the good roads move
NEXT He also decried the tendency
of Iowans to leave the state when they
become rich and pointed out the fal
lacy Of moving to the far west in re
Spouse to the cries Of "Out here is {
bonanza" Stay in Iowa, he urged
build good roads here, make the mos
of all waste land and make bonanza
out of this state.
GAS an inspiration for better roads,
he asserted, "let us build up pride il
Iowa."
i H. G. Wallace said that uncontrolled
water Is the one thing which make!
roads bad. There are two kinds O
water which must be dealt with, *
POINTED out, surface water and under
die this water is by the thing methot
Of drainage, he averred, and In tilint
a competent engineer should be EN-
ployed.
Then he advocated a new wrinkle tt
keep roads in good shape He assert
ed himself in favor Of law forbid
ing the use Of narrow tired wagons
| after 1912. Narrow tired wagons ar,
road destroyers Of the worst type, h,
averred, whereas broad tired wagons
are road makers, for they pack thu
: dirt where the narrow tires cut it UP
: Change In Conditions.
w. =. Trueblood, in the last address
iof the evening, told OF the efforts a
road building in other countries. HI
stated that the roads of today must no
be built like the roads of fifty or
hundred kears ago. Such roads will
mot do he said. for while they wer