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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29
A Government Road in Arizona.

A Government Road in Arizona.
One of the very few roads con-
structed wholly by the United States
Government in the United States is
the splendid highway from Phoenix,
Arizona, to- the Roosevelt Dam in the
Salt River Valley Project. This road
is some eighty miles in length and
was constructed for the purpose, pr1-
marily, of hauling the heavy machin-
cry to be used in building the dam.
It is one of the finest roads in Am
erica and is a very popular drive for
tourists. For the entire distance of
eighty miles it is one continuous pan
Drama showing in great variety of
colors magnificent gorges, cliffs and
canyons on the desert mountains. At
the end Of the drive lies the greatest
artificial lake In the world, twenty
four miles long and containing
enough water to irrigate 100000 acres
lying in the valley eighty miles away.
A section OF the road up Fish
Creek Canyon is shown above. While
the state of Iowa has no such road
to construct within her borders, it is
vitality interested in the question Of
federal aid to help bring about first
class system Of highways.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29
FIGHTING THE FLY.

Any flies that come into your
house may have come straight
from 4 person who 10 sick with
some contagious disease and
possibly cause the death Of your.
self Or some member Of your
family. Kill every fly you sec il
your house. Get a screen door.
You can better afford to pay 81
or 50 for ono than to get sick
and lay off for a month.
Keep all food covered up. Boil
all the water you drink. Keep
your privies screened.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29
THEROAID CONGRESS
Much Interest Shown il Great Congress
To Be Held in Detroit
SESSIONS TO BEGIN SEPTEMBER 29
Government Exhibit Of Road Models
Will Be a Remarkable Feature Of
the Meeting-Forty States
to BE Represented.

The American Road Congress with
hold it's third annual meeting at De-
troit, Mich, during the week of Sep
TENDER 20. The congress is the great
annual assemblage of the good roads
organizations throughout the United
States, and is held under the auspices
of the American Highway association,
the American Automobile association
and the National Association OF Road
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29

Do not turn the calves out at the
first warm weather that comes. Keep
them inside and give them no green
feed until the grass has dried out
somewhat. Then let them. OUT a few
hours at a time until they become
accustomed to the change of feed.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29
Minister P1aies this Laxative.

Rev. H. Stubenvoll of Allison, Iowa,
in praising DR.. Kings New Life Pills
for constipation, writes: "Dr. Kings
New Life Pills are such perfect pills
no home should be without Them" No
better regulator for the liver and bow
els. Every pill guaranteed. Try them.
Price Csc. at P. A. Clemmer's.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29

The Mississippi River Power Com
pany which has recently turned the
water into the big turbines at Keo-
kuk where the biggest dam on the
continent has been constructed, have
practically completed a stretch Of road
along the border of the lake created
by the dam, which cost the company
about 100000. This road takes the
place of various highways which are
submerged as result Of the con-
struction of the dam but instead Of
following their obligation Of simply
providing the same kind Of . road,
the power company have spent q
large sum OF money to make an o.
1ect lessoa Of the highway which Will
, $50. - - - !.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29

The records show that of the taxes
collected in Washington last year,
$6,250.000 was for roads and bridges.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29
Among our Neigh boring States.

The good roads committee Of the
Essex county, Michigan, council has
recommended bond issue of $1,065,-
600 to be used in building 142 miles
of road in that county.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29

doubtless prove one Of the most popu.
lar drives in the country.
The illustration herewith was taken
during the early part of the work and
shows the old government ship
canal which is now entirely under
the water of the artificial lake above
the dam. The highway is cut along
the bluffs of the river high enough
to be well above the water line and
In no place does the grade exceed six
percent. 1t ia being given Z hard
surface of the very best character
and will prove an object lesson to
the many people from this state who
visit Keokuk to see the greatest en-.
gineer feat Of its kind in America
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29

Scott county, Minnesota, has con-
tributed $1,000 for the building OF a
government post road The road will
run through Scott and Nicollet coun-
ties, the counties and the townships
contributing $4,000 and the govern
ment $4,000.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29

! Not the kind you usually sss-sisht-.
less and harmiess-but alive and Ill
seeing. The fly 10 one Of the busiest
workers IN the animal kingdom, AND
HE IS WORKING FOR OUR De.
sTRUcT'oN. The only way to destroy
the fly 10 to starve him.
/ Screens in the windows
prevent Grape on the door. q
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29

c. M. Loring has offered to plant
trees fifty feet apart on both sides
OF Minetonka Boulevard, which is
fifteen miles long, reaching from the
lake to the city of Minneapolis, Min
nesota. All he asks is permission to
do so, and this will undoubtedly be
granted,
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29

The state highway commission of
Missouri has $225,OO0 on hand for
dragging all inter-county seat roads.
Not more than $500 can be expended
on any mile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
WHY NOT LEARN SPANISH?

| While in recent years there has been
a tendency, in our public schools, to
give an increased amount of instruc-
ton in those things likely to become
useful in after life, in the matter or
| language study we remain in the old
rut. One to two years of the high
school course are devoted to French or
German or both with no probability
| that the student will eyer find use for
them
WHY should not this time be devoted
to the requirement of Spanish. which
in view of our rapidly expanding trade
relations with our southern neighbors
may at any time become valuable
asset?
Several well-paid teaching positions
in Latin-America open to Americans
will probably be filed by men from
other countries because of a lack OF
trained men in the United States with
a speaking knowledge of Spanish, ac-
cording to Mr.. l. A. Kalbach, cnleh
clerk of the bureau of education. ON
several occasions lately, Mr.. Kalbacn
points out, the bureau of education, at
the request of the state department.
has secured the country In search OF
educators for responsible positions IN
Latin-American countries, only to find
generally that those who might qualify
in other particulars can not speak the
language.
The American minister to Panama
recently asked the United States gov
eminent to recommend candidates for
positions as professor of industrial arts
professor of agriculture, and professor
of veterinary medicine in Panama. Sal
aries UP to $4,000 and other induce
ments were offered. The bureau OF
education communicated with various
institutions and organizations that
usually have lists OF available candi-
dates, but in this case the response
was meager, because Of the language
requirement.
OPPORTUNITIES for practice in speak
ing Spanish are constantly increasing.
Better transportation facilities are
making the United States and Latin
American nations more and more ac-
cessible to each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
SAYS UNCLE CIV
Practical Imagination.

Imagination is not generally consid-
cred practical quality. And yet there
are a great many practical matters
in which it is of inestimable value.
Shopping, for instance.
The other afternoon a neighbor of
mine was bewailing like Flora Nc
Flimsey that she had nothing to wear.
Her particular plant was that she had
nothing suitable to put on afternoons
in the house.
told me that her husband had given
800 for her summer wardrobe And,
as had seen some of her purchases,
knew she had spent part of it, at least.
for that purpose. reminded her of the
fact.
1T know it," she said. 'I did have
800 and I spent almost every cent of
it for clothes, and yet I don't seem
to have anything to wear afternoons.
That blue charmeuse is too delicate to
wear around with the baby, and don't
like to put on my suit in the house be-
cause that spoils the looks of the skirt
and wears 1t out before the coat. That
sergeI bought at such bargain is too
heavy for this weather. So here I am
with my money spent and nothing but
a shabby last years dress to wear af-
ternoons. I ought not to have bought
that blue dress, but it was becoming,
and I knew I should enjoy having it
for the bridge party. For that price
could have gotten a simple afternoon
dress and less expensive bridge
gown. But it's too late now, and the
worst of it is that I do this every year
go in and spend lot of money and
then find that I haven't half covered
the ground. Isn't it dreadful?"
Do you know what quality that lady
lacks?
Let me tell you how the Lady Who
Always Knows Somehow has taught
herself to avoid this predicament-a
predicament into which almost every
woman of limited means occasionally
falls. Before I go shopping for my
seasons wardrobe" says the Lady, IT
sit down and try to picture just about
where I'll be and what I'll be doing
each day, so that can see what I'll
need the most. I picture myself from
the time I get up in the morning until
go to bed at night. I think of all the
thinks IN likely to do, and the places I'm
likely to go, and I make out a list of
the clothes I want. Then cut it down
to the clothes I can't get along with
out and then I buy them. OF course,
still make some mistakes, but find
that helps me a lot in getting what I
need the most, and not loading up with
superf1uities.'
The Lady, you see, has that invalu-
able quality, a practical imagination.
Perhaps you already apply her
method, consciously or unconsciously.
If you don't permit me to give 1t my
highest recommended
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20

herself to hang in the new public
library, but I guess I'll get that all
right, if I break the WILL
Polly stood still, the little lace scarf
falling back from her face. For a
moment she felt too Mortified to speak.
Why hadn't Dan told her that Walt
Harrington, was Mrs. PATTERSON
nephew?
She felt sudden rising of rebellion
in her heart Here was the only man
she had ever taken the least interest
in and she knew he liked her-as yet
she had not even dared express it
stronger than that even to herself-but
she knew-and he was trying to break
Mrs. Batterson's will. trying to do her
out of that prize that was to give her
a year in Italy
Mr.. Harrington, I'm sorry am
painting that portrait of your aunt for
the library, and of course-of course,
we can't be friends"
He wheeled about and took her
hands in his.
were painting, and I don't care. I'm
glad if you can get the old lady's pic
ture right
But if you want to break the will %
I'll omit that clause about the oil
painting" She felt sure he was laugh
ing at her. Now, listen, dear. Don't
go away. may call you dear If 1 like?
If you saw $4,000 getting away to
homes for dogs. cats and indignant fe-
males"
INDECENT" corrected Polly, in a.
stif1ed tone.
Wouldn't you put up a fight too?
When you knew the old lady meant you
to have it all. only she got hufry. OF
course you would. Now, you go ahead
ana finish the painting, and after we're
married and have good year in
Europe, you're going TO paint another
one to hang in the library"
Walt Farringtonr
We'll, dear?"
You take everything for granted. I
haven't said I would marry you"
She pushed him away. but Robins
lane held its own spell of romance
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Occasionally a married man is a True
Sport, and insists he Is glad of 1t.
A woman who hasn't a husband over
estimates the care she would give one.
And doubtless there are patriotic people
who don't want to fight to prove II.
Brothers are a great institution to cure
girl of the notion that she is Princess.
While a man should have great conf
to shoot.
When you think it over honestly, don't
you conclude people treat you as well as
you deserve?
Half of the sickness in this world is
laziness, one-fourth is imaginary and the
balance probably is real.
Science is great. we will concede but
there sui seems TO be no way to prevent
lines. o'et Ing
81 would give all my brains for her
beauty" said an Atchdson high-brow to
girl friend at late reception as they
were discussing beautiful visiting wom-
an. DO you think the sacrifice would be
very CREATE" asked her rival in the lit
erary club. 1t goes without saying that
the two women did not walk home to-
gether from the reception.
an Atchison girl, who spends much of
her time visiting, has mace study of the
art and is a very successful guest. One
of the first things she does upon arriving
Is to call her hostess and family into her
room and exhibit every rag she owns.
She empties boxes, trays and trunks to
the bottom layer She says it saves her
hostess the trouble of shopping among
her things when she is out.
While reading Bible stories to her little
4-year-old daughter lately. an Atchison
woman was pleased to see that she
seemed deeply interested in a picture of
Jacobs Heavenly Dream" and studied
intently over the host of angels coming
err waited for some sweet and holy
thought to be expressed by the baby;
had awful tacky looking angels in those
days mother" said the up-to-the-minute
child. finally. "They are bow-legged and
besides their skirts are so 'unstylish' and
full
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
FROM OTHER PENS

"A GOOD BARGAIN FOR EVERYBODY.
The proposed exchange of Baltimore ss
OHIO stock held by the Pennsylvania rail-
road Tor Southern Pacific stock held by
the Union Pacific is that rare sort of a
bargain which benefits everybody con-
cerned Even Attorney General Mercy
polds, who has been exceedingly finicky
ABOUT approving plans for the disposal OF
the Union Pacific's holdings of Southern
Pacfftc, has said that he sees no objection
to such a shifting of railroad Investments
me merit of the exchange is that 1t
would enable the Pennsylvania railroad to
divest itself of considerable interest in
the Baltimore & Ohio. a competing and to
some extent parallel road and to ac-
quire IN turn on favorable terms an in
terest In system remote from its own.
In the same way the Union Pacific would
enlarge its present holdings in an eastern
railroad, while parting with a share of
us control of road from which 1t has
been forcibly divorced by a decree of the
supreme court. The government would be
benefited because 1t would escape the ex-
pense and trouble of a possible action
against the Pennsylvania as the part own
er of a competing line.
1t Is seldom that a transaction of this
character is so prolific in genuine advant-
age all around.-New York Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
HAUNTED HOUSES.

1t is by no means a new experience
to find the miracles of ancient days
and the mysteries of occult art fading
AWAY in the light Of modern science.
Weird visions and strange ghosts have
at length become the expressions of a
disordered mind rather than the vista
lions of an offered deity. And now the
haunted" house-chronicled in fiction
and actually Stunned in real life-has
been deprived of its mystifying won
ders and frightful horrors by the find
ings of twentieth century hygiene.
DIR. Franz Schneider, Jr., Of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology, has
Investigated a house in the Back Bay
district of Boston which had acquired
the annoying reputation of being
haunted" The experiences which led
to the investigation were too serious,
the symptoms too real, the reports too
often repeated and reliable to be over
looked or regarded as mere hallucina-
lions. The slumbers OF the inmates in
the upper stories were disturbed by
strange sensations, such as those of op-
preston or paralysis; they frequently
continued after the sleeper was thor
oughly awake and even after the lights
had been turned on. The involved
children appeared pale and sluggish in
the morning. even cold water losing its
power to enliven them.
A careful inspection of the building
gave the key to the situation. The
theory of undetected leaks of illumi-
mating gas as a source of intoxication
could not be varified in this case; but
it developed that the gases escaping
from a "viciously defective hot-air
furnace were sufficient to cause the
trouble. The separation between the
f1re-box and the hot-air-ducts (on which
the hygienic integrity of the outfit de-
pends) was badly broken. and as a
result the inhabitants of the house
were bathed in an atmosphere of di-
luted f1ue gases. The Journal of the
American Medical Association is con-
fident that this condition might be dis
covered in many other American
homes. Flue gases contain, especially
when the combustion is incomplete.
considerable amounts of distinctly pois-
onous gases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20

war for the independence of Texas.
The tower will be so2 feet high. and
will be the highest structure of any
kind in the world with the exception
of the Eiffel tower in Paris. This struc-
ture will be great deal more than a
memorial monument, since it will con-
tain four auditoriums, museum, art
gallery. statuary hall and an individual
exhibition room for each county in
the state. The cost is estimated at
$1,000, 900. The base of the structure
will be of solid granite and so feet high.
Surrounding the ledge at the top of
this base will be statues, of heroic size,
of Travis, Crockett. Bowie and Bon
ham, the four leaders of the Texans
who were killed while defending the
Alamo. A picture of the monument ap-
pears in the July Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
OPPOSITION TO ..FRAME-UP.v

Within the past month In four differ
ent parts of the country men have
been acquitted in federal courts of
serious charges, in the face of con-
vincing evidence. entirely on the preju-
dice that juries have against frame
ups to land men in jail.
One juror who voted an acquittal
said that the jury considered only the
question as to whether the government
deliberately should send men out to
lure other men into the commission of
crime, and he added. 1.-THE law. ought
not to set temptations for men,
This is a very general feeling The
law, standing supposedly for justice to
all men, says the st. Paul Despatch.
loses something of its dignity, if not its
justice. when it becomes a party to a
deliberate effort to lure man into the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-20
AXHAWKER .JOTS

| The Salina Union celebrated its fif-
| teenth birthday last Friday by issuing
an edition of 3S pages.
| The Anthony Bulletin suggests that
women who insist on wearing their
| hats in church be segregated.
! Now that Bert Walker is married
the public will look for some interest
ing paragraphs along new lines of
| thought.
! A newspaper trust has been formed
at Humboldt. The two papers in that
town have consolidated No advance
in prices is yet announced.
mo woman" says Anna. who
wears one of those new tangled tube
skirts with a slit up the front has any
! just cause for complaint if some man
insults her. She is inviting insult by
wearing indecent clothes"
| Henry Aliens return from Washing
| ton by saying that he was not dis
! charged, but that the newspaper for
which he was working merely stop
ped his salary and refused to print his
| stuff.
There are 1906 acres of potatoes
| in the Kaw river bottoms this year,
and each acre is expected to produce
| 125 bushels of potatoes or 413,125
| bushels in all. The Santa Fe esti-
mates that it will require 500 cars
to handle the crop.
Every man VINO becomes a mem per
of the Kansas Motorcycle club pledges
himself to keep his muffler closed"
Lots of folks would get on better in
life, says the Newton Kansan, if they
themselves to keep their mufflers
closed.
Speaking of the changes that have
occurred in the old place, the Troy
Chief says: But there are other
changes coming. In ten years more
among the business men. Many of
the older ones will have gone to Cali
fornia or some other milder climate
and only a few of them will remain
to tell of the glories of the past
The patent medicine man has been
banished, says the Parsons Sun, but
new type of CRATER has come in his
stead. He is the yellow lecturer
Just now he is busy campaigning
towns in all parts of the state max
ing addresses on 1.-The White Slave
Horror" He is a clever specialist and
gives his lectures under the auspices
OF church or charitable organiza-
tion- The newspapers, magazines and
medical publications are doing his adj
vertising for him free for "humanitys
sake" and he is finding the pickings
pretty soft. .--
One of the detestable tasks con-
fronting the oldtime boy says Conner
Davies, was turning the grindstone
fer the "o1d man" 1t was not so
much the expenditure of physical
force that made it a despicable job
but the depressing effect it had on the
boys mind to be playing second fiddle
to an alleged superior intellect holding
the tool being ground. Then, too, the
old man" was in position to express
his moods towards the boy at the
crank by the varying pressure on the
stone. He could make the task toler-
ably easy, or he could make the boy
hump his darndest. Many a "horne
tie" has had a severe Jolt at the old
fashioned grindstone.