The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20

walk all were carrying water and the
women were frying chicken.
A Liberty hotel, whose proprietor wa.
IAN original Major man." sent the gov
ernor an extra heavy reinforced, brass
buttOned suit of overalls with the re-
quest that he wear them at road day
| work. Today the man received tele-
gram saying the governor had them on
Country school houses in Clay county
| were turned into noon rest stations
There the matrons of the countryside
laid out their sandwiches and STEPPED
! barrels of iced tea.
Ready Made Culverts.
| Sixty ready-made corrugated iron
| road culverts of small calibre were fur
| nished the various road districts OF
Clay county by the county court.
| At Kearney, Mo, twice as, many vol
unteers reported as highest expecta-
| tions had estimated. There were not
enough shoveIs, and volunteers took
turn about
| County Highway Engineer Gargill of
| Buchanan county (St- Joseph) headed
| an army of volunteer workers estimat-
! ed at 2, 100. Seventy-five road machines
were in service in the county. Nearly
| a thousand volunteers reported in Au-
drain county. Mayor Willard Potts, of
Mexico in a hickory shirt and his old
est pair of trousers, took charge of a
grading crew and manned the machine.
The Women's Federated clubs of Mex
leo spread a banquet at noon that re-
CURED nearly an hour of the workers
time in the eating.
Sedalia, in Pettis county, specialized
on organization. Small Sunday school
girls formed a water carrying club that
did service today said to be better than
that furnished by boys. The girls wore
Bingham aprons of a pattern and broad,
Tapping straw hats alike. The Pettis
county home makers conference served
lunches in various parts of the county.
Col. c. NJ Carroll, a staid citizen of
Sedalia, put on bib overalls and COM
manded a battalion of grocers, BARRIERS,
preachers. plumbers and collectors in
raid on ruts in Sedalia suburbs.
A scythe squad named Death to the
Weeds marched out of Trenton to re-
duce the weeds that fringe the Grundy
county highways. Meadville reported
hundreds at work in Linn county. A
hill north of town, bugaboo for years,
was in a fair way to be reduced to
SmOOthneSS.
Three thousand men started work in
Greene county, according to estimates
sent from Springfield. Many of the
roads that amble through the Ozarks
dodge when they see a stump. Stump
eradication was emphasized in the
Greene county work. Judges Perkins
Cowell and Gorsuch of the county court
laid aside judicial livery and headed the
workers. At Walnut Grove in Greene
county every merchant in the village
yesterday signed an agreement to close
their doors that every business man in
town might get to the roads
Two hundred men of Hannibal turned
attention to four bad roads entering
that city from four directions. Every
able bodied prisoner from Kansas City's
municipal farm was put to work on a
suburban road.
Some Hire Substitutes.
st. Joseph, Mo-, Aug. 2O.-Three thou
sand workers, headed by the overseers
of every district of the county, are at
work on the county highways today in |
response to Governor Majors Good
Roads day call. Large delegations of
county officers headed by the judges of
the county court went from here in |
motor cars to assist in the work and |
many citizens sent paid substitutes. |
Wives and children of workers enlisted
to carry water and food to the work |
men.
COnvicts Get is Days for One.
Jefferson City, Aug. 20.-Good |
Road workers marched out from JEFF
fers2n City today to grade the roads
in Cole, Galloway and Boone coun- |
ties. Gov. Major. State Highway
Commissioner Buffum and Congress-
man Dorsey w. Shackleford headed |
the procession, taking with them a
road grading machine which the gov
ernor was to operate. Five hundred !
men were in the procession one hun
dred of them being convicts in the
state prison who are to receive COM
mutation of fifteen days for working
on the roads.
Motion picture men took ''reels'' of |
the road workers as they started out
the state officers in the pro-
cession were Auditor Gordon, J. H
Mel, chairman of the pardon board
and the head of most of the state de- |
partments. The governor said today
he was confident that $4,000 men
would work on reads in various parts
of the state today and tomorrow. BY
tomorrow evening the state highway
expects to have reports
from every county in the state tell
ing what was accomplished.
Club Men Turn Out.
St. Louis, Aug. 20.-Reports re-
celVed in St. Louis today indicated a
general compliance throughout east
ern Missouri with Governor Majors
road proclamation. large number
on road near the Meramec river.
More than 800 men worked near Mex
leo, Mo.
Because of the mud in the Galloway
county bottoms, Governor Major was
unable to operate the road grading
machine The governor announced
work would be suspended until after
noon. The hundred prisoners were re-
turned to the state prison, but if con-
dltions are favorable they will work
tomorrow. d. E. Kingsley, state high
way commissioner of Arkansas, is here
to watch the road work.
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