Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-04-27
DIRT BASE BEST FOR ROADS
Manager Of Jefferson Highway Tells
kansans at Paola Of New System
in Building.

A new method of road building,
which greatly reduces the cost of $685.
day highways and adds to their life,
was explained by j. ID. Clarkson, the
newly named general manager Of the
Jefferson highway, at conference of
Kansas directors of the road and local
community Leaders at Paola recently.
The outstanding superiority of the
plan lies in the solicited, impervious
dirt base, on which either macadam
or oiled dirt crown may be placed.
If macadam is used, from rs to 40 per
cent less rock is required; If asphalt
tic oil, about 80 per cent less.
To arrive at this the earth road is
compacted by simple device that
fits to tractor wheels. When the earth
has been thoroughly packed and
forced down SO hard that loaded
wagon will not make an impression in
it, it is oiled and the crown is placed
on 1t, either more dirt and oil or
crushed rock.
1.-THE thing that ruins any road is
the water underneath it" he declared.
ut is the capillary water drawn up
from below that softens the earth base
and permits the freezing and loosen
ing of it. The oil placed on this solidi-
fled earth base caps the capillary
tubes effectively and cuts off the wa
ter"
One advantage is that the oil for
the base may be of the cheapest kind
of any waste product oil. The oil that
is being taken from the wells around
Paola was good enough, he told them.
For oiling the crown Of the road, how
ever, he explained that asphaltic oil
must be used.
Lawrence Veteran Dead-Capt j.
M. Spencer, Civil War veteran and
resident of Lawrence for the last thir-
ty-seven years, is dead at his home
there. He was SO years old
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Motor Car Kills Wlhita Man.-Geo.
W. Berry of Wichita was killed near
Cherryvale recently when his motor
car overturned.
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Gives Child New Palate -The Bro
ply operation for cleft palate was per-
formed at Wichita, the first time in
Kansas and probably the first time in
the West, by a local surgeon upon
Elizabeth Terffus, child q few weeks
old. The baby was born at Sharon.
The operation consisted OF breaking
the jaws and bending them in the
shape of an arch to form a roof for
the childs mouth. 1t is believed the
child will have normal speech, some
thing no person with a cleft palate
can have.
Dies From Kick Of Horse-Bertram
Huckins, farmer residing near Leav-
enworth, is dead as the result of be.
ing kicked by horse. He went into
the barn to feed the horses when an
animal. supposed to be gentle. wheeled
suddenly and kicked him in the stom-
ach.
Girl Wins oratorieaI contest-Miss
Tillie McGill, a sophomore at Fair
mount college, won the state orator.
cal contest for college girls held at
Winfield the other night. Cooper col
lege took second place.
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Killed by New Rhubard.-Oliver Sea
ton is dead at Turon from eating rhU
barb green's. The Rev. A. p. Hurst.
pastor of the Christian church, who
was guest at the Seaton home at the
preaching train too late to clear the
who was also taken violently i'll, was
able to say the funeral service.
Train Hit Handkerchief bound
Santa Fe passenger train No. ZIG
struck railroad handcar about two
miles east of Emporia, killing ono
Mexican track laborer and injuring
three other Mexicans, two severely.