The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-08-23
BOTH TOWN AND COUNTRY ARE
TRYING 1T OUT.
Seems to be Giving Excellent Salts.
faction in Communities Where
Ii Has Been Used.

II HaS Been used.
The Fairfield City CouCcil thinks so
well OF oiling the streets that it has
paid $3.50 for an outfit. In this action, !
the members Of the city council will |
be backed up by the residents of FUR
field, and within a short time all main
streets in the city should be oiled. In
order to have the street oiled, it is
necessary that majority of the prop
erty owners, not enters, get up a pc
tition and present it to The city clerk.
The oiling will be done on various
streets in the order in which the pc
titions are placed on file.
The price of ,oiling has not yet been
determined. However, the city authori-
ties beliece that it will be approx
mately $3.70 for each 66 foot lot. Last
year this was the price charged, but
oil has raised in price since last year
from 1885 to $5.95. The city will pay
for the oiling of all intersections of
tstreets and alleys, according to the
new laws governing that subject.
In oiling the streets, it is the inten-
ton of the city to oil a complete street
and not parts thereof. The oiler las
been shipped and will probably arrive
this week. Work will be commenced
limmediatclysa there are at this time
, five petitions on file in the office of
the city clerk.
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They have some good reads boosters
about Sully and Lynnville who are
worth having. While others have been
considering what nice Thing it would
be if the roads between towns were
only oiled they just got to work and
| oiled 'em. ...
Three men-Arie Elscott and Macy
brothers, oraered enough oil to oil the
road from Lynnville to Kilduff on their
own responsibility trusting to the lib
crafty of the people in The towns and
along the road to make them safe and
1.-THE people came right up with their
part and the result now is a fine
stretch of oiled roads between these
fine trading points.
'ine road is an example TO the whole
county of what our roads should be.
Conditions are perfect now for spread
| ing oil. The roads are smooth, the
grades are in good shape and the wea-
ltner is hot enough and dry enough to
make the oil spread just right.
A special meeting of the executive
board OF the Newton Commercial AS
ISOLATION and a few of the prominent
good roads boosters was led at the
iclub rooms Monday afternoon to con-
slider the question of continuing the
Lynnville-Killduff oiled road from Kill
duff to Newton. Those present were
unanimously of the opinion that New
ton should take up the work and push
it through. The plan proposed was to
ask every automobile owner in New
ton to make a small contribution to
the fund, to raise NewtOn's share and
asking every landowner 2!Cng the pro-
posed road to make a contribution as
they have done Oh that part of the
road from Killduff to Lynnville.
The committees named for this pur-
pose were as follows: H. B. Allfree,
W. ~. Jasper, Dick DAILY, w. w. Smi,m
A. M. Carl, Geo. Warner, Clarence
Craven, Homer Rayburn, Wayne
/ Sayre,, w. r. Cooper, S. S. Marshall,
R. II. Bailey. H. R. Norris.
1t was the opinion of those present
that the choice of routes should de-
pend on which way gave the most en-
couragement to the project-either by
way of the county home or by using
several miles of the river to-river road
and then branching off south.