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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
WANTED-MALE HELP.
WANTED-Two good ma
chine men for planning mill.
The Julius Kaaz Mfg. Co.,
Atchison, Kansas.

WANTEPm5oo laborers to ssdhIi ship to Wye;
July 9TH, farm hands; married farm cou-
pies; tunnel men; pile driver men; team
sters; to ship west, good wages, steady
work; 20 teams to haul baled hay; arm
walters; men cooks; kitchen help: dish
washers. Furman Employment office, JOG
West Sth.
WANTED-Laborers to ship to Utah
and Wyoming, Thursday noon
July 9Th. double track work.
Wages $3.50 day, free transportation.
Furman Employment Office. Jog West Sth.
WANTED-Young man to send west Kan,
free transportation. hotel work. $25 mo- :;
wagon helpers, $50 mo-, farm hands, cooks !;
dishwashers, men to ship west Tuesday.
Furman Employment office. LOG West Sth.
WANTED-A competent white girl for gen.
eral Homework. sol West 9th. Mrs. II.
r. Hogeboom.
WANTED-Young man for farm work. Roy
Crawford, Majestic Theater.
WANTED-All around machinist. Topeka
Foundry & Iron Works.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Rogers Cafe, 1908
Kansas.
PAPER ROUTE-Boy Is to 10. 2242
White.
DRIVERS WANTED-205 W. 9th st.
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Loo Z AND FOUND.

WILL the person who found ladies' leather
handbag Sat afternoon, kindly return
contents of card case and nose glasses to
1885 Lane. No questions asked.
LOST-Dark blue plaid raincoat belt Sat
urday afternoon. Finder please return
to Mrs. H. G. Adams. Maple Hill, KANSAS.
between Washburn and
Highland ave. Finder call 4S01 N-3. Re-
ward.
LOST-Gasoline tank cap. Finder return
. to Morns & Myers.
LOST-Pet canary. Reward. Call 1886
Black or 1130 Garfield.
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FOR RENT-FURNIsHED ROOMS

N>~\"~~~~~~~~>~~--~~----~
only So per week. Free electric fan in
each room. 217 W. 9Th St
FOR RENT-Large south room, strictly
modern. 314 Huntoon. Phone 1874 after
p. m.
so WEST 9TH-3 unfinished rooms
private porch and entrance, $12. 2O12
Black
FOR RENT modern furnished rooms,
first floor, strictly modern 222S Red.
ROOM with kitchenette, $2.25 or two rooms,
$2.75. 800 East 10th
2 LARGE ROOMS for light housekeeping
S13- lila Quincy.
FOR RENT-Modern furnished room. 723
l. Tyler.
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FOR RENT-HOUSES

FOR RENT-1264 Topeka ave, rooms,
oak floors, strictly modern; recently
painted and papered. House is in first class
condition. Phone 1913 or 1424 Black.
Half block z. on 18th st Modern 5-room
Bungalow with privilege of buying on
reasonable terms Clarence Skinner phone
432.
FOR RENT-Thoroughly modern Groom
house, all newly papered, s.. e. cor. 9th
and Fillmore. $50. per month. Call ST.
500 West 5th. Inquire sol Taylor st
SIX room modern house, 223 Huntoon.
Phone 800. Inquire 219 Huntoon.
FOR RENT-1230 Clay. 6 room house, mod
ern except furnace. 2299 Blue.
FOR RENT-Three- room cottage. 1893
North Jackson. Phone 705.
MODERN house. five rooms and bath. 315
West 18th. $1,000.
1910 KANSAS AVE. rooms. Inquire
1921 Quincy.
800 JEFFERSON rooms, modern. 1891
Black.
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WANTED-AGENTS

-~--~~~~-~(-~1~~>-->~ >-~---17~--1-~~~-~-
LIVE INSURANCE MEN WANTED.
Have cheapest, best selling automobile in
surance sold in Kansas. Sells itself upon
presentation. viii give territory to right
parties. Make appointment. w. B. Frantz,
THE Belt Automobile ms. Co.." 625 New
England Bldg, Phone 1878.
AGENTS-Make money selling Stransky's
vaporizer. latest and greatest invention
to save fuel for motorists. Money back
guarantee. Address E. Bard. 1877 Clay,
Topeka. Kan
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SANTA FEE NOTES

Notes and personals from. Santa Fe
by Frances Jones, oil GFattan street,
Telephone between s and 10 a. m. $3.50;
other hours 4751 K-2.
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WANTED FEMALE HELP.

WANTED-Dining room and lunch counter
girls for 10 states, good wages, steady
work, free transportation; women cooks,
house help; kitchen help; maids. etc. Fur
man Employment office, LOG West Sth.
MIDDLE AGED lady to pay for room, to
do light house work for board. No wash
ing or heavy work. Address F. G., care
Journal.
WANTED-At once white girl to care for
baby, particularly one who applied Satur-
day. 1857 Clay.
HELP WANTED-At Gem Laundry
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BUSINESS CHANCES

WANT-Interview with party who has
$1,000 and wants to cooperate in handling
oil leases in Kansas with headquarters at
Topeka. Good business in sight and little
risk of YOUR money. A. u. care Journal.
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w A m T S
AND MISCELLANEOUS ADS

ADVERTISING RATES: The rate for
inserting Want Ads in The Topeka State
journal is l cent word each insertion,
minimum 10 cents: by the week 5 cents a
word, minimum 80 cents
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FOR RENT-FURNIsHED HOUSES


WILL RENT or sell beautiful furnished
cottage in Ute Pass: Colorado. one hour
White.
FURNISHED cottage, west side. east front
barn, shade, cistern. Phone 31S3 or 1911
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a WORD TO THE WISE

blocks west, 9-rm. house. furnace, bath
gas, electric, fire place, barn. garage, nearly
? lots, old shade, reduced for quick sale,
s., 600.
? blocks east, Groom house, all modern,
east-front lots, barn, old shade cut to
s., 600; man in same block today said
the ground was worth 81 co.,
COTTRELL CO., 10T E. It'll. Tel. 556-34Os.
FOR SALE-5-room house to be moved off
lots southeast corner 10th and Gar
field St, must be sold by July LIST. En-
quire 400 E 10th, phone 1924 w.
FOR SALE or 10 lots and two-room
summer cottage. Only IL blocks from
car line. Highland Park addition Ad-
dress C. H. B., care Journal.
FOR SALE-Rental property rents for
$3.50 year, good location. Phone 20O1 M.
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FOR RENT-ROOMS

80 WEST 9TH-3 unfurnished or partly
furnished rooms, private entrance and
porch, cheap. 2072 Black.
FOR RENT-2 unfurnished light house
keeping rooms with kitchenette. no Bu-
chana St
FOR RENT rooms with sleeping porch
for light housekeeping. 1407 w. 10th st.
2 OR NEWLY papered unfurnished
rooms. ia East 4th. 1901 K-2.
B FIRST FLOOR housekeeping rooms. S26
Monroe Phone 222S White
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FOR sALE-AUTo,o BILEs.

SCRIPPS-BOOTH ROADSTER.
Here is a chance to buy a brand new car
at used car price. This is the most classy.
reliable light made. Five white wire
wheels and tires. Make 20 miles to gallon.
Call Pill. VIII not refuse reasonable offer
FOR SALE-5-passenger Winton touring
car. good as new, must be sold. Geo. w.
Stansfield. 632 Kansas ave.
5-PASSENGER Ford in good condition.
205 West 9th.
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FOR EXCHANGE.

WELL established business just the thing
for q live business woman or man and
wife: might consider some trade or make
goodterms business clear and making
money. Address 81 care Journal.
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN

Who originated a bon mot that is
going the rounds and being repeated
with relish in society 1t seems that
in a discussion in a group of women,
one small person who is bent upon
dominating every gathering she en-
tiers, became displeaSed with the drift
of the conversation. She fluttered to
her feet and began to sputter and spit
fire in her customary way. The wo-
man in charge of the meeting tried to
soothe her and others tried to out
talk her A big, calm woman sitting
near the official chair leaned toward
the presiding officer and whispered,
"A little insect powder, please"
X X X
The Masonic Unit of the Red Cross
will have a meeting at the Masonic
Temple Thursday evening.
X X X
Garfield park will be the scene of a
dancing party to be given tonight by
the men encamped on Washburn col
lege grounds, for the benefit of their
company fund. A band concert will
be given on the state house grounds
from 1880 to $3.50 o'clock, and after
ward special cars will be run to Gar
field, where the men and their guests
will dance.
Those in the receiving line will be:
Governor and Mrs. Arthur Capper,
Mr.. j. S. Dean, president of the Cham
! Der of Commerce, and Mrs. Dean,
Chancellor Frank Strong of the State
university and Mrs. Strong; General
and Mrs. C. 1. Martin, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
/ S. Elliott, and Dean Farley Walker.
! The men in the camps at Washburn
/ form an engineering company, made
/ up of college and university men who
! have many friends among the young
4 people of Topeka. The party is the
| last that the engineers will go to in
Topeka for some time, inasmuch as
| they are to leave July for Fort
| Riley. The members of the Military
| Sisterhood will be chaperons for the
party
The engineers at Washburn were
given a party Monday afternoon on
the campus by Mrs. Frank Britton,
who teaches them French, and a
group of about twenty or thirty of
her friends. After the French lesson.
the pine grove, where they were
served with cake and ice cream.
| X X X
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. w. ]. Weller of Fort Bragg,
| Cal, will leave Thursday for her
| home, after an extended visit to her
daughter, Mrs Horace Hall, and Mr..
Hall.
Mrs. Minnie D. Horner of st. Louis,
has arrived to visit her sister, Mrs.
f. H. Crosby. Mrs. Crosby and Mrs.
| Horner and Miss Helen Louise Crosby
Will IedNe ABOUT the HlQQle OF july to
spend the rest of the summer in Estes
Park, Colo.
i Miss Helen Wood of Independence,
is visiting her brother, Mr.. n. V.
Wood, and Mrs. Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs E. A. Campbell have
returned from Kansas City where they
spent the week end with friends
Mrs. Edwin Davis and her daugh-
ter, Isabel, returned today to their
home in Leavenworth, after a visit to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

review before her; rich lovers. noble
lovers, sporty lovers and studious low
ers; flnancierS and savantS, some
great some small, in the worlds fame.
but all arduous and impetuOus. "Oh,
yes. L like the men," Miss Long ex
planned; lots of them are as good as
any horse that ever Hved-but L have
MT found one yet"
This brings us to Pryor R. Combs
and the story so well circulated here
of the day he saved a poor overwork
ed team of horses from the brutal
ferocity of their driver, with Loula
an unobserved but observing by
stander.
your name" demanded Loula, and
giving it, Pryor told her, successfully,
Just how he felt about animal life
and its humane treatment.
Once more 1 quote, IF he isn't al
ready married, I'm going to marry
that man." said Miss Long at the din
ner table when she described the in
cident to the members of her fathers
family"
Still quoting
And so she is. He proved to be
the son of a minister-the Rev.
George H. Combs, of the Christian
church. He was reputed to be a good
son, just as his father was credited
with being a good minister But that
was almost all the world could say of
him. Miss Long added, however.
and he loves a horse, and a horse
loves him. Why shouldn't u"
X X X
The conversation of the women
these days is chiefly concerning the
new knitting bags. There are no par
ties to speak of, and the good old,
reliable gossip feature of conversation
is going glimmering. No scandal has
percolated thru to this department for
two days, but as a subject for eulogy
and enthusiasm, the knitting bag is
on the crest of the wave. A Topeka
woman has one from Honolulu and
another is in possession of a lovely
bag from California. The other wo-
men are making their own. They are
cut after the style of the oldtime car
pet bag and they are made of fascinat-
ing patterns of cretonne, edged with
satin to match some color in the body
of the material. These bags are used
for Juggling about the knitting work
with which all the women are busy.
The Navy league scarfs and sleeveless
jack ts. wristIets and stockings are be-
ing made by the ton by the women
carpet bags and knit at every avail
able moment.
And that reminds me, the day of
the Political Science club picnic, a girl
passed the party, going down the
street absorbed in a job of tatting. She
had a string of tatting five feet long
hung over her shoulder, and in her
! hand was the shuttle and thread
which were flying fast as she walked
! down Tenth street toward town.
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WANTED-SALESMEN

Statesmen WANTED for fruit and orna-
mental trees. Outfit free. Pay weekly
Department S. J., TIE Lawrence Nurseries.
Lawrence. Kan.
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WANTED-TO BUY

WANl ED-1O bO
OLD FALSE TEETH WANTED-Don't
matter if broken. I pay $500 to $500
per full set Single and partial plates in
proportion: Send by parcel post and re
ceive check by return mail. L. MAYER,
2007 S. 9TH St, Philadelphia, Pa.
n ami G Highest price paid for End
NFfV4 ~ hand clothes. ladies' or gents.
NOVACK. 4041A E. 4TH. TEL. 5000.
WANTED-Fat cattle and calves. VIII
send buyer to look at cattle. The Chas.
Wolff Packing Co.
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Topeka, Kansas, July 3, 1917.
NOTICE 10 CI-I WEEDS

Published in The Topeka State journal,
July ), 1879
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FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


WANTED-Watch repairing, Main springs,
75c; cleaned, Toe. All work guaranteed.
Armstrong Jewelry Co. 429 Kansas ave.
FOR SALE-Several pair perfectly good
low shoes. 1884 West Euclid.
FOR SALE-Full blood Mallard ducks
$3.50 per pair. Tel 1877.
FIREWORKS at West 9th and Washburn.
1852 HASTY AUTO EXPRESS
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FOR RENT-sToRE BUILDINGS.

KANSAS AVE, 131, for rent, after August
18th, store room or whole building, 2Sx
40 feet, front so feet, stories, half block
south r. l. depot, center of wholesale,
commission and manufacturing district.
Call W. w. Gavitt & Co., 4th and Adams
SITS
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FOR sALE-HoUsEHoLD GOODS

FOR SALE-HOUSEHOL GOODS.
ALL KINDS of furniture for sale at mon
ey saving prices. Kent B. Logan, 322
Kansas Ave, Tel. 1882
FIRELESS cooker, sewing machine and as
good as new refrigerator. Phone 4647 M,
420 Sumner.
HOUSEHOLD furniture for sale. Phone 764
or call at S04 Topeka avenue.
FOR SALE-Nearly new reed baby car
rage. 2614 Blue
FOR SALE-Good refrigerator, cheap. 1871
Clay.
FOR SALE-Davenport. Call 126 Jefferson
ST
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FOR RENT-OFFICE ROOMS
MODERN office rooms. single or en- suite
Orpheum Bldg Gordon Bros, 400 II A
1919
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FOR SALE-PET STOCK
FOR sALE-Pedigreed Boston bull ter
rier. fine pet for children, so Horne.
FOR SALE-Eskimo puppy, a pet for the
children. Phone 1853
TWO well bred collies, 5 and ten. Address
1900 East 9th.
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FOR SALE-LIVESTOCK
HOGS thoroughbred Hampshire sows
immune and bred. Call $40.
FOR SALE Good delivery team cheap.
Paxton and Paxton.
FOR SALE-Sow and pigs. Phone 11O4.
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WANTED-M.- aLLANEoUs.

WANTED-MiA> .ELLANEOUS
WE buy all kinds of waste paper, metal
and junk.
ACME WASTE PAPER co.
Phone 1921 301-303 E. LIST.
HEMSTITCHING. PINKING
Paintings of all kinds Buttons made
Mail orders receive prompt. careful atten-
ton Mrs. Mercer. 500 Topeka.
WANTED-A 25-35 Winchester earbine,
must be in first class shape. Enquire
$50 North Kansas ave.
WANT to rent or purchase an invalid
wheel chair. Address DR.. G. II. Leader.
city.
GOOD milk cows fat cattle and veal calves
w. C. A LeitzoI Tel. 257.
1852 HASTY AUTO EXPRESS.
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FOR RENT-APARTMEN
FOR RENT-5-room apartment. 931 Kan.
ave, $500; Broom apartment, 1915
Kan ave, $50 90: 5 rooms. first floor. 527
Tyler, $1,000. Phone 513 or 3I40 Black
FOR Rents rooms and bath. modern
apartment. west side, $500 Tel 1922 w
or 1877
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-30

In days gone by we often read Of
the elaborate stables maintained by
the millionaire and we now read of
the extensive garages Of automobiles
maintained by the wealthier classes,
but it is not often that one reads of
a farmer and his family maintain
ing a garage of no less than seven
pleasure cars and one truck; but such
is the enviable record of Henry Hick-
man, a wheat farmer of Colfax, Wash.
The story will show farmers of the
middle west to what extent the farm
ers of the northwest have satisfactori-
ly employed the motor truck.
The Hickman family own not less
than seven automobiles of various
models and a short time ago they
added to their holdings by purchasing
from the Spokane branch of the
Northwest Buick company two-ton
G. M. c. truck, which has been put
into service in hauling wheat from the
Hickman farm to the warehouse on
the railroad.
Mr.. Hickman had a haul of four
miles to the warehouse; two miles of
which has a grade ranging from 10
to 20 per cent, and the drop in alti-
tude over this four miles reaches the
remarkable figure of 1880 feet.
The truck in service takes down
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-30
Twenty.Eight Qualify
Each DAY as Balloon Pilots

St. Louis, Mo. Sept. 22,--Every
week in st. Louis an average of twen-
ty-eight men qualify as balloon pilots,
the first sep m a long and tedious
period of training to become balloon
observers for the United States army.
The men are being trained for the
balloon division, aviation section OF
the United States army signal corps,
by the Missouri Aeronautical society.
OF which Albert Bond Lambert is
president. .... . -.
To obtain license from the Aero
Club of America a rookie" must take
seven flights, one all night fight and a
solo" fight. A Solo fight consists
of laying out the balloon, initiating it,
making a trip, debating, packing and
storing the balloon without assistance.
The solo" trip is what the students
like best for it is the most exciting
and interesting of them all.
One student started on his solo
Hikht last week and began to descerd
in the vicinity o. DcSoto, Mo. The
basket caught la the branches OF a
tree and he crawled out to free tn
bailoon. AS soon as it was relsass1
tho gas bag shot into the air with the
stu .ent hanging on the outside of tt~
basket. one hand to the basket. he
other on the drag rope, He hung like
this until the balloon steadied itself,
more than 900 feet in the air, when
he crawled back into the basket.
I'll the students are sent here from
the Omaha training station, where they
tate the preliminary physical and
technical examination. After making
their qualifying fights they are sent
back to Omaha for intensive training.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-30

cars on out OF town runs. The adapt
ed trench coat and the loose norfolk
jacket is the suit coat. Knickers and
leggings add the practical note and
make the getting out and getting un-
der not a difficult task. With broad
brimmed Khaki hat, the wrist watch
on one arm and the compass on the
other, she is a decidedly business look
ing person.
Though prices of wool soar in COM
pany with those OF other commodi-
ties, it is we'll to consider the home
made scarf and its superiority over
those one may buy at reasonable price.
Color, length and width may suit the
taste of the knitter; they are not diff
cult to do and are bound to cost less
than those offered in the shops. The
aviators' knitted hood is also in dan
ger of being borrowed for touring
wear as the season advances. 1t is
cozy and excellently adapted in shape
for this use.
The new caps for men with the big.
puffy crowns and big plaids are be-
coeing great fall fashions.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-30

once had negro road machine man
who old make a road look like a
picture. On one occasion | instruct
ed him to drag a piece of road and
then went away. When l came back
few minutes later he was still stand
ing where | had left him, looking up
and down the road and making no
effort to get started. l asked him
rather sharply why he did not get
busy and his reply was: Boss, Use
jes' tryin' to get in my mind how dis
here road gwine look after l done got
fru wild it. Jes' as soon as l'se done
satisfy myself how it gwine look, den
Use gwine start en- de res won be
no trouble" And he did make a fine
job of that road. Now it would be
splendid idea for more people to
follow the plan OF that ignorant ne
gro and try to figure out how the
road is going to look after they get
through with it.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-30
Marmon Makes Record
Run Over Rough Roads

Driving from Indianapolis to Buf-
falo, N. Y, on high gear, never shift
ing for the State Line and the Girard
hills, averaging rs miles an hour for
the entire trip. and making an aver
age of IA miles to the gallon of gaso-
line, was the performance of the
brand new Marmon "a driven by
Charles F. Monroe of Buffalo, N. Y.
1--WE left Indianapolis Sunday
morning and arrived here Monday
evening, covering the entire 545 miles
on high gear" stated Mr.. Monrc.
upon his arrival in Buffalo. 1--WE made
245 miles the first day, and 800 miles
the second day over rough and dusty
roads, including twelve detours. The
car was taken from the stock room
and the performance on the road
shows its great stability. l have en-
loved many automobile rides, but this
was the greatest | ever had. In fact,
| was amazed at the easy manner in
which a big mileage can be covered
in a day by Marmon car. With a
brand new car, an average speed OF
rs miles an hour was maintained, and
we recorded an average of IA miles
to the gallon of gasoline. Al this
was accomplished with a new Car
over roads that were cut up deplor-
ably, and were. thick with dust. The
Marmon just rolled over the hills
without any apparent effort"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-30

that in some counties the men in
charge of the road work are more
conscientious and develop more eftlci-
ent methods than the road supervisors
in other counties. -~-,r
| know a county in Texas which.
without the aid of any bond issues,
has succeeded in putting its main
roads in very creditable condition, be-
cause its road overseers have tried
honestly and faithfully to make every
dollar 60 as far as possible, and have
tried to handle the road business as
though it were their own private en-
terprise. Very close to this county
is another county, wherein all OF the
road funds have been expended and
over 100000 of anticipation war
rants" have been issued for the pur-
pose of road improvement, and the
roads are in most wretched shape.
This indicates Indifference and neg
lect on the part OF the officials OF that
county.
Intelligent Road Work.
I do not know of any business
wherein personal interest and intelli-
gence will count for more than in the
maintenance of rural roads. Take, for
example, the dragging of roads. Some
men will take road machine or
light drag and go out over a road
during a rain, or Immediately after 1t,
and in the course of a few hours it
will look splendid, with the bitches
cleaned out and the crown properly
shaped. On the contrary, many men,
when employed to drag road, will
defer this very necessary operation
until the road is baked hard and dry
and ruts are all over it, and as re-
suit dragging is practically useless.
You can put it down as fact that
when a man takes the sea. off his
wagon and places it on the road drag
he is no good as road man, and to
anyone who really wants to see road
improved it Isl exasperating in the
extreme to see such man dragging
the road with the horses going aim
lessly ahead, while he dozes contend
edly on his seat.
How to Drag.
To properly handle a drag and
get the best results, a man must be on
the alert, stepping from one side OF
the drag to the other and occasional
ly getting off and even lifting one
side of the drag in order that he may
secure a proper crown to his road. |