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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-04-20

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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-04-20

Attorney for the Sch,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
BENEFIT OF SHADE TREES
In Wisconsin Owner Is Given Annual
Bounty of Three Cents for Each
Rod of Highway.

The Wisconsin law provides that
financial consideration may be given
by the state to people who plant and
cultivate trees by the roadside. Ev-
cry person along or through whose
lands q highway passes may plant and
cultivate on one or both sides Of the
road where he shall w land, trees
of such varieties as commonly grow at
least 40 feet high. These must be
set two rods or less apart and in a
row within eight feet of the outer line
of the highway.
When such trees reach IL feet In
height the superintendent of highways
shall give the owner upon request a
certificate accepting the trees as pub
lie shade trees. Thereafter they be-
long to the public and are protected as
public property, hut the title to them
or to the fruit they bear belongs to
the owner as long as he maintains
the trees and replaces such as die.
The Owne shall receive an annual
bounty of three cents for each rod of
highway along which such trees are
planted on one side and six cents II
planted on both sides, to be credited
on his highway taxes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
TAR AND GRAVEL APPARATUS
Device Invented by New Jersey Man.
ufacturer for Heating Materials
for Pavemcnts.

Einulating the famous hunter OF the
olden days who killed two birds with
one stone. a New Jersey manufacturer
has recently brought out a combina-
ton tar and gravel heater that heats
these two dissimilar materials quite IN
dependently but with one operation.
The device, which is shown in the ac-
c~ompanying illustration, is particularly
fitted for street paving where BLOCK
pavements with tar joints are laid.
The apparatus consists of two MAN
parts, q rectangular tar kettle and a
Y-shaped gravel bin. with a furnace
extending beneath both parts, from
one end to the other. The furnace IS
fired from the gravel end Of the de-
vice. The smoke and gases escape
through an ordinary stove pipe in the
kettle end. The inside Of the gravel
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
BUILDING ROADS IN ALASKA
Road Commissioners Find Trouble in
Maintenance on Account of Mar
row Tired Trucks.

Alaska has been building roads since
1905. 1t has built 920 miles of wagon
roads, 500 miles of winter sled roads
and 2,210 miles of trails. One of these
roads was built for mOtorcar traffic,
but more than 30 trucks ana paSsen-
ger cars were in use over them 1T the
close of the last fiscal year.
Much damage has been done to the
roads by heavy narrow-tired trucks,
and the board of road commissioners
finds troubles of maintenance with
them always. In addition, they found
it necessary to build a five-mile road
along q hillside last summer by cover
ing the road bed with willow cordu-
roy and ~Surfacing the corduroy with
gravel because the material underlying
the location consisted of six feet of
gravel on the bed rock, forty feet of
clear ice on the gravel and two feet of
moss and tundra on top.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
BENEFIT OF IMPROVED ROADS
From Standpoint OF Almighty Dollar
1t Pays Handsome Yearly Divi-
dend to Farmer.

Let everybody awaken to the i'm
portance of improving the public road,
for improved roads will bring:
Better schools and greater attend
ance.
Better health and quicker medical
attention.
Better farms and more cultivated
land.
Better crops and better transporta-
ton.
Better social conditions and less iso-
lation.
Better churches and better homes.
Better men and a better nation.
Improved roads have q money value
as well as q social value.
Looking at an improved road from
the standpoint of the almighty dol
lar, 1t Is found to pay a handsome
dividend each yeap.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
Combination Tar and Gravel Heating
Device in Operation.

heater is triangular shaped while the
outside is made up in steps consisting
of perforated metal plates. The Y
shaped top acts rs Il reservoir bin ana
the gravel feeds down the steps and
out at the bottom. The perforations
in the step plates allow the moisture
In the gravel to escape readily as it Is
turned into steam by the heat Of the
fire. thereby making it possible to heat
both tar and gravel.-Popular Science
Monthly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
PERMANENT ROAD IS FAVORED
Saving in Cost OF Rebuilding Would
Pay for Them in Comparatively
Few Years.

A writer on the advantage of per-
manent highways makes the point that
the saving in the cost Of rebuilding
would pay for them in a comparative
" few years-and then there wouid'be
a prospect of valuable returns. The
thing would be like making Il few pay
ments to secure an annuity. Wherever
the money can be raised there should
be permanent highways. That is the
good roads gospel par excellence.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
Notice of Election.
State of South Carolina,
County of Edrefeld.
May q, 1918.


Whereas a petition has been filed,
and all legal requirements met, it IS
hereby ordered that the regularly APP
pointed Board of Trustees of Moss
School District No. %, do hold an
election at w. T. Reels store Satur-
day, July 20, 1918, for the purpose
of voting upon the question of levy
ing and collecting an additional spe-
cial tax of n (1) mill on the dol
lar of all taxable property within
said district, proceeds of such add
tional levy to be used for school pur-
poses in Moss District No. %. Those
%favoring such additional levy shall
cast a ballot with the word Yes"
written or printed thereon, and those
opposing such additional levy shall
cast a ballot with the word mo"
written or printed thereon.
The polls shall open at 8 o'clock
A.. NJ, and close at 4 o'clock P. NJ,
and in all respects comply with Sec
ton of Code of Laws governing Cen
eral Elections.
W. W. Fuller,
E. H. Folk,
G. F. Long,
20 BOARD of Education.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17

Vitriiied Brick for Paving Country
Roads-Fiiling the Joints, First Coat.
in money and labor on the public roads
aggregated only $SG.000.000. compared
with some $30O,OO0,000 for 1917. Thus
the public roads have been changed
with bewildering rapidity from the
status OF the purely local utility to that
of q utility Of national Importance and
scope.
It is well known that the railroads of
the United States are unable to carry
the enormous traffic now offered for
transportation, and it is to be expected
that the public roads will from now on
have added to their present traffic bur-
dens such freight as may be shifted to
them to relieve railway congestion.
1t is beyond question that for pas
senger haul the public roads are used
to a greater extent than the railroads.
These impressive conditions have been
created within the span of a single gem
GRAFTON.
On July II, 1916. President Wilson
approved a measure generally known
as the f~ederal-aid road act, which car
ried an appropriation of S%75,O00,0OO to
aid the states in the construction OF
rural post roads and 100000 to be
expended for the construction and
maintenance of forest roads.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
Notice Of Opening Books Of
Enrolment For Voters In
The Democratic Primary
Election, etc., etc.

Notice is hereby given that the
following committees for enrolment
have been appointed to enroll the
voters of Edgefeld County in the
Democratic Primary for the year
1918, and said books Of enrolment
will be opened at the places designa-
ted for each club Tuesday, June 4th,
1918.
Bacon.-W. H. Smith, Secretary;
G. M. Smith and B. B. Bouknight at
Bouknight's Store.
Cleveland-C. C. Jones, Secretary;
j. w Quarles and T. Wallace Quarles
at Quarles' Store.
Colliers.-Dr. j. N. Grafton, Sec
rotary; D. T. Mathis and E. B. Math-
is at Mathis Store.
Edgefeld Democratic Club No. L
L. w. Cheatham, Secretary; A. E.
Padgett and N. M. Jones, at Jones
and Sons Store.
Edgefeld Democratic Club No.2-
J. W. Kemp, Secretary; T. A. High
tower and T. J.. Paul at the Edge
field Mercantile Company.
West Johnston.-W. M. Sawyer,
Secretary; E. H. Smith and John
Wright, at Lott-Walker Company's
Store.
East Johnston.-A. NJ. Clark, Sec
rotary; w. S. Mobley and S. G. Mob
ley, Jr. at J.. C. Lewis Store.
Long Branch.-E. l.. Scott, Sec;
Luther Yonce and L. c. Clark, at
Lewis Clark's Store.
Meriwether.- J. A. Thurmond,
Sec. j. T. Reece and J.. O.. Scott, at
J. A. Thurmond's Store.
Meeting Street,. X. Allen, Sec;
]. R. Blocker and J. H. Cogburn at
J. H. Cogburn's Store.
Moss.-P. w. C%heatham, Sec;
T. A. Williams and W. A. Reel, at
Reels Store.
Pleasant Lame. T. Mcdowell,
Sec; S. T. Williams and F. L. Tim
norman, at F. L. Timmerman's Store
Red HILL. E. Quarles, ,n;Sec.; 0.
O. Zimmerman and r. M. johnson at
H. E. Quarles' Store.
Ropers. F. F. Rainsford,.. Sec; 3.
T. Lanham and j. D. Boswell, at. Ror
er's Store.
Shawn. W. Wise, Sec; l. A.
Webb and A. j. Day, at A. j. Days
Store.
Talbert.-J. D. Hughey, Sec; A.
Gilchrist and E. P. sWinn, at IL. P.
WINS Store.
The qualifications for MEMBERSHIP in
any club of the party and for voting at
a primary are as follows:
The applicant for membership, or
voter, shall be 81 years of age, or shall
become so before the secceedings'gen-
eral election and be asswhite Democrat.
He shall be a citizen of ssthe.. Unite
States and of this State. NoN person
shall belong to any club or vote in any
primary unless he has resided in the
State two years and in the County SIX
months prior to the succeeding general
election and in the club district 60 days
prior to the first primary following his
offer to enroll; PROVIDED, that pub
lie school teachers and ministers of the
gospel IN charge of regular organized
church shall be exempt from the pro
visions of this section as to residence,
or otherwise qualified. Under the rules
a new enrolment is required.
B. E. NICHOLSON,
County Chairman.
May q, 1918.
ny
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
Maintenance of Gravel Roads.

On many trunk highways, a gravel
surface would be entirely unsatisfac-
tory, but we must not overlook the
fact that on roads carrying compare
lively light traffic the annual interest
cost Of a more substantial pavement
may exceed the maintenance cost OF
gravel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
ANNUAL COST OF HIGHWAYS
Construction and Maintenance involve
Expenditure of 100000 900
Burden on Roads.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.l
Road construction and maintenance
in the United States involve an annual
outlay of over S300,000,000, a sum
which, if capitalized at 5 per cent,
would represent an investment of &c.
OOO.GO0.GO0.
AS recently as 1906 there were only
100000 motor vehicles in the United
States compared with nearly 100000
Of 1917, while in 1904 the total outlay
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
Poor Roads a Loss.

The farmers Of the United States
have been allowing $3OO,OOO,OO0 in
real money to escape from their peck
cts each year because of poor roads,
according to experts.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
To Prevent Blood Poisoning

apply at once the wonderful old reliable DE-
PoRTER'S ANTISEPTIc HEALING OIL, a SUI
ricaI dressing that relieves pain and heals al
lie same time. Not q liniment. 2Sc. sue. $l.uG
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
c.eass of Notified Butter,

Notified butter is caused by the IN.
even distribution Of salt.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
Durable Roads.

Tme-saving, durable roads are %
as important as quick-firing guns, and
1t is high time to speed up construc-
ton in order to quicken food delivery.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
NOTICE

We pay the highest cash prices
for guano, cotton seed meal and
oat sacks. See me at Rubensteln's
store at Edge6eld, or L. Weiner's
store at Johnston.
L. WIENER.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-17
Cart Before Horse.

Putting the cart before the horse
Installing truck lines befors building
adequate roads.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-08
Success in Air Raids
Is Reported by British

LONDON, March 6.-"After two days
Of wind and rain. the weather cleared
slightly on the afternoon of Tuesday"
says today's official report Of aerial
operations Bombs were dropped on
railway sidings northeast of Lille.
In air fighting two hostile machines
we're downed and one was driven down
out OF control one OF ours is miss
ing.
After dark the Ingelmunster railway
station and an airdrome northeast Of
ST. Quentin were heavily bombed. All
our machines returned"
Tonight's statement on military OPP
erations, issued by the war office,
reads:
The enemy's artillery has been more
active than usual south of st. Quentin
and in the neighborhood of Bots Grenier.
Some activity was also shown west Of
Cambria and southeast and northeast
of Ypres.'
"A raid attempted by The enemy last
night east of Epehy, under cover of a
heavy artillery baTrage, was completely
repuIsed," the war office reports. "Other
hostile raiding parties which endeavored
to reach our lines southeast of BSis
Grenier and east Of Poelcapelle were
equally unsuccessful. The enemys ar
tillery has been active in the Scarpe
valley. west OF Lens and east Of Ypres,
and shortly before dawn developed con-
siderable activity in the Neuve Chap
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-08
j. S. CONDITIONS FOR
WORLD WIDE PEACE
IMPRESS TEUTO NS
Papers, Just Received in New
York, Show That Fowtea<
Principles Acted Like Leaven
in Central Empires

NEW YORK, March President
Wilson's address to congress early In
January in which he defined fourteen
ed like leaven in the political life OF
Austria-Hungary and the conditions are
reverted to over and over again as a
possible or concrete basis for negotia-
tons as appears from theIdiscussions m
German newspapers of the latter part Of
January, now received here.
The presidents proposals also have
received considerable attention in Ger
many. The papers there explain the
favorable echo the proposals have
evoked in Austria by stating that the
objectional parts of the presidents adj
dress do not apply to Austria az vitality
as they do to Germany.
Various members of the Austrian
house Of deputies declared in the budget
committee Of that body that It was a
mistake to reject the Wilson proposals
coofty and contemptuousIy. They ex-
pressed the belief that even at the pres
ent time it should be possible to reach
an understanding with the western DOW
ers. and referred to the contrast be-
tween the peace views of the politicians
and of the military.
Polish deputy in peace debate IN
the Austrian house on January % re-
jected the idea that Germany had saved
Austria from defeat. He said that with
out the aid Of Austria, Bulgaria and
Turkey Germany would not have been
able to fight off her enemies.
General ARR Won Straussenberg. chief
of the Austrian general staff. in an in
terview in the Vienna Socialist organ,
the Arbeiter Zeitung, expressed the
hope that it would be possible to con-
vince labor that the army command was
not placing any obstacles in the path
of peace. He said the desire for peace
was general and that no one contem-
plated annexations. Labor, he said, may
be assured that there is sincere inten-
ton to conclude peace as early as posi-
BILE, but the people would have to be
patient a little while longer.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-08
Renewal of Fighting
BY italians Reported

ROME NJ cuuesudA. March t. Inc
Italian and enemy batteries on impor-
tant sectors of the front have again
taken up reciprocal firing activity. The
statement from the war office today
also reports effective work by Italian
warshIps. The statement reads:
There was q lively renewal Of re-
ciprOcal fire between Lake Garda and
the AstiCo in the region of Monticello and
along the coast zone Our batteries
made effective concentrations of fire on
enemy troops IN movement in the Asagp
basin. south OF Primolano, on the back
slopes of the Col della Barretta and IN
the vicinity Of Lampol 20 the left of the
Piave South of Tierno hostile recon-
naissance parties who attempted to reach
our lines were repulsed with LOSSES. on
the Pasubie We exploded a mine, dam
aSiug the enemy's positions.
our aircraft bombaTded the enemy
AVIATION ground at Meta di Livenza. and
column OF troops marching in the
eighborhOod OF OrderzE. A British
aviator brought down hostile "ma-
chine"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-08
MRS. GERTIE HOWELL
ON WITNESS STAND
Says She Saw Killing II
Wader for Which Johnson
Is Tried

AMERICUS, Ga, March I'm the
Warren Johnson murder trial here yes
terday the entire morning session was
occupied IN the cross-examiriation of
Mrs. Yertfe Howell, star witness for
the state, who testified at Tuesday aft
ernoon's session that she witnessed
the killing of Walter Wade. The wom-
an is what lawyers call a good wit
ness, and spectators present were keen
ly interested in the duel of words be-
tween the witness and Attorney Nc
NELL. of the defense, from the opening
of court until her DISCRIMINATION
was concluded during the afternoon.
The woman's story of the killing va
ried little from that related by her when
on the stand in the D. K Chapman case.
and whenever the attorney for the de-j
Tense apparently had her cornered or
was about to bring out some new state
ments from her lips, she invariably
sought refuge behind the statement II
don't remember"
James A. HLxon, leading counsel fer
the prosecution, rallied to the support
of the witness frequently and by inter
posing objections succeeded in giving
her time in which to compose her atti-
tude and be ready for the next attack
on the part of the defense
Throughout the crosS-exarninzt7on
ney McNeill who literally piled thou
sands of questions to the witness, and
only when the attorney for the defense
assumed an attitude which the court
interpreted as disrespect toward the
woman on the stand, did the court call
Attorney McNeill to account. He was
instructed that he must respect the wit
ness, who, when asked if she had ever
done anything bad, replied she would
not answer the Interrogation. When
asked a long question, the sense of
which was that she had succeeded in
preventing any blood getting upon her
clothes while in the death car and after
wards while being assisted into the 9TH
er car by little Charlie Chapman, and
still later while being given a hypoder-
mic by DR.. G. K Chapman, the assump-
ton being that both men were then
quite bloody. she then replied quickly
that she did ond that she wore the same
clothes the next day.
1t is anticipated that all of tomorrow
will be consumed in the examination of
witnesses, and today all hope of any de-
velopments of a new or startling nature
vanished when the counsel for the de-
Tense continued to pursue the same line
of examination as that used in previous
trials when Mrs. Howell had finished
her direct testimony.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-08
German Raids RepulSed
By French at Verdun

PARIS, March German raids on
the Verdun front front last night were
repulsed by the French, the war office
announces. The communication fol-
lows.
Rather heavy artillery fighting oc-
Cured in the regions of >Cormicy and
Rheims. Last night the Germans made
raids against our trenches at Avocouri
wood and northwest of hill 344 (Ncr-
dun 'front.'. Our fire everywhere check
ed the assailants and prisoners. includ-
ing an officer, remained in our hands
"Our lines were bombarded intermit-
tently today in the region of Avocourt
and north Of Douaunont. At times there
was heavy artillery firing at various
points i'm Lorraine and AlsaCe.
ION Tuesday three German airplanes
we're brought down by our pilots and
two by the fire OF our anti-aircraft
guns.
Macedonian front: Theer was recip-
rocal artillery activity west Of Lake
Dorian in the Cerna Bend and north Of
Mona stir"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-08
4 USTRIA STIRRED BY WILSON'S SPEECH
HARRIS SAYS GEORGIANS
MUST REPUDIATE HARDW|CK
Refers to Results of New York
Elections and Action in
Wisconsin

Before leaving Atlanta Wednesday for
Washington to resume his duties as
chairman of the federal trade commits
sion, William J. Harris, candidate for
the United States senate, issued q
statement in which he declared that all
patriotic Georgians must repudiate Sen
ator T. w. Hardwick at the polls.
After reviewing the recent elections
in New York in which the democrats
were victorious and declaring that these
results are a vindication of the Will
son administration. Mr.. Harris went
on to compare conditions in Georgia
with those in Wisconsin, where the
state senate denounced Senator LaF'ol-
lette
"As to the situation in Georgia"
said Chairman Harris, substantially
the same conditions prevail as regards
senatorial Misrepresentation as those
that have disgraced Wisconsin. Sena-
tor Hardwick the Junior senator from
this state, is appealing to the people on
his record. L have challenged that
record as being discredit to the sena-
tor and a disgrace to the state, unless
it is repudiated by the people of Geor-
gia just as LaFollette's record has
been repudiated by his state.
During my visit home have heard
from every part of the state of Geor-
gia and my confidence in the result has
increased every day.
ct will be overwhelmingly, nominated
for the senatorship and whatever else
may be said, l can, with becoming
modesty, say that when take my seat
in the senate Il will never cast vote
that WILL mortify my people or shame
nv state Should the time ever come
when 1 should feel called upon to defy
the public sentiment of my people
would place my commission back into
their hands.
THE senatorial election in Georgia
when reduced to it's last analysis, is
simply a question as to whether or not
the people of this state are going to
stand by or repudiate Woodrow Wilson
and the administration. 1 have not the
slightest doubt that in the final round
DIP Georgia will be found just exactly
where the four New York congressional
districts placed themselves in the re-
cent elections and where the general
assembly of Wisconsin has placed that
state in it's reputation of LaFollette-
my resignation as chairman of the
federal trade commission has been ac-
cepted to take effect on May 1, and
from that time on / shall devote myself
unreservedly to my senatorial candi-
dacy. 1 expect to make my opening
address at Wayoross Within few weeks
and have already promised my friends
there that they may proceed accord
ingly with their arrangements"