The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-03-18

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able to get somewhere quick wher it
is necessary, which cannot be meas
ured in money values.
Mr.. Tho1en remarked that prac-
tically ali of the road money was be-
ing spent this year on north and south
roads, in fact, all improvements were
being made on the north and south
roads, the only morey being spent on
the Golden Belt road this year, being
for dragging and maintaining the
work already done there.
Mr.. Bird asked Mr.. BENDER how
much it would help him in marketing
his wheat if he had better road. Mr..
Blender said: 81 don't think it would
help me any because I am too close
to town but 1 think it would do a lot
of good to have some work dore
north and west of me, there is a lot of
work to be done there We want to
get to work in there as soon as we
can. Of course, 1 don't know any
thing about Buckeye township, but 1
would like to know what they intend
to do"
Chairman Bird then asked Mr. Cos
ser what he thought about the roads,
and how much road there was be-
tween his place ard town that would
have to be fixed in order to make it
a good road all the way to town. Mr..
Gosser said, eve need roads all right,
this road in Big Greek township north
of Hays two miles needs about as
much work as any road in the county.
The dirt road from my place to town
is a good solid road but it needs fix
ing the whole way. 1 think Mr..
Cochran was right. 1 tell you, Gen
tlemen, all road overseers quit too
quick. They take out a few teams
and work little while ard then quit,
afraid they won't get home for supper
in time, 1 guess. If they would fix
the bottom of these fills with culverts
and put in bitches so as to carry the
water off and drain it away, then
there wouldn't be any of these soft
places. 1 tell you, Captain, they quit
too quick"
Mr.. Ed Kraus when called upon,
said: ''The trouble with the road l
think, is that they don't put in enough
culverts and fills along the roads ard
when the rains come the lower places
fill up with water. We ought to see
that we have culverts in every low
place so that the water can drain off.
Mr.. Tholen stated that this years
program called for culverts in every
bad place in the roads to be fixed.
Mr.. Schueler was called upon by
Mr.. Bird, who said that since Schueler
repaired cars, he ought to be inter
ested in this: 'I am afraid you are
workin gagainst me-" said Mr.. Schuel-
er, "but we do a lot of driving too,
and to say the least, we are willing to
let this work go ahead"
Mr.. Addison said, ''The Telephone
Company covers as much of the coun-
ty in mileage in our repair work as
any other concern, and we keep an
accurate record of every item of ex-
pense connected Herewith and last
year, the expense for one Ford car
was $3.50, or the price of a new car
and a half"
Mr.. Cochran said, 'I want to again
express my appreciation of the man
ner in which Mr.. Tholen and the
County Commissioners are taking
hold of this good road work. They
are ready to do anything they can do
and the only trouble we are having is
getting labor. I feel certain that if
we can get the labor, we will soon
have things fixed up"
Mr.. Maxwell, resuming the chair,
cited the fact that Mr.. Oshant, chair
man of the Auto drive which was to
be given the Methodist Conference
delegates, needed at least fifty cars
at the Methodist church next Satur-
day afternoon at $50, and for every
one who could possibly spare a car,
to phore him.
The Chamber next voted $4,000
to the Hays High School Basket Ball
team in order that they might attend
the State High School Basket Ball
Tournament held at Lawrence, the
last of this month AS Mr.. Williams
put the motion 'the money to be ex-
tracted in subscriptions from the
business men by the boys them
selves"
The luncheon next week will be
served by the Lutheran Ladies also,
and the program in charge of Super
irtendent C. R. Weeks, will be along
the line of dairy development and di-
versifed farming. This program will
be especially interesting to the farm
ers and they are urged to be present,
notifying the secretary, phone 271,
by Monday if they plan to come.
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