South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-10
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Indiana's last toll road has been
opened to the public. Ii was part
OF the old Corydon and New Al
bany pike and had been operated
for half a century by a private COM
pany. To free the road, commits
sioners Of Floyd county paid 10 the
operating company $4,000 in cash
and $4,000 in five per cent bonds.
For tourists in the national parks
to break camp without extin
gushing their camp fires is getting
10 be an expensive mistake. Forest
guards are constantly on watch and
when neglected camp fires are found
they get on the track Of the care
less tourist and have him arrested.
Alibis are useless and the tourist
rarely escapes without paying fines
and costs aggre eating close 10 500
Rubber imports into the United
States are constantly increasing. In
1910. 101. 600. 600 pounds were i'm
ported. while during the fiscal year
Of 1920, 632 100000 pounds were
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ditional amount is used in the man
ufacture of automobile tires which
also require large importations OF
long staple cotton.
Ye auto tourists-what do you
think of this trip? Mr.. and Mrs
John Howard, SO and "a years old
respectively, recently arrived in
Portland, Ore, after a horse and
buggy tour from their home city.
Milwaukee. The trip across the
continent required four months but
the old couple suffered no i'll eff
feCts whatsoever. The purpose OF
their-trip was to visit their son, G..
j. Howard, Of Portland.
Are you a chicken killer? DO
you make no effort I'm driving along
country roads, 10 avoid the chickens
that scurry heller SHELTER in front
of your car If not, you'd better
watch your step. In many parts on
the country farmers are leaguing too
gether TO arrest ard prosecute the
nlurderers of their poultry. Better
sound your horn while 100 feet from
the chickens and give them Tune To
scamper to safety.
The comparative cost OF farming
with horses and with tractors and
trucks is shown by a recent govern
ment report citing the case OF a
farmer who replaced ten teams
with two tractors an done truck.
The cost of operating and maintain
ing the horse drawn equipment for
a year amounted to $1,000, while
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tailed $4,2S2. nearly a $4,000 saving
Sediment traps are placed in gas
oline tanks 20 catch the foreign
matter contained in the fuel They
are effective but naturally must be
cleaned occasionally 10 permit an
even flow of gasoline. During active
operation of the car. the sedimcni
should be removed twice a month
regularly.
Who says animals have a nard
time of il? Some of them have IL
pretty nice. Witness this case.
Charles A. Parsons of Newskowin.
Ore. is taking a ped greco Jersey
COW and bull on a motor trip to-
KoshkonOng. Mo. 1000 miles away.
They were brought for breeding pur-
poses and Pasons didn't want a.
trust them TO the railroads.
Baby motor cars are becoming
popular in Europe. They seat one
passenger and have a maximum
speed OF II miles an hour. The
power is supplied by dry batteries
which must be renewed every four
hours. Trailers carrying two or
more passengers are often attached
10 them.
Somebody is always taking the
/ JOY out of life. Now comes Henry
Ford with the announcement that
/ the prices Of his flivvers have been
| cut all 10 pieces. causing some hun
dred thousand or so recent pur-
/ chasers 10 loudly bemoan the facl
+ that they didn't hold off a wniI,
and await the Psychological mo-
ment" for putting in their orders.
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