The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1921-09-16
Taxpayer Would
Like To Know

Would you kindly inform tax
payer, the owner of secondhand
Ford, and with a Sunday now and then
Of idleness to enjoy guiding Lizzie over
the highways, when something will be
done toward making the road between
Minden and Carson City passable? |
have been informed that there Is to be
new bridge across the river some
where near the old Cradelbaugh bridge
In the sweet bye and bye, but so far
1t is'only rumor, and In the meantime
the bridges now across the stream are
danger to life, limb, and Lizzies.
As to the road leading to and from
the bridges, surely, there were better
roads in the old days when we travelled
with pack-animals. We could travel
without danger of being lost in some
of the chuck holes.
Speaking of roads-the road built
last year between Minden and Gard
nerville is surely something to be en-
joyed. When one looks back over the
last thirty-five years in this county
and thinks of the mud and mud-holes,
chucks and chuck-holes one had to
contend with, and the vast amount of
money that was wasted in attempting
to keep up road through the valley,
then 1t is to groan. Had the money
which has been wasted on the roads in
this county been spent all in lump
even If posterity was mortgaged for
the roads-it would have been money
we'll spent and would have been far
less amount than has been spent with
nothing to show for it. Why moi
mortgage the future now and, put the
good roads all over the county? It
takes big men to talk and to advise
such an act, but surely we must have
some big men in the community.
There is a little squib running
through the press that one reads now
and then which says: Good Roads
Lead to Good People" This is hitting
the nail on the head and hitting. 1t
squarely. We have good people here
and should have good roads, an 1t is
up to the good people to assert their
goodness and the roads will come.
The other day while. was tinkering
with Lizzie in front of one of our
local stores after having filed Liz
zie's tank with gasoline-at thirty
five cents gallon-the same stuff
used to buy to put In the old tractor
and called it distillate- a car drove
up with some well dressed people in
it, and the ladies, who were not
dressed in khaki pants, got out and
went into a store. While | was still
tinkering with Lizzie's sparkling plug,
the ladies came out again and were
talking as. only happy women can.
They were boosting the stores in this
section and the quality of goods kept
One of them said:
| Things are better here and cheaper
than In Reno. 1t would actually pay
| to drive over here and do our trading. !"
Was that something of boost for
the Gardnerville merchants?
Funny thing about the stores in this
section. A year or so ago they ad-
opted plan of closing at six o'clock
on six days of the week so that the
clerks could have a little time to
themselves. Some of the moss backs
~ ba
the bow-wows on this account, but the
plan worked-and worked well-and
everyone is happy. 1t only takes
little backbone to make innovations
and modern innovations all seem to be
| for betterment.
Those silent policemen in the mid
die of the street are beginning to be
appreciated and the policemen are
having their silent effect upon the
travelling public. There is far less
cutting of corners and standing on
the wrong side of the thoroughfare
than before and the town is slowly
but surely taking on metropolitan
airs. Every cross street in the town
should have silent policeman on
duty. 1t is money well spent.
The Douglas Mill & Power Company
is doing nice thing for the town in
donating the electric power for the
lights throughout the town. and no
more is it necessary for us to be in
darkness.
Crime hates the light and when a
town or city is we'll lighted there is
far less opportunity for crime to be
committed. Had there been lights
burning around the schoolhouse-as
there are at present-that cowardly
murder which took place there some
time ago, would undoubtedly have
been averted. 1t is up to the people
to take advantage of the offer of the