The Daily Examiner. (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 279, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1901 Page: 2 of 4
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The Daily Examiner.
COUNTRY’highways.
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Published every evening except Sunday.
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during heavy rains, and see that gut-
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French foreign office officials
were more reticent about Turkish
imbroglio, but there were no new
developments.
Additional encounters were re
ported in connection with the
Venezuela-Colombia trouble.
POINTS AS TO MAINTENANCE ANO
IMPROVEMENT.
Residence Properties have been
Listed with us. They are Bargains
Better Road® Are Needed.
American roads must improve great-
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You get your work when prom- automobiles on this side of the At-
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Mach €•■ Be Accomplhlird try intel-
ligent Supervtwion.— Road Guard®
Su«e«ted—laeleaa Repair Materi-
al—Road Machine®.
There is no question that so vexes
the minds of’the executive officers of
oar country • towns as that of bow to
best care for the public roads, says 0.
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teams and men. I have recently driv-
en oyer hundreds of miles of coun-
try roads and have observed the great
damage done by the spring rains. In |
nearly every case a little work at the
right time could have saved the roads.
In the event of any unusual damage
the guardian should report promptly
to bls superior.
The material usually used in repair-
ing country roads is road wash or turf
that has grown upon It and is in no
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Entered at the Navasota postoffice as
econd-class mail matter.
damp dirt road with a four Inch coat, son that new methods will have to be
This will keep all light vehicles out of adopted. The contract system, with
the mud. even in springtime, and un- improved implements, Is the remedy,
leas very heavy teams pass over It will in my opinion broad tired wagons
last for years. Wet places that cannot would do much toward keeping roads
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with a telford pavement and from six should enact a law requiring *the
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AU gutters and sluices should be after three orfour years or one allow”
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greatest excess, and the failure to have
them so Is a frequent source of dam-
age and consequent expense. To sum-
marize, put your roads Into the best
, condition possible with the means avail-
able and then give them constant at-
tention rather than neglect them for
11 months and repair them in one.
When you have them tn good condition,
expend your efforts upon keeping the
gutters and sluices open and leave the
road itself alone as much as possible.
An old, bard roadbed is better than any
new, soft one that can be made with
earth tn any case, and it is far more
desirable than the usual agglomeration
of road wash leaves and turf.
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Utod at Goodman & Miller's.
Care Dyspepsia asd IwdicMtlov.
Sour Stomach or Heartburn, take
"‘YBpspata Tablets. All drug-
authorized to refund money if delivery where the roads are bad will
i to cure. Price 50 cents per deprive many farming oommimltlee of
. Sold by Jno. D. Quinn. . the benefits of the system. There «rw
Innumerable bad roads In the United
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/ It was stated that the czar of
Russia may broach the subject of
intervention in the South African
trouble to Emperor William.
riage makers. — Cor.
Times-Democrat.
OSce of Roan iMqairy.
The appropriation for the office of
road inquiry, department of agricul-
ture, for this year Is $27,000. It will
be used in building sample roads and
otherwise assisting the good roads
movement
Rood® and Rural Delivery.
The determination of the postoffice
department not to establish rural free;
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Delivered by carriers to any part of
city. Subscription price:
Per week.............................To cents.
Per month................................ 40 cents
Office of publication in the Ackerman
& Gudger block, up stairs.
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What Good Roads Mean.
Good road's mean to us both profit
and pleasure. They will enable us toown
better vehicles and take pride in them.
They will help the churches and schools
In every locality. Good roads mean a
saving of time, the value of which, as a
whole, can hardly be estimated. They
will increase the average life of our ve-
hicles probably a third and the saving
of wear and tear on our teams proba-
bly more, to say nothing uf the increas-
ed loads that can be hauled with the
same teams.
Good roads wiU be.a benefit to every-
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New Orleans
ROAD ORGANIZATIONS.
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Value of United Effort to Promote
Mie Good Road® Cause.
Hon. W. H.c Moore, president of the
National Good Hoads association, in an
address delivered before the good
roads convention of Mississippi spoke
of the varied interests affected by im-
proved highways.
He said that the people should
awaken to the spirit of the times and
get away from the ox team methods of
their forefathers and meet the modern
conditions imposed by the present
civilization and by tiie present business
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>. Augur of Connecticut in New Eng- the cities to the country districts
land Homestead. They know that only ! and said that the theory that the farm-
a certain amount of money will be ap- ! bear »he cost of road
A . . .. ; construction was an exploded idea;
proprtated for the porpoee. and they , d(1M
are well aware that they will be held ■ hclp ,amer5 lmpTOTC ,he conDttr
to a strict account for its expenditure. ^4^ ag H Ig 0f vJtal to
Except in a few instances, where iso- cfties to lessen the (“ost of production
lated patches of improved roads are | of the necessities of life.
laid down with the help of the state 1 Every supervisor, said he, who does
appropriation, the work is very imper- i not work the rqads as he should is a
fectly done, and the material used Is ; thief, and every day that he fails to en-
worthless for the purpose. Often the 1 force work on tire roads he is stealing
men In charge of road repairs know I from the county which employs him
that the slipshod methods employed ajld provides by law for his labor, for
are poor economy, but the fear of ad- when you pay your money for any-
verse criticism, perhaps loss of ofllce, | thing, no matter whether it be for gro-
If this year’s expenditure exceeds that ceries, dry goods or roads, you should
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at the Fruit Palace.
DOMESTIC.
Congressman Littlefield (Bep.,
Maine) criticised the supreme
court decisions on the insular
cases before the American Bar
association at Denver, Colo.
In a fight with a mob which was
after a negro convicted of rape
deputy sheriffs at Asheville, Ala.,
killed one man and wounded
another one and a boy.
The steel trust started mills
that had been closed by the strike.
Do you want cabbage and
onioas, go to the Fruit Palace.
Do justice to yourself end trade
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no power of coherency. They will not
bind, and the organic matter of turf
la productive only of mud or dust.
There la no road so pleasant to ride
upon as a well made, well drained, weH
graded dirt road. Once settled into
place it will last in good condition for thetlc members,
years if frequently looked after. On —J-----■«-—
heavy soils It will, of course, be muddy
when the frost Is coming out, but that
Is only for a short period, and the pleas-
ure of riding on It free from noise and
dust at other seasons compensates for
a good deal of springtime annoyance.
It is not practicable to harden all
country roads, and if the road is well
drained and the gutters and sluices
kept open It is not desirable. A clat-
tering stone road takes away much of
the eharm of a country drive, to say
nothing of the annoyance to dwellers
thereon. Sometimes, if gravel is readily _____ __ ________
available, it is economy to surface a ! convince any ordinarily inteHlgenf per-
damp dirt road with a four Inch coat. 8On that new methods will have to be
This will keep all Light vehicles out of adopted. The contract system, with
the mud. even In springtime, and un- improved Implements, Is the remedy,
less very heavy teams pass over It wHl in my opinion broad tired wagons
last for y^ars. Wet places that cannot would do much toward keeping roads
be successfully drained should be filled in good repair, and our legislature
with a telford pavement and from six should enact a law requiring the nar-
to eight inches of gravel placed over It. row tire to be replaced by the broad
AU gutters and sluices should be after three or four years or one aUow-
large enough to take the rainfall at its fag parties using them a credit on their
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tance over our best roads rather than
go half as far over the average, saving
time and comfort thereby. The people
will have to be educated along the lines
of better roads, and new methods will
have to be forced upon them.”
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The formal transfer of the
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Fort Worth and New Orleans,
the Central Texas and North-
western and other roads into the
Central system was made.
The tree at which Wiidner was
burned is to be replanted at Dex-
ter and bear a placard setting
forth the crime and the punish*
'ment.
— A negro and his son were killed
Mt nearly the same time in differ-
ly before this country can hope to
■ match French feats with horseless ve-
season hides. Some day we shall have higb-
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ent sections of Caldwell county
1 were buried in the same
gmve.
The adjutant general has grant-
ed permission to a number com-
panies to attend the encamp-
ment at Sherman.
Washington county farmers
have agreed to unite for protec-
tion of birds of all kinds.
New OrgsnlMtiox Whose Object Is
RooA Improvemeat
The expressed objects and Intentions
of the Highway Alliance, a new good
roads organization just Incorporated
In New York with its headquarters in
New York city, should leave no doubt
as to the usefulness,’ both local and na-
tional, of such an organization. Here
are some of the more important ob-
jects for which the alliance exists:
“L PubUc agitation for highway im-
provement 2. Obtaining and publlsh-
information relating to highways,
prevent it He should inspect the road 3 proposal of laws and ordinances for
N. I,. O. Andrews Ed F. Blackshear
ANDREWS & BLACKSHEAR.
Arrival and departure of trains from
the union depot:
H. & T. C.
north bound.
No. 1 day.12.20 a. m.
No. 3 night----------------1:20 a. m.
No. 15 night..............-.................. 7:13 a. m.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 2 day-----------------5-2o P- m-
Ne. 4 nigh^........—.............- 3:43«.m.
No. 16 night—™. ... -10:35 P« m.
S^NTA FE.
To Somerville —..... 10:57 a. m.
To Cleveland---------------------^...5:18 p. m.
A VHmAGE HIGHWAT.
of last year causes them to do that
which makes a show of repairing, but
which in the end leaves the roads in
worse condition than before repairs
were attempted.
My Idea of what should be done M to
elect at the annual town meeting on al-
ternate years a road supervisor whose
term of office shall be for two years
unless sooner terminated. Give him
the entire Charge of the roads, bridges
and sluices and pay him a liberal per
diem for time necessarily expended.
The first duty of the supervisor
should be to appoint a resident road
guardian for each section of road, such
section not to exceed three miles in
extent. The duty of this road guardian
shall be pot to repair damage, but to fng
prevent it He should Inspect the road o t
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under his charge frequently, especially highway opening, construction, main-
during heavy rains, and see that gut- tenance and traffic. 4. Opposing pro- '
ters and sluices are kept open and wa- posed laws and ordinances tending to
ter bars unbroken. Often ten minutes’ diminish the usefulness of highways.
work with hoe or shovel at the right 5. Urging the public authorities to im-
moment will save ten hours’ work with prove the highways and keep them in
repair. 6. Assisting in the vindication
of the highway rights of the public and
also aiding any person whose rights
have been infringed while using the
highways or as a consequence of such
use whenever the board of directors of
this corporation, in their discretion,
consider that the usefulness of high-
ways will be advanced.”
The Highway Alliance will introduce
a new feature so far as concerns Its
membership. In order that it shall not
sense suitable. The worn pebbles have be obligatory upon all who join the al-
Hance to give to it their support flnan-
- dally, two grades of membership will
j be in force, persons belonging to one
grade to be known as^active or con-
tributing members anf those belong-
ing to the other as general or sympa-
_________ Any one in the latter
grade may change his status whenever
he likes upon payment of the dues of a
contributing member for one year.
RoaAa of Mi®ai®al»l.
Dr. J. A. Rowan, a prominent physi-
cian, has the following to say about
the roads of the state:
“From my experience as a country
physician in traveling over the roads I
am convinced that the present, system
of working roads in Mississippi is a
farce. The inexperience and apathy
on the part of overseers and th.e indif-
ference on the part of hands should
get value received. He said that the
only way In which values could be
gained was to thoroughly organize all
Interests and by sending delegates to
the state convention formulate a
scheme of legislation which will en-
able the people to force the supervisors
to do their duty. He also advocated
the appointment of a state road engi-
neer, to be located at Jackson, and a
county engineer in each county, who
would establish a uniform system all
i through the state. He promised the
' convention that if they were to organ-
ize they would be in a position to dic-
tate the attitude of their legislators,
both state and national. His final ad-
vice was tor organization, agitation,
education and legislation.
HIGHWAY ALLIANCE.
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The native peace commissioners
had Dot received authority from
the emperor to sign the peace
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The Daily Examiner. (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 279, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1901, newspaper, August 23, 1901; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1346510/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.