\ cs'i r, i ' - «-'«%. r-i .•. ; Publisher. tuvery Thursday Afternoon rty The Sullivan Publishing Co At itiu Uoualy Bout ol Buliivan County. JbAPOHTE. i"A. \V 0. MASON, Prcslden. : 'l HOU. I. IM.tIAM, Sec y ,k Trcns. , Entered hi the Post Office at lmporte, M{ second-clues'mail matte;. DIRT RCAD BUILDING, How to P.'akc the Roadbed Solid and Do Away With Ruts. In the construction of a new road through an open country the usual <■l storu lias been to excavate ditches with the road grader nnd throw all the material into the center of the midway, thus making what is often called a turnpike. The objection to th: method is that the most important 1 part of 1 Xio roadbed, the foundation, is composed largely of soft material, which does not easily become consoli dated. A better way would be to re move entirely a'! sod from the por ti->: s excavated and use it for tilling in the low places, where it can be cov ered with at least three feet of earth,! says Samuel 11. I.ea, state engineer of SoK'.h Dakota. After the sod is re moved the road grader can be prop er! used for carrying tip the earth ii;M the roadway, and the entire road-j bed is formed of solid material, which lu ;:s future settlement is compacted 1 uniformly and will be less likely to j develop soft spots, as would be thej c.-we It' sod is thrown into it iudiseriui-1 ina; ly. On a level or nearly level prai.'ie the roadbed should be built up a foot or two above the original Bur- j laoc to provide suitable drainage from: ihe center of the roadway to the | ditties, and ihe crown of the road mount be sufficient to allow the water! from rainfalls to be quickly carried off. 1 A ;;ood road in order to stay good j iuti-'t be properly maintained and kept | in good condition. A very Important) I'eiuvre of proper maintenance is that of keeping the ruts out by continual j jg or dragging. Whenever ruts are allowed to remain they will hold | water from every rain, whlMi, unless j removed, will soften the roadbed audi result iu chuck holes. Injurious alike I to the team, the wagon and the driver, j The process of dragging, smoothing 1 and planing the road with one of the! numerous styles of road drags now j happily coming into use lu many lo- j entities is so simple and inexpensive! that there is no excuse for allowing any road to become rough and rutty I through neglect. Remedy For Bod Roads. Tim remedy for bad roads, it seems to me, lies wholly with the men whc own property along them. Elect »c man 10 the position of overseer whc <]i.'i' not understand how to make good road.; out of poor ones. If there Is uc such man in your neighborhood, hire one ''ram outside. This is, ninety-nine time, out of a hundred, the wisest tiling to do, for the chanced are thai : here is no man in the neighborhood who has had practical exp ?rienct enou.-h to make ir safe to trust the work to him, sajs Ebeu E. Rexford in the Outing Magazine for June. He may have good sense, good judgment and all that—in short, (here may be the making of a good road bulkier In him but what you need is a man who is a good road builder, a man who lias trot the trade already learned. In othei words, you can't afford ro wait foi honi ■ talent to develop if the man whe lias developed his ability in that direc lion is procurable, lime your road tax paid in cash. Secure a skilled man.and let him assume responsibility tor the work he undertakes. If you dc Oil you stand iu a fair 'nay to solve the problem of good roads. Oil Hoado in Illinois. A most interesting experiment is be ing conducted in central Illinois, near Sprl'igtiekl. The state highway com mii-ion is making a test of oil on couu try i >ads. While oil roads are no nov elty in many parts of the United States, I hey are not known on the heavy black soil of central Illinois. Tl top soil of the road is being mixed v.lth an asphalt oil to a depth of sis i:• <•!. s. What the results will 'op no one can predict, but this may be the solu tion of the good" roads problem. In m.T y parts of the Suclier State stone r<>:: ' ; are out of ;be Question. W'ith • • . tin- mat":'- 1 near at hand the sreat prairie siaies cannot expect tt have stone pike. , as do some of the eastern siates Good roads must 1» set red by drain: special care am 1 iio ibly in the use »112 oil. This experi incut "io iv watched with a great deal of ii;' ae- :. Read B -il-Jf.-ir' Pi ••Don't pc rv ■■■<• >vork th >r.-. bills.r a.: he pr: ! I';.; lv.r ivhcH i hi' ma-htae out <f a rut w. I: a 112 a I-:.!'.. "Work 'eta? Well, 1 r'aiu a J s-y w dr." answer "d 1 nele <"• r!u' Sj i'-i fn ui the top rail of the l' ". 1 • 'i, v.--? work these roads on ill' ukfo'-.s jaent plan. None of that money sy. tern for us feiler.s. Every f::ra is : ■ ; seel so many day.-:' w-vk «»n tli highway, an' after th' farm work 1 all done an' we ain't nuthln' else tei do we all turn out. thirty or forty o i.«, with plows; horses, pic! s. shovels : hoes to work th' roads, i rell y>u i: s a picnic. Work? Why. they make l'i' dirt fly until they pet tired. Thei; <,e tin>l some si nu.\ spot to rest, eat our lunch, drink some cider, smoke an aaby play a game or two of seven up An' we call It a day." 112 /*»» r* "o ir\ r} fi. Z t-'»* j ! k iiU li# Vii £. 4. ir*. j Conducted by J. W. 3ARUOW, Chatham, N. *, ! Pret9 Co rrespondent N&w York Stats Grime* _____ ; THEMATIONALGRAMGE; Forty-Second Annual Meeting to j Be Held In Washington. j I A New England Excursion Being Ar- j ranged—Secretary Freeman Report* SO2 New Granges Organized and Fif ty-one Reorganized the Past Year, The national grange meeting will be held at Washington, Nov. 11-20. It has been a good many years since the na tional grange met at the Capital City, and the prospects now are that there will be a large attendance of members of the Order at the forthcoming ses sion in Washington In November. The New England Matrons are organizing a special excursion for that occasion, and many others will also attend from the nearby grange states, lleadquar- THE WHITE BOUSE. ters will be at the National hotel, a historic old building, and we believe that the sessions of the grange will be held in the large hall in the hotel. AVhile there will be 110 election of offi cers, except one national committee man, there will tie other important items of business to be transacted 1 which will be of very considerable in- j terest to the organization. There | should be a very lnrge seventh degree j class on this occasiou, and for the in- 1 formation of those who may not have taken the sixth degree it: may be stated j that that degree will full form iu order to prepare those! who take it for the highest degree, j National Secretary Freeman reports a • large number of new granges the past J year. Progress has been notable in ; nearly every state and particularly In J some of the western and northwestern states. Besides the session of the granges, the many attractions of the Capital City make the visit at tbis time of general interest, it Is probable that President Roosevelt will receive the delegates and visiting Patrons 011 some day during the session. While there are numerous places of interest to be visited In Washington— the Congressional library. Corcoran Art gallery, Washington monument, the j en pi to!, bureau of printing and en - graving and several department build-1 in rs—yet uo visit to Washington would I be quite complete without a trip to Mount Vernon and the tomb of Wash ington. Mount Vernon lies about six teen miles south of Washington and may be reached by trolley or steamer | down the Potomac, the latter being 1 the most desirable approach to this I MOUNT VERNON. historic place. We give herewith an) illustration of Washington's home and j also a picture of the White House. At the forthcoming meeting of the ■ national grange Secretary C. M. Free- i man will report the granges organized | and reorganized from Oct. .1, lUt'T, to Oct. 1, I'jOS, as follows: ORGANIZED. California 3 New Hampshire. 2 Colorado 9 New Jersey u Connecticut 4 New Yorlt 24 Delaware 3 Ohio 14 Idaho 10 Oregon l'l Illinois 4 Pennsylvania .... 2J Indiana 10 Rhode Island 5 lowa 14 South Dakota 4 Kansas 8 Tennessee 1 Kentucky ........ 9 Vermont 31 Maine 10 Washington 43 Maryland 21 West Virginia ... 1 Massachusetts .. .7 Michigan 13 Total 302 Missouri 4 REORGANIZED. California 2 Michigan 3 Colorado 1 Ohio 4 Connecticut 10 Pennsylvania .... 11 Dataware 1 Rhode Island 1 ltiinois 1 Washington 4 Indiana ... 2 West Virginia.... 8 Kansas 1 Wisconsin 1 Maine .... 1 Massachusetts .. 2 Total f.l The Grange In Vermont. Under the efficient leadership of State Master G. W. rieree the grange In Vermont is growing rapidly. Not only is Ihe total membership increas ing, but the subordinate granges are also growing in numbers. If you are carrying grange fire In surance, see that your dues are paid up. That's a condition of your policy. The grange discourages litigation. It acquaints the farmer with the fellow on the other side of the line fence. I New Hampshire state grange will meet at I'ortsmouth on Dec. 16-17. Grangers' farms should be the model farms of the town. Are they? r 6hortTalks on , | AcivertivSiini <i> h * ' No. 10. People generally read advertisements more than they did a few years ago. The reason is to be found in the advertistraents themselves. Advertisers are more careful than they used to he. They make the advertise- ; meats more readable. Somo of them eveu become, in a way, a department of the paper, and look for them —-J every day with as much xest and pleasure as they turn to any other feature. This is trua of many department stores all over jsl the couir.ry. * JJf"V fV j In many cities there is just one man who appro- Tf ,r*fe7 l ciates tho value of such interest. ' He breaks nway from the old set style. He tells /af something interesting in his space every There are lots of interesting things in ' ■ i business. Look over the miscellany page of any paper—look at its local news columns, J ' and its telegraph news, for that matter, M 1 ' and you'll see that the majority of the 1 i items are more or less closely related to 00 some business fact. Dress these facts up in a becoming ttu mtreh ant off kit j garb of words, and they will find readers, ttdntai." even though they be in a "mere advertisement." Let the merchant come down off his pedestal and talk in his He needn't be flippant—far from it, .//jj*/ but let him not write as if he were ad* i j| ~--i ■ ■ ~~T~ 2? dressing somebody afar off, and telling I IPGS m about something at evec a greater The newspaper goes right into its j ; If reader's house—goes ia and sits down It Is on the table wben he eats, and j (?< / % Jf*,*., in his hands while he is smoking after 1 the meal. It reaches him wben he is in < Y5 -M .p.—an approachable condition. "' Wl1 " That's the time to tell him about | your business—clearly, plainly, coo vine ingly—as one man talks to another. %-Tk, n*%utf*jkr f*« rifki in/a its mudm*§ _ , . „ aa d riit djum mdik kam " 1 vr Aautm B+i*s % Am* atVrfe j si &u.. TT". .a. *. 1531 Li« s L! ft fi i 1 *rj, "!»> #T~-\ »S 4 9 St I \i '.m ifi Icf u S <j I X W "VET T li 112 »l ' w % h A M / (i H a il— ® * ?'j i -1.. ji, ■i. i ' V V it Ji- ji |r ■im &' Price, I . •- ' ' * * ivv»j ■ V, vv- r- • - n «, f « -II pt?4) : %; • J1 1 W 1 - -Jl . - - i | _ £ 11 A wonderfully* capable and accurate cam era | II built on the Kodak plan. Good enough to | | 112 satisfy experienced photographers, yet so | «j that children can it. | 1i! PICTURES 2Mx3W inches, 112 ' | I Loads in daylight w/tli film | Cartridges. | Fitted with meniscus lens, an. [ , | with iris diaphragm stops. £ H Full description in Kodak Catalog FRFL V Ct any photographic dealers or by mail. 1 EASTMAN KODAK CO., L Rochester, N. 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Bigfera 112 '.receive apecisl notice, without clinrg*, in the* INVENTIVE AGE* <, Illustrated monthly -Eleventh year—terms. $9. a year. \ j;E.fi.SISBEBS.sa^IH'I Cultivate the Habit of buying reputable goods from a reputabe concern. jWe are age nts for W. L. DOUGLASS SHOES fro 2.^0 to S.OO p? £? l -v%Wood School Shoes rorboys has no equal. Tracys Shoes for' farmes are, we lmd, always satisfactory. A GOOD ASSORTMENT j \°\ Of CHILDRENS' and || s»^-LADIES' Heavy Shoe fl WL r \ c Fine Goods at correct ! ] A vWlru Prices. ! AfW^'-r Ct *us iKe BEST s§3o SHOE S = ™%. | i ■ '»• -« , t rfE WOP. LI) ■ f;pjb Clothing Made to Order | All have the right appearance and guaranteed otsd | in both mateiial and workmanship and price mte. Wo also maimfar ture Feed, tlie Flag I'rand. It is not cheap, but good. Js correctly made. y\sic your dealer for it or write us for prices NORDMONT SUPPLY Co. 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