'zvi-xt ?:sws mv '"••'AkLES L. WING, IV •, r. Mil (iii c! / ery Th'ir < ti? Aftornoo Gy The Sullivan Publishing Co At tho County Boat ot Ballivan County. LAPOKTE, ?A. VV c. MASON, I'resideti. THUS. J. INGHAM, Hec'y & Trn: I itered at the Pout Office at Laporte, as second-claes wail mailer. iiipmlL Method of Construction Valuable For Dirt and Macadam. PRACTICALLY SELF HEALING. Oiled Highways Are Not Only Dustless, Mudless and Noiseless, but They Im piove With Use—Oil Makes Roads Firm, but Not Hard. In the opiuiou of 11. T. Swell, who IMS niutle a study of city ami country roads in twenty states In the lust y.ear, more good loads will bo built in Kan sas during tlie next twelve mouths than in any other stale In Union. Mr. ttnell investigated road eondithitis l'i tin' Stuudurd Oil company. The i trust is seeking a market for its >.,ir| us of oil left after the more val uable products have been taken from ir, The surplus oil is now sold chiefly lor fuel. •■'l'he company expects to build a mill 'if good road,near the State Agri cultural college at Manhattan, Kan.," Mr Snell said. "AVc expect to show b> i:.e experiment that an oiled road, whether built with earth or crushed n> 'k. is not only the most durable, but in the end is the most economical. "In even state there is annually s; lit mill: .lis of dollars in building i:e\\ roads. In feu < i,.>es is any tron alile sunn spent <>n the roads t-; preserve them. Oiled roads are not «.uly dusth >. mudless and noiseless, but they are practically 'self healing' that is, they improve with use The dirt and oil roads give horses good footing, while the tires of the vehicles 'iron cut' t lie h. i i sM * i ■ -■' i ■ i ... —■ • .. ■■ ' l ! 0 | W' - ; r i- I , . -,v4! ■ -Av-i. ; I-< : !H : > MUT IlOAT) AITEIS ONE OIL TBI \ ! MKNT ANIJ MKTIIC: OF APl'Ll'lNU itUE on., the oil At, urea equal to l,olC,.'i(io siiui!ie yards was oiled. The coat of oiiiii. pet square yard was slightly more than 1 rent, representing the oil, label and • up].iies. The oil subdued dust Had t'.i same area been sprln kleo with watei to prevent tlust tlie eosi would have been 2.4 cents per s 'piui'e jard. .Mr. Ininii estimated that the cost ot sprinkling the area last cuiumei would have beeu . lti.'Jii7.«i_ 'l'ue expense of oiling this area v $10.(171.14. The direct -.:v; :in tv !t"_, oil was gu,53S.. c M, or 31 ' r < i'iit The indirect be.-.efit follow ed hi a ii a l-.cd saving in the cost of ii ii.taiiiinu the boulevards and the uiiifi.rui e.v >llence of their condition. Hood roads naturally are a rural problem. In the cities no progress can i " made mil" s the thoroughfares used for husinc: - nud pleasure are paved and maintained in good condition. Country towns are concerned as tmieli with good i ads as are the farmers who use them. In country towns busi ness practically Is at a standstill in '. my seasons. Had roads keep the farmers at home If the farmer had a til thoroughfare to the village he could do his trading on days when ho could do no tasks in the fields, it Is far more tlesir. hie that the farmer should vl: it his nearest tow n in the rainy season than at any other time, as the eommoditii ; lie has to sell command tin liighcM prices when rain keeps him at home. The regents of the Kansas State Ag ii ulturai coiloge were among the first of the governors of agricultural col leges In the United States to realize t 1 •' concern which good roadsnre !• farmers Not only was there the feature of poor roads following rain, mii there was the every on.v feature of ruts, pools and poor roadbed gen erally. The college board of regents named Albert t)lekens to take charge of ex perimental road work In Kansas. Mr. Dickens selected one-fourth of a mile „112 road west of the reformatory nt ilutehlnsori to use In the tirst experi ment. He reported upon the test us follows: T!ie soil was a fair sample ot the eandj louin of the Arkansas valley. At the datf of Its Fell' lion no rain had fallen for toll ■lays. The sand was several Inches defji Loads consisting of fifty bushels of gfr'jf ma;le an exceedingly heavy load for a utronß draft team. A carriage team required much urging to pull the carrl«|f« raster than a walk. After the grading was completed ant the roadbed was well formed where flllt were required the entire road, ono-fdtirth tnilo In length and thirty feet wide, was plowed to a depth of about four and one half Inches and thoroughly pulverlaed with a harrow and disk. A dink, set straight, was run before the oil sprin kling tank to open small furrow*, and a harrow followed the oil sprinkling tank to thoroughly mix the soil and oil. Tho oiling was done the flrst days of October. The oil was not heated. The tank of GOO gallons would cover about 8,800 square yards once. The harrow fol lowed each application. Whan one gallon to each square yard had beeu applied the soil seemed nearly saturated to the depth of the plowing, four and one-half Inches. After harrowing the last tlin® a heavy flout was used to smooth the sur face. In a week the load was sufficiently firm to allow rolling. A twelve ton roller was used, going over the ruad several times until it seemed to be thoroughly firm. After a week the road was used by all kinds of traffic. It was firm, but not hard. A sharp shod horse left the calk marks plainly outlined, but did not tear up the soil even when driven at a quick tiot. One reason for building the road In tha fall was to note the effect of freezing weather. The road wsh not seriously af feried. 11 seemed that tho coating of oil .! soil kei»t the underlying soil suffi ciently dry to prevent serious heaving by frost. Mr. Dickens ended the report by saying that the road is in good condi tion Uuder his direction loads ulso were built near the Agricultural col lege in black loam; at Maple Hill, in the Mill creek valley, in soil known as "gumbo;" at Garden City, in "us bad a stretch of road as can be found uuy whore," being of sand, which absorbed the oil in places to a depth of sixteen Inches, and the race track at Man hattan, which was said to have been Improved so much that a widely known trainer of horses, C. B. Mi chael, terms it a "first class training track." The cost of the roads varied from ?520 to $1,:;00 a mile, Mr. Dickens re ported. The average cost of a road eighteen feet wide, three miles from the railroad delivering the oil, is placed by Mr. Dickens at SOOO. The oil used for rondrauking pur poses embodies a quantity of asphalt. The Californfa oil Is best for the pur pose. Texas oil ranks next, with Kan sas third. The eastern oils have a base largely paratliu. They must be treated and asphalt added to make lliein useful In roadmnklug. With proper construction and the use of oil as a binder for dirt and mac adam roads Hie farmers virtually may have asphalt roads past their homes, declare advocates of this method of road construction.— Kansas City Star. COOD ROADS IN SWEDEN. Every Landowner Must Keep His See tion of Highways Improved. G 7.ergkirst of Climax Springs, Mo. who Is especially interested in thf Kansas City Star's fight for good roads, says: "Perhaps it would be of Interest to know how the ronds In Sweden are maintained. There at> three classes of roads there-hlgliways, village roads and private roads. The highways run between county seats, ami the grades are limited to 2 l i per cent. The village roads cannot be in excess of a 4 per cent grade. The cost of building is divided among the land owners according to acreage, whether it is government land or Is owned by private citizens, except where one own er has nti extremely costly road to build along his land, in that case he gets due allowance in distance for the cost of construction. No village road can be opened until It Is built to the proper grade. "As to maintenance, every landown er must keep Ills section of the road properly Improved. If ho does not n government Inspector orders the im provement at public expense, and if the landowner falls io pay the cost the government takes a sufficient amount of his personal property and sells It to satisfy the judgment. "Kvcry man must maintain his own roads In that, country under govern ment supervision. One provision of the government law In Sweden also is that the driver is not allowed to ride up the hills on a loaded wagon if it is neces sary to use a whip on his horse." ■ Road Improvement In Cuba. One of the beneficial results of the American occupation of Cuba has been the establishment of an adequate sys tem of roads and the beginning of construction. These roads are built primarily for the marketing of crops, but they are used extensively by au tomobiles as well. They are wade uni formly thirty-four feet wide, with six teen feet of macadam in the center. The surface finishing is placed on a foundation (if ten Inches of broken rock, and they have no grades greater than 0 per cent. Hridges are of steel, culverts of concrete. Ditches are dug In the low places, and the roadway is generally elevated above the level of the contiguous land. The main road Is complete from Havana to San Cris tobal and from Pliiar del Rio to Es perunzu, besides numerous short branches. . Short Talks on A lli Aclvterti&ift c$ No. Ift. People generally read advertisements more thaa they did a few years ago. The reason is to be found In the advertisements themselves. Advertisers are more careful than they used to he. They make the advertise ments more readable. Some of them eveu become, in a _ way, a. department of the paper, and people look for them v ——15 every day with as much sest and pleasure as they turn to »uy other feature. This is true of many department stores ail over h T^)// la many cities there is just one man who appre ciates the value of such interest. He breaks away from the old set style. Ho tells I something interesting in his space every 'jMlllsjh There are lots of interesting things in ■ i business. Look over the miscellany page of y(W-■ any paper—look at it* local news columns, J and its telegraph news, for that matter, & I and you'll see that the majority of the 1 (i items are more or less closely related to " *0 IPt some business fact. Dress these facts up in a becoming «, off hu garb of words, and they will find readers, t*dutml." even though they be in a "mere advertisement." Let the merchant come fdown off his pedestal and talk in his He needn't be flippant—far from it, but let him not write as if he were ad ail about something at even a greater The newspaper goes right into its It is on the table when he eats, and in his hands while he is smoking after the meal. It reaches him when he is in > an approachable condition. That's the time to tell him about your business—clearly, plainly, con vino ! tagly—as one man talks to another. ■ mm . «. y~-K J. M. WIHTON, MUNCY VALLEY, PA. Never Before HaveJJWe Received 50 and 75 so many"praises arid heardpfsQ Vj£] Boys' Knee manyjflattering remarks|;as'[we Pants "fsoriJdstyVe ave had this Season. 1 Special. Were you one ol the vast tlire n^sj'ih.il M ' crowded our store during the past u e< k? Did youjeet your share of the ni ticks ft; advertised? If not you should lir cont her n now f|l| We are making new friends fast: selling more BKel||P goods than ever before HK ' But we still want more friends, want to sell our stock taster, ye we are "spurred onto deeper price cutting. People wonder how 'T -n we can do it. To this we can answer, that no other store in thi section;has the wholesale buying facilities enjoyed by this es ta 1 lishment. We can buy lower, we can sell lower. I"-"* - Sweater Coats specials Men's Corduroy Pants Men's Shirts From 1.19 to ... ... v 1 Men's or Boys' Sweater Coats ,:»S -U n s ...ic ( Mtna'sweatcr coats .75 CHILDRHNS' SUITS Men's Work Shirts j Mens sweater coats 125 FfOm 99C tO 3- CO and 50 Men s Hannci >hirts 85c | tt~- M . % _ itl i r.t\ * J - Klein Manuel cvershirts 1.39 • Mens sweeter coat* I..HJ \AV\VC tdaiicudc Menu sweater coats __ 2.00 MEN S iRO'-OtRS Mens V neclTsweaters 25 and 46c FTOITI OQC tO 4 75* Men's extra heavy cotton Mens cardijranjaekets 1.—,) a\ /r?n a i i c mixed socks 08c ■ - MEN S OV ERALLS. Men', all wool socks lv9<' rubbers—Lanibertville ami 1 * Hall j .Men's fleeced lined underwear Han,i - A l,i g » avin l? l '" r „ aU^ IOrS _ TJ/\ T> C 2 M-'h C« r * 10c i Boys Corduroy iv.yiiVv3 &»>••'car* i.. oi Pants. Also big line of Shoes at sav- '• a,lip, »' KU,{S at t ,reat redaction. ' Boys'corduroy,knee pants, Jl ined prices foi 2.50 l)ftS> IIKI> HLANKKTS I'roin 75c"[up. throughout, flue ribbed quality Shoe. LadieS 1.6S for 1.09 worth regular 75c Special 39c Men's Working Shoes 1.65 I M NKs all sijscs Iron. 1.50 up. j. Men's Suits W.LDou«I, S Shoes at reduced Ladje s > Sweat e, S J Men's .Suits Q! I In/* aK IWlrvn'o I nrl ladies' Sweaters all colors 99c Mftti s Suits Line 01 IVien S dliCI Ladles' Waists, blue, black. *J9c 'l™ *,t" Children's Overcoats at re- , , r . Mens Suits 11.75 14.50 fjllPpH nriPPQ LdUlCo VyUdlo s ■ 15.50 J625 UUUGU pi IUGD, LadieS Coats from 3.50 to 12.00 So Come to J. M. Wighton's to satisfy your wants. Remember sale only lasts this month. Railroad fare from Laporte and Nordmont for purchase of slo'oo or over. THE FHE TRI-WEEKLT LAPOBTE I | GAZETTE anl BULLETIN REPUBLICAN NEWSITEAi Tells all the geieral news of the Best dressed and most respected world, particularly that of our newspaper in Sullivan county. State, nil the tine and tells it Pre eminently a home newspaper I impartially. Cones to subscrib- . * The only Republican paper in j ers every other ? Jcwe'e.y at the bargain pries you have long ! 'oeked tor. LJ.Voorhees, SONESTOWN. Administrators' Notice. Noiiee is hereby given that Letters ol \•lid i ii i rat ion upon tlie estate of Fran j .'is \\\ WASHINGTON D. C. | Educate Your Bowel* With Ca* caret*. Candy Cathartic, cure oonattpation foroxat t'ki.Hia, HC. C.C. fail, druggists raXund moaa»