&£i?U£LSCAN NEWS ITEM-.. CHARLES L WiNG, Mirsr. PabtUtul sj irai'y TiiuiM iir .i.t'tara » •' By The Sullivan Publishing Co At the County Hoat of Sullivan County. LAPOHTE, PA. W <>;. MANON, I'lvsiden. Till)*. J. INTill AM, Hi cy A. Trans. Britsred »t (hi Popt l iffii e ,;t La port#, ns second-class mail matter. There liar- been n rapid advance in the use of industrial alcohol the year past. Many grange halls ftro nnn lighted with It. EXPERIMENTAL ROAD. Details of One That Has Given the Best of Satisfaction. Samuel S. Jones of Clinton, Wis., furnished the following details of con traction of an experimental road built for educational purposes under the di rection of the office of public roads, with George L. Cooley in charge: "This road was constructed in the town of Clinton, lioclc county, Wis., one mile east of the village of Clinton, in the construction of this road all the machinery was furnished by the government at 110 expense to the town. The town, on its part, furnished all the labor and material. "This road commenced at the top of a i lay hill and extended down the side to and across a black muck slouch. Thus we had the advantage < 1' observing the construction of and finishing under the different soil con ditions. The road was first graded to a width of thirty-six feet from gutter to gutter. The trench for receiving the crushed rock of which the road was constructed was twelve feet wide. This trench was shouldered evenly at the edges. The bed of the trench or roadbed was brought to a perfect grade, having a crown of three-fourths inch to the foot flrom the center of crown to the side shoulders. "When the roadbed was in proper shape for the superstructure cross drains were putin at intervals of 100 feet. These drains, which were from oiglit to ten inches deep and one foot wide, were filled with coarse crushed stone and extended to the outside glit ter, thereby insuring perfect drainage for the road when finished. "The superstructure was built of limestone, the first layer being crush ed to a size which would pass through n three inch ring. This layer was then rolled thoroughly and covered with a liner grade oi' stone and again rolled, This method of placing on layers and rolling was continued until fourteen & jM ;' - %J; r . '4&Z, |„ I lljlf? -2$ % "• p i-.-... *as -1 | ('• - j ". r • -i 112 "• :' u »T , . . , .- . . X • • Y= ' EXPET.IJIEJJTAI, KOAI) AT CLINTON, WIS. LAYING TOP OODItSK. inches of the loose material had been rolled to a solid bed eight inches ihick. During the rolling process water was sprinkled or. the different layers of stone to lici,) cement the stone togeth er and thereby make a perfect surface for traffic. When the road was com pleted as far as the coarser stone and rolling were concerned a layer of sitt ings from the crusher was spread evenly over the surface of the road and alternately rolled and sprinkled until no more could be worked into the roadbed either by sprinkling or rolling. The surface of the road reached that point of perfection in building where neither siftings nor water could be forced into it. The finishing of flip earth shoulders, which are six feet wide on each side of the stom drive way. with just enough slant to carry off all surface water and leave a good earth road on either side made the road complete and gives us a twenty four foot road of earth and stone. "It was built under very expensive conditions, our shortest haul for stone being four miles. Eabor cost from So to Si per day, team and man from $3 to S7 per day, and even at these prices we could procure but half enough teams to keep the machinery running, thereby increasing greatly the ex pense. This road is giving the best of satisfaction and is fast gaining friends." PRIZES FOR GOOD ROADS. Fond Established by Spokane Magnate to Encourage Farmers. Pitilding of good roads by the farm ers in Spokane and Whitman counties. Via h., and Latah county, Ida., Is be ing materially boosted by Jay P. Craves,'president of the Spokane and inland Empire Electric railway sys tem, who announces ho will give prizes amounting to $3,000 in three yearly installments for the best mile of con structed highway In 1000, 1010 and 1011. The offer Is made by Mr. Graves as a private citizen, fhe primary purftotie being to encourage the ranchers in the I' ;louse wheat district, south of Spo- I ne. In the building of permanent i ids with such materials as are at li nd, though the use of concrete, mac auain, oil or other substance will not disqualify competitors. j Tiia'E CHANGE j Conducted by J. W. DARROW, Chatham. N. Y., Press Cur respondent New York State Grange THE GRANGE LEADERS Farmers of the Country Must Come to the Front. Organization Necessary For Their Ma ; tarial Welfare They Must Take Their Rightful Places In the Govern ment. [From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal.] The grange today is the most power ful organization-in the country. Its influence extends into every section, and as a factor in the education of the masses it has never had an equal. In this respect it stands by the side of the public school, only with a broader out look and wider sweep of horizon. Its membership includes (lie best blood | among the farming classes, and this has a more significant meaning when we consider that the rural telephone, trolley ear and free postal delivery have practically wiped out the distinc tion between country and city life. It means that today the average farmer is fully fhe peer in intelligence and scope of capacity of the business or professional man. It means that he is a man of education and general cul ture as well as a tiller of the soil. It | means in fact that he is a man in all j that name implies and therefore fully | capable of being a leader among men. I This great change has all been | brought about during I lie past few j years. A generation ago and only the ! weakest mentality in the farmer's fam ; ily was selected to follow in the foot i steps of the father. The brighter boys . were allowed togo into other sections I of the country, there to carve out (heir ! fortune as opportunity might offer, j The weakling remained at home and succeeded in the ownership of the old farm. | All this is now changed. The agri ' cultural college with its experiment | station has raised farming to the dig idty of a profession. To now succeed ; as a tiller of the soil Hie man must not I only be well educated, but he must j also have fine executive capacity. In- I tensive farming is the order of the ' day. No laggard lias any place on the I modern farm, and slowly but surely all j such are being eliminated from the | business. In this great transformation of the agricultural industry the grange has borne a prominent part. Its leaders have been the men of most pronounced influence in their respective "communi ties and contributed their full share in me uplifting of society, i ney havo been the men of keen intelligence, high morals and most excellent judgment. Such men are always natural leaders, and on all mora! .questions their influ ence has been undisputed. On the other hand, it is equally un disputed that in all matters pertaining to governmental, state or municipal leadership their influence lias been practically nothing. They have stood I back and allowed fhe village and city' lawyers to take control of their affairs and make all the laws. Organized through the grange for action on mora' , questions. they have remained unor ganized in nil that pertains to their ! material welfare. This is the one weak ! spot in the grange today, and it is here that the order needs the greatest' strengthening. There is no good rea son why tin? farmer should be com- j pel led to pay the merchant and the professional man whatever price they choose to place upon their goods and their services, while he Is compelled to take whatever they may choose to give j for the products of his farm. There is no equity In such a system, but for | this condition no one is more to blame than the farmer himself. PARCELS POST NEEDED. New York's State Master Says This Is the Most Important Question. [Special Correspondence.] If there is one question more im portant than another in national legis lation to the people of the United States and that the grange should strive for it is the enactment of a par- I eels post system for the whole coun- I try. I know of no other matter that | would be of so much' benefit to the j people and I firmly believe would be ! of great profit to the jiostal depart | ment. i There seems to be a sentiment | among country merchants that It | would be a detriment to their busl | ness. This I do not believe would j prove true, for with a reasonable par ! eels post rate and the fact that mcr j chandise could be soid at a lower price ! people living In the country should be ! disposed to purchase of local mer chants instead of sending long dis | tances for their goods. A wholesale j merchant told me not long ago that if there was a parcels post system, doing away with the exorbitant express '• charges, he could sell his goods at from 10 1o 15 per cent less than present ! prices. F. N. GODFREY. I Of.'den grange. Monroe county, N. Y., , held an open meeting April 13 to dis cuss the advisability of undertaking io teach agriculture in the high school, j In addition to a large attendance of ! Patrons, the board of education and i faculty and older pupils were present. ; Western Massachusetts granges held ' a rally at Springfield April 7 which was attended by 600 Patrons. Shorttalks-on "1 Advertisi'h 3 * ! | : ' ' ~ No. ltt. ; People generally read advertisements more than they did a fewjyears ago. j The reason is to be found in the advertisements themselves. Advertisers are more careful than they used to bs. They make thMtdvertise | riients mora readable. Some of them even become, in a ! vay, a department of the paper, and people look for them ' | every day with as much zest and pleasure as they turn to /Ty\» any other feature. I This is true of many department stores all over ''' In many cities there is just one man who appre- \ P^\j ciatcs the value of such interest. fl wL./ He breaks away from the old set style. He tells j y&Sa|7 i something interesting in his space every There are lots of interesting things in i i business. Look over the miscellany page of any paper—look at its local news columns, 1 , , and its telegraph news, for that matter, £3 i i and you'll see that the majority of the * items are more or less closely related to '0; some business fact. "■£. y/tty Dress these facts up in a becoming tht r,„, u, garb of words, and they will find readers, /oiestat." 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, i but let him not write as if he were ad- j j«on -—r-Z rj |0 dressing somebody afar off, and telling 1 'v* 1 * i~S lljwk The newspaper goes right into its /M'-v»- | r r j" ijU reader's house—goes in and sits down nSllSlP'' jlL 11 ' s on the ta hle when he cats, and in his hands while he is smoking after the meal. It reaches him when he is in j . n 1 " That's the time to tell -4»im about ' I'i' your business—clearly, plainly, con vine. 1 i r i r 1 ingly—as one man talks to another. •ZW ftm rifht intt i/t «■«,fcr*» , . , _ tumit «</ Mi UM mitk hmt." Ck~*f Austin Armi'trK MUNCY PA. Never Before Received 50 and 75 so many praises and heard&so yli Boys 1 Knee many flattering remarks"as^iwe I Pants X^rtedstyiJl ave had this Season. Snprial Were you one ol the vast lluit M® rl| v- - JiSa J " crowded our store during the past v etk? Did youfyet your share of the ai tides ftll«feiV.-jMS j advertised? It not you should COAEMER E now fc We are making new friends fast: selling more 1 But we still want more friends, want to sell our stock faster, ye JR !we are spurred onto deeper price cutting. People wonder how _„ —— [v\ e can do it. To ill is we can answer, that no other stor-? in thi ; section has the wholesale buying facilities enjoyed by this es tab • lishment. We can buy lower, we can sell lower. Sweater Coats specials Mens corduroy Pants Men's Shirts Men's or Hoys' .Sweater Coals .38 ° m '* l9 tO 2.«,0 Men's NegligeefShirts 39c | 1 Mens sweater coats .75 CHII.DRKMS' SUITS Men's Work Shirts • Mans sweater coats 125 From 99C tO }.CO and £.50 MenVs !• lannel Ninrts Sf, c j STens sweeter coats 1.50 ' Iwchy Hannel overslnrts 1.39 sweater coats ™ 2.0(• ME N.S 1 ROUSERS j Mens V neck sweaters 2;> and 4Ge FfOm 6QC tO Men's extra heavy cotton MenFc'ardigatirjackets 1.25 ur . lu . A , , c mixed socks (iSc MENB OVERALLS. MEIL .„ AL , WOOL .. BOCK , I(|G Underwear From 39c to Hoyp Hoyp and <iirle* Stockings 09c I " MEN 'S OD D COATS l . M f\ "r hoys Mmts 01 iMuwerH . . Ladies raeinatora 19c ~ril>betl or tteeced 20 ami 26c All I NC6S A!! IHO S Men's ribbed Dlich aild Corduroy . 2 :, Als " ''»* line men's lumbermen all colors 39 ( ' rubbers—Limbertville and'"? Ball Men's fleeced lined underwear A big saving Ibr you - ... 3! "' CIJC Men's Caps boys Corduroy vji 1 v /1 wj iwea,,, i 9c Pants. Also bi.a; line of Shoes at sav- FURS at great reduction. Hoys' corduroy l.nee pants, illg prices Sl.o£ foi 2. c ,0 DrCSS BKI» HI.AXKETS from T.lcjnp. throughout, fine ribbed quality Shoe. Ladies' Ibl Shoes fof 1.09 worth regular 75c Special 39c Men S Working Shoes 1.65 TK USKS nil sizes from 1.50 up. Men's Suits L I Dowlas Shoes at reduced udjes , Sweat ers • Big Line of Men's and S 9.f,r, iS Children's Overcoats at re- , , r . Mens Suits 11.75 14.50 HllOpH HfIPPC LaOICS L/OatS « . 15.50 1t.25 UUICU ( Ladies' Coats from 3.50 to 12.f0 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 sio'oo or over, THE THE TRI-WEEKLY -3 LAPORTE i GAZETTE and BULLETIN pEPUBLiCAN NEWSITEAi Tells all the general news of the. Best dressed and most respected world, particularly that of our newspaper in Sullivan county. State, all the time and tells it Pre-eminently a home news|»aper impartially. Comes to sub«crib- The only Republican paper in era every other day. It is in fact county and comes from the seat almost a daily newspaper, and of justice with new news from you cannot artord to he without I ■ I he county offices, clean news j | it. We oiler this unequaled from all sections of the county paper and the NEWS ITEM tj> and political news you want to together oae year for read. This with Tri-w«eklys at sl-501 I $1.50 The REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM and Tri-Weeklv . GAZETTE AND BULLETIN. nri In overy city there is one best a If you want to keep in touch paper, and in Williamsport with the Republican party it iH the (ii/iette and Bulletin. organization and be informed It is the most important, pro- t&s* on a " rwl ' es t ale transfers or i gressive and widely circulated legal matters in general that ! paper in that city. The first transpires at the county scat to hold the fort journalistically. you must necessarily take the Order of the News Item. 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