10 Feb 1915
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1915
Page
1
Professor Thomas Shaw argues that rural roads need maintenance and that while high grade roads are valuable they cannot be built soon due to cost. He notes Britain’s historic road quality and contrasts it with slower, soil-based rural roads in other countries, emphasizing practicality and affordability.
The guide argues for efficient country road design with proper drainage, moderate width, and gentle center crown. It favors road graders over scrapers, deep ditches to carry water, and straight furrows to maintain alignment, emphasizing cost efficiency and durability.
Cross sections show how displacing lumps of clay with a split log drag yields efficiency with minimal labor. Regular dragging after heavy rains helps maintain gravel and earth roads, as clay soils puddle when wet and harden when dry.
Three Good Road Rules. Macadam, one of the most famous road builders, laid down three rules for making a good road: Good Drainage, Better Drainage, Still Better Drainage, or in other words, a good road has a tight roof and a dry cellar.
The article argues good roads are essential to national prosperity and happiness for rural communities, even if not the sole solution, stressing their important role in country life.
An agricultural ad suggests farmers in the Cotton States should grow food and grain on their own land to reduce debt as 1915 cotton credit tightens. It promotes Hastings 1915 Seed Book from Hastings & Co. of Atlanta, Ga, claiming a real garden can yield half a farmer’s living and is offered free.
Hundreds of readers can obtain Dr Miles Medical Guide free for a limited time. Send your name and address on a postcard or letter to Family Medical Guide, Miles Medical Co., Elkhart Ind, mentioning this paper. The guide offers practical household medicine advice and notes when Miles Remedies may be indicated.
The Edgefield County Board of Commissioners votes to discontinue three public roads: from Stone Wall Neal's gin to Philippi via Thompson, from Long Cane road to Delphi road via S N Timmerman’s and Prince Adams's, and from James Powell's to Delphi road opposite James DeVoree's residence.
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