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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
5
The document presents a balance sheet for the Warren National Bank with assets and liabilities totaling 1 256 256 931 07. It lists cash items and reserves from U S Treasurers notes and bonds including capital stock and profits as well as deposits and notes outstanding.
An itemized list shows VEE 34 054 85 standing and 97 300 00 banks with several figures such as seer 4702 05 20 00 741 7259 12 and 252 314 86 12 00. The data appear as coded values or ledger entries without clear context or narrative.
The Tulare county board experiments with 200 tons of rich black oil sand from Sunset wells Visalia California for road work. Sand mixed with oil settles. oil runs off leaving binding sand ideal for highways, reducing a nuisance and creating revenue for heavy oil producers.
Essex County will test a new road type proposed by County Engineer James Owen. Mount Pleasant Avenue in West Orange will be first, using Tel ford blocks with liquid asphalt binder and screenings, a cost split: state one third, towns one tenth each, county balance.
The Good Roads club of Georgia advocates a 700 mile improved highway from Atlanta to Washington. Counties would maintain the border to border route, macadam surface, with dirt segments kept up by split log drags. Automobilists and farmers back the idea, hoping for mid summer paving milestones.
J C Osgood Colorado honorary vice president of the seventeenth national irrigation congress writes to the board of control secretary. He argues for the best roads and large federal expenditures to build principal routes through mountains and sparsely settled areas, on par with France England and Germany.
About 1 500 rural mail carriers in Georgia lead an effort to organize county level roads clubs and form a state governing body. The move aims to create a thoroughly perfected state organization for better road conditions statewide.
Special correspondence from Jennie Buell, Lecturer of Michigan State Grange, proposes closer union among national state pomona and subordinate lecture departments. She urges coordinated educational efforts, expanded correspondence, updated printed materials, uniform program topics, and lectures conferences at national state and pomona levels.
A National Stockman essay argues for Grange organizations in every community to counter urban entertainment drift. It credits the Grange with education, social ties, thrift, ideas, agricultural progress, and moral elevation, noting its proven nationwide benefits over forty years.
A debate on the term dimit or demit used to leave a grange traces the word to Latin origin via Gimit tere meaning to send away, versus demit from de mittere. The piece notes Webster’s definition and critiques spelling in bylaws, while reporting on agricultural leaders and a Pennsylvania grange meeting set for December 21-24 at the State College auditorium.
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