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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1908
Page
8
All church members are invited to the quarterly union prayer meeting at the Baptist church next Wednesday evening at 7 30. The program centers on The Real Purpose of the Sabbath School.
Glenn Shinnabarger of Muscatine spent Sunday in the city with relatives. Klein of Davenport is in town a few days for business. R. W. Gibson of Chicago visited the Kendal home in west Washington. Mrs. Dr. G. H. Pratt and son Frederick of Terre Haute are visiting the Parrish home.
A discussion on using well graded gravel with underdraining to build durable rural roads. It covers road crown, slope inches per foot, layered gravel courses, screening gravel, and long term maintenance to achieve a firm surface similar to macadam. It cites Marlboro to Washington as an example and notes heavier traffic favors macadam for cost efficiency.
Missouri guidance urges farmers to ride the drag, not walk, and to use two drags to fill hollows. Do not wait for city funds or one large grader. Regular, proper use keeps roads in good condition nine months a year and leads to an ideal oval, smooth, elastic road.
New Jersey plans an experimental one mile road in Mercer County using hot asphalt mixed with pulverized soil. State Road Supervisor Robert A Meeker says the mix is simple cheap self healing and indestructible, improving with age and quieter and less dusty. If successful, asphalt could replace the current macadam method statewide.
Connecticut remains a leader in the national good roads push. New Jersey started four years earlier, followed by Massachusetts, with Connecticut entering in 1893 as the third state. Connecticut spends about 1 million annually, far more per capita than most peers, with New York and Pennsylvania the only states beating its total in this period.
In East Longmeadow Massachusetts a church closed due to mud on muddy roads. A Hartford funeral party en route to Cromwell found roads impassable and had to drive across fields. Milkmen, teamsters, and a chauffeur complain of the poor surfaces and demand better highways.
The good roads movement led by King, aided by his drag device, extends from the corn belt to the east. Gardens Magazine notes recent demonstrations planned with state agriculture boards to prove road dragging on roads with sand and rocks where success is less certain.
Ladies skirts coats and jackets and men's suits and overcoats are cleaned and pressed at 2066 Shellabarger's Pantatorium. The notice advertises professional garment care services in a local shop.
Notice to farmers that Forgey and Sohn offer grinding services for mower blades and sickles. The advertisement states readiness to perform grinding work and invites customers to contact Forgey and Sohn for service details.
Harrisville resident A. A. Felton endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills now sold at Lemmon's Pharmacy. The remedy claims relief from constipation biliousness and malaria with no discomfort and is priced at 25 cents.
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