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THE DANBURY REPORTER. VOLUME XXXIII. MECKLENBURG'S GOOD ROADS HOW THEY ARE BUILT AND THE COST OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION--THEY INCREASE VALUE OF LAND IN MECKLENBURG. Mecklenburg oeunty, N. C., and Charlotte, its capital, have been made famous the country over by the magnificent graded macadamized roads whioh connect Charlotte with every part of the county. The statement has been made by people who have traveled extensively that Charlotte is unique in being the only city of 40,000 population in the United States which can boast of 100 miles of macadamized roads radi ating from its business district to all sections of the county. These good roads have attracted wide attention, and many visitors, including representatives of State Legislatures, have inspected the system with the view of creating a similar good condition at home. They have added very considera bly to the wealth of the city and county, helping alike the business interests of both. In no one factor in the development of the community has been more pronounoed in ■its direct results, and competent authority has placed the increase in value at $1.25 per acre for every acre of land adjacent to these good roads, and this amount per acre will in one year pay for the building of all of them. The real value of good county roads can only be appreciated by those who have enjoyed the privi lege of using them frequently, and the mmy advantages which accuro to the community through their construction are entirely too many to be enumerated in one short article. They furnish the avenue of easy communication between the sent >f production and the mar kets permitting the producer to take advantage of the highest prevailing prices, regardless of the year, and also permit him to decide for himself bb to how large or how small the load to be haul ed may be. It is a common oc currence in and near Charlotte for one horse or one mule to haul six or seven bales of cotton at a load, aiifl the same roads where, under former bad condi tion, the passing of an empty wagon during a wet season would have been very difficult. Statistics gathered from over one-half of the cotton growing counties show that the average expense of hauling cotton is 1C cents per hundred pounds, or al>out $2.75 for a load of three bales. The cost of hauling may be reduced considerably more than one-half by the building of smooth permanent roads, and per mitting the doubling of the load to lie hauled, thus saving, to the growers of cotton, millions of dullais annually, whioh would in a short time pay the entire cost of the construction. Good i v ads facilitato travel and make easy communication be tween different part of the county, bringing|i { the merchants into closer relationship with his customers and thereby enabling him to increase his business; they reduoe the lime and make travel a pleasure, permitting the people of the farm to drive across the county and take advantage of many interesting and entertain ing features which take place in the towns and cities; they make possible the prompt delivery of mail all the year and they attract lo the county the very best olass of immigrant*; tlifcy contribute to the elevation of the social and educational standards of the com munity by furnishing means at ail seasons of the year for the people to enjoy the benefits and privileges to be derived from the best educational institutions, and from the intermingling with others in social intercourse. • A short statement as to the manner of construction of the roads about Charlotte may prove of interest. Thg outfit necessary for the werk consists of a* portable engine, road machjne, crusher, bins, Bteam roller and revolving perforated boiler plate screen made to run threo sizes of stone. Much of the stone is furnished during the quiet season, after the crop's have been worked, and is delivered to a certain convenient place along the road. The roads of Mecklenburg are built nine inches deep, of three sizes of crushed stone. The first layer is of the largest size, about two inqhes square, which is spread,to a uniform thicknesss of 4 inches and rolled smooth; the next layer, which is of smaller stone, is three inches thick, is carefully spread and rolled, and ?s followed by the top dressing of the finest screening frarn the crusher, and spread to a depth of two inches and rolled as the previ ous layer. Convict labor has been used here with sucoess, and now the work is practically all done with this kind of labor. The cost of feeding, clothing and guarding the convicts amounts to some thing like 25 cents per day for each convict. Under the present management the work of constructing the roads in Mecklenburg county costs from $1,600 to $2,500 per mile, according to the amount of grading that is necessary, without including the cost of the bridges. Undw the old system whioh was used some years ago when the road building was oommenced, the cost in some cases reached $4,000 per mile and in no case did it cost less than $4,500 per mile. In building roads where the best results are desired, care Bhould be taken to provide good drainage and correct grading, usually a ditch on either side of the road, or, better, a drain under the centre will be satisfactory, and instead of using small wooden bridges, terra cotta or metal culverts will give the best results. There is no reason why every county in the State should not have good roads. This may be acquired by the application to the best advantage of the ma terials found in each locality, which contribute to their construc tion. When people once enjoy the benefits of hard, smooth coun try roads no money or influence oan be brought to bear to create a sentiment toward returning to the old time condition, and the money necessary to maintain them is paid cheerfully. KING. King, Aug. 6.—Mr, Charlie Campbell'g residence was struck by lightening last week but no serious damage was done. Miss Eva Preaton, from Stokes dale, N. C., is visiting Misses Ruby and Daisy White. Misses Flora Spainhonr and Hattie Grabs spent last Thursday with Miss Martha Oliver. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Keiger left last week for Greensboro, High Point and other plaoes, where they will visit friends and rela tives. DANBURY, N. C., AUGUST 15, 1907. MR. PETREE REPLIES TO "332." He Takes It Eor Granted That Hf Is the One Whom "332" Was Censuring In His Letter. Mr. Editor : In last week's Reporter, some one writing on himself to censure belittle ami one of the workers in the Farmers' Institutes and the work he is do ing in the matter of discussing Tobacco Culture at tiiese Institute gatherings. As no one has been engaged in this particular line of Institute work in tliis section but myself, I take it for granted that 1 am the target nt which this fellow aimed his sarcastic flings. And, Mr. Editor. I would give the mat ter no attention, whatever, if your readers knew just who my cen sorious critic is,. But when I re member that not a single year of the last forty lias passed without finding me engaged more or less of the time in the cultivation of. tobacco, and that 1 have always been a close observer of the nature and needs of this particular crop, and that in all my talks in the Farmers' Institutes I have been careful to advise only such work and methods in the management of the crop, as long experience has proved to me to be good, 1 feel like speaking out. For what this would-be-critic has said, is only to discourage the adoption and use of safe and sound methods. 332 tries to make it appear that I have failed in making a tobacco crop this year. I admit that there is a tenant on our place who has failed on a part of the land he has planted this year, the failure being due to his not having set desirable plants, of which I was not aware until it was too late to a2>i'ly the remedy. But all who heard my talk in the Institute at Locust Hill Farm, will cemember that I called special attention to the plantbed disease which caused the failuro of tobacco on the land mentioned, and that I said that much of the tobacco this year was suffering from the effects of the disease; and that I tried to make the whole matter serve us all as a lesson by which to avoid the disease and the failures incident thereto, in the future. But just why Mr. 332 should seize the fact that a tenant here has failed in imrt on his tooacco crop, and then make it a ground for. stating as he did, that I had made a failure on my crop, and for criticising me anil my work in the Farmers' In stitutes, I am -unable to under stand, unless it was because he was actuated by the spirit of envy and prejudice. As to my fitness for the work this stripling speaks of, I have only to say that, I suppose the State's Director of the work would not have called me to it last year, and then again this year, had ho not judged of ray fitness for the I place by the work 1 did in the Farmers' Institutes two years ago. { And I wish to say, that, having been called to the work as I was, and realizing that there are so many honest toilers laboring in the tobacco fields, and that it would be a costly waste of time, money and labor, for them to be governed by other methods than those which •puld give best re sults, I have felt it a duty to ad vise no work or plans other than those I honestly andconscientious ly believed would be for their good. Mr. 332, who says he is a farm er, but who skips first from ono place to another, sometimes into the towns, and then into the coun try, and sometimes into one thing, anil then another (I will not now state just what) s»ys that two yearo ago people wrote mej(rom all over the State for tobacc® seed, and that I had to go all'over the neighborhood to get seed to sup ply them. Yes, Mr. *332, people all o;er the State did frrite me for tobacoo seed; and this, in itself, ■hows that your criticism of my work in the Farmers' Institutes is' unjust; for it is evident that the people would not have wanted to bacco seed that had been grown as I grew them, had they not felt the force of wiiat I had said about growing thera iu that way. As to my going all over the neighbor hood for tobacco seed to supply those who had written for them, I will say that when I had sent out all the seed of my own growing, I did send out some seed that some of my neighbors gTew; but in no case did I send out any such seed with out telling the parties to whom they were sent that they had been grown by some othor than myself. And in no case did I ever charge anything for the seed I sent out only the postage on them; in fact, I often had to pay the postage my self. So Mr. 332 can see that it WHS not a money-making business with me, as perhaps he thinks. For he talks like he is ono of the "outsido fellows'' who grew the seed I sent out. But I suppose the seed he refers to were some his father let me have to try on ray own farm. As it was claimed that these seed were of an earlier kind of tobacco than the kind I was planting, I wished to try the tobacco on my own farm. At that time this father was living in our neighborhood, and, being a clever fellow, lie gave me some seed to make the trial; and I don't think that any of them were ever sent out to any one else. No, Mr. 332, lam not running a seed-house, and making big money at your ex pense. Now, Mr. Editor, as to whether or not the things this fault-finder has said about me and these mat ters, amount to anything that is really big as he seems to think, or whether they are conspicious only because of their littleness, your renders can decide. I could say more about the matter, but for the present, I will spare my critic, and shield him by withholding his name But in conclusion, I will just add that, in the future, he bad better try to keep his own house clean before he attempts house-cleaning for other people. W. A. PETREE. SOME MADISON NEWS. Rockingham's New Court House Soon To Be Completed--80 Bushels Of Potatoes From Half Acre Land—Other Notes* The B. F. Smith Construction Uo., who have the contract for building Rockingham's new court house, is pushing the work to com pletion. The building is fully half completed and Col, Davis assured Judge Moore last week that he would have the building complet ed and ready for occupancy by the November term of court. The Rockingham Telephone Co. is putting in a complete exohange in Madison. And we think pretty nearly every one is patronizing the company from the number of wires going up, Ziglar Bros, are digging their famous potato patch; and they will have a yield of HO bushels of pota toes from an half acre of laud. This is equal to 1(50 bushels to the acre and at 50 cents to tho bushels i would net SBO to the acre. This i beats raising corn or tobacco as it takes very little labor to raise potatoes. We are forced to announce to the subscribers of the Herald that there will be no issue of tho paper next week. This is caused by the fact that both our printers, Mr. I Morrison and»Mr. Ware, are mem j bers of the Reidsville Militia and were ordered Mouday to report next Saturday for duty in order that they might go with their company to the exposition next week. This did not give us time to secure the necessary help to get out the paper, and we hope our frionds and patrons will bear with us in this instance and not criticise us for what wo could not help.—From the Herald. Abbott's Creek Baptist Asso ciation will begin at High Point on the fourth Saturday in this month. It is learned that reduced rates will be given on the railroads on account of the association. "REGULAR AS THE SUN" is an expression as old as tho raoe. No doubt the rising and setting of the sun is the most regular per formance in the universe, unless it is the action of the liver and bowels when regulated with Dr. King's New Life Pills. Guaran teed by all druggists, 25c. SCHOOL TEACHERS SA L ARIES FIXED BY THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AT A RECENT MEETING FOR THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY. At a recent meeting of the Board of Education for Stokes county the salaries of teachers in the va rious school districts of the county were fixed, as follows : DANBURY TOWNSHIP. Dist. No. 1, white race, $ 30.00 18.00 " " 2, " " - 30.00 18.00 Dist. No. 1, col. race, 20.00 MEADOWS TOWNSHIP. Dist. No. 1, white race, $ 30.00 " " 2, " " 30.00 " " 3, " " 30.00 " " 4, " " 30.00 " " 5, " " 28.00 " " «>, " " 30.00 •' " 7, " " 30.00 " " 1, col. race, 15.00 YADKIN TOWNSHIP. Dist. No. 1, white race, $ 30.00 " " 2. " " 30.00 " " 3, " " 28.00 " " 4, " " 30.00 " " 5, " " 30.00 " " (», " " 30.00 " " 7, " " 28.00 " " 8, " " 30.00 20.00 " " 9, " " 28.00 " " 10, " " 30.00 " " 11, " " 25.00 " " 12, " " 30.00 " " 13, " " 30.00 20.00 " " 14, '• " 25.00 " " 15, " " 28.00 " " 1. col. raoe, 15.00 QUAKER GAP TOWNSHIP. - Dist. No. 1, white race, $ 30.00 • 18.00 " " 2, u " 30.00 " » 3, " " 30.00 " " 4, *" " 25.00 " " 5, " " 30.00 ". " f>, " " 30.00 " " 7, " " 30.00 18.00 " " 8, " " 28.00 " " 9, '• " 28.00 " " 10, " " 30.00 18.00 " "11, " " 30.00 18.00 " " 12, " " 28.00 " " 13, " " 28.00 . " " 14, " " 28.00 " "1, col. race, 18.00 " " 2, Graded, col. race, 5.00 PETER'S CREEK TOWNSHIP. Dist. No. 1, white race, $ 30.00 " " 2, " " 30.00 " " 3, " " 30.00 " " 4, " " 28.00 " " 5, " " 30.00 " " fi, " " 30.00 " " 7, " " 30.00 " " 1, col. race, 18.00 SNOW CREEK TOWNSHIP. Dint. No. 1, white raw, $ 30.00 20.00 " " 2, " " 28.00 " " 3, " " 30.00 20.00 " " 4, " " 30.00 " " 5, " " 25.00 " " (5, " " 30.00 " •' 7, " " 30.00 " " 8, " " 25.00 " "1, 001. race, 18.00 " " 2, Goin race, 5.00 BEAVER .ISLAND TOWN SHIP. Dist. No. 1, white race, $ 30.00 '« " 2, " " 30.00 " " 3, " " 30.00 " 4, '• " 30.00 * 18.00 " " 5, " " 30.00 " " 1, 001. race, 18.00 " «' 2, " " 18.00 SAURATOWN TOWNSHIP. Dist. No. 1, white race, $ 30.00 " '« 2, " " 30.00 18.00 " " 3, " " 30.00 18.00 " " 4, " " 30.00 " " 5, " " 30.00 " " 6, " " 30.00 " " 7, " " 28.00 " " 1, 001. race, 18.00 " " 2, " " 18.00 15.00 Teachers and school committee men will please clip this and keep it for future roference. J. T. SMITH, Comity Superintendent Schoolß. A PRECEDENT. The Election Of Keeper Stephens As Superintendent Of the County Poor House, Breaks the 'Two- Term Resolution." The action of the Republicans of Stokes county last week in awarding the keeping of the Coun ty Home the third term to Mr. W. R. Stephens, might reasonably be considered to be the wedgo that has broken the resolution passed by a Republican county conven tion a few years ago to the effect that no Republican officer in Stokes should hold his position longer than two terms. If tho friends of Keeper Stephens were victorious in their contention that he should again have the job that he has held down satisfactorily to them two years, the friends of some of the other incumbents may insist along the same line. And the Reporter is informed that there is considerable sentiment among the Republicans in the county in favor of tlie principle that what one convention may do is by no means binding on an other. Instructions To School Committee men. Danbury, N. 0., July 31, 1907. To the School Committee : It is your duty to employ and dismiss teaohers. You have no more important duty imposed upon you than the employment of teachers. "As the teacher is, so is the school." Advertise your meetings a few days before hand, so that the teaohers oan find out when and where you will meet. Do not employ any immoral teaohers, even though they have a certificate from the county Su perintendent. You oan sometimes find out the oharaoter of the teaohers when the Superinten dent oannot. The Board of fiduoation has fixed the maximum salary for every school in the oounty. If yon think any teacher you are employing is not worth the amount fixed by the Board of Education, then do not pay the amount fixed by the Board, but pay less. Take into consideration the qualification and experience of every teacher, and place them where you think they will do the best work, regardless of the wishes of anybody. Yon oan pay first grade teach ers the maximum salary, but no more. Do not make any oontract with any seoond grade teaoher for more than $25.00 per month, beoause that is all tnat the law allows them. Make a written oontract with every teacher and send a oopy to the County Supt. Very truly yours, J. T. SMITH, County Sopt. of School*. No. 27
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