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FRANKLIN TIMES A.~ F. JOHNSON. Utter a* Mu<c GOLD AMD SILVER MEDALS Ofierod to Children for Best > Essay on Repair and Main tenance of Earth Roads Washington, D. Sept 80, 1918 ? The Director of the Offioe of Pub. lie Roads of thia Department, I.ogan Waller Page, haa announced that the time in wbioh children may sub mit essays on the repair and main tenanoe ot earth roads, in competi tion for the gold medal and two sil ver medals, has beeu extended to March 2, 1914. The conditions for the essaj con teat are as follows: 1. The Subject of the essay will be the Repair and keeping up of Earth Roads. 2. It is open only to children Jli im ten to fifteen years, inclusive, who are actually living on firms and who are actually attending school. 8. The essay should be not more than eight hundred words in length, in the handwriting ot the child, and should be written on only one side of the paper. 4- In the upper left hand corner of the first page should appear the following statement: Essay on Earth Roads by (name of child; agi of child; actual residence of child; school attended by child.)_ 5. Children wishing to enter this contest may ask the advice of their parents, teachers, neighbors, highway commissioners, and other people, and read books or magazines giving information about the subjecc.-They Xmust not give the information tbey gkto in this way in the exact words of an adult or the author of a book. They must express the ideas in then own language. They will not be expecte to usex technical terms and any words that mak^ the meaning - 8. The essay* will boomed by an impartial committee according to the undemanding ef the subjeot shown by the chiiu and aooordiug to the penmanship, engliah tod spell ing. The. writer of the beet essay will receive a sold medal; the write* of the next beet essay, a ailver med al; aed the writer of the third Ixst ? saav, a silver medal. 7. All eesajs should he plainly addressed, in an envelope stamped with a two-oent stamp, to: Cob- i mittee on Children's Road Kasay Conteet, Office of Publio Roads, U. S. Department of Agnoultnre, W ash ington, P. C., and should be mailed to reach that office not later than 9 a. m. on Monday, March 'J, 1914. 8. Children who have already submitted essays in that contest which was originally announced to close October 15th, may if they wiah, submit a second essay. As a help to children, the auggee tions ,;iven below are made. Child ren need not follow these suggestions sbsolutely, they most not submit es says in the form of direct answers to these questions. They must not quote any of the following material word for word. HOW TO TKT.L A GOOD ROAD FBOM A BAD ROAD. To tlie Children: In getting facts to write your essays for the prise contest on the repair and mainten ance ot earth roads, use your eyes. Look st s bad piece of road and a good piece of road when both are dry. Study, particularity, the ruts and holes and uneven places in the road to see whether they make it easier or harder for the T heels of a loaded wagon to go along. Study the kind of footing that the two roads give to the horses. Now, study the same stretches of road after a good rainstorm. You will see that one road holds small puddles, or pools of water that keep the road sott and. so allow it to be cut up by the wheels of the wagons i and the hoofs of the horses. How j do road builders keep water from gatherin ? on the traveled way of a road? Should the road elope to the side ditches? How much higher should the center, or crown, of the' road be than the ontsi'1* e<laes of the road? Why do ^ood ditohea at tn? aide of tha road help tnaka the center of the road batter for haul ing? \Vhat fappans wh- n ditohes get fall of rubbieh or weeds? Whan a diteh along a road holds water or coU*eta it into pools, bow does this injure the road? U81NG A Da AO ON ftABTH ROADS, Have you ever aeen a home-made road drag? It ia made by splitting in two a log six or eight inches in thiokness and about six or eight feet long. The two Kalvex of the "OR are set three feat apart ?itl> their smooth faoes forward sod upright. They are "fastened * together with braoes. A pair cf horses are . hitch, ed to a chain fastaasd to the front halt of the log. Should these logs be drawn straight d?w n tbe road, or should it U dragged at a slant so that a little of tha loose earth will slide toward tha center of the road? Should the dragging be started next to the ditch, or at tbe center of the road? Should yoa drag the wbole road in one way, or drag eaoh half of -it in an opposite direction? Should the dragging be dona when the road is dry, or after it has rained? A good atrong pair of horses? with a wsll built drag can drag abonr three or four mlffe of road in a dny. What would it coat a farmer t > drag four miles ot road? How would he be re. paid for the cost of his labor? Remember, ohiidren, you are not to answer these questions as if you were answering an examination pa per. Yoa are to think about the an. swers and ask people for informa. tion and watch people actually work ing on roads, and then write a com position that will be just the same as if you were writing a ietter to a friend; telling him, or her, ho'w they made the earth road near you better, and kept it from getting full of holes, ruts and puddles. A Marvelous Escape. ? "My little boy bad a marvelous es cape," writes P. P. Bastiams. of Prince Albert, Cape of Good Hope. "It oc curred in the middle of the night. He got a very severe attack of croup. Aa luck would have it, I bad a large bottle of Chamblerlaia's Cough F.emrdy ia the house. After following the directions for an hour and twenty minutes he was through all danger. " Sold by all dealers. This space belongs to Hill Live Stock Co., who will have something very im- , portant to say to you next week. A NEW AGE IS B AWNING i ?" The blessings promised for thousands of years are upon us. BriDg your tobacco to the Farmers' Warehouse and you will lift up your heads and rejoice. It sold higher with us this week than ever before. The trust is . V. . ' . \ . ? . * busted and the Farmers' Warehouse, with plenty of money, is owned, operated and controlled by McKinne Bros. Co., Hill Live Stock Co., and Sam Meadows, who will see that every farmer who puts his tobacco on our floor will get full value for same. 'ny
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