Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
j. J. MIIfER, Manager.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 45
TBANSYLVANIA LODGE
No. 143, K. of P.
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Brevard Telephone Exchange.
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Do You Belong to
This corumittee is
made up of the men who
sit around an excava
tion for a new building,
whittle pine sticks, spit
tobacco juice on the
fresh dirt and watch the
other fellows work.
It’s all right to show
interest in new build
ings, in town develop
ment and progress, but
there’s a better way.
You can do more
good for yourself and
the community by re
signing from “The Citi
zens’ Committee” and
getting into the General
Progress Committee.
This committee is
the one that PUTS UP
THE NEW BUILDINGS,
brings new business into
town to occupy them,
paints the old houses, keeps the sidewalks in good repair,
beautifies the front yards, cleans up the back yards and
otherwise makes this town a better town to live in.
The General Progress Committee is the Unofficial
Town Booming Committee. It really ought to be organ
ized and made official. Let all of us work together for
the advancement of the town we live in, and there will be
more room around new excavations for the fellows at
work to throw out the dirt.
Eternal industry is the price of progress.
Let’s all fall in line for the General Progress Commit
tee—and then
JUST WATCH THE OLD TOWN
GROW.
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Improves the Worst Earth Road
In Short Order.
QUICKLY DESTROYS ALL RUTS
Change to Smoothness Almost In
stantaneous, Says Inventor of High
way Improvement Device — Other
Benefits Derived by Using the Drag.
[Copyright, 1907, by D. Ward Kins*]
The King drag is like a sleight of
hand performer in appearing to ac
complish the impossible. In twenty
minutes after you hitch to the drag
the worst earth road is so much bet
ter that a magician seems to have been
at work, assuming, of coiii'se, that
the soil is in fit condition. If you
think I am making too strong a state
ment, try it, and if j’ou are still of the
opinion 1 will pay you at the rate of
$5 per da3' for the time you use in
making the experiment.
Look at these Iowa photographs. In
Xo. 1 the fellies and several inches of
the spokes are hidden in the ruts. Just
a fev^’ minutes’ use of the drag and
the ruts are obliterated, and even the
tire is in plain view. The two pictures
are of the same spot, and not more
than thirty minutes elapsed from^ the
malving of the lirst negative to the
making of the last. The Missouri pic-
m
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DIBT ROAD BEFOEE DKAGGING.
tures show as great a change. In both
cases we selected the worst road v^e
could find, and 1 drove the drag mj-
self.
The change to smoothness is almo::.!
instantaneous, and it at once begins to
distribute the travel. The distribution
of the travel is due to the absence of
ruts, and in turn it also discourages
ruts. The smallest rut tends to the
destruction of the road. The drag
ov/es its reputation to the fact that it
is the cheapest known method of de
stroying ruts. On a level road a rut.
however slight, means a spot where
the vrater will lodge after the next
rain. Because this spot retains water
it remains softer than the higher por
tions of the road and for this reason
is deepened and widened by every
wheel and every hoof that touches it.
If it held a pint of water after the last
rain it will hold a quart when the next
one fails. It is twice as large as at
the beginning and of course presents
twice the surface to the teams and
wagons. Soon it will be so large that
I>IKT ItOAD FEW MINUTES AFTEli DRAGGIIfG.
travel wdll pass to the other side of
the highway. It is now a mudhole oT
consequence and quite able during a
ten days’ rain in spring or fall to stall
the largest teams.
How different would be the story
had that first little rut been filled by
the drag! A mudhole that contains but
a pint of water is insignificant; it
harms no one. True, it maj" jar an in
valid or give pain to a delicate woman,
but the load it will ruin next March it
jostles so gently now’ that it is unno
ticed. With the drag the jostling and
the pain giving jar are eliminated. And,
strange as it may seem, more money is
spent for road work under the plan
that allows the mudhole to develop and
ripen than when the drag is used to
nip it in the bud.
On a hill road the tiny rut is the dan
gerous ravine in embrj’O. Neither r.n-
vine nor mudhole can exist in a care
fully dragged earth road. The ciay
BAD MISSOUIil BOAD BEFORE DRAGGING.
hill south of my house has been work
ed Vv’ith noijiing but a drag and a plow
for over ten years. There have been
no mudholes in all that time nor ruts
worth more than passing notice. And
this is the experience of farmers, road
commissioners and men of science in
authority all ovfer our broad land.
The use of the King drag brings to
pass numerous other details which
gly seem unimportant, but which in
the aggi'egate constitute the perfect
earth road. One—smoothness—has been
mentioned. Next to smoothness is the
crowning of the road, which, with the
smoothness, provides for the drainage
of the traveled portion of the highv>^ay.
Then comes hardness or density, whicli
gives permanence and which comes
more slowly than the first tv/o. grow
ing and gaining for several years.
Then follov»-s the absence of weeds, of
the chuck hole at the bridge and cul
vert, a decreased amount of mud and.
what is not so readily granted, a re
markable decrease in the amount of
dust. Tlie cost of culverts also is less
ened, first, because vrater can no lon
ger follow the wheel track to the cul
vert and soften the abutments by
standing in a puddle in the chuck hole;
second, the cost is lossened Lecause a
mc*re durable culvert can b6 put in.
QUICK CHAXGE TO SMOOTHNESS BY DRAG
GING.
When first cost is considered I thir.k
tile is the cheapest culvert. The ob
jection heretofore has been the difficul
ty in keeping sufficient earth above the
pipe to protect it from traction engines
and other heavj’ loads. This trouble is
obviated by the use of the drag since
the drag puts more and more earth on
the tile and thus continually rdds to
the protective covering. Weeds^ire de
structive agents in a negative way. By
their roots and the dying of their tops
they bring humus into the roadway
Humus, much to be desired from the
fiirmer’s standpoint as food for crops
and for its mechanical action, on close,
dense soil, Is not good material for
roads. Again, the weeds by their roots
and the shape of their tops keep the
roadway soft. And by their mere pres
ence they catch dust and mud, gradu
ally building up the well known shoul
der which prevents water running to
the ditch.
Less mud? It is gi*anted without ar
gument. Less dust? One is not so
sure. But if less mud, then, since dust
is manufactured mostly from the rims
of hoof tracks and the spewed up edges
of ruts, mast not the dust be less?
I^ss depth of mud means shallower
foot and wheel tracks and therefore
less dust material.
Last, but not least, the dragged road
dries off in from twelve to sixty hours
before the undragged roads, the hours
depending on the character of the soil
and the number of years the drag lias
been used. The smoothness or the
quickness of drying will either one pay
the cost of dragging.
R.ural Delivery Notes
In Texas a v,^oman has the contract
to carry the mail from KilTe to Siernal
Hill, and Georgia has a Vv'onian mall
carrier who travels a forty mile route
tri\veekl3% besides managing a large
farm.
It is now only fourteen yeai*s since
an appropriation of $10,000 was made
for experiments with the project of
rural free delivery, says the Boston
Globe. As recently as ten years ago
the appropriation for this nev/ service
amounted to only $40,GOO. Last year it
was more than $25,000,000. while this
year rural free delivery v/ill cost $37.-
000,000!
Mrs. L. A. Donohue of Edgemoor,
the only female rural mail carrier in
Delaware, was a heroine the other day,
says a Wilmington (Del.) dispatch.
Unaided she captured Samuel Stewart,
an escaping negro prisoner, at the
point of a revolver. Stewart and t^vo
other negroes w*ere arrested for acting
suspiciously in the Edgemoor freight
5’ards of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Watchman Plumline locked them in
an office, whereupon Stewart jumped
through a window^ and dashed across
the tracks. At this juncture Mrs. Don
ohue emeri^ad from the railroad sta
tion with a mail bag. Running in front
of the fieeing prisoner, she drew a pis
tol and compelled him to hold up his
hands. The watchman then captured
the negro.
Alexandria, Ind., has long had the
honor of having a v/oman raral mall
carrier. With the installation of rural
free deliverj^^ Mrs. W. W. Condo be
gan work at Alexandria on route 19
and with but a few days’ exception,
while ill, has not missed a week’s serv
ice for her patrons. She is one of the
most painstaking and popular of the
eight rural carriers with routes cen
tering in Alexandria. In the j-ears
Mrs. Condo has carried mail she has
not neglected her household or social
duties, being one of the most active
members in two or three literary and
social clubs. Tiring of horses, Mrs.
Condo decided to surprise her patrons
with an automobile. Without consult
ing any one except members of her
family, ^Irs. Condo bought an automo
bile buggy. In a few v.'eeks she mas
tered the management of the convey
ance. Mr;?. Condo is financially inde
pendent and delivers mail for the ben
efit the work and open air trips are to
her health.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, /
Lucas County f
Fmnk J. Cheney makes oath that
he isseniorpartnt^r of the linn of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing bcsines.s in Die
city of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid, and that said lirni will pay
the sum of One Hundred Dollars for
each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the u.^te ot Hall’s
Catarrh Cure. Fua>:k J. Cm-:sFA\
Sworn to before me and subscrii>ed
in iny presence, tliis Gth day of De
cember, A. D. 18SG.
(Seal.) W. Gleaj::OX,
iNOtary Public.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally,^ and act.s din^dly on tiie blocd
and mucous surfaces of tlie system*
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