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sS'e have just received a new line of Paints and Oils, we want you to inspect before buying.
Now is the time of the year to do the Painting.
Jf you want the best double deck coil bed spring you ever saw come down arid let us sell you
one for 3.50 and you will never need to buy. another in its place.
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We have just received a big lot of cook stoves, ranges, oil stoves and heaters from 3.90 to 39.
Mattresses from 1.05 to 10.00. For 3.90 we will sell you a good heavy combination mattress
Iron beds either half or full for 2.90.
A new lot of kitchen safes from 2.90 to 6.50 for a nice one with glass front, a nice peice of
furniture for any kitchen.
We want to sell you a wheat drill or anything else you may need in farm machinery,
, ' then sell you Fertilizer for your wheat
We still sell Extra flour for 59cts per bag, salt 58cts, good coffee 16cts, etc.
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Ready - to - Wear
FALL HATS
of beautiful and stylish designs
new line of embroiedary material
of attractive patterns.
McCall Patterns.
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Mrs. Annie Tompkins
"The home of Stylish Millinery."
Wood's High-Grade Seeds.
Cri
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The King of Soil Improvers,
also makes splendid fall,
winter and spring grazing,
the earliest green feed, or
a good hay crop.
CRIMSON CLOVER will increase
rtrnriiir.tivcnsA rf tlie land more
than twenty times as much as the same
amount spent in commercial rertiuzers.
Can be sown by itself or at the last
working of corn, cotton or other cultiva
ted crops.
We are headquarters fof
Crimson Clover, Alfalfa,
Winter Vetch, and all
farm Seeds,
Write for prices and Descriptive
Fall GexSdlcx-J, glvmginfonnation
about all seeds for fall sowing.
T. W. WOOD r& SOtfS,
Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va.
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One of tte.mostdco
ineius mat nam wonuug ycu,
are afflicted with is lame back.
Apply CbamberlainV Liniment
uiorougniy at eacn appjiqauou, u ,
you will get qmck reliet. .fpr ??'
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COR ECT10N.
In premium list 1913.
Department B continued
Mules and Jacks
Under Entry Numbers 116-117
118-119 and 120 Premium should
read. First $3,00 second $2,00,
Third $1,00..
"Were all medicines ' as me tro-
rious as Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy the world
would be much better off and the
percentage of suffering greatly de
creased " writes Lindsay Ssott, of
Temple In 1. For sale by ALL
DEALERS.
STATUS AND DUTIES OF
THE KOAD ENGINEER.
BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT.
As the State of North Carolina
estabiis !ed aHighwaVCom-
mission, with appropriation ade
quate to employ engineers sufficient
to meet the demand tnat nas now
townships ip the State
have issuvd tonds or levied
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special tax for road building it has
become necessary for the counties
and townships themselves to em
ploy their own engineers. The sue-
cessful expenditure of a road fund; this as is compatible with other
may be said to be directly depend- facts entering into the road location,
ent upon the ability and skill of the No first-class, self-respecting en
road engineer thus employed. The gineer will gi into a county or
county commissions, road commis- j township, and stay there, who is
sion, or whatever body of men has , not .given full powers in regard to
in charge ihe expenditure of the the selection of the details of loca
road fund, should therefore first of tion, and the sooner all ideas of
all secure the services of a compe- selfishness and politics, as connect
tent road engineer of experience, ed with the location of the public
and put in his hands the organiza- roads, are left out of the matter,
tion and carrying out of the details the sooner North Carolina will have
of the road work of the county. In a system of public roads which will
order for the road engineer to do ' be a public benefit and not a pub-
his hftst work he must have the i
power to discharge or employ his
foreman, his manager of convict
camp (if convicts are used on the ( be thoroughly familiar with the
public roads), and the power to sur-1 location of roads. The word loca
vev and select the details of any i tion includes a caleful considera-
road which the governing board i
decides it is best for the county to
build at that time. It would be
within the province of the county
commissioners or road commission
to select the points to be connected,
as A and B, and perhaps via a third
point, C. but it is within the pro
vince of the road engineer to select
the details of the road between A
C and B; that is, it should rest
with him as to whether the road
goes behind a man's house or in
front "of it, or whether it crosses
one piece of property or another
piece of property. The county is
building the road, and, as the loca
tion is the only permanent part of
the road and the part for which the
engineer will receive the full respon
sibility, not only, at the present
time but in time to come, it should
be chosen with the transit and lev
el rod and not be deflected by the
wishes or petty politics of any in
dividual of community. .
The prime factor, therefore, in
locating a road is getting the,
straightest road between the points
desired compatible ;with the least
amount of grade. No road should
have a maximum' grade of over 4
i.9nprpPnt and nreferablv 2 per
cent. When this point is decided, ' and steel and should ascertain defi
then the question of surfacing ma-jnitely whether . existing- structures
terials comes in, as, if the road can are safe under the strain of severe
be as well located near a sand bank j traffi He should have a certain
or gravel bed, and trie grade as
good as if it were located a mile or
so away from such road surfacing
material, it should be placed as near
he burden.
As to the equipment of a road
I engineer for his work: He should
tion of alignment, grades, and draiu-
age, as well as economy of con
struction. It is desirable that the;
curves, and tangents should be laid
out with the same degree pf accur
acy as those of a railroad. The
survey of a road may mean any
thing from a reconnaissance cr
walking trip to an accurate instru
mental survey, but a location can
not be considered as entirely satis
factory until d ta are obtained for
the plan, profile, and cross-sections,
to be shown on paper, with esti
mates of yardage passed upon and
and an attempted equalization of
cuts and fills. He should know the
most economical methods of remov
ing dirt, stumps and rocks under
various conditions; he should know
the best widlh for his road, proper
slope of the banks, right crown of
the road surface, shrinkage of his
material, grade stakes, retaining
walls, curbs, gutters, expansion
joints, etc. He should know the
characteristics and relative propor
tions of road materialsand every
detail connected with the construc
tion of sand-clay, gravel, macadam,
concrete, and bituminous roads.
The engineer should be competent
to design bridges of both concrete
C.
knowledge of hydraulics so as to
determine what size waterway will
safely carry the flood waters from a
given watershed; the qualities and
prices of the various kinds of cul
verts. The engineer should be familiar
with the relative merits and defects
of the various kinds of road machin
ery whether, it be the split-log-drag
or the most elaborate road machine.
He should be able to write contracts
and specifications clearly and easily,
and understand the relations which
should exist between himself and
the contractor. He should also
know whether it would be more
economical for the county to do
certain forms of road work with its
own force or to contract the same.
Aside from the above technical
requisites, the road engineer should
be a man of strong personality and
of great tact, with ability to con
vince people of less intelligence of
the necessity of leaving these mat
ters which pertain to the scientific
side of road building in his hands
with the assrurance that he will do
the wisest and best thing for the
community.
Having secured the services of
such an engineer and no county
can spend a portion of its bond
money to better advantage than in
employing such a one, even at . a
high price the commission should
leave the technical side of road
location, construction, and a provid
ing of a system of maintenance en
tirely in the hands of the road en
gineer, and should back him up
with all possible force against the
criticisms of those unfitted to form
judgment about matters of which
they have no technical knowledge.
The wisdom of his course may not
be seen at once, but it must be re
membered that his work is a build
ing for the future as well r as the
p:es ;nt, and that time will be his
justification. '
It will be very hard for many of
the counties and townships of
North Cai-oli .a to secure ideal road
engineers, because they are not al
ways in a position to give the sal
ary required by such skilled men,
and there is no department in the
jtate which ean train up the young
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