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Cow iiiw and P. K. 110 es. MARSHALL —I. 11. Hattoa. »...I "t HADC-MAMC 1 al avaai. >.«•,•>! m. W« hi. ■ PA 1 MTS ■ iwl n>Mialk«)iaKWK on paMmaMMtr * TMW |MIM. M- ■ MUINO SlriMNCIt. Hrftj MI.B fci'k XI PrulUatite Pktw.u vrtals •03-SOS Savanth atl at, I IwaaHIMOTOILD.' L SOLD BY H. WGfIS DRAINAGE OF EARTH ROADS By JOSEPH HYDE P One of the most important lac tor* in tbc construction of roads is the method of drainage. Too fre quently in driving over a coantry road it is sees that moHt of the water is permitted to run down the middle of the road, or where a pre tewe of ditching has been made, the water is allowed to cross and re cross the road. The supervisors of the road do rot apparently realize that water is the most destructive agent to a road and an earth road especially is very susceptible to the action of water. Thus, too much atteution cannot tie given in the con struction of the r*.ad to the method of drainage. It will usually he found that the road* are too flat on top or in the center to turn the water and make it drain to the sides of th> road As stated above, of ten in the construction of the road the extreme is reached by making the road concave so that the water drains from the sides to the center and in cases where the rftads are nearly level, the water collects in the middle and has a chance to sof ten the earth until filially travel makes it a mud hole. Holes and ruts are the result and these rapidly increase in uumlier. It will lie found that very often by dtainage ■done a bad earth road can lie con verted iuto a good one. Iu r the first construction of an earth rojul, it is somewhat more expousive to build it so that it has the proper draiiiage. fi means ntakihg the road some what wider in order to permit of drainage on the sides, and here too much emphasis cannot lie laid on the ditching of our country roads. In many instances the supervisors in the construction or repair of our public roads dig out the ditnlies, throw the loose material back upon the side of the road, often diggiug ont holes in the ditches which gives tlie water an opportunity to begin to cut and ofteu the final result is a deep gully on the side of the road which, as haslieen observed,lll some instances is from three to six feet deep, this being especially true on roads over hills. Where the road is narrow, this is a menace to the safety of the traveller, which could readily he avoided in all cases by turning the water from one side un der the road to the other side where generally it can be turned off from the road. The trouble has been in the first construction of the side ditches which were allowed too much fall at the start and have tieeu made to narrow. Their bottoms should be wide enough to carry the largest amount of water that is like ly to flow through them at any one time with a fall of at least half a foot in every hundred teet. The sides sloping toward the roadway should be broad and flaring which would prevent accidents as well as any caving in of their banks On the steep grades the washing iuto gutters or dips into deep gulleys can lie prevented by paving the bot toms or sides of the gutters with old bricks or field stones and then open frequent outlets into the ad jacent fields or streams from either one jide of the road or the other. As stated by Mr. M. O. Eldridge of the Office of Public Roads, Unit ed States Department of Agicul ture: "The importance of drain a;e has been emphasized in the statement that the three prime es sentials to good roads are, first drainage, second, better drainage, and third, \he best drainage possi ble. On open or pervious soils sur face drainage in connectin with heavy rolling is usually quite satis factory, provided the slope is good a?id the traffic is not too heavy; but for the close, impervious, alluvial and clayey soils subdrai-'age is sometimes necessary. With heavy traffic, narrow tires and long, con tiuunl rains, freezes and thaws, the surface of any dirt road is liable to becompletelv desttoyed, and in this case the only remedv is a consoli dated mass or crust of gravel or broken stone forming a roof to keep out and carry off the water." This latter method will of course repre sent the best drainage possible. Not only is an expert road angi WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1906 'RATT, State Geologist necr needed in laying off a public roa! in order that it uiay be placed to the best ad vantage for travel and construction, but it is also necessary to have a trained man iu charge of the construction of the road itself and this in particularly true in con nection with the drainage of the road. One will have to adiltit that the majority of the supervisprs in the construction and repair of our eatth roads are not familiar with the first principles of drainage of roads. Only one who hes-utade a study of the subject can make the drainage of a road bed so that It will promptly and thoroughly carry off the water. He should at least be employed to plan the drainage and make |he necessary profile and contour maps so that the con duction of the road can be carried out according to his recommenda tions. In the first construction of the road all stuuips, roots, rocks, etc., should he removed and all hole* filled with such material as can be thoroughly packed. Otherwise these will intefere with the propei crowning of the road and prevent good drainage. After a new road has been used for some time, it should then be brought up to Un required grade and crowned and by frequent inspection any holes or ruts that are started can lie fill ed up aud repaired l»efore they have done any serious damage. The greatest need of our count rj road is more frequent inspection aud a road receiving daily atten tion will require Tio extensive re pairs and will gradually improve As has been suggested, our most improved country roads could be divided into sections or lieats vary ing in length from one to fivt miles according to the improve ment of the road, the arnouut ot travel, «nd the condition oj its sur face. A capable man living on the ( section or beat should be placed in charge and it should be hit duty to devote a few hours a nay to the filling of small holes or ruts to protect the road from damage by ruuniug water. A Mitlitflst Miilstir Recowainds Chamberlain's Cti|l Remedy , We have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in our home foi seven years, and it has alway:- proved to be a reliable reundy. We have found that it wou'd do more than the manufacturers claim for it It is especially good for croup and whooping cough, Rev James. A. Lewis, Pastor Milaca, Minn., M. K. Church. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy .is sold by -S R. Biggs. » ■ 7 Pretty Christmas Number. Style and American Dress maker has a»real "Merry Christ mas 11 Girl on the cover of theDe cember number. The contents of the magazine are fully uptottieus ual high standard, and many pret ty little suggestions for wearing ap parel useful for Christmas gifts are found on its pages. 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Simon Justus l&erett, son of Jus tus and Mat caret Elizabeth Kverett was l»orn in Hamilton N. C March 1877, inauguration day ol President Htves. knvn through out the county; fujr thirty-five yctars a prosperous bu*iaes.s mm, farmer and a leading citiikii. ll- now owns and cultivates the largest individual farm in the couut|. His mother is the daughter of Ruuben Purvis who was killed in thel Civil War and whose widow afHerwards married the late F.lisha The Kve rett family bein*; of direct scotch decent. Mr. Kveiiett's fimt name, Simon, comes to liitu through five consecutive generations. His child hood was spent id Hamilton where lie got his eaily school training. His father then moved to his pres ent farm two miles from Palmyra, and young Justus completed his preparation for college iu the Scot land Neck Male Academy. In the fall of 1898 he euttred the Univer sity of North Carolina graduating with the Dachelor of Arts degree in four years. At col lege he won a num bet\of lienors leading his classes in wyb 'lf! several instances, won the debator's medal in his junior year, and two other medals for the Phi Society during his course, was editor of the University Magazine, Yackety Yack, the college annual. After graduating he taught and read law for two years, lieing ad tuited to the bar at the full term of the supreme court, 1904 and began the practice of law in Williumston immediately thereafter, being asso ciated with Lieutenant Governor Win-ton. Since locating in Will iainston he has happily had the loy al support of his friends throughout the county. He Ins made himself always active iu looking out for and giving his service to any matters of public interest. He edited the En terprise for a year, advocating good roads and general business progress s a result of which we have the good roads movement, having now about five miles of hard clay road. He advocated, and raised a thous and dollars for the extension ol Main Stieet to the road leading to Everetts and Robersonville, by which extension the distance front that section to town was shortened one inile, He liegan the advocacy ol tlie extra passenger train while editing this paper and has carried it far enough to get the corporation commission to come to Wiliiamston this week-to have a hearing of this matter, the result of which will be announced later. The report of which will lie found iu another col umn. He was the originator and manager of the only Confederate Veteran's re-union held in this couuty fotfilS years, which re union was Wtld about a year ago and was a perfect success. I He is a stockholder in the En terprise, and both the Banks at this place, and is Vice President of the Martin County Real Estate Co., was the promoter and is now one of the members of the Board of Government, of the Lotus Club. He has not bugun anything for public interest or in a business way be has uot succeeded iu since being in our midst. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the re (Contiuued on Page 2) | (IMffliWi The People of Martin and Halifax Counties Ably Represent ed By Hon. Claude Kltc&in and S. Justus Everett. The Corporation Commission held its meeting here Wednesday j in the Lottos Club reception rooms The whole Commission was pres eut as composed of Mr. M'Ncil) chairman, Messrs Rogers and Bed diugfield with Mr. H. C. Brown, Clerk and Miss Reddick, Stenog rapher. The purpose of the meeting was to hear the people of this section and the A. C. L. Railroad in re gard to the extra passenger train service that our people have been asking for so long. Wiliiamston in all her history has never befota entertained such a distinguished gathering. The railroad was rep lesented by MeKsrs. Newell, of Wilmingtou, and Council, of Nor folk, Manager and Superintendent aud Senator Stubbs. While the petitioners were represented by Congressman Claude Kitcbin, Messrs. Wheeler Martin and S. J. Kverett with a few remarks by in terested citizens such as Col. Lamb Mr. W. T. Meadows and others. The meeting was opened by the reading of the corresspondence in regard to the petitions, to the rail road and to the commission. Sta tististics were read showing the in come of the railrcnd from the freight and passengers on the line petitioning. The statistics showed that Wiliiamston leads in the num ber of passengers w)iile Scotland Neck and Plymouth lead in freight. Wiliiamston had one thousand more passengers than Scotland Neck for the same length of time but this was partially explained by the bad counection of the latter with Norfolk trains. Mr. Everett speaking for the pe titioners opened the discussion, he made a very cleat and full state ment of the present condition tell ing of the schedules, connections and the lack ol sufficient accomo dation ami service. He told how under the present condition it was impossible for people resit iug above Williaim-toii to transact any busi ness in our town and have auy cer tainty of return home during the day, of how people iu our owu couuty had to take two nights and one day to pay their tax aud attend to their legil business at the county seat, how it took the greater part of three days for people living within thirty miles of here to transact any business here during business hours from such places as Washington, Tarboro, Greenville, Kinst'Mi and Scotland Neck, liow by giving the service petitioned for the time of three days now re quired to make a business trip to Norfolk, Richmond aud Raleigh would be reduced to one and one half days and how that people could leave Raleigh, early have three hours iu any town in this section and return the same day. The tendency of the present sched ules and trains was to make it easy to reach the cities and larger towns and more difficult to get away, not considering that the going and re turning were of the same trip. Mr. Everett then discussed the trains and schedules petitioners were asking fo>' aud showed the dis crimination against this section. Between Spring Hope and Rocky Mjunt the A. C. L. ran double daily passenger service, running to| the center of Nasb County and { touching only two towns of not ex ceeding oue thousand inhabitants each. How between Washington and Parmelr a similar service was given, for these two counties and three towns two trains were used yet four counties, fourteen towns and seventy-five thousand people were refused the use of one of these trains when the now favored sec [ tions would not be affected only to have their service extended and op portunity for getting connections to other towns enlarged. This ser vice would increase the facilities of four connties directly, and of ■even indirectly and this could lie done by the railroad with very lit tle additional expense with the pos sibility of adding greatly to its in come. Going further he said he could see why the railroad would not care to extend its service into the desert of Sahara, because it would cost and would pay nothing but conld this be said of this section and was that the reason tor not extending the service. He then proceeded to show the wealth of this section and its rap id growth and appealed to the Co a mission to give us the service and let us make more rapid progress. The railroad has larger investments and is more interested in the prog ress of the section and it seemed that its own selfish interest combined with its tevenue would cause the service to be given. Mr. Bverett said there were four reasons why the train should be on from the railroad point of view: I. The railroad end all its agents were complete. 2. Tl:e trains were already in service. 3. The additionar cost would l>e paid for by the increase in pay for bet ter mail service. 4. It would help the section and thus directly affect the business of the railroad. Mr. Newell then followed and attempted to ridicule the statements made by Mr. Everett, saying that the prosperity as stated had raised raised wages, and that although their business bad growu, that their expenses had growu more rapidlv than their income. He said that such sections as this could not ex pect such fancy service as that given to larger towns and cities, and that we should not expect the railroad to put on the train. Being asked by Mr Kitchen if the Spring Hope train paid replied that it did not we might a'd that he afterwards made the statement that this line averaged 100 passen gers per dy, to which Mr. Kitchen replied in his speech. Mr. Kitchin began by discussing the powers and duties of the com mission. He said the petitioners representing the interest of 75,000 people had but two opportunties to be heard in a case of this kind first to the railroad management and if this petition were refused then second to the Corporation Commis sion, did the commission refuse their petition there was 110 resort. He was not entirely of the ( pinion that the commission had the authority to order an> extra train put in service but in this case he would give the advantage of the doubt to the people, then were the railroad deprived any of its rights there was a resort for it, it could appeal Supreme Court but the people were unorgainzed and could not carry on the fight and should the court hold in favor o r the people their rights would be saved and advanced and no wrong would be done the railroad were the commission reversed. Mr Kitchen then entered the discussion of the cautious way in which the railroad made any venture in ex tending its service He told of how the people of Scotland Neck gave land to the value of SIO,OOO, free rights of way and sufficient cross ties to extend the road from Scot land Neck toward Kinston, this wan given as an inducement to an over cautious railroad and yet he understood it was the best paying piece of road they had- He next (Continued on Page 3) • XVVERTfSINO Your money back.—Jadicioae advertia- f ing ia the kind that pays back to yon X the money yon imart. Bfaoa ia thia 1 paper aaaaras you pranpt rctoraa . . 1 kaiaiaaaa*....^,— A WHOLE NO. 353 Professional Card*. « uroii piivsiciAji ifMi sunatmy J g | ||— Omcrn HovaS:* V ipt- *.* /toijT V\ iiiuuMfbn, N. O. Phone No. J. Night A .dress: Atlantic Hotel. DR- J- A. WHITE. flßft DENTIST Orncx— MAIM STBUT PHONR « I will be in Plymouth the first week Is every other month. W. B. Warren. J. S. Rhodes. DBS. 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