The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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Importance of Road
Maintenance and Repair
There is no phase of the road
problem more important than
that of maintenance. The general
impression that there are certain
types of roads that are permanent
is erroneous. No permanent road
has ever been constructed, or ever
will be, according to the road spec-
ialists of the department. The only
things about a road that may be
considered permanent are the grad-
ing, culverts, and bridges. Road
constructed by the most skillfull
highway engineers will soon be de-
stroyed by the traffic, rain, and
wind, unless they are properly
maintained. But the life of these
may be prolonged by systematic
mainteuace. A poor road will not
only be improved by proper main-
tenance, but may become better in
time than a good road without it.
The first and last commandment
in earth road maintenance is to
keep the surface well drained. To
insure good drainage the ditches
should be kept open, all obstruct-
ions removed, and a smooth crown
maintained. Except for very stony
soil the road machine or scraper
may be used very effectively for
this work. The machine should be
used once or twice a year, and the
work should be done when the soil
is damp, so that it will pack and
bake into a hard crust. Wide and
shallow side ditches should be
maintained with sufficient fall and
capacity to dispose of surface wat-
er. These ditches can in most
places be constructed and
repaved with a road machine.
All vegetable matter, such as
soda and weeds, should be kept out
of the road, as they make a spongy
surface, which retains moisture
Clods are also objectionable, for
they soon turn to dust or mud, and
for that reason roads should never
be worked when dry or hard. Bowl-
ders or loose stones are equally ob-
jectionable if a smooth surface is to
be secured.
A split-log drag or some similar
device is very useful in maintain-
ing the surface after suitable ditch-
es aud cross section had once been
secured. Thin drag can also be
used to advantage on a gravel roac
as well as on an earth road. Ihe
principle involved i n dragging
is that clays and most hea\y soils
will puddle when wet and set very
hard when dry. The little attention
that the earth road needs must be
given promptly and at the proper
time if the best results me to be
obtained.
In dragging roads only a small
amount of earth is moved, just en-
ough to fill the ruts and depres-
sions with a thin layer of plastic
clay or earth which packs very
hard so that the next rain instead
of finding ruts, depressions, and
clods in which to collect runs off,
leaving the surface but little effect-
ed.
The drag should be light anc
should be drawn over the road at
an angle of about 45 degrees. The
driver should ride on the drag anc
thould not drive faster than a
walk. One round trip, each trip
Btraddling a wheel track, is usually
sufficient to fill the ruts and smooth
the surface. If necessary, the road
should be dragged after every
bad spell of weather, when the
soil is in proper condition to pud-
ble well and still not adhere to the
drag. If the road is very bad,
it may be dragged when very wet
and again when it begins to dry
out. A few trips over the road
will give the operator an idea as to
the best time to drag. Drag at all
seasons, but do not drag a dr\
road.
The slope or crown of an earth
road should be about 1 inch to the
foot. If the crown becomes too
high, it may be reduced by drag-
ging toward the ditch instead of
from it. If the drag cuts too much,
shorten the hitch and change your
position on the drag If it is neces-
ary to proaect the face of the drag
with a strip of iron, it should be
placed flush with the edge of the
drag and not protecting, A cutting
edge should be avoided, as the
main object in dragging is to smear
the damp soil into position De-
partment News Letter.
Perfidy
Mrs. Clyde Harding had for Sun-
dry diuuer guests October 11th. Mr.
and Mrs W. E. Brett aud daughter,
Nellie. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Warnock
and sou
-Mrs. S. J. Dever and grandson,
ljmes Montgomery, visited with Mrs.
E. A. Wood Friday of last week,
ljmes is in poor health being atllicted
with gall stones.
—L. Clint Roach was doing some
plastering work for J. O. Stevenson
and others at Gibbon last week. Clint
has got so he is pretty handy ,,sling-
ing ” mud.
—Farmers from every direction re-
port that wheat is just humping it
self aud if rains come as they should
through the winter the-e is going to
be abundant pasture again.
-Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Ormes are the
proud parents of a tine boy which ar-
rived at their home ou Thursday of
last week. Mr. Ormes reports the
boy and mother doing tine
—Dr. Hamilton reported that the
youngest child of L. F. Woodring had
a severe case of croup the latter part
of last week and for a short time was
considered very dangerous.
—Judge Straughan of Wakita, was
in Manchester Thursday evening hav-
ing come up in a car with his sou-ln-
law E. B. Hiatt, of Palisade, Colo-
rado, who is selling apples by the car-
load of his own raising.
— Work ou the cheese factory was
commenced in Gibbon this week, it is
2ix36 with cement floors. The people
down there are very enthusiastic aud
many are buying all the cows they can
tiud. They ought to get rich milk
this winter because the wheat past-
ure is bound to be good.
—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Watkins
left early Sunday morning In their
‘Studebaker”to look after his farming
interests near Pen Dennis, Kansas.
They expect to get back about the
middle of the week, and will come
past Bushton, Kansas aud visit 'Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Ilickmau of the Bush-
ton News.
The writer of this poem read in a Moral Periodical for young
-.m JI from the pen o! the president of an Eastern eel-
,S8e; 0H'aX 3^ “^Slrent to™, or
sr “^i1 s
are Smited Monarchy and government by aristocrats; the latter
being the one I prefer.”
Sneaking, insidious villain—that would dare,
For golden stipend, and like slimy, creeping snake.
As Satan—(evil's essence.) in Eden's garden—lair.
Approached our Mother Eve, and there did make
Vile propositions—-such as surely to appeal
To voluptuous sense, and desire to be great,
And wise; most ot all, to (eel
A potency, as gods, to live, and rule in high estate.
What epithet to use, 1 scarcely can conceive.
To express, in decorous language, what 1 feel
To be a proper scourage, for him, who would deceive
An unsuspecting people, by an indirect appeal
Through a moral channel -sinnous as the track
Of crawling serpent; and with feline tact and skill,
Or Vampire Bat, with titilant wing and beak, attack
The sleeping victim, which they seek to kill.
Well, such a mass ot venom, slime and ooze
Have I discovered, built on shapely, human plan—-
President of college; but, 1 do not choose
To give to him the cognomere ot "man.
Because, 1 feel, the human race would be
Outraged—by such a travesty as he.
No doubt, this much learned puppitt has agreed,
For stipend great, the populace to teed.
From his high seat of learning, in the East
With cutlets ot civic lore-—just such feast
As we give to animals and fish, to make them be
Easy to capture—-docile—-no desire to be free.
He tells us that "Wise Solon" who did make
And propagate his "democratic laws.".
And from the ankles ot the slaves did take
The shackles, which "aristocrats" did cause
To be worm by "Hella's" noble men,
And made all equal—with inherent right---
To vote, and hold office,--that, there, and then.
The seeds ot Greece's downfall—-sowed, which
Destroyed her prestige: and her boasted power
Began to wane and weaken, from that hour,
unlay trom a weeks visit in Wichita
witti friends and attending the car-
nival.
-Wm. Moore of Anthony was a
Manchester visitor last Saturday.
“Billy” looks as natural as he did
some fifteen years ago when he was
here in the grain business
- Dr. Hamilton reports
At the time of wi
cle I have visited 1-10 mere than
one half of the schools in the coun-
ty-
We find very tew teachers who
are not following the course of
.study almost to the letter. In al-
_ _________ __ir_ that Bob rncst every case the deportment of
Alsdurf was taken very sick Monday the school is good,
night at the home of M C. Thomas. Most schools are now faYy well
Later, Bob was reported better and supplied with the new books. We
was able to come home do not believe the interior decora-
-Mrs Belle Smith is having her tions of the school rooms are up to
residence raised, anew foundation last year’s average.
put under It and otherwise remodeled We presume this has been ne-
and enlarged. For the present Mrs. glected owing to the busy Lines oc-
Smith is living in the Severance pro- casioned by the necessity of the
familiarizing themse ves with tue
06 rt v .
•, ntK. new course of study and the new
— Rov R. Smith and family of Gib- , •
y ® books. We merely suggest at this
boil left Sunday evening for Buffalo, i
time that teachers begin tu give
Oklanoma to visit a couple of wee SLie decorating of the rooms more
with his parents. Roy has been patty Wfi thial; proper decor-
busy this summer and is entitled to I ^ ^ r0Qm a Vft|uab|e aid to
a good vacation. lbe scbooj activities. Another mat-
— W. H. C. Taylor candidate for J ler tbat we are impressed with is
county atterney on the democratic I jmtri0ral and unsanitary con li-
licket was here the first of the week ^ong some of the outbuildings,
getting acquainted. He is a very There is no place in the woild
pleasmt geutlemau aud added to his where such buildings can be k< pt
,-i-'uds up here j in a reasonable fair condition with
—Ole Daniels has opened a neat I less trouble and expense than in
place in the east room of the Old Fox this prairie country. It is a sin
bulldiug and is servlDg meals, short for every small boy in the school
orders, chili and'.soup. They have to have, the suggestion of filth and
been kept quite busy ever since they immorality presented to him sever-
opened last Saturday. al times a day as we fihd some of
.. the outbuildings of some of the
_r IT Lathrop, a merchant at b
Blul City' Kansas is putting on a rural schools. Ihe .vails of SOM
G,.at Money Raising Sale” In vyhlcli are literal y cove,eel with evtl oe-
he “era . pl rof to work shoe, to, vices and soggesuons and some-
he offers a pair o [times the building itself a very
A «ood “f"e " 1 synonym ot tilth. Your couuty
zens will only fall for it. superintendent was teaching m a
—John Meicher drove down to Iler-1 ^ -ew ^earg agQ wben just
man Kretchmar’s in his bigear Sun- 1 conditjon prevailed and in a
day, a few miles north of Medford, ...
and Mr. and Mrs. Ketchmar returned
quite
Likewise, he says—that Rome--th greatest name
Oi history, sank, to rise no more,—because,
The common people had the right to claim
A voice, in making, and, in changing laws.
And thus, with astute language, does he seek
Our democratic systems to asperse:
And, boldly, tells us with undannted cheek,
That "Monarchy" were, in fact, no worse:
And. that Government by '’Aristocrats appeared
To his inflated mind, to be the one preferred,
—John York.
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large school with several large boys
W’e secured a can of paint and a
brush and covered up all such cris-
cription and saw to it that the
building was put in a sanitary «on-
ditiou.
We are glad to report that upon
home with them for a visit. Mrs.
Ketchmar is a oeice of Mr. Melcher.
-Ralph L. Smith traveling collect-
or for the Wichita Eagle, made this I
office a pleasant call Monday. The w e are giau uj ap^t, lu„. “r—
Eagle is the leading dally in this vicin- his visit to that school this year
ity, because it reaches us some the inspection of the outbuildings
hours in advance of any other daily, showed the example set at that
-It has always been customary time four years ago has not yet
here, as well in most other counties ^w/believe this would be true in
when the superintendent has> madeI every 8(jhool Where we
j good his first term, to re-e ec L ere teaching in the rural schools
another. Hasn t Lew ervage I & ^ of our school ac_
goody We up this way sure think ^ Qutbuilding
h18- every Friday evening. “You can-
___We I ave heard for some time that uot gather figs from thistles.”
----- ...j _Mrs navid Koehler and three I a self craDking appliance that could Teachers and school boards
-W.E. Brett is buying a ccmsi Lw.idren aud Mrs Thos. Koehler and be attached to any make of car wasLhould see that buildings are '
I able number of pigs and.s fee ij>s ^ left Friday ^ning for being introduced, but we had moral and sanitary a co
feterita crop to them. We shall watch
and report progress on this new feed
—J. R Green is renovating and
paperiDg the Feeley cottage near Hie
Ball Park, when this is occupied, only
two vacant houses will be left in
town.
A. E. Deere disposed ot his first car
aud brought down with him last week
from Wichita a large 1915 Ueo model,
or will be in a few weeks. It is a tine
looker at any rate.
—Mrs. David Koehler
children and Mrs. Thos. Koehler and I be attached to auy make or car was | should see that buildmgs are in as
four children left Friday evening for being introduced, but we had “ever moral and sanitary a condition as
a two weeks visit at Elliwnood, Kans- seen one till Frank Fiest drove his poS3ibly and kept so. If this is
I new Ford in Monday. This invention done mucb of the moral effect
■ —- of the teachers work is neutralized.
as.
-We had new potatoes Sunday that fills a long felt want
have come on volunteer since the fall -The following candidates on thej _Dr.Saffold of Gibboo, during the
rains set in, some of which were as republican ticket were ci-culating on I Ql weather the first of last week
large as hen eggs. They were bully 0ur streets Monday evening and Tues-1 mptled ab the water out of the pipes
t00 Lay morning: Sam C. Davis; A C 1 . -- .....
-Monday morning we took a spin Glenn; E E. Darrough; R. M.Wharry;
in J. C. Burchflels big “6” out to the d E Busch; E. G. Palmer, and . .
Burchflel ranch a few miles north-1 Frank,
west of town where the ground was
REPAIRING
When you have any watch
or jewelry repairing that you
want done right, leave it at
Madden-Feely drug store. All
work guaranteed by
! F. W. Olmstead
—Green & Miller have finished
painting G. T. Prices' residence and
with the other improvements that
have been made it vies with many
city houses in appearance. Mr. Price
lias made some good money by his
close attention to business and it
spent in beautifying his home this
adding to the appearance of our
beautiful little city.
—The Journal lias bought a com-
plete new line of job and ad. type and
when it comes will have the best equip-
ped job office in the county, and will
compete with offices any where for all
bank work. We have the best printers
and now can get out work on sche-
dule time. In the next few weeks
will install a new job press and then
we can care for any job work that
usually comes to a well equipped
country office.
—Guy Meyer, became the owner a
short time ago of an ancient auto
Last week lie disposed of it aud
bought a brand splinter new one of
the latest Reo pattern.
—Herschell Madden has been sport-
ing for several days ou his cheek bone
a well developed boil, which he de-
clares Is very painful: but it gi'es
him a distinguished appearance.
—T. E. Beck a former newsaaper
man of Jefferson, paid this office a
pleasant visit Tuesday. T. E is at
home in a print shop and uever passes
one with out going in and looking
for type lice.
—Melvin Robinson traded the
shooting gallery for an auto, to some
one up Anthony way, and in bringing
it down Melvin had the bad luck to
upset in a canyon in Harper county.
No one hurt.
to be laid off for the erection of a
steel silo 19 1-2 feet in diameter by
43 1-2 feet high, Estimated to hold
300 tons of silage. The silo is being
erected by A. Slaughter.
—Before disposing of the finest car
of apples that we ever saw. Mr,
Hiatt, whose home is at Palisade,
Colorado, presented this office with a
half bushel of the big red beauties.
He disposed of them rapidly at 1*. per
bushel aud expects to bring in another
car soon, and will ship one or more
cars here every year.
—Frank Simmons and wife. C.
Harding and wife drove out in the
formers “Studebaker” to the home of
C. S. Warnock for Sunday diuner af
ter which all took a joy ride to Fergu- j
son, Attica. Harper, Anthony and
home to Warnock’s for supper. The
weather was perfect, the roads were
in his uuto and forgot about it. The
dcctor and Mrs. Saffold, wishing to
run up to Manchester, started alright
and got along a mile or two when the
— Albert Linn Gibbon’s barber, alenglne refused lo go any further;
„ . n par. everything was investigated and no-
few daysago was out to A. JJ- thing wung could be located. Still
sons and started to crank up the car they stopped. Then the doctor re-
when it kicked backward breaking numbered that maybe he was still
some of the bones in his wrist and 0ut of water, abucket full or so was
dislocating the joint. It will be carried to the balky car and Presto’,
disiocauu* off she went, and gave no further
some time before he w,i wie 1 trouble. We rather guess Doc. will
very gracefully. water his car next time before start-
—Rev. O. F. lleatou and wife re- ___________
turned Tuesday evening, he had been
to Oontirence and Mrs. Heaton on a j. maLLORY t
,l,lt with home folk* at Oak.ood.lt J. W. MALLORY J
visit with home folks at uaxwooa, +
Oklahoma. Rev. Heaton informed us j ♦ at citizens State Bank, will re- |
that he has been transferred to Cleo. I X 0eive all watch and jewelry re- ♦
, —« «>.II palrintj ieft with him, and give ♦
• prompt aud careful attention. ♦
jewelry
and Rev. J. E Kemper is sent to fill
the circuit at Manchester.
-Leo Fiest and Andrew Ziegler Jr. U All work returned to him for
were riding a motorcycle past the 1 | collection charges. All work
McAdams farm Sunday and a dog' % guaranteed,
came out aud wasruuover thriving + p_ p piRJLE & CO
the boys off and hurting them pretty
severely. Young Ziegler was uncou-
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Z' Td r,.r tim. w»s I«». tor som.
had b, all participating- | »»*“» “ Mn's brol"°-
Jewelers aud Music Dealers,
ANTHONY, KANSAS
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Wood, E. A. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1914, newspaper, October 23, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497883/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.