Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — AUTO AND GOOD ROADS [ARTICLE]

AUTO AND GOOD ROADS

Seme months ago a farmer pur chased a good, substantial automobile He and another neighbor drew an oak-saw log to the mill and had mater ial sawed for two good road drags, the timber being 11 feet in length one foot and three inches thick. The edges that moved the dirt were faced with pieces of iron four inches wide and three eighth of an inch thick. After constructing this most effective implement for road-working our neighbor hitched three horses to thf drag, climbed into it and proceeded to drag the road, (he lived at a cross road) and how he does improve ever? highway he traverses. He makes frequent trips with hit drag to town, four miles away, am! already good effects of his owning ar automobile is being observed and fell on our roads, far and near.