Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — Shoves Out Neat Gutter. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Shoves Out Neat Gutter.

lawn looking well Is the tendency of grass to grow over the walks and make the edges of these paths ragged. A Wisconsin man has invented an implement by means of* which any man may trim the edges of his walk in a few minutes as well as the most expert gardener could trim them in a couple of hours in the old way—with a pair of clippers. This implement Is a shovel-shaped affair with a sharp edge and one side bent till it forms a gutter, with a broad rim that rests on the pavement. Starting at one end of the walk, the groove in fie shovel is placed Just outside of the 'edge of the paving, with one side of the shovel resting on the walk and the other on the grass. It is then pushed along, plowing a neat little trench and cutting all the straggling grass away as smoothly as a lawn mower would do. It is said that the curb and walk of an 80-foot lot can be trimmed in twenty minutes with this implement.