Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1917 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Much interest is being taken in putting out garden truck and let it be understood that each family shall make an honest effort to raise enough potatoes, beans, cabbage, etc., to do them until next season. Day & .Wilburn, road contractors of Monticello, are working on the road known as the A. R. Clark road. The grading is all done and some of the stone hauled. They use a large motor truck for hauling stone, which takes the place of several teams. A few teams are employed. The material used is all one grade of fine crushed stone and is put on 12 inches deep, which makes a fine road. White county has ibeen using all one. size of crushed stone for some time, with lasting result. In the first place, such a road never has any coarse stone to work up to the surface, and second, the road is more easily repaired when ruts appear. However, Jasper coun-, ty clings to the old idea of lots of coarse and a little line stone to make a road, and just so long as we do this we will be spending thousands of dollars each year for upkeep. The Clark road, when complete, -will connect the 0. A. Jacks and Bussell