Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1919 — NORTH JASPER HAS US “SKUN” [ARTICLE]

NORTH JASPER HAS US “SKUN”

On Wheat, Even Though Ours Is Looking Well. The writer took a little trip Sunday afternoon through Marion, BaJkley, Walker, Wheatfield, Keener and Union townships, and never saw nearly so large an acerage of wheat nor it looking so well at this season of- the year. In the north end of the county, however, the wheat was .looking better as a rule than it does down this way, Which is saying a good deal. If all goes well with the crop from now on, the farmers w‘ll have money to burn next harvest. The roads as a rule are quite badly in need of repair—a new top dressing to cover the coarse rock in places and to .fill the ruts and chuck-holes. About the best road found on the entire trip was the new gravel road on the Jackson highway in Union township, except sonfe two or three miles on the Extreme north end, which, has not got packed yet. With proper care, however, this will soon be in good condition and one of the best roads in the county, so that tourists need have no fear of continuing on north from Rensselaer over the Jackson highway. This fresh gravel should be gone over frequently with a road drag and the road kept crowned up, and then should be driven over in the center of the crown. It is not so very bad now, but for a mile or so south of Virgie an,d on north to the Keener township line, in many places people have driven down at the side of the gravel instead of keeping on *the top thereof. It would seem that it would be a good idea to crown this road up again and then go over it with the county road roller for a while, after good rains. This stretch of road is all that is lacking now to make a vpry good road all the way through our county over the Jackson highway, except of course, other parts of the road need some repairs in the way heretofore stated.