The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 March 1913 — Page 5

SUPPLEMENT TO

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL

GOOD ROAD DON'TS. Don't leave grass and weeds on the shoulders and in the gutters. Don’t dig the mud out of the gutters and throw it upon the road. Don’t leave dirt in piles on the road. Don’t throw grass and weeds upon the road surface. Don’t dump stone or gravel on an old road without first preparing the surface to receive it, because you thereby cause willful waste and woeful want. Don't place new material on the road without leveling and shaping it so that the grade and cross section of the road will be unchanged. Don’t expect travel to spread and roll the new material. Onehalf of the money spent is wasted by this method. Don’t put new material on an old hard road surface before first picking or loosening the old covering. It is good for the quarryman and gravel owner, but bad for the taxpayer and road user. Don’t try to do work without proper tools.

FARMERS ARE VITALLY „ INTERESTED IN-GOOD ROADS They Are . the Ones Who Suffer Most From Bad Highways. It is the farmer who is most directly and vitally interested in the improvement of the country roads. Whatever may be the ultimate destination of farm products their first movement is over the country roads. Every improvement in a highway, be it a waterway, a railway or a wagon road, ' means an enlargement of tbe opportunities of all those engaged in any kind of business contiguous to it Operating a farm is in the highest aenae conducting a business in which a high grade of intelligence is required to Insure success. The farmer is our greatest producer. His products are his crops of meat and foodstuffs. Unlike the manufacturer, he cannot load his products in cars at the scene of their production and be relieved of the responsibilities of transportation. 'H? him falls the duty of hauling his entire salable production to the nearest and best market—perhaps a mile or probably twenty miles. With bad roads his hauling must be done when weather conditions are most favorable, thus keeping him and his team away from farm work. Thia haulage must be counted as part of his cost of production. It requires labor, time, wear and tear of teams, all of which are elements in reducing his profits, and the advantage or greatest amount of profit, other thingy being equal, goes to him who, living along a good highway, is able to more cheaply transport his products. Os two producers one of whom lives ten miles from a market on a bad road and the other fifteen miles on a good road the first, although closer to the market, will have no advantage over the other living farther away. CARPET FOR ROADS. An Improved Elastic and Dustless Cinder is a Necessity. A lecture was recently delivered by a member of the road board before the Royal institution of London on “The Road, Past, Present and Future.” The lecturer said the problem was to find the best mode by which a road should be constructed so that its surface would not be broken by traffic, so that the transit might be easier for both passengers and goods, a road which would form neither puddle holes nor exude mud from vehicles and create no dust when the weather was dry. One thing was universally recog-nized-that the road of the future should be a truly bound road in which whatever kind of stone was used the stone should be held together so that it would form a crust. The lecturer suggested that what he called a carpet or an elastic skin should be adoptadopted as the covering. The carpet, he thought, should be made of bituminous material mixed with sand and placed on the roads in various thicknesses according to the nature of the traffic. It should go on in liquid form, solidifying quickly, but always remaining resilient and compressible and so integrating with the crust of the road that there could be no shifting of the surface below. The advantage of such a carpet. It was said, would be to permanently protect the <®ust, and just as a carpet on the floor softens the step so would this carpet for the roads silence the noise and reduce the shock of rolling vehicles. It was admitted that the original cost of a road so laid would be more than that of a mud bound road, but spreading the cost over a series of years it would probably not be so great, since the crust of the road itself would not have to be renewed. Mud and the Direct Market. The city of Aurora. 111., opened a city market, designed to bring farmers and consumers together for direct selling. About 1.000 housewives flocked to the spot on the opening day. to be met by orfe solitary farmer. He had driven eight miles with two chickens, twelve dozen eggs and a barrel of apples. The roads for miles around Aurora had been thick with mud. and the market had not been sufficiently advertised to persuade tbe farmers that a trip over such roads would be justified. Tbe accessibility ot tbe market is one of several things needed before the grower can spend time to wfi Ms own product in small lota.

FARMERS & MERCHANTS TRUST CO. Opened for Business August Ist, 1906 OUR STEADY GROWTH TELLS ITS OWN STORY RESOURCES' September 30, 1906” September 30, 1907 oa September 30, 1908 ‘ 218,768.94 September 30. 1909 290,965.86 September 30, 1910 338,1/U 17 September 30, 1911 398,458.17 March 7, 1912 396,569.99 March 7, 1913- 414,960.57 4 Per Cent, interest paid on SAVINGS and Certificate of Deposit Accounts Money to Loan on Long or Short Time. Call and See Us. You are always welcome

WHAT IS 11IM1W DAT? Ligonier Market Day is an idea partly borrowed and partly conceived by the citizens of Ligonier, Indiana, and fathered by the Ligonier Improvement Association. Ligonier Market Day is a certain day of each month set aside as a time for a general meeting of farmrs and others who are buyers or sellers—a day, when as by appointment they will all get together in Ligonier for their mutual benefit. It has been so arranged, that whoever brings his property here on that day to sell, may either sell it himsslf to best advantage or he may turn it over to a licensed auctioneer who will sell it for him. There will be no charge for the auctioneer’s services since as well as all other expenses are paid by the Ligonier Improvement Association. The Auction sale will begin at 10:00 a. m., and continue throughout the day. Terms of Sale:—All sums under $5.00 cash in hand, all sums over $5.00 a credit of eight months will be given, without interest, purchaser giving a bankable note with freehold security, or a 4 percent, discount will be given for cash. 8 percent, interest from date will be charged on all notesnot paid at maturity. The Association has appointed a credit committee who, by request, will pass on all notes and papers given in exchange for articles sold, and will see that the same are made < merchantable, should you desire to sell your note, arrangements have been made whereby our banks will take them at the usual rate of discount. In short, Ligonier Market Day is a day of pleasure and profit. A day of pleasure from the fact that you can lay aside your toils arid cares and come to Ligonier, when you will meet your friends and have one jolly good time. A day of profit from the fact that you may bring whatever you may have to sell and receive the full proceeds thereof, as there are NO commissions or profits to pay Come to Ligonier Saturday, March 22, ’l3 P|T|7E*S|Q The Secret of Accumulating Money I r is systematic saving and investment. Citizens Bank will help you. In its Savings Department, established eight years ago, deposits of SI.OO or over will be received by mail or in person, and they immediately begin drawing 4 per ■K nIHK cent interest, which will be automatically credited on June Ist and December 1 st. Citizens Bank has the largest combined capital and surplus of any bank in Ligonier, and the largest deposits—over ONE-HALF MILLION DOLLARS Founded by the original Straus Bros. Citizens Bank is always in the market to buy good notes. d. j

MARCH 13,1913

OLD RELIABLE ACCOMMODATING MIER STATE BANK LIGONIER, INDIANA Do Not Forget Ligonier Market Day •••••••••• Deposit your surplus funds with us or call upon us if in need of cash. We are never loaned up. We invite you to call upon us. Make our Bank your Office. ’ 4 Percent, on Time Deposits. 4 Percent, on Savings Accounts. MIER STATE BANK 0 LIGONIER, INDIANA

THE SOCIAL SIDE OF GOOD ROADS. The common roads of a country are not only necessary to its development, but their condition is a measure of its civilization. The highest type of mental and moral culture and development cannot be attained without the means of easy and rapid communication between all parts and sections of the country. The railway and telegraph lines are the great modern civilizers of the world, but they are limited in their spheres of usefulness, because they do not reach ths farm, the home, the country schoolhouse and church. The common road is the link between these, and without it the progress of a widespread civilization must of necessity be greatly retarded. They are the foundation stones upon which the superstructure of society is erected and upon which its symmetry, beauty and stability must rest. Neighborhoods, counties and states, separated from each other by the barriers of practically impassable roads, in their loneliness degenerate into a condition of moral stagnation from which it is difficult to arouse them to a common and mutual interest and understanding.—W. H. Moore.

GOOD ROADS WILL BUILD UP BUSINESS. X They Will Increase and Benefit Local Tradesmen. To no one more than the business man Is the question of good roads a vital Issue. The spreading of the doctrine of good roads will mean a large Increase in the volume of business, will lead to great leaps in the development of this already rich country and will make money for every man tn mercantile lines. While directly the building of good roads will benefit the farmers and stock raisers perhaps more than any one else and will raise the value of every farm reached by good roads, still the business men come in a close second. & Good roads will increase the productivity of the land because they will give the farmers a better outlet for their marketable stuff and will lead to such an increase in population that there will be more workers per square mile than there axe under the old roads system. Good roads will open for settlement and cultivation land now lying out of the radius ,of profitable farming. They will put more square miles of territory within trade distance of your town. - ; The business men of any s towp are interested in bringing to that town trade from greater distances than are easily covered on bur present roads. Good roads increase business, and every man in business in the community receives bis share of the benefit The farmer is able to haul his grain and produce to market at less cost and makes a greater profit per year from his labor. This additional profit is represented by the additional amount of cash he has to spend with the home dealers.. When the farms are made to pay larger dividends more comet to your neighborhood, and all of them will hive to spend money with you and your fellow business men. So. directly and indirectly, the business men are benefited by the building of good roads. ROADWAYS AND WATERWAYS. Good Roads Advocate Should Got More Money. If It is sensible for the federal government to Issue' bonds to Improve water transportation facilities then it is equally sensible to do so for the improvement of highways. The millions expended on waterways may be *)f advantage to some of the people, but a few dollars for highway improvement will benefit all the people. Why is it that congress and public men generally did- not long ago see that the improvement of-transportation between city and. farm, the producer and the market the farm and the railroad. the farm and the harbor or the river wharf. Is of as much importance as the deepening of harbors and rivers? If bonds are Issued by the government then half of the proceeds should go to the construction of roads, and a large percentage of the moneys lavished on rivers and harbors should be diverted to good roads. \ Good roads advocates in congest should organize at once and get at least as much money for roads as goes to waterways.—Jesse Taylor in Good Roads. K , Dirt Road Improvement. In 1909 this country s had 2,199,646 miles of public roads, of which 8.66 per cent trad been Improved by the use of gravel, burnt ttWy. macadam, brick, etc. The i>ereentage of highly Improved roads was, of course, much less than this. In the five year period 1904-9 the proportion ,of improved roads increased from 7 14 per cent to 8.66 per cent. At-this rfote it will be a long time before eVes half of our mileage Is Improved. K<*jd building to too big a physical and .financial problem to transform the bulk of our dirt roads in one generation 4n the meantime more attention should be paid to the systematic betterment of dirt roads with our present resources Much can be done by better drainage, including more culverts, by better grades, by use of the drag. etc., and it can be done without adding to public debts or IBcreasing taxation, -*•