Weekly Republican, Volume 57, Number 37, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 September 1911 — Page 7

f UE OF GOOD HÜ TO RURAL C011ITI

Public Officials Magazine Shows in What

Way Better Highways Will Benefit Lands-Illustrations Given-The Ohio

Plan of Paving. The Public Officials' Magazine, in its June nnmber had a series of excellent articles cn the subject of pood reads. In Indiana the roads are maintained by the counties and townships. In 1911 probably .4,30rt".00O will be expended for this purpose in the state. The following article from this magazine shows very clearly the value to the farming community of good roads. Brick Roads in Ohio There is a deplorable want of information as to what constitutes the most economical and. the most comfortable roads. There is also both misinformation and lack of information as to the cost of high-class roads as compared with the cost of the ordinary macadam or gravel road. A careful examination into the vitrified brick hishwavs of Cuvahosra eountv, Ohio, will convince any student that these roads meet the very highest demand in that they are, without any question, whatever, the most economical and the most comfortable to be found anywhere in the world. Other parts of the country are catching on and the vitrified brick roads are sol vine: the problem of the repair burden and are teaching the fact that there is a" road that can be nsed at all seasons of the vear at times when we most need a road one that the rain, snow, freezing and thawing does rot affect. Equally important; brick road" are teaching that traction resistance is an important question in economy to the farmers and country use as well as for the citvv Cost of Transportation v The cost of ithis transportation, to the farmer is important. "It has Uen estimated that the total cost 'tc'vA mers of the United States of mirketi il.' e l a, J.V ' HjL jiijt ine i.irm amnris ui. me. cuu.r. is about six hundred millions of 'dollars annually. Notice that 'this charge is a dead load carried bv the farmer.It is not like a fertilizer bill. -"If yon

U. S. OBJECT LESSON MACADAM ROAD, LOGANSPORT; INDIANA Courtesy of the Public Officials Magazine.

spend twelve hundred dollars a year on guano or cotton seed .meal, fertilizers, you expect to get. it back in increased crops. .But the farmer who hauls his tobacco or cotton, ten miles to a warehouse- gets no more for it than the farmer , who L is five miles from town. Good .Roads Save Money The only way to make money on yonr transportation is oy cutting down your transportation charges. To banl more cheaply you mu?t make your hauling more easier, be able, to haul heavier loads, be able to haul more rapidly. The only way to reach thes transportation expenses and reduce these is through the medium of improved roads, ton. can't feed your stock 't drive vour animals IKTSOf faster; you can't load your -wagons heavier on your present poor roads. The only thing that remains is to improve the roads. A fanner of Claud, Elmore county, 'Alabama, kept a record of his haulins to and fro from his market town, TTetumpka, for one year. He ma3e one hundred and twenty trips and rated them at two dollars per trip, figuring on the market price for labor and team. By doubling his load he could therefore sive one hundred end twenty dollars per year. Under "the complex conditions of jcur mcocra life Mid the resulting

fluctuations in the price of our staple products, the truth has been iin-

. pressed upon the farmer that to re alize 'the, full intrinsic value of his monev crops at anv civen time, he must be prepared to place them promptly and in large quantities at jhis selling points on short notice. If (good roads between the farms and the towns will enable him to double the hauling capacity of. his draught animals" he is prepared to take twofold advantage of a good price. We complain bitterly against the railroads for freight charges, and yet put up with a cost of hauling over bad roads so many times greater than the cost of railroad freights per mile that we can but he amazed at .our own failure to utilize our opportunities. Every wheel 'that turns over a bad road adds to the cost of living and doing business; every farmer is daily paying a toil through the heavy burden of bad roads which in the aggregate cost is far more than his taxation, both state and national. In "fact, as an economic problem, pure and simple, the. question of good roads is of more-Tital concern to the American people than the question of protection or fre? trade. . The' writer, but a few days ago. was given an example in truth where two farmers, brothers, living in 'different localities in the same county, in the state of Illinois the one fortunately living upon aroad;that was traversable with maximum loads; 'the 'ffther- living upon an unimproved road affording only such seasons of trayel as the weather would permit upon the natural black soil of the state of Illinois: the one 'marketing his- corn " crop i,accf)rding to the. best price' befoul d obtain; the other marketing his' corn eron when permitted to" V deliver by- road conditions; the one realizing an exceps, bytreason -of the' good-road conditions"'" to ''-the amount, of $11,000 upon an equal number of bushels .marketed. ' s f Adds to .Value of Farm . I believe that it may.. be said without question that, broadly speaking, the building of good roads through any unsettled district' "'does not in reality cost the country, tate or .individual a single dollar. This is due to the fact that the construction of improved highways immediately results in enhancement in the values of all adjacent properties by reason, so far as farming districts are concerned, of the higher profits -which come through, the reduced, cost in cultivating and shipping all products. A man owns a farm of 100 acres worth ten dollars an acre. The total value is one thousand dollars. The farm is five miles from town on bad roads. Let the county put that five miles of road in first class condition. What is the result f Someone comes alonz and offers that farmer fifteen hundred dollars for his place. Religious Phase "It is vain to hope to build up the churches of the country districts to their highest point of efficiency so long as impassable roads'make church attendance, practically impossible for a large part of the year." Educational Cidd Upon the magnificently constructed highways in northern Ohio, the school children of the rich and poor cn their way4 to school have enjoyed

for walking purposes these roads with all the eomfcrt and pleasures

afforded upon the best sidewalks of our cities. Increase the Pleasure of Country Life Loneliness is one of the impelling forces driving, people, from country to city life. It is not possible to retain upon the farm either the, young peo ple or the more active laborers so much needed in farm work,"so long as bad roads make easy transporta tion back and forth impossible. While I cannot vouch for its accuracy it has often been claimed that the lone liness of country life results in more insanity among farmers wives in proportion to the whole number than is to be 'found in anv other class of people. Whether this oft-repeated statement be correct or not, I can readily imagine that there may be some truth in it. The men on the farm are able to move around,, to meet each other at the country store, or to engage in outside pursuits which furnish some diversion. The farmer's wife, in a country of bad roads has little or no diversion; it is impossible during part of the year lor her to visit friends or to attend church, iand no wonder the monotony of life whei'e bad roads produce,- these results hangs like a pall over her. " In some of our largest cities, especially in Xew York, Boston, Providence, .and Rochester, it has long been apparent that our school buildings and our churches have other proper uses than their obvious and original ones. It is not especially good business to let an expessive building lie idle all but one Sunday in the month as many of our rural churches do. The depreciation. of such buildings, is actually greater from rotting out than from wearing out. There is nothing1 in the nature of things objectionable to putting the church edifice to other purpose than church services. With an established school center, well located with regard to good roads and accessibility, churches would soon spring up near bv and the location would be come a social center. Meetings of various -kinds, lectures, concerts, and social gatherings could be held in tire church and school buildings, and the attractions of rural life would be just 'so much- increased. " DR. COS'S Barbed Wire LINIMENT , GUARANTEED to heal without leav ing a bfemish, or MONEY REFUNDED. 60c and $1.00 sizes for fresh wounds, old sores, sore backs and Ehoulders,burns and bruises. 25c size for Family Use. DR. COX'S PAINLESS BLISTER. . is . painless and Guaranteed to cure Spavin, Ringbone, Curb, Sweeny, Splint. Aiffs, or any enlargement of bone or 1 , r i 1 T- - r- r ujuscie, or money reiunueu. x ifce ooc. , . FOR SALE BY . The best Sale Bills are printed at the Republican office. , . -" K 'V i -7m m a r DROP IN Our office is always open. We Kavt some exceptionally good bargains in farms and other real estate. W will guarantee that YOU WELL KOT GET BUUPTD if you .make a deal with' us. "Thai best asset of our Real Estate bnd ness is the large number of eatisfisd customers. For our mutual good tra ara anxious to add jour nsma to iha list. . -i ; .j 7 '

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COlDlli OF . SHEEP RAISING

NDUSTRY HER TEN YEARS OF IT SHOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO INCREASE FOR COUNTRY AS A WHOLE BETTER FOR INDIANA Number of Farms Reporting Sheep Decreases Number of Fleeces of Wool and Pounds Per Sheep Produced The recent attempt to 'take the tariff off wool by the congress just adjourned will make of more thn ordinary interest the statistic? . t sheep raising in this country, '-iu-tistics relative to sheep and : jbs reported on farms and range the United States, by states aiv geographic divisions, at the Thirteenth Decennial' Census, April 13, 1910, are contained in an official statement issued in July by Acting Director Falkner. Jt is based on tabular sum maries prepared under the direction of l)r Le (Jrand Powers, chief statistician for agriculture in the Bu reau of the Census. The figures are preliminary and subject to slight re vision later, when a few other farms, wliosej returns are now incomplete, are included in the 'final ' tables. i -1910 and 1900 Compared In summing up the results Acting Director Falkner states that, for the country as. a whole, there was no material change in the. sheep industry in the 10 years between 1900 and. 1910. The total number of sheep and lambs in the United States reported for 1910 was OJ,63S,590, made up of 29,707,000 ewes, 7,148,3GG rams and wethers. 12,108,278 lambs, Wndf 2,Ci4r 94G sheep and lambs not classified by age or sex in the 1910 reports. In 1900 the total number reported was 61,503,713, comprising 31,837,032 ewes, 7,993,313 rams and wethers, and 21,650,746 lambs. Excluding the lambs from consid eration, the other figures are fairly comparable. Such action would leave a net total of 39,470,312 wool-producing sh.ep for 1910, as compared with 39,aV2,967 for 1900. The 1910 total will be slightly changed in the final reports of the Thirteenth Census by the tabulation of supplemental schedules for Arizona and New Mexico, which will add approximator ly 100,000 to the number, stated. Hence, it is seen that there was ac tually a decrease of only 1 per cent in the net total number of wool-pro ducing sheep in 1910 as finally to" be compared with the corresponding total for 1900. The figures in the present state ment do not include the number of wool-producing sheep reported for cities and towns as distinct from those on farms and ranges given herein. Their total in 1900 was 179,000, while the preliminary tabulation now in progress indicates that the total for 1910 was approximately 255.600. In the North Central division the number of wool-producing sheep re ported for Ohio was 2,892,272 in 1910 and 2,648,250 in -1900; Indiana, 812,427 in 1910 and 1,010,648 in 1900; Illinois, 661,484 in 1910 and 629,150 in 1900;' Michigan, 1,545,241 in 1910 and 1,625,930 in ' 1900; . Wisconsin, 628,539 in 1910 and 986212 in 1900; Minnesota, 452,043 in 1910 and '359,32S in 1900; Iowa, 769,917, in' 1910and 657,868 in 1900; Missouri, 1,114,216 in 1910 and 663,703-in 1900; N. Dakota, 239,114 in 1910 and 451,137 in 1900 ; South 5 Dakota, 502,505 in 1910 and 507,338 in 1900; Nebraska,' 245,195 in 1910 and 335,950 in 1900 ; and Kansas, 206,498 in 1910 and 179,907 in 1900. In the Western division the num ber of wool-producing sheep -reported for Montana was 4,978,963 in 1910 and 44215,214 in 1900; Wyoming, 4,676,206 in 1910 and 3,327,185 in 1900; Colorado, 1.313,048 in 1910 and 1,352,823 in 1900; New Mexico, 2,931 201, in 1910 and 3,533,743 in 1900; Arizona; &43,383 in 1910 ' and 668,458 in 1900; "Utah, 1,670,890 in 1910 and 2,553,134 in 1900; -Nevada, 810,-. 973 in-1910 and 568,251 in 1900;.Idaho, 2,160,029 'in 1910 arid 1,965,467 in 1900; Washington, 308,862 in ' 1910 and 558,022 in 1900; Oregon, 1,982, 552 in 1910 and 1,961,355 in 1900; and California, 1,440,532 in 1910 and 1,724,968 in 1900. ' ; Number ht Farms Reporting ßhss? Although the number of mature sheep decreased very slightly during the decade the number, of farms reporting sbeep decreased from 763,-

Ö1S to 00S,3G3, which is 15."5,153, or 20 per cent. The decrease in the nuraher of farms in the North Atlantic states was at practically the

.same rate as the decrease in the num ber of mature sheep, leaving the average number ol sheep per farm approximately 21 at both periods. In the South Atlantic division, however, there was a decrease of practically 30.000 in the number of farms reporting, with only a slight decrease in the number of sheep. In 1000 the number of mature sheep per farm in that rroup of stales was 10, whereas in 1010 the average number per farm had increased To 20. In the South Central division the number of farms fell off about 44,000 which is a much greater relative decrease than that in the nnmber of sheep. In 1900 the average number of sheep per farm was 22; whereas in 1910 is was about 29. Tn the North Central division bofTi the number of farms and tlje number of mature sheep increased slightly, the number of sh?ep per farm beinr about 29 at each census period. Tn the, "Western division the increase in number of farms corresponds very eloselv to the increase i in number of sheep: the average number of sheen per farm report in? Wing approximately 900 at eaeh of the censuses. , Wcol The number' of fleeces of wool and the total .weight of The wool clip for 1909 has not yet been completely tabulated. The average weight per lleece for a group of 10 states already tabulated is 7.4 pounds. In 1900 the average weiiht per fleece for these states was 6.S pounds, and for the entire United States 6.3 pounds. If the average weight for the entire United-States for 1909 is 7.4 pounds, the aggregate weight of wool shorn in that year, including that clipped from ie sheep on farms and in cities at the date of enumeration, and that shorn from sheep afterwards slaughtered in the spring of 1910, before the date of enumeration, will be approximately 296.000.000 pounds; while if the average weight for the farms of the country is only 7. pounds, the weight of the farm clip will not greatly differ from that returned bv the census of 190Ü, or about 277,000,000 pounds. ALUM IN BAKING POWDERJ Medical Journal Tells of Danger At- , tending'Tts Use Results of Experiments ' Made. Discussions as to the presenceV of alum in ' baking-powder and the danger attending its use have v been going on for many years. A irecent contribution to our- .knowledge of this subject 'is found in an-article by Professor -William J. Gies, Professor of Chemistry of - Columbia University, which 'recently appeared Jn The Journal of the American Medical Association. Professor Gies savs that he has been conducting experiments on the effects of alum for about seven years, and that he is convinced that the use of alum in food ' is ' dangerous. He finds that when taken into the stomach it is absorbed and carried to all-parts of the body by the blood, causing harmful consequences, and that it should be excluded from food. His ex periments, show that dum is , a strong' poison and is injurious to both plants and animals, that when baking-powder containing alum is used in making bread, alum in solution is later found in the stomacliof persons .eating the bread. He. 'con cludes that bread made with bakingpowder containing ' alum is . liable to cause harm to the stomach and digestion, especially if; used for a long period of time and'particularly in people whose digestion is no't vigorous or normal. He says that the public should be given the benefit of any possible doubt in this matter until it is shown without ; question that aluminized bread as comn.only used cannot possibly be injurious to the health, not only of those who are robust and who apparently can stand anything, but -'especially of those who are most susceptible to injury and disease. , , . A long series of experiments ' on animals showed that when fed foods containing alum was found in the blood and did harm. As a result of his experiments he concludes that the use of alum in any food should be prohibited by law in the interest of public health. . 'I have a world of. confidence in Chamberlain's Cough ISnlefly for I have nsed it with perfect success, ' ' writes Mrs." Mr I. Basford, Pooles ville, Md. For sale by All Dealers. Man's mastery of the air will be demonstrated at Plymouth Sept. 2122. See for yourselves. 4tw m Dr. J. A. LIcGxITo Suppositories Are a famous remedy for til female dieeases fXtiZsting Women try V ' aCaapla Fcr tzU By all DrcIj m:cc ci .oo Can on your borne druggist for bock and free tampla

1CI1ED nil FORTICOUif?!

Commissioners Decide They Do Not Want to Face the Opposition and Order the Building of a Highway Other Do. ings of the September Term.

To Make Life Easier Whoever puts in the reach of the housewife any device which will make her tasks less laborius and give her more time to devote to the ideal things of life, is doing humanity a service. It is in this role that Mrs Julia Blian deserves a reward of merit. She is introducing- into Plymouth a new sort of mop. .Shino Dust Mop', it is called. It is. made of heavy string, doped up in-some way ?o that it will take - up dust and germs ' from bare floors, woodwork, mattings, linoleums and walls with the least possible expenditure of labor, v When it is soiled, it can be cleaned by simply washing in clear warm water. It is warranted to last six months with the hardest usage which it isn't likely to get in most of our homes, and only costs fifty cents. When Mrs Blain calls on von. see it for yourself. dl6-23 wl7-24 As usually treated, a sprainecf ankle will disable a man for -three or four weeks, but by applying Chamberlain's Liniment freely as soon as the injury is received, and observing the directions with eaeh bottle, a cure can be effected in from two to four days. For sale by All Dealers. JOHN THOMPSON IS SURPRISED ON BIRTHDAY J ohn Thompson, Hying four miles northwest of Plymouth, was very pleasantly surprised Thursdav even ing by about fifty of his neighbors, who called upon him unceremoniously and told him of the importance of the occasion. Ice cream and cake were served to the company and a most jolly time had by all. SEES NO GOOD IN RECIPROCITY Rudyard Kipling Advises Canada to Beware. SAYS ODDS ARE TOO UilEVEII Thinks 90,000,000 People Would In- - - , evitably Dominate 9,000,000 by Sheer Force of Admitted Weight! Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 8. The Montreal Star has enlisted another recruit to the anti-reciprocity cause In .the, person of Rudyard Kipling, .who has written a letter to the editor. This

Is the letter: " C " "Rateman's, Burwash, -Sussex, England.' "To the Editor of i the Montreal Star: v "I do not understand how 0,000,000 people can enter Into such arrangements ae are proposed with 90,000,000 strangers on an open frontier of 4,000 miles and at the same time preserve their national integrity. "Ten to one is too .heavy odds-. . No single Canadian would accept such odds in any private matter that was as vital -to him personally as this I sue is to the nation. "It is her own soul that Canada risks today. Once that soul is panned for- any consideration Canada must inevitably conform to the commercial, legal, financial, social and. ethical standards which will be Imposed upon her byheer admitted weight of the United States. , "She might, for example, he compelled later on to admit reciprocity in the murder rate of the United States, which at present, I believe, is omethins over 150 per 1,000,000 per annum. "If these proposal had been mate ft generation ago, or M the Dominion were today poor, depressed and without hope, one would perhaps uaflerand thedr being diacuseed, bat It Is .not cae of thes things. Cba U a nation and as the lire of nations are reckoned, will ere lenj be aaoaff the great nition, "Why, then, wrhca she has made bznzll what the is druii she. throor the enennous gifts of bar inheritance snd her future Into Cie h sr.fi of a people who by. then baste and waste have so dissipated thslr resources that even before ratios! nlddls ig they sxe driven to sees: virgin fielia fcr cheaper food and living? "Whatever the United States may gain, and I presume that the United Gtatts proposals are not wholly altruistic, I see nothing for Canada in reciprocity except a little ready money, which she docs cot need, snd & very tocj repentance "JtUDYAItD VZ?LZ;Q.m; C5

Marghall eountv is to have neither votinsr machines nor macadamized roads n it yet. The County Council was afrahl of voting1 machines and the Commissioners are afraid of niacalan:izel roals. T!:e petition for the macadamized road out South street, west on the l'retty I ake ioad and s-nith the How farm to the Liggett ' school house was withdrawn by the petitioners because the board decided they would call an election if the petitioners aked for action from them. This was to be done notwithstanding notice had been published as required by law and no .remonstrance of any kind ajrainst the road had been filed with the board. The reason, or excuse, the commissioners .save-for this action was that according to the law this three miles of macadamized road should connect with a ".Travel" road, and they were of the opinion that at its south end, at or about the Lijnrett school house, it did not connect with a Gravel" road, but that said road mi'.vht be called just an ordinary road, without any gravel to it. It is not known whether the petition will be filtd auain or not, but it is thought efforts will not be stopped to p-et better accomodations for the country people to pet to Plymouth even if the city has to help build p;ood roads itself. A new contract was made with Wm. Fries as superintendent of the county farai for a period of two years from Sept. 1. 1911, to Sept. 1, 1913. He is to receive $900 a year,

to furnish five jrood horses, harness, ete.,vand is to furnish his living quarters at his own expense. Final report was; made bv Jno. C. Butler in the P. F. Mattingly ditch. It showed that $4045.76 had been collected, which lacked 30c of meeting all costs. This ditch has been finished and cleaned by the surveyor since it was constructed. The petition of Frank Boyd and others for a highway in Polk township was continued because the first notices pi veil were insufficient and further notice will have to be piven. Flora Bishop, Frank M. Kyser, farparet White, Henry Lichtenberper, Marion Triplet, F. D. Triplet, Henry Schmid, Wm. Klapp, J. F. Behmer, C. D. Andreas, M. F. Albert, Catherine" A. Zink, E. D. Schröck, Wm. A. Siders Hary E. Crum, Lewis Pero and J. H. Woods filed a petition for the vacation of a road affeetinp lands of Kyser, Union township. Bishop, Lewis ' Calbeck,Pero, F. I), and F. MV Triplet and E. E. Rensberper.. S. C. Dill, Chris. G. Bollman and Chas. Zumbauph were appointed viewers, and are to meet Sept. 15 at J. J. Cromley in Burr Oak. . , Surveyor Schoonover filed pfans and specifications for the Brownlee bridpe, the Outlet bridpe in Union township and for the Morpan Ward ditch in Tippecanoe town hip. The law requirinp this4 work of the surveyor is just now keepinp Mr. Schoonover very busy, Mr. Patterson, representing the The International Yotinp Machine Elpin, 111., was here Thursday ready to tell the commissioners all about the advantapes of his machine. The decision of the County Council, however, sent him home empty handed. The Elpin machine is said by many who have examined it to be the best now made. The circular savs. of this machint : The Inttrnational Votinp Machine is a practical substitute for the theoretically-perfect Australian paper ballot. The machine eliminates the possibility of fraud and error, and is a time and ; money saver. JThe ' ' International ' ' is the culmination of 63 years of persistent effort on tho part of numerous inventors and manufacturers in the United States to produce a Votinp Machine which would meet all , the lepal requirements, and at the same time he practical. It. is simple 'in mechanism, compact, and light enonph tobe easily handled, and has strength to resist whatever strains m iy be pni upon it. ' .. will hold no joys for yon if you have 1x3CJca or sny STCAd, IIYE2 or Cr.Tlf trouble. Ton need not pay big doctor's t '"l&j but If yon suffer from any of these aihrjts just step into your nearest dmggistiftc t a 50 cent bottle of TiTM ZXl. the j at household remedy, the "tneeri toic !id blood purifier known. If your systf is run down and you want to regain or youthful energy, linr"S Willah 3plish it, mate your food digest axi ,ve you new life, lionet t-M' Jlisfied. Tryitander;. ;.-v.dresg LYI11N riCTTN, C3 Krrty IX, Vt Ycrk, K.Y.

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