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« «to«.*»*» « “ »***: > > > I I T ry Golden rod Hour 'JEW METHOD OF ROAD BUILDING Guaranteed »<** . » * f W % k % k V k r m W «k k ^ W iT B O. B. HARDIN Correspondence School Book-keeping and Commercial Studies dragged tor three weeks, and at the That incident was decidedly agree end of three years it w„s immensely able to me, but not more so than thè ....... improved over its condition at the end one that came to my ears a little earlier BY D. W ARD KING, IN SATURDAY EVENING POST of the first year’ s work. I studied the when I chanced to hear the experience result of each step in my experiment of Mr. W. H. Montgomery, a banker There is something startling in the States in which this gospel has been and finally learned that three elements of Skidmore, a town four miles north atement that a drag made of a split disseminated by means of practical are required to make a perfect earth of my place. With his wife he was meetings >g and costing only the price of a demonstration. At these road and that the lack of any one of one night driving down to a little gath ocket-knife is the implement that is thousands of persons have pledged them is fatal to tVie result. T o be per ering at Maitland. The night was de oing to revolutionize the wagon roads themselves to make and to use a split- fect an earth road must be at one and cidedly dark and it was impossible for f this country and save many millions log drag; hundreds of newspapers have the same time an oval, hard and him to see more than the general out- ; f dollars to the rural population of the taken up this movement, giving it smooth. All of these indispensables line of the road over which he was Jnited States— yet, I make this state- generous space and a squaie deal; are aepuired by the use of the split-log driving. Suddenly the lurching of the Can suit you. They have a com lent and put upon it all the emphasis hundreds, if not thousands, of do'lars drag in any soil that I have ever come buggy ceased and the banker startled | plete stock of Harness, Whips, f which I am capable. have been raised and offered in prizes Of Forest Grove, Oregon Lap Robes. Repairing a special in contact with— and I have worked his wife with the abruptness of his ex "Downright absurd!” do you ex- for the best miles or half-miles of drag ty. Call in. C A P IT A L , in the various kinds of clay soil, in the clamation: "W hat’s happened to this laim? I have had hundreds of farm- roads, and most important of all, per A General Banking Business Trans gumbo of the swampy lowlands and in road? There’ s been something doing P A C IF IC A V E N U E rs greet with jeers a less sweeping haps, the public sentiment of scores of acted. Drafts sold on all the principal the black mud of the prairies. here! I’ m coming back in the day-' Cities in the United States and Europe. tatement of the case— and then go communities has been stirred to self- Observation of my experiment time to see what has ben going on ” j Correspondents Wells Fargo & Co’ s lome and prove to themselves its ab- | respecting hopefulness and energy by taught me that two weeks of rain He had struck the half-mile of dragged Bank. Directors: Richard M. Dooley, .olute correctness. Have you any this new gospel of good roads with would not put this bit of road in bad road, and, being a highway commis- Thomas H. Adams, John W. Shute, dea of what it would mean to the peo out money.” Accounts condition at a time when the highway sioner and interested in the public and Frank E. Dooley. ple of the United States to change the Eight years ago I was devoting al ! solicited. at either end of it was impassable for a roads, he had at once sensed the VERY iad wagon roads of the country into most my entire time to my farm, three wagon. Of course, it was plain that change. Lewis and Clark Exposition. good roads? Such a revolution in miles north from the little town of QUALITY, PRICES, TREATM ENT the reason the road was not bad was Of those early recognitions none transportation would climb so high into Maitland, Missouri. My interests de During the Lewis and Clark Exposi that there was no mud in it. But why gave me greater pleasure than to re tion, the Southern Pacific Company pgures that the sum total would be manded frequent travel over the road mud would not collect in it was not ceive a letter from Congressman David will sell round trip tickets to Portland, SAELENS & 00., Main St., ¡absolutely startling and almost beyond between my farmhouse and the village, FOREST GREVE, OREGON clear to me until I wes taught my les A. De Armond saying: “ I can deter limit thirty days, at one and one third (comprehension. Not very long after 1 1 and I always felt a keen resentment son by the very humble means of the mine almost to an inch where the drag fare for round trip. For parties of ten had made the first complete demon when bad roads made it difficult or hog wallow. One day I chanced to began.’.’ And later in the note jj” or mc.re traveling on one ticket, one stration of the split-log method of road- impossible to drive to town— a state of fare for the round trip. For organized notice that water was standing in one referred to a certain strip of road which parties of one hundred or more, indi- making on my farm in Missouri, Col. things that was altogether too frequent. | of these wallows long after the ground had “ experienced the magic influence viual tickets, at one fare for the round G. W. Waters, Secretary of the Mis A little investigation and experience \ Practical Undertakers and Embalm- all about it had become dry. Proba of the drag.” - trip. souri Good Reads Association, said to demonstrated to me that this was by I ers. Calls answered day or night. Stopover of ten days will be given bly I had many tidies before observed If there is a means of studying hu- j !me: no means the result of indifference or this fact, but not until now had it o c man nature more interesting than that I at Portland on all one way tickets read ing through that point during the Ex " I f the road commissioners of the inactivity on the part of our road com curred to me to inquire into its cause. of trying to teach a community a new position. Tickets must be deposited BOTH ’ PHONES. Forest Grove, Ore. state of Missouri could stand here and missioners. Then I reached the con- j Examining the edges of the wallow, I method of road-making, I have yet to with the Joint Agent at Portland and [see what I see, the result would be viction that it was the fate of the farm- ( was impressed with the fact that it was find it. As I have said, for four years | charge of fifty ce„t? will be mad ’ for ¡worth a hundred thousand dollars to | er to spend $1500 to $3000 a mile for almost as hard as a piece of earthen It dragged a strip of road from my front extension of time. macaadmized roads or else travel in the this Commonwealth!” ware. Clearly this was because the gate to that of my neighbor. He bad Hcmeopahtist Physician mud in all periods of continued wet It is impossible to express in figures wallowing of the hogs had mixed or always been a good neighbor, having and Surgeon............... even the most general estimate of the weather— which is to say a large por Office over Wescott’ s Store. Residence puddled the earth and the water to- the best interests of the community at (ESTABLISEED 1898.) value of such a revolution in road-mak tion of the year. This conviction is gether, forming a kind of cement East of M. E. Church, Forest Grove heart, but he was not easily enticed Forest Grove, Oregon ing as must result from the general j almost universal among farmers who which dried into a hard and practically out of settled opinions or into new A general banking business transacted. City Barber Shop . . use of this new and “ absurdly simple” have really wrestled with the road waterproof surface. ways of doing things, and, conse problem and know from experience its Interest paid on time deposits. method. However, it is well to keep The next important lesson in my quently, I refrained from saying any Baths. Laundry Agency. Situ Accounts invited. in mind the fact that in almost all difficulties. understanding of the real elements of thing to him on the subject of road ated on Pacific Ave., Forest Grove. However, this state of doubdt and road-making was taught me by study States the mileage of common dirt making, relying entirely upon the evi . . A . I. W irtz, Proprietor roads is many times double that of discouragement did not long continue, ing what we farmers call a “ spouty dence of his own senses to awaken his macadamized or other expens've roads and I began to investigate and experi spot” in the side of a clay hill. All DENTIST. interest in putting the road between ment in an irregular sort of way. Act who live in a clay country know the intended to be permanent. his house and the next neighbor on Office over Bazaar; Forest Grove, Or. In a State so long settled, so pro ing under this persistent impulse to unspeakable stickiness of one of these the way toward town in the same con experiment, I one day hitched my gressive and prosperous as Ohio, for spouty places, and are familiar with dition as the road between his house All work in the 0 • Prepared to do example, more than fifty per cent of team to a drag made of a frost-spoiled the fact that, after ten days or two and mine. dental line. work at night, but If you are seeking a home and Phone, office,861; the roads are of earth, and the interest wooden pump stock and an old oak weeks of bright, hot sunshine, you can must be by ap Continued next week want — A BARGAIN— we can residence. 554 pointment ............ shown by Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, post, held parallel to each other by take an axe and break from one of suit you, having the best list of BUSINESS SPECIALS New York and other Eastern States in three pieces of fence boards about these spots a clod so hard that with it lands and homes in the county. Graying. the work of the split-log drag indicates ltyee feet long, Smooth wire served you can almost drive a ten-penny nail — Guldenrod Flour, guaranteed. Write or call on us at Cornelius. Haynie & Son"have two good teams that the dirt roads of these Common in place of a chain, and a strip of plank ;nt0 a pine plank. Naturalb, it oc — Try Goldenrod Flour. You’ ll and do all kinds ot team work at rea wealths still constitute a very impor laid between the post and the pump curred to me that, if this puddled clay like it. sonable rates. Contracts preferred R. W. M e N U TT, tant and perplexing element in the stock gave me a rough platform upon soil would stay hard for three months — “ Crescent' is the Standard of Ex Independent ’ phone. They use problem of transportation by team. which to stand. Real Estate Agent, Cornelius, Or when left in a rough condition, it would cellence for Valley flour. everybody right. The horses were attached at such a surely stay longer if moulded into the Fully ninety-nine per cent of the high — Drain tile, sewer pipe and terra ways of Missouri and Iowa are earth point of the wire as to give the drag a form of a smooth roof, so that the wa — As a matter of economy, you cotta flues at Richey & Wells’ . roads, and a State official of Iowa once slant of about forty-five degrees in the ter which fell upon it would easily run should buy your clothing at the A S K THE AGENT — C. F. Harris is closing out his FOR said to me that to have fifteen per cent direction required to force the earth off. Chicago, for here’ s where you get good of the main traveled roads of this Stite that it would gather from the side of TICKETS VIA This original half-mile of road was entire line of furniture at cost. | goods at low prices. macadamized would be to realize the the road up into the center. We had dragged steadily for four years before I — I am selling out my entire line most ambitious dreams of those men of had a soaking rain and the earth was in had a single active recruit in my new of furniture at cost. C. F. Harris. GALES CREEK of the State especially interested in a plastic condition. I had driven this crusade. At first my neighbors poked — Money to loan on farm security. Theo. Boke of Colorado, arrived last improving the condition of its highways. drag but a few rods when I was fully good-natured fun at me, probably be W. H. Hollis, Forest Grove. week and is visiting his mother, Mrs. So much by way of suggesting the aware that it was serving at least the cause the thing was so new and so — Mohair and wool wanted at J. E. John Erickson and family. size of the problem which the split-log initial purpose for which it „'as intend absurdly simple— and, perhaps, also, Bailey’ s store. Cash or produce. Messrs. Tom Taylor and Stanton, drag has com e to solve. What has ed— that of 1 veling down the wheel because I did the work without pay or _ jt. i . i — Mohair and wool wanted at J. E. their families and two nieces of Port already been accomplished, so far as rut and pushing the surplus dirt into any expectation of it. Road-making land visited a few da, s with relatives T o SPOKANE, ST. PAUL, M INNE Bailey’ s store. Cash or produce. the movement is concerned, may be the center of the road. in the country, it may be well to ex APOLIS, D U LU TH , CHICAGO, All kinds of picnic goods at Duns- here and enjoyed the picnic the 4th. put in few words: It has been backed At my neighbor’ s gate, I turned plain, is not generally followed as a ST. LOUIS. They came out from Portland in two moor’ s store. Remember the long and pushed by the Missouri Board of around and took the other side of the fashionable philanthropy or a popular hours and a half in their auto. handle dust pan. a n d a l l P o in t s E a s t a n d S o u t h . Agriculture; one railroad, the North- road back to my home. The result diversion. Mr. and Mrs. Jay King and little — For Rent— Baldwin’ s new brick,, western, has sent out a "G ood Roads was simply astonishing. More rain Gradually, however, this little stretch Special” for the purpose of evangel fell upon this road, but it "ran off like of dragged road began to force itself next to new post-office. Inquire of d a r t e r of South Dakota visited a few ^ days last week with John Erickson’ s tf izing the farmers of its territory; other water from a duck's back.” F>om upon the attention of the community. Geo. H. Baldwin. McMinnville. The Flyer: The Fast Mail family. They had spent one rainy roads are. eager to install the same kind this time forward, after every rain or From one source and another I began — Bring me your wool and Mohair, of a broad-gauge, public-spirited cam wet spell, I dragged the half-mile of to hear of the observations wh'ch it highest market paid, either in cash winter here and could not imagine our S p l e n d id S e r v ic e , U p t o D a t e paign; thousands of miles of wagon the road covered by my original exper provoked— and some of them were or trade. ’ J. E. Bailey, Forest Grove. summers could be so delightful as this. E q u ip m e n t , C o u r t e o u s Last Monday night as Everet Parkin roads have been permanently reclaimed iment. E m ployes . — Cut prices in millinery at The quite as amusing as they were agree from bad to good, and hundreds of i At the end of three months the road able. One day a physician of a neigh Paris Millinery Parlor. Next door to of this place was returning from Forest meetings have been held in the nine i was better than when it had been boring town told me this story: Daylight trip throught the Odd Fellows Hall. Forest Grove, Ore. » ^ rove’ he met two men in the road * who were in their shirt sleeves and it Cascade and Rocky Mountains. “ I was driving down your way the — Try a can Golden Gate Baking! so frightened his horse that the animi l other night to see a patient. As usual, Powder today. A trial will convince. reared and plunged backward, injuring For tickets, rates, folders and full when I have anything on my mind, We carry it at the Big Store. John E. himself so that he soon died from his information, call on or address my eyes were fixed on the dashboard Bailey. 3jm o H. DICKSON, injuries. Everet escaped uninjured. of the burffcy, and I was deep in study — Cut prices in millinery at The City Ticket Agent, 122 Third St., over an especially perplexing case. Paris Millinery Parlor. Next door to Portland, Or. State Study Club Meeting You know how rough all the roads Odd Fellows Hall, Forest Grove, Ore. The State Study Club, N. D. of O. S. G. YERKES. A. G. P. A., Seattle. have been, lately— to ride over them — Use Golden Gate Baking Powder, held its final meeting for this spring at Wash., Corner First Ave. & Yesler Way. is simply to be jolted from one side of guaranteed a fine cream tartar powder. I the I. O. O. F. hall Saturday night the buggy to the other unless you let Try it. money back if unsatisfactory'-' when a pleasing program was rendered. Dealers In your horse go at a walk, which a phy 1 At the conclusion a banquet was held. 3jmo John E. Bailey. sician cannot always do. Well. I was The program was as follows: Mrs. Art rattling and threshing along over the Cheap Sunday Rates Between Forest Caples read a selection from “ The clods at a trot, when suddenly I straight Grove and Portland. Bridge of the Gods;” piano solo by Route your shipments via ened up, aroused by the impression1 I xjw round-trip rates have been Miss Frances Clapp; selection, “ The Great Northern. that something had gone wrong with P iced in effect between Portland and Wreck of the Vemedale,” Mrs. Chas. Full information from the running-gear of the buggy. But Forest Grove, in either direction. Hines; violin solo. Miss Emma Staehr; Tickets will be sold Saturday after- Wm. HARGER, the trouble was with the road! I had “ Father Duncan,” Miss Maude General Agent; Portland. Oregon. simply struck your littie stretch of road, r ons and Sundays, limited to re turn on or before the following Mon Buxton. and the buggy skimmed over it as day. Rate of $1.05 round trip. Call — Money to loan on farm security. smoothly as a sleigh runs over packed or Southern Pacific’ s agents for par — American made alarm clocks at snow.” W. H. Hollis. Forest Grove. ticulars. Abbott & Son’ s at 65 cents. G. B. HARDIN, Forest Grove, Oregon Farmers & Merchants BROOKS & WHITESELL BANK EEST Undertaking^^ Roe & Buxton G.E.Gdiger,IVI.D,.. E. W . Haines Bank a Dr. Wm. M. Pollock, Strangers Overland Trains Daily THE Ward Lumber Co. Mouldings, Doors, W indows, Paints and Oils. A S to ck o f Dry Lumber A lw ays on hand. I can save you money on doors and windows; g e t prices before you buy. F O R E S T G R O V E , ORE. We Give Expedited Service on Freight.