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x weiitjr Anch t i 4 Don't Be Afraid! SAFETY FIRS A "tight place when you are in a a sturdy buggy, of time and roup:' past 30 years. It's Such a Goc right "up-to-the-n so comfortable t( We have lots < to show you, and v ,tive Prices. Pie time. A special represent The St Main Street WHAT IS NEEDED IJ* LOCAL HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS \ If a business man handled his pri ate business in tne way we nave ueeu i running our road business, he would .. go broke inside of a year. It is lucky for us that we can't breaak the , taxpayers; for ho matter how lax we are, the money continues to come and the taxpayers continue to pay. It is not our serious and bounden duty to spend this money wisely and in a scientific and business-like manner? In my county, we spent $10tj,000 on our roads and bridges, through our highway commissioners, and as yet I havae been unable to find out what . it actually costs each township a year to maintain its wooden bridges and culverts and its steel bridges, or what it costs per mile per year to grade or to drag roads. One township did . know what it cost to drag roads, viz: $1.85, which, however, represented the total for the year spent for dragging; yet even there I could not reduce it to mileage unit cost base. The hardest job I have is to persuade some of oar township officials to keep an adequate set of books. I have even been told by one commissioner that his township did hot need to keep books because everybody was honest in that particular township. I would pity this particular commis doner if somebody accused him of being dishonest and he* had no records to fall back on to prove his honesty. This latter case actualaly happened in anothertownship, where a thorough honest amn, a commissioner, was acAllf WIAnATT CATM O. , W UCCU VI |ia^AU5 VUV U1VUVJ W WVM4Vbody for something that was not done, and he had no record or receipt at all from the man. I would like particularly to call your attention to the fact that I said "to keep an adequate set of books/' Statistics and figures are all right, but if they are not the rgiht kind of statistics and figures, they are not worth the paper they are written on. For instance, I find that most of the books simply show that John Jones or Bill Smith had so many hors to their, credit for hand labor or team labor. J That tells us nothing. What the people want to know is what John , Jones did with his shovel, or w"hat ! Bill Smith did with his team; how long it took him to do it, and what it ' tost to do that particular kind of ' work. This is what we call distribution of accounts and unit costs If you follow this kind of bookkeeping you will soon find where the . leaks are. Take one example: Suppose we knew that we were spending $500 a year patching up a lot of wheezy, descrepit, old wooden culverts and bridges, and that when we ' were through sweating and patching and spending otir $5Q0 we still had nothing, and that we were still lying tor E I [?It's one of those 1 T Anchor Buggies i" loses it's terror m Anchor.; It's such It has stood the test h roads, during the >d Looking Buggy ninute" in style, and )0. )f handsome styles I some very attracase come in sometative from the factory Call and let him ?ho' ark Vehicl r awake nights worrying that some 20 uawma anmnn tttqn rrftini* ' krool UU1SQ cugmvi n?o 5VU15 W, V* VM. through one of these so-called bridge and fall on top of our neighbor ant kill him. Five. Five hundred dollar is 5 per cent interest on $10,000 Would it not be good economy an< wise business to borrow $10,000 an< replace a number of these old cul Verts and bridges with modern con crete structures that would safeh carry the the loa^3 imposed upoi tnem ana give us someuung ior oui money, rather than pay the interes on that amount patching around an< getting notning? Concrete bridge cost money, but I have yet to hav< anyone prove to me that they are no an economical investment You iwll at once say that all thii sounds very well, and that you agre< with me, but "Get us the money: ouj income is limited and the people wil vote down any bond issue that w< mihght bring up for these things." ] cannot agree with you on this lattei point, My own experience in my owr county shows that the taxpayer is f wise business man,^pnd if eh is showr that the money ifl being handled wise ly and that he 1b getting; somewher< near valae received for what he pays he will vote right. MAINTAINING MACADAM ROADS What to do in any kind of con struction work when one does no have enough money to do the bes thing is a very trying problem, par ticularly when the work is for th< public, which expects the highes class of results even when it pays fo: only second or third class. This is particularly true in roac improvements. In Rhode Island, fo: instance, there are many miles of ol( fashioned macadam roads built with out bituminous material. They with stood travel well until motor vehicle: became so numerous that a differ en kind of construction became neces sary. The Board of Public roads ha not had enough money to reconstruc the roads with the most durable bu expensive classes of material ant workmanship, and so it is doing th best it can with what it warns th taxpayers are measures of only tem porary avail. When one of these ol( macadam roads is badly worn, th board reconstructs it by first placini three or four inches of broken ston on top of the old surface and rollini it thoro :ghly. This stone is then co"V ered with heavy road oil, which i covered in turn with sand, and the: the' road is foiled again. Chief Ec gineer Patterson says of this wort "We felt that something must be don to alleviate conditions, and we di what we believed to be the only thin we could do under the circumstance! We have received mriny flatterin comments from the traveling publi uggie This is a picture wheel-the most fai It is made so it c It is practically i icy against accider It is used only o: ANCHOR X t ; known all over tli / THE SAFETY F " ' / f it Please come in a latest Models?A1 We are exclusive . ~ ... * i ANCI will be at our place durii w you the strongest bugg] le Companj /'(/< J:'.. , ;Ji: - upon this work, bat we have endeavk ored to make plain our stand that we s considered the work of a temporary < j J x 4.11 j nature." xne Doaru uueo uui xcui iub to the danger of terming such coni. atruction "permanent" when it ia i really only serviceable for a few i years. . TALKING OVER ROAD PROBLEM 7 . i (By D. 0. Thomas, highway superinr tendent of St. Clair County, ID). t Cooperation is one of the greatest 1 helps to success in roadbuilding, par9 ticularly cooperation among the loj cal authorities. This is shown by the t very rapid extension of the custom of holding gatherings of local road } supervisors to talk over the problems ) - w DflpI . ' V I iUII M t t i WEDDING GIFTS J J Something for the Newlyweds ?it's diffi\> cult problem to select a i gift that will not be du-j plicated by some one ;| else. t Tr? nnr vpatr nf pynfir a ience we have helped t many puzzled people to I make judicious selece ti^ns. Let us help you e to make yours. Oui i stock comprises a thoue sand and one differenl I articles th^t would g prove both useful and ? highly acceptable. n I- w. 8 3. g *\ ic s?Sa I i / C" I . / of a buggy fifthnous in the world. a. ?n ?\. annul pun apai u m insurance polits. ti the iv,; % . v ' . ? ' ? ' ' 'frt BUGGY ie world as . IRST BUGGY. nd see our Line of 1 Beauties. Agents, for the . j 4 ' i ?< '1 HOR. v'i . 'Vt. . ??".A! ; ' ig the fair to demoristrs Y made.'; This Buggy sol ir, Abbeville V. */? \ . j.jf'-v *$'*.'t;.' "{ 7" -J among themselves, usually with the county engineers in attendance, and nrr?monallv with a renresentative of the state highway department present There are * few people who look on such meetings as junkets, but whenever they are well conducted they are of much value. The problems that arise in grading, drainage, selecting road materials, the c? instruction of different types of road, the utilization of gravel pits and quarries, the keeping of accounts, maintainance ?the care of the roadside and such subjects, are so various and the meI thods of solving them so numerous, that conferences of the men engaged j in the work are worth many times I their small cost in time or money. waaacm1 7-701 CTV IT-COW ADC Oll-a V U1V T T ni\u i i Beautiful' silver table ware is the pride of ev' ery woman's heart. And ' it adds a certain tone to i \ ' the setting that makes the meal more enjoya ble. i Our stock is complete in every particular, i from plain silver knives and forks to the finest engraved tea sets-some ; thing tb suit any taste [ or any purse. We sell I the best known, most reliable makes. E JOHN: ABBEVILLE, SOI fety A HH [ ' 5 .': ? . * j ' ' : uV. -; V .; 4% ' v\ How often accidenl the shafts of'a bug Why take chances of to yourself?your hor gy when you can insi with the j . 7 ANCHOR SAFE Patented SI - ; , , -\/ . Furnished only wi ANCHOR Buggy for the exclusive agents. * * .* '' ' ' . '' ' tf J *] ' :*7 i WA V,%r \: ~ / ; ite to you the merits of t Id only by us. i, South Ca RUBBISH ON ROADS. . 1 Any county engineer, township * road superintendent or road gang 1 foreman who allows men under his j direction to pile sod, brush or rub- i bish in the center of the road and i leave it theer to,be beaten down by the traffic, shotfld be "fired," the Iowa State Highway Commission re- < cently stated. The Commission is also of the opinion that any community which permits such road work to be done by any road crew on its < highway deserves just what it is get- 1 ting. There is no necessity and no : excuse for such road building. If a : mild protest to the authorities does i no good, make the protest violent, 1 FAIR 1 A : WATCHES Our line of watches for men, women and children includes styles to suit everyone. We can give you your choice of either open face or hunting style case fitted with any of the standard movements of few jewels or many. And wra pan fnmish Solid sil j V VVWA* w*. ? ver, gold, plated or novelty cases. ! Don't buy a watch until you get our prices. SON, Jewe UTH CAROLINA. First wmwAmu.. l . ?i ; ;:: :c u v > . - v. . 3 : . 11^ Jr m j ; v- . " '.' -V ' , ^ > y/\ G ','. ' IV.'tfj ! v'. . 41 'i -.: . ;? f.r v.! i *{ ' is are caused by gy breaking? || 'serious injury se, or your bugire your safety ' r; - \ , ? '": ' TY FIRST 1 f? th the famous | which we are m I he Safety Firit Buggy. I 1? '1 rohna. I Abbeville, S.C. 1 ? . * ... " 11 i, , . the Commission advises. vfl Sod and rubbish should -, not bei-ffl ;hrown into the road in such a map-. I ier, that it cannot be covered fey ?ood clean earth, ^ty^ftoch roade I are already, buflt, the toad me? I should disk the sod and rubbish , fl til it.is thoroughly pulverized. ;!&rl brush and weeds which cannot tie I cut up should be thrown! off with I 3, and'then the road should be I harrowed and dragged or shaped I with a blade grader until it fir in good I condition. Road men will do the I work this way if a community domands it, but not otherwise. . The foads of any community ^trill be . as food as it insists upon, and no better, the" Commission has observed., ' 1 i . ' i XME^jj . FOR BABY '* * ' ':4'%'r: ' .J.rThe easiest way to decide what to get the little fellow is to call at our store and look ovSF the scores of articles that we have in stock. ' ll We can supply mugs, I spoons, rings, necklaces I bracelets, etc., in either solid o r plated ware, I and can show you a big I assortment of goods at I whatever price you I want to pay. I sler .I I