Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 09, 1918, Page TWO, Image 2
PIKE'SftB?AK HIGHWAY OPEN
fnrriCT^gffinitely Completed From
Atlantic to Pacific-Last Link
Hts Been Forged.
The Pike's peak ocean to ocean high
way has definitely completed an inde
pendent alignment from the Atlantic to
'the Pacific coast, says the New York
Tribune. The last link In the chain
was forged at San Francisco on July
30, when the national officers, in con
ference with representatives of various
California routes, selected the Feath
er-River Sacramento Causeway routes
and established the Pacific coast termi
nus at Oakland and San Francisco.
With terminal on the Atlantic sea
board both at New York city and Phil
adelphia, the first prong passes through
Newark and Morristown, N. J. ; Easton
and Allentown, Pa., joining with the
Philadelphia, prong at Reading, Pa.,
thence continuing westward along the
William Penn highway through Harris
burg, Tyrone, Altoona, to Pittsburgh;
crossing Ohio through Steubenvllle,
Coshocton, Newark, Columbus, Spring
field and Dayton; Indiana through
Richmond. Indianapolis, Rockville; Illi
nois through Decatur, Springfield,
Jacksonville, Griggsville ; Missouri
through Hannibal, Macon, Chillicothe,
St. Joseph; Kansas through Hiawatha,
Belleville, Norton, Colby, Goodland;
Colorado through Burlington, Llmon,
Colorado Springs, Manitou, Hartsei,
Buena Vista, Leadville, Glenwood
Springs, Ride, Meeker; Utah through
Vernal, Duchesne, Heber City, Park
City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Brigham,
Lucin; Nevada via the Overland trail
through Elko, Winnemucca. Lovelock,
Deno, and California through Port?la,
Quincy. Orovllle, Marysville, Sacramen
to, Davis, Benicia, Martinez, Berkeley,
Oakland and San Francisco.
The completion of the western exten
sion of the highway followed an official
inspection of the trip made by Presi
dent C. F. Adams, in accordance with
the decision of the midsummer meet
ing held on top of Pike's peak, July
10-11. following a sociability tour from
Chillicothe and St. Joseph. The re
ports made on the inspection trip indi- j
cate that less than 10 per cent of the
1,000 miles between Colorado Springs
and San Francisco is in poor condition. 1
Tile road follows streams, is through
Road Through Williams Canon, Near
Manitou, Colo.
i
inhabited territory with less desert or
desolate country to cross than any oth- I
er transcontinental route, and trav
erses some of the most wonderful see- j
nie sections of the United States. Vis-1
its were made at each town en route,
to create new enthusiasm for the route, !
confer regarding highway development J
and arrange for a more complete mark
ing system. The average running time
?was 19 miles per hour.
f An emphatic campaign ls now being
conducted to complete the marking of
the Pike's Peak trail from coast to
'coast. The national specifications re
quire red and white bands, each 10
inches in width, at cross-roads, forks,
. and frequent intervals between, these
to be painted on telephone poles, fence
Tposts, trees or rocks. In addition, a
' striking marker design in red and white
'has been adopted, and 1,500 enameled
."steel signs, 14 by 20 Inches in size, are
.to be placed on individual posts at in
tervals of not more than five miles be
tween New York and San Francisco.
1 Highways In Connecticut
The construction of concrete high
ways is going on in 22 cities and towna
In Connecticut, and when these con
tracts have been completed there will
be about 70 miles of concrete surfaced
?payment in that state. The highways
!are 18 feet wide and cost $15,000 a
mlle.
Good Roads Indispensable.
4 The time has come when we must
consider the roads an asset, indis
pensable to the well-being of the farm
er and his family. This being true, Is
lt not every man's duty to do all he
can to keep the roads in good condi
tion?
Good Roads.
! "More than $300,000,000 was spent on
highway construction and maintenance
jin the United States in 1916. Of this
'amount 18 Southern states spent ap
proximately ^52,000,000.
MONEY FROM EARTH WORMS
Old Man Makes Living Gathering
Night Crawlers and Other Crea
tures Used for Fish Bait.
The other morning early, during a
mild shower, we stepped from our front
door and looked down the gloomy
street, and there saw an old man carry
ing an umbrella and leisurely walk
ing toward us, stopping every moment
or two to pick up something from the
street, and put it Into a large bucket
that he carried on his arra, says the
Ohio State Journal.
We watched until he approached In
front of our domicile, when our curi
osity could stand it no longer, and so
we went out and asked what he was
gathering, when he held the bucket to
our gaze, and In it was a gallon of fish
worms that he had gathered from the
asphalt street., While we were talk
ing he picked up three "night crawlers"
at the edge of the gutter stream. His
eyes were trained to observe those
angle worms, for Just then he saw one
across the street, and hastened to put
It in his bucket. We suggested that
he had neglected the gutter in front of
our house, but he looked back and
at a glance said there were no crawl
ers there.
He said his business was fish bait;
that crawfish was what he gathered
mostly, but that night crawlers were
always more or less in demand, espe
cially for the less pretentious sport of
fishing for blue gills. In the dim fu
ture, when we are in the trenches
shooting the Huns, we will remember
this old man gathering night crawlers,
and wish we were he.
RETALIATIVE
"Why is your father so glad to get
summer boarders out from the city?"
"Well, ye see, dad wuz gold-bricked
in th* city last winter."
Strategy.
He told them he had been an officer
In the National Guard in his home
?rnte, and the insructors nt the Re
serve Officers' training corps camp at
Fort Benjamin Harrison intended to
make him prove it, says the Indianapo
lis News. When it came his turn to
command a company, he marched tho
men back and forth for several min
utes under the critical eye of an In
structor. Several times he tied the
company up in knots, but the Instruct
or volunteered no suggestions as to
how he should get them out. The
climax came when the temporary com
mander marched the force bang Into
a fence, where perforce it had to
halt The embarrassment of the stu
dent officer by this time had become
very apparent. He glanced out of the
corner of his eye at the Instructor, but
said instructor was watching an un
usual cloud formation. There was
only one thing to do-continue to use
his nerve.
"Company, attention!" he shouted.
"Get away from that fence-marchi"
Study Gardening at School.
A new course of study devised to
educate the 250,000 school pupils of
the city In the proper methods of gar
dening and farming has been added
to the school curriculum of Philadel
phia. If It proves satisfactory the
new study may be made a permanent
part of the school work. Thirty min
utes a week is to be set aside under
the plan In all schools without gar
dens for the teaching and discussion
of gardening.
How "Sammy" Arrived.
Just as a matter of historical record
it may be worth while to note that the
name "Sammies" was bestowed upon
the overseas sons of Uncle Sam by
no less a personage than London
Punch. It made the suggestion lo
warning Londoners that all the Amer
ican soldiers would not relish the titi?
"Yankee."
An Unambitious Fisherman.
"I hear v-,c whale meat ls good to
eat"
"Yes," replied the man with o
string of catfish. "But I don't see how
lt makes much difference to me. Jonah
was the culy man I ever heard of who
tackled a whale single-handed, and be
got the worst of It"
CEDAR FENCES ARE PASSING
Wood Rapidly Being Bought Up for
Use in the Manufacture of
Lead Pencils.
Today, through many sections of
Tennessee, Virginia and other states
where cedar used to thrive, it is diffi
cult to find any of the old-time zig-zag
( fences where rattlesnakes used to hide
and woodchucks burrow and bob
whites make their nests. Modern,
clean woven-wire fences, with metal
posts, take their places.
The war boosted the price of steel
and woven wire, but not enough to
prevent making lt profitable to ex
change new fences for old and the
work is still going on. Probably in an
other five years there won't be a foot
of cedar rail fence left in America.
When General Andrew Johnson moved
to Tennessee, in 1815, the central part
of the state was overgrown with ce
dars.
They were cut to clear the land and
burned to get rid of them. Millions
of feet of them were split into rails,
the sort Lincoln split when a boy,
and used for fenclng-off plantations,
boundary lines, fields and pastures.
These rails are sliced Into six-Inch
, lengths on the ground, before shipping
I to the factories, to facilitate handling.
A two-inch strip, a rod long, will make
1,500 pencils, and as the fences have
from six to nine rails and crossposts,
one section will make enough two^JJQch
strips for more than 1,500 pencil
sticks.
A rod of farm fence will retail for
nearly $750-provided it is good
cedar-and the woven wire fences cost
no more than $20 a rod, generally less,
-Philadelphia Press.
AMATEUR GARDENING
"Are you going to start a garden
next year?"
"I am not. Next year, instead of
burying good stuff, I'm going to'eat^t."
Mexican Bad Lands.
We are accustomed to talk of Mex
ico as a wonderful country, the treas
ure house of the world, etc. Those
statemonts are correct and, nt the
same time, there ls as much poverty
in Mexico as anywhere on earth. The
reason Is that more than 90 per cent
of Mexico is arid. Thc arable land Is
not sufficient to support the popula
tion in prosperity. There are few
rivers in ?M?xico and there is a lot of
desert land. WThere agricultural con
ditions are good the yields are mar
velous, but to the vast majority of
the people life ls a desperate strug
gle.
It is possible by water conservation,
by scientific work to reclaim much of
the arid land, but the Mexicans neith
er have the money nor the ability,
even if they had the desire to do so.
Most of the waste land ls In north
ern Mexico. Most of the fruitful land
is in central or southern Mexico.
Someone suggested Mexico would
know peace if It was split up, If north
ern Mexico was separated from the
rest of the republic. Perhaps that Is
so, but the Mexican Is a proud person,
and he'd rather be poor and have his
pride than rich and prosperous.
Financial America.
Fitting Corners.
When you put down new matting,
do not cot It to flt corners, but wet
It thoroughly with a soft brush, or
cloth dipped IrT hot water, to which
a cupful of salt has been added.. Whea
thoroughly soaked the matting: be~
comes as pliable as rubber, andi can be
turned under without breakings. This
makes a neater finish than? cutting!
and also saves the matting ?or uso ta
a different Bhaped room.
Cold Feet
"What's become of your neighbor
who was so strong for war a few
weeks ago?"
"He's discovered that we may have
to do quite a lot of fighting to win
and now he wants to back out"
Miles of Rabbit Fences.
The state of South Australia has
since 1891 erected 29,148 miles of "ver
min fences" as a protection against the
ravages of rabbits. ,
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somethi
oughly
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xis praises everywhere.
We receive many thou
sands of similar letters
every year, telling of the
good Cardui has done for
women who suffer from
complaints so common to
their sex. It should do
you good, too. Try
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OFFICE OVER
Bank of Edgefield, S. C.
>e misled into using infe
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ng that has been thor
tested by Edgefield fann
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Line of Fertilizers"
n on the market for about
rs. These goods are sold
ifield by
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L11 on Them for Prices
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CHARLESTON, S. C.
Agent, Johnston, S. C., Phone 77
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THERE is no doubt about
money in the bank, it is
sure and positive. Maybe slow, but there
is the satisfaction that it is sure. Posi
tive in every way, both that it will grow,
and that it is safe.
BANK OF EDGEFIELD
OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E. Nieholson, vice-President
2. J. Mirna, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier.
DIRECTQiRS : J. C. Sheppard; Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E
Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C Fuller. E. J. Mirna. J. H. Allen
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