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' (.old and Silver Medals Offered to Clillfj^fT' dren for Best Essay on Repair and Maintenance of Earth Koad?. Washington, D. C., Sept. 27?The Y director of the office of public roads of this department, Logan Waller Page, has announced that t.ie time m which children may submit essays on the repair and maintenance of earth roads, in competition for the sold , medal and the two silver medals, has k been extended to March 2. 1914. ^The conditions for the essay contest are as follows: 1. The subject of the essay will be the Repair and Keeping Up o: Earth Roads. 2. It is open only to children from ten to fifteen years, inclusive, who are ^ actually living cn farms and who are actually attending some school. H 3. The essay should be not more jf| than eight hundred words in length, r in the handwriting of the child, and j should be written on only one side cf the paper. 4. Tn thf: rrner left hand corner of the first page should appear The following statement: Essay on Earth Roads by (name of child; age of child; j actual residence of child; school at-j tended by child.) 5. Children wishing to enter this contest may ask the advice of their L parents, teachers, neighbors, high- j L way commissioners, and other people, and read books or magazines giving information about the subject. They P must not give the information they ? _ X-I- _ ??~ c j | gciill Ill LXI15 vvay iu luc c.vaw | of an adult or the author of ( a book. They must express the I ideas in their own language.' They will not be expected tox use j technical terms and ariy words that j make the meaning clear will be ac-; ceptable. 16. The essays will be rated by an impartial committee according to the understanding of the subject shown ! by the child and according to the pen- j ' manship, English, and spelling. The writer of the best essay will receive a gold medal; the writer of the next best essay, a silver medal; and the writer of the third best essay, a sil-j ver medal. 7. All essays should be plainly ad dressed, in an envelope stamped with a two-cent stamp, to : Committee on Children's Road Essay Contest, Office of Public Roads, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington D. C.. and should be mailed to reach that office _ not later than 9 a. m. on Monday, j March 2, 1914. S Children who have already' suV j ritu 1 essays in that contest k.*hich was originally announced to close October 15th, may if they wish, submit a second essay. iAs a help to children, the sugges-; firme aivon hplnw are made. Children 1 bXV/UO ^4 ? V4A WW *? _ need not follow these suggestions ab-1 solutely. They must not submit essays in the form of direct answers to f these questions. They must not quote . any of the following material word for 1 "word. IIow to Tell a Good Road From a Bad j Road. To the Children: In getting facts to | write your essays for the prize contest j on the repair and maintenance of j earth roads, use your eyes. Look at j a bad piece of road and a good piece | of road when both are dry. Study, j particularly, the ruts and holes and I uneven places in the road to see whether they make it easier or harder for the wheels of a loaded wagon to go along. Study the kind of footing that the two roads give to the horses. Xow, study the same stretches of road after a good rainstorm. You will see that one road holds-small puddles, * -"u ~ J or pools, of water tnat Keep uie iuau soft and so allow it to be cut up by the j wheels of the wagons and the hoofs of; the horses. How do road builders keep water from gathering on the: traveled way of a road? Should the1 road slope to the side ditches? How j much higher should the center, or crown, of the road be than the out- j ci/?o Prions of the road? Why do good j ditches at the side of the road help j make the center of the road better for hauling? "What happens when diiches get full of rubbish o r weeds? When a ditch along a road holds water or collects it into pools, how does this injure the road? T":-" " Tk?.o r? ATI "FaWVl umg a 1/105 VII juwli/U iivwu.j. Have you ever seen a home-made road drag? It is made by splitting in two a log six or eight inches in thickness ard about six or eight feet long. The twc- halves of the log are set three feet apj.rt with their smooth faces forward and upright. They are fastened together* with braces. A pair of horses are hitched to a chain fas tened to the front nan 01 me log. Should these logs be drawn straight down the road, or should it be dragged at a slant so that a little of the loose earth will slide toward the center of the road? Should the dragging be started next to the ditch, or at the center of the road? Should you drag the whole road in one way, or drag each half of it in an opposite direction? Should the dragging be done when the road is dry, or after it has rained? A good strong pair of horses with a well built drag can drag about three or four miles of road in a day. What would it cost a farmer to drag four miles of road? How would he be repaid for ? *???- -Mf-.. ~ ? .p * f the cost of his labor? ! Remember, children, you are nor to answer these questions as if you were answering an examination paper. You | are to think about the answers and j asl* people for information and watch people actually working on roads, and then write a composition that will be just the same as if you were writing j a letter to a frieml, telling hinl. or her, ; how they made the earili road near you i better, and kept it from getting full i of holes, ruts, and puddles. ~ Liirhtnin? Bua: Editor. ' We see by the Newberry papers: that a shoe-shire stand has been es-j itablished in that town.?Anderson! : Mail. j Anderson Mail paregoric (we mean j , paragraphic) squibbler is a firefly, or ! j lightning bug man, judging by his brilliant scintillations. The above I lucid remark fairly bristles and glitters with srlistenins: and bubbling dis j w- ----- w ! plays of mental electricity. Better a j | shoe-shine sunshine city than a i not-shine at all town. I 1 ? Professorship A^nted. Spartanburg Journal. Miss Lillie Belle Hallman, daughter of Dr. Hallman, has accepted a professorship in the A- derson Wo- j man's college, and has gone to as- I sume her duties -n the music depart- 1 ment of the institution. Miss Hall- j man is a conservatory graduate in j music, with over ten years successful j pvttpriprirp as a teacher, and her ! friends will be glad to know of her success as a pianist and teacher. Statement of The Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc., of The Herald and News published twice a week at Newberry, S. C., re-! qu::red by the Act of August 24, 1912..j Note.?This statement is to be made in duplicate, bot.i copies to be deliv- j ered by the publisher to the postmas- ! ter, who will send one copy to the | Third Assistant Postmaster General | (Division of Classification), Washington, D. C., and retain the other in the files of the post office. Editor, E. H. Aull, Newberry. Managing editor, E. H. Aull, Newberry, S. C. ! Business managers, E. H. Aull, New- ! berry, S. (J. Publisher, E. H. Aull Co., Newberry, S. C. Owners: (If a cornoration. sive1 * w "I names and addresses of stockholders : nolding 1 per cent or more of total j amount of stock.) E. H. Aull, Newberry, 3. C. J. L. Aull, Dyson, S. C. Jno. K. Aull, Columbia, S. C. J. L. Aull, Jr., Columbia, S. C. Jno. M\Kinard, Newberry, S. C. A. H. Kolin, Columbia, S. C. Known bondholders, mortgagees, j and other security holders, holding 1; ,per cent or more of total amount of j bonds, mortgages, or other securities: j Carolina Life Insurance Co., Co-: iambia, S. C. j Geo. S. Mower, treasurer, Newberry,1 S. C. Whitlock Prtg Press Co., Derby, j Conn. Brown Folding Machine Co., Erie, J ra. I Geo. S. Mower, et. al., Newberry, S. j c. Newberry Savings Bank, Newberry, S. C. Average number of copies of each -issue of this publication sold or ens- j tributed, through the mails or other- | wise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date of this ! statement. (This information is required from daily newspapers only.) j E. H. Aull. Sworn to and subscribed before me ; this first day of October, 1913. (Seal) I. H. Hunt, j Notary Public for S. C. j My commission expires at the pleasure of the Governor. LIVER GETTING LAZY? DON'T STOP WORK ; ! ? Take Dodson's Liver Tone and Go About Tour Business. 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