The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 04, 1908, Image 6
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I HAVE PLENTY OF
WOOD FIBER
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To plaster that house you are putting up jand
also have plenty of Cement on hand now.
Don’t your house nee:! painting? Ladies, don’t
your furniture and walls need painting? I
have Cherrv. Dark Oak, Light Oak, Malogany
and Walnut Stains in *25e, 40c and 65c cans.
It don’t cost much to make everything look
new and you can do it yourself. Come and
iiet some of it. : :
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W. H. Philson,
The
Lumber Man.
Hew thankless is man’s attitude to me
For the support I have bestowed upon him!
Yet should I fail his pantaloons to trim
What ludicrous and sorry siijht you'd see!
When fortune smiles, I, with apparent glee, *
Cling to brass discs on trousers wide of limb
And of a style that makes the sun look dim,
So gorgeous is the plaid of which they be!
But should misfortune overtake my man,
I’m loyal still and hold to trousers thin
By any .ort of fastening that I can,
Tho’ be it rusty nail or safety pin;
Then should these fail, on me he’ll still depend,
For round his girth he’ll tie me end to end.
Bull Dog Suspenders Out Wear 3 Ordinary Kinds
25 and 50 cents.
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An Excellent Foundation Is a
Prime Necessity.
MUST BE FREE FROM WATER
Provision Should Be Made For Thor
ough Drainage—How to Roll the
Foundation—Materials to Use For
Surfacing Rural Highways.
Before u fliiisliing surface of uny
material is applied to a road nil the
preliminary work should be complet
ed. The road should have been grad
ed, draius provided and the roaifmade
safe by proper guard rails. With all
this done, the dirt road Is a founda
tion for the different materials that
may be put upon it.
For country roads there need be
considered only pavements that are
put on in small fragments. The ma
terials most commonly used are gravel
and broken stone. # Oyster shells aud
slag from iron furnaces are ofteutimes
employed In localities where these ma
terials are at band, while under cer
tain conditions, when no other ma
terials could be obtained, burnt clay
has proved serviceable. The object of
a pavement is to furnish a wearing
surface for the road and a protection
for the foundation from water and con
sequent softening. It is in reality a
roof.
When dry, all but the very saudy
soils are firm enough to support the
weight of wagons of all kinds, but
when wet little support is furnished.
It Is well known that sand when con
fined will stand any pressure that can
be put upou It. Thus if a sandy road-
bed is covered with a surfacing ma
terial which will hold the sand in place
an excellent foundation is obtained.
While a surfacing material is designed
to take the wear, it is the foundation
that must resist the pressure, and any
road which is constructed without giv
ing due attention to the foundation is
wrong from the start and never will
be a good road until the defect is rem
edied. To prepare a natural roadbed
for surfacing material it Is necessary
to bring it to a proper grade and to
conform Its cross section with that of
the finished surface—that is, no sur
facing should be put upon a roadbed
which is flat or, as is oftentimes the
case, lower in the middle than at the
sides. In such instances the proper
shape should be given to the roadbed
by filling in with such material as is
necessary aud then rolling the whole
until it becomes firm and unyielding.
During the course of construction of
a roadbed, if there are places that
have a wet. springy subsoil, they must
be drained anil every precaution taken
to make the foundation of the road
dry. The pavement will keep water
from going through from the top, but
it will not keep water from percolating
into the foundation from springs at
the sides or underneath. Therefore
where there is danger of water get
ting to the foundation from the sides
or from below it must be cut off either
by side drains or by drains directly un
derneath the road itself. Where the
soil is too light, gravelly or saudy earth
should be carted in to take its place.
With the roadbed brought up to
grade aud provision made for thor
ough draluage it is theu compacted by
rolling either by horse or steam power.
In the rolling of the foundation per
haps quite as good results can lie ob
tained with a horse roller as with a
steam roller, and in some loose soils
much iess difficulty will be experienced,
although more rolling will be required
to compact the earth as firmly as by
the heavier steam roller. This is a
part of the work that is too often
slighted and is the cause of depres
sions subsequently appearing in the
finished road. The rolling of the foun
dation will bring out the weaker
places, where there will be a settling.
The depressions should be filled and
brought to an even surface with grav
el if it is at hand. It is cheaper to
even up depressions by rolling the
foundation than by attempting to
smooth the finished surface with addi
tional broken stone. When the founda
tion has been rolled and all unevenness
has disappeared it is men ready to re
ceive the surfacing.
It oftentimes bappeus when grading
a particular piece of road preparatory
to surfacing it with broken stone that
It is necessary to do considerable
heavy filling. In such instances it may
be advisable to delay the laying of
macadam for some time in order to
give the embankments time to settle,
for it is impossible to construct an em
bankment of earth more than a few
feet in height without having subse
quent settlement. If this settling took
place evenly all along the embankment,
no particular harm would be done to
the surfacing laid upou it, but owing
to the difference In the soils composing
embankments and also the way the
eartli is dumped there is always a tend
ency for some parts to settle more than
others.
If there arise circumstances making
it impracticable to wait for the em
bankment to “season,” every precau
tion should be taken in its formation
to guard against uneven settling. This
can he done by spreading the earth in
successive layers of about a foot in
thickness, which are rolled or tamped
as solid as possible. Another advan
tage in delaying the surfacing of a
newly graded road is that a chance is
given to observe the action under frost
of certain sections and so provide ad
ditional underdrain, which if omitted
might have caused a failure in that
portion of the macadam.
Beware of Narrow Tires.
Where the soil is stiff or loamy It
pays to use the split log road drag
after it rains and before the ground
dries hard. .Nine-tenths of the country
roads could be made into splendid
thoroughfares by the proper persistent
use of the road drag and wide tires.
Wide tires alone will keep a loamy
road in fairly good condition with Just
one scraping in the spring to round up
the turnpike. Sandy roads are a much
more serious problem, but sometimes a
surface of clay will soon mix with the
sand to form a hard track, and wide
tires will keep it hard and smooth so
the rainwater will run off quickly to
the sides, but narrow tires will ruin
such a road surface quickly by cutting
ruts to hold water. It would be diffi
cult to invent a worse implement of
destruction, especially on roads that
are Inclined to l)e sandy.
Economy In 1906>
Pure Linseed (Ml costs much lew
sold from the barrel than It does put
up In Tin Cans as Mixed Paint—In
the first Instance you pay 60 cents
per gallon—in the second 61.60. Now
mix 3 gallon of pore linseed oil with
4 gallons L. ft M. Paint and you have,
ready for use, 7 gallons of the best
paint made costing only $1.20 per gal
lon. Done In 2 minutes. Smith Hard
ware Co. L. ft M. Paint Agents.
We do not do all kinds of printing
-'we do the QOOD kind.
NOTICE SECOND PRIMARY ELEC
TION.
Pursuant to the constitution and
rules governing the Democratic pri
mary election a second primary la
hereby ordered to be held on Tues
day, September 8, 1908, at which elec
tion candidates for United States
Senate, Congressman for the Fifth
Congressional District, Railroad Com
missioners, and County Auditor will
be voted for in Cherokee county.
The same managers who conducted
the primary election on August 26th,
1908, will conduct the election, and
are requested to call on the County
Chairman for boxes and tickets.
Polls will open at 8 a. m. and close
at 4 p. m.
By order of the County Democratic
Executive Committee.
J. C. OTTS,
Chairman.
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Buy a Home
With Rent Money!
You can do this by taking stock in the
Cherokee Building and Loan Associa
tion. This is the oldest Building and
Loan Association in Gaffney. It is
conducted aloug conservative lines.
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We can help you to the road of wealth.
See any of our officers. Read our
Booklet and learn our plans. ;
Cherokee B.iL Association
W. W, Gaffney, Sec’y 4 Treas. C. A. Jefferies, Prest.
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Johnson’s School of Music
Term Commences Week of September 1st.
Pupils may enter at any time after above date. Terms
$4.00 per scholastic month (4 weeks) payable monthly. No
pupil received for less than 3 months. Instruction given
on Piano, Organ, Violin or Guitar, and Cultivation of the
Voice, either single or in class. Studio on 2nd floor of
Spake bldg, opposite Star Theatre, Limestone St. 8-26-tf
Littleton Female College
One of the most successful and best equipped boarding schools in the
South with hot water heat, electric lights and other modern improvements.
58 boarding pupils last year. 27th annual session will begin Sept. 16, 1908.
For catalogue address J. M. Rhodes, President, Littleton, N. C.
Ppntral Aparipmv ^ high-grade Preparatory School for boys and
UullllUl HbQUwlllJ young men, with industrial and agricultural equip
ment. Located on 700-acre farm one mile from Littleton College and un
der the management of the same board of Trustees. For new. illustrated
catalogue address J/B. Aiken, Prin., Littleton, N, C. 6-12-08-Fri.-im.
^ Desirable Property For Sale &
Four-room cottage with brick store room on lot (80x200) on
\ Cherokee avenue. Valuable lot fronting Limestone St. 40x200. F
yft The V. E. Lemmons house in West End, Peachtree ‘■treet,
150x250. A nice farm (the J. J. Jamison place) six and one-half
/ miles from town. For prices and terms see : : : :
^ SAfl L*. FORT, Real Estate and Fire Insurance,
u Phone 258. Office second floor National Bank Building.
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Are arriving now almost daily. Don’t m»ss an opportunity of visiting W. J.
Wilkins & Co. Fail Dress Goods now on display. New Shoes in all grades. See
us for your heavy work Shoes. Our Shoes wear well.
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are coming in by almost every train. We believe we can serve you as well if not
better than any other place in the city. Our prices are always right. Good stock
of heavy Groceries at rock bottom prices all the time. Buy your Flour from us.
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