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OFFICE OF INFORMATION,
U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULURE.
Gold and Silver Medals Offered
to Children for Best Essay on
Repair and Maintenance
of Earth Roads.
Washington; D. C. —The Direct
or of the Office of Public Roads of
this Department, Logan Waller
Page, has announced that the time
in which child en may submit es
says on repair and maintenance of
earth roads, in competition for the
gold medal and the two silver
medals,has been extended to March
2, 1914.
The conditions for the essay are
as follows:
1. Tne Subject of the essay will
be the Repair and Keeping Up of
Earth Roads.
2. It is open only to children from
ten to fifteen years, inclusive, who
are actually living on farms and
who are actually attending some
school.
3. The essay should be not more
than eight hundred words in
length, in the handwriting of the
child, and should be written on
only one side of the paper.
4. In the upper left hand corner
of the first page should appear the
following statement: Essay on
Earth Roads by (name of child;
age of child; actual residence of
child; school attended by child.)
5. Children wishing to enter this
contest may ask the advice of their
parents teachers, neighbors, high
way commissioners, and other
people, and reads books or maga
zines giving information about the
subject. They must not give the
infomartion they gain in this way
in the exact words of an adult or
the author of a book. They must
express the ideas in their own
language. They will not be ex
pected to use technical terms and
any words that make the meaning
clear will be acceptable.
6. The essays will be rated by an
impartial committee according to
the understanding of the subject
shown by the child and according
to the penmanship, 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 silver medal.
7. All essay should be plainly ad
dressed, in an envelope stamped
with a t * o-cent stamp, to: Commit
tee on Children’s Road Essay Con
test, Office of Public Roads, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington D. C., and should be mailed
to reach that Office not later than
9 A. M. on monday, March 2, 1914.
8. Children who have already
submitted essays in that contest
which was originally announced
to close October 15th, may if they
wish, submit a second essay.
As a help to children, the sug
gestions given below are made.
Children need not follow these
suggestions absolutely. They must
not submit essays in the form of
direct answers to these questions.
They must not quote any of the
following material word for word.
How TO TELL A GOOD ROAD
From a bad road.
To the children: In getting facts
to write your essays for the prize
contest on the repair and mainten
ance of earth roads, use your eyes.
Look at a bad piece of road and a
good piece of road when both are
dry. Study, particularly, the ruts
and holes and uneven places in the
road to see whether they make it
easier o' harder for the whee's of
a loaded wagon to go along. S tudy
the kind of footing that the two
roads give to the horses.
Now, study the same stretches
of road after a good rain-storm.
You will see that one road holds
small puddles, or poo's, of water
that keep the road soft and sofal
low it to be cut up 1 y the 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
the road slope to the side ditches?
How much higher should the cen
ter, or crown, of the road be than
the outside edges of the road?
Why do good ditches at the side of
the road help make the center of
the road better for hauling? What
happens when ditches get full of
rubbish or weeds? When a ditch
along a road holds water or col
lects it into pools, how does this
injure the road?
Using A Drag on Earth Roads.
Have you ever seen a home
made road drag? It is made by
splitting in two a log six or eight
inches in thickness and about six
or eight feet long. The two halves
of the log are set three feet
apart with their smooth faces for
ward and upright. They are fas
tened together with braces. A pair
of horses are hitched to a chain
fastened to the front half of the
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 direc
tion? 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 the cost of his labor.
Remember, children, you are
not to answer these questions
as if you were answering an ex
amination paper. You are to think
about the the answers and ask
people for information and watch
people actually working on rotads,
and then write a composition that
will be just the same as if you were
writing a letter to a friend, telling
him, or her, how they made the
earth road near you better, and
kept it from getting full of holes,
ruts, and puddles.
FARM LOANS.
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SCHOOL NEWS TROUGHOUT
THE COUNTY OF HENRY.
Department Devoted to the Interest of All
The Schools in The County With News
From Them Each Week.
O. 0. TOLLESON,
Superintendent.
Our Visit to Stockbridge.
We had the pleasure the past
week of visiting Stockbridge school j
and town people. While there is
not at present at Stockbridge all
that we would like along many
lines, the absence of a good, com
fortable, well-equipped school
building claims the best of our at
tention. In this lack, though,
there are some points which com
bine to relieve the situation in a
measure. The chief point here is
that the citizens want a new build
ing.
The attitude of some of the
best citizens of the community
toward the school situation is
most gratifying, in that though not
yet within the range of vision,
they are trying to make possible
the erection of a building which
will be to Stockbridge an endur
ing monument, and a lasting ben
ediction to the children there.
But, though we have not an at
tractive building, nor grounds to
our liking, we have at Stockbridge,
as we find it everywhere we turn,
troops of merry boys and girls,
bouyant, active, yearning. As
naturally as plants are drawn up
ward from the earth by the warm
and tender sunbeams, so are boys
and girls drawn upward toward a
fair and shining heaven by all that
is “good and true and beautiful.”
Surround them with right in?
fluences and they will always
march onward and upward.
Stockbridge is full of bright pos
sibilities. so let us build up our
school for the sake of those who
1 are young and hopeful and ambi
tious.
Some good and effective work
was done on the yards at Stock-
I bridge the past week. How hap
py the children were as they chat
i tered and scampered and worked
on the worn, neglected school
yard. A tennis court, we hope,
MISS FRANCIS WEBB,
Industrial Supervisor.
will soon be completed. Net, balls,
and rackets have been ordered al
ready and the boys and girls will
soon be enjoying their games in
the soft autumn sunshine.
The girls here enjoyed the very
newexperience of sewing in school.
This we hope to have added to
the regular, daily work of this as
well as every other school of the
county.
Cooking in the school at Stock
bridge may be out of the question
at present on account ot the limit
ed amount of space the building
affords. Work in cooking for the
girls here would have to be done
at home till this work can be
provided for at school. They copy
recipes at school and try them at
home, bring the results to school
and compare with each other, ♦he
teachers acting as judges. Some
good results are sure to grow to
out of this.
Of Stockbridge I would say:
Where there is life there is hope.
We must move forward.
Prizes Awarded.
In School improvement
Contest.
Awards as follows were made
by the Board of Education last
week in the school improvement
begun in the spring.:
Flippen SISOO
South Avenue 15.00
Locust Grove 10.00
Hampton 10.00
Union Graded 5.00
Daniel 5-00
Checks have been already mail
ed to the trustee treasurer of each
school. Quite a deal of interest
was shown in the work, and the
winners and others which closely
approached them are to be con
gratulated.
Annual High Falls Musical
Convention tteets.
The High Falls Musical Conven
tion, composed of the counties of
Henry, Butts, Jasper, and Newton,
held its annual session at Cedar
Rock Church in Butts county on
Sept. 19th and 20th.
It was a good session, a number
of prominent music leaders being
present.
The next annual session will be
held with Bethany Church in this
county. ?
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Weekly Building.
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DENTIST
MCDONOUGH. GA.
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