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$30,000,000 to Be Expended in
South and West for Highways.
Improved Roads in North Carolina Add
ed SBS to Value of Each Acre of
Farm Land on the Highways.
SBavannah, Ga,—Figures just gather
ed fromn fourteen states show an un
precedented movement throughout
the south and west for improved
highways. Contracts proposed or al
ready entered on call tor the expendl
ture of between $25,000,000 and §3O,
000,000,
But for the intense prejudice
against automocblles it is estimated
fully $60,000,000 would now be avalil
able for Dbetter roads.
In Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana, and Oklahoma state con
viets are being largely used.
In parts of Missouri the money
from saloon licenses is appropriated
for the purpose,
In Kentucky the county courts set
apart a certain sum to be matched
with equal amounts by ciuzen,
In Alabama the new roads are paid
for, half by the county and half by
the community.
In some parishes of Louisiana the
police jury fees pay for new roads.
There is a notable lack of county
engincers and much incompetent su
pervision in all parts of the south.
But in the aggregate a tremendous
amount of work is being done. Grades
have been reduced, roads have been
clayed, iron or steel bridges have re
placed wooden ones and sewer draii
age has been installed in the low
places.
In Kentucky $25,000 a year in each
county is being raised by taxation,
for gradual improvement, The own
ers of timber and mineral lands are
joining in putting good roads through
the hill regions,
Drouth in parts of Texas, three
crop failures in succession in districts
in Missouri and the boll weevil in
Mississippi have delayed bond issues
or other provisions.
The last year’s figures for actual
expenditures in the south for improv
ed roads .are as follows: Alaboma,
$1,576,000; Arkansas, $1,400,000;
Florida, $578,000; Georgia, $2,100,000;
Louisiana, $925,000; Missouri, %870,
000; Mississippi, $1,615,000; " North
Caroclina, $1,359,000; Oklahoma, $775,
000; South Carolina, $746,000; Ten
nessee, $1,6622,000; Texas, $4,138,000;
Virginia, $688,000; West Virginia,
$893,000.
Thirty-odd counties in the adjoin
ing states of Virginia, North Carol:-
pa, Georgia and South Carolina are
co-operating in the building of a con
tinuous highway seven hundred and
fifty miles in length.
It is to be known as the “Capital
Highway,” and will connect Rich
mond, Raleigh,- Columbia and Atlan
ta. From Richmond it leads to Wash
ington.
Since the new roads were built in
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina,
the value of farm lands there has ris
en from sis an acre to SIOO an acre.
More than four thousand four hun
dred convicts are now employed in
improving southern highways, :
More than $1,720,000 has been ex
pended in the United States on so
called good roads. ;
There are now 43,450 miles of ma
cadam roads and 124,468 miles of
gravel roads.
About $70,000,000 a year is now be
ing spent in the whole country in the
work of improving old roads and
building new ones,
CALLS RURAL LIFE IMMORAL.
Dr. Landrith Advises Parents to Rear
Their Boys in the City.
El Paso, Texas.—Rev. Ira Laudrith,
president of Belmont College of Nash
ville, head of Presbyterian Men’s
clubs and former secretary of the Re
ligious Educational association of
America, in an address before the Y.
M. C. A. here, took occasion to differ
with most educators who declare ru
ral life is the best for a young mai.
“There is nothing to equal the im
morality of rural life,” declared the
speaker. “Rear your boy in the city
if you can. His physical health may
be better in the country, but that is
orly one-fourth of it.”
BONFIRE OF HAIR RATS.
Religious Enthusiasm Touches Wom
en in Wichita, Kan,
Wichita, Kas.—The religious enthu
siasm which caused a grocer of this
city to burn his stock of tobacco re
cently, was demonstrated again when
Mrs, Fannie Freeman made a bonfire
of playing cards, hair rats, hair puffs
‘and other artificial adornments for
the head.
COTTON TRUST HAS RIVAL,
Garner Mill, in New York, Will Be
Run Independently.
New York City.—The Marquise de
Breteuil and her sister, Lady William
Gordon-Cumming, formerly known in
this country as the Garner girls, have
just closed a deal with southern and
eastern cotton manufacturers for the
gale of the vast cotton print manufac
turing plants in northern New York,
which they had inherited from their
father. It is said that the purchas
ers are thus freed from the yoke of
the cotton trust, which operates in
the New England States, and will be
able to reduce the pricgof the goods
The price paid for th ill was $1
M%é“m ¥ 4
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA.
The state prison commission has
requested A, C. Bruce of Atlanta to
prepare plans so rthe new reforma
tory with the present structures on
the state's property near Milledge
ville, The building will be two sto
ries in height and 40 by 60 feet in
dimensions, It will be used as a Ne
gro building, while the present build
ings will be used for the white in
maes, :
For the first time since the Geor
gla militia has been in the national
guard, the men have been awarded
gervice shirts, which heretofore they
have had to furnish themselves, Ad
jutant General A. J. Scott has notified
the various regimental commanders
of the arrival of the supply of gray
woolen shirts, sufficient for two to
each man, The shirts are gray and
made of *wool and will be worn with
the service uniform. They are furn
ijshed to the state by the United
States government as a part of the
regular equipment
Dr. S. Y. Jameson of Mercer uni
versity was elected president of the
Georgia State Baptist convention in
gession at Dublin, Ex-Governor Nor
thern declined re-election Baptist
ministers and delegates from all sec
tions of Georgla were present. Dub
lin had well prepared to entertain the
visitors and as they arrived were as
signed to homes in the different parts
of the city.
W. M. Sanders, a Thomas county
farmer, won the first prize of SIOO
in gold for the best yielid of corn on
a measured acre of ground. His yield
was a t{action less than one hundred
and ted bushels. A Worth county
boy, J. L. Jenkins, son of a farmer,
won the prize of SIOO in gold for the
best yield in the juvenile class. He
cultivated his own acre and made
seventy-nine and a half bushels. H.
T. Bridges, a Terrell county farmer,
made one hundred and five and a half
tushels on one acre; T. F. Ford, of
Lee county, made one hundred and
two bushels, and G. F. Smith of Ter
rell county, made ninety-nine bushels.
Ford and Smith won second and third
prizes, aespectively, All the other
contestants presented affidavits of
surprisingly large yields. The boys
winning second and third prizes were
M. J. Kidd of Baker, and R, H. Sum
mer of Early. The above were the re
sults of the Albany Herald’s corn
growing contest.
Chairman Howell B, Erminger, Jr.,
of the starting committee which ar
ranged the Constitution’s Macon-At
lanta good roads endurance contest,
in which a large number of cars
reached Atlanta on November 9, has
made announcement of the prize
awards. The prizes consisted of $309
divided into first and second prizes of
$65 and $35 in each of ‘three classes
of cars entered for the contest. The
committee purposely waited until ita
return home so that it could go eare
fully over the records in each case:
First, class AH. J. Lamar, Jr., Ma
con, $65; second, Class A, W. J.
Massee, Macon, $35; first, Class B, F,
N. Winder, Forsyth, $65; second,
class B, Willingham-Wheeler Auto
company, Macon, $35; first, Class C.
Lewis Hale, Sandersville, §65; sec
ond, Class C, Guy Ward, Atlanta, $35.
Sixty-one per cent of the children
attending the publis schools of Atlan
ta are physically defective, according
to a report of Dr. Stewart R. Rob
erts, who is in charge of the physical
examination of the pupils of these
schools. According to the report, a
total of 2.375 children have been ex
amined. Of these 923 or .39 per cent
were normal, while 1,452, or 61 per
cent, were found to be defective. Of
these defects, diseases of the teeth,
eyes, tonsils and glands predominate,
as follows: Teeth, 687, or 29 per
cent; eyes, 527, or 22 per cent;_ton
sils, 351; glands, 271. The other de
fects found are as follows: Nutrition,
20; anemia, ‘66; heart disease, 21;
adenoids, 401; ears, 16; lungs, 12;
bone defects, 5. Strange to say, none
was found affilicted with the hook
worm, which has been so widely ad
vertised. Special stress is laid by Dr.
Roberts upon the fact th#t 60 per
cent or more of the children do not
use tooth brushes.
The officials and the directors of
the state fair are to give their atten
tion immediately to a very material
enlargement of the floor space in the
exhibits buildings at Central City
,park in Macon, Plans will be taken
up immediately for the state fair next
year. Every possible means of afford.
ing floor space will be utilized this
time. The fair was a success this
year and the financial palance in the
terasury leaves the association able
to finance other undertakings.
The Burdette-Loomis syndicate has
been granted the franchise for the
electric, gas and street railway priv
ileges of Waycross. This franchise
requires the construction work to
commence within the next ninety
days and a cash forfeit bond of $lO,
000 binds the new company to com
plete the work as soon as possible,
The state prison commission ap
pointed two road supervisors and six
inspectors of prison camps, increas
ing the inspectors’ force eight, just
double what it has been heretofore.
The road supervisors named are i,
(. Tuggle of DeKalb, formerly an in
spector, and John Awtrey of Cobb.
These - appecintments were made un
der the new prison commission act
which authorizes the appointment Of
as many as four road supervisors
whose duties are to assist the coun
ties and look after road construction
generally throughout the state. They
wili also act somewhat as chief or
head inspectors. The new inspectors
pamed by the board are Elmore Bal
‘Jew of Floyd county, J. F. Simmons
of Pickens, W. F. Walker of Craw
ford. Dat Hall of Lee, J. A. Riley
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