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SSiRSS'TnififffffffftRffffpffJfpif WMntfXX&T&tifcMr&A I Subscription THE RED GL Eight Pages All Home Print '4 $1 a Year I in Ad 4 llf.-J -T-fwjwrWl Advance I isiffisescte: tfawwvwwjmwmew VOLUME XXXIV. RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, MAY 18, 190(J. NUMBER 120 OUD CHEF 3kkJK3KC IV i' kl m wzm' Lv u ' N. I ?5he King of the Road tf Hrw ri Male a And m """ $SHPiS For the good of the cause we reprint the direetions for making and using the road drag designed by I). Ward King of iMaitland, Mo. Mr. King de serves the thanks of all dwellers on the dirt roads of the country for his discovery and the generosity with -which he places it without money and -without price in the hands of anyone who will take the trouble to use it. This is a work the carrier can do. Talk the King road drag until your patrons get to work and do the work, Make a drag and illustrate -on any given piece of ground. It will be money in your pocket and the whole country side will praise and call you blessed. Tin: I'Hoiu.KM. The problem given is the soft or dirt road. It is "worked" occasionally by "being plowed on each side and the loose dirt thrown up toward the mid dle, making a more or less symetrical oval sloping to the ditch on either side. In good weather when the rains are not frequent or heavy the ruts will lie cut down by the wagon tratlic. In rainy weather and in the spring and fall the ruts are full of water and the mudholes are worn in the surface and made deeper by every new wagon track. The water that makes mud holes is held in by the bottom and sides of dryer earth and frozen sur faces. If the water can run o'll" it will do so. The problem, then, is to make u smooth surface so that the water will run off. Then of course,-there will be no mudholc. "-! "Kite - TIIK SOLUTION. The solution is the King drag here described. ' Any man or boy can make a drag in less than two- hours. (Jet a log 8 feet long and 12 inches inieter. Split it in halves. Iforc in diumete three 12-inch lioles in each half one at each end and one in the middle. .loin the halves, split side forward, with good strong braces about It feet long. Wedge them in securely. If a log is not handy, use a plank. Reinforce the backs 13-inch with a 2x0. A loose plank, on which to ride, is placed across the braces, Wrap one end of the chain around an end stake, carry it over the top of the slab out to the double-trees, and then back to the other end of the slab, where it should be fastened by poking an old bolt or spike through one of the links into a hole bored 3 or 1 inches from the end of the slab and about its center, up and down. Hitch up and drug at an angle of -15 degrech and you will be surprised :it the results. now to tisi: tiii: diiao. First make the drag and have a four "horse evener ready for use the first time. Wait until your road is very soft the wetter and softer the better. Then attach four horses, straddle the right hand rut, and begin to drag. Then turn and come back along the other rut. Don't hurry; drive slowly, the slower the better. The effect of this lirst dragging will be to till up the ruts and to make a moderately smooth surface on which it is possible to make three tracks, one on each side and one where the old track used to he. This smooth surface will shed water partially, at least, and will give free access to the sun and wind, cause it to dry out quicker than the rough surface on either side of the .smooth cned space. When it begins to dry off take two horses and go over Hie same track again. This will still further puddle the clay and carry a little more into the middle of the road which every team will both puddle and com pact still more. f you wish to widen the road, wait until after another rain and then when it has dried oil' sulllciently to plow 93 Usr sx Snllf-I.nd Hrari .?!. w .a 'JU readily plow one furrow along the outer mark of the drag, take the drag and spread this smoothly over thesur faee of the road. In this way the road will be widened by the width of the furrow and will gradually become oval; that is, higher in the middle; J and each time the drag is used it will . become a little smoother and a little harder. If the road is still too narrow, plow another furrow, and so on, until the road has been widened as much as you wish. llONT'fl. Don't drive Hat. Don't walk; get on the drag and ride. Don't wait foryour neighbors to take hold; they may be waiting for you. Don't wait for the big grader to come and shape up your road. All you can do first will help to make the work of the grader permanent. Don't be particular about material. With an ax und a 2-inch auger almost any kind' of a log can be made into a drag. The one I used- for several years is a box elder. Don't try to drag with one piece; use two. One will scoop out the hollows in the road and deepen them. When two are used the one keeps the other up, and in a month or so the hollows will have filled and become level and hard like the balance of the road. KINO'S CATlICIIISM. Would it not be better to plow the road before dragging? No. L'lowing.gives a soft founda tion. Plowing the middle of the road is a relic of the old dump-scraper days. What do you do where there are deep ruts in the road? Drag them. If you drag when the surface is quite loose and soft you will be surprised how soon they will dis appear. How do you get the dirt to the mid dle of the road? Hy hauling the drag slantwise with the end that is toward the center of the road a little to the rear of the other end. Hut suppose the road is too narrow? First drag the wheel tracks. After three or four rains or wet spells, plow u furrow just outside the dragged part of the road. Spread this over the road with the drag. Only plow one furrow. You may plow another furrow after the next rain. At each plowing you widen the road two feet. How many horses do you use? Two, generally. Three if it is justas handy. Four when breaking colts a good, solid team in the center and a colt on each side. Two men on the drag, one to drive and the other to control the colts. How do you drain the road? If the earth is pushed to the middle of the road continually the road will drain itself. Why not make the drag out of plank? Vou can, and do good work. Hut the split log is best. The plank drag is not as still', and quivers and floun ders. Why not make the drag of heavy sawed timber, say (1x8 or 8x10? Hecause they have a tendency to slip over the bumps. The log is better than heavy timbers because its thin, tapering edge scrapes more surely. Don't you grade the road first? No. The grading is done with the drag, gradually. Hy so doing the road is solid all the time and is put on a solid foundation. At what angle do you haul the drag? A safe answer is 45 degrees, or, in common parlance, exactly quartering. Hut bear in mind that the proper angle of a drag, like the proper tension of a sowing machine, depends somewhat on circumstances. The angle of the drag will need to be varied as the soil is moist or dry and as the surface Is more or less convex. These slight changes can be made by the driver walking in one direction or the other on the drag. What does it cost to drag a mile of road a year? The cost is variously estimated at from 81 to SI). I think much depends on the season and what degree of ex cellence satisfies the man who drags. How do you keep the drag from dodg ing sidewlse? Hy not loading it too heavily. If it dodges it is overloaded. It is because you are trying to do too much at once. The secret of road dragging is a little at a time and often. Will it work? All over the state of Missouri the drag has been used with satisfaction. The state board of agriculture recom mends it and published a free booklet on the subject. Mi. King has traveled extensively in Ohio, Illinois. Iowa and elsewhere, and everywhere comes the word it will do the business. A Real Test for the Draft Nebraska City Tribune. The split-log drag has come to town and it has come to stay, because it "wins its way" wherever tried. Coun cilman Kregel, chairman of the street committee, completed a King drag some days ago and the rain of yester day evening ofl'ered the first opportu nity for its use. This morning, in charge of Street Commissioner Walker, the drag was used for the first time in this city on North Sixteenth street und on First avenue. The conditions were not the best, as the rain had softened only the surface of the earth and North Sixteenth street was a maze of ruts and lumps nearly as hard as granite. However the work of the drag was a revelation even under the adverse circumstances, the ruts filling up and making a fairly even roadway by the drag passing once over, where as an hour before the street was nearly impassable except at a slow walk. Births and Deaths. The legislature at the last session passed a law providing for the crea tion of a state registrar of vital sta tistics and the appointment of local and sub registrars. The reports of the local registrars sent in from Web ster county for the quarter ending March ,'tl are as follows: Deaths. Kirthw. Hlue Hill 1 S) Hladen 11 28 (iuide Rock 1 1(1 Red Cloud 11 22 Total 2B 7B According to the reports submitted the birth rate has exceeded the death rate in the ratio of :t to 1. Hladen has a strong lead in the matter of births, having six more than are reported from lied Cloud, which seems all out of proportion considering the popula tion of the towns and the surrounding territory. The report of but one death from Guide Rock in three months seems to be inaccurate. m Johnson Gets Judgment. The time of the district court was taken up Monday and Tuesday with a case involving some horses owned jointly by the late Harry McCormel and Henry Johnson. Some time be fore McCormel's death he and John son bought two car load of horses. Administrator Crary took charge of the horses as part of the estate, and Johnson brought suit to replevin them. The jury decided that there was a partnership in the horses, and they were turned over to Johnson, who will dispose of them and turn .McCormel's share of the proceeds over to the ad ministrator. McCormel's affairs were in a very bad tangle, and there are now pend ing claims against the estate amount ing to several thousand dollars. A Certain Cure for Aching Feet. Shako into your shoos Allen's Foot Ease, r powder. It euros tired, aching, callous, sweating, swollen foot. At all druggists and shoo stores, 2!5 cants. Sample frco. Address, Alien S. Olm stead, Lolioy, N. Y. Decoration Day Program. Members of the (Irand Army, fhe Relief Corps, soldiers of the Spanish American war and all old soldiers, will meet at the (t. A. R. hall at one o'clock p. m., Wednesday, .May :i(). 'Lino of march will form on Webster street, near (!. A. R. hall, commanded by C. C. MeConkey, marshal of the day. Column will march west on Fourth avenue ttt Walnut street, thence south and west to the cemetery, proceeding in line of march through the cemetery. Details will be assigned by the post commander and president of the Re lief corps to decorate the graves of the dead comrades and members of the Relief Corps. After the decorating of the graves the line of march will form in Hollow Square at the monument to the I'nknow Dead. Kxereises of Relief Corps. Kxcreises of (!. A. R.- M usic. ltenedlctibn by Rev. Austin. Iteuediclioti by Rev. Davis. Column will march to speaker's stand. Flag drill by kindergarten pupils. Song ".My Country, "Pis of Thee." by the audience. Invocation by Rev. Rice. Singing by quartet. Reading list of dead comrades. Addiess by Prof. Dietrich. On Sunday. May 27. all soldiers and sailors of the civil and Spanish Amer ican wars and members of the W. I!. C. are requested to meet at the !. A. It. hall at ten o'clock a. m., and march to the Methodist church, where services will be held. .Memorial sermon deliv ered by Rev. Davis. I). It. WniTAKUt, Post Com. . Wllla Cathcr With McClurc's. Sunday's State Journal has the fol- liktvilitr iiimitnitiii' MtkC Willn -ti4li.n. , ,, ... a, ,m ,., , 1,Mmnlu,.V, ho wild hls.-pimcr a short Hum. daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. Charles F. I . . ' . . - father of this city: "The latest report from New York has it that the upheaval on McCl lire's is to result in le addition of Miss Willa father, formerly of this city, to the stall' of the magazine. Some of the Tarbell-Stell'ens-ltuker crowd will re tire with Mr. Phillips of the publish ing firm of McClure, Phillips & Co., and start a new magazine. Miss fath er's virile writing attracted the atten tion of S. S. McClure personally about two years ago, and he naturally thinks of her when he needs new people to fill the places made vacant hy the in surrection. .Miss father has been teaching and writing in Pittsburg since she left Lincoln nearly ten years ago." Congregational Services. The following program of services will be presented at the Congregation al church on Sunday: Morning ser mon theme, "What Doest Thou Here." A song service will be given in the evening with the following program: Organ Voluntary. Anthem "Kvening Shadows Fall," (Adams), Choir. Scripture. Duet Selected, Miss Igou and Air. Cotting. Prayer. (Juurtet "Father Hear Me" (Ruebush) j Miss Igou. Mrs. (tarber, Messrs. Cotting and Sellars. Solo "Jesus Lover of my Soul," (Schuecker), Miss Helen Overman. ! Ladies' Quartet "Lead Kindly Light" (Parks). .Miss Igou, .Mrs. Caster, Miss Thompson, .Mrs. (turner. Anthem, "(tod's (Sift of Spring," (Km- erson), Choir. Hymn, Offertory Voluntary. Solo -Selected, Miss Wert. Sermon "Lord I Relieve," Anthem "I Waited Patiently," ((tab- riel), Choir. Hymn and Hencdiction. To Cure Cold a In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo quinine tab lots. Druggists refund monoy if it falls to cure. E. V. Grove's signature is on each box. 'JB cents. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, blind, blooding, protruding piles. Druggist1) uro authorized to 1 refund money if Puzo Ointment fails to euro in G to 11 duj s. DO cents. "MERV" HAS PROSPERED. M. I. Thomas, Pioneer Editor of "The Chief" Pays a Visit to Red Cloud. M. L. Thomas and wife of Pond Creek, Oklu,, arrived in Red Cloud Tuesday morning for a visit with rela tives and friends. They were accom panied by his brother, Dr. J. W. Thomas of Weeping Water, Neb., father of Dr. M. II. Thouia of this city. All the old-timers know ".M. L.,'' and most of the newer residents have, heard of him. lie came here in 1871, when the country was teeming with Indians and biifYalo, and located in Kim Creek township. It is his proud boast, that he plowed the first furrow in that, township. Just how it happened he himself does not know, but some thirty year; ago he became the proprietor of Tin: Cmi:i and continued as Us editor for a few years, leasing the plant in turn to Itorin A Springer, and David Lutz, neither of whom could make it "go," finally selling it to A. C. Hosmer in ISS:i. During his career as editor of this paper there were "things doing" in the newspaper business, and ho made life a burden for A. J. Kenney, who was then editor of the Argus. After Mr. Thomas sold Tin: Ciiiki- to Fred llosmer he entered the servicu of I'ncle Sam as railway mail clerk, having the Crete to Red Cloud run, but the life was too strenuous for him. and he again embarked in the news paper business at lloldrege, where he made money rapidly, lie later went.' to Colorado and from there to Oklu-' hoina. where he settled at Pond Creek, and up to quite recently was proprie tor of the Pond Creek Dally Vidette, as well us postmaster of the city. Having laid by a comfortable sum of ago, purchased mi IH-horsc-powcr Rambler automobile and started out. to enjoy life. He made the trip from I 1'iktwl fVjuil. In f.ifio.iUi In f,t.i. ,!... ,y ' ano irom mere 10 lien tioud. Mr. Thomas has been absent' from here for over twenty years, with tho exception of a brief visit about four teen years ago, and his coming box revived a host of reminiscences of tho early days. Julius Caesar. The play of Julius Caesar is more or less familiar to everyone but mores especially is this true of every High School student in the country. What boy has not learned "Mure Antony'rt, Oration," which stands today, .three centuries after it was written, as one of the world's literary models in. rhetoric and oratory. It is doubtful whether Shakespeare ever penned any thing more beautiful. The forthcom ing presentation of this famous trag edy at the opera house on Friday, May 25, by Sanford Dodge and his company will no doubt arouse unusual interest here as it has done elsewhere. The version used is the same as that, played by the late Kdwin I tooth, and the origtnal text is strictly adhered to. The play is divided into six acts and eleven scenes. Special scenery has been painted for each act, and the costumes, designed from old plates in the Studebaker art gallery, are elab orate and accurate models of tho times of the Roman empire. New and incidental music has been composed for the production, and nothing lutK been omitted to make this a complete and perfect production in every detail. Mr. Dodge has surrounded himself this season with a large and powerful company, each member having been selected with the greatest care and with a view to their individual talents for the various famed roles which they portray. Do not miss the opportunity of seeing the theatrical event of tho season. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a Powder. It makes walking easy. Cures corns, bunions, ingrowing mills, swollen and sweating foet. At nil druggists and shoo stores, 25o. Don't accept any substitute. Sample froo. Address Allen S. Olmstoud, LoRoy, N.Y. I t. I .. r) rfyasx . , t mmwmmmmmmm-vz'