16E TIIE SUNDAY BEE; OMAHA. JULY 2. 1922.
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Six Paving Jobs
Under Way in
Douglas County
Men Are Bring Employed on
Various Projects as Fast
at They Apply.
Six county paving project irr go
ing at lull bUt, according to Lou
Adam, county engineer, who mad
ii inpection of the work.
Men re being employed on the
various job at fast i they apply.
Condon Construction company hat
I almost finished its concrete base
J work on Vct Center, or flie D. L.
l D. highway. The 1'arks company
it laying concrete pavement on Six-
ticth street from Center south to
ward Q Hrret.
H.iiu-r Johiuon's outfit is rough
P'ailing on Xinetv-sfcond trret,
Center to Pacific. The Heche firm
it laying concrete bae on the Lin
coln highway. wet of Father Flan
agan'i home for boys. The Nation
al company is laying concrete pave
ment. Dodge to Tacific, while, the
Allied Construction company has an
'. nounced that its work on the mili
' tary highway north to Valley will
begin in a few days. All equipment
soon will be on the ground, officials
of the firm say.
Woman Demonstrates
1 Sleuthing Prowess
, ! Crestline, O., July l.-When
5'iuire Fred Newman left on a trip
'o Germany recently hi daughter, !
' Mrs. Emma Newman Snyder, was
worn in, and bonded, as his consta-
Ma in nrit trBnilft ill hninh
i f the squire's office during his ab-
lence.
A few days later Mrs. Snyder, the
only woman constable in Crawford
- county, was called upon to serve, pa
pers on a local male resident.
Going to his residence she found
he was absent. Pushing the papers
. under the door, she was about to ;
j leave when she remembered the pa
: ' pers were not signed. She tried to
fish them, back with her hatpin, but,
while the pin reached the papers, it
j would not catch hold. She could ,
; not draw them back out.
She had an idea. Going to a near- ,
' by store, Mrs. Snyder bought a. i
package of chewing gum. Returning '
to the man's house she chewed a bit '
' .of gum, fastened it to the end of j
f her hatpin, thrust it under the door
5 ; and quickly drew out the papers,
j' Signing them, she pushed the pa-
; pert back under the door. '
' . Motorcyclet of Police
to Be Radio Equipped
East Lansing July 1. Every
motorcycle used by the estate police
:; will be equipped with a wireless re-
I ;, Hiving PCI 11 l.xgjci III1C1I19 1IUW UC"
, ; inpr conducted by the state .public
j broadcasting station will be set up
J J and every agent of the state police
1 kept in constant touch with general
8 headquarters by code messages sent
by wireless.
New Douglas County Paving
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Th road to Fort Calhoun north of Florence, this highway ha been recently paved under the Douglas
county appropriation.
1922 Program to
Complete
Miles of Roads
420.07 Miles of Improved Ne
braska Highways, Includ
ing 53 Projects, Planned
This Year.
Lincoln, July 1. (Special.)
Two thousand and nine miles of
permanent state and federal high
ways will have been constructed in
Nebraska by the close of 1922, ac
cording to figures of the state de
partment of public works.
This will be almost half of the
4,500 miles laid out in the state sys
tem at the time of the adoption ot
federal aid five years ago.
The 1922 program alone includes
420.7 miles. Contracts for these
were let between June 12 and 16.
The estimated cost will be about
$2,000,000.
55 Projects Included.
This year's work will include 55
projects, according to Eugene
Morey, .chief of the division of roads
and bridges of the state department
of public works. These projects will
range from two miles to 26 miles, on
the Lincoln highway east from
North Platte, and 27 miles rom Hay
Springs to Merriman.
"The program this year," said
Morey, "will go a long ways to
connect up isolated stretches of
state roads in the main traveled
routes through the state, and filling
in the gaps. It will be only a matter
of a short time now, with large
amounts of work done on the lead
ing highways up to date and a good
start accomplished, when complete
cross-state roads will assume the
burden of traffic. In the meantime,
attention is being given to feeding
roads, connecting up new territory
with the established state system."
1922 Program.
The 1922 program calls for 303.88
miles of earth road, 110.2 miles of
gravel, and 59.9 miles of pavement.
The pavement will fill the gap in the
Lincoln highway just out of Omaha.
Four hundred and seventy-three
miles of earth and gravel and' 16.69
miles of paving are the total of roads
built from federal and state aid last
year. All types of state roads al
ready constructed total 1,589 miles.
Of these 1,500 are earth, 71.98 gravel,
seven brick and 12 concrete. The
total cost has been $7,609,857.28.
Available Funds.
Available funds for 1922 construc
tion include $1,913,567.95 from the
federal government and an equal
amount from the state, but the
building program will reduce the
expenditures to $2,000,080, according
to Morey. The department of pub
lic works estimates 80.000 miles of
highways in Nebraska, more and
more of which are improved and
more carefully maintained by local
communities under the stimulus of
the example set by the state and
federal programs.
"Counties are learning." declared
a federal engineer from Washington,
recently a visitor to Nebraska, "how
to make roads from the government,
and the public has learned the ad
vantage of good roads, so that in
dependent of the state system the
comities are developing their own
highway systems and doing credit
able work."
Every child should have some fruit
every day oranges, apples or prunes.
London Laughs at
Slang of Yankees
Americans Also Get Few
Snickers Out of London
ers' Expressions.
London, . -"Saybos!" That
is the latest slang in London for
overseas visitors from the United
States.
Americans are now pourinf into
London in great numbers, anti the
Londoners always find the "Say
bos" good for a laugh. Incidentally,
the Americans get a few snickers
out of the Londoners.
"Oh, boy! Say, ain't this grand?"
is the expression most commonly
used by Americans when they enter
Westminster Abbey, according to
one writer in the London press -who
is making a neat little salary by
holding up Americans to ridicule fot
the entertainment of Londoners.
This writer likens Americans to
wild birds. "They make good pets
but you must keep them in a hotel
with plenty of bathrooms, or else
they pine away s,nd die or disap
pear," the writer admits, which to
Americans seems something of a
compliment in view of the wide
spread but unfounded reputation the
English have for taking numerous
"bawths."
"I must warn readers," the Lon
don humorist continues, "that the
arrival of the Saybo is not a sure
sign of spring these days; they fre
quently come over in winter to
perch on wine cards."
And so the Londoners are getting
a good laugh out of Americans, and
the Americans are getting a good
laugh out of the Londoners, and
everybody should be happy.
HUGH MURPHY
Construction Company
CONTRACTORS
OF
PUBLIC WORK
206 KAR BACH BLDG., Omaha, Neb.
85 Million Yards of W arrenite-Bitulithic Paving
Have Been Laid in 550 Cities Throughout the United
States and Canada from 1 901 to 1 922-Equivalent
to 5,000 Miles of 30 Ft. Paved Streets and Highways
o
nite
itulitfoic
Pavements
ARE REMEMBERED LONG AFTER PRICE IS FORGOTTEN
There's a Reason
"The success of W arrenite-Bitulithic Pavements is due to the fact that they are laid under
Warren Methods. Warren Supervision and Warren Inspection".
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