Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 9, 1920, Page 7

~ROAD - BUILDING DIRT ‘ROADS CARE IN SPRING Proper Drainage Is Chief Essential in Maintenance—Road Drag Is Especially Useful. [ The cardinal essential in spring maintenance. of earth roads, especially those on heavy solls, is good drainage. So long as the whater can be kept from penetrating deeply into these roads they will remain at least fairly passable. To accomplish this on aver- age earth roads, however, is far from easy. During the early part of this seasen of the year rains are often of long duration and tend to saturate the sofl. Water from melting snows is perhaps even more penetrating than long-continued rains, while alternate freezing and thawing of the wet sur- face tends to increase the porosity of the soil and permit even more ready Bccess of water into the foundation. The chief attention of the road man must therefore be directed toward getting and keeping the water away from the road. So long as the founda- tion can be kept dry, even a heavy freeze followed by a rapid thaw will do little or no real damage to the road surface. A dry soil does not heave. The foundation will therefore still be Bold, and the .road will be able to sustain the traffic without serlous rut- ting. On the other hand a saturated eoll expands greatly on freezing, and when it thaws out has not only lost practically all power of sustaining the weight of traffic, but also is in an ideal condition for taking up or absorbing stil more water, and thus forming still more mud. During the early part of the season, a9 Jong as the weatlier is very rainy or there is melting snow on the ground it will pay to have the road man go ..ever the road daily to see that the drains and side ditches do not become clogged and to note the néed of any necessary irs. A few minutes’ work with a shovel may prevent a se- rlous washout or damages, which, if not promptly checked, might make the road practically impassable. _The road drag or some other similar idevice finds its greatest usefulness durlng this season. It may be used to good advantage to clear the road- way of slush and melting snow and so prevent this water from soaking into B Drag Most Useful in Spring. and softening the subgrade. To mnll ruts, smooth the surface and maintain ithe crown of the road, the drag is un- excelled when in the hands of a skilled operator. An unskilled man may do more harm than good. Fur- thermore, the actual condition of the road during this period will depend very largely on the knowledge of the road man as to just when to drag, as well as his skill in the operation of the fmplement. In addition to the malntenunce, pro- wision should be made for doing all mecessary grading or earth work as jearly in the spring as possible, in or- der that it may become thoroughly con- polidated before the dry weather of summer. If the work is done too late Fhe road will not only probably be- fcome very dusty in dry weather but wlll need additional attention later in fflle fall, Where the soil is a heavy clay or gumbo the condition of the road may be very materially improved by adding sand from time to time as that already on the road is worked ia by the passing traffic and the drag. - |PROVIDE RUNWAY FOR WATER 1 lenty of Space Should Be Allowed in Rebuilding Bridge or Culvert —Repair Costs Cease. | Whenever a bridge or culvert 18 re- built use some form of permanent struction, seeing to it that plenty runway is allowed for the water. en repair costs will virtually cease, nd the money now wasted will begin 0 show In roads that are good 12 nths in the year. FEEP UP FARM APPEARANCE il.lmlghtly Features May Be Unseen ! by Farmers, But Passerby Is 17 Keen to Discern Signs. ; The farmer interested in attracting de in his farm products should look well to the appearance of his place. |Perhaps old, unsightly - features of wwhich he is not conscious exist, but ithe passerby is keen to discern these :lgns of farm management and hesi- - 'tates to purchase at a place showing meglect. Subscribe for the Ploneer. “I know a man that has been married thirty years and he spends all his evenings at home.” “That’s what I call love.” “Oh, no, it’s paralysis.”— Widow. PERSIANS CHANT OLD CAROL “Good King Wenceslaus” Is There Sung as a Dirge in Honor of Prophet’s Grandsoh. Cornell 1t is curious at the Christmas sea- son of the year, when the ancient carol “Good King Wenceslaus” comes into its,own again .in Eng- land, to read of the tune being heard in distant Persia, sung as a dirge in honor of Hussein, son of Ali, grand- son of the ophet, the correspon- dent of the Times of London, who describes this year’s Moharrem, re- marks on the curious impression made on him of “weird Christmas .waits transmuted into fierce mystic devotees of Islam.” The processions | in honor of Husein are numerous. The correspondent notes as a proof of the softening of manners that two of them, that of the Cossack division and the gendarmerie, “rapt devo- tees” all, passed one another in a narrow street without any incident. But the most pronounced instance of religious tolerance was witnessed by him in 1909 in Tabriz in the month of Moharren, when Armenian Christians took part in the proces- sions “in sign of the fellowship which was supposed to unite the de- fenders of a besieged city.” MYTHS OF SEA “MONSTERS” .Remarkable Denizens of the Deep Said to Be Merely Creatures of the Imagination. The appeararce of wandering herds of sea lions mnlong the shores of south- ern California reminds of the peren- nial stories- about monsters of the deep. Some scientists have believed the rare ‘specimens of “oar fish,” which sometimes reach the surface, might be mistaken for sea monsters. Some of these fish are twenty feet long. Unfortunately, they are so adapted to lives at great depth they cannot live at the surfuce. Records show that two have been washed upon California beaches. Many stories of sea monsters are the fruits of some excitable person’'s imagination. There are many things about the sea which might readily start such an imagination working. The sea is so large, and hides so many secrets, that such a person might read- ily believe that, if anyone objected to his story, he could say the monster disappeared. Then,K who could px‘ove he had not seen it Various people have had traditional myths and legends about sea mon- sters .and those probably have helped in keeping general interest in such stories now. The Norse.tales are the most numerous and vivid. FOX STORAGE EGGS. Flatbush—T see by the paper that a Maine man set’ a trap for a fox which was trailing his chickens, and got a silver gray fox worth $1,500. Bensonhurst—That price looks as if the silver gray fox had put quite a few eggs in him. Pricking a Pimple Fatal. A man died recently from the ef- fects of pricking a pimple with his scarf pin. Blood polsoning set in. He might have avoided all danger if he 1ad held the point of the pin for a few ‘conds in a gas flame. | BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAI. VETERINARIANS J. WARNINGER VETEAINARY SUBGEON ~.Office and Hospital 3 doers west.. of Troppman's. Phone No. 809 3rd Street and Irvise ave. THE BEMIDJ\ Dr. W. K. Denison—Dr. D. R. Burgess DENISON & BURGESS Veterinarians Phones: Oftice 3-R; Res. 99 Bemiajl, N DENTISTS DR. J. W. DIEDRICH Offiee—O’'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phones—Oftice 376-W. Res. 376-R DOCTORS , AAAAAAAAA AN AAAAAAA AN i e S — DR. EINER JOHNSON Physician and Surgees , Bemidji, Minn, e DR. E. H. MARCUM Office hours, 11 a.m. to }2 m,, 2 pm. to 5 p.m. Schroeder Block. Office phone 18, Res. phone 211. e ———————————————————— — DR. H. A. NORTHROP OSTEOPATHIO PEYSIGIAN DAILY PIONEER PA Becauseo AND BURGEON Ibertson Block Oftice phone lll LUNDE and DANNENBERG Chiropractors Hours 10 to 12 am.; 8 to 5,7 to 8 p.m, Phone 401-W Calls made 1st National Bank Bldg. Bemidji I DR. E. H. SMITH , Physician and Surgeos Office Security Bank Bletk Physician and Surgeen I s DR. L. A. WARD Bemidji, Mima. . DRS. GILMORE & McCANN Physicians and Surgeens’ Office Miles Blook DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. Physician and Su: Office in Mayo Block Phone 336 Res. Phone 397 C. R. SANBORN, M. D. Pbysician and Surgeon Office: Miles Blosk . gouu Phone 44y——Office phene §§ —_—— — BUSINESS E. M. SATHRE Buys Small Houses for-cash and sells them on small monthly payments , II|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIlIIIlIIIlllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIflIIIIIIIIIIIllIllllllIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIllIIlllIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIlIIlIlllIIIIIIlIIlIIIllIIlIIIIlIIIIIII TRANSFER & DRAY LINE Nymore and Bemidji Phone 620-W o — MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Planos, Organs, Sewing Machines 614 Minnasota Ave., Bemidji J. Bisiar, Mgr. Phone 573-W § D. H. FISK, Attorney at Law Office, Northern National Bank Study this for WHY VOTE FOR VING BONDS \ —if the bonds carry it is more than probable that out of the $150,000 we will get back from the state $72,000, which gives us paving for almost half the cost. —the proceeds are to be used for municipal im- provements and out of the entire $185,000 issue, only $30,000 will be paid by the city at large, the $150,000 is to be assessed to benefited prop- erty, and these owners, as stated above, will most likely get half of it back from the state. —if we don’t do this improvement work this year, we stand no chance whatever of getting anything from the state, and therefore it is good business. to issue these bonds. —it will connect upon the through proposed Bab- cock highways running east and west and north and south, from Nymore to the city limits on Irvine avenue and from the Soo right-of-way to the Birchmont road. —if the work is done without the issuing of bonds the cost would have to be paid in a single year, but by voting the bonds the cost is distributed over a period of from 15 to 20 years, thus workmg no hardship on the taxpayers. yourselves. Investigate! You'll vote for the Bonds if you do lIlIIIllllllllllIllllIIIIIlllI_IIlIIllIIlIIIIlll!flll!!!ll!flllllllll!fl]lIIIlllflIlIlIIIIIIIIIIlllllIlIIIIIIIl||lllflllllmfillllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIlIlllllllllllllllllIIIIII||IIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllillllllllllflllllllllllllllllllIIl!lllllllllllll PAGE SEVEN IIIlIi!IIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIlIlIIlIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIllllIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIII“- IIIIIlIl'|I|I||IIII!'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIHIIIIII|IIIIHIIIIIlllllllIIIIlllllIIIlIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllmh.- H. C. NELSON Piano Tuming and Piano and Violin Repairing—Bow Filling 216 Beltrami Ave. Bldg. Phone 181. Collections a specialty. . Phone 573W ‘ DR. H. A. HASS DENTIST ' REAL ESTATE Offica Over Boardman’s Drug Phone 447 212 Beltrami Avenue Store. Subscribe for the Pioneer. Phone 144 J F IRE INSURANCE REYNOLDS & WINTER VOTE FOR . - WM. C.KLEIN FOR RE- ELECTION TO OFFICE OF CITY ASSESSOR OESO Stands for a Fair and Equal Taxation to All Election February 17, 1920 'S | v ! l P ,.,,,_-‘A_+ = S } .3 i