Show As to roads the charge is made that tho the unsatisfactory condition odthe of the roads is duo due to tile the negligence of the county commissioners wo take it that the mentho men who are saying T this are not fools and I 1 hence bence they must know why tho the roads are not so good this f fall 11 tile the long dry summer is responsible for the chuck holes loose rocks etl etc e and every nian man who has observed fed knows it the only remedy for chuck holes is copious rain which providence has denied us or artificial sprinkling af which is of courso course impracticable those who are charging carelessness know that if holes were filled during the summer and early fall with dry gravel it would not pack and the winds would sweep it away cail causing sing expense without benefit As tc to 0 cu lverts it is well known that nearly all of them that are owned by the county are constructed ted of masonry private dumes being made of wood hence the charge of wilful wa waste ste by neglecting to repair flumes blumes when dirt becomes removed los es as its force so far as the commis are concerned the fact is tho the roads are in as good condition as tile the weather the busy season and t the ll 11 e county fun funds ds will perm permit ift now that terms storms have commenced a generous road appropriation is bein being t and will be worked out oat 1 1 if tho the commissioners had d dv sired to make votes by te temporarily re repairing pairin M the roads duri during in t dry weather they could ila leave v e lone so but it would have been libor partially thrown away As a 3 matter of economy they chose to wait for rainy weather to commenced s malice A wise precaution for fear of an after election shock the tolman number cumbe w of the big t three seldom leaves the sunny I 1 side of a professional hursei nurse found it wholly untrue joseph lamoni holbrook |