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Show "Good Roads Days" There have beenmore "good roads days" this summer than ever before. The two days in which thousands of Missourians worked on roads in that State attracted country-wide attention, but in many other parts of the country tnere have been similar campaigns, on a smaller scale, in townships and counties. coun-ties. All this shows that the growth of the good roads movement is more than mere talk. Merchants 'cf a little western town recently offered prizes aggregating 000 to farmers who would come to town on a certain day on road drags. One hundred and fifty drags were driven to the town on that dav, one having been brought by a girl who drove thirty-one miles, getting up at 2 o'clock in t!:e morning. A wonun with a baby drove fourteen miles. C miing and going, the prize winners traveled an aggregate of 1,754 miles. The experiment put 100 miles of road in fine shao . |