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Show Gas St"t;rvi Is ModQrn Toilet? on Highways The rnsoline fi'line station has replaced re-placed fbe familiar old sapling that formerly was swung down to block the public highways in the form of a toll ! gate I Motorists are paying part of the 1 highway cons! ruction expenses at three cents a gallon at tiie filling sta-i sta-i Hon pump, where formerly every ve i hide nasin;: Ihe designated spots had I to plank down, a quarter. 1 -Toll gates were satisfying to the 1 traffic a hundred years ago when the ; pioneers blazed through forested areas and established accommodation for ! travel, but today the slate is building j its own improved and modern high-! high-! ways. Motorists will drive miles out ; of the way over another route to escape the periodical iratos. On June 14, 1700. one turnpike company com-pany organized a toll road with rates I ranging from one cent for every ten ' sheep or hogs to three cents for each i four-horse carriage. The rates ail-vanced ail-vanced with the progress in roads and modes of travel and similar toll systems sys-tems were adopted in other states. |