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Show MAIN STREET BEING IMPROVED Army of Patriotic Citizens Husy Gnulfclg and Surfacing This Principal Thoroughfare. WORK IS VOLUNTARY AND DONATED QRATI8 Average of Vbout fid Men and 10 Teams are on Job Each Day, Regardless Re-gardless of Disagreeable Weather. The movement that was initiated by the local chapter of the County Farm Bureau and encouraged and aided by the Commercial club and patriotic citizens trenerally, having for its object ob-ject the improvement of Main street, is gaining monmentum day by day and is certainly bearing good fruits. From fifty to seventy -live men and1 HO to fit) teams have been busy each day for the past two weeks, or nearly so, and the lower portion of Main street hns put on quite a different appearance. After grading and evening up the street from guttetr to irutter, the en-tire en-tire surface is being coated to a depth of several inches with a sort of gravel grav-el concrete, which packs very hard, and forms a splendid roadway. There is an inexhaustible supplv of this material ma-terial a short distance north of town, and a "trap" has been Constructed so that the material can be scraped into in-to the wagons and a continual string, of them kept going back and forth between the loading place and the j portion of the street being surfaced. As the material is dumped in uneven piles upon the street the supervisor follows up with the road grader, and smooths it down and fashions it into a nicely rounded road way reaching) from gutter to gutter, i I lie work but. now Ituttn iMUirly completed com-pleted to First North Street, and from present appearances will be continued contin-ued until the entire street is completed from the large bridge north of town to the South Field canal. It is a splendid work and has been needed for a long time. That the labor is all voluntary and contributed by the citizens is a condition of which we can all feel proud. Even yesterday, when a cold north wind was blowing all day and the mercury in the thermometer was near the zero point, the work continued with considerable vim and enthusiasm with about thirty teams on the job. Many tourist.; and others passing through a town form their opinion of it from what is apparent on the Main street, so that a idee, clean, even boulevard has much to do with creating creat-ing a favorable idipression on the minds of tourists and other trans-cients, trans-cients, which often is very far reaching reach-ing in its effects. In addition to this, we need a good Main street for our own convenience, as a means of facilitating fa-cilitating traffic, preventing dirt and dust, and for the feeling of satisfaction satisfac-tion ami complacent contentment it brines Prom every view point, the labor being performed on our streets is a splendid investment. Photographer It. D. Adams secured some good photos ol the men and teams at Work, and it was tur expectation expec-tation to reprodure one or two of the best iii this is.ue, but as the cuts have not been received, they will be shown next week. |