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Show COUNTRY ROAD IS ACCURSED Automoblllst and Farmer Take Turna In Swearing at Poor Construction of Thoroughfares. Everybody takea a whack at the country road. Tbe autorooblliat that trundle their machine over It curse it makera. The farmer that hauls hi load to market over It awear a blu atreak over it bump and chuck-hole chuck-hole and wonder why somebody dooa not know Vuough to fli It so It will atay Died. The legislator lounges In the leather cbatra In the atate capltol and deltvera profound discourse dis-course on It and It uses and abus and tbe beat way to fix It and keep ft filed. Tbe board of supervisors meet and look wis and Ulk their beadi off about the way It should be taken car of, and how tbe care-taking x-peoses x-peoses should be met And still th county road slumbers on and never get much above the mud except in dry summers or very cold winters, when the traffic can skat along on tba Ice, aaya the Northwestern Stockman and farmer. The country road I aa orphan or-phan and uaually a friend! orphan. Lik the Arkansas bouae. It can't be fixed while It la raining, and when It doean't rain there la no need for fixing fix-ing It It la a public domain wher poll taxea may be worked at leisure, and with the leaat poaalble effort by the party tbat la segregating blmseli from so much of his valuable Urn for the good of the commonwealth. It aurface la marred bare by a bote dug by an unruly plow, there by aeveo scraperfula of dirt dumped In the mid die of It juat prior to quitting time. There are uaeleaa treea bordering It that abut out the sunlight and keep off the wind ao that It auriac shall remain tbe consistency of putty the longest possible time. It ia a bone of contention for neighborhood rowa ovet who ahall be "road boss" and how the poll taxes ahall be "worked." I am not trying to aolv tb country road problem, but I am endeavoring to call attention to it The country road problem 1 too deep and complicated for one man to solve. It will require the beat and moat conservative brain la the tatc to settle upon some plan that win make the country road whaf TTT.?1 Intended for a highway for traffic with the leaat possible reaiatence. Agitate good roada brethern. Keep the matter before the public. Don't let up until something definite land proper la done to give the atate of Montsmt-good permanent highways at a minimum coat |
