The Adair County news. [volume], August 25, 1915, Page 2, Image 2

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THE ADAIR ICOUNTY NEWS
Road Catechism.
, WlaatLcSurt can issue bonds for
Ibuilding roads?
The Fiscal court. But it cannot is
tsue them until authorized by the legal
-voters of the county.
In what denominations are bonds is
isued? Not less than one hundred dollars
:and not more than one thousand.
.At what rate of interest per annum?
" 'Not exceeding 5 per cent.
How long can the bonds run? ZM
Not less than five nor more than
rthirty years.
Can they be sold for less than par
rvalue?
No. '
When can they be redemeed?
At the pleasure of the court after
s5.ve years.
W-aen a bond is called for redemp
fetioa at a certain time will that stop
tfihe interest?
Yes.
How is the money raised to pay the
tinterest and redeem the bonds?
By the levy of a tax on the property
.of the county.
Is any part of it paid by a poll tax?
No.
What amount of tax can be levied in
amy one year?
Not exceeding thirty cents on the
one hundred dollars of the assessed
'valuation of the county.
How is the tax when collected ap
ipropriated? First, to the payment of interest on
jhe bonds! Second, the balance to be
placed to the credit on the sinking
cf und for the redemption of the bonds.
Does the county get any money
ifrom any other source?
Yes, from the State aid fund for
scoads.
How is this fund raised?
By the levy of a five cent State tax
ton each one hundred dollarsof taxable
fproperty.
What counties pay the larger por
tion of this tax?
The richer counties. Jefferson
county pays into the fund over a hun
dred thousand dollars more than it re
sceives from the fund.
What is done with this money.
It is paid the poorer counties to as
sist them in building roads.
Does Adair county pay into the
tState fund more than it receives from
tY
No, it receives more than it pays to
vthe State.
If Adair county issues $125,000 in
Kxjnds, and puts this money on its
roads will the State pay back any part
of it?.
Yes, it will pay back one half, ?62 -00.
Then the county will pay one half
of the cost of the road, and the State
one half?
That is correct.
How is this money spent?
Under supervision of engineers f ur
taished by the department of Public
iBoads.
What is the advantage of a bond is
:sue for roads?
It enables the county to raise the
enoney and build the roads without
delay With more mileage of con
sstruction better contracts can be made
The public gets the use of the roads
without waiting, and the enhance
ment in the value of the land "comes
tnwith the completion of the road.
How long will it take to build roads
tin the county by merely applying the
Ktsxes collected and the State aid fund
received f rom the State, as we are
now doing?
It is hard to guess many of us will
ibe buried before they are completed.
Howlong ought it to take to build
aroads on the leading highways by bor
rowing meaey on a bond issue?
1 Probably three years.
YWhat is the usual enhancement to
tfche realestate of a county by good
isroad construction?
It Is said to be about ten thousand
dollars per mile. At this rate eighty
miles of good pike road in the county
would increase the real estate eight
i&uadred thousand dollars about twenty-five
per cent, on the present value
.-as shown by the last census.
What rate of tax is now levied by
- 'Ahe county for roads?
-.Twenty-five cents on the hundred
3ollars.
What amount would be levied
.should a bond issue be voted?
J&fc could not exceed thirty cents.
WouWthisbe in addition to the
tweofcy-ve cents levy?
Nq, it would be in place of it.
'(Thirty cents is the limit.
"Tbea the annual tax of this could
xatetbe aauoh greater uader oae plan
than it would be under the other?
No, under the present arrangement
it could not exceed five cents on the
one hundred dollars.
What did our court house and jail'
cost?
Something over forty thousand dol
lars. Was the credit of the county
strained in paying this-sum?
If it was no one knew it.
If the county could pay this sum
for a court house and jail (and they
do not enhance the value of land In
the county,)-don't you think it could
safely risk sixty-two thousand five
hundred dollars in good roads and not
be in danger of bankruptcy?
To an unprejudiced mind it would
seem so.
How are public improvements of
any magnitude made?
By a b.ond issue?
Did the government adopt this
plan with the Panama Canal and the
Alaska rail road.''
Yes.
Is it usual for counties to issue
bonds to construct roads?
Yes, it is the usual way.
Hundreds of counties have done it
all over the United States, and added
to their wealth by so doing.
Who will be benefitted by the con
struction of roads?
Every body now and hereafter.
How will it benefit them now?
By putting the money in circulation,
and giving employment to the unem
ployed. Men who use the spade and pick,
and men who have teams can get work
at good prices.
Will this be true of all the county?
Yes, because the roads will be built
in every direction, and all parts of the
county will share in the prosperity,
and the money will remain here.
What brings prosperity to a county?
Capital and labor co-operating. It
is the only way.
How will It benefit the county here
after? The county will be wealthier Inter
communication will be easier; exports
and imports can be moved at less ex
pense of time and money; the wear
and tear of vehicles and teams will be
less; our school, church and social
privileges' will be much better, in
fact the enumeration would be too
long for a full answer.
Theo to build the roads at once
would help this generation as well as
the next generation?
Yes, beyond a doubt.
We would enjoy the benefits, and so
would our children after us.
What does the town of Columbia
pay on the county roads outside of the
town?.
It pays on 3451,725 annually,or about
one-sixth of the whole road tax
Will it be required to continue to
pay under a bond issue?
Certainly.
Then the town does not get all the
benefit does it?
No, the greater benefit is to the
county, but all will share In it, and
the general good is what should con
trol us in town and county alike.
Our interests can not and ought not
to be separated.
What would be the advantage re
sulting from a good road to Cumber
land river?
It would help the country very
much in the reduction of freight rates
especially on heavy articles, such as
fertilizer, iron, fencing etc. A great
part of the year we would haye the
competition between Louisville, Cin
cinnati and Nashville for our trade,
also between the Louisville & Nash
ville railroad and the Queen & Cres
cent railroad.
It we ever get a railroad here it will
be because of this competition, and
the greater the competition, the bet
ter our chance to secure the road.
Say, for instance, we levy" a tax of
thirty cents, what would we realize?
In round numbers $8,400.
What do we gel; this year from the
State road lund?
About 83,250
How would this be used under a
bond issue?
The twosumcumountto $11,650.
Interest on the bond issue deducted
$6,250 would leave 15,400, a part of
which could be set apart as a sinking
fund, the balance, less cost of collect
ing, for maintenance?
Is it proboble that this would be in
creased? Yes, it is the general experience
that when roads are built the wealth
of the county increases as above
stated, and we would also receive more
from the State fond. In this way we
would haye more for the sinking fund
and miateaauce of the roads. The
rncf. nf mnlnfflnflncfl nncrhf. nnt. to he I
great, for a few years, and in any
event, it would be easier to maintain
a good road than a bad one. When
counties have good roads they manage
to keep them up, and find it profita
ble to do so. There is no reason why
we should be an exception.
If any progress is made in road
building it is just as easy to maintain
the roads under a bond issue as by ap
plying the annual taxes and State
road fund to the construction of a
small piece of road each year. The
advantage is rather in favor of good
roads at once, thus lessening the task
of maintenance.
With a bond issue of 8125,000 what
would be the ratio of the country's
wealth to its indebtedness?
It would be about the same as that
of a man owning a ten thousand dol
lar farm contracting a debt of $250 to
buy clover seed, or building a silo or
barn.
Didn't Green and Taylor counties
get into trouble over a bond Issue?
Yes, but the circumstances were
very different from a bond issue under
the road law.
In the first place their issue was
twice as large or more in each county
as is proposed here
In the second place, their bonds
were issued and turned over to a cor
poration, which sold the bonds and
collected the money. The counties
had nothing to do with the sale of the
bonds or the collection or expenditure
of the money.
They defaulted, and have had con
siderable trouble in their efforts to
avoid payment but, so far, they have
succeeded in their efforts.
At the same time, Marion county,
as we remember, issued bonds to the
amount of $300,000 to the same road.
Under wiser management, it created
a sinking fund, paid its bonds, and
while doing so built pikes in all parts
of the county, the county contrib
uting to their construction from $500
to $1,000 per mile.
Green and Taylor have certainly
been very much benefited by the
building of the road to the county
seats.
If we vote bonds, our issue would on
ly be for $125,000. One-half of this
with the accrued interest the State
agrees to pay back to the county, so,
we will in fact, put into the roads
$62,500.
Under the road law, we do not turn
our bonds over to a corporation. We
sell them ourselves, and for face value,'
and whenever a bond goes out, its face
value in good money, comes into the
county treasury. The holder of the
bond then has our obligation, and we
have his money. We put that money
in good roads, and every body is ben
efited thereby. The money is spent in
our midst, almost every dollar of it,
and at the end the money is here plus
the good roads. If good roads are
worth any thing we are just that
much better off than we were before.
Then good roads will invite capital to
the county; farmers will come to buy
our lands, as they came to Taylor
county when the railroad was built,
and they will assist us in liquidating
the bonds and building up the county
materially.
Does the law safe-guard the" con
tracts for road building?
Yes, contracts pass the scrutiny of.
the .Fiscal court, and also the State
Road Commissioner, and after a road
is built, a certain per cent., of the con
tract price is" with held for a year in
order that it may be certain that the
contractor has done his duty.
Neuralga Pains Stopped.
You don't need to suffer those ag
nizingnerve pains in the face, head,
arm, shoulders, chest and back. Just
apply a few drops of soothing Sloan's
Liniment; lie quietly a few minutes.
You will get such relief Jand comfort!
Life and the world brighter. Get a
bottle to-day. 3 ounces for 25 cents
at Paull Drug Co. Penetrates with
out rubbing. Ad.
A Maine man is living on ten
cents a day, marvels, an ex
change. Huh, than's nothing.
An Ohio man is
relatives.
living on his
Despondency Due to Indigestion.
1 'About three months ago when I
was suffering from Indigestion which
caused headache and dizzy spells and
made me feel tired and despondent, I
began taking Chamberlain's Tablets."
writes Mrs. Geo, Hon, Macedon, N.
Y. "This medicine proved to be the
very thing I needed, as one s day's
treatment relieved me greatly. I
used two bottles of Chamberlain's
Tablets awl they rid me of this troub
le." Obtainable at Paull drug Co.
Sol Holmes, of Henderson
county, was shot four ' times at
the polls, Saturday, of la3t week,
and is expected to die.
Thirty-six for 25 cents
Dr. King's New Life Pills are now
supplied in well-corked glass bottles
containlning 36 sugar coated white
pills, for 25c. One pills with a glass
of water before retiring is an average
dose. Easy and pleasant to take. Ef
fective and positive in results. Cheap
and economical to use. Get a bottle
today, take a dose tonight your Con-
srlpation will be relieved in the morn-
in the morning. 36 for 25c. For sale
by Paull Drug Co. Ad
It Worked.
"And have you tried the plas ol
greeting your husband with kind words
when he comes home late, as I sug
gested?" asked ther elderly friend.
"I have," said the youngish woman,
"and it works like a charm. He stays
home all the tlmo now trying to figui
oat what is the matter."
A False Reputation.
It is not known how the bee, which
works three months in the year and
oafs nine, got the reputation of being
'busy.' Topeka Capital
Doctor's Prescription for A COugh
an Effective COugh Treatment.
One-fourth to one teaspoonful of Dr
iving's New Discovery, taken as need
ed, will soothe and check Coughs
Colds and the more dangerous Bron
chial and Ludg Ailments. You can't
afford to take the risk of serious ill
ness, when so cheap and simple a rem
edy as Dr. King's New Discovery is
obtainable. Go to your druggist to
day, get a bottle of Dr. King's New
Discovery, start the treatment at
once. You will be gratified for the
relief and cure obtained. For sale by
Paull Drug Co. Ad.
Of course, Dan Cupid promotes
marriages, but he ought to give
some credit to the old-fashioned
porch swing.
Constipation Cured Overnight.
A small dose of Po-Do-Lax to-night
and you enjoy a full, free, easy bowel
movement in the morning. No griping
for Po-Do-Lax is Podophyllin (May
Apple) without the gripe Po-Do-Lax
corrects the cause of Constipation by
arousing the Liver, increasing the
flow of bile Bile i3 Nature's anti
septic in tne ooweis. witn proper
amount of bile, digestion in bowels is
perfect. No gas, no fermentation, no
Constipation. Don't be sick, nervous
irritable. Get a bottle of Po-Do-Lax
from your Druggist now and cure your
Constipation overnight. For sale by
Paull Drug Co. Ad
An Awful Shock.
Once upon a time a man remember
ed that the day was the tenth anni
versary of his wedding, and he brought
home some flowers and candy to his
wife and gave her a kiss. And it took
light doctors nine dayyto restore the
oor woman from the effect of thtf
ihock. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Scorching.
"Things were getting too warm for
Be In that section of the country."
"What was the reason?"
"I was burning up too many of the
roads."-Baltlmore American.
Never Break.
Greene Are there any really Inde
structible toys? Gray None that I
know of, except those that make an
Infernal noise. Judge.
For a sprained Ankle.
If you will get a bottle of Chamber
lain's Liniment and observe the di
rections given therewith faithfully,
you will recover In much less time
than Is usually required. Obtainable
at Paull Drug Co. Ad
JMemphisian is carrying 200
tons of starch to England," says
a dispatch. Well, they need it.
L If You
are troabled with haartbom; gases and
ft distressed feeling after eatiag take
wSSmSmSm (oTabrtt
before end after each saealaadfroawil!
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Paul! Drtif Ce.
WORKED HIS WEAK POINTS.
Mr. Ape Had No Memory, but Lota of
Curiosity and Cowardice.
"Curiosity and cowardice,' said the
one legged veteran, "are the chief
characteristics of all monkeys and of
most men. I worked In a zoo after
the war. I was the keeper of the mon
key house. My biggest charge was an
ape the size of a twelve-year-old boy,
and It was through his curiosity and
cowardice that I used to manage him.
"We exercised this ape In the big
room every day, but when wo wanted
him to go back to his cage he'd climb
ap to the roof of the big room, and
even with food you couldn't tempt him
down.
"So 1 would go to Jack Lover and
take him gently by the arm and direct
hl3 attention In a quiet, mysterious
manner to the dark passage under the
steam pipes.
"Lover and 1 every day tiptoed to
the pipes. We pretended to point out
to each other some horrible, unknown
creature in the passage, and we'd say;
Look outl There he Isl There he laf
"As we held each other's arms and
bent over and peered into the darknes
we'd hear very soon the delicate pat
ter of small, active feet The ape'a
curiosity had got the better of him.
He crouched beside us. He, too, peer
ed Into the dark passage fearfully.
"Then suddenly Lover would shout:
Look out! He's coming outl He's
coming out" And we'd scamper away
In. the direction of the ape's bousa
But the ape would be a bead of us.
He'd rush Into bis house In a perfect
whirlwind of excitement and terror.
Then click! We'd snap the door U
on him, and he'd look very foolish.
"Every day we fooled the ape in thfe
way. He was long, you see, on curios
ity and cowardice, but very short ox
memory." Chicago Herald.
PeopIeAsk UsV i
What is the best laxative? Years of,
experience in selling all kinds leads us
to always recommend 73
as the safest, surest and most satisfac
tory. Sold only by U3, 10 cents.
Paull Drug Co.
Col. Roosevelt
peeches again but
much.
i3 making-
hasn't saii
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Dyspepsia Tablets
Will Relieve Your Indigestion
Paull Drug Co.
Boy Scouts Band.
The First Pennsylvania Boy Scons
band of Lewlstown, Pa., has received
much attention of late on account of
the excellence of the boys' playing and
their smart appearance. The boys have
been on several trips to Canada,
where they were enthusiastically re
ceived; to Washington at the time of
the inauguration of President Wlhion,
and many other places, where they
have taken part in various celebra
tions. Johnny Cakes.
Mother mixes as la best
Eggs and butter gold.
Flour, milk and all the rest.
Just as oft of old;
Then the oven hot to fill
It U shortly gone.
When it's out she spreads with sWB
'Licious Icing on.
Johnny, home from school at noon.
Mother's patience trie. " "
When he gets a sllco he soon
For another sighs.
When he comes from school at foar
Johnny makes his plea
And at five eats one slice mor
And at supper three.
Johnny has a -winning way
When he stands and begs,
johnny also has, they say.
Hollows In hl3 legs.
IVonder In It can you find?
Mother, when she bake
Chocolate lemon any Wad
Call them "Johnny cake"
-NwTrt
"I Don't Fee! Good"
That is what a lob of people tell u
Usually their bowels only need cleanksg;
will do the trick and make yoa fed fine.
We, know this positively. Take oae
tonight. Sold ooly by ua, 10 cents. '"'
Paull Drug Ce.
Matter of Precedent.
A discussion once arose in the "Uni
versity of Cambridge whether doctors
at law or doctors in medicine should
hold precedence. The chancellor aetced
whether the thief or the hangman pre
ceded at an execution. Being toH that!
Oe thief nasally took the lead. MWeU,
then," said the chanceBer, "let the doe
Jots la law hat the precedeace aa4
let doctors In mctMcfae be aext M
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