z**l *v— "i" av '""Mi' •.""" JT" 1 4 *l '"•**/V spi® "f VI, "Sp* *Bv"-ii-:fr-•--'. -v ?, $ jrafsO x} ft, 3 -JiA AUSTIN, MINN. Monday, Feb. 13, 1922 Page Sevefi T$ -. 51 GOOD ROADS RECORDS FEATURE jiiVi -Cottage for Canines. 4- r.t* /i Didn't Notice Her. 5 War Term. ment with shops at the state fiair by the score at ihe laboratories and worry '*I'll bet that traffic officer Is English ad—Two bulldogs* want Jenkins—We have a food dictator grounds and many fleets and smaller the costs of the Service like those of ie stopped me." small furnished cottage, about 25 miles out at our house now. STATE WORK SAYS 1921KEPORT outfits in the field was operated in field inspection are measured by mills "Why?" from London, for eight weeks' holiday, Kekker—Who, your wife's mother? 1921 at an over-all expense of $382,515.53, rather than cents, in the dollar "He didn't see my wife in the back with rooms for their small car and Jenkins—No, the baby. What he according to the report of R. graphs This is the main insurance Hie car, and she told him wtlftt flhe human attendants. Write Box 11, etc. does not litee we can't buy. niglit of him all right." M. Cooley, superintendent of equipment. department ^in connection with the Babcock Makes Public One Accomplishment. the trunk routes with the official numbers Handicapped. A division of the average dollar road work—the safe-guard against "Yes, she married a tie." Sentence Sermon. Reports of Department. Johnny—The camel can go etyhfr on yellow stars, made the traffic 11 spent for equipment shows that inferior materials, the engineers said "Is Jje of any earthly account?" days without water. Let your light shine—but keep the census, kept up the detours and did about 40 cents was used for new and therefore one of first importance. "Well. I believe he can make goot Freddy—So could I If ma woaM sjlare out of the other fellow's eyes.— much other special work. parts, 30 cents for new machines, and let me.—Harper's Bazar. •alttd dressing." Cincinnati Enquirer.- Patrolling of 6,855 miles of trunk the remaining 30 cents for many BIG MILEAGES ARE small items. An appraisal of the routes included the putting of brush ..i .j J. LISTED IN REPORT surplus war equipment held here together along 1,692 miles, cleaning of 969 miles of side-ditches and raking oversized with the accumulate^ earnings stones from 1,651 miles of highway. at going prices will show a big .Minnesota's New Highway Development In re-shaping 1,137 miles of gain for the state when it is completed, Plan Yields Wide-Spread trunk routes, maintenance crews Superintendent Cooley predicted, Benefits in Single Year. moved 56,846 cubic yards of earth, and preliminary figures show $100,000 excavated 600 yards of solid rock, of net earnings. (Continued from last issue.) cut 53 miles of drainage ditches and, F. C. Long, engineer of tests, is in J. T. Ellison, chief bridge engineer filled thirty bridge approaches and 13 charge of field inspections" on construction in the highway department, announced sink-holes. Likewise, re-surfacing of and also of the laboratories that comparatively less bridge IN PRICE OF 885 miles involved the placing of 632,-' at the University of Minnesota where work was done in 1921 than in other 367 cubic yards of gravel, the scari- 1 many material and other tests were recent years, but 55 new bridge projects fying of 285 miles of old surfacing made. Scientific tests of cement, asphalt at an average of $11,989 each and the building of twenty-seyen and other materials used by the. made an important addition to the miles of shoulders along paving. state in highway building are made program. The engineer said that under the old highway laws many counties Maintenance forces built 15 wooden put a good percentage of money bridges and repaired 191 others into bridges with the result that and placed 1,067 and repaired 136 culverts. and a & bridge work gained a lead on other They built 24,330 lineal feet bf? ,-r^v classes of highway improvement*. of guard rails and painted and repaired Much other construction work is 9,330 feet more placed 45,210 listed. To insure public safety on feet of snow fences laid 15,780 lineal Plow road curves and fills, 126,150 lineal feet of drain tile and 2,911 cubic yards of rip-rap. Last but not least Best for the money feet or about twenty-five miles of the Maintenance engineer added* the guard rail was built at a cost of 66 cents a foot. To keep the grades forces built 63 miles of detours and drained and dry, 439,514 lineal feet maintained 5471/0 miles of detour routes. or nearly eighty-three miles of drain 1 Ask your Dealer tiles was laid at 55 Va cents a1 foot Equipment and Inspection. average cost. There were also 60,773 The highway equipment depart­ feef of portable culverts mainly at farm entrances, costing $1.76 a foot, Wm. Rath and 455 monolithic culverts at an average of $705.73 each. Right-of-way clearing and grubbing, hand-ditching, special plowing, gutters and catch basins, retaining walls and minor items are part of the new improvements listed. On account of quitting farming I will sell to the high bidder at Auction on the farm known as the old Corneveaux Place, 5 miles northwest of Austin, Maintenance Spreads Benefits. on The smoothing and other upkeep THURSDAY, FEB. 23,1922 of 6, 855 miles of trunk highways last seascn took $2,224,227 of the $3,000,000 SALE STARTS AT 10.00 O'CLOCK SHARP. FREE LUNCH AT NOON. fund set aside for maintenance, according- to W. F. Rosenwald, chief The following described personal property: maintenance engineer. 5 HORSES—1 Black Mare, 9 years old 1 Bay Mare, 9 years old 1 Sorrel Pony, 4 years old 1 Roan Mare, 4 years old 1 Black Gelding, 3 years old. Eighty-two cents of each maintenance 14 CATTLE—6 Good Milch Cows, will freshen soon 3 Three-year-old Heifers, dollar was paid for labor, the heavy with calf 2 Two-year-old Heifers 1 Two-year-old Bull, 1 Bull summary shows. Men and teams got Calf, 8 months old 1 Small Calf. 43 cents of the dollar or $964,200, 3 GOOD BROOD SOWS. against a 28 cents or $624,000 paid 150 CHICKENS. men and trucks. In addition, laborers SOME HAY IN STACK. took $133,500—6 cents of each average Titan Tractor Now $700 MACHINERY—1 MeCormick Binder, 7 ft. 1 McCormick Corn Binder dollar. Other items making up 1 Hay Loader 1 Mower, 5 ft. 1 Side Delivery Rake 2 Corn Cultivators 1 Emerson Gang Plow 1 Sulky Plow 1 Walking Plow 1 Boss Harrow, 5 the dollar were about 7 cents for section 1 Bob Sleigh 1 Cutter 1 Fanning Mill 1 John Deere Gas Engine, gravel, culverts and other materials, 2 h.p. 1 Pump Jack 1 Corn Planter, with 100 rods wire 1 Drag about 10 cents for equipment operation Cart 1 Janesville Disk, 7 foot 1 Walking Cultivator 1 Potato Plow f. o. b. Chicago 2 sets of Heavy Work Harness 1 Feed Mill 1 Manure Spreader 1 Hoosier and less than- one cent for unclassified Seeder,, 10 foot 1 Cream Separator 2 Hay Racks 1 Low Wagon, 3 inch items. tire 1 High Tire Wagon 1000 things too numerous to mention. Maintenance and special upkeep TERMS—9 months' time on approved notes at 8 per cent. Nothing removed work on the trunk routes averaged until terms are complied with. HARVESTER COMPANY'S EXCEPTIONAL OFFER $324.46 a mile for the season. That Wm. Rath, Owner includes wages of patrolmen—one for each 6-mile section—the re-shaping Effective February 3, to May 1, 1922 AUCTIONEER LOYELL FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Clerk and re-surfacing operations which in The Harvester Company makes this special offer to apply on all new International 8-16 and some cases ran close to new construction Titan 10-20 tractors purchased by its dealers on 1922 account. Each farmer purchasing one of these figures, and other like outlays. DUR0C- JERSEY PUBLIC SALE International 8-16 tractors for delivery on or before May 1 next, will be given by the Company, absolutely Another maintenance dollar distribution free, f. o. b. Chicago, a 2-furrow & O plow. On the same terms, each farmer who purchases shows 44% cents to patrolmen, OUR A I) a Titan tractor will be given a 3-furrow & O plow. 28 cents for repairs and 21 cents for JOINT SALE of Duroc I I 11 Li l\U betterments, a little over IY2 cents Jersey bred sows and gilts for special work and 5 cents for overhead will be held in Spring Valley. Cp]| VaVv ?3ril at expenses and superintendence of These herds are both headed Spring Valley, all kinds from executives to foremen. HIS by highly bred Sensation boars. is not a stripped tractor, pared down to make a price, but Complete with all Shown in another way, smoothing Write for catalog. MINNESOTA equipment—friction clutch pulley, fenders, platform, throttle-governor, essential and mending during the season cost E. W. HARM AN, Spring Valley, Minn. §144.70 a mile repairs $90.17 and adjustable drawbar, angle lugs, brakes. This equipment, worth more than S. W. HILL & SONS, Ostrander, Minn, betterments $68.30 special work $5.08 and overhead $16.21 cents a $100 and ^necessary on any tractor to make it serviceable and safe, is included in our ALBERT HOPFE—Auctioneers—BOB ALLEN mile. No extras to buy. price.- Miscellaneous Work Listed. Maintenance forces also marked P. & O. 3-furrow plow free with AUSTIN MARKETS the Titan 10-20 tractor. If you now With the Titan at $700, and aP&O plow own a suitable plow we will Quoted by Peoples Service Store.— substitue a tractor disk free, you are offered the best and most Dairy Butter 32 harrow. Eggs 32 I, James W. DeBuhr, Trustee for LeRoy B. Converse, Potatoes, per bu $1.25 economical outfit you can take into the Bankrupt, under order of the Bankruptcy Court, Beans, per lb 7 Flour—retail, 49 lb. sack. .$2.00-$2.45 will sell the following' described personal property at field or put on the belt. Neither horses POULTRY public auction on the old John Redding farm, four and Quoted by Smith-Wright Co.— one-half miles south of the Fair Grounds at Austin, Heavy Hens 15 nor any other tractor can equal it. and seven miles northeast of London, on Light Hens 12 Stags 12 Geese .12 Spring Chix 17 Roosters 08 At 11:00 o'clock A. M. FREE LUNCH AT NOON Eggs 27 $230 CUT in price of International 8-16 Tractor Ducks 16 13 HEAD OF HORSES—13 Turkeys 25 HOG MARKET. Consisting of five Registered Percherons, and Balance are Grades.. Medium and Butchers $9.50 1 Imported Black Percheron Stallion 4 Registered IN ew Frice 31K Packers $6.50 to $8.50 Percheron Mares 1 Bay Mare, 7 years old 1 Bay b- Veal, Sheep and Lambs Mare, 9 years old 2 coming 3-year-old Colts 3 coming Chicago Fat Lambs $6.50 to $8.50 2-year-old Colts 1 Spring Colt. Veal $3.50 to $7.50 Plow FREE Sheep $1.50 to $3.00 11 HEAD OF CATTLE—11 land a SlO 2-Furro Cattle 10 Cows, ranging from two to five years old and are Fat Steers $4.50 to $5.50 Cows and Heifers $3.00 to $4.00 either fresh or springing heavy now-—all good milkers Bulls $3.00 to $4.00 1 Registered Black Polled Angus Bull, 2 years old Canners and Cutters $1.00 to $1.50 5 CHESTER WHITE HOGS—5 MORE 4 Registered Tried Sows, bred for April farrow MONEY 1 Registered Chester White Boar (yearling), a son of Big Buster. XI Yoa Ship Di Ypar 1 Cattle Barn, size 52x40, good as new 1 1919 Ford HIDES-FURS Roadster 1 set Harness 1 Harrow Cart. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY Write Ua FIRST For •facial Information TERMS—All sums of $10.00 and under cash on sums over that 0E* MUCTifeteUSKSTMtflUCSr amount,' a credit of nine months' time will be given on approved OF AMERICA notes bearing 8 per cent interest from date of sale. Mimrra MMNuata CM KINK JAMES W. DeBUHR, S A Write for prlca lift, Uftmal foil iaforaadon MASON CITY, IOWA (Incorporated) A4-*'. O.BERGMAN Go. Trustee for L. B. Converse, Bankrupt. Col. ALBERT HOPFE, Auctioneer W. W. WALKER, Clerk 4ST.TVUJL, -/A.INN. frv/r"