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Some sections of the State missed the rains and were warm in 

 the extreme. 



The wonder was the amount of work accomplished under 

 the circumstances — the merchant and the farmer, the banker 

 and the farm hand, the clerk and the teacher, all earnestly 

 united in a common purpose, a unity of desire to accomplish 

 "the one thing needful" for better farms and better towns. 



Thousands of banks, stores, shops and offices were closed 

 for one or two days, and their owners were found busily labor- 

 ing on the highways in the open country. 



The community spirit is stronger in Missouri because of 

 good roads days. The Missouri farmer is awake to the fact 

 that it will pay him to work his own roads around his own farm, 

 in addition to such work as the district may perform. 



At left, Governor Major; center. Highway Commissioner F. W. Buffum; 

 right. Congressman Shackleford. 



ONE COUNTY AS AN EXAMPLE. 



On the signed authority of Capt. R. W. McCurdy of 

 Independence, Jackson county's citizens did $14,780 worth of 

 work during these two days. There were 2,762 days of work 

 done by men and teams with scrapers and plows in that one 

 county, besides independent workers, and 47 teams hauling 

 supplies and 13 traction outfits on duty. Mr. McCurdy, be- 



