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any dueided progressive educational work of tliis magnitude and nature 

 and pay its own way. The office must accept the assistance of these 

 liouses and machinery, become a beggar for them, or else stand still in 

 its tracks. The main object of the whole trip was to arouse public 

 interest in road improvement. Generally speaking, bad roads prevail 

 because there is not sufficient public interest to build good ones, and the 

 missionary work must continue. At some of the stops the demonstration 

 •was to show that to make roads required the right kind of tools. There 

 was no attempt to show the people anything new or strange, but to again 

 call attention to the fact that the only way to make good roads is to get 

 to work and make them. On the whole, the trip was yuccessful. We 

 had expected to meet with "woodpeckers" (knockers), and we found 

 some, but in general our reception was cordial and earnest, and good 

 was accomplished as witness by reports from some of the stops. 



Road before demonstration work at Marshfleld, Mo. 



The newspaper report of the work at St. Clair, Franklin coiuity, says : 

 "The bad piece of road selected for demonstration was ideal in being 

 bad in a great variety of ways and served for an example. Some of the 

 enthusiasm and push were left behind and the St. Clair Good Road As- 

 sociation, which the party helped to organize, has taken up the work, 

 raised a working fund by popular subscription, and we are now con- 

 ferring with progressive Union citizens with a view of subduing that 

 terror known as 'Moeslein Hill,' the worst on the St. Clair-Union road." 



Under date of November 10, Dr. Briegleb, President of the St. Clair 

 Good Roads Association, writes : ' ' The demonstration certainly created 

 an interest here which resulted in a bad piece of road being made good 



