Hewes, Prof. L. V. Edwards of Washington State college, Dr. Brannon. Mr. Funk and L. F. Parsons.
Mold Wallace Crow Funeral Here
Funeral services for Wallace Crow, the former Moscow boy who died while on military duty in Texas, will be held in Moscow this week, according to a telegram received today from George Crow, the dead boy's father. The exact date of the funeral has not been made known, but will be announced upon the arrival of the body from Rupert, Idaho.
Weather Report
PORTLAND, Feb. 28.—Fair tonight and tomorrow. Northeast winds.
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STAB-MIRROR ADVERTISING
CHEAPER STATE ROAD.
Construction Cost Has Been Reduced
In Maryland and Other States.
After paying
an average
$14,000 a mile for 150 miles of concrete roads Maryland has departed from what is termed the standard concrete road and in some construction cost to about $8,500 a mile, this having been a conviction that the cheaper roads will last indefinitely if given a bituminous wearing surface, taken a long step toward concrete to foundation purposes exclusively. Had the more recent Maryland roads been built with the latter purpose in view and provided with a two-inch wearing surface of asphalt macadam there would have resulted the type of road Monroe county, Mich., is building for less than $12,000 the Michigan curbs as well as a five-inch concrete foundation.
The price of
cases has reduced
one with the
Thus the state has
restricting
a mile;
concrete
road having
The radical
change in
 Maryland's policy, the building of hundreds of miles of bituminous top roads, concrete bases in California and the adoption of the improved type in Michigan, all presage the decline of country roads costing from $15,000 to $20,000 a mile. 