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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
FIREsIDE SELF STARTERS

Here is a bill which will be put up
to the legislature:
An act to protect road signs.
Be it enacted by the legislature
of the state of Kansas as follows:
Sec. /. The executive officers OF
any association organized or oper-
ating in this state for the purpose
of establishment or promoting any
highway, may select a name by
which said highway shall be known,
may designate its route and adopt
a sign, emblem or insignia to use In
marking it, and erect the same. The
route of said highway together with
the sign, emblem or insignia used
in its marking may be recorded IN
the records of any county through
which said highway passes when
certified to by the president and
secretary of the association pro-
noting the same; and when so re-
corded the recorder shall receive
fee of one dollar.
Sec. 2. Any one violating the
provisions of this act by desecrating'
tearing down, injuring, obliterating
or destroying any road sign herein
provided for, or by erecting any
false or misleading sign at or near
the intersection of any road with
the roads above described by adopt
ing a name or sign similar to that
selected under this act, or in any
manner, shall be adjudged guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction shall be fined a sum OF not
less than twenty-five dollars or more
than one hundred dollars, and 1t
shall be the duty of the road over
seer to remove such Offending sign.
Sec. 8. 1t shall be the duty of all
road officers in the state and OF the
prosecuting attorneys to institute
the proper proceeding for carrying
the provisions of this act into effect.
This is a bill worth considering.
A special racing car, made in this
city by the man who will drive 1t in
the race, w. w. Brown, will be en-
tered in the annual 500-mile event
on the Indianapolis speedway, May
20. The entry is the fifth accepted
by the A. A. A. committee. This Is
the same Brown who has driven In
the races here. The car he will drive
at Indianapolis Brown built by us
ing the good points of various cars
Including three foreign makes. He
has not decided under what name
he will enter, but hopes to finish
we'll up in the money, the first prize
of the $4,000 stake being 100000.
The car will have steel cylinders with
mechanical closed valves, q four
valve and head motor. Brown says
the car will be equipped to travel
los miles an hour and as the race
win be won at about "a miles an
hour. he considers that he has a
good chance to win.
AAA
Al armored and armed motor car,
built for real war, one Of the kind
now being used by the fighting ma
lions in Europe, will be on display
at the annual automobile show in
convention hall the week Of Febru-
airy 8, according to &. e. Peake, sec
Rotary of the Kansas City Motor Ca
Dealers association. In only one
other show in the country has one
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

Washington, Feb. 2.-The SUI
preme court today advanced the
Leo M. Frank habeas corpus appeal
for oral argument on February %
in accordance with the joint request
Of Franks counsel and attorneys
for the state Of Georgia. Frank Is
under conviction for the murder OF
Mary Phagan. factory girl.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
Lost Springs P. M. Named

Lost Springs, Jan. 3O.-ovid L..
Mowrer has been named for the
postmastership here, to succeed j..
H. McBurney, present incumbent
and holder Of the office for years.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

Topeka, Feb. 1.-The committees
in both branches OF the Kansas leg
islature are away ahead Of the work
on the floor Of the house. Three
hundred and forty-four bills report
ed favorably out of committees are
before the two houses, waiting to
be disposed Of. Forty-five of these
have negotiated the journey through
the committee of the whole, twenty
four in the house and twenty-one
in the senate.
In the first three weeks of the
1915 legislative session, 1145 bills
were introduced. Committees already
have killed 235 of these, including
eleven bills to make place for sub
stitutes from the other branch OF
the house. The house has passed on
third reading forty bills; the senate
is three behind, with thirty-seven.
Four measures have passed both
houses and are to be considered as
completed legislation. The work
completed by the legislature to date
in the line of laws enacted follows:
w. o. Bengston has been declared
to be W. o. Benson.
Forty thousand dollars has been
appropriated for legislative expens-
es.
Registration every four years IN
Kansas City, Kan, will be required
after January /, 1917.
Cases in which members of the
legislature are engaged as legal
counsel will be postponed until the
session of the legislature is over.
The bulk of the work this week
in both houses promises to be In
committee of the whole and in COM
mittees. While proposed constitu-
tional amendments are made a spe-
cial order Of the day for next Thurs
day afternoon in the house, 1t Is not
probable that the three amendments
to be submitted at the next general
election will be decided until later.
Two of these seem to be dead-one
providing for state aid for highways
and one providing for more powers
of local self-government on the part
of the cities.
Welfare legislation is promised
or the consideration Of 1t Is prom
ised, w. A. s. Birds municipal farm
home bill is a special order OF the
day in the house for Tuesday after
noon at 2 o'clock. Substitute moth
ers' pension bills have been reported
out of committee in both house and
senate. Birds provident loan ASSOC
citation providing for "a per cent In
terest on small loans, is out OF COM
mittee in the house. The child ny
giene bureau bill has come out OF
committee, shorn of its appropria-
ton. An equal property rights bill
is expected out Of committee during
the week. The big appropriation
fights are not on the schedule yet.
The following table gives in con-
else form what has been done in the
first three weeks of the session in
the two houses of the legislature:
House Record
Bills introduced ......-....-......-..-....66
Passed :. .-.-...-..--..-------..--.----.' ~
Killed in standing committees..1SS
Substitutes by committees. IL
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04
MAY RETURN T. RS
GIFT OF S4O,O FOR PEACE

Washington, Jan. 29.-Represen-
tative Bartholdt introduced a bill
today to dissolve thf' foundation for
promotion Of Industrial peace and
return to Colonel Roosevelt the
$4,000 cash Nobel prize the col
onel gave as a nucleus. Senator
Lodge has introduced a similar bill.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

Tinker with Ballot Law
The educational clause is to be
stricken from the Massachusetts, bal
lot law adopted in 1918, the house
OF representatives decided in COM
mittee OF the whole. The Laing bill,
providing that the voter may receive
help to mark his ballot. unless In
toxicated, was recommended for
passage, subject to amendment and
debate.
First 20 Days Cost $3o.5o2.sO
The total expenses Of the legisla-
ture the first twenty days OF the
session, as reported to the state
auditor, amount to $36,592.SO.
Where the postage allowance for the
session was allowed the first ten
days in a lump sum, the second ten
days the mileage bills were paid.
You Know What Poll Tax Is
A bill to re-establish the old poll
tax law, to require all male persons
to pay three dollars year or spend
two days working on the roads, has
been introduced by Senator Harry
Gray of Osborne county.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

OF these machines been on exhibi-
ton and that was at the display In
Detroit.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

Clean old papers at the Reflector
office. SC 8 bundle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

ton and that was at the display IN
Detroit.
Carl Benz, who with Gottleib
Daimler Is usually considered the
pioneer OF the gasoline automobile,
has Just celebrated his 10th birth
day, says the Scientific American.
The marvellous growth of the auto
mobile industry and the splendid
work performed by the motor car
in the present war were due In no
small degree to Benz and his earl
lest contraptions. His first car ran
in 1885, while he filed patent on
It in January. 1885. Daimler In
vented independently motor b'cy-
Gle, which he completed in the fall
of 1886. Neither Of the two men
knew of the others work.
zee
One OF the large rubber compan-
les has discovered by a series OF
tests that the pressure In an auto
mobile tire, fully pumped up, re-
mains practically the same whether
the car is resting on the tires or is
lacked up. 1t was found by special
guages that in an ordinary sized
tire, having a pressure of 80 pounds
while the car is lacked up, showed
SO.4 pounds with the weight of the
car resting on the tires.
& &A
Some of the large motor car fac
tories are talking of building IL
cylinder cars next year.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

than a score OF members went on
record favoring the defeat OF the
bill when the roll was called in
committee OF the whole.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-02-04

Some of the large motor car fa'
tories are talking of building Il
cylinder cars next year.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19
BEATING A ZINC HARVEST"

with nrime zinc ore selling around e,Q5 ner ton, the mines in North ,nlonsas are coming into their own. Novor before in the history of zinc ,,inino in Arkansas has there been such pronounced activity. Little oomns are springing into fourishlng towrs. new and modern highways aro being built and even railroads are ,,noiocted as the result of the new in- dustrial impulse due to zinc mining.
 Harry Churchill, of Pangburn, is setting an effective pace. He is not only developing rich ore properties, hut is actually building roads from Marshall. Ark, to these mines, at a cost of S1,OOO per mile, and is pay ;no the road bills personally. He is daveloping the Golden Cross" mine, for which he paid $10,OOO, and the oCreat White Way" which cost him s16.OOO. Both are located near Mar shall. and he expects soon to be put ting out 50 tons of ore per day. In- cidentallv, one of these is located on 1eO-acre farm which, a few years aoo sold for 5000. From $500 to s16OOO shows what zinc is doing for some Arkansas sections.
 This week a new concern capital ized at $1OO,000, incorporated by C.. Floyd Huff of Hot Springs, Ark. associated with a number of Chicago capitalsts. has been chartered, with s5OOOO of it's capital actually sub scribed. It proposes extensive zinc activities, under the name of the Ark ansas Zine Company.
 The United Zine Co.,, backed large ly by St. Louis interests, with local officers at Harrison, Ark, owns valu- able zinc properties and is getting busy with lease propositions.
 J. L. Cute, of Pindall, Ark, re- ports that the Buffalo River hills are alive with prospectors and miners, while in Zinc, Ark, the erection of custom mill, with a capacity of 100- tons, at a cost of $15,OO0, is being ad- vocated. Buffalo, Zinc, Gilbert and other points are reporting many cars of ore being shipped weekly
 Rich strikes have recently been made at the Morning Star mine, at Rush, Ark, and at the Philadelphia mine, while Moore Williams, and other Oklahoma parties, are developing a rich strike at Mt. Hersey, in Newton county, And these are just instances. Southern Construction News.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19

woman "beauty" who was not nit wit, boob or a conventional flathead. Rich men marry merely beautiful wo- men just as they buy Dresden shep- addresses for the mantel shelf. And We have heard about heiresses marry ing chauffeurs who had perfectly beautiful ears.
 And here butts in our old friend compensatory law; thoughts make wrinkles, work puts callouses upon shapely hands, sacrifice bends the up- right body and suffering dulls the eyes with tears. If you can escape work, sacrifice and sorrow you can sell your half-tone to any beauty shop, but we'd hate to have to drink tea with you much less marry you.
 As for men, the most beautiful mas culine animal in the world is chorus dancer who can't even sing.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19
A COUNTRY EDITOR ON SCHOOL
 INSPECTION

Manatee, Florida, is a town of less than 1000 inhabitants, but evidently 1t has the spirit and progressiveness Of some much larger communities. Discussing medical school inspection, the local newspaper, the Manatee Rec ord, recently said editorially: Med lcal inspection is a business proposi- uon. In town with 125 children, it IS claimed there will be an annual savings of 22,265 # hy thorough med lcal Inspection the curable physical uelects that handicap school-children Iouiu De remedied.' The editor of the hecord has grasped the essential fea- 'ure and the advantages of medical
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19

ing inquiry concerning things of inter- est and profit to the human family.
 He is q man of strong natural gifts and has been for years on the Redpath- Vawter System delivering his great lee ture to interested thousands. He comes, therefore. not as an experiment, but as a tried and trusted campaigner.
 Hanley is q man of strong type and knows how to lay his message before an audience in approved fashion.
 He has travelled widely in South America and the West Indies and knows human life in many lands. His knowledge is encyclopedic. His ora tory is forcefu and convincing.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19

school inspection. He sees no reason why modern scientific knowledge should not be utilized in administer
 ing the public schools in the most economical and efficient manner DOS slble. Why spend the money in a we'll nigh hopeless endeavor to teach child ren with defective eyes and ears. when at slight expense each child could be put in the best possible condition to receive and profit by instruction? The question is simple one. Do the tax payers of a community wish to put their children in good physical condi- ton, In the same way in which they would improve their school grounds. building and equipment, or do they prefer to spend their money on school equipment and leave the child defec- tive and unable to profit by the in- struction offered? The editor of the Manatee Record is apparently not al- armed by any spacious cries of inva- sion of personal liberty. In fact, 1t IS difficult to see how the personal liberty of any one is invaded when a child's defective eyes are put into con- dition whereby he can see the black board or read his textbook without discomfort. Children's diseases also are rightly regarded by the editor of the Record as wasteful and unneces- sary. "More and more the people of the country are realizing that it is not necessary for children to go through a course of measles, whooping cough. humps and scarlatina. ..... Medi- cal inspection and prompt and firm handling of parents as well as pupils will enable the majority of youngsters to enter and leave the grammar school without having had to be nuisance to themselves and their parents and teachers by various spells of prevent able diseases" An exchange where | by different educational institutions trade professors temporarily has be- come a fixed institution in the educa- tional world. What valuable thing it would be, says The Journal of the American Medical Association, if some of our larger cities could arrange to trade editors with Manatee for a few years. This would be a misfortune for Manatee, but it might be god send for some other communities.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19

With an indicated wheat yield of 963, ,00O,0O0 bushels, which may, by fair weather conditions, be possibly enlarged to a better yield of spring wheat, and with an average increase for the entire country on July 1 of a fraction less than 26 cents per bushel higher price for wheat than on the same date in 1914, it is quite safe to
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19
Cheer Up!
mat Tired Grouchy Feeling Means a
 Lazy Liver

and div-N Ner-LaX will clear you out. d,u dp a make you feel fine and dam s as agaln. a It is just as effective we'll II"Iomel Iel but has none of it's effects. 0iS"sreeaoie after Sons ,'-N yer er-Lax eliminates poi relie,,0cai relic, cieanses the system. and oucb 'eS S constipation in a thor Httla +oI out pleasant manner. A sister" t"Ken K regularly, means con-
 Gna,ea u, health and no doctor bills. inp , tba dntee' ii1e Every bottle bear is . pn0, ,,,e likeness of l.. K. Grigsby tione ne1%ranteed o,i to give satisfac- turned your money will be re- and ' si For sale here in soc DrupP Ps s+sle size bottles at Iesterly
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19

been the life of the company, an6 . rule will hold good this Near
 The program is made up of musj al offerings. both vocal and ipstrumcu;al and clever costume sketches that have the real pep in them The platform will take gala appearance with the Glen Wells Company at the center, and there will be something doing in the entertainment line from the first minute they appear ,A the program un- til it is all over
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19

Grain Crop this Year Exceeds in Value the Most Valuable Cotton Crop Ever Raised.

The Manufacturers Record of this week says:
 The grain crop of the South this year will exceed in value by several hundred million dollas the total of the most valuable cotton crop ever pro- duced by this section.
 This remarkable fact is due to an increase in grain production thrc gh- out the South, which will demonstrate what this section is capable of doing in the development of diversified farm ing. According to the forecast of grain production for the country, bas- ed on conditions July 1, the produc- tion of grain in the Southern States for this year will be 1,56O,0OO ,O00 bushels, or a gain of 286,0O0,0OO bush els over last year. If to the figures covering wheat, corn and oats we pro- perly add the rice crop of 30,000,000 bushels, the total grain for the South this year will be 1,570,00O,O00 bushels, and as this years rice crop exceeds by 6,000,000 bushels last years, we would have a total increase of grain in this section of 92,O0O,0OO bushels.
 This phenomenal situation is all the more impressive when taken in con- nection with the grain crop of the en- tire country.
 The estimated yield for the country for the year, including rice, is 5,414,- 00O,O00 bushels, or an increase of 490,- O00,000 bushels over 1914. Out of this total gain, 292,000,000 bushels or nearly 60 per cent, is due to the in crease in the South. The gain in this section will be nearly 23 per cent over last year, as compared with only 5 F per cent for the balance of the coun- try. The actual gain in the South is 91 100000 bushels greater than the in crease in the balance of the United States. These figures are wonderful ly significant of the agricultural pos abilities of the South, and this in crease in grain, which typifes the in- crease in foodstuffs generally, will largely offset the adverse situation in cotton. In the South corn commands a much higher figure than in the west, running often from 10 to 20 cents a bushel more than Western prices. On this basis, therefore, it is safe to es- innate that the grain crops of the South will represent gain of at least $250, 0,000,000 over last years figures.
 The gain by States shows a splendid steady expansion throughout the en- tire South, and for wheat, corn and oats combined is as follows:
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19
The Toll of Duty.
Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal.
 Perfect physical beauty is the ob- ject of the eugenic experts.
 They will tell you that perfect phy- sical beauty means perfect health.
 They are right as far as they go, but they never go beyond the physical.
 Nobody who works, thinks, sacrifi- ces, suffers-can remain in perfect physical comeliness. Toil will take the color from your lips. Thought will put lines upon your brow. Use- fulness will put sad, sweet droops about the lines of your mouth. Suf- fering will flatten your chest and put a world old droop upon your shoulder
 We never knew perfect man (
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-19
Total increase of grain 292,021 ,0O0 i Decrease.

Every State, with the exception of Maryland, whose wheat crop is short, shares in this increased grain pro- duction. Alabama shows a gain of nearly 17,000,000 bushels: Arkansas 23,5OO,000 bushels; Georgia, 1S7OO,OOO bushels; Louisiana, 16,O0O,OOO bush els; Mississippi nearly 2O,OOO,OOO bushels; South Carolina, 8,7OO,OOO bushels; Virginia, 18,20O,000 bushels, while Texas comes to the front with a gain of 58,6O0,000 and Oklahoma, 4O, 100000 bushels.
 Every business interest in the South should feel the vivifying influence of this splendid grain crop. The South did not this year turn it's attention to grain as largely as it should have done, and at the same time still fur ther lessen it's cotton acreage, but it has made a magnificent start, which indicates it's almost limitless apportu- mites for grain growing.
 In 1900 the production of wheat. corn and oats in the South was 911,- O0O,GJ0 bushels, compared with this years yield. of 1,540,OO0,0OO. We have thus advanced the production this year ever 1900 by 63O,OOO,0OO bushels.
 Well may the South take heart and rejoice in this splendid showing of what it can do in grain production. Even these figures can easily be doub- led by the South when it gives, as 1t should do, proper attention to the widest diversfcation of it's agricul- ture and to growing at home all of the foodstuffs needed for man and Least.
 But looking beyond the South to the whole country We find that Nature has again blessed this land with abundant crops already harvested, and with the promise of splendid crops now grow ing. If weather does not materially decrease the expected com production, this years crops will largely exceed in value ,000,000.000 The indica- tions of the United States Agricultur- al Department show probable in- crease in the wheat production of 72,- 00000O bushels; of corn, 141000,000 bushels; of oats, 258,OOO,OOO bushels: of barley, 13,O0O,OOO bushels, and of rice, 6,OO0,O0O bushels. The total fig ures on grain production, taking the estimate of the Agricultural Depart ment for corn, with the understanding that it is too early yet for final fig ures, are as follows: