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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-03
New Grocery Firm

Tiff Bros. have sold their grocery
store to J. f. Rhodes who has taken
charge. 1t will be known as the
Home Grocery and purchases will be
delivered.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-03
fr,r.t unfinished in the Abilene Weekly
Reflector October 9Th. 1920
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

State of Kansas. Dickinson County, s.:
In the Probate Court Of said county
In the matter of the estate Of L. d.
Scanland, deceased.
To all creditors and other persons In
terested in said estate:
You are hereby notified that l have
hled a report Of my administration OF
Dickinson County, Kansas, and that !
will make final settlement of the above
named estate in the Probate Court In
and for said county at the Probate
Judges office in Abilene. Kansas. on
the 2sth day of October,, 1921; and at
such time application will be made Tor
my compensation, attorney fees, and
other expenses, and for my discharge
as such administrator. and for an order
Of the court finding and adjudging VINO
were the heirs, devisees and legatees
of the deceased.
ARTHUR HURD,
Administrator Of the estate OF
L. D. Scanland, deceased.
10-6w4t'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-03

Sue For P0hcy Premium
The Connecticut Fire Insurance Co.
Of Hartford has filed suit against G.
B. Parks to collect $4,000, alleged to
be due them as a premium on an In
surance policy.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-03

Over $4,000 private wells were
damaged or destroyed in France dur
ing the war.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-03
First published in the Abilene Weekly
Reflector october 20, 1920
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT


State of Kansas, Dickinson County, S.:
In the Probate Court of said county
and state.
In the matter of the estate Of Marga-
retta Mcdaniel, deceased.
To ali creditors and other persons in
terested In said estate:
You are hereby notified that have
filed O report Of my administration Of
said estate in the Probate Court OF
Dickinson County, Kansas, and that !
viii make final settlement of the above
named estate in the Probate Court IN
judges office in Abilene, Kansas. on
the 18th day Of NeysmSsr Is m. and fo or
INV compensation, attorney fees, and
other expenses. and for my discharge
as such executor. and for an order Or
the Court finding and adjudging who
were the heirs, devisees and legatees
RICHARD MCDANIEL,
Executor of the estate OF
Margaretta MCDANIEL, deceased.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-03
(First published In the Abilene Weekly
Reflector October 20. 1921
NOTICE

!, Lawrence Bruno. CONVICTED on the
of murder, LIST degree. in Dickinson
County, Kansas. viii apply on the 18th
day Of November. 1891. TO the governor.
at his. Office in Topeka. Kansas. Tor
eAe''ttsss sneS LAwRENcE BRUNO.
20wbts
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-03

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Buy a pipe
and some PA.
that's due you!

Get the Joy that's Que you:
We print it right here that If you don't know tho
"feel' and the friendship Of joy'us jimmy pipe
GO GET ONEi And-get some Prince Albert and
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you'll smoke pipe if you play the game with F. Al
For Prince Albert's quality flavor coolness-
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such tobaccoi You never dreamed such smoke JOY
could be yoursl
why-figure out what 1t alone means to your
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Albert can't bite, can't parchi Our exclusive pat
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And, say-oh, go on and get q pipe ana some Prince
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15
MORE GOOD ROADS BIG NEED
viii Increase Growing Popularity Of
Automobiles and Help Build
Up Communities.

70 determine the average mileage
the automobile owner covers in a
pleasure trip in the evening after
the days work is over. an investiga-
ton among $50 owners in a middle
western city of around 100000 popu-
lation resulted in an average of 3S
miles. Sixty-two per cent stated they
would make longer trips If the roads
permitted, So per cent stated they usu-
ally made their trips out into the
country.
From these figures it Is easy to
see that more good roads will In
crease the growing popularity of the
automobile, which will in turn help
to build up communities, relieving
congestion in the crowded cities. Gre
ate d wider circulation of money, in
crease realty values, lower transpor-
tation costs and introduce America
First to more people.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15
BIRTHPLACE OF BOARDS
OF TRADE AND TRUSTS

He who thinks that vast m%onOpolies
are modern enterprises, or that cham
bers of commerce are latter day civic
institutions, or that Prussians first
strove to implant Kultur with a sword
In 1914, will be disillusioned if he
reads the history Of Riga, chief city
of Latvia, on the Baltic, through which
city such intercourse as has been had
with Russia in recent months has
largely been carried on.
Riga, which was attacked by Ger
man troops in 1919, had to wrest It,
self free from Prussian control once
before, and thereby hangs the story
of an early exploit like the attempted
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15

trio car in the city Of Caliao the trav-
eler allghts at one of the many pinzas
In Lima. the capital Of Peru and a
thriving city OF 100000 inhabitants.
Not far away he will find the center
Of the city's life and tradltions-the
Plaza Mayor, or great square" All
Of the city's street car lines radiate
from this enter as though represent
Ing the Influence and power that radi-
ated from the same spot to all South
America when Lima was the CITY
Of the King" On one side of the
Plaza Mayor rises the cathedral with
its lofty twin towers. Pizarro is said
to have laid the foundation
His mummy Is now exhibited inside
the structure.
Facing another side of the main
plaza is the old vice-regal palace. still
used for governmental purposes. Not
far away is the oldest university in
the western hemisphere. the Universe
dad de San Marcos, established more
than half a century before the Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth. In the Lima of
the present the classic old Universe
dad shares the educational field with
the thoroughly modern technical col
leges devoted to engineering, medi-
cine and agriculture.
Lima and Callao, thought of vaguely
perhaps by many as somewhere near
the northern end of South Americas
Pacific coast, are Approximately 1.6O
miles south of Panama-as far from
tie isthmus as Key West Is from Nova
Scotia. Though only ten degrees south
of the equator, and therefore well
within the tropics, these cities, due
to the dryness of the western slopes
of the Andes and to the cold Humboldt
Current that washes the coast, have
an equable climate. The temperature
in summer December to May) sell
dom rises above so degrees Fahren-
heit. and in winter rarely falls below
60 degrees.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15
~KLACENFURT: A SELF
AREA

The Klagenfurt area. the only region
In which a plebiscite was provided for
in the treaty between the allies and
Austria, has been retained by Austria
as a result of the vote which was tax
en- several months ago.
When the crazy-quilt patchwork of
diverse peoples that made up the old
Austro-Hungarian empire was ripped
apart by the treaty OF st. German and
rearranged more nearly in accordance
with nationality and language, it was
clear hat the old Austrian province
of Carniola, extending from the klag-
enfurt area south almost to Fiume,
was Slavonic in its population. 1t
was therefore included in the Jugo-
Slav kingdom along with the other OBJ
viously Slavonie provinces in the
southern part of the old empire Bos-
mia, Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Croatia
and %Slavopia.
Carinthia, the province adjoining
| Carniola on the north and containing
the K%lagenfurt area, was recognized.
ON the other hand, to be predominant
~ Teutonic as a whole. But it vas
! seen thai the southeastern section of
the province, the valley of the Brave
river about Klagenfurt. had a heavy
population of Sloye1es. 1t was felt by
the allies that the, question whether
the Teutons OF the Slavs predominated
in the region should be definitely de-
termined and that the area should be
attached, according to the desires of
the majority of the residents, to the
Teutonic republic of Austria or to the
Slav kingdom TO the south.
The region which Austria retains as
a result of the plebiscite is roughly
almond-shaped, approximately fifty
miles in extreme length and twenty-five
miles in extreme breadth, with an
area of something more than 600
square Enthusiastically less than one
third that of Delaware. 1t contains
much mountain land but also a portion
of the rich Brave valley, one Of the
most productive parts of Carinthia.
One of the most important results
of the vote to the Austrians is that
they will retain the rich lead mines of
Bleiburg, perhaps the most important
in all the old territory of Austria
Hungary. In the city of Klagenfurt,
with its population of about 25.O0O,
the Austrian republic retains one OF
its important Woodworking centers
The Klagenfurt region came near
being a bone of contention among
three nations instead of two. Its
western end almost touches the far
ing top of the Italian boot, and dur
ing a great part of the World var rs
mountain peaks echoed the thunder
of the great Italian and Austrian guns
on the Isonzo front, a few miles +
the southwest.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15

1So2, In a town not far from scissors.
As a hoy he had few advantages, for
his mother was poor. He was, how
ever carefully instructed by a kindly
priest. He then studied law, but his
desire TO write drove him to Paris,
where he began his career by penning
vaudeville sketches and melodrnmas.
He wrote plays for several years and
his "Henri Ill" scored the first great
success of the romantic drama. short
stories appeared mt intervals. and then
his novels. 'sThe Three Musketecrs-
rame out in 1874, and thereafter ro-
nance nfter romance came In such
rarid succession that his collected
works In French All 227 volumes. He
told Napoleon III that he had written
4 200 books.
Prodigiously as he worked he wasted
Just M prodigiously. He entertained n
whole army of parasites, and In his
last years was constantly harassed by
creditors. He had married In 1910 Ida
Ferrier, an actress, hut they did not
long live together. His daughter came
90 his aid in 1908 when he was debit
ridden and III, and two years later. on
December s, 1870, he died I'm the home
Of his SOU, the author of the popular
camille"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15
WHERE FLEET VISITED
LIMA AND CALLAO

American Blue Jackets of the At
lantic fleet recently visited Lima, cap
ital of Peru, after the passage of the
fighting ships through the Panama
canal. The fleet lay Mt anchor at
Callao. the port of Lima, only a few
miles away. The history of Calla0's
sheltered bay, which constitutes one
of the best harbors on the Pacific coast
Of South America may be considered
to have begun shortly after Pizarro
and his bearded comrades entered Peru
in 1882.
From Callao in the years that fol-
lowed sailed a constant stream of gall
Icons loaded with the gold and silver
that the Conquistadores stripped from
the rich continent on which they had
gained a foothold. Lima. only eight
miles inland, became the seat Of the
vice-regal government by which all
South america was ruled, and Callao
was practically the only gate through
which the treasure gathered by the
colonial agencies a poured into the
lap of the Spanish king. Close to
CalIao often lowered British and
Du+ch pirates to swoop down on the
treasure ships.
Callao was the first Pacific port
in South America to have completed
modern harbor works.
A half hour after boarding an cleo
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15
IMPROVED
ROADS
ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN 1920
Distinct Shortage of Labor and Higher
Cost Of Materials Among Diff
culties Encountered.

Every kind of road cost about twica
as much TO build In 1920 as 1t did in
1917, according to the chief of the
bureau of public roads, United States
Department of Agriculture, and high
way construction suffered more han
any other class of work through rail-
road congestion, strikes, labor trou-
bles, and material shortages.
After the war there was a great
public demand for improved roads.
Many roads had been seriously dam
aged by war traffic, and 1t appeared
that the return of men from military
service would provide an abundance of
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15

labor. The army of laborers which we
expected ~ apply for the work did
not, however. materiallze. On the
contrary, there was a distinct shortage
of labor, and wages reached the high
est levels attained in the history of
the country. In 1917, competent labor
could be secured for from $3.50 to So
per day, but the corresponding wages
in 1920 were from SO to So for a short
er days work.
In proportion to this demand there
vas also a pronounced scarcity of con-
struction materials. Sand, gravel,
stone and cement. and materials COM
monty used in road work increased in
price between 1917 and 1920 from 30
to 100 per cent. Naturally. these in
creases in cost were reflected in the
prices paid to contractors for road
work. Gravel roads increased from
$4,535 to $3.50 per mile; concrete
from $21,165 to upward of $4,000 per
mile, and brick roads from $32 900 t.
$4,000 per mile.
AS funds available for road n
struction are largely limited by statute,
or by the returns from taxation, a
majority of the states this year have
deliberately withheld work, the plans
for which had been completed. until
they could obtain a greater return for
their expenditure.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15
WHERE OUR
FLEET VISITED

Valparaiso, nome OF CnneS naval
academy, was visited recently by the
United States Pacific fleet while the
Atlantic fleet was anchored at Callao,
Peru.
The harbor of Valparaiso, while not
so remarkable as that of Rio de ia
metro where tropical verdure runs riot
among granite crags. nor so idyllic as
vivid. sun-bathed Naples, still deserves
to rank with them and three or -four
/ others as the most beautiful and strik-
ing of the important harbors of the
world. 1t is no detraction to say that
Valparaiso's name-"Vale of Para
dise'-is not merited. Such a name
suggests soft lines. rolling greensward,
fiower-strewn meadows, shady paths,
noble groves. The beauty of Val
paraiso is more austere.
Sailing into Valparaiso the voyager
enters a wide semi-circular bay fianked
by high capes. On a narrow level
strip of ground that borders the curv-
ing shore line is the well built bust
ness section of the city. Behind and
above this level portion of Valparaiso
tower bluffs and steep semi-arid hills.
These highlands once hemmed in the
old city. but modern Valparaiso has
burst it's bonds. Fine castle-like resi-
dences now cling to the slopes of many
of the hills or perch upon the edges
of the bluffs.
Valparaiso has a population of $780,
600. 1t is by far the most important
South American Pacific port, and the
annual value of it's commerce exceeds
that of M~ontevideo on the Atlantic
coast.
While Beunos Aires and Montevideo
on the east coast have been handi-
capped by the shallowness of their
harbors, Valparaiso's difficulties have
lain in the opposite direction. Its
waters are so deep that the building
of breakwaters and jetties was de-
layed until 1912. The carrying out
of the entire harbor improvement now
under way will cost S15,000.O00 or
more.
In 1906, the year in which San Fran
tlSCO was utSliOgCu ny CdA tif4huNt
and fire, Valparaiso was also devas-
tated by the same two forces of de-
struction. Like San Francisco, South
Americas greatest Pacific port city
has risen from its crumbled stone and
ashes not merely to rehabilitate itself,
but to become even greater and more
prosperous.
Valparaiso is in practically the same
latitude as Buenos Aires, Cape Town,
and Sydney, and is about the same
distance from the equator in the south
as San Francisco and Charleston, s.
c., in the north. Because of South
Americas position considerably to the
east of North America, Chile's great
est port is almost due south of New
York, and therefore has about the
same time.
Warships are always to be found
in the harbor of Valparaiso, for this
is one of Chile's chief naval bases. 1t
is also the location Of the Chilean
naval academy. whose buildings, on
a great promontory, dominate the har-
Dor. No better view of the city and
harbor of Valparaiso can be had thar
that from the parked grounds of this
fine institution.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15
subjugation Of Belgium and the depor-
tatiOn Of its workers.

s~ubjugation of Belgium and the depor-
tatiOn of its workers.
About the middle Of the twelfth cen
fury a few German merchants estab-
Iished settlements about the mouth OF
the Dvlna, which empties into the Gulf
of Riga nine miles below the present
city of Riga. Whereupon Bishop Al
bert. In the role of missionary, sought
10 ~coloniSe the territory in 1901 by
building a town where Riga now
stands and the following year he
founded the Brethren of the Sword.
The new order was well named. 1t
killed where II could not convert,
though slaughter was not the main OBJ
ject after a foothold on the promising
Baltic port was obtained. The mis-
sionarles" were satisfied to reduce the
native population to serfdom, ap-
propriate the land, and build fortified
towns and castles 10 uphold this min
iature feudal system in a land they
aimed to exploit.
But the Livonians are a liberty low
ing people. They resisted despotism
then, and many times later, just as
a year or so ago they rebelled against
Bolshevism. When their early oppres-
sors became too severe they arose and
drove out the missionaries" Later
Livonia. and Riga. which became its
capital, espoused the Christian relig-
ion: and the Order of the Sword
,,.nuol .,-i.b tbo u,o,topip KNIGHTS and
continued to operate in other quarters.
Though Prussia's political hold was
shaken off Riga, 1t maintained Its
economic ties there, and individual
Germans usually have been important
factors in its commerce. This phase
of German influence was consum-
mated when Riga. in the thirteenth
century. became a member of the
Hanseatic league, the first great trust
which for two centuries controlled
practically all the trade channels OF
continental Europe north of the Alps.
The third modern aspect of medi-
eval Riga is to be found in the fam
Gus "Blackheads." it was this body
which soon came to have the civic i'm
portance. and apparently many OF the
functions. of q chamber of commerce
or board of trade today.
Originally 1t was organized by the
young traders who came 10 Riga. as
a social club, to afford fellowship In
addition to the needful board and
lodgings during their sojourn. Since
the members were mostly young men,
progressive, and somewhat assertive,
they took their name TO distinguish
themselves from their elders, or grey
boards. Naturally their table talk
turned to ways Of promoting business,
and soon the club became, in effect, an
organization for a Bigger, Better and
Buster Riga" as the modern trade body
would phrase it.
From the beginning OF the World
war Riga was an objective of the
Central powers. because of its impor-
lance as a focal point for the lumber
from White Russia and Volhynla, the
flax from northwestern Russia. and
other products from q wide area with
which it has rail and water cOmmuni-
cation. Its pre-war prosperity Is In
dicated by the growth of its popula-
ton from 102 900 in 1867 to more than
100000 in 1913.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15
ROAD SOILS DIFFER WIDELY
Just What Characteristics Are Which
Make Them Different Puzzles
Highway Engineers.

The federal highway engineers
point out that soils differ widely in
their ability to support loads, particu-
larry when they are wet. Just why
this is true and just what are the
characteristics which make them diff
ferent 10 little understood at present.
1t is in this field Of Investigation, OF
increasing Importance because of the
growing volume OF heavy traffic, that
the federal Investigators expect to Sc
cure important information.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-15

HNN February %, 1915, Edmond
Dantes sailed into Marseilles.
He was but nineteen years of
age and ardently in love. His con
science was clear; he had violated no
law. Yet the next night he was in q
cell in the gloomy Chateau diff. a for
treSs on a bare rock off Marseilles.
And fourteen years were to pass be-
fore he strobe again in the sunlight.
Three men had wrought his ruin.
Danglars envied Edmond's rapid pro-
motion. Fernand was crazed with love
for Mercedes, Edmond's beloved. Dan
glars wrote and Fernand dispatched a
letter warning the authorities to inter-
cept the missive Edmond was bearing
to Paris. Chance decreed that this
warning. addressed TO Villefort's fa-
Their, fell into the hands of the I'M
scrupulous Villefort himself.
OF this dark intrigue Edmond knew
nothing. At his captains dying re-
quest, he had called at Elba where he
had seer the captive Napoleon and
been ~intrusted with a sealed letter.
VfllefOrt, a turn-coat devoted to the
a%ristocracy, had changed his name TO
make men forget that his father was
a BonapartiSt. He destroyed the in
eliminating letter before Edmond's
eyes and promised that the lad should
soon be free. Even as he spoke the
ance of this youth lay his W security.
Thus it happened that while the
Garsican came Out of Elba by stealth
and rode to Paris amid tumultuous
cheers, Edmond lay in a dungeon. The
thunder of the guns at Waterloo did
nof penetrate the walls of the Chateau
diff. Napoleon was borne away to
st. Helena; the Hundred days were
over. And Dantes knew naught of
these things. He ate out his heart in
thoughts of Mercedes and wondered
what mad freak of fortune had thrust
him away from the world of men.
Days dragged into years. He lost
track of time. Confined in a black and
Shiny dungeon, he saw only his jailer.
There were moments when he hoped.
hours when he despaired, weeks when
ne raved in impotent anger. Four years
rolled past. He was starving himself
To death. Then he heard a rasping.
scratching noise. The spark of human
hope burned anew. He swallowed his
broth Ihe must win back his strength.
Somewhere near him was a human
mole, hurrowing stealthlly. worming to-
ward freedom.
-Four days later a section of floor
zag fell in and out of a dark tunnel
Sprang an old man. He was the Able
B9aria. a prisoner for eight years. His
tunnel. dug with arduous toll, had
failed TO reach the sunlight, but 1t led
- fellowship. unsupported by their
jRIlers, the two men met daily and
studied unweariedly. Out of his ripe
wisdom and his prod,gious memory.
the Able taught Edmond mathematics,
history and languages.
Less guileless than Edmond, he was
saile 10 prove. from the youths own
story that Danglars. Remand and
yiIiefort were responsible for his liv-
ing death. SO Edmond had a new In
centive for freedom. He sought re-
venge. The Able revealed too the Sc
eret of the great treasure Of gold and
Jewels that lay in a cave on Montt
Crfsto, an uninhabited island off italy
TIE years rolled on. Another at
femnt to escape was frustrated by the
paralysis Of the Abbe's right side. FIJI
mond refused TO leave him. He wac
n ve.y different a from the carefres