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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17
Obituary-simeon Martin Barber

Simeon Martin Barber, youngest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Barber, was
born in Abilene, Kansas, October 1,
1900. His entire life was spent In
Abilene. After attending the city
schools he entered the high school
and was a member Of this years Sem
Tor class. 1t was his ambition to
graduate from A. H. S., which he had
so ably represented on the athletic
field. He was prominent In all forms
of athletics connected with the
school, and was considered one Of the
finest sportsmen that ever played a
game. This was his fourth year as
a member Of the football team. He
was always a tower Of strength and
an inspiration to his team-mates. His
fine physique and power Of endurance
testified to the fact that a clean life
and proper care of the body are I'M
portant factors in athletic prowess.
He was severely injured in the last
game in which he participated, and
despite the most tender care and skill
he was taken from this sphere Of
earthly activity to a larger field Of
usefulness On the morning Of Novem-
Der 2, 1921, at the age Of II years,
1 month and 9 days. He IL survived
by his parents and one brother, for
whom the deepest sympathy Is felt
in their sudden and sad bereavement.
FunesaI services were held from the
Lutheran church wednesday at $3.50
D. m. and were conducted BY Rev.
David Tswnley, pastor Of the Pres
byterian church.
It was one of the largest funerals
ever seen in Abilene. The local high
school attended in body, and there
were representatives present from
practically every high school IN the
district. The entire town and COM
mnnity turned cut to pay their last
tribute Of respect to the memory Of
one who was loved BY all who knew
him. Interment was In the Abilene
cemetery
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17
HERINOTON LOOKS FOR WATER
Hope to Get a Good Supply Before
Next Summer

w. r. Tasker, superintendent OF
water and light in Harrington, and his
men are still exploring for water on
the August Lietz place. They are
putting down wells with an augur
and when a good flow is found they
put down a shaft for better test.
At present there is good showing.
II several other good veins can be
loacted, a supply sufficient for the
city's needs may be found. The quail
ity is good.
A well just east of Harrington
shows a good flow Of soft water and
it is likely that this territory will be
tested. The commission decided
Tuesday night to continue the search
for water through the winter as ener-
getically as the weather will permit
with the hipe Of solving the problem
by spring.
The Rock Island needs more water
and its engineers were looking the
country over recently for source Of
supply.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17
EARNERs UNION HAS 100000
Report Kansas Br1hch n ii Prosper

Report kansas Brunch ID ID Prosper.
oss Condltion
The Kansas division Of the Farm
ers' Union has balance OF $4,000
the report Of the auditor, presented
at the recent quarterly meeting OF
the board Of directors at Salina
showed.
The board instructed President
Maurice McAulinfe OF the Kansas d.
vision to make all necessary prepar-
atoms for the entertainment Of the
national board Of directors, at the ma
tional convention Of the union, to be
held in Topeka, November Is, 10 and
II. including the printing of badges
bearing the name Kansas" to be
worn by delegates from this state.
The Kansas delegation will have a
headquarters In Topeka during the
convention.
Pertaining to the condition of the
Farmers Union in Kansas, President
McAuliffe said: "Viewing the Farm
ers' Union from every angle, 1t Is In
as prosperous condition at this time
as its most ardent well wishers could
desire"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17

From Manhattan to Sharon Springs
the poles of the United Telephone
Company line and mark Its COURSE
where once the sage brush but en-
phasized the desOlation Of the barren
plain-sentinels Of the march Of pro-
gress and civilization which has
transformed this arid waste into a
land Of plenty.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17

Hickok, the pony express riders and
the freighters-the course over
which the "Star of Empire made It's
Westward way"--it was christened
"The Roaring u. p. Trail"
Today, with many Of its miles
paved, the most of 1t graded In good
shape, and dotted at frequent inter-
walls with prosperous and happy com
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17
DROVE HIS CATTLE HOME
Cottonwood FAILS Farmer Beat High
Rates

Believing that freight rates on
thirty head Of cattle he recently pur-
chased near Hope, Kan, were too
high, Richard CIOugh, farmer south
west of Cottonwood Falls, drove the
cattle over land, making the sixty
mile trim in two DAYS.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17

Pounded into ribbon Of travel by
generations of savages-the pathway
Of the pioneer and the frontiersman
ais he pushed on into the golden land
of opportunity-the highway and the
by-way Of such men as General Ere
mont, "the pathfinder" Kit Carson.
Buffalo Bill" Cody, "Wild BIZ
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17
$4,000 For SaIina Temple

: The committee raising funds for
building the shrine temple at Salina
has secured pledges Of about S10,-
900 from this city, which is a mighty
fine showing. The Shriners OF the
district EXPECT to raise 100000.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank all that took or
4 had part In our sad bereavement.
Also for the beautiful floral tributes.
Your kindness will never be forgot
Iten.-Mr. and Mrs, Sam Barber and
Family. " i
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17

VIM. MattesOn and Ray Burkhold-
er left for New Mexico where they
will hunt Mr.. Burkholder will then
90 on to California where he viii
spend the winter.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17

We wish wewere a woman, 50 we
could take piece Of knitting, and go
to neiahbor's ard spend the day.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17

From Wamego to Brookville the
transmission lines of the United Light
& Power System stretch, carrying
cheap power and home conveniences
to those whose grandfathers broke
and conquered the unwilling sod.
Thus has civilization come to the
land Of 1.-THE Roarin' U. p Trail"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17

munities of ambitious, energetic peo
pie; tapping the richest country be-
tween the Missouri river and the
Rockies; thousands Of automobiles
loaded with those on business OF
pleasure bent, travelling its length
daily, truly the Union Pacific High
way Is yet 1.-THE Roarin' U. z. Trail
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17

Dried figs are, weight for weight
more nourishing than bread.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-11-17
irHR RpARiN U. P. TRAIL
Oacs In wnderness--Ns
ration

The picture on the first page OF
the Reflector gives scenes along what
was once known as the Roarin' U. p.
Trail. It is from the United Tele-
phone Voice which says:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07
SPANS ATTITUDE
CAUSING ANXIETY
Threats of Tariff Pressure and Trade
5oycotts Worrying "Dry"
Countries.

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 6.-spain's
anti prohibition attitude is causing
economic anxiety in more than one
"dry" or partly dry country. Threats
of tariff pressure, trade boycotts and
other steps in behalf of the manufac-
ture and sale of Spanish wines are
having their effect, notably in Iceland
and Finland. Norway alone seems inn
pervious to foreign wet" attacks.
The Icelanders are worried, accord
ing to the Politiken, by the decision of
Spain to increase customs duties on
Icelandic fish unless the prohibition
law is altered to allow the Importation
and consumption of Spanish wines be-
low 81 per cent of alcohol.
Spain's decision spells ruin to the
IceIandic fish export, says the Politi-
ken's Iceland correspondent, who says
he understands the government of Ice
land intendes to introduce a bill allow
ing the importation and consumption
of wine below the stipulated alcoholic
content. Prohibitionists have already
started a political campaign in Iceland
against such a policy.
It is reported that the Helsingfors
government intends shortly to inntro-
duce a bill which viii greatly curtail
the powers of the present Finnish pro-
hibition act. The Norwegian govenn-
ment, however, Isl taking an exactly
opposite attitude in expediting their
prohibition bill and the government
monopoly bill, independent of CONNER
cial treaty negotiations now going on
with France, Spain and Portugal.
Spain has already closed her from
tiers against Norwegian goods and
Portugal will take similar step, be-
ginning this month.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07

when the purse becomes emaciated
characterize most of them.
Some Of these eastern girls declare
they find the west safer for young
women than New York City. ReDecca
Brownstein and Myra Levine, former
students of Syracuse university, who
recently hiked from the Pacific to
their homes here, praised western men
so highly that many mothers began
praying that their dear daughters
would not get any of those crazy
ideas of walking across country into
their heads"
Florence Rosen and Gladys thinner
man, of New York, reached Los AM
geles a few days ago after a long
tramp across the continent, broken by
jobs of stretching octaves on type
writer's whenever funds ran low. They
liked the open air life so well that they
Immediately began saving up for a re-
turn jaunt.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07
FEW TELEGRAMS
OUT OF RUSSIA
Although Country Has Open connnu-
nIeation With Outside World,
Number is Limited.

RIGA, Latvia. Aug 8. - Although
Russia has been in open telegraph
communication with the outside world
for some months since the Russian
English and various other trade agree
ments were signed, few kilograms ever
come out of Russia in response to the
thousands that are sent in, say Off
Gals Of the telegraph administration
in Riga and Reveal. Most Of the tele-
grams are routed through these two
cities, which are in direct wire com
municatioh with Moscow and Petro-
grad.
I'VE have a good deal Of money on
hand unused in connection with an
swer prepaid cabIegrams from Amer
lea and elsewhere to Moscow and 9th
er Russian points, said an official OF
the Riga telegraph department. ''Tele-
grams by the hundreds have been sent
in to Russia with answer prepaid, but
very few Of the answers have come"
Only certain persons are allowed to
telegraph in Russia, 1t is understood
here. and to gain the privilege of re-
plying takes much time, during which
the person Is subjected 10 a complete
investigation as TO the reason he
could possibly want to telegraph.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07
TELEPHONE OPERATORS RECEIVE ALL
KINDS OF KICKS AND COMPL AINTS
AS Matter Usually Efficient Mechanical Difficult
ties Will Permit Them to Be-The Story
of the Light

remark to her fellow worker right at
her side.
1t seems to those on the outside
looking in or calling in that the tele-
phone operator is the LATEST, most
inefficient person on earth and that
nowhere else in the business world
could such inattentiveness get by as
in the telephone exchange. And the
operator wonders what the public
thinks she is anyway and knows that
it seems. that she is expected to be
the most obliging walking encyclope-
dia and perfect piece of mechanism
ever devised for efficiency.
Formerly the housewife wanting to
know the time would go to telephone
and sweetly ask central rather than
go to another part of the house. When
the operator would give it to her,
she would decide that it must
be either earlier or later -
than that and to be sure would
call and ask the Western Union. Often
when there might be a difference of
one or two minutes in the time given
she would become indignant at the OPP
orator having been so negligent in her
work and giving her the wrong time
and call for the chief operator and
report the girl-making no allow
ance for any difference in time pieces.
Sometimes there was Western Union
clock in the telephone exchange and
sometimes some other kind. While
every enquirer for the time was not
so particular, hundreds were and it
was happy day for the telephone
operators when a ruling was made
that time could not be given over the
wire as it interferred with the reg
ular service too much. Done as a
matter of convenience to subscribers
they made it a nuisance and a big
clog in the wheels of efficiency of the
telephone system.
Impatient subscribers viii report the
operator guilty of all forms of mis-
conduct from sleeping on the job to
drunkenness. She is accused of read
ing story books instead of operating
her board as she should. She is repri-
manaed for talking to her fellow
over the line and of a hundred and one
conjectures.
Again some subscribers curiosity
gets the better of her or him and in
eajoling, friendly tones the operator
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07

is asked who was talking over such
and such a line and what were they
talking about. Others would like to
hold friendly little conversation with
the operator and sporty young men
about town and older ones like to
kid" the 'little girls" along. Some
people ask the operators advice on
everything from what doctor to call
for a sick child or what to do for it,
to who is the best dressmaker in the
city.
Subscribers will rave at the opera
tor for giving them the wrong num-
Der when they speak at the side or
away from the mouth-piece instead of
directly into it-or yell in loud tones
or tumble their sounds. "A subscriber
will repeatedly call for three lights
and get all peeved UP at the operator
when she gives him three-eight, when
1t is eight t-eight that he wants.
A subscriber will call for three-o ones
three and nearly have a fit when the
operator gives them three one three
instead of one-on one three.
The operator, no matter how har-
raised she may be, must never an
swer rudely or impertinently. Per-
haps it is nob1esse oblige but no
matter what the person at the other
end of the line says, the operator must
always be polite and courteous.
Though she finds impatience to be a
great human characteristic she must
never indulge in it herself.
While the telephone operator is oft
en- ragged" for her inefficiency she
is probably the most efficient human
unit in the world of business. And to
increase her efficiency and keep up
her nerves when she is off duty a
charming rest room with private rock
ers is situated near the exchange
where the girls when they are off
duty, are served with coffee, tea or
chocolate, which is furnished them
free of cost. The girls often bring a
lunch with them. There is every con
venience for reading or writing and
a Victrola which is often used to fur
nish music for jolly group of girls
to dance by.
The telephone girl forgets her trou-
bles and the public for she doesn't
know it and it doesn't know her and
she is as jolly and friendly and as
sympathetic and kind and just as at
tractive and humanity lovabIe when
you are acquainted with her as is your
next best friend. And she viii help
you out whenever she can. She is not
the underpaid, undernourished girl,
nor the lazy, indoIent sport" that
many think her. She is better paid
than the average office girl and when
she is sick gets paid for all time LOST
after she has been with her company
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07
THUNDER INVENTED
THEICECREAM SODA
Was Result of Summer Shower Of
Forty-One Years Ago.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. "a sum-
mer thunder shower Al years ago re-
suited in the Invention" of the ice
cream soda, according to Fred Sanders,
Jr, of Detroit. whose grandfather,
Fred Sanders, claimed the distinction
Of having discovered this American in
stitution.
Speaking of his grandfather's dis
covery, Mr.. Sanders said:
Forty years ago the American peo-
pie regarded ice cream much as the
lily that could not be painted. At that
time they took it straight Syrups
were in general use in drink concoc-
tions but the ice cream sundae and its
many near relatives were unknown
Carbonated water was used by the
soda dispensers in a popular drink
known as sweet cream soda Its chief
ingredient was sweet cream, direct
from the farm.
THE thundershower that brought
about my grandfather's discovery
came in the summer of 1880. He was
conducting a soft drink parlor and
the storm caused the sweet cream he
had intended for sodas to sour. Just
after the storm passed wedding party
dropped IN and my grandfather volun-
teered to experiment until he found a
substitute drink. He tried several
drinks mad finally concocted one al
most identical with the ice cream soda
Of today.
Members of the party liked the new
drink so well that it became popular
within short time. and soon all deal
ers were making the sodas."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07
"REMINISCENCES OF
OLDER ESACOLA.


ssrh. oc1,, bot IN Pensacola when
5,rrt cameo the city" says ]. N.
Andrews. srlling riminiscently, was
ut me soutFest corner Of Government
ana srarraDna streets, and was only
for freiely Passenger cars were placed
on tba .Ack between Government and
Intend,icia streets and passengers got
On an Off there.
Tb largest dry goods business was
don at the northeast corner of Tara
goA street by +. G. e. l.. A. Pom. The
hySiness houses were nearly all one
cory first remember the frame
4 building taking in from Government
street where the National bank stands
up to Child's restaurant, one story, and
kept by T. T. Wright. called the Mer
rchAnt Prince. p. Stone kept a clothing
store, and /. Gugenheim shoe store
called the Red Star Shoe Palace. There
were two bakeries, j. f. Pfeiffer,
whose bakery is still in operation, and
Henry White, who lived on Intendencia
street and had his bakery and store
fronting on Government street. He also
made crackers and bareback, a kind
OF special cracker for vessel trade.
Before the typo made me say that
Shutdown was at the foot Of 10th av-
enue; instead, / said that Z. Garden
street was Shutdown, negro squatters
living on each side In little cabins.
That was between Palafox and Alcaniz
streets.
L. Bear kept a small store where the
M. & o. store is now. There were two
negroes here then that voted the dem
ocratic ticket, George Montgomery and
an old crippled shoemaker. They had
a tough time. George Montgomery was
q. very stout man weighing about 800
pounds. He could not stoop over and
pick up q very heavy weight from the
ground, but he could go to where sacks
of oats were piled UP, take one under
each arm and walk off with them. In
those days they often had seven bush
els to the sack. At the corner of Gar
den and Ps.afox streets, where you
may see 100000 worth of cars, then
YOU might stand for half an hour and
not see a vehicle of any kind. AT that
time the city and county paid their
debts with scrip which was worth is
or 20 cents on the dollar. George ID.
wentworth and Louis Boley were the
only ones who would handle it. They
made money with 1t.
IT noticed where Mr.. Horlick had
found an old cannon. think 1t Is one
OF four owned by the city. There used
lto be a tall flagpole at the center OF
the plaza and there was an old cannon
at each corner with the muzzle in the
ground, a guy wire rope leading from
the pole to each cannon. That calls to
mind the appearance Of the plaza when
q Moreno Jones was elected mayor in
1901 The bed of the plaza was about a
foot below the walks. the five blocks
of paving from Garden street to Main
were swept, and the rags, paper and
dirt were dumped into the square.
When the wind blew there were thou
sands OF rag and paper flags fluttering
IN the breeze. Mayor Jones had the
street foreman to instruct the team
sters when they were working out on
either hill to bring in loads of sand
at noon and night and so filled 1t up
without any extra cost-and that was
the beginning Of park Improvement IN
the city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07

why is it one occasionally has much
trouble getting a telephone number?
One woman in Pensacola has discov-
cred the reason of the difficulty. Try
ing to call a number she heard CEN
trail over the wire say Give me
light" Immediately the subscriber
yisioned the telephone operator ask
ing for a light for her cigarette and
straightway called for the chief OPP
orator reported the girl. The chief
operator answered in a soothing and
placating manner-for that's why she
is chief operator-and the woman
that time got her number satisfac-
toriiy.
The chief operator didn't acknowl-
edge TO the subscriber that the girl
had asked for light from her fell
low operator who was assisting her
in working the board and that by ask
ing for a light the operator meant
placing a plug to give a desired con-
nection, for the woman wouldn't have
understood. She had never been nearer
the telephone exchange than the front
office and she had already formed
picture in her mind of a lazy opera
tor putting smoke from a cigarette
while she should have been attending
to her business. And the chief OPP
orator knew that time in explanation
would only be wasted.
If this particular subscriber had
happened 90 have had a clearer Wis
ion when she sat down before her
phone in a cool, quiet room and picked
up her receiver to call a number, she
would have seen long, narrow room,
one side covered with switch boards
before which sat girls on high stools,
each with a headpiece on and a long
horn shaped mouthpiece fastened to
her chest. The hubbub of noises in the
room would have been punctuated by
the familiar Number, please?' almost
as fast as the operators could speak, the
arms and hands in continual motion
changing plugs on the switch board,
Right behind the operators near the
center Of the room at her desk, the
chief operator can listen in at any
time on any of the operators wires
and hear both the subscriber and OPP
orator talking. Not much chance for
one TO steal a puff at cigarette or
nibble a chocolate drop. The operator
hasn't much time to edge in a chance
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-07

r. r. l.. McCaskill. of DeFunak Springs.
has been in the city for a few days. upon
his return from New York, Lansing,
Chicago, Indianapolis, and
other points. His visit to the city of
Lansing was for the llurpose of arrang-
ing some business matters in connection
with his recent sale of 10000 acres Of
land in the northwestern part of Escam-
bia county, and the east-central part Of
Baldwin county, to a corporation recently
organized and known as the Alabama
Florida Farms company. This name is
already familiar to Pensacola business
men. as the company has an office in the
city, and are preparing to start develop
ment on a broad scale in the upper part
OF the county.