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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-28

BOSTON-Juhe Castleton has van
ished. leaving fearful notes to her par.
ents and to Dan Casweli
June is member Of the Sally"
company-or was, until she spoke open
ly OF her high regard for Dan Caswell
Caswell is a Clevelander and heir to
II considerable forfune.a.AHe married
Jessie Reed OF the "Follles" a year or
so ago. after courtship that warmed
the hearts OF Broadway.
The fires OF romance soon burned
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-28

WASHINGTON. - Government off.
cials were anxiously awaiting word to-
day OF the fate OF 40 American employees
OF the cortez Oil Company at Tampico
Mexico which the state department yes.
terday was informed had been seized by
bandits. and with quarter of a mil.
lion dollars worth of destructlbls prop
erty Of the company. held as security
for a ransom OF $4,000 pesos. Reports
Of the outcome OF the seizure was ex.
peeted hourly from the embassy IT
Mexico, or the consul at Tamplco rs
the time limit OF IS hours within which
payment OF the ransom was demanded
elapsed yesterday morning.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-28
Censorship Rigid.

Due To apparent rigid censorship at
NTampco, the state departments infor.
nation early today was still confined
TO the brief report from tho consul
there that the rebel general CorozIVr
with 240 well armed men. held the
property and the 40 Americans. Hav'
ing Immediately instructed both the
embassy and the consul to press for
immediate action by the Mexican fed
eral authorities for the protection of
American lives and punishment OF the
perpetrators OF the outrage, there ap.
peared today to be no disposition here
10 move in any other than a dipl)'
matte way until the Mexican govern.
ment had been proved unequal TO sJcr
urotectiun
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-28

$50 this is the Ardmcreite =?
"Yss and it's getting a lit
tie better all the time"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-28
WEATHER

Tonight and Thursday
probably unsettled, thun-
der showers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10
HE WHO RUNS MAY READ

A big sign on the Union Pacific
and Victory Highway at East Jun
iata street, assures the dusty and de-
termined tourist that he hasn't got
ten beyond the reach of the telephone
in his wild dash for the great open
spaces. A hand holding out a tele-
phone and the cryptic suggestion
''TALK HOMIE with an etching of
"Home, sweet home" in the upper
right hand corner of the sign are the
outstanding features of the poster.
To the average dust-begrimmed
touorist, who is driving hard to make
a certain tourist camping park by
evening, it may not mean much, yet
if anything should happen, and quite
frequently it does, that a quick call
for help, a message to his home back
east or out west, or anywhere else, is
necessary, there is the assurance in
this poster that such service is avail
able.
A certain man, well-known in Kan
sas, one Of the last of the early day
freighters, whom we shall refer to as
Old-Timer, after looking at one of
these posters, the other day, said:
''YOu may not see much in that, but
want to tell you an announcement
like that along the old Santa Fe or
U. P. trails sixty years ago, would
have meant more than a message
from Heaven"
owe don't know what the value of
this sort of advertising will be, as
yet" said H F. Addison, manager of
the local exchange. eve are the
first telephone company to expert
ment with bill board advertising of
toll service, in this section of the
country, if not in the United States"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10
SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS
PLANNED

A system of highways that will
serve the whole country and will be
far superior to any other in the
world is being mapped out by Fed
eral and State engineers. 1t is esti-
mated that the system Will comprise
10000 miles of road. The Federal
highway act recently enacted specifi-
cally requires that all Federal aid be
spent on connected system of high
ways consisting of not more than
seven per cent of the road mileage in
each state, and that this system shall
consist of interstate or primary roads
and intercountry or secondary roads.
Proposed systems have been receiv-
ed by the Bureau of Public Roads of
the United States Department of
Agriculture from all but eight states.
They are plotted on a large map of
the United States and carefully exam
ined as to coordination with the
roads 70 adjacent States and service
to all sections of the country. Where
coordination is not satisfactory con-
ferences are held with all interested
State highway officials and routes ad-
justed.
Many states have already adjusted
difficult problems wit htheir neigh
bors. AS an example the system sent
IN by Nebraska showed a big gap in
an important road along the northern
boundary. 1t was learned, however,
that South Dakota would follow with
a system that would fit like pictures
on toy blocks. Since the Federal
highway act of last November became
a law, only roads certain to be on the
system have been approved for con-
struction.-Ex.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10
(First Published an the Hays Free
Press, August 3, 1929
EXECUTORS NOTICE

State of Kansas, Ellis County, IS:
In the Probate Court in and for said
county.
In the matter of the Estate of Mary
Krumfus, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary have been granted to
the undersigned on the Last VIII and
Testament of Mary Krumfus, late of
said county, deceased, by the Honor
able, the Probate Court of the county
and State aforesaid, dated the 22nd
day of July, 1922. Now, all persons
having claims against the said estate
are hereby notified they must present
the same to the undersigned for al
lowance within one year from the
date of said Letters or they may be
precluded from any benefit of such
estate; and that if such claims be not
exhibited within two years after the
date of said letters, they shall be for
ever barred.
Dated July %, 1922.
H. w. Oshant,
Executor of the Last Will and Tesla
ment of Mary Krumfus, deceased.
Attest: J. B. Gross,
Probate Judge.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10
THE PAVING

Last Monday was paving day in
Hays. Nine bidders and a host of
friends assembled at the City Hall
and at ? O'Clock fled their bids for
about hundred thousand dollars of
the over three hundred thousand dol
lar building program mapped out for
HAYS CITY within the coming
twelve months. HOWE Ndd of
Hutchinson, was the lowest bidder, at
$3.O5 a square yard for brick pave
ment, but he was higher in his price
on excavation and other work, so lost
out, the contract going to Harry l..
Taylor of Larned at S3.07 a square
yard, with go cents for curb and gut
ter a running foot. He is the same
party who laid the pavements in Ellis,
and has rented camp grounds here
for year for his gang and materials
and viii begin at once. He will also
put in the alleys near the Strand, of
cement at $2.19.
For a concrete pavement the low
est bid was S2.4O, but none wanted it.
For sheet asphalt, ]. B. Watts of Con-
cordia, was the lowest bidder at $3.50
a square yard, but he cannot come
unless he can get several streets as
1t is very expensive to bring all of his
machinery out here, and only Elm
street had so far asked for the sheet
asphalt.
All of the prices were less than the
estimate OF Engineer Seng, who esti-
mated at 1925 70 rbrick and $2.55
fcr asphalt.
It provides Tor paving Juniata
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10

street from Chestnut to the Cochran
land; Fifth avenue from Chestnut
west to Oak, two blocks; Elm street
from Sixth south FIVE short blocks to
Crawford and the Highway; Sheridan
avenue from Chestnut, three blocks
to Elm (this is the hospital street) !;
and the alley of two blocks.
East Normal avenue from Oak to
Miner, three blocks, was enjoined
for failure to have enough legal
signers, the property owners wanting
the whole street from Chestnut to
Miner, paved with a white way on
the sides instead of the center of the
street like from the Normal school, as
is being installed in Els. 1t is told
that the Golden Belt Railroad folks
do not want any paving done on Jun
iata or Miner streets until next
spring so they can cross those streets
in getting to their U. P. Railroad con-
nection SHOULD they get the asked
for permission), when the railroad
will pave their share as required by
their ordinance permission.
Juniata street is to be paved the
entire width from Chestnut to Oak,
and the rest of the distance but %
feet from curb to curb, as the other
residence streets in the city are to be
paved that width.
The whole amount of Mondays
contracts foot up $1O6,54O.OO for a
starter, for which twenty years are
given to pay it in.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10
EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES

The local Turkey wheat which
ranked third place this year was sup
piled by Mr.. Geo. Reidel. This vari-
ETY. has only been grown one year at
the Hays Station but will be contin-
ued as check.
Blackhull is a new wheat which has
found favor in the southern part of
the state. It is the nearest Compel
itor of Kanred, the four year average
at the Hays Station being 22.5
bushels compared to 1872 bushels for
Kanred.
All of the wheat on the Cereal Pro
ject came from plants which came up
between March Is and 20.
Interesting cooperative tests with
winter wheat carried on by County
Agent Howard with farmers of Ellis
County, gave results quite similar to
those obtained on the Experiment
Station.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10
THE ADVENTURES OF JANE
Wy INUI III OOSIICI
Chapter 1.-THE Picnic


Her father reached her and drew
her gently into safety. The other
man shot and skinned the bear. When
this job was finished they started
home, James father carrying her, and
the other man the bear-skin.
'Well, I sure will be glad when I
get home" sighed Jane, because I
am as hungry as a bear" ''Why
didn't you eat the one you metz"
laughed her father. 81 was too
frightened to realize I was hungry"
she answered.
They had reached home by this
time and found breakfast waiting.
"Say, Jim," said James father,
won't you stay for breakfast, as it's
ready?" ''Well, guess so" consent
ed Jim.
After breakfast was finished Mr..
Morton Danes father, suggested
that they go over and get Jim's wife
and then all of them go riding in his
car. A few minutes later all of them
piled in Mr.. Morton's big roomy car.
Jane went to sleep while they were
riding and did not know where they
went. Mr.. Morton drove around
through the woods and after while
he found nice grassy spot so he
stopped the car.
Jane woke up just then and gave a
jump for she was startled at finding
herself in the woods again.
"What do you all say to going home
and fixing lunch, then coming back
here and eating it," asked Jim. Gail
in favor say l." he continued. 81"
they answered in a chorus. They
turned around and started home
When they got home they fixed a
lunch, then went back.
''Tm getting hungry" said Jane
when they reached their destination.
$50 am l." answered Mary (Jim's
wife). They fixed the lunch which
consisted of sandwiches, sweet and
dill pickles, wienies, ice cream and
cake. Jane happened to think of
candy so she took a box with her.
After lunch they took another ride
in the car, then went back to the pic
mic grounds. They went to the river
and got James canoe and went
canoeing. They went about a mile
and all of a sudden they struck some
thing which sent the canoe back al
most three feet.
The jolt threw Jane out of the
canoe. She thought she would fool
them and so she held her nose and
went under three times. Jim jumped
for her and thought she was gone for
sure. But she jumped up right in
front of him. ooh! I thought you
were drowning ne exclaimed. 'I'm
alright" said Jane, 81 just thought I
would brighten you a little"
Il guess We had better go home
now" said her mother. 81 wonder
what viii happen to you next"
(To be continued)
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10

Did you say if we meet prices? MOI
we don't. We have told you that ''we
sell for less.'' Now we must make
our word good. Try US, and see if we
don't.
Wholesalers Cash Stores Co.
eve Sell for Less
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10

Forged in one piece. a steel wheel
has been invented for automobiles,
including rims. spokes. hubs and brake
drums
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-08-10
A Best Seller.

The best after-dinner speech ever
made: Waiter, give me the check"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-09
THE COAL PROBLEM.

Neither the strike of the coal min
crs nor, Secretary Hoover's effort TO
hold down the price of coal is going
TO remedy the evils existing4n the coal
industry. The trouble is too deep
seated to be removed by either of
these methods.
When the existing strike has ended
as end it must there is no reason to
doubt that conditions will be so little
changed that similar disturbance
will take place in short time. All
this is known to the government, the
law makers and those engaged in the
coal industry. Yet nobody seems to
be doing anything about IT.
The acknowledgements of the soft
coal industry is enc of the evils as
set forth in the Monthly Labor Re
view. issued by tfS United States de-
partment of labor. A comprehensive
report covering the entire industry
shows that the average number of
days of operation OF the soft coal
mines for the past thirty-two years
has been only PA. due largely to the
operation Of many more mines than
are necessary to produce the amount
OF coal required
It is estimated that the total an
nuaT output OF soft coal IN the state of
Illinois could be produced by 81 per
cent OF the miners. providing mines
were worked S04 days a year. This
situation in the coal industry is re-
sponsible for the demand of miners
for higher wages; in other words.
miners who work only 200 days a year
must have a much higher per diem
wage than those who work S12 days a
year. This wage divided into the out
put for 200 days naturally increases
the cost per ton of mining coal.
Another item OF expense greatly in
creased by this surplus of mines is the
overhead. If coal were mined con-
tinuously 500 days a year, it would re-
quire the operation OF only 5s per cent
of mines an of which are now run
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY. JAY e. HOUSE
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledger.)

/ The gentleman who wrote Good
by, Dolly Gray" had better obituary
notices in. the New York papers than
the late Bert Williams. We can't say
that our sense of justice is exactly
| outraged but it is, at least, unflat-
tered.
So saying, we introduce Mr. S. E.
! Haigh, funeral director and music
| dealer of Madison, Ind, of whom a
friendly biographer writes: GAS a fu-
neral director Mr.. Haigh is unsur-
passed in the state for his tenderness
Stunning, without ostentation. the body
| of the loved one trusted to his care is
| so quietly and sweetly laid away that
the pangs of grief are erased and you
| depart from the grave-S3de feeling the
departed loved one has been laid gem
tly and sweetly away"
Nor is that all. The friendly bio-
1 grapher continues: ut is wonderful
! the feeling that passes over the friends
as they see the dear one led so sweet
| ly and gently way. To do this and
effectually requires not only long
practice but quiet. unassuming
and sympathetic disposition on the
! part of the funRral director. Such is
| Mr.. Haigh; ana such is the laying
away of the dead to him.
And while it is not, perhaps, ger
name to the issue, it may be added
| that Mr.. Haigh also deals in pianos,
monographs and musical instru-
ments.
Yesterday was the anniversary of
the battle between the Chesapeake
| and the Shannon; but probably what
you really wanted to know is what
time the second show begins this eve
ton as to that.
/
Mrs. Peter OIeson, Democratic can
didate for senator from Minnesota
says party lines have broken down
and that the people are going to vote
| independently hereafter. We've heard
| that before; we've heard it many
| times. But we never heard it ex-
pressed by anybody who had a good
| chance of being elected.
But as matter of fact, party lines
are as nearly broken now as they even
have been or are very likely to be
and nobody seems to be satisfied with
the situation.
Speaking of incredible hardshfps
Sam Laciar,. in the period. from No
vember l to June l, inclusive. attend
ed 294 concerts and other. musical en-.
tertainments.
"Your aversion to Shaw" writes E
H. B., spurs me to confess E H
p put the wrong paJaIntS IN the WASH
We have no aversion to Shaw. Doubt
less she was thinking of H G. Wells
Such is the paucity of our phraseo-
logical resources that they are made
quate to describe the feeling of lassi-
tude that overpcwers US when we at
tempt to read Mr.. Wells.
As we have hitherto indicated, we
are tired of the row about Shakes
peare But we'd love to have a row
Z. over Wells. Mayhap we can. start one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-09
LITTLE BENRY'S NOTE BOOK
BIZ LEE PARE

There was a meeting of the Dawters
of Cleopattera in our parier last EIS,
and every time lady rang thS uoo5 5
bell ma went to the door hersefI anu
the lady had to Whisper the pass Wero
to ma before ma would leeve her IN
even if she knew her or not ana pop
came down and looked on the nan
rack for his hat, saying, Benny. di1
you notice ware put my hat wen 1
think YOU put it in the parler. I
sed, and pop sed, Help, aid, sucker,
I've got to go out and I've got to nave
that hat but 1 wouldent go in that
parler after it for a kings ransim
Do you wunt me to get 1t for YOU
pop? 1 sed, and pop sed, What COM
fort it is to have children. Meening
he wunted me TO, and trleo the
parler door and it was still locked,
and a lady inside opened it crack,
saying Wat is it, wat do you wunt,
don't you know this is a strickly secret
meeting?
Is a mans hat in there? I sed.
haven't noticed eny, the lady sea-
And she locked the door agen and pop
sed, zee gods, I'm late now, It's a r1ne
state of affairs wen man cant get
his own hat in his own house, II things
get eny verse I'm going to move out
of the intire country. e
i Well iii go Ground to the back
windo and see if 1 can see ma, sed,
and pop sed, Well shake a leg. Wich
CiQ, going out IN the gdIu anu iAONh-
ing on the back parler windo and say
ing, Hay. hay ma, ma. WITCH all of a
suddin ma quick opened the windo
saying. Go away, wat kind of carvings
on is this? and 1 sed Is there a hat in
there, ma? and she sed, How dare you
bother me about your hat at sutch a
time2 And she banged the windo
down and L sed, It's pops hat Ony she
! dident heer me on account OF me say
ing it too late, and jest then 1 remem-
bered something and L went back in
the hall agen and pop was wawking
up and down like somebody in fearse
hurry, me saying, Hay pop, G, 1 re-
member now. you dident put it in tire
parler. you put it up in the setting
room.
Wat a he'd. in ivory there IS
strength, pop sed. And he ran up
stairs and got his hat himself and
| quick went out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-09
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
BOOK PALSHIP.


To me each day adds new love and
glory to my books. 1 cannot say that
l read more as the years advance
but think much more on what l read.
So that each beloved book grows in
nearness and becomes more a COM
panion to me. As tho my library had
faVorite paths, l am led to my books
and each path leads me TO a partic-
ular book for the mood in which I
find myself.
1 like to open a book to a passage
that has inspired me in other days anu
1 like to get-new viewpoints L find
each time an occasion for inward joy
for a great thought is much like Il
sunset, which is never the same tho
always full of interest and beauty.
A book is the essence of the best
that man is, no matter what his
reputation may be.
And so it is that we usually find
the real man in his book.
All about me are closed books.
Most of-those who wrote them are
no longer moving in this world. Yet
how real and living these thinkers as
the pages of tfeir books are turned
How near you come to know even the
little intimacies that gathered about
them, as tiny flowers hug the rock
which protects them.
1 never finished a book but I see
with my minds eye the favorite paths,
hunts. and hobbies of him who wrote.
THERE'S nothing quite so fine as pail
ship with book
Settle in your favorite chair, or walk
out into the thick woods and there
take from your pocket one Of these
pals. What serenity of soul and what
calmness of spirit as the thoughts gush
forth like water from a cool spring.
The sadly lonely man is he who has
never known the love of a book
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-09
Dorothy Dix Talks
a Spotlight on Divorcc-1,
BY DOROTHY DIX &
woz4d's highest Paid Woman writes.

In our great grandparents time
divorce was a thing that almost neve-
took place in our best families. When
couple did separate, both were dis
graced and ostracized, no matter what
their justification for parting; no mat
ter what wrongs they had endured.
The divorced man or woman was a
pariah in society.
In our grandparents time. divorce
was a trifle more common, tho still
rare, and a stigma still attached to
it, and people whispered the scandal
behind their hands. A woman who
was divorced was felt somehow to
have bedrabbled skirts, and people
poor dear'd'' her for having been
married to a brute who beat and
kicked her until she could bear her
sufferings no longer, but they only
asked her to their second best parties.
In our time, divorce is so common
that marriage. licenses might almost
as well have a return coupon attached
to them. We don't blame people who
get divorces. We don't even criticize
them for it. We are only sorry for
them because they made q mistake,
and because divorce means so many
broken hopes, and lost illusions. And
so far from the divorced being per-
soma non grata in society, there isn't
one of us who doesn't number half
a dozen divorced people in our circle.
A great many people affect to find
this state of affairs a great marvel,
and are continually asking: Why is
this great increase in divorce? Is not
human nature the same as ever?. Do
not men and women fall in love and
mate s they have done since the be-
ginning of time? Are not the men
of today the same as the men of yes
terday? Are not women as lovable
as their great grandmothers? Why
then should the marriage bond now
be made a pack thread instead of the
steel cable it was of yore?
The answer is that men are the
same, but women have changed Men
still try to play the matrimonial game
by the old established Adanite rules.
but women have called for a fresh
shuttle and a new deal. That is the
whole explanation of the increase in
divorce.
Let me illustrate it by the case Of
the Blanks. who have just been grant
ed their decree absolute. There n ever
was a more honest, honorable, upright
man than John Blank. There never
was a sweeter. finer, more wOmanly
woman than Mary Blank. They were
wildly in love when they married
They had a beautiful home. and start
ed out under every augury-of success
Yet they made shipwreck of their
marriage, and John will never know
why. because he was just the sa me
sort of husband that all his ancestors
had been. and there was never di-
vorce in the Blank family before.
You see. Johns great gran dfather
was one of the men who believed that
a man is a little tin god in his home,
and that all that his wife can ask is
the privilege of burning incense be-
fore him So old Mr. Blank was a
tyrant on the hearthStone, and his
wife was his head slave. She minis
tered to his comfort. and bore him
children and went when he said go,
and stayed when he said stay, and he
doled out to her what ever money he
thought she needed.