Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-07-20

SOME ODDS AND ENDS


".
n can qualify as expert vault breal
:. ers. The big vault in their offit
- has not been locked for years, tn
u combination having been lost. TIL
y bolts were closed and the combine
!. ton untouched. But Mr.. DEAN
= little granddaughter was playin
: with the vault door and she shut |
and then twirled the combination
= knob. Nobody knew how to opel
1t and no bank robbers being In jai
the only way to open 1t was to drill
, through the wall and get at the In
side, which was done.
abilene is not going to be a tour.
list town." remarked a business mar
today. "It is 1S0 miles from Kan
sas City and the weather. tourists
who leave the city in the morning
get here about s or Q o'clock, too
early for a night stop Going east
they strike the pavement and drive
on another 25 miles, regardless Of
the time. Mostly fiivvers stay In
the camp and their occupants seem
to care little for the accommodat tiOns
for the mess they leave is a dis.
grace. Sometimes ! wonder Of it
pays to fix up camp at ALL"
The outdoor life Of tourist and
camping is not all joy, according to
one tourist who yesterday parked his
car in front Of down town store.
He left st. Louis ten days ago and
had been camping ont every night
since i'm a storm. He said 1t is no
fun to make camp with wet tents
and blankets and then wake up dur
ing the night with rain pouring in
the tent. He went to hotel last
night and intended to spend today
drying out his camping equipment
and resting. He started out with
the idea that it would be a real joy
ride, but the second day out he broke
a spring on his car in rut over in
Missouri and the Joy ride has turned
out to be an endurance test.
"There is an old superstition
that the telephone should not be
used during storm because Of the
danger from lightning" said WIN
Green, chief engineer Of the United |
Telephone Co. ut is true that light
ming sometimes strikes people who
are talking on the phone. But it also
strikes men when they are running
for county office, taking baths, kiss
ing other mems wives, eating ba-
nanas, joining the Klan, or playing
parchesi, the races and auction
bridge. If bolt should strike a
wire just outside Of a residence, the
fine coil of wires within the phone
would burn out, so that the current
could not pass out of the instrument
into he person using it." If, however,
one is struck and killed, no better
place to die could be found than near
he telephone.
A most interesting and finely SEN
.imental historic event occurred re-
,ently, during the present visit of
chief Justice Taft in England. The
Fellowship Forum, Masonic paper
published in Washington, gives an
we'll written story Of the
1t tells of the visit of
chief Justice Taft to the little viii
age of Selgrave, in England, the
Ome of the ancestors Of George
Chief Justice Taft is
he first man who has filled the po-
ition of president of the United
tates to visit the ancestral home Of
ur first president He was present
i with a pew from the little parish
hurch in which the prOgenitOrs Of
worshipped. The Chief
ustice planted number of yew
'ees to commemorate his visit
81 have notion to write to Will
am Allen White and suggest that
, teach the Emporians better pub
, manners" said an auto tourist in
bilene today. I'VE felt like a side
low when we camped over night
Emporia last week. The tourist
mp is on corner, hence two
reefs offer a fine exposure for in
ection. The people Of EmpOria
i've up to the curb and frankly
d lengthily stare into the tents.
me of them even get out and peer
This may be the Emporian idea
hospitality, but believe me, 1t
It the tenter's.'
Herington did not want the troops
1t there but we notice that re-
rts from that town say that
lings are quiet" which is entirely
isfactory.
when we open the new road we
going to have the biggest three
vn celebration in Chapman that
r was" said Ed Arnold this
rning. eve are going to invite
lction City and Abilene to join us
| IL there is a car left In the two
ms at the ends of the road that
ming we shall be disappointed. 1t
| be a real get-tOgether time. We
| furnish a band and expect both
ction City and Abilene to do the
lie. Well put corn meal on the
foot wide pavement just west of
intersection with our main street
have a dance-and everything.
will probably be October before
can pull it off because of the de-
In the bridge building from high
er and lack Of men tnst now.
paving is going in rapidly and