King Jack (Commerce, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1921 Page: 3 of 8
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TSARIBROD: A REGION OF
RUMORS AND AROMAS
1 Serbian forces were reported a few
weeks ago to have entered Tsarlbrod
hitherto on the Bulgarian side of the
border preparatory to occupation of
a strip of territory detached from Bul-
garia by the treaty of Neullly which
followed the World war
One traveler has described the road-
bed along tills segment over which the
luxurious Orient Express used to'
make Its semi-weekly trip from Paris
to Constantinople as the worst In the
world and the mountain scenery as
the finest Probably both statements
were exaggerated But the- ravines
boulders and torrentlul streams of the
Nishava River region just before the
railway crosses the Bulgarian fron-
tier are comparable with the Alps and
sometimes suggest our own Grand
Canyon region In miniature
Tsarlbrod Is Inconspicuous It shel-
ters a population of ouly a few thou-
sand It has the inevitable castle
which still seems to keep a frowning
guard over red-roofed houses Signif-
icantly In view of the economic life
of Bulgaria and the recent marked
preponderance of agrarian represen-
tation In the government each bouse
has its garden
'After the Orient Express passes the
border line It traverses the Sllvnltza
battlefield the Bunker Hill of Bul-
garia and the first Important city
after Sofia is Pbtllppopolts In the vi-
cinity of which one of the world's
most esthetic industries Is established
—that of cultivating rose gardens to
distill attar of roses'
At Phlllppopolls under pressure of
expected attacks from Turkey Prince
Alexander was Installed as the head
of the newly united-Bulgarian states'
In 1885 Unexpectedly It was Serbia!
not Turkey which made the move ln
protest against the union with eastern !
Rumilla The Serbian forces mobll-j
Iced--In thb Nishava valley the Bui-'
garlan army was far away Hence a I
famous order' which resulted In the!
Jnaklng of military history ' to com-
manders of Bulgar units to hasten to
Sllvnltza The speed with which the
troops were moved In this helter-skelter
' fashion was remarkable Their
movement was accelerated by orders1
to citizens to furnish sullies as they
passed The advance held the Serbian
forces which were headed for Sofia:
or Sllvnltza When reinforcements ar-
rived the enemy was defeated The
Serbian armistice proposal was pre-
sented at Tsarlbrod - This Incident
gave Bulgaria a " sense of national
unity and prowert which may be com-
pared to that which Japan attained by
her defeat of the qsBlana -V
A ' ' : '
WHY LIGHTHOUSES WONT
“STAY PUT” '
Long agitation to save Baroegat
Light from removal ’ and announce-:
ment that jetties will be built to pre-
serve the historic beacon give hint
of the extreme variability of coast
lines and conditions ‘ '
"A survey of the coast of New Jer-
sey shows strikingly the results that
are wrought upon a shoreline by the
wind and the waves” writes John Oli-
ver LaGorce to the National Geo-
graphic society
“The beaches for the most part are
being driven back by the sea but the
harbors which - were accessible to:
coasters quite within the memory of
men now living are being closed by
the traveling drift just as most of
the mouths of the streams emptying
into the ocean have been closed
“In a description of the Jersey coast
published In 1879 it was stated that
prior to the war of 1812- Old Cran-
berry Inlet was one of the best an-
chorages on the coast and It afforded
a safe harbor for American privateers
on the lookout for British ships dur-
ing the Revolution It opened one
night by the angry sea breaking
across the beach and during the last
year of its existence as a harbor the
whole channel drifted nearly a mile
to the northward Its closure about
1812 caused so much Inconvenience
that In 1821 one Mlchaef Ortley at-
tempted to cut a new inlet near the
head -of Barnegat Bay With the as-
sistance of others It was finally fin-
ished but the following morning to
the amazement of the voluntary work
era It had closed up again Later an-
other effort was made to effect tho(
same thing lower down the boy The
cut was completed July 4 1847 the
work being done by several hundred
men under Anthony Ivens Jr The
water was let in but It filled up al-
most as quickly as the Ortley cut so
- relentlessly was the sea’s war carried
on
“A survey at Atlantic City In 1803
revealed the fact that In the course of
but a few years the shore at Maine
avenue had lost 76 acres True most
of this material was deposited In the
ilee of the point extending from New
Jerfeey to Ohio avenues causing an
advance of the beach lines at Penn-
sylvania avenue of about 1000 feet
and adding to this part of the plat
some 56 acres all In the brief space
ef a decade This transfer of prop-
r
5rty from one riparian owner to an-
ther without consideration is not pro-
vided for In the statutes but might
pNierly be regarded as Inequitable
especially to the original owner How-
ever no one hns yet gone Into court
for an Injunction against the sea for
thus robbing Peter to pay Paul
"When the lighthouse at Atlantic
City wns threatened in 1878 the
United States challenged the sea by
the construction of a Jetty at the head
of Atlantic avenue Thus wns Inaugu-
rated a series of defensive works
which have been continued from time
to time hy Individuals so that 82 addi-
tional acrers have been reclnlmed from
the sea to the great benefit of the cJLty
as well as to that of the riparian qwn-
ers but they had to fight hard for
every Inch"
A
SAVING THE ELK
A check-lip of the elk In Yellowstone
National park last stronghold of these
largest members of the deer family
shows a discouragingly small number
there and it Is now feared that many
more have perished than had been
thought' The elk’s existence depends
upon Ids freedom to wander from the
highland snows to the shelter and for-
age of the valleys below Early bliz-
zards drive him outside the protection
of the national reservation into the
midst of thp open season for hunting
In the two adjueent states
The southern herds' follow the riv-
ers which flow out of Yellowstone In
all directions to the famous Jackson
Hole country once the haunt of ban-
dits and cattle thieves where human
life now Is safe but where the Influx
of civilization spells death for the elk
The northern herds when driven by
snowstorms usually descend iDto the
Montana borderlands where settle-
ments have flung a barrier for wild
animals across the edge of the park
Wholesale shooting of the elk has
been the first consequence In the past
Much of this shooting according to
reports received In Washington does
little credit to sportsmanship Some
mnrksmen have not troubled to follow
and capture animals they have wound-
ed Their sheltered life In the nation-
al reservation has made the elk tame
SDd they wander Into many a back-
yard to find unexpected enemies
But this shooting does not mark the
climax Of the tragedy As noted the
settlements have cut off the grazing
landti There is some provision for
the southern herds though woefully
Inadequate but practically non for
the northern herds ‘
1 The ' protection afforded the elk
whlch stray Into Wyoming Is that of
the state game preserves known as
the Hoodoo - Shoshone and Teton
Further protection Is that afforded in
a limited way by the winter elk refuge
at Jackson Wyo founded by the bio-
logical survey There hay Is raised
for feeding the elk but some seasons
far from enough has been on hand for
the feeding- of the thousands- forced!
out of the' park" and even out of the
reservations by the early winter -In
ordinary and mild winters such
as the present one the animals remain
In the park In more severe winters !
when the cold and snows come late!
the preserves and the refuge have
taken care of many of them
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SPANISH MOROCCO
Spanish troops according to recent
newspaper dispatches - have - carried
out Important operations In the Span-j
Ish zone In northern Morocco In :
strengthening Its military hold and ex-1
tending Its civil government In north-
ern Morocco Spain' Is turning the
tables of history squarely about For
It was from this country that the
Moors and Arabs swarmed across the
Straits of Gibraltar In the year 711
and placed- Spain under a Mohamme-!
dan domination the last vestiges of
which were finally removed only In
the year In which Columbus discov-
ered America ( ' i
This Spanish Moroccan zone is the
pedestal of the southern - of the two
A Moroccan Type
"Pillars of Hercules” which for long
centuries were the western portals of
the known world It Is part of the
Mauretunla of the Romans one of
their granaries when the empire was
at Its greatest It was the country of
the Barbary pirates who harassed the
shipping of the world for centuries
collecting tribute from many govern-
ments and In whose suppression the
Infant United States navy cut Its first
post-Rcvolutlonary war teeth In the
early part of the Nineteenth century
It la now part of Morocco which In
many ways preserves more truly than!
any'other Mohammedan country tba
flavor of the "Arabian Nlgbta"
Spain lying only a few miles north
of the northern shores of Morocco
Was naturally one of the first of the
modern nations of Europe o gain a
foothold In that country Mellila a
seacoust town near the northeastern
corner of Morocco came Into the pos-
session of Spain In 1497 and other
Mediterranean coust towns have been
captured' nt various times since
Though n definite zone of Spanish In-
fluence has been1 recognized since an
agreement between France and Spain
In 1912 Spain bus done little more at
any time tliun to hold the-porly and a
small area of the lilnterlund about
each Spanish authority further In-
land has been more or less nominal
and hns never been exercised at all In
the more remote sections of the zone
Bandits of whom the chief was the
notorious Rulsidl have operated In
the Spanish territory In recent years
with little' molestation One of their
favorite activities lias been the kid-
naping of Europeans and Americans
for ransom
Thq Spanish Moroccnn zone Is a rel-
atively narrow strip of territory with
an area about equal to that of Bel-
gium or slightly greater than that of
Verlnont extending across the entire
northern part of Morocco It hns a
frontage of about 200 miles on the
Mediterranean sea and of ubout 30
miles on the Atlantic It does not In-
clude the city of Tangier on the north-
westernmost point of Africa that city
with a surrounding territory of 140
square miles having been under later-
national control since 1912 The coun-
try Is mountainous but contains con-
siderable agricultural land This por-
tion of Africa Is free from desert con-
ditions The Spanish zone like the
portion of Morocco under a French
protectorate to the south probably
contains valuable mineral deposits
but the disorders prevailing heretofore
prevented adequate prospecting In
recent years Spain hns spent much
more on the zone than has been re-
ceived from It In revenues
RHODESIA: A 1921 LAND
OF OPHIR
Suggestions by archeologists that
Rhodesia may be the land of Ophlr
mentioned In the Bible as a source of
Solomon's riches lends added Interest
to a region already attracting attention
for Its present-day resources The act
creating the Important Union of South
Africa to the south reserves' the right
tq add Rhodesia to that dominion of
the British empire R I) Parsons
writing to the National Geographic so-
ciety describes some phases of Rhode-
sian life as follows: '
“The wet season In Rhodesia begins
In November and lasts until the first
of June All kinds of garden seeds
and cereals are in the ground by
Christmas and In January the first
crop of millet Is harvested Great
ceremonies attend both Sowing and
reaping The dry season begins In
June and lasts until the end of Octo-
ber It Is occupied with threshing
hoarding grain storing wood and burn-
ing brush on seed beds for the sake of
the wood ashes
"No matter how hot the days are
the nights are cool and campfires are
needed On the elevated tablelands or
plateaus the nights are very cold
“Taxes are not onerous In Rhodesia
as each hut pays only three shillings a
year which Is 72 cents or a rate of
6 cents per month-:
"The Zambezi river which forms the
southern boundary of North Rhodesia
Is spanned at Livingstone Just below
the Victoria falls by an American-
made cantilever bridge bearing the
Cape to Cairo railroad As -the water
plunges 400 feet the electrical energy
to be developed Is Incalculable It Is
proposed to carry the wires on steel
‘poles’ fashioned like off derricks to
the Kimberly mines Johannesberg
Pretoria and around to Cape Town on
the one hand and up through Khar-
tum and the Nile valley Even the
pyramids may be decorate with lights
made to glow by current from these
mighty falls - ‘
"In a country like Rhodesia where
there are no roads either good bad or
Indifferent getting about Is no fun All
the British officials have ‘bikes’ but
they are more ornamental than useful
sb they use the ‘machllla’ which to
quote them Is an Invention of the
devil It consists of a long pole with
two natives at each end Midway
hangs the hammock for the ‘broana
alias the English victim whose back
is lacerated by bushes and stumps and
his body more or less submerged when
going across a river The bearers keep
up a chant that sonnds like the wall
of lost spirits and it never occurs to
them that the passenger Is not as
happy as If In a Pullman chair car
"Some of these African tribes have
alert active minds They can com-
mit to memory page after page of a
textbook but the trouble Is they do
not comprehend the meaning They
learn telegraphy typewriting the
manual of arms etc with wonderful
rapidity and as nothing Is more dear
to the African henrt than ceremony
they go Into ecstasies over parades
and the morning and evening flag tac-
tics "In most of the tribes are to be
found skilful artificers Show them a
piece of Imported furniture and they
will exactly duplicate it They weave
bark fubrics of every kind and manu-
facture musical Instruments keyed
string wind and percussion
Wherever suitable clay Is found
they make pottery tiles and brick Al-
most every English official has a pic-
turesque residence of brick with tile
roof surrounded by beautiful gardens
"When Rhodesia geta proper trans-
portation facilities It will supply the
British empire with cereals cotton
tobacco rubber cattle nuts and
fruits"
FARM ADVERTISING
A few days ago our attention was
called to a copy of the Fennimore
(Wis) Times as an example of the
effective use which - the farmers ' of
the middle west are making of adver-
tising in their local papers In one
issue of the Times there were eight-
een display ads relating to' agricul-
ture Seven of them were quarter-
page advertisements of auction sales
In addition there was over a column
of want ads of which more than one-
half pertained to farming And the
Times is a paper much like this one
and printed in a town of only about
1000 population
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Bridgman ghoul awaken to the fact
that what has proven beneficial for
farmers in other sections of the coun-
try will also benefit them There is
someone in this community who wants
the very thing he advertises for sale
in a city or a farm paper The only
reason the average farmer doesn’t
know this is because he has never
tried advertising in his home paper
He pays a fancy price to advertise
stock eggs poultry or fancy produce
in a class journal never realizing
that an ad costing much less money
can ' be inserted in the county paper
and will find a buyer closer home who
may become a customer for life
But all the argument in the world will
not serve to convince him It takes
actual tests So we invite the farmer
with something to sell to come in or
write into this office and like other
business men tell us what he has to
offer We’ll do the rest and the re-
sults will prove more convincing than
all the talking we could do between
now and doomsday — Exchange
CARDIN NEWS
Orville Ebersole and Miss Claudie
Hubbard visited with his parents and
attended the show at Picher Sunday
evening
Mrs Dora Willey and Mrs Lois
Seaman and son Cecil are spending a
few days with Mrs Seaman’s grand-
parents Riley Willey and wife of Car-
thage Mo
' Mrs Murray and daughter Edith
were visiting friends in Webb City
Sunday and Monday
' Clifford Benedict and wife return-
ed Wednesday from a visit with his
aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Ralph
Killion bf GravUte Ark
Gu8 Barnett made a business trip
to Douthat Saturday
The Cardin Rebekah Lodge'met in
regular session on Monday night
After the business hour games and
music were enjoyed until a late hour
' Ed Hubbard after being laid up for
nine weeks with an injury to his
foot caused by running a nail in his
foot went hack to work the latter
part of last week
A Black is having an addition
built to his building on the north
side of Central street which was
formerly used as a restaurant
The following motored to the Prom-
enade Saturday evening and enjoyed
an egg roast: Mr Baid and wife of
Century Mr Foster and wife Misses
Della and Ella Foster Erma Lindsey
Eula Counts Lucille McGhee Ray and
Crystal Isley and Billie Barrett and
Messrs Orsen Counts Carl Hartley
Ralph Gorley Fred Sweet Otho Dale
and Don Dalby all of Cardin
A G Yeager wife and daughter
Marguerite of Baxter Springs spent
Sunday with Earl Hutchens and fam-
ily Mr Jacobs photographer of Com-
merce came out Sunday to take a
picture of the Christian " Sunday
school but on account of the inclem-
ency of the weather it was postponed
until a later date
Orville Ebersole and Misses Claudia
Hubbard and Nellie Murray motored
to Strang Okla one day last week
and visited qrith Miss Willie Staton
and Mrs M T Cates
Wm Cooper and Martin Wood-
ward of North Miami were in Car-
din Tuesday
Mrs Louis Daughterty of near
Cardin was in Baxter Springs on bus-
iness Tuesday
AGITATION FOR CONSTITUTION-
AL CONVENTION
Oklahoma City March 31 — The
Senate by a narrow margin defeat-
ed the Davidson bill which would have
authorized the calling of a new con
stitutional convention to be held in
1923 for the purpose of drafting a
new constitution or amending the
present one Nomination of candi-
dates for delegates to the convention
would have occurred in the general
primary next year and election of del-
egates in the general election follow-
ing had the bill passed Those fav-
oring the bill contended that the pres-
ent constitution is restricting the
growth of the educational system and
retarding development of the state be-
cause many of the legislative provis-
ions in the basic law have been out-
grown by changing conditions Fol-
lowing defeat of the bill in the senate
a' similar measure was introduced in
the House
Flavor!
No cigarette has
the same delicious
flavor as Lucky
Strike Because!—
It’s
toasted
LUCKY
STRIKE
CIGARETTE
First Published In King Jack
March 24 1921— 5t
In the District Court in and for Ot-
tawa County State of Oklahoma
R F Miller Plaintiff
vs No 4338
John Miller Defendant
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF
LAND— FORECLOSURE
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance to an order of sale issued out
of the District Court of Ottawa
County Oklahoma on the 7th day of
March 1921 in an action wherein R
F Miller was plaintiff and John! Mil-
ler was defendant directed 'to me the
sheriff of Ottawa County Oklahoma
commanding me to levy upon ap
praise and sell the following describ-
ed property:"
SV4 of Lot 9 Block 6 Shapp-
Whitehird Addition to the Town
of Quapaw Ottawa County
State of Oklahoma
to satisfy a judgment and decree of
foreclosure in favor of the plaintiff
and against the defendait obtained
and made in the said court on the
1 7th day of March 1921 for the sum of
i $325 and interest thereon at 8 per
cent from the 14th day of March
: 1919 and $50 attorney fee and coats
$716 and costs accruing I will on che
1 26th day of April 1921 at the hour
of 10 o’clock a m of the said day at
the front door of the court house in
I the city of Miami in said county and
I state offer for sale and sell’ to the
highest bidder for cash the said prop-
erty qbove described or so ( much
thereof as will satisfy the said judg-
ment with interest and costs ’
Witness my hand this 19th day of
March 1921
NEIL HARR
Sheriff of Ottawa County
Oklahoma
By N C Cox Deputy
When Hungry Eat At
CITY
Fred Dugger Mgr
Commerce
We Can Locate
When you are having trouble with your Car and drive in
here the first thing we do is to locate the trouble Our
men do not guess — they know
Hence when you receive your bill from us you can feel cer-
tain that it is only for work actually necessary
Phone 112 the next time your Car is not working right
Genuine Ford Parts Carried
0 T MOTOR SALES COMPANY ii
COMMERCE
First Published In King Jack
March 24 1921— 2t '
NOTICE FOR HEARING PETITION
FOR PROBATE OF WILL
No 1180
Notice is hereby given to ail per-
sons interested in the estate of
James E Anderson deceased that
on the 21st day of March A D 1921
J J Holt produced and filed in the
County Court of Ottawa County State
of Oklahoma an instrument in writ-
ing purporting to be the last will and
testament of James E Anderson de-
ceased and also filed in said County
Cobrt of Ottawa County Oklahoma
his petition praying for the probate
of said will and that letters testa-
mentary issue thereon to the said
J J Holt the executor named in
said will
Pursuant to an order of said Court
made on the 21st day of March A D 1
1921 notice is hereby given that on
the 15th day of April A D 1921 at
the hour of 10 o’clock A M of said
day that being a day of the regular
April term of said court having been
appointed as the time for hearing said
petition and proving said 'will at the
County Court Room in the City of
Miami County of Ottawa and State
of Oklahoma when and where all per-
sons interested may appear and con-
test the same
In testimony whereof I have here-
unto set my hand and seal - of said
County Court this 22nd day of
March A D 1921
Q P McGHEE
(Seal) ' County Judge
HARD EARNED WAGES
An artist who was employed to re-
touch a large painting in an old
church rendered a bill for $6730 The
church trustees however required an
itemized bill and the following was
duly presented audited and paid
Correcting the Ten Commandments
$512
Renewing Heaven and adjusting
the stars '$714
Touching up Purgatory and restor-
ing lost souls $306'
Brightening up gleams of Hell and
nutting new tail on the Devil and do-
ing several odd jobs for the damned
$717
Putting stone in David’s sling and
enlarging the head of Goliath $613
Mending the shirt of the Prodigal
Son and cleaning his ear $339
Embellishing Pontius Pilate and
putting new ribbon in his bonnet
$302
Re-gilding left wing of guardian’ an-
gel $518 -
Putting new tail ‘ on St Peter’s
rooster and mending his comb $220
Washing servant of the High Priest
and dyeing his hair $502
Taking spots off the son of Tobias
$1030
'Putting earrings in Sarah’s ears
$526
Decorating Noah’s Ark and putting
head on Shem $431'
Total $6730 —Selected
Oklahoma
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