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NEWS FALATKA NEW SERIES VOL. XIII, NO. 38. PALATKA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1905. $1. Per Year. For Sale-Houses, Lots, Vacant Lots and anything in Real Estate- H. M. de MontmoIIin. m I i i i i The Jane Hopkins Suits, For the Boys are all that can be desired in stylish, wearable materials. Our counters are now Full of New Goods and the Fall business is already on at The Fearnside Clothing Co Palatka, Florida. gpJIIIIIi B If 2 . .. S7VUTH, the Jeweler Announces the arrival of an Elegant line of late novel ties, including Silver Pieces, Berry Spoons, Salad Sets, Indi vidual Butter Spreads, Heat Forks, Asparagus Tongs, etc., with a line of SPOONS in great variety of designs. All kinds of jewelry work done by competent workmen only. C. J. SMITH, Next to Kupperbusch's Restaurant. Palatka, Fla. 5000 TELEGRAPHERS NEEDED Annually, to All the positions created by Rail road and Telegraph Companies. We want ' VOU Nil MtiN and LADIES of good habits to Learn Telegraphy AND R. R. ACCOUNTING. We furnish 7S per oent. of the Operators and Station gents In America. Our fU schools are the largest exclusive Telegraph Schools IN THE H OKI.I). Established 2U years and en dorsed by all leading Hallway Orliulals. We execute a t'JMl Bond to every studont to furnish him or her a position paying from $40 to $'.0 a month In Stales east of the Rooky Mountains; or from $76 to 'W a month lu states west of the Bocklea, Immediately upuu Graduation. Students can enter at any time. No vaca tions. For full particulars regarding any of our Schools write dlreot to our executive office at Cincinnati, O. Catalogue free. The Morse School of Telegraphy. Cincinnati, Ohio. Buffalo, N. Y. Atlanta, Ua. LaO rosso, Wis. Texarkana, Tex. San Francisco, I'al 8-18-4 m GET S3 Just received New Crop Garden Seeds For the ran Planting $ City Drug Store iIO.ICO.TETJr. Notice of application for Tax Deed un der section 8 of chapter 4888, Laws of Florida. Notice is hereby given that 3. J. Strickland, purchaser of tax certificate No. 110, dated the 2d day of June, A. D. 1902, has tiled said certificate m my of fice, and has made application for tax deed to issue la accordance with law. Said certificate embraces the following described propert situated in Putnam county, Florida, to-wit : N4 of ej of swj of nwj, section 2a, township 10, range 2416 acres The said land being assessed at the date of the Issuance of such certificate I" the name of Kobt. Long. Unless said certificate shall be redeemed accord ing to law, tax deed will issue thereon on the aut day of October, A. D.. 1906. Witness my official signature and seal this the Uth day of Sept,, A. D. 190H. Iseal J08EPH PRICE, . H. Circuit Court Putnam oo.. Florida. FOR SALE New Cleveland Bi cycle, Coaster Brake. Will sell at s'J n ""criBce. Address P. O. Box Palatka. With FALL and WINTER CLOTHING. Fearnside Clothing Co. announce arrival of its uperb Stock of Suits For Men and Boys. Elegant in Pattern, Design and Finish The KIRSCHBAUM SUITS for Men are Hand Made. They are the embodi ment of the up-to-date styles. AN ORDINANCE To provide for tun Levy of City Taxes for the year 1905. Be it ordained b.' the City Council of the City of Palatka, Florida : That for the purpose of securing an equal and uniform rate of taxation and to pay the appropriations for the cur rent expenses of the city, and for paying the expenses of the Fire and Water De partments, there shall be levied upon the Real aud Perso'ual' Property in said City a Tax of 19 Mills upon the Dol lar, distributed as follows : General .Revenue Fund, Sixteen (10) Mills. Fire and Water Fund, Three (3) Mills. Passed in open Council this 12th day of September, A D 1905. A. M. STEEN. Attest: President City Council. J. N. BIACKWELL, Seal City Clerk. Approved September 13th, 1905. ANTONIO USINA. Mayor. The Best Exercise to he had is In a game of Box Ball. It's a muscle builder and an appetite provoker. Most people tell us that our Alley is the finest they've ever played on.- We take their word for it. Ladles play free Tuesday afternoons. Maurice Lamon, Central Lemon Street. Low lliites From Jacksonville, Fla, via. Atlan tic Coast Lino Hy. $37.1X1 Washington, D. C, and re turn, on sale daily to Sept. 30, limit ed to Oct. 81. 1905. $22.90 Washington, 1. C, and re- Inrn in ml n I let. M H11U 51. lllllireu Oct. 15, 1905: can be extended to 25th on payment 60 cents. $25.25 Hot Springs, Ark., and re turn, on sale Oct. 3 and 17, limited Nov. 30, 1905. $10.05 Chicago, 111., and return, on sale Oct. 23 and 24, limiteu to ssov. 5, 1905. tin uk Afluniu fJ. iniil return, oil sale Oct. Sand 19, limited to Oct. 23, 1905. Corresponding low rales rrom other points in state. See Atlantic Coast Line Agents or write for Pullman reservations and full information to FRANK C. BOYLSTON. List. Passenger Agent. Jacksonville, Fin. FOR SALE Horse and Wagon Apply to Martin (intlin. If you want to get your money's worth and see a good COLD knock-out, use Peek's Pine Tar Syrup. u At eJl Reliable, stores the discrim inating mother ask; forMrJajielopkin Boy-Proof Clothes 1 'iiiniEiil! FLORAHOME. Mr. and Mrs. Eike will leave in a few days for Jacksonville where they will make their future home. Friday last a most enjoyable time was had by all who attended the so cial at the school house. A program was rendered and ice cream served. Miss Jessie R. Mudge is expected home in a short time from her north ern trip. Mr. Rochette has sold bis place to Mr. Jonan an employe in the Brownlee mill. Mr. Rochette and wife have moved into Mr. Whcrrel's house. Mr. and Mrs. Brant will arrive next month from Kansas and occupy their old place. Miss Ida Knight is visiting in Kansas. Tuesday evening a temperance rally was held at the school house. Temperance meetings have beeu held each Saturday from house to house. Saturday the household goods of the late "Mr. Calkins were auction ed oif. Mr. Dupey leaves this week for Jacksonville and Dr. Shap- prel, from Hawthorne, will occupy the Calkins place. Miss Vose opened the Florahome school Monday. Parents and pupils are delighted with Miss Vose. Mrs. Holloway died at her home near this place on Tuesday Sept 12. Cause of death was consumption. Springer Ritenour will attond school in Deland this winter. A nitinhcr frnni plnrn hnmn llttpliri- ed the temperance meeting at Gran din Wednesday and ate picnic din ner in tne pars. Horse Racing Attractions. One of the most attractive features of the coming State Fair at Tampa will be the horse races. There will be a ten day race meet, and the lar gest purses ever given in Florida will be awarded the winning horses. The best horses in the south will be at the fair, and a large number of Florida horseuieu will also be repre sented. A special-invitation is ex tended to Florida horsemen to com pete for the purses. The amusement attractions on the Range will also be the most novel and cleanest, ever brought south. No gambling fea tures will be allowed whatever. Fair work in ever branch is progressing rapidly, and an immense attendance of home-seekers from other states is expected. The main exhibit build ing the largest building In Florida is about completed, and the magni ficent woman's building will be ready for use in a very few days. The stables, pens, poultry houses and other structures for exibiting live stock will he the largest and most conveniently arranged ever seen at a southern state fair. Many counties are clamoring for exhibit space, and those that have not done so should apply for space at mice. J! Notice of Incorporation and Ar ticles of Incorporation of the Maull Manufacturing Company. We the undersigned hereby associate ourselves together and become a body oorporate, under the laws of the Btate of Florida, and do hereby make, adopt, declare, and subscribe tho following as the Articles of our incorporation. article 1. The name of this corporation shall be the Maull Manufacturing Company. The general offices and principle place of business shall be at the City of Palat ka, County of Putnam, State of Florida, but such branch olllces and other places of business may be established, as the Directors of this corporation may from time to time determine. ARTICLE 2. Nature of business to be transacted by said company. The general nature of tho business to be transacted by said company is to manufacture box, barrel, crate, and any and all other hoops, used by the trade generally. Also the manufacturing and dealing in crates, boxes, barrels, crate material, box material, barrel heading, staves, etc; To manufacture lumber, and buy and soil the same and to deal in lumber, timber, lauds and real estate, in connection with said business and its op eration, and to convey the same by deod ; To manufacture, buy and sell maehlnory, and supplies, for the benefit of the bus iness of said company ; To maintain and operate lumber yards, and wood yards, in connection with said business; To make contracts, of apy kind whatso ever, for the furtherance of Its purposes and business, To make and execute mort gages, bonds, and note3. for the purpose of raising money, to borrow money, and give security for the loan of money, up on the property of the company, by mortgage or otherwise, aud to exer cise sucli lowers as may be Incident, convenient or necessary lu the carrying on and conducting of the business of said coi poiat'ou, aud to have and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges In cident to corporations organized and ex isting under the laws of the State of Florida. Said corporation shall have and use a common seal, and may issue and soil its stock aud bonds, as from time to time moy be necessary. ARTICLE 3. Capital Stock. The capital stock of said corporation shall be ten thousund dollars to be divid ed into one hundred shares of par value of ono hundred dollars, each, per share, and all of the stock subscribed by the in corporators in these articles is fully paid up aud non-assessable, and all stock not subscribed to-wit : Twelve Shares, shall remain in the treasury of the company as a part of its assets, and shall be used and treated as such. article 4. Term of Existence. The term for which said corporation shall exist shall be ninety-nine years. article 5. Officers and Directors. The business of said corporation shall be conducted by. the following officers, to-wit: a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, and a Board of not loss than three, or more than five Directors. . The offices of Sec retary and Treasurer may be held by the same porson, but for the present pur poses of this incorporation the ofilces of Vice-President and Treasurer may be held by the same person. The Direc tors shall be elected by the stockholders at each annual meeting. All other of ficers of this corporation shall be elect ed auuually by the Directors. The an nual meettug of this corporation shall be held on the first Tuesday In April, A- D. , 1906. and In each year, thereafter, on sold first Tuesday in April, until the same may bo changed. The affairs of said company shall be regulated by certalu rules and By-Laws, to be made and prescribed hereafter. Until the officers elected at the first an nual meeting shall be qualified the bus iness of this corporation shall be con ducted by the following officers, to-wit: E. N. Maull, Preeidont; Charles Kupper buseh, Vice-President and Treasurer; C. A. Maull, Secretary ; and said officers so named shall constitute the first Board of Directors of said company.. The first, or organization, meeting, of the stock holders for the purpose of completing the organization and adopting by-laws, shall be held on the 20th day of Sep tember, A. D., 1905, at eloveu o'clock a. in., In the City of Palatka. Florida. article 6, Limit of Indebtedness. The highest Indebtedness or liability to which tliis corporation shall at any time subject itself, 6hall be six thousand dollars. article 7. Names and residences of incorpo rators, AND SHARES OF STOCK : E. N. Maull, Palatka, Fla, fifty shares subscribed anu fully paia in ; unarms Kuppeibusch, Palatka, Fla., twenty Dimma iiliBrlhAil Anil fuPv nalil in: (',. A. Maull, Palatka, Fla., eighteen shares subscribed ana luuy paia in; iweive shares oi capital sioca uoi, suuscnueu f,,r nnri Itplil AH trPlLRlirV stock. In Witness whereof the subscribing Incorporator have Hereunto sec ineir hands and seals this 30 day 'of August, A. I).. I'JOu. E. N. Maull, (Seal) Charles Kfppebbusch, (Seal) O. A. Macll, (Seal) State of Florida, i Coi'stx of Putnam, ( On this day personally appeared be fore me. E. N. Maull, Charles nupper busch and 0. A. Maull, who are well known to me to be the persons described lu and who executed the foregoing . Ar ticles of Incorporation, aud severally acknowledge that they exeouted the same for the uses and purposes therein containod and expressed. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my band aid affixed my official seal, at Palatka, Florida, on this 30th day of August, A. D., 1905. Seal R. Raymond Prick, Notary Public, State of Florida at large. Commission expires December 9th, 1905 Stenography and Typewriting. Full course In Hen Pitman's stan dard shorthand and Fuller's touch system of typewriting. Address K. care Mrs. Trevell, Palatka, Fla. "A Ml DIRTY TRICK' SO SAY THE WETS. NOTICE OF INJUNCTION SERVED ON TAX COLLECTOR WILLARD, Claimed That Poll Taxes Paid Since August I2th are qf no Avail in Ths Election. There was consternation in the camp of Palatka's "wet" contingent Monday morning, ana mere nas been uneasiness ever since. At one o'clock Monday morning Sheriff Howell, accompanied by the attorney for the dry campaign com mittee, called on Tax collector a. o. Willard at his home, routed that popular official out ef bed, and then and there served him with a notice and copy of a bill in chancery: This bill m chancery is "to enjoin the tax collector from making and filing with the supervisor of regis tration a certified list of qualified voters who have paid their poll taxes for 1904 binck the second Saturday in August, 1905, and to require him to make and file with the supervisor of registration a certified list of only such voters as may have qualified by paying poll taxes up to said sec ond Saturday in August." Stripped of its legal verbiage this action simply means that the dry campaign committee, as advised by its attorney, noias tnat tne pou tax books, for the purpose of qualifying voters in the approaching soecial election, should have been closed, under the law, on August 12th, the second Saturday in that month in stead of being kept open until the 8th day of September. Arguments on this bill are being heard before Judge Wills at Starke today. Mr. Willard is represented by Capt. E. Noble Calhoun. On the result of this decision much depends. If Judge Wills decides that the books should have been closed on August 12th, then all who have paid poll taxes subsequent to that date with the purpose of voting in the election next Tueisday, will be denied the privilege. If he sustains Collector Willard's view of the law, all who have paid noil taxes up to and including the 8th day of September will be entitled I to vote. Saloon advocates are calling this bill for an injuction "a mean, dirty trick." Why? Because if Judge Wills issues the injunction it will disqualify the hoard of dissolute negro riff-raff for whom the liquor men have paid poll taxes. This class is the real back bone of the liquor power in this city. Therefore when the backbone is broken. Well, you know the rest. 'Reports have been circulated that Mr. Willard has been arrested, and these have been circulated with a view to securing sympathy for the wets. The report is absolutely untrue. He was simply served with a notice and bill of injuction a necessary legal step. It was served at one o'clock ou Monday morning at the instance of the attorney for the dry committee, who accom panied the sheriff at that officer's re quest. Why It was served at that hour is not Known, out it is presumed the attorney felt he had reason. The attorney left here the same morning at 5 o'clock. In this connection the News de sires to say that Collector Willard has acted in this matter without pre judice to either side. He kept his boons open until ine stn oi Septem ber on the advice of his attorney and no one questioned the correctness of his view of the law until late last week. Even the dry campaign committee supposed the collector was acting ex actly in accordance with the law un til Its attorney Btated diiierentiy. There is also a report going the rounds that in case Judge Wills grants the injunction the officers can not prepare the registration books in time for the election Tuesday. This is a mistake. When asked concerning this matter both Collector Willard ana Supervisor of Registra tion Peterman assured the News that no matter how the decision went the election would be held on Tuesday next, as called by the county com missioners, and that the books would be ready. It is well that tho legal point in volved in this bill for an injunction be settled how rather than after the election, when it would surely come up. In Columbia county's wet or dry election there was about the same length of time between the calling of the election and the elec tion itself. The months were differ ent, but the tax collector closed his books on a day corresponding to the 12th of August in this case. The dry's won the election, but the wets contested tr, Dasmg tneir contest on the claim that the collector should have kept his books open to the sec ond Saturday ot tne montn in wnicn the election was held. The case was carried to the Supreme court, and the court decided that the collector was right In closing his books on the second Saturday of the month before the election. This decision has not been published, but the attorney for the dry committee is authority for the statement that It wag rendered. is on this decision that the "dry" committee pins its faith for a grant ing or this injunction by judge Wills. Later, 4 p. m. Upon going to press we received a telegram from Starke stating that Judge Wills' decision was as follows : " No electors are qualified to vote in the coming 'wet or dry election ex cept those voting at general elec tion, 1904." Improvements Under Prospect Of Dry Rule. The G. S. & F. Railroad has built a brick denot. The city oi raiama a spieiiuiu brink Citv Hall. Merrvday Bros, splendid line of brick stores. Knitrhts of Pvthlns splendid Cas- tie Hall. The City of Palatka is now sewer ing its streets. Kennerly Plumbing company just organized. E. N. Maull Manufacturing Co., just organized. Over tweuty-rour resiaences Deing remodeled or built. Not six vacant houses or stores in the city. Steam-boats, vessels and railroads bringing in and carrying out heavy freights. More business activity in raiarna now than for years. Does not this show that the pros pect of Putnam County going dry has put new life into Palatka? All the above improvements have been begun since the movement started last fall for a dry county. The Real Friend of the Negro. The efforts of saloon advocates in this city to make it appear the News is an enemy of the negro isn't work ing quite as well as was hoped. The JNews recognizes tnat tnere is a difference in negroes. They don't all look alike to us. The editor of this paper would be the last to Bay an unkind word con cerning the honest negro who leads a clean life himself and who is doing his best to elevate his race, we may not agree with him on politics, but we do agree on all the essentials of good citizenship. But the lazy, smitless, dissolute negro, the one who constitutes the main support of Palatka's saloons: who lines up with the whisky cause for the whisky he gets ior nis vote; who never pays his poll taxes; who is devoid of all ambition to improve his condition, he is the negro that the News treats as an enemy to or ganized social conditions. He is the backbone oi tnis movement to per petuate the saloon evil in Palatka. Several oi tne lormer nave canea at the News' office this week and thanked the editor for the editorial which appeared in the News lastFri- day. A score oi tne latter class were bunched behind a downtown store last Saturday night, organized by white men for the purpose of de nouncing this editor. The white men read the editorial to them and made comments, then bought their negro friends a drink. The real friend of the negro in these days is the man who tells him the truth in unequivocal language who gives him straight goods. His real enemy is the man or set of men who for selfish ends con tributes to his debauchment. The Cheerful Liar. . The Lake City Index of the 15th iust. bears down pretty bard on Mr. LeHardy, the Palatka man employ ed by the liquor interests of this city to "gather favorable statistics" for the wet side. The Index, under the caption of "A Cheerful Liar," has the following editorial: Away back yonder in the olden time, twelve men were sent out into the land of Canaan to see what tne products of the country were, and whether or not it was worth the effort of the children of Israel to raise a little rumpus to secure it. Two who returned gave a fair real estate agent's opinion of what they saw just as the folks of a nearby town nxed a spring oi ice-coia water for visitors when they had the loca tion of a school on the string. This preface leads up to tne tact that a communication appeared in last week's Palatka Times-Herald tellin? of a man from that burg who came up to "view the promised land." He gives a lot ot statistics to snow that Lake City is in a bad way. They say "figures don't lie." Well, maybe they don't. But the fellows that use them sometimes would be given the "Chief Liar's Degree." in a club of those delectable individ uals if they should make application. The Times-Herald letter-writer says there are 20 stores and 200 resi dences vacant here. The Index knows of two stores and possibly a half-dozen houses vacant: these lat ter will be filled as soon as people return home from their summer out imrs. and all are spoken for. "All business is at a stand-still," says this calamity howler. And yet companies aggregating nearly half a minion uouarg nave ueeu lucurporat.' ed here within the last two years. He says the bank deposits have In creased about 5 tier cent, while we all know that the capital stock of these institutions nave beeu lucraus ed $150,000, or about 150 per cent, to get that 5 per cent he speaks of. Comment unnecessary. He says our population atliquor selling times was about 5,000, and is now s.oou. its "dollars to aougn nuts" that we increase at least 50 per cent with the present census. But why enumerate? It is said "the Lord loves a cheerful liar." If true, he can be found in the nearby city of Palatka. The editor of the Index is not drinking man. He believes in high license. But that is hia opinion, and a majority sided against him. In these wet-and-dry campaigns, let's tell the truth. In our opinion the open saloon is better than the blind tiger: but "no saloon or tiger' is better than either, and surely Like City is not in the condition pictured by the twin brother of Annanius who ' lives down on the St. Johns. THE SCHEME WILL FAIL Saloon Advocates Seek Dem ocratic Support by Appeals 15 Party Loyalty. Certain men in this county having a purely selfish interest in the per petuation of the saloon are making appeals to the democrats to vote "wet" on the ground that the "dry" people are all prohibitionists mean ing that they are members of a sepa rate, or third party organization known as the prohibition party. These men are telling democrats that they should not desert their party to vote with the prohibitionists. Such deep concern on the part of the saloon advocates for the welfare of the democratic party is truly pathetic. It must have been this same solici tude for the democratic party which moved them to pay the poll taxes of several hundred Palatka negroes and organize them-iuto a bunch of "wet" adherants. It is only when you reflect that in paying these hundreds of negro poll taxes the saloon men have jeopardiz ed democratic success in this city and county in next year's elections, that a true estimate of their deep concern for democratic loyalty can De arrivea at. Bah! Did you ever know a liauor dealer to place party loyalty above selfish interests? This argument is arrant rot. The local option liquor law of Flor ida was made a part of the state con stitution by the votes of white dem ocrats. The law was submitted by the democratic constitutional conven tion of 1B85. It is known as article XIX of the state constitution. It was submitted to the people separately, but at the same time as the present constitution of which it is a part. The constitution was adopted by a majority vote of the white democrats of Florida. The majority for the constitution was about 11,000 The majority for article XIX was about 16,000. The local option law of Florida is a democratic party measure. It gives to the people of the different counties of the state the right to settle the question for themselves as to wheth er liquor shall be, or shall not be sold in their respective counties. While the law is a democratic measure, the election is purely non partizan as much so as would be an election on the question of issuing bonds. The white democrat who votes "dry" or "wet" will be exercising only a party privilege. However, if he votes "dry" he may be sure that his ticket bears one sure enough" democratic trade mark in that he is in the company of those who would scorn to win by the payment of the poll taxes of hundreds of dissolute negroes who will turn and rend the democratic party next year by reason of becom ing thus qualified. Wedding at Satsuma. The marriage of Mr. Ernest Ow- wens and Miss Leila Gunter of Sat suma Heights, occurred at the home . of the bride's parents at that place ou Wednesday afternoon last, Sep tember 20th. The officiating clergy man was Rev. F. H. Richey, rector of St. Mark's church, this city. The bride and groom are among the most estimable and popular young people oi aatsuma iieignts. They left on the evening train for St. Au gustine and other points on a wed ding tour. THREE JUEOE8 CUBED Of Cholera Morbus with One Small Bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Bemedy. Mr. G. W. Fowler of Hlghtower. Ala.. relates an experience he had while serv ing on a petit jury In a murder case at Edwardsville, county seat of Clebourne county, Alabama. He says: "While there I ate some fresh meat and some souse meat and it gave me cholera mor bus In a very severe form. I was never more sick In my life and sent to the drug store tor a certain cholera mixture, but the druggist sent me a bottle of Chamberlain s C olic, Cholera and Diarr hoea Bemedy instead, saying that he had what I sent for, but that this medi cine was so much better he would rather send it to me in the fix I was in. I took one dose of It and was better In five minutes. The second dose cured me en tirely. Two fellow jurors were afflicted in the same manner and one twenty-five oent bottle cured the three of us." For sale by Ackerraan-Stewart Drug Co. Farms for Rent. Parties having farms along tho line of the Georgia Southern & Flori da R'y, which they wish to rent to white tenants are requested to write me, giving full description of proper ty to be rented and the amount of rental asked. W. L. Gleshner, Commissioner, Macon, Ga. People cannot but appreciate the interest exhibited in their cases by Dr. Arinostrong. His special return trips to the cities recently visited demonstrates this. Those trips are made mainly for purpose of making re-examination ot oases In which on the first visit it was impossible, from tne nature oi tne case, to give the proper correction in glasses or to en tirely overcome the trouble existing. The Doctor who was here, recently will be here on a return trip Sept. 24 and 25, and may be seen as before at the Arlington Hotel. Cured ot Lame Back After 15 Years of Suffering. "I had been troubled with lame back for fifteen years and I found a complete recovery In the use of Chamberlain's Pain lialtn," says John G. Bisher, Gil- , lam, Intl. This liniment is also without an equal for sprains and bruises, it is for sale, by Ackeriuau Stewart Drug Co. 1 f Si hi