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PALATI
N
and Advertiser.
NEW SERIES VOL. XXIII. NO. 33.
PALATKA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1915.
$1.00 Per tear.
THE
WS
TWO MONTHS
OF SUMMER
to 1o and a bunch of hot weather still
ahead of us. This is vacation month,
too, and that calls for vacation clothes;
cool, roomy clothes that won't hamper
you in the pursuit of pleasure. WE
HAVE THEM just what you are
looking for.
Palm Beach Suits for Boys
The conventional outing rait. No man or boy should
be without one. A light weight fabric that eU in the
cool breezes. A cool price, too, $4.50.
B. V. D. Underwear
In Two-Piece and Union. You knowj) the kind.
Arrow Brand Sport Shirts
A decidedly popular thirt for every day'wear and just
the shirt for your vacation. Low cut collar, short sleeves.
These sell for $1.00.
Other Sport Shirts for 50c.
Outing Shoes
To be "in it with both feet" Howard and Foster Shoes
for Men and J. & K. Shoes for Women, in Tan, Russia,
White, Palm Beach ; with rubber or leather soles, in the
very desirable styles.
Outing Hats, Ties, Socks, Etc.
There isn't an item of your vacation
clothing needs that we can't furnish.
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CURRY'S SHOE STORE
OUR THREE IRRESISTABLE
SALESMEN PRICE, STYLE,
and QUALITY. MEET THEM !
TRAGIC DEATH OF
LITTLJPRICE BABY
Causes Genuine Mourning
in at Least Three
Communities
The Putnam National
Bank: of Pal at lea
PALATKA, FLORIDA
Total Atsets, June 10th $700,000.00
1 Liabilities to Depositors 495,000.00
Assets over Liabilities to Depositors 205,000.00
According to the New York Financial Review we are the second strongest
Nat'o"f SaDe'posit Boxes, double lock system, are the best make. $3.00 per year.
We solicit your banking business. Foreign Exchange issued,
wirrrH President A. 8. WTFXARP, Cashier
T?H. WILSON, tllZrSSSLnt MAS. BURT, Asst. Oa3hler
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The following prices f. o. b. Detroit, effective August 2nd, 1915 :
Ford Runabout ..... $390.00
Ford Touring Car - - - - 440.00
Ford Town Car .... - 640.00
.No speedometer Included in this year's equipment,
otherwise cars fully equipped.
There can be no assurance given against an advance in these
prices at any time. We guarantee, however, that there will be no
reduction in these prices prior to August 1, 1916.
PROFIT SHARING WITH RETAIL BUYERS
On August 1, 114, we made the announcement that It we could make
Hild Hell at retail SCO, Ford Oars between August I, lull, and Auijust
1 11115 we would share profits with the retail purchmers. to the extent
of fronT M to W on eac'h car We have sold over SU Ford cars In
?netlm. specified, and profit-sharing check, of ja) -ach will he dl.
irlhuted aiTapKlly as possible after August 15, US. Retnll purchasers
who have not yet mailed u. their proUt-.hurlng ooupam, properly
.ndoi-Hed. should do so without delay. .
Our plan to prortt-share with retail purchasers of Ford cars during
H.14-15 lias bwm most successful. We thoroughly believe In It. but
reallilna the uncertainty of conditions generally makes It advisable
W defer an" announcement of future profit-sharing uutll a later date.
We are 'however, confident of our ability to reduoe costs for several
months, and therefore can offer no profit sharing for oars delivered
during August, (September and October, lBla.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY, - - Detroit
WHO'S YOUR PRINTER? NEARLY EVERY BUSINESS
HOUSE USES PRINTING IN SOME FORM AND THE SUC
CESS OF THE BUSINESS DEPENDS A GREAT DEAL.
ON THE WORK OF THE PRINTER. THE NEWS PRINT.
IS A BUSINESS BUILDER.. YOUR NEXT ORDER ?
And Excites the Deepest Sympathy of
all to Whom the Story of the
Tragedy Comes.
Little Charlotte Lillian, the 16
monthg old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j
C. H. Price, was killed instantly by
being run over by an automobile at
Blitchton last Tuesday afternoon.
The little body arrived home with
tie stricken parents Wednesday even
ing, and the funeral was held Thurs
day morning at the home of Mrs. C. J.
O'Haver on Laurel street. The ser
vice was conducted by Rev. P. Q. Ca
son, assisted by Rev W. M. Poage.
The interment was in West View cem
etery. There was a large attendance
of sympathizing friends and relatives,
and many beautiful floral offerings at
tested the deep sympathy which is
everywhere apparent in this city, the
home of the stricken parents.
The story of the tragic death of this
sweet little child The News is going
to copy from the Ocala'Star of Wed
nesday evening, as follows:
Tuesday afternoon about 4 o'clock
there happened one of those tragedies
that in their suddenness and absolute
unexpectedness and their overwhelm
ing horror, prostrate all- concerned.
Mrs. Charles Henry Price of Palat
ka, with her little daughter, Charlotte
i Lillian, fifteen months of age, were
Ivisiting the family of Dr. and Mrs. S.
H. Blitch at Blitchton. They had been
'guests of the family for two weeks
and the winsome little girl had be
icoine the pet of the household, belov
ed by all. Especially attached to each
other were she and Mr. Landis Blitch,
Dr and Mrs. Blitch's eldest son. Baby
Charlotte was just learning to walk,
and to keep her from going out of the
yard into the public road the family
wa.i always particular to keep the
front gate closed.
Shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, Mr. Landis Blitch went for
the car, which was in the garage. The
child followed him to the gate. He
took her up, kissed her, placed her on
the ground and told her to run back to
the house. Closing the gate after the
child, he went on to the garage.
The garage is situated more than
two hundred yards from the front
gate. There is no sidewalk and tho
way is deep sand. Going there one
turns two corners, for it is at the
back of the block on which the resi
dence is built. One would never
dream that the baby, who could
scarcely walk, would follow that long
distance, through such sand, even
had she been outside the gate.
Mr. Blitch must have been engag
ed in some occupation about the front
of the car that required several min
utes. He cranked the machine and
Lacked it out of the garage. His hor
;ror can only be imagined, when ho
jsaw in front of the car, which had
i.iust passed over the little body with
both wheels, the child his playmate
of a few minutes before. He could
not realize it, nor what had been
done. Leaping out he gathered the
little form into his arms and called
to his mother, taking the little one
towards the house as he called. His
sister. Miss Legie, and his mother
sarted to him, his sister afterwards
stating that she knew by his voice that
something terrible had happened.
The mother of the child, and Mr.
Bl itch's mother and sister rushed lo
meet him. It was all too plain that
the baby was beyond help, that
death must have been instantaneous.
Indeed, she never cried out, not even
a dying gasp was heard by Mr.
Blitch. as the heavv wheels crushed
her little head into the sand.
Mr. Blitch collapsed and went into
convulsions. The child's mother was
prostrated. Mrs. Blitch telephoned
to Ocala for a physician, and one, a
life long friend of the family, respond
ed, driving out very quickly in his au
tomobile, but he could only lend his
aid to the stricken ones.
Mr. Price was telephoned for, and
with Mrs. Price's mother, Mrs. C. J.
O'Haver, started immediately for
Blitchton in an automobile, arriving
there in the evening.
Mrs. Price was formerly Miss Lily
I O'Haver of Palatka and attended the
Ocala High school for a number of
'years before her marriage. She and
Miss Legie Blitch became very warm
friends and have often visited each
j other both before and since her mar
'riage. The distressing accident has cast a
gloom over the entire Blitchton sec
tio i ,and among the many friends of
I the two families in Ocala, the deep
!est sympathy goes out to both the
(Price and the Blitch families.
Mr. Blitch is suffering the most
I acute mental cgony, and has compleie
.lv broken down and refuses to be com
forted. I Those who know the young man
best, will know how utterly impossi
ble it would be for this accident to
'happen through any carelessness on
his part. There is no more kindlv,
icaroful or gentlemanly young man in
the whole country. Consideration for
the rights and feelings of others is
,f3rst nature with him. To his gentle,
christian heart this calamity comes as
something too utterly crushing. It is
rrore than he can bear and his condi
tion is pitiful and his grief is second
oi'ly to that of the TOtber .nd father
of the child.
LO, THE POOR INDIAN
SILENT AND
The cuddlesome winter girl dislikes
the hot weather.
Did you ever get so lonesome that
you wanted to howl like dog!
Came Proudly with Feathers
to Show us the Game.
But "Red" Holt and Linning gave
the ball such a spinning.
That the Indians and Live Oak now
look much the same.
Green's Nebraska Indi ns a semi-
piofesional aggregation of baseball
players from Lincoln, Nebraska, tour
ing the country with baseball as their
only visible means of support, her
alded throughout the west and south
as "phenom's" in their particular lin",
ar.d with a record before they entered
ralatka of a series of thirteen unin
terrupted victories in Florida, and the
loss of but a dozen out of the ninety
games played since leaving home in
the sweet spring time, came to Pa
latka on Monday for a couple of
games with the local team.
These games were well-advertissii,
with the result that not only did the
people of Palatka turn out in gre.it
numbers to see them, but many came
from all parts of the county, from
Hastings and St. Augustine.
On Monday afternoon the Indian
visitors were formed in line, followed
by the Palatka Military Bend, which
in turn was followed by the Palatka
tall club. The band played "Moths.:
Don't you Chide me When I Come
Home Beat," and other supposedly ap
pronriats airs on the way to the ball
grounds.
The visitors, their heads circled
with a band of tail feathers, walked
proudly erect like a company cf fore
ordained filibusters featuring sure
victory.
It was an attractive sight. These
Indians were the real thing; they were
tall, erect and magnificent specimens
of the genus homo; they bore them
selves proudly as only those who are
able to trace their lineage back to
Charley Dirtvshirt and Hiawatha
Hugmetight can; they were the real
American aborigines with high cheek
bones and long, limber noses that he'n
or co-operate with an air of healthy
hauteur to attest father's faithfulness
to firewater before the government
poked him with prohibition.
Palatka people looked once and suc
cumbed; they said we have no busi
ness a goin' agin' sich. Our own
players oozed modesty and helped to
fool the fans.
But, the game!
Holt and Chapman constituted the
Palatka battery; Chief Cleanlegs and
Sweet Grass did ditto for the Indians.
It was a great game from the Palat
ka standpoint. The Indians couldn't
Lit Holt, but the -Palatkans hit the In
dian pitcher all over the damp field.
That was the feature of the game
the heavy hitting of the Palatkans;
also their fielding; another feature
was the supurb pitching of Holt, and
another was the especially heavy hit
ting of Brinson, Spitznagel and Ed-
mondson. The first named and the
last named made home runs with one
r;n bases. The score was 11 to 1 in
favor of the modest young men from
Palatka.
The Second Game.
The game of Tuesday was a superb
game of baseball from any way look
ed at. The Indians played better bail.
The pegging to second of Sweet Grass
the Indian catcher was a work of art
to be classed among the exact scienc
es. The fielding of Spitznagle of Pa
latka aiso caused much favorable
comment. Linning's pitching was
erand and that of the Red man who
heaved the ball for the aborigines
was like unto it. But Palatka, whose
ball club always comes up to the ex
pectations of the people in an emer
gency that counts for something won
again by a score of 3 to 1.
The Indians were good loosers, bet
ter than bne had any reason to expect
from an aggregation who had bumped
against but little of it in a long sea
son of travel. They went over to St.
Augustine from here and will soon
leave for Nebraska, the home of their
soul. When they get there and have
time to reflect on the mutability of
baseball and other things, they will
remember some Palatka palefaces;
we know it.
PETE HAGAN, WHO IS
E POLITII
Presented With Gold Watch.
By arrangement there was a lull in
the game of ball last Tuesday after
noon, just long enough for Judge Ju
lian C. Calhoun to make a brief
speech of public appreciation before
handing a gold watch as a present
to Capt. Robinson of the Palatka club
from his admirers in this city. There
was great applause as Robinson mod
estly accepted the watcH, to wnicn
an elegant fob was also attached
Picnic and Ball Game at Hastings.
Tomorrow there will be a picnic
and ball frame at Hastings. A pro-
-am has been arranged by that hus
tling little town to have a game of
ball in the morning between its home
bovs and a hired team at 10 o'clock.
At the noon hour the public is invited
to a picnic dinner to be held at the
Auditorium hall, the ladies are r-
ouested to bring boxes of lunch with
their names in them and the boxes
arj to be auctioned off and the buyer
eats his lunch with the lady whose
name is in the box. There will ba
vrcal end instrumental music during
the dinner hour.
At 3:30 the great feature of the day
will take place when the lusty Hast
ings team will cross bats with the fast
Pi latka team, and it promises to b
a battle royal. A bit? delegation s
e-tpeeted to attend the jollification
from this city.
After the game supper and enter
tainment will be furnished again at
the Auditorium At 7:15 the moving
picture show will begin.
Says he Believes Collector
Hayes Lewis will Run
for Governor.
Peter M. Hagan, deputy collector of
Internal Revenue, arrived in the city
Tuesday evening for a day or two
With his family and look over his cor
respondence betore again, starting out
en another round of the countici
which comprise the territory nlaced
urder his jurisdiction.
Pete Haq-an loves politics; it is his
bread and meat and drink, and whun
he came into The News office it was
as natural that the conversation
should turn on State politics as that
a modern club woman should talk
household economics, or an automo
bile dealer1 should talk hard roads.
Mr. Hagan says Gen. Gilchrist is
going to get more votes for senator
than many people give him credit for
being able to secure; that Bryan is
going to run like a race horse for the
same job. He also thinks Trr.mmell
is gome to pull down a few himself.
Ki d that Perry Wall will carry
Tampa.
"I don t believe the man who is to
Le our next governor has yet announ
ced," said Mr. Hagan, "but I do be
lieve that if He n. Hayes Lewis of ftia
rianna announces that he will land the
jib. My own opinion is that he will
announce before long, and that when
he does and starts in on his campaign
that the people will, rally to his ban
ner. His plan of the State loaning
money at a low rate of interests to
farmers and others his rural credit
plan is a winner. It is practical and
puts every man who has property on
the same level."
Mr. Hagan who already had Nas
sau, Duval, Clay, Putnam, Volusia
and St. Johns counties to look after,
has recently had Baker and Bradfori
added to his territory, and a letter
addressed to him by Collector Lewis
instructs him to make his headquar
ters in Palatka still and look after
the additional counties.
Hayes Lewis is the all-wool demo
crat who is now the Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the district of
Florida, an office which under repub
lican rule was held so long by the ne
gro, Joe Lee. Lewis is a native of
Jackson county and was sheriff of
that county. He is a lontr. loose
jc inted, good-natured cracker boy who
nas, a smile that thaws through the
coldest exterior. He wins friends by
the great gross wherever he goes, and
should he enter the race for governor,
as Mr. Hagan predicts and many
newspapers of the State have hinted,
there will be a rattlin' of the dry bon-s
which now make up the list of candidates.
With Other Men Prominent
in State Affairs Will
Attend
ELLIOTT AGAIN
CHOSEN SECRETARY
Palatka Board of Trade by
Unanimous Vote of
Governors.
The "Get-Together" meeting of the
Palatka board of trade last Monday
night was a very pleasant affair. It
was more in the nature of a social
meeting, and the first of the kind
wherein the old chamber of commerce
members and the board of trade mem
bers met in joint session since the
amalgamation.
The meeting was conspicuous for the
number of active young business men
of the city who were present and for
their pledges of agressivo work for
the upbuilding of Palatka. President
Jarrett made a fine talk in which he
urged a spirit of unity and agressive
action, and pledged his best efforts in
trying to make good in the position
with which the members had honored
him.
Mr. Jarrett was followed by all the
newly elected officers, who talked
much in the same vein, and these suo
ordinate officers were in turn followed
by retiring officials who said they
would continue their work in the
ranks. Then came short talks by
members. Harmony? Why it was
so thick you could carve it with a
cheese knife.
Secretary Elliott, assisted bv Bert
Eodge, dispensed cigars and lemonnc'i"
during the meeting. At the conclu
sion of the meetme the board of trov-
ernors held an executive session and
transacted some matters of business
which neded immediate attention.
the governors also elected E. W.
Elliott secretary and treasurer of the
board for the ensuing year, action
which meets the approval of the bus
iness men of the city perhaps more
enthusiastically than the selection of
any man to that place in the history
of the board of trade. Elliott is a
mixer; he was designed on the rjlans
and specifications of a politician; he
is a natural man who has never had
leisure to accumulate a grouch or any
symptoms of dyspepsia; he oozes har
mony from every pore and his smile is
infectious. He also seems to know
intuitively how to approach a prob
lem and make it yield a point for the
advantage of the city in whose inter
est he pledged to devote his talents.
Mysterious Disappearance.
nbnfl Thnmncnn tt fan n.all
known in Pnlnt.lrn. whora ha i'i,nnaFli,
resided, is accused of jumping into the
river ac tne loot oi iteid street about
10 o'clock Tuesday night and drown
ing. The little 12-year old girl who
says she saw him disappear in the
dark depths of the river, gave the
alarm, and several policemen and oth
ers from the street spent several
nours mat nignt in trying to locate
the body, but without avail.
... -1 ... "-""vi i y uau a
f.iree of several men dragging the riv
er in me immeaiate vicinity, and just
oeiore noon two sticKs ot dynamite
were exnloded. rmisino- sm-h on
heaval as to bring the body to the sur-
lace naa it Deen near there.
Thompson is young and peculiar;
he is credited with being but half-wit-
lea; ne nas a orotner and sister liv
ing in Ocala; his parents are dead.
Thomnsnn was Kwn in fha if,,
evening, but has not been seen since.
.Many uoudt. inat ne was drowned, and
tlOthin? Will Pnnvlnmi fliam onn- f
--- --o ' HIV.IU oiiui. ui a
discovery of the body. The News will
refrain from publishing his obituary
until it can be assured that the young
ii mi la auii ueaa.
Extra fine new can lyrnp
in new Cypreai barrels.
IS eta Qt.
L. C STEPHENS,
628 Kirby Street
WWWft
And Make Addresses at Palatka's Great
Boat Launching Celebration.
Chas. Burt, chairman of the special
committee charged with arranging the .
details of Palatka's great celebratir.i
in honor of the launching of the big
schooner "City of Palatka," has had
replies from a number of the promi
nent men who have been invited to
have a part in. the exercises of the
day. . . ..
Gov. Park Trammel! writes that it
will be his pleasure to try and se ar
range his official duties so as to be
present, and asks that he be notified
as soon as possible of the date in or
der that he rr.ay make his arrange
ments. v
Senator N. P. Bryan has also writ
ten that he will be present if possib'e.
Ex-Uov. Gilchrist also replies that
it will be his pleasure to be here and
deliver a short address.
Perry G. Wall, wholesale hardware
merchant of Tampa, and also a candi
date for the U. S. Senate, has written
of his deep interest in the event and
has promised to be present.
Chairman Burt tells The News that
hr personally invited the Rev. Sidnev
J. Catts when he was in the city last
week, and that the Rev. Sidney said t
he would come if it was possible.
Other candidates for the governor
ship have been invited, and the chan
ces are favorable that they will all
come. The occasion will give them
opportunity to meet the people, ai
well as have a hand in the launching
of the biggest ocean schooner ever
liiilt on the S:. Johns river.
In company with Secretary Elliott
of the board .if trade, a representative
of The News visited the big ship on
iueSday and noted that great pro
gress is being made. A large force -
of men is engaged in its construction.
Climbing to the deck and looking into
thj great hold it was easy to believe
tht this vessel when completed will
be capabiy of carrying out a half-million
feet of lumber.
RUSSIA REJECTS
OFFER OF PEACE
Reported That German Emperor Made
Offer Through King Of
Denmark
London. Reuter's Petrograd corre
spondent transmits the following:
The Bourse Gazette learns from an
unimpeachable source that the Ger
man emperor made an offer of peace
to Russia through the king of Den
mark. The answer sent to the king
stated that the question-of peace ne
gotiations could not be raised at the
present time.
Petrograd. The report that Germa
ny had made peace proposal to Russia
became known in official circles here
several days ago and was discussed
freely in the lobbies of the duma,
says the Vechernee Vremya.
"We learn on good authority," says
the newspaper, "that Germany through
Denmark proposed to Russia a sepa
rate peace, Russia to receive Galicia,
while Germany would retain the west
ern district of Poland. A representa
tive of the foreign office categori
cally denied that there was the re
motest possibility of any peace nego
tiations. In the lobbies of uie duma
the proposal was dismissed as 'un
worthy ot serious consideration.' "
CARRANZA IS RESOLVED
TO FIGHT INTERVENTION
Vera Cruz. General Carranza's at
titude towards anp intervention by
foreign powers In Mexican affairs
was indicated in a message which
he sent to one of his military chiefs
who had assured him of loyalty in
such a contingency. "I am confident,"
said General Carranza, "that the sit
uation in our country soon will be
adjusted in a favorable and dignified
manner, and In an adverse case Mex
icans will do their duty." ,
v.