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'V FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1915. THE PALATKA NEWS, PALATKA, FLA. PAGE NO. THRER 1 STANDARD FURNITURE VALUES AT SENSATIONAL FIGURES! I - i BEOS Let Us Show You This New Light-Weight Simmons Steel Bed Made of cold-rolled, burnished steel tubing 2 inches in diameter, this bed is so light a woman or a child can life or move it with ease. Has the new steel wheel, leg-mount caster. Less likely to injure floors or carpets. Chills on bed are small and dainty. The finish is superior to a iy ever put on an old style iron bed as good as most expensive hand-rubbed beds. See this remarkable bed for yourself. An extraordinary value at $4.95 BSSEOeEBCB Low Prices For High Quality The hundreds of pieces of home furnishings that have been pur chased from this, YOUR store of supremacy, are brightening many homes today and we know the purchasers are more than thankful to us for giving them the STARTLING LOW PRICES ON QUALITY FURNITURE. This is a money-saving store offering the public sensationally low prices on unusually high qualities. Come and look them over. No obligation to buy ; we just want to convince you. BARGAINS IN GREAT VARIETY Furniture for all purposes and for every room in the house is repre sented in this stock and every single piece or suite shown is furni ture of QUALITY furniture that we know to be right furniture that will GIVE EMINENT SATISFACTION furniture that is absolutely safe to buy. Study the money-saving list of merchandise shown in this advertise ment. These items offer you but a taste of the big list we now have on display in our store. Be merciful to your pocketbook ! COME HERE AND SAVE MONEY ! OSTERMOOR MATTRESS Special for Saturday and Monday Only $12.98 The Ostermoor Mattress has never been retailed for less than $15.00. For Saturday and Monday we will offer this $15.00 Ostermoor for 12.98 and the $23.50 Hotel Ostermoor for $15.00. Aluminum Kitchen Set 1 Tea Kettle with Double Boiler insert 1 2-qt. Sauce Pan 1 4-qt. Sauce Pan 1 6-qt. Kettle 1 8-qt. Kettle 1 Percolator $10,00 50c Week Bedroom Outfit 1 Princess Dresser 1 Washstand 1 White Bedstead (heavy) 1 heavy Spiral Spring 1 45-lb. Cotton Mattress 2 good Feather Pillows $40,00 $4.00 Cash Sl.OOweek MISSION TABOURETTE FERN STANDS . . :35c sf tN a . - - iviacuougaii Kitchen r 1 ffri- aa JJabinets, $35 value V-JIliy $ZO.UU $1.00 Week SWEETHEART SWING AND CHAINS .... 2.98 HOOSIER KITCHEN CABINETS . $27.50 to $42.50 CLUB TERMS. $1.00 PER WEEK 305 Lemon Street Phone 70 522-524 Lemon Street Phone 109 . Palatka, Florida. Sand-Asphalt Iioads. Editor i'alatka News: It is certainly encouraging to note the interest the people of I'alatka and the section of country adjoin in p aie taking in the good road movement. 1 refer particularly .) your recent bond election for brick roads. There is no question about brick roads being the mot permanent, if V properly constructed. When we consider the cos', brick roads should last forever. Every mile of 9-foot brick road costs S2.".OO0: here are the figures: Actual cost of con struction, low estimate, $10,000 per mile. Interest at 5 per cent per an num, $500. Total interest fop 30 years, the life of ordinary bond is sues "0 times S500 amounts to $15,000. Add original cost of $10, 000, total S-5.O00 per mile. ' Now the cost of Sand-Asphali road: Every mile of sand-asphalt; read costs $:l,500. This is top pric I t'.rst cost. Add 5 per cent for :W years, which is S:l,50. Add this to the original cost and vou have or practically one-fourth the make not an experiment, but has been pro ven a success as a road material. I am hopeful that our county will soon come to a full realization of the worth and substantial benefits offered in sand-oil construction, and it least a tew miles somewhere I cost ot brick road, same width, per in the county so as to convince tne mile. , tax-payers that it is practical. llesides when you make a Sand- I I have given the above figures .Asphalt road you spend practicall c ' showing the difference in cost be- all ihe money at home. You pay six cents a square yard for freight on Material for sand-asphalt roads, an election and vote on our respec-1 And so it comes about that dogs tive roads. The following net-work and cats and monkeys, even rats and of roads with natural connection ! mice and chickens, goats, calves and would place our county in line wi hi pigs rise sometimes above their level otner progressive counties m tne;aiul are privileged with admission to) .State, viz. NUMBER 40 FOR THE BLOOD while you pay a!-out -10 cents lor . j our brick Highways; out our prop freight on brick. lerty will not stand for brick. Clay Lake county is quietly at work on . roads are all right in dry times, but the construction of half a million ' deliver us from them in wet weath- dollars worth of good roads of this cr. Howeve type, and it you have any doubt as for the sand-oil hnish. to the value and lasting qualities of i Xow is the time to make a start, these roads go to Eustis, Alatoona, ! Let us wake up, West I'utnam, and L'niatilla or Mt Dora and see. it is ; organize our sub-road districts, cnli '.ween hrick and sand-asphalt roads Orange Springs. Next the roi.u for the reason that we country peo- from I'utnam Hall and (iramlin, via. pie want good roads to connect with j 1 nterlachen and Kenwood to Orange Number 40 for the Blood is com pounded of ingredients set down in the intimacies of the family circle i?"e V . dispensatory as follows: first, the present Palatka and in fact, thev become "one of the fam- , mployed ln .Useases of the glandu Cainesville road put in first-class ! ilv." and are catered to and petted sJ'?tem In syphilis and lead shape to the Alachua county line, (like a sick baby. The uglier thev ;P01sn'e:- One of our best reme- 'i'hen the r'eniel road from Palatka lure in appearance or in disoositioii. , 10r.sealy skin affections, chrome Eights via. Rodman to Kenwood and I the more lovable do thev seem to their i AT LOW PRICES WITH FISK SERVICE Springs. And if the citizens of the Melrose section think it advisable, the road from .Melrose to McMeekin to Orange Springs can be included. the foundation is good j The (iramlin people who have given their approval, and will soon get bu sy; Interlachen. Kenwood and Or hkc Springs will fall in line. Let us get busy while the Euro pean countries are at war borrow ing money to kill people. Let us n borrow monev to improve our eoun ..'..?.. i i i:.- 4r ' S i Yours for Good Roads. v 11 J. H. WYLIE. V I Interlachen, Sept. 20th rheumatism, scrofula and glandular enlargements, such as goitre, lupus and tumors." Number 40 for the Blood is sold by J. H. Haughton, Druggist. Emphatically! The Best Tire Proposition On The Market FISK established quality at Fisk Low Prices offers car owners for the first time an absolutely sure way to cut tire costs. You can get Fisk Non-Skid the most effec tive traction and non-skid tire at a price lower than is charged for many plain treads. Note These Non-Skid Casing Prices 31x30 - 12.20 4ix34 - 27.30 4 x33 - 20.00 4ix36 - 28.70 4 x34 - 20.35 5 x37 - 33.90 You can get Fisk Plain Tread the perfectly balanced, real long-mileage tire at a price which sets a new standard for value. To pay more than Fisk Prices is knowingly to turn down an assured definite saving in tire up-keep. Fisk The For Sale By FORD SALES GO. - PALATKA Walter W. Tilghman, Manager Panger in Pets. l'ets are not an acquired habit, they nc nn iiwtin.'t ! t-ind rf nnnntitu neciallv with the female of the race I nili"ls-. S anil cats and monks and 'this habit is in evidence from!are -su"jeet to diseases which the;, the time the girl is old enough for her i ",a' communicate to human beings first doll. t-ats and monkeys suffer from tuber- This habit, like other habits. The 1.0S'3 and with dogs they share the inanimate caricature of the human oaugeis 01 raoies ami pneumonia. I form divine sooner or later loses its A". forweanng animals carry fleas in place in the juvenile affection, and lnelr 1,1111 son,e tlmes other ms- something that can move of its own , ease-bearing parasites. Of course, accord, that can retaliate with a crv -?nr Pf tic-ulur pet .may be free from or a bite or a scratch when hurt, that j th.cm. "ow but hls hule mal' be infest has to be fed and defended against le1 'lth them next week, its enemies, something that may, or, 'l 's Possible even probable that may not. respond to kind treatment or "1B !,llm'1." oemg may ume disease partially demented owner. Effusive (jcnomstrations or affection are lav ished upon them. Of course, it's no body's business excepting that of the mistress, for the pet can t help itself. i ' "' ' . ":LrJ?..1 'M Perhapt He Had None. "'"1.,p 'm a Mivtiv venous Slue, A M , too. . A fe"w has his face shaved,, hair All animals, including the human cut' sl,oes P!!sh"', clothes pressed animal, are naturally dirty, but the B.nd hat b-usheJ, t.ien rays no atten l.uman has certain instincts towards ; tion whatever to his dilapidated con cleanliness that are earnestly foster- science. Toledo 1'laue. ed by the strict watchfulness of the mother from the earliest infancy of j her offspring. If you don't believe! Blessing In Happiness. this charge against the other animals. Happiness, like mercy, is twlca watch the pet dog escaping from his j blessed; it blesses those who are most j mistress rush to make the acquaint-; intimately associated with it and It jance of a fellow canine. Note their ' blesses all those who see It, 'hear it, way of shaking hands an then hug fee it, touch it, or breathe the same ;you, pet jour bosom, it you an-- atmosphere-Kate Douglas Wiggin. I !!,,( .,...., tl .1;.... I habits. the opposite, takes the supreme place in the young affections. And by and by, when the real responsibilities of life come along, these affections gather about the new human being, which is smothered in d wealth of ma ternal love. l!ut it so happens in this sad world that the gift of "olive branches" is denied to some, to many, or their own choice deprives them of the greatest, sweetest joy, granted by an all-wise Providence. The instinct of affection having no natural object for its lav ish bestowal, seeks other objects iium an iniecreu pet, anu tne early stages of these diseases that are com mon to man and animals, are more difficult to detect in the animal than in the man. Men and women do not hug vipers to their bosoms, unless they are I weary of life. Sensible men and ! women, realizing the dangers of dis ease from the long-haired animals will not give them the privileges o?' an only child. They will treat then as faithful friends, but not as pets for God never intended that wr should go outside the limits of tht human race seeking something t. bulle niAm rtl lace nnnnf iiml love. State Board of Health people who sneer at the display of hu- man attection that centers about a ti ny, ugly long-haired puppy. Thev envv the plaything the kisses that are showered upon it as it nestles in the arms of its beautiful mistress, or perhaps they turn away in ill-concealed disgust. It all depends upon the disposition or the inclinations of the observer. No. 666 This is prescription prepared especially lor MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or si dote will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not re tarn. It act on the liver better than Calomel and does not f ripe or sicken. 25c Chronic Constipation. "About two years ago whe i' be gan usin? Chamberlain's Tablets I had been suffering for some time with stomach trouble and chronic consti pation. My condition improved rap idly through the use of these tablets, hinee taking four or five bottles of them my health has been fine" writes Mrs. John Newton, Irving, N. Y. Obtainable everywhere. Fusty Wsman. A fussy Atchison woman returned a btf of aalt to her (rocer with the complaint that tta flavor" wasnt good.'-Kansag City Star. Launches. Skiffs, I Dories. Built to Order BOILERS AND TANKS BUILT TO ORDER GALVANIZED T COPPER AND i J, .IWU SHEETS h OAK, CYPRESS U MAHOGANY WHITE PINE and ALL HARD WOODS FIRE ESCAPES Competent Force of Work men for Road W)rk at AU Times. DA ; JACKSONVILLE .flORi A)