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THE PALATKA NEWS, PALATKA, FLA.
PAGE NO. FIYK.
fieorge B. Waldron, of Tampa,
W1 1 Congregational churches of
U f cStH services in the
ACHEN NEWS,
A . ii. Sunday morning and
)rchnere conference was
ft to formulate plans for se
ll 11610 for the coming win-
to a P"" . .
- r- Poland is at Florahome,
' .Aiirtrtt a two weeks
W 1eTwiniis metines. Mrs. Ro-
the meantime is visiting with
ff!0lrar T U. ladies held animpor-
r. F. Bischoff and Mrs.
have been elected
rt8 .ent. the societv at
W ,s pvontion in Davtona.
KS"1 -t.:. Onniptv met at the
Mt Mr.. -T M
Wil.fL afternoon. The So-
If has decided to procure at once
Cher sectional bookcase for the ac-
l?u,. wul" nroeram Droved
L entertaining, and consisted of
Fu sketches of a number of cele
E various walks of life. A
frZ refreshment course was served
Li the social hour loiiowwg tne
ifArnT.a J M. DeTilla visited
Krhter.Mrs. E. E. Walker, in
uVo last ween.
own
remain iur duuic wiigm
1...J. font. TT. E. Anderson.
Ihrsenus uj. r-- . -
j their number is legion, will regret
'earn that ne is m vcij yuui umiui,
jis confined to the house much of
e time. . ., .
r and Jlrs. - A. Anarews tu
kpa are visums .
-ents, Dr. ana JVirs. renj. An-
Miss Elizabeth Malcolm of Chicago
. west of Mr. ana ivirs. ivioore at
rir home m i icosani, ioucj.
ip r. Cook, representing the Put-
..' 1 ni "Una aart n
.,4 at the still tms weeK.
Mrs. M. A. Baker spent the week-
in Palatka with ner aaugnter,
barren Trottman came home from
school Saturday, to remain over
week-end with his parents.
Miss Ola Fraser is staying in Keuka
present, with Miss Jennie oermond,
s ill
J, S. Story has joined in the march
progress and purchased a rord car.
Kirbv Succeeds Senator Clarke.
William F. Kirby. associate justice
the Arkansas supremo court, was
-.mfnatrd at Little Rock, Ark., by
he Democratic state central commu
te for Failed States senator to sue-
tho late Senator James P.
;arke.
POMONA NEWS.
WANTED A single white man for
knew! farm work. Boarding with
imilv. State wages expected.
HAS. WOERNER, Interlachen, Fla.
M-lt,
FOR SALE One good Jersey
lilch cow. Apply at 208 N-5th St.
FOR SALE 25,000 extra fine
flondyke Strawberry plants for sale
$2.00 per thousand. All orders
Ten prompt attention. Apply to
, HALL, Falatka, Fla., it. r . V.
1,
FOR RENT Store and flat on
encn street near Court House. Ap.
p ti The News offices for partic
Mrs. tf.
OW IS THE TIME
Write for prices anil full nar-
plars as to Fruit Trees lor
ill ami Spring planting. Look
I this lit ami select your
Irecs foi' home plant inc. Special
pee on largo order. Varieties
rile to lin:'ii frmii lt,:iiiiif tricu
Ike famous hue iim (ioim )r-
I'gi'i other varieties, isatsimia,
'"Keriiie. N;iv'l. Piiieunnle
fails' Harts I.ale ami lioones
pmn, .Marsh heeJless mid Wal-
OrapelViiit.
jlniiitcd ntiinher line J rafted
Wan Trees. Cassava Cuitiiiffs,
wi urass riants. etc.
luilress
Rlerlachen Nurseries
H- WYLIK, Interlachen, Fla.
Miss Margaret Bradt of Green Cove
Springs is spending two weeks with
Mrs. Grace Cook.
C. C. Middleton left Monday for a
few days business trip to Hortense,
Ga. During his absence the store is
in charge of Rev. B. P. Capsbaw.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Perry are
spending the week in St. Petersburg,
whither they were called by the seri
ous illness of their little neice, Miss
Loreen Piatt.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Worcester are
again in their lovely home, much im
proved in health from the sojourn in
the mountains of North Carolina. Mr.
and Mrs. Worcester have built a bun
galow at Black Mountain, which they
expect to occupy early next summer.
Rev. R. C. Brisko left Friday for
Stuart, where he has been called as
pastor. Mrs. Drisko will join him
in a few weeks.
The A. C. L. painting gang has been
doing some work in this section.
Remember the Literary meeting in
the Town Hall Friday evening.
Julian de Nazarie o-avp a cmnA torn.
perance address in the Congregational
church Sundav nip-ht to a fnir
audience.
Mrs. R. C. Drisko who is now at
home at Margaret Place, has been ill
since Sunday.
E. L. Earnest of Palatka attended
church here Sunday evening.
H. A. Ring will lead the C. E. meet
ing next Sunday night.
FLORAHOME NEWS.
Shipments of beans are making Flo
rahome a lively place just now, and
a telegraph operator and shipping
clerk have been installed at the depot.
One hundred crates of beans daily are
being shipped, and Monday a large re
frigerator car was nacked with over
500 crates to go north.
The co-operation plan has worked
well in securing markets and good
pnVps for beans.
The corn crop also has proved to be
better this yenr than last, and results
are good. Of the boys who entered
the contest for corn, John Hubner has
done the best, and grew seventy-nine
bushels of corn on his one acre.
Tfpv. T. F Roland and Reo S. Grady
of Palatka are conducting revival ser
vices for the Methodist church, and
much interest is manifested. Ser
vices are held at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m.
and the choir furnshes excellent mu
sic. The V. I. A. met last Fridav after
noon at the Park Hotel and decided to
hold a bazaar in December, and will
meet to sew for the forth-coming
event. As soon as the committee does
the purchasing of materials needed,
the dates for the sewing will be an
nounced. Mrs. W. D. Weseman is
chairman of the committee.
Rev. Sidney .1. Catts is coming to
town late this month to give a politi
cal talk. The ladies of the V. I. A.
will serve ice cream and cake.
Mr. Tra Miller will leave this week
for Arizona.
Mrs. A. W. Tucker is expecting
Mrs. Mary Storehouse to arrive next
week to spend the winter with her.
FLORIDA IS FORGING
FAST TflJjlE FRONT
Col. Murphy Writes of its
Remarkable Land Development.
Agriculture anl Cattle Raising Pro
gre Tourists Being Converted
Into Permanent Settlers.
James R. Murphy, President of the
Florida Farm and Homes, Inc., has
returned to the city after a three
months vacation in the mountains of
New York state. While enjoying the
baths and the waters of Saratoga
Springs and the fishing in the Adi
rondacks and other lakes and steams
he has not forgotten to say a go 3d
word for Florida and to tell of its ad
vantages and its substantial growth.
In the September number of the
Real Estate Bulletin, the leading real
estate journal of the country, is a
very interesting article on Florida
under the caption, "How Florida is
Forging Ahead." His vacation over
Mr. Murphy is now actively engaged
in the good work of keeping Florida
to the front. He left on Wednes
day for Orangeburg, S. C, to attend
the live stock conference and exposi
tion at that place, and to use his ef
forts to secure such an event for
Palatka during the Farmers Union
Convention, Nov. 21-24.
The article on Florida in the Real
Estate Bulletin is as follows:
Florida is the greatest land of op
portunity in the United States to-day
for the man of industry and initia
tive. With 35,000,000 acres of land,
only about two per cent, of which is
cultivated, and with a population of
about 800,000, it offers a great field
of cheap land for the farmer and
home-seeker.
The average man looks upon Flori
da as a vast wilderness of low lands
and swamps, with no other indus
tries than lumber, turpentine and
orange groves. Yet this year it is
estimated that the corn crop of
Florida will exceed by more than a
million dollars the value of the or
ange and grapefruit yield.
This is indicative of the trend of
become the seventh port of impor
tance in the United States. Miami,
that eighteen years ago was a sand
dune, is to-day a magic city of 20,
000 inhabitants. Alladin with his
wonderful lamp never dreamed of ac
complishing such a wondertul trans
formation in so short a time as has
taken place in Miami. Miami is the
favorite town of many western mil-
honaines, and they are building pal
aces upon the seashore of great splen
dor and beauty.
It was published in the local pa
pers of Florida last spring that Mr.
Burrows, of rustless screen fame, of
Brooklyn, who purchased a corner
property in Miami for $55,000 a few
years ago, has refused $110,000 for it
and stated that it was not for sale.
Orlando, Daytona, St. Petersburg,
Key West all the towns along the
Atlantic Coast and the Gulf, are
growing wonderfully and behind
them the back country is developing
in a substantial way that insures their
growth and prosperity.
The tourist business is a splendid
tonic in promoting the growth of the
state, but it is the army of newcom
ers that settle on the farms every
year that supply the bone and sinew
for this growth.
This army of home-seekers is in
creasing every year and will show a
remarkable increase in the next few
years because of the widespread co
operative movement in Florida to ad
vertise the state's advantages and to
develop its resources.
A notable movement along these
lines is the Florida First advertising
campaign in which many of the cities
and countes are participating through
their boards of trade and other local
organizations. Funds are raised by
assessing a levy of ten cents per
capita of each community contribu
ting and the little towns get the same
benefits from the advertising as the
large cit'es.
The Southern Settlement and De
velopment Organization under the di
rection (f Clement S. Ucker andR.
M. IVndell, vice-presidents, is doing
splendid work for Florida and the
South generally. The great trunk
line railroads of the South are also
powerful and progressive factors in
building up Florida.
II- is a noticeable fact that Florida'",
great opportunities for the profitable
investment of capital are more ap
preciated in the West than in the
East. The bond houses of the West
have purchased most of the public im
provement bonds of Florida though
the local banks are now becoming ac
New Gas Plant for Palatka.
The Southern Utilities Company,
owners of the Palatka Gas Light and
Fuel Co., has decided to erect a new
gas plant in this city and has already
ordered and is receiving the mate
rial for its construction. The new
plant will be located on property ad
joining its ice factory, and will be
modern in all its appointments.
The ground on which the old plant
is located will be cleared and the lot
placed on the market.
HIS DREAM DISSOLVED.
development in Florida, tor many
years the land development compa- tive cor,lpetitors for these securities
nies have been selling their land in ti. viori(ia banks are beginning to
Body of Negro Found in River.
T TVTrtnlnr nin-tit C Ti Afnodv
ijanu iTiwimii.v h's". -
discovered a body floating in the river
out some distance trom tne vvarner
dock, several miles down river. He
immediately sent word to Sheriff Ken
nerly, first securing the body.
Justice Marshall impaneled a jury
composed of W. A. Wilkinson, A. M.
Houghton, J. M. Clemmons. C. T.
Clark, W. G. Campbell and S. H.
Childs r.nd on Tuesday they went to
the point on the river where the body
was and after hearing testimony de
termined that it was the body of Wil
liam Jones, a negro deck hand on the
Seagull, who was lost overboard on
September 27th. Capt. J. B. Phares
of the Seagull identified the bodv. He
stated that he had sent Jones to get
some water, and that while dipping
in the ver for it he lost his balance
and fell overboard. The boat was
turned about and sometime spent m
pn r-ffort to rescue the man. but noth
ing was seen of him from the time he
fell in the river. The verdict was ac
cidental drowning.
Broken Lcrvaes Duplicated
bame Uay a,s necieveo
We Spcilize on rkil Orders - We fey Postifce
r 140 W. FORSYTH ST.
Is Your Watch
a Gay Deceiver ?
Are you one of the thousands of
Americans who, year after year, carry
a deceptive, unreliable watch?
so, why not " right about face "
Nay and get a real timekeeper. Let
us show you the
lUiriLTOX H ATCH
"The Watch
of Railroad
Accuracy.'
C. J. SMITH
JEWELER
PALATKA, FLORIDA
ten-aero plots and tens of thousands
of investors all over the United
States have purchased these small
tracts.
In our own development in Putnam
and Marion counties more than ",000
such tracts have been sold and most
of these buyers are anxiously await
ing the day when they can come to
Florida ."nd take up their residence
there. These people will not be long
in the state when they will want to
buy more land to extend their farm
ing oncrations along the line of gen
eral farming and stock raising.
In this connection I want to say
that in the next few years Florida
will be recognized as one of the
p-reatest live stock states in the
Union. Any one who has kept up
with the trend of events and knows
the tremendous demands that the no
cessities of the European war have
made upon the live stock industry of
the world knows that the production
of beef and pork offers a most in
viting field for profitable investment.
Florida with its mild winters, its
natural pasturage all the year round,
its abundance of good water, and its
growing season of from 300 to 3fi5
days a year, possesses advantages for
live stock raising that no other state
can equal.
The lumber and turpentine inter
ests and other large land-owning con
cerns recognize this fact and are pre
paring to fence their land and raise
live stock or lease the pastures.
These interests that for so long look
ed upon land as merely a by-product
have been awakened to the fact that
their land is now a valuable asset or
a serious liability according to the
use to which they put it.
The progress of the state is so
rapid that thev cannot let it lie idle
any longer. With $12,000,000 worth
of bonds floated in the last year for
pood roads, principal and interest on
whirh must be met, with many more
piillions of dollars going into new
school houses, and other public
buildings, the man who owns large
tracts of land must turn it to profita
ble use or lose it.
Recognizing this fact the lumber
and turpentine interests have corri
bired under the name of the Cattle
Tick Erad'ention Committee -of tne
Southern Settlement and Develop
ment Organization, and have assess
ed Miemelves on an acreage basis to
raise a fund of $00,000 a yenr to car
ry op p campaign of education 'o
arous' public opinion to the necessi
ty of passing laws to rid the state of
the cattle tick, an insect something
like the sheen tick, that sucks the
life blood of the cattle and keeps it
stunted. This campaign is being so
vigorously conducted that already im
mense ranches are being fenced in
and improved stock is being brought
into the state.
Near Palatka a local lumber com
pany combined with western capital
have fenced in 60,000 acres of land on
which thev have 5.000 head of cat
tle They have 3,000 acres in corn
and velvet beans on which they will
fatten the cattle for market. Aside
from this thev depend entirely up
on natural pasture for about nine
months of the year to keep the cat
tle. No shelter is needed, owing to
the mild winters.
The Armour Company of Chicago
recognize the trend of events in
Florida and are now building at Jack
sonville a toig packing plant with
capacity for about 15,000 hogs a
week and from 300 to 500 head of
cattle and a like number of sheep.
But it is not alone in agricultural
lines that Florida is progressing.
Her cities are wonderful hives of in
dustry and are among the fastest
growing cities in the country.
Tampa, for instance, has recently
rle up with capital
Florida mortgages paying eight
per cent, interest on fifty per cent,
valuations are among the best invest
ments and it is surprising that Eas
tern capital has not entered this field.
These securities are among the best
investments in the country as the day
of cheap land in Florida is passing
and values are increasing very rapid
ly. Last but not least I want to say a
word about the newspapers of Flori
da. I doubt if any state in the Union
has such a progressive, public-spirited
bodv of newspapermen. They give
heir columns freely to anv movement
for the good of the state. Their splen
did talents and energies are contribu
ted lavishly to build up the state's re
sources on broad, constructive lines.
No body of men in the country do so
much for their state as the press of
Florida. Broad-minded, liberal men
that thev are, they never hesitate to
sacrifice their own interests when it
is for the good of the community.
With such forces at work Florida is
bound to forge rapidly ahead.
Compliments Pete Hagan.
Mr. Hagan is known as an intrepid
officer in the running down of crimi
nals. He was deputy sheriff of Put
nam county for five years and fo
twelve year-; was chief of police of
Palatka." He was also connected
three years ago with the United
Ptntes"mr?h?l's effire. He leaves
this morning for Palatka in connec
tion with his duties as deputy col
lector and to c'ose his business be
fore October 15. Times-Union.
Prizes For Club Girls.
To all Canning Club Girls:
We are interested in what records
you have made on your one-tenth acre
plot. If you have been troubled by
drought or rain and storm, do not be
discouraged, but send in a record.
No matter how small the yield, we
want a well kept record. We hope
you have made a profit.
The Jacksonville Chamber of Com
merce makes the following offer for
their Fair to be held in December:
To the Canning Club girls who send
in the best exhibit of canned fruits,
preserves, jellies, vinegars and canned
vegetables $75.00.
To the Canning Club girls who send
in the second best exhibit of canned
fruits, preserves, jellies, vinegars and
canned vegetables $25.00.
To the County sending the best ex
hibit from not less than ten girls
$100.00.
To the County sending the second
best exhibit from not less than ten
girls, $25.00.
Some girl will get that $75, and it
is only the girls who try, who ever
win. Now is the time to prepare for
this exhibit. We can safely promise
to sell all of your products at a rea
sonable price, if they are of excel
lent quality.
You know of Mrs. Okie Painter
Williams' offer of a gold watch to the
first prize winner in each county.
Mrs. Williams has given fifty-one
girls gold watches. No girl who
wins one is eligible for a Watch the
second year. No girl is eligible for
the State Prize of $100, who has an
irrigation plant on her plot. This
College is going to present certifi
cates to those girls who have been
club members of good standing for
four years. There are not many to
receive certificates this year, but we
hope many of you who are club mem
bers will continue in the work long
enough to receive certificates.
We are happy that more Florida
girls are joining every year, and that
you are working hard to save the sur
plus fruits and vegetables, to study
home making, and to become helpful
daughters.
If the first prize winner of 1916, has
previously won an Okie Painter Wil
liams Watch, Mrs. Williams will give
her some other prize equivalent in
value.
Pickles mav be included in the ex
hibits offered.
Yours with best wishes.
AGNES ELLEN HARRIS,
State Home Demonstration Agent.
Nothing Like It.
An old timer in Florida affairs now
living in North Carolina writes to a
friend in Orlando: "Have been much
disgusted over the political caterwaul
ing in Florida. Hope the religious
mountebank and faker has been put
out of the race. Wish I was dowr
there to help fight his candid-icy. He
is the most disgusting episode in vhe
history of the state since negro vote
davs when the secretary of state used
to take dinner in my father s kitchen
with the black cook." Orlando Reporter-
Star.
P. M. Hagan Resigns Collectorship
P. M. Hagan, sheriff presumptive
of Putnam county, has tendered his
resignation as a deputy collector of in
ternal revenue attached to the Inter
nal Revenue Service in Jacksonville,
and is now closing up his affairs in
that office in order to settle in his
Palatka home again and enter upon
his duties as Sheriff of the county af
ter January 1st next.
In accepting Mr. Hagan's resigna
tion, Collector H. H. Lewis wrote Mr.
Hagan as follows:
"Pear Mr. Hagan:
"Your letter of several days ago re
ceived, containing your resignation as
denuty collector of Internal Revenue.
"In reply will state that I hate very
much to part with you, as I consider
vou one of the most efficient deputies
in the service. I wish you all kinds
of success in the new field of service
which you are going to render to the
people of Putnam county as the dem
ocratic nominee for sheriff of that
county. .
"Your successor will be appointed
on the 15th inst., and your resigna
tion will take effect as of that date."
Mr. Hagan has been in the city
during the past week closing up his
business with the Revenue depart
ment, and will then go into the sher
iff's office and inform himself con
cerning any new law or methods, so as
tc be prepared fully for the work of
the office in January.
IRISH HOME RULE
Safe, Says Redmond, If Country Re
mains Sane.
In a notable address to his con
stituents nt Wiiterfnril, Ire., John Keil
niond, the Irish nal ionalist leader in
parliament, declared tli.it despite tbf
recent Ireland "rebellion," witli all its
inevitable aftermath of brutalities,
stupidities and Inflamed passion?
home rule for Upland is safe if Ire.
land remains suite.
American Weds Chinese Girl.
Inter-marriages between whites and
Orientals being forbidden in Califor
nia. Miss Paisv Joe. aired -1. the
daughter of a wealthy Chinese mor
chant of San Franeiseo. and William
Wratt. 2.'i. an Ameriean, went to lOn-
senadii, Lower California, by stcame:
to have a wedding ceremony per
formed at the Mexican port. The
girl's father and a Los Ange'rs attor
ney accompanied the couple.
Notice.
12 or 18 hogs destroying corn crop
Owners can get them by paying dam
ages and board. If not called for in
30 days from date the hogs will be
sold. Not being familiar with hogs
marks I cannot give them, but hogs
are black and white spotted. M. P.
SULLIVAN, Orange Mills, Fla.
Oct 9th, 4t,
Romantic Butler Wanted to Marrj
Miss Armour, of Chicago.
The dream of Charles Nelson, ro.
mantle butler, who saw himself as thi
husband of MiM Lolita Armour,
daughter of J. Ogrten Armour. Is dis
solved at Chicago. Nelson, attired in!
a new gray suit and a rod necktie,,
after being refused admittance to tin
Armour home on five occasions, was
arrested.
He asserted that Miss Armour, who
had seen him last summer at Lak
Geneva, where he was employed, had
sent word she wished to meet him.
He had never spoken to her, but h
was confident she loved him, he said.
Then the police solved the affair. A
maid had told Nelson that Miss Ar
mour was impressed by him and h
had swallowed the story whole.
GETS $250,000.
Large Gift to the University of Vir-
gima.
Coincident with th,e opening of the
ninety -third year of the University of
Virginia announcement was made by
President Alderman of a gift of $250,
000 to the university by a man who
requested that his name be withheld.
The sum, according to President Al
dermau, was made without solicita
tion and was to be used according to
the discretion of the president.
The student enrollment this year is
the largest of any in the history of
ficially of the institution and Indicates
an enrollment of 1,100 next June.
"UNWRITTEN LAW" PLEA.
Louisiana Man Freed For Killing
Wealthy Lumberman.
A jury at Mansfield, La., acquitted
Lex Davies of the charge of man
slaughter for the killing on the street
several months ago of T. R. Ilerndon,
wealthy garage owner and lumber
man. The principal defense presented by
Davies was the "unwritten law." lie
testified that alleged relations between
Ilerndon and a sister of Davies led to
the killing. Davies also said that
while talking to Herndon the latter
made a move as though to draw a re
volver, and he whot him.
DOG'S HEROIC RESCUE.
Newfoundland Saves Boatman From
Drowning.
Rover, a Newfoundland dog owned
by Joe Gisnotto, a river boatman, sav
ed the life of Elmer Godwin, of Nor
folk, who slipped off a launch from
which the men were angling for night
fish.
Rover dived In, seized the sinking
man's collar and pushed him up
against the boat, where Gianotto could
help them both aboard. Godwin can
not swim and Giuuotto says Itovei
seemed to know it.
GOVERNOR ROAD BOSS.
Missouri Executive Superintended
Work of 200 Convicts.
Governor Major, of Missouri, di
rected the work of 200 prisoners
from the state penitentiary on a ten
mile stretch of road near Jefferson
City, Mo. The governor gave every
convict worker three cigars and sup
plied them with watermelon.
For each day the convicts work on
the roads they will be allowed twenty
days off their sentences, provided
their road work la iatisfactory.
$100 Reward. $100.
The readerB of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science hai
been able to cure In all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, require!
a constitutional treatment. Hall'i
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ins directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the di
sease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing Its work.
The proprietors have so much faith
in Its curative powers that they otter
One Hundred Dollars for any case that
it fails to cure. Send for list of t
timonials. Address:
P. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, a
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
IS THIS F
OR YOU?
NEWSPAPERS all over the country arc raising the
price of subscriptions to $1.50 a year, but we do
not intend to raise the price of THE PALATKA
NEWS till we are compelled to do so. It is necessary,
however, for EVERYONE who takes this paper to pay
us what they owe.
Now, come on, friends, and help us to help you,
without our having the extra expense of sending out
bills or collectors.
THE PALATKA NEWS is one of the best county
newspapers in Florida ; not by our judgment, but by the
judgment of many of our readers. It is worth more
than we charge for it, but we are satisfied if you will
simply PAY what you owe on subscription without fur
ther notice.
Send it to us at once so we can buy more paper be
fore the price gets clear out of sight. It is now $120 a
ton against the former price of $45.00
Yours truly,
RUSSELL & VICKERS