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Volume XXXI Number 43.
PUNTA GORDA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1918.
Five Cents a Copy; $1.50 a Year
THIRD PEACE NOTE
RECEIVED MONDAY
From Germany is Given Unfavor
able Comment
IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND
The Answer Seemingly Accepts
All Demands of President Wil
son. Denies Charges of Out
rages on Land and Sea.
The unofficial text of
many's answer to President
Ger-Wil-
son's last note on the subject of
an armistice and peace, was re
ceived in "Washington Monday
and published in Tuesday's daily
papers. Both American and Brit
ish newspaper comment on the
answer is very unfavorable. The
general sentiment continues to de
mand unconditional surrender on
ithe part of Germany, whose arm
ies arc being rapidly driven out of
France and Belgium. The view
taken is that Germany, realizing
her defeat, is trying by cunning
diplomacy to save her armies 'and
navy and, also, save her territory
from invasion. Public sentiment
as reflected by the press in the
countries fighting Germany is,
that Germany, arch-criminal of
the ages, should be made to fully
atone for her countless and un
paralleled crimes and should be
granted no peace until such a
tonement has been guaranteed by
unconditional surrender. i
The following is the unofficial
text of the German answer :
"In accepting the proposal for
an evacuation of occupied terri
tories the German government
has started from the assumption
that the procedure of this evacua-
xion ana oi trie conditions or an
armistice should be left to the
judgment of the military advisers
and that the actual standard on
both sides of the field is to form
the basis for arrangements safe
guarding and guaranteeing this
standard. '
"The German government sug
gests to the president that an op
portunity should be brought a
bout for fixing the details. It
trusts that the president of the
United States will approve of no
demands which would be irrecon
cilable with the honor of the
German people and with opening
a way to peace and justice.
"The German government pro
tests against the reproach of il
legal and inhumane actions made
against the German land and sea
forces and thereby against the
German people. For the cover
ing of a retreat destruction will
always be necessary and they are
carried out insofar as is permitted
by international law. The Ger
man troops are under most strict
instructions to spare private prop
erty and exercise care for popula
tion to the best of their ability.
Where transgressions ' occur in
spite of these instructions the
guilty are being punished.
"The German government fur
ther denies that the German navy
in sinking ships has ever purpose
fully destroyed lifeboats with
"their passengers. The German
government proposes with regard
to all those charges that the facts
be cleared up by neutral commis
sions. -
"In order to avoid anything
that might hamper the work of
peace, the German government
has caused orders to be dispatch
ed to all submarine commanders
precluding the torpedoing of pas
senger steamers without, however,
for technical reasons, being able
to guarantee that these orders
will reach every single submarine
at sea before ks return.
"As a fundamental condition
for peace the president prescribes
the destruction of every arbitrary
power that can. separately, se-
NOTES FROM FISHING CAMP
Nineteen Thousand Pounds of
Mullet at One Haul
Editor Herald: fceeing no
news from the fish camps down
the bay, and knowing you would
like to be posted when the mack
erel were coming your way,
thought I would send you a line
to get your anglers in shape, for
the mackerel are Punta Gorda
bound. Also, mullet with fine
roe abounds at Matlasha. The
West Coast Company's colored
fishermen made a small catch of
19,000 pounds of mullet last
week at one strike.
We must say one word in re
gard to the patriotic fishermen of
the West Coast Fish Co. While
I have not been posted in full
believe four-fifths of the men em
ployed by the West Coast , Co
have bought Liberty Bonds. John
Fort headed his crew by a pur
chase of ($500) five hundred dol
lars worth of bonds and all his
men followed with $50.00 apiece.
The Roberts Bros, aad crew also
bought bonds.
I would give you a few more
items, but Capt. Fred. Bell, of the
yacht Teddy, is waiting for me to
finish so he can take my letter on
his boat. I will give you a little
piece of my poetry for a finish.
Every one who is net a bum,
Buy a bond or get your gun.
If this duty you fail to do,
We'll know what dope you
have in you. '
So buy 'one now and prove you're
true, ;
And all the banks will stand by
you. OLD FISHERMAN.
Matlacha Fish Camp, Oct. 17, 1918
NOTE. It may interest readers
abroad to know that the name of
the above pass is pronounced as
if written Mat-la-shay, with the
accent on the last syllable. ED.
cretly and of its own single choice
destroy the peace of the world.
To this the German reply:
"Hitherto the representation of
the people in the Gorman empire
has not been endowed with an in
fluence, on the formation of the
Government. I
"The constitution did not pro
vide for a concurrence of repre
sentation of the ppople in decis
ions of peace and war. These
conditions have just now under
gone a fundamental change.
"A new government has been
formed in complete accordance
with the wishes (principle) of the
representation of the people, bas
ed on equal, universal, secret, di
rect franchise.
"The leaders of great parties
of the reichstag are members .of
this government In future no
government can take or continue
without holding the confidence of
a majority of the reichstag.
"Responsibility of the chancel
lor of the empire to the represen
tation of the people is beins leeal-
lv developed and ' safeguarded.
The first effort has been to lay be
fore the reichstag a bill to alter
the constitution of the empire so
the representation of the people
is required before decision can be
made on war and peace.
The permanence of the -new
system is, however, guaranteed
not only by constitutional safe
guards, but also by the unshak
able determination of the Ger
man people whoso vast maioritv
stands behind these reforms and
demand their energetic continu
ance. "The .question of the president
with whom he and the govern
ments associated against Germany
are negotiating are theref'"
answered in a clear and unequiv-.
ocal answer, the statemenet that
a request for peace and an armis
tice has come from a government
that is free from any. arbitrary
and irresponsible influence, sup-
FISH STORIES EQUAL TO
JOHAHAND THE WHALE
Fishing for Both Pleasure
Profit is Good
and
THREE HOURS NET $55.00
Oklahoma Man Vindicated and
Doubting Thomases Should be
Convinced Punta Gorda is Fish
erman's Paradise.
When J. J. Haslctt was spend
ing the past summer in Oklahoma
and Indiana, his old friends w
those states frequently asked him
about the fishing at 'Punta Gorda;
and when he told them the truth
about it, they laughed in derision
and charged him, with being a pis
catorial Munchausen of the first
class. Mr. Haslctt was much
chagrined by .their want of faith
in his veracity and he is still wor
rying aboujt it. This caused him
to come to The Herald office, Sat
urday, and ask us to relate a story
or two to confirm the reports he
gave to his friends abroad.
We do not know that this will
relieve their incredulity, for many
people believe that editors and
lawyers are "natural born" liars
and commit constant . mendacity
simply because they cannot help
it. However, we will give a few
really truthful incidents which
can be easily verified by inquiring
of the men mentioned.
The first is this: Leslie Lewis,
familiarly known as "Lec, got
into a skiff with a gill-net last
Saturday morning, at 11 o'clock,
went down the bay about two
miles, caught 1,005 pounds of mul
let and, at 1 :45 p.m., delivered the
fish at the shipping dock and got
$55.00 for them. He had no help ;
otherwise, he could have done
much better. Besides having no
help, he was hampered by the wa
ter being eight feet deep, which
prevented him from standing on
the bottom and thoroughly work
ins: with his net.
In August, Harry Dreggors, of
the, Punta Gorda Fish Co., paid J.
J. Jones and his three sons $700.00
for the mullet which they caught
with gill nets in one week.
Recently, John T. Rose and his
crew of five men, fishing with gill
nets for three weeks, made $1,200.
In July, August and Septembc
of this year, I. Kenny, B. Jones
and J. J. Howard, fishing each
with a single hook and line,
caught sea trout and sold them
to the wholesalers, and each of
the three made from $40.00 to
$50.00 a week. Recently, owing
to a change in weather conditions,
the three men have made only
$25.00 a week apiece.
Two weeks ago, Joe Goulding
and his crew of five men took
ir.00 pounds of mullet at one
haul and got $440.00 for them.
A correspondent whose commu
nication appears elsewhere in this
paper reports that, week before
last, a crew of six colored men
fishing at Matlacha Pass caught
19,000 pounds of mullet at one
haul. Multiply this by 4c, the
price per pound paid them, and
you have $760.00 which the black
men made in less than a day.
Hundreds of instances like the
foregoing might be given, but it
is unnecessary. The truth of
these stories can be learned by
any one who will take the 'trouble
to come, here and stand on the
railroad dock for a few hours and
witness the . unloading of cargoes
of all kinds of fish coming here
from the waters just . south of
town.
For several years, this writer
kept a record taken from the rail
concluded on last page)
ported by an overwhelming ma
jority of the German people.
(Signed) "SOLF."
ABOUT INFLUENZA
Questions Clearly Answered
the State Board of Health
by
It is probably safe to say that
the thing uppermost in the minds
of the people in Florida today is
the epidemic of so called "Span
ish Influenza," and a multitude
of questions come up to which
they often obtain no satisfactory
answers. What causes the dis
ease? What are the symptoms?
How can I protect myself against
it? What shall I do if I have the
disease? What are my chances
for recovery? If some member
of my household or office force is
a sufferer, what shall I do to pro
tect the others? -
Briefly, the answers are as fol
lows: We do not know exactly
what causes the disease. The in
fluenza bacillus has been found in
the spit of a small number and ex
amination of the lungs after au-
opsy has revealed it in a compar
atively small number of cases.- It
is probably due ito an organism
not yet isolated. j
The symptoms vary in severity,
but in a well marked case there is
severe headache and backache."
usually following a chill or chilly
sensation. Almost immediatelv
the whole body aches and the tem
perature rises to 102 and some
times to 105, and there is marked
prostration. The temperature
ranges from 102 to 104 for about
five days, when it drops to normal.
often rising again slightly after a
few hours and remaining so for
one or two days, when it falls to
normal and remains so. Soreness
in the chest with cough, sneezing,
and moderate reddening of the
eyes are usually present at begin
ning of the attack.
The best way to prevent it is to
avoid crowds and any individual
who shows signsof a cold. Eat
wholesome food, sleep and rest as
much as possible and keep the
body warm. There is no specific
preventive.
If you have these symptoms, so
to bed at once and send for vour
physician and follow his advice to
the letter. It is often serious.
and this may save your life. ,
The chances of recovery are
good, very few uncomplicated
cases fail to get well. Usually
one should remain in bed at least
three days with normal tempera
ture; tovget up earlier invites an
attack of pneumonia. The death
rate' is, high when this complica
tion occurs.
To protect your household,
strict isolation is necessary. - The
disease is spread by contact. The
nose discharges and spit should
be collected on gauze or pieces of
cloth and burned. When patient
recovers, the bedding should' be
placed in the sun for several davs
and the windows of the room kept
wide open. No fumigation is
necessary. J
Many cases do not show thb se
vere symptoms just mentioned.
The aching, catarrhal symptoms
and fever may be more mild; but
the danger of complications, t es
pecially pneumonia, is very near,
and the patient should remain
just as long in bed and, in either
case, the patient is rarely perfect
ly well in less than two week
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
NOTE. The editor has taken
the liberty of changing two tech
nical expressions in the above.
Where the board uses the word
"sputum," he has substituted
"spit," and for "nasal secre
tions" he has written in "nose
discharges." - When advising the
public, the very simplest kind of
words should be used.
S. D. Blazer was here Tuesday
on his way from the East Coast
where he had been after his sister.
He helped kill a bear while there.
PUNTA GORDA FOLK
PROVEPATRIOTISM.
In Subscriptions to the Fourth
Liberty Loan
ENDED SATURDAY NIGHT
Over-Subscription of More Than
Five Thousand Dollars. Splen
did Work Done by Our Women
Who Should Have all Praise.
The drive for the sale of bonds
of the Fourth Liberty Loan did
not close until 8 o'clock Saturday
night. The banks kept open un
til that hour to receive subscrip
tions. There was a big rush at
the close and the employees of the
banks had all that they could do
to handle it.
On footing up the subscriptions,
it was found that they amounted
to nearly $54,000.00, which was
more than $5,000.00 in excess of
Punta Gorda 's allotment.
The splendid result was due to
the persistent work of the men's
committee under Chairman E. W.
Rountree and the women's com
mittee under Chairman Mrs. J. N.
Sikes. The committees and their
chairmen worked faithfully and
to them is due all praise for the
splendid results accomplished.
The following is the list of the
subscriptions received by the
banks since the last report in The
Herald:
Miss Mary Ellen Glover $50.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. ' Goodell
$50, Chas. W. Moore $50, William.
L. Bartholf $100, Fred S. Wil
liams, sr., $50, J. L. Barrett $50,
Emily W. Crosland $100, Baptist
Orphanage $60, Raymon Reed $50
Mary Agnes Crosland $50, Emily '
E. Crosland $50, Laura Mildred
Crosland $50, .Thos. Manson Cros
land .$50, Cecilia Crosland $50,
Lewis Hancock $100, Terry Pack
ing Co. $l,000,John R. Ilurton $50
Mrs. E. A. Low $100, Mrs. Norma
McClelland $50, Mrs. S. I. Huff
man $50, N. C. Hewitt $50, Mrs.
F. C. Williams $50, Mrs. P. O..
Rickman, sr., $50, Mrs. Lillie
O'Neal $50, Mildred May Alder
man $50, Eli J. Whidden $50, Dale
Meadows $50. Willie C. Goff
$50, Alexander B. Gillikin $50,.
Martin, R. Gillikin' $50, Ennett
Adams $50, Mrs. Nancy L. Lin
quish $50, Tom Thomas $50, Matt
AVeeks $50, Mrs. R. Richardi $50,
J. II. Berry $50, Allie Burnham
$50, Maymc Burnham $50, J. T.
Griggs $50, Isaac Hamilton $50,
Elva L. Harvey $50, Elva L. Har
ver $50, Roy C. Adams $100, Claus
A. Willin $100, Joel B. Harrison
$100, Luman G. Heusted $500,
Charles C. Bearce $100, David T.
Stanton $100, Jno D. Riggs $100,
Frank Alderman $50, S. A.
French $100, C. O. Brown $50,
N. T. Ragland $50, Mrs.N. T. Rag
land $50, Samuel A. Elwell $100,
Jno. R. Fisher $50, Stella M. Goff
$50, Frank M. Cooper $100, Prince
A. Barker $50, Stephen M. Kirton
$50, Jno. M. Nelson $50, Annie E.
Nelson $50, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Goodell $500, Geo. P. Ponder $50,
J. M. Mayes $50, J. W. Lancaster
$50, Elizabeth McEver $100, Elva
E. Lighthall $50, Mrs. F. L. Light
hall $50, Robert M. Lighthall $50,
Helen Huffman $50, Lucy Ingram
$50, Cora Francis Cox $50, Sam
McCullough $50, Mrs. Grace C.
Davis $100, J. P. Hooker $50, W.
E. Coster $100, T. P. Douglas $100 '
W. M. Whitten $500, Henry Qued
nau $600, Fred Quednau 500, E.
McEver $200, Will Quednau $100,
Jno. C. Lewis $100, Nealie Jones .
$100, J. T. Moore $50, nenry
Ilcndley $50, Andrew Slater $50,
Aneel Kessler $50, Pat Toner $50,
J. C. Baxter $50, Geo. Herman $50
Charlie Jones $50, W. B. Lanier
$50, Neal C. Lanier $50, Joe Keene
$50, Jno. n. Williams $50, Dexter
(Concluded on page 3, col. 3)