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Volume XXXII Number 9.
THE PUXTA GORDA HHRAID, PI" NT A GORDA. FLORIDA. X
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Hews of the Stak
Briefly and Interestingly Presented in Paragraphs Culled
From Various Florida Newspapers
Carl Fisher's Miami home has been
Bold to David Afermow for JIOO.OUO.
The Pensacola Automobile dealers
I will close their places of business on
the Sabbath. This resolution was
Tampa Rotarians will plant trees ( unanimously passed at a banquet
Hlong a "Road of Remembrance" j gjven Dy the association in the San
Jroin Tampa to the west county lin-' i Carlos hotel.
as a memorial to hp soldiers of the!
wan . At a recent meeting of reprvsen-
tative farmers of Hernando county,
Homy raising in Flagler county j(ne farmers agreed to "go on record
seems to be a good pastime. It isiag Dejng strictly in favor of staple
soiling in Bunnell for $1 per quart, farmjnK and dairying, along with
nnd the supply not equal to the de-;K00fi home orchards, poultry and
jnand. "hogs."
and $8,000 worth of hogs had been
sold up to 4 o'clock on the day of the
sale, the hogs averaging $300 each.
As a result of the visit of a com
mittee of prominent citizens from
Manatee county to Tampa, and thw
public spiritedness of T. C. Taliafer
ro and Dr. L. A. Bize, of Tampa, to
gether with the new interest of the
Tampa Board of Trade, that bayahore
route from Brade.itown to Tampa
now seems assured.
The opening gun of the Ormond
Beach golf tournament season was
fired last week. A number of hand
some prizes have been offered. N.
B. Perkins, winner of last season's
tournament, is on the scene, but has
strong opposition this year. The
entry list contains names from prae
tlcally every golfing center in the
country.
form and of giving him a rifle and
side arms for any period, long or
short, does not appeal to the gooa
sense of the Southern people. The
experience of the South In reminding
the demobilized negro soldier that
after all he is still a negro and will
never be anything else, war or no
war, uniform or no uniform, has not
been such as to invite further adven
ture in that direction.
The fact, however, that those who
helped to make up the overwhelming
majority of the Democratic caucus
against universal training at least
half were Northerners, has made no
impression upon those who habitual
ly visit all "crimes" of government
upon the South. Fort Myers Press.
OLD - RELIC OF REVOLUTION
Lake Worth is to have a new bank ( 0ne th0sami and some hundred
to be known as the Peoples Bank. 1 voic0H in unison was one of the uni
Heport says that over $50,000 worth j quo feaUires at the community sing
of property was turned over at Lake, in Tampa iast week. The kiddles'
,Worth last week. I chorus scored its usual hit and solo
Another big contract which the and quartet singing wiuwi , ,Wp of 160 Eacn ,oca, has nIrea(ly
Onrnian Company is now figuring on, 10 everybody. j benefited by co-operating in buying
is a live-story adcliticn to tne Hun- .. . ii. " wuibj prguuw, a piau
tington Hotel in St. Petersburg, at;
Marlon county has a farmers' co
operative and educational ''organiza
tion in good working order. Locals
I have been formed throughout the
j county with an aggregate member
an estimate of $250,000.
One week recently nineteen new .
members were listed in the pig club. '
vleven In the corn club and nine in i
the' peanut club cf . Citrus county.'
Club work in that county is booming, j
More than one hundred carloads
of hogs have been shipped from Su
wanee county points to the markets
within the past six months, and ad
ditional shipments of from two to
four cars per week, will be made un
til about the first of April.
Hernando county farmers are get-
Reports from Hernando county co- ting interested in poultry raising
i a ! Since the organization ot egg circles
T,.,t,nr nf rows nr now civintr trash and a cash market can be secured Prevlou. t0 that four trees hud been
supplies and selling produce
is under way to connect with a co
operative store in Ocala.
Fort Lauderdale club women are
planting royal palm trees in mem
ory of Broward county boys that en
tered the Bervice of their country
during the war. The first three cor.i
were planted the other day to com
memorate the three Broward county
boys who gave their lives in the war
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milk and prospects are good for milk tor tne eggs, ... wv -
. . . ..,ii,r innv nri" rullinc tneir
:.ience in a snort yi ' -
flocks and getting stanaaru u.cu
chickens.
shipments
time.
to coTi:
Between 200 and 300 attended the
The Plant City strawberry grow-
..- ryyn HMifrhtO W i t Vl t h nrirPS Of
io ic uv..f,..v. r- ,L,.J roVa Ps rill
far. The Courier hog sale ai me nWiM,iuU
Tierce, when a large numuei m
ciieir berries so
h ihui horrify anlri nn the nliit-i at
v,w w m t-. 1. ...... Yiniru U'flrP
that town for 60 cents a nn mooaoa uuioc
Isold at auction. Between $b,000
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planted for four boys who had died
in the service, and now a tree will
be planted for each living soldier.
It is a beautiful idea.
At the well attended and enthus
iastic annual mee'lng of the St. Aug
ustine Historical Society and Insti
tute of Science Chauncey M. DePew
was re-elected president, G. B. Lamar
was chosen vice president, A. L.
Slater secretary, Prof. W. K. Knibloe
succeeded himself as treasurer, W. J.
Boston Statehouae, Now Fully Re
stored,. la One of the Most Inter
esting in the Country.
The old statehouse In Boston was
erected in 1713. In early days the first
floor was used as the Merchants' ex
change, and the second story as the
meeting place of the governors of the
province and the royal council. A few
feet from the eastern porch occurred
the Boston massacre on March 5, 1770.
In 1789 Washington reviewed from
this building a procession In his honor,
and in 1S:!5 William Lloyd Garrison
took refuge there to escape from the
mob that had broken up the anti
slavery meeting, and threatened bis
life. In later years the building was
turned Into business offices and was so
much altered, inside and outside, a
almost to destroy the, original architec
tural effect. In 1881 It was restored
by the city at the request of the public-spirited
citizens, and fs now in the
custody of the Bpetoalan society,
which occupies it. The rooms, Inelud
tag the old council chamber and hall
of representatives contain a collection
of relics and paintings of revolution
ary times.
The Way to Civil War.
President Schurman of Cornell iH
in accord with the frequently ex
pressed view of the "Kvening World
i. . sav.s that the present eco
nomic crisis in the United States is ?
due to the attempt or eviwu - t
rirnn DeoD.e "for I f
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their own exclusive class advantage.
He goes on to prophesy:
The last steps will be for each of
these groups to get a political party,
to carry out its program. The Amer
can Federation of Labor is already in
the field.
"If farmers and teachers and pro
fessional men and all other groups
o.4nnt Hilar tactics there will, I
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fear, be no Republican or Democra- A
tic party left for any cf them to hold
up at the point of class bayonet. In-1 A
stead, we shall have a multitude of i
class-conscious, conflicting and mut- 5
u&Ilv destructive oarty groups. it.
Perish the
hursday, February 2flth, 1920.
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Bank With a
Progressive
Institution
thought! Anythingi
BEST BOY COULD THINK OF
more repugnant to American tradi
tions and ideals it woul be difficult to
conceive.
The people of the United States
may be rorced to admit that their
two great parties have gone bank
rupt of principles and issues.
But they cannot admit that the
future promises nothing but the
development of un-American class
consciousness creating political pro
grams and chasing political candi
dates on diverging lines of economic
self-seeking and greed.
There could be but one outcome of
such a policy. It would end in civil
war. New York World.
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Abusing n man tells one little about
the man abused, but It reveals a lot
concerning the abuser,
Co-operntlon Is based upon confi
dence and where confidence Is lacking
cooperation must fail.
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: ! Harris was re-elected curator, Fred
lerick S. Vail was chosen librarian,
X ! and Theodore M. Livesay and Kobert
Hanson were elected to thw executive
committee, of which all oflicers, in
cluding the newly elected vice pres
ident, are exofticio members.
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Lad's Excuse for Father's Desire for
Bottle of Whisky Really Was
Rather Thin.
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John Simmons had been an ab
stainer for twenty years, but fell from
the ways of grace and worshiped the
vinous god with all the fervor of a
convert.
Feeling the need of recuperation,
he sent his boy to tin adjacent hos
telry for a bottle of whisky.
"But," cried the hotel proprietor,
"who's It for?"
"Jor my father," said the hoy.
"Nonsense. Your father Is a total
abstainer, and has been, to my knowl
edge, for longer years than you've
lived."
"Well, nt all events, he sent me for
It."
"What does he want It for?"
"To let you Into a secret," said the
boy. ashamed to tell the truth, "he's
perience for the South. That fee- i S'ng llshlng, and he wants the cork
tlon has been guilty of innumerable j t0 Use for a float ("London Tit-Bits.
wrongs against the common weal I
ever since it consented to the free-l Bareback Gowns.
dom of the slaves and to a recon- A ln 11 '''oll,te gown berated
struction of its domestic life at the i tnp nolsn'lkI at a dinner in Washing-
hands of benevolent carpet-baggors! ton'
South Commits Another "Crime"
Once nioro the South is being pil
loried. It is being mercilessly bat
tered by Northern newspapers, not
for resorting to lynch law a favor
ite theme or for profiteering in cot
ton another favorite theme or
even for monopolizing the seats of
the mighiy but for defeating univer
sal military training ln order to keep
the negro youth out of uniform and
to prevent his becoming too pro
ficient in the use of firearms.
To be editorially brow-beaten by
Northern publicists is a familiar ex-
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tnd patriotic negro politicians.
It has not been long since the
North was pouring cut its abuse
upon the South for having compelled
the country to accept constitutional
prohibition, that the Southern negro
might be kept sober. It was abused
for years because 'its representatives j
in Congress by reaso.i of superior
char acter, brains and experience had
seized th'j rein3 of government and
were dictating the course of the!
natipn. It was abused because o!
it3 climate induced a Northern Secre
tary of W:;r to locate most ot the
army cantonments South of the O.iio
and Potomac rivers. .It was abused
because it stood ?o long and so sue-!
cessfully in the way of suffrage for
women.
Now it is being abused some more.
A Democratic caucus of th 5 House,
presumably dominated by Southern
members, has blocked the passage!
for the time being of a universal mil-
Itary training bill, a little national!
defense luxury costing only about a I
billion dollar.-; a year. It is alleged
that the Southern Democrats cared I
nothing about the cost or this system;
that they were not moved by any na
tional or international ccusideratlon,
but that they smashed universal
training simply because they revolt
ed at the prospect of training a mil
lion or more negro youths each year
in the use of arms.
Such an argument may have had
no part in the action of the Demo
cratic causui. It Is not recorded that
the negro was mentioned in the de
bate or in the interviews which fol
lowed the voting, but since the ques
tion has been raised by outsiders,
the South has no reason for evading
it. The truth is, the thought of put
ting the young Southern negro in uni-
Why," she cried, "the latest
news from Russia is that these curs
are selling the very clothes off the
women's backs '."
Senator Johnson of California
looked around the table with a smile.
All the ladles' gowns were decollete;
In the back this deeolletage was es
pecially marked.
"The bolshevik!," he said, "wouldn't
find much to sell at a fashionable
American dinner party, would they?"
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Spoiling Her Case.
icher was warming to her sub
ject, and. laying down her book, said:
"Now you all understand that the
trunk Is the middle part of the body,
don't you?"
"Yes, ma'am," chorused the class
with mi" exception.
"You understand it, too?" asked the
tencher of the boy who had not an
swered. "No. ma'am, because it isn't so."
"Why, my dear boy, what do you
menu?"
'Well," replied the boy, "you ought
to go to the Circus and see the elephant."
Each Had a Wife.
His flivver was out of gas. And It
was out of gas on n country road
BOren miles from town, and the rain
was fnlllng In sheets.
Leaving his wife in the protection
of the machine he dashed out Into th
middle of the rond, holding high ln
the air nn undersized umbrella that It
might protect his new, neatly pressed
spring suit, while he shouted at n
motorist whose headlight came dimly
through the rain.
"Stop, I've got my wife "
"So have I!' Interrupted the motor
list who had gas, and his car sped on
without letup.
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This Week
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