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FINE CHICKENS FROM ENGLAND
FOR FORREST-HOADLEY YARDS
Evincing the enterprise and pro
gressiveness of poultrymen of Tarpon
Springs, five pedigreed male White
LeghcAms arrived in the city this
morning from one of the most fam
ous yards of England for the Forrest-
Hoadley Poultry Yards. The chickens
are of direct line with international
prize winning birds from the Tom
Barron Yards, at Catforth, England,
and came direct from those yards to
Tarpon Springs.
Delivered in Tarpon Springs the
five chickens cost the management of
the Forrest-Hoadley yards, one of the
big yards in this section, a little bet
ter than $lO per head. The low cost
is surprising, but is attributed to the
TARPON RANGE CLUB
THANKSGIVING BALI
WAS BRILLIANT ANNUAL EVENT
LAST EVENING—WAS BIGGEST
OF SEASON TO DATE
A big Thanksgiving ball by the
Tarpon Dancing club at Fernald’s
hall was notable among the chief so
cial functions of the city last evening.
The dance was the biggest one of the
season thus far. Music was furnished
by the Gourlie orchestra and the good
time continued till late into the ev
ening. The following is a list of
those present:
Mrs. L. M. Fowler
Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Whitford, Ozona
Miss Helen Decker
Miss Christine Welge
Mrs. Ada Fernald
Miss Florence Morrish
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Louden
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Durrance
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Meres
Mr. and Mrs. John R. West
Dr. and Mrs. I. J. Belcher
Miss Ruth Pillans
Miss Sunshine Gibson
- Mlsw Martha MacfteM
Miss Dorothy Patten
Miss Anice Davis
Miss Bessie Starr
Miss Nellie Stewart
Mrs. H. Q. Sisk
Miss Mamie Eddy
Miss Fannie Partridge
Misses Irma and Claire Danner
mann, of Wall Springs.
Carl Starrett
Walter Meres
W. L. Rutt
T. B. Gibson
Newman Craig
R. H. Sammons
T. G. Mixson
Edward Cheyney
George Fernald
Joseph Smith
E. W. Neate.
GLIMPSES OF THE ACTIVITIES
IN OTHER PARTS OF PINELLAS
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INSPECT GOLF COURSE
That the people of St. Petersburg
are interested in the new golf course
was shown yesterday afternoon, when
a large crowd visited the links. A spe
cial car was chartered for the trip
and many veteran players were in the
crowd.
MONKEYS TEAR UP HOME
When Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Foley re
turned to their home about supper
time last night they found the resi
dence looking like a cyclone had
blown through the rooms and as much
damage was done as would have re
sulted from a fire. The cause was
easily determined. Two pet monkeys
belonging to Mr. Foley had escaped
from their cage and while the mem
bers of the household were away, the
monkeys got into the house and for
several hours were uninterrupted in
their work of destruction.
4 BREAKS NEGRO’S SKULL
Irvin Fields, a negro chauffeur for
Joe B. Robinson, is in a serious condi
tion at his home as a result of a blow
on the head which he received dunjng
a fight with “Chicken” McCrea, a
youth of 18 ( years, in a pool room on
Ninth street, last night. Fields’ skull
‘ was fractured and he probably will
not be out for some days but it is be
. lieved by Dr. Chapman, a negro phy
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THE EVENING LEADER
war to some extent, since the demand
in the pounltry business in England
has been paralyzed by the great war.
Ordinarily the birds probably would
have cost considerably more.
Transit was surprisingly rapid con
sidering the conditions that have re
sulted from the war. The cage of
chickens was shipped from England
on the eleventh of the month, and ar
rived here the twenty-seventh, mak
ing only 16 days on the road.
Tarpon Springs, has several big
poultry yards,’ nearly all of which
have birds of the finest strain to be
had in the United States. The busi
ness is proving a good one here, and
is becoming rapidly one of tl\e im
portant industries of the section.
CANE GGINO PARTY
IS NIEfiBV AFFAIG
TARPON SPRINGS YOUNG PEO
PLE GO TO HUDSON FOR GOOD
TIME LAST EVENING
A big cane grind'party was one of
the chief social functions of last even
ing with the young people of Tarpon
Springs. Over a score of the young
people chartered a big auto truck and
motored to. the farm of A. J. Gylas,
who is making up his fall cane crop
into sirup. The round trip covered
about 50 miles of delightful riding,
and included the good time at the
mills.
On the trip out the party left Tar
pon Springs early in the evening and
after about an hour of riding, ended
at the Gylas farm, a short distance
the other side of Hudson. After drink
ing juice, making candy from the new
sirup, playing snap and other amus
ing games, the party made the return
to the city by moonlight. Everyone
enjoyed the evening immensely, The
fck.'.v .*■ the list ofnubse j|n the
party: '
Mrs. J. W. Alderman
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Dickie
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Parsons and
children
Mrs. James Hope
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rouse
Miss Ella Wilson
Miss Ella Castaing
Miss Geraldine Alderman
Miss Verna Bronson
Miss Estelle Thomas
Miss Edna Gotwallis, of Mulberry
Hiram Ballard
Andrew Alderman
Uri-e Jones
W. M. Alderman
James Alderman
R. S. Barton
C. R. Shealey
A. J. Gylas, Hudson.
sician, that the injured man will re
cover.
RIGID MEAT ORDINANCE
An ordinance passed today by the
city commissioners greatly increases
the powers of the food inspector of
the city and gives him additional au
thority to regulate the kind of meat
that may be sold in this city. The or
dinance amends certain sections of
the old food ordinance.
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CONVICTS TO CAMP
Yesterday in Dunedin young man
named George Hendrix was arrested
and brought here under the charge of
stealing a watch, rHe was placed in
jail, and this morning he was arraign
ed before Judge Brandon. He pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to serve
six months in the county convict
camp. Within an hour after sentence
was imposed he was sent to the camp,
together with three other prisoners
who have been in jail here. Young
Hendrix is a decent looking young
man, and apparently is above tempta
tion.
POSTMASTER KILLS SELF
Pensacola, Fla., Nov. 27. —.Judge
William M. Wilson, postmaster at
Santa Rosa, Fla., who disappeared
two months ago, committed suicide
late yesterday in a hotel at Billings,
Mont., according to telegrams to
friends at Santa Rosa.
TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1915.
SANIA CLAUS
WILL BE HEBE
FOflji IBEE
Santa Claus will be among the at
tendants at Tarpon Springs’ 'big
Christmas tree, the general executive
committee having received a wireless
from the old fellow this morning say
ing that he will arrange to kop here
a half hour of the exercises at the
tree. With the assurance that Santa
Claus will be on the scene, the mem
bers of the committee are making big
ger and better plans for the event
than ever before. Committees- to dec
orate, to organize a big choir to sing,
to help Santa Claus distribute the
presents, to select someone to welcome
Santa Claus on his arrival, to illumi
nate the tree and the grounds so that
Santa Claus may be seen, maybe to
get a big brass band, and many other
nice things for the evening, are at
work now and promise the boys and
girls of Tarpon Springs, and their
parents and all others in the city, the
{5,000,000,000 SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO FRENCH "LOAN OF VICTORY”
Paris, France, Nov. 27.—Subscrip-,
tions to the French government’s j
“loan of victory” are exceeding all
expectations. It is estimated in finan
cial circles that yesterday’s subscrip
tions in Paris alone exceeded 25,000,-
000,000 francs ($5,000,000,000).
The Bank of France alone reported
it had received subscriptions of 16,-
000,000,000 francs.
Dispatches from Marsielles, Lyons
and other provincial centers say that
the banks, postoffices and tax collect
ors’ offices were thronged all day yes
terday with applicants in answer, to
the appeal of. tjje govcn-rmeiv-
The enormous amounts raised pre
viously during the war have not ap
proached the magnitude of the new
French loan, if the unofficial esti
mates from Paris are confirmed. Eng
land’s latest loan, at the time the
largest in history, was exceeded by the
third German flotation, but neither
approximated the figures given from
Paris.
No official figures have been given
out concerning the total amount
raised by the latest English loan, is
sued last summer. Only July 13 Reg
inald McKenna, chancellor of the ex
chequer, announced that the total was
close to $3,000,000,000, which he said
was far and away the largest amount
NATIVE KM BEST
FOB HOI STOCK
AGRICULTURAL EXPERT MAKES
DISCOVERY AND ANNOUNCES
FACTS OF HIS FINDINGS
Feeders of the South spend millions
cf dollars annually for northern hay.
The Extension division of the Uni
versity of Florida has been urging
farmers of the state to grow more hay
to supply local and southern markets.
The custom of buying foreign hay is
merely a habit formed when native
hays were not available.
A recent feeding experiment at the
Mississippi Station showed that na
tive hay produced better and cheaper
gains than timothy. Twenty-one
mules were used in the test. Each
lot was given a balanced ration con
sisting of the same feed except for
the hay. Alfalfa stood first in feed
ing value and cheap gains; lespedeza
was a close second; Johnson grass
was third; timothy fourth; and Ber
muda fifth.
The cost of a pound of gain with
each hay plus the additional feed
which was the same in each case, was,
alfalfa 21 cents, lespedeza 27, John
son grass 36, Bermunda 37, and tim
othy 48. The mules fed Johnson
grass made slightly greater gains
than those fed Timothy.
These figures should convey a great
deal of meaning to feeders who have
been using imported timothy*
are many hays which can be produced
in ,the state that are just as good or
better than timothy. The experiment
also shows the valfte of alfalfa. Os
course this crop has not been suc
cessful here/but cow peas grow well
and they are about equal to it as a
NEGRO THIEF
IS HELD OIIEB
TOJE STAIE
Under charge of grand larceny, Le
roy Williams, negro, was bound over
to the state from the magistrate
court yesterday afternoon for the rob
bery of the Haliczer Jewelry shop re
cently one Sunday afternoon. Henry
Gresham, whom Williams claimed was
with him, proved an alibi and was dis
charged. Williams pleaded guilty to
the charges.
The robbery occurred in daylight,
and for the time aroused considerable
alarm because of the boldness of the
thieves. Arrests in the case came
about through Mr. Haliczer recogniz
ing some of his jewelry on the person
of Williams, who then implicated
Gresham. Nearly all of the stolen
goods was recovered at the home of
Williams.
biggest and best time they ever have
had in their whole lives.
subscribed in the hitory of the world.
The recently issued German loan
brought in a total of subscriptions of
$3,025,250,000. This was said by Dr.
Karl Helfferich, secretary of the im
perial German treasury, to exceed the
amount raised in England by the lat
est loan there, establishing a record.
The French loan bears 5 per cent,
interest. Its issue price was fixed by
decree at eighty-eight francs, with
the privilege of converting earlier is
sues of rentes and national defense
bfcnds into the new security. As wa,s
thf #sts§ in,JtapagMt apt! Germany, '.the
Fk?n2h government set no ifmit on
the amount of subscriptions. This is
the first loan of this nature issued in
France during the war. France has
financed the war previously by ad
vances from the banks of France and
the sale of defense bonds and treasury
bills.
Great efforts were made to assure
the success of the issue. In every
moving picture theater of France
there were displayed yesterday -spec
ially prepared pictures appealing to
the public to subscribe. General Jof
fre issued a general order on this sub
ject to the army.
The German war loans bear 5 per
cent interest. England’s first loan
was at 3 1-2 per cent and her latest
bears 4 1-2.
LABOR CONVENTION
IKS 6-BQIiB DAY
IS ONLY RELIEF TO GIVE EVERY
ONE WORK WITH GREAT MA
CHINERY SYSTEM
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 27.—The
proposal to eliminate several trades
from the building trades department
of the American Federation of Labor,
is one of the principal matters be
fore the ninth annual session of the
department today. It came up in the
form of a resolution proposed at an
earlier session, directed at the Inter
national Association of Machinists,
and the boilers, shipbuilders and help
ers. The resolution declared that
these are not building trades and con
sequently not eligible to membership
in the department.
The delegates also have before
them for discussion a resolution pro
viding for an investigation to deter
mine when a six-hour day can be es
tablished in place of an eight-hour
day law. Advocates of the resolution
contend that shortened hours of labor
offer the only remedy for conditions
caused by the invention and perfec
tion of machinery “making it increas
ingly harder for working people to
continue lin steady employment as
shown by the large number of unem
ployed at all times of the year.”
Little William Mann is entertaining
a number of his young friends this
afternoon in honor of his sixth birth
day anniversary.
feed. Since they can be produced
generally! oyer the state they make a
cheap substitute for alfalfa.
FORMER MAYOR
AND BANKED IS
BACK IN Gin
R. H. Samons, ex-mayor, founder
of the Greek-American bank, and oth
erwise once former citizen of Tarpon
Springs, has returned to the city after
having been out of it for several years
past. Upon walking up the street of
his old home city, Mr. Samons ex
claimed, “Certainly this is not the
Tarpon Springs in which I once had
my home!” He expresses amazement
and astonishment on every hand at
the marvellous improvement he sees
in the city.
Since leaving Tarpon Springs, Mr.
Samons has been engaged in business
in various parts of the United States.
After several years absence from Tar
pon Springs, however, Mr. Samons de
cided that he wanted to see his old
home town again, and made this trip.
Just what are the plans of Mr. Sam
ons are not known and he refuses to
divulge them for the present. His
more intimate friends express the be
lief that Mr. Samons is looking over
his old home town for a business ven
ture, however. He has a large circle
of old friends who are glad to see him
back in the city again.
SITUATION OF ALLIES CRITICAL
IN BOTH SERBIA AND GALLIPOLI
London, Nov. 27.—The Serbian I
main army has been driven back to
the" borders of Albania and Monte
negro, where they are being attacked
by the Austro-Germans, and the Bul
garians, with the assistance of Qen-
I are giving'
! their •attend'ct to the! Angflo-French
troops. In the important military de
velopments which may be looked for
in the valley of the Vardar river is
the maneuvers of this army against
that of the allies.
While the results of these move
ments are being watched with some
anxiety, better news from the allies’
point of view comes from the north
where a big Russian army is mass
ing. It is reported that General Alexei
Kuropatkin is to command this Rus
sian army of invasion, which will
either be sent up the Danube or allow- 1
ed passage from Roumania to attack '
Varna on the land side. The other!
Russian forces are being organized at j
Odessa and Sebastopol and doubtless!
will be sent to either the Bulgarian i
or Turkish coast.
Send Reinforcements
It is reported from Switzerland that
the Austro-Germans are sending re
inforcements into the Balkans to meet
this force, but other advices state that
these reinforcements are being sent to
the eastern line because the Balkan
campaign is having a direct effect on
all other lines.
In Galician territory the Austrians
are attacking in the hopes of forcing
the Russians to divert a part of their
Bessarabian army thence.
The Austrians holding the Italian
offensive on the Isonzo front being un
able to get reinforcements, are counter
attacking with awful fury and thus
far have prevented the Italians from
entering Gorizia which has been hard
pressed for a week.
British Hold Messopotia
Reports from Messopotia show that
the British hold the city of Ctesiphon
and that the Turks are retiring to
Dialah, within ten miles of Bagdad.
Prisoners taken by the British have
been increased to 1,300 while the Brit
ish wounded alone number 2,500.
Troops engaged in this region are un
dergoing hardships unknown in other
campaigns, there being a shortage of
both food and water.
The Turks are showing more activ
ity in the Gallipoli peninsula where,
with new ammunition suplies, they
attacked the allies’ position without,
however, making any gains.
Roumania is Problem
Greek affairs having emerged from
the uncertainty which for some time
has been a potential menace to the al
lied campaign in the Balkans, Rou
manian problem now commands chief
attention in Europe. Although Rouma
nia is beset with difficulties somewhat
similar to those which caused Greece
to hesitate, she is not involved in the
same political turmoil and her situa- J
tion is expected to mature more rap
idly. T
Whatever German efforts have been I
made in Roumania, it is believed here i
that they have been largely offset by
TEN CENTS A WEEK NO. 261
TARPON SPRINGS
HOLDS RECORD ON
CLEARWATER TEAM
Tarpon Springs’ basket ball team
maintained its superiority record over
Clearwater in the return game at the
county seat last evening, when the
locals wiped up their hosts at the rate
of 33 to 14. The game was a fast one
and showed wonderful improvement in
the members o fthe local team.
The boys will tackle Southern col
lege at Sutherland this evening when
they hope to sustain the record of the
season thus far. With Tampa com
ing here Friday, the locals expect to
get in some fine work for the latter
part of the season.
The following is the lineup and
summary of the game yesterday af
ternoon :
Clearwater Position Tarpon Spgs.
Clark L. Forward .... Fernald
Smith R. Forward Gause
Shumaker Center Meres
Qhristy L. Guard Johnson
Edgar R. Guard Fulton
Goals —Clearwater: Christy 2, Clark
3, Shumaker 1; Tarpon Springs: Fer
nald 9, Meres 3, Gause 4. Score,
Tarpon Springs 33, Clearwater 14.
[the presence of large Russian forces
close to the frontier and the now rap
idly developing Russian preparations,
with Odessa as a base, from which
no inference is possible than her im
mediate entrance into the Balkan con
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T , 'Russians Threaten Bulgaria '
!*'Emperor Nicholas is said to have
promised the appearance of Russian
troops in Bulgaria within a week.
There are increasing indications that;
this campaign will be launched byway
of Roumania, and it is reported that
conferences are being held between
representatives of Russia and Rou
mania to obtain the latter’s consent
to this move. This consent, as intimat
ed clearly by Roumanian statesmen,
| has depended on whether the Allies
j gain a preponderance of forces in the
! Balkans. Roumania gives evidence of
I being impressed strongly by the con
j centratipn of 250,000 Russian troops
| at Ismail, and Reni, near her border.
Serbia Fights Gamely
i No important achievement has been
recorded on either side since the Ger
j man announcement of the fall of Pris
tina and Mitrovitsa. With only a small
. strip of territory left to defend, Ser
bia's leaders declare she is unbeaten
and can still harass the invaders. Gen
era! Boyad.iieff, the Bulgarian com
mander, says, on the other hand, that
rung Peter - troops will be put out of
action in a few days.
, The official report has reached Lon
don at noon today of the capture of
Gorizia by the Italians, although the
fall of the city was regarded as immi
nent. This important system of fortifi
cations commanding the railway lines
connecting the upper and lower Isonzo
and called the key to the Austrian de
fenses to the north, has been the ob
jective for which the Italian army has
been struggling for several months.
HINT TO SWIMMERS
A swimmer who loses his strength
far from shore, or is seized with
cramp, runs small danger, provided
he remains cool and keeps his wits
about him. He should turn on his
back and rest, awaiting assistance or
recovery, instead of making a mad
dash for the beach, or for support. It
is quite possible, in floating position,
to hold out indefinitely, and even to
work out a cramp.—Outing.
MEXICANS AT WASHINGTON
Washington, P. C., Nov. 27.—A
delegation of eighty-one Mexican
teachers, headed by Eliseo Garcia, for
mer chief of the department of pub
lic instruction of Mexico, who are
studying American educatienai meth
ods, reached here today from Boston.
Here the visitors will study govern
mental and educational institutions
before leaving next Thursday for Ve
ra Cruz. They were sent to the United
States by General Carranza before he
was recognized by the American
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