The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14
SANFORD SMILING.
She Scoops County Omces-Knights
of HOnOr-COnfederate Veterans.

of HOnor-COnfederate Veterans.
Sanford, Fla, June 1S.-Everybody in
this meek of the woods" is feeling good
over the result of the county convention
just held at Orlando. The office of super
intendent of public schools so long held
captured BY Professor W. B. Lynch, of
our high school, and Seth Woodruff was
re-nominated for tax collector. The Veter-
an representative, the Hon. B. f. Whit
ner, was again hOnored with a hearty re-
nominal ton. These are all good and true
men and Sanford feels highly honored by
the cordial support given them by all sec
The convention also paid Sanford the
compliment of making Chief Engineer II.
NJ. Papworth permanent president of the
convention and Judge j. f. Welborne, the
chairman of committee on resolutions.
County Commissioner j. N. Whitner was
one Of the most active and influential del
egates in the convention. Orlando has the
county seat, but Sanford always plays an
important part in county politics all the
same, and on the oath, we shall entertain
in fine style the Second district congress
sional convention, with its $50 delegates its
dozen "faVOrite son" candidates, and a
big lobby of earnest and hopeful friends
and supporters. The occasion promises to
be a great event in the history of San
ford.
Col Thomas J. Appleyard. who is com
mander of the Florida division of the Uni
form Rank of Knights of Honor, has gone
to Louisville, KY, as supreme representa-
tive to the supreme lodge of the Knights
of Honor. He Is also suspected of an at
tempt TO win the Kentucky democracy
over to Claude Matthews as the Chicago
convention nominee for President. His pa
per- the Gate City Chronicle, claims to
have been the first newspaper to advocate
Gov. Matthews nomination. To-days is
sue prints fine picture of Hon. w. D.
Cnipley of Pensacola, whom 1t is boom
ing for United States senator to succeed
Senator Call, but our people generally
prefer a candidate from this section of
the state. Congressman Cooper has al
ready made considerable progress in his
canvass and feels hopeful of succeeding
Senator Call, whose defeat is practically
Rev f. D. Hunt, the eloquent young pas
tor of the Presbyterian church in this
city, last Sunday threw a bomb shell
into the midst of his members Saturday
was primary election day, and he hap
pened to be opposite the leading barroom
In the city, and saw members of his own
church and other churches go
in others and treat them. Nor did he
stop with this charge, but asserted that
rumors had come, to his ears that there
were members who had been caught by
the officers of the law in gambling rooms.
All this he earnestly denounced and said
that men following such a course had
no business in the church. The ST. Johns
presbytery had spoken out in plain terms
against retaining in the church members
who, after due admonition, persist in the
Indulgence of such sinful pleasures. The
sermon created a sensation, and has
stirred up the wayward members Of all
the churches as well as the pastors Of
the churches to which they belong.
Gen. Ftnegan Camp of Confederate Vet
Grams has been unusually active the past
few months in regard to the Battle Alb
hey movement and the Davis monument,
and Col c. H. LETTER. who goes TO Rich
mond, Va, to represent the camp in the
great reunion the last Of this month. will
be proud of the showing made by his or
ganization, although much credit is due
the noble Daughters of the Confederacy
for the generous support they have given
the veterans in all their efforts 10 raise
funds for the Abbey and the monument.
Sanford is quite proud of these patriotic
ORGANIZATIONS.
The Hotel Wilton has had a long streak
of bad luck, and IS now under the pro-
cess of foreclosure Of a mortgage held
bv the estate Of DR.. Seth French. 1t was
built as a sanitarium for Dr. Frank Cald-
well. and was a very handsome and pop
u!ar establishment at first, but 1t failed
to hold a liberal public patronage and
after various changes in proprietors and
landlords, it has reached a financial crisis
in it's history. This is much to be regret
ted, as Sanford needs just such an estab-
lishment as this was intended to be, whose
sulphur baths were at one time quite IA
nous. However. nearly all sanitariums in
Florida have suffered a similar fate.