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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-13

and If shown to have been excessive, may
vet be reduced by the a. thority fixing
the price of the plant and property as
hereinafter provided
SEC 4. Any city or town establish
ing or purchasing plant within its lin
its, as provided in this Act, or recon-
structing, extending, or enlarging the
same, as provided in Section 5, herein
after set out, may pay for the same by
he issue of bonds. payable in term not
exceeding thirty years and bearing in
terest at rate not exceeding seven per
cent. which shall not be disposed of for
lie Is than par with accrued interest, and
the Indebtedness thereby created shall
not be included in the limit of indebted
ness Of such city or town provided by
Law; but such bonds shall not be issued
until vote authorizing the same has
been taken and passed as provided for in
Section 2, and the whole amount Of
bonds SO issued by a city or town and
outstanding shall not exceed at their par
value the amount of seven per cent of
the total valuation of the real and per-
sonal property within the limits of said
city or town, according to the last pre-
ceding valuation Of the same made by
said city or town. The interest on such
bonds and sinking fund to meet the
same at maturity shall be provided for
by ordinance Of the city or town
Council"
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in its limits, and The price to be paid
therefor shall be it's fair market value
for the purposes of it's use, no portion
of such plant to be estimated, however,
at less than its fair market value for any
other purpose, including as an element
OF value the earning capacity Of such
plant based upon the actual earnings
being derived from such use at the time
of the final vote of such city or town to
establish plant. and also any locations
or similar rights acquired from private
persons in connection Herewith. plus
the damages suffered by the severance
of any portion OF such plant lying out
side of the limits of such city or town,
and minus the mOHnt of any mortgage
or other incumh' ance or lien to which
the pant so purchased, or any part
thereof, may be subject at the time Of
transfer of title; but such city or town
may require that such plant or property
be transferred to it free and clear of any
mortgage or lien, unless the gas or cleo
trio co nmittee OF such city or town shall
otherwise deter niIe. Such value shall
be estimated without enhancement on
account of future earning capaci-
ty, or good will, or of excIus-
i've privileges derived from rights
in the public streets. When any capital
has been paid in, in pro erty instead OF
cash, the va uatIOn placed upon such
property in estimating it as paid-in cap
ital shall not b conclusive in estimating
its value under the foregoing provisions,
but may be disputed by the city or town,
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WILL BE A SLAYER IN
1904.

Hon. James f. Broome of Gads-
den Co. is out in letter explaining
his recent withdrawal from the race
for the office of secretary of state,
and announcing his determination
to be a candidate for that office in
the primaries of 1904. Mr.. Broome
says:
"A few days before l announced
my candidacy for secretary of state
| was told that the campaign COM
mittee would make appointments fol-
all state candidates that they might
appear before the people to express
to them their political views. In
this / was disappointed, as the com
mittee decided TO make no appoint
ments, and having, at the earnest
solicitation of friends, announced my
candidacy only six weeks prior to
the closing of the campaign, and
finding that | had not sufficient time
to thoroughly canvass One-fOurth of
the counties before the campaign
closed, | visited and consulted those
friends who were most prominent in
bringing me out, and with their ap-
prevail / withdrew my candidacy,
promising them and assuring myself
that | would be a candidate for sec
rotary of state before the democratic
primary of 1904
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FayOrs Brick and Patriotism
Editor PALATKA NEWS:

understand that l have been Sc
verely criticized by several in regard
to my opposition to the patching and
repairing of Lemon street with rock
In answer to this criticism, | wish to
say:
list. Last year the city of Palatka
maid for street work $2,Oi20O and has
nothing to show for it. When Lem
on street was first paved with rock
the city's portion was $3,5OO.OO
which was borrowed from the bank
at the rate of s per cent interest
Each year since then it has cost the
city $4,000 to keep it in repair, and
one year $6OO.O0; and then, with all
that, it was not in a good condition. |
willingly admit that the streets con-
dition is disgrace to the city and
gives our town bad reputation.
Now to spend 100000 or 81, 10000 to
repair the street with the same old
material, would, in my opinion, be
money thrown away, because it
would only be short time before it
would have to be repaired, and the
repairs would necessarily have to be
constantly made.
| am not in favor of transient inn
provements, but want to see some
thing permanent done. The city of
Palatka has nearly 100000 ahead,
and by January LIST this will be in
creased some. Now, Mr.. Editor, let
the city begin Immediately to pave
Lemon street with brick and stone
curbing. This can be accomplished
without bonding, without increasing
taxes, and without borrowing
money. From Mr.. Griffin's store to
the A. C.. L. r. r.. is about IL blocks.
1t can be paved for 100000 per
block.
The street railway has to pave one
eighth of the street. Our street is
40 feet wide and our blocks 300 feet
long. The street railways portion
would be about $250.00 per block,
leaving 81, 5000 between the proper
ty owners and the city. Dividing
this amount by gives for the city's
portion S5S3.33ls per block and the
property owner on either side of the
street the same amount. Thus it
will he seen that it will not fall as
heavily upon the owners of property
as many say it will.
| think the city should give the
property owners the opportunity of
paying in monthly payments.
| understand that Jacksonville
paid $l.45 per square yard for her
last paving.
Mr.. Editor, what Palatka stands
more in need of than any other town
in the state that know of, is more
public spirit and personal pride.
Each for himself should yield to
each for all. We need the intelli-
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SEQ. 8. When any city or town shall
decide, as hereinbefore provid d, to estab-
fish plant, and any person, firm or cor
poratiou shall at the time of the vote
required for such decision, be engaged
in the business OF making, generating or
distributing gas or electricity for sale,
for lighting purposes in such city or
town, such city or town shall, II such
person, firm or corporation shall 'elect
to sell, and shall comply with the pro-
visions of this Act, purchase OF such per-
son, firm or corporation, before estab-
fishing public plant, such portion OF
his, their or its gas or electric plant and
property suitable and used for such bus
mess in connection Herewith as lies
within the limits Of such city or town.
If in such city or town a single corpora
ton owns or operates both gas plant and
An electric plant, such purchase shall in
clude both of such plants, but otherwise
such city or town shall only be obliged
to purchase the existing gas plant or
plants, if it has voted only to establish a
gas plant, and shall only be obliged to
purchase the existing electric plant OF
plants if it has on y voted to establish an
electric plant If the main gas works,
IN the case of a gas plant, or the centra
lighting station, in case OF an electric
light plant, lie within the limits OF the
city or town which has voted to estab-
fish a plant as aforesaid, such city OF
town shall purchase, as herein provided
the whole of such plant and property
used in connection Herewith, lying with
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GRILL FOR PRESIDENT.

The News would like to impress
upon the members of the next SEN
ate the Importance of a policy, hav-
ing for its object a harmonious and
hard working assembly of the ablest
men of the state. In this connection
it calls attention to the claims of DR..
f. S. Grill of Palatka for president
of that body.
DR.. Grill is one of the ablest demo-
Gratis in this state and has served
his party faithfully and sacrificingly
in the past. He has ever given way
to his friends and has never pushed
himself forward in an effort to re-
ceive the honors which ought to
have been given him from time to
time. His friends are now asking
that he be elected president of the
Florida senate and it is an honor
which he ought to have.
At present it would appear that
Senator Adams, an able man and
one who has made good presiding
officer, has but little opposition for
the position of president of the sem
ate, but the News believes that
when the legislature meets the
Florida senate will recognize the
CLAIMS of the man from Putnam and
will select him to preside over the
higher branch of the Florida legisla-
Understandable News.
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PUTNAM's FIRM FRIEND.

Every citizen of Palatka and Put
nam county should hold up the hands
of Major w. l.. Glessner the atfable
and persistent commissioner of i'm
migration for the G. S. q F. Ry. In
fact not to do so would be worse than
criminal.
Here is a man whose really intelli-
gent efforts in behalf of this section of
the state have, and are bound to still
further, result in great and steady
accomplishments. His methods are
intelligent in that there is left no
loophole in his system of work
through which an actual or possible
settler may crawl and raise the cry
of misrepresentation. The major is
not professional boomer of doubt
full character and responsibility. He
confines HIM self to facts for consider
alton of the industrious. He is not
seeking to induce settlers from the
ranks of the other class.
The News is just in receipt of the
latest publication in the interests of
this section, edited by the major. 1t
is published by the G.. S. d f. Ry.,
and is called "Florida Fruit" 1t is
filled with illustrations and facts.
For his company the editor says:
"Our aim in issuing this pamphlet
| is to call attention to the horticultu-
raj and agricultural resources of that
portion of Florida traVersed by the
Georgia Southern d Florida Rail
way, as offering special inducement
to men of moderate means to not
only secure them comfortable homes
| but to amass comfortable compe-
tence. In describing these resources
we have aimed to give facts and fig
ures, free from eNaggeratiOn, rather
than glittering generalities, as We
have no desire to deceive or hold out
false hopes. We have no lands tC
sell at speculative prices, and are in.
terested only in seeing the country
settled up with an intelligent and in
| duStrious population, and to this end
this company will cooperate with
the fruit growers and farmers along
it's line in the development of indus
try, and putting their products into
the markets in such shape and a
such rates as will secure for then
II fair reward for their labor. We
realize that upon the prosperity o
the people along our line depends
our prosperity; that their interest,
are our interests; that we are mutu
ally dependent upon each other
This department was established 70
the purpose of aiding the residents
along the line in developing the ricl
and varied resources of this section
as well as to give full information t.
home seekers and afford ample OPP
portunity for investigation, and it i
hoped that this pamphlet may prov
an aid on these lines. In writing O
the various products we can in thi
brief space, give only general infor
nation, but will be pleased to an
swer all inquiries in detail.
For further information, addres
w. L. Glessner, Commissioner Q
immigration, Macon, Ca
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Remarkable Intuition,

An artist who was making sketch
ing tour through picturesque region
of Connecticut CHANGED one day on a
barn so alluring to his eye that he
sat down on a stone wall and went to
work at once.
He soon became conscious that he
had two interested spectators in the
persons of the farmer and his wife.
who had come to the door of the house
to watch him.
The artist by and by discovered
that he had lost or mislaid his rub
Der eraser, and as he wished to cor
rect slight error in the sketch, he
went up to the door and asked the
farmers wife if he might have a
small piece of dry bread. This, as
every artist knows, makes a good
eraser.
The farmers wife looked at him
with an expression of pity not un-
mixed with surprise.
DRY bread!" she repeated. "Well,
| guess you won't have to put IN
with dry bread from me, young man.
You come right into the kitchen with
me and I'll give you a thick Slice of
bread with butter on it.
Now don't say word" she con-
tlnued, raising her hand to ward off
ms eXpostulatiOn. II don't care
now you came to this state, nor any,
thlng about it; all | know is, you're
hungry, and that's enough for me.
GU snail have a good dinner"
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DEACONS AND POKER.

Not long since at Hastings, Neb.,
good old Father Bowman, a min
lister and said to be one of the clean
est men who ever battled with
wrong, organized Summing eXpe-
dition and went to the haunts of the
gamblers.
He wanted to see for himself the
class of men who supported the in
stitutions, and to start a movement
that would end in thorough clens-
ing of the city.
Poor old man! How was he to
know that people who support gam
bling bells and brOthels and the so
called "high-class" dens of iniquity
are not from the criminal classes?
How was he to know that the life
and substance of such places come
from men who know better, who are
not lacking in moral discernment;
men who are anxious to stand well
in business and society; men who
sometimes go to the church; men
who can deliver homilies on the evils
of bad company; men who would
slay the individual who would tempt
their boys to enter the places that
so often shelter the fathers?
Poor old man! He found some of
his church deacons feeding chips to
the pot on a gambling table. Pillars
of his church We're gambling, and
with them were other men on whose
responsibility he would have staked
his life.
The blow was crushing one. An
old mans faith in the natural good
ness of humanity was shaken. He
learned the greatness and strength
of an evil. 1t was no longer giant,
but mountain just, as it is in every
city.
Other gambling bells were visited,
and in every one men of supposed
responsibility were found, excited,
anxious, eager, flushed with the pas
1t is said the old preacher will
fight because there is fighting blood
in his veins. Other ministers have
Joined with him and it is said there
will be q rattling of dry bones in
Hastings. Nebraska.
The gambling question is more a
moral than legal one. If those
who know that gambling is bad,
who have standing in society and
haven't passed the point where their
consciences prick them occasionally,
will join with the fathers who want
their sons to grow up clean men,
will leave the gambling rooms to
those who have no regulations to
lose and who would as soon be NOR
ally unclean as respectable, the gam
bling evil will come pretty close to
settling itself.
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gent, sympathetic cooperation of
our educated men to secure efficient
government, to advance commercial
interests, to create healthier pub
lie sentiment touching the true well
fare of our municipality. To secure
these desirable ends we need more
liberty-freedom from the miserable
thraldom of party spirit that shell
tiers public evils by cOwardly 81.
lence on the one hand and secret
dislike of independence on the other.
We want new conceptiOn.Of patriot
ism, the kind that is willing to brave
the hostility of corrupt forces in
times of peace, as well as to fight a
foreign foe in war. A patriotism
that has higher standard than
money and political spoils.
A. NJ. STEEN.
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GIVE JACK A CHANCE.

Secretary Moody of the Navy has
given out an interview in which he
says "the most imperative need of
the navy today is additional officers
He says II cannot over-estimate the
need. 1t demands the instant atten-
ton of congress-
There is a way by which this i'm
perative need can be supplied: Give
the enlisted men Il chance.
The secretary says 'it takes lon
ger to make an officer of junior rank
than to build a battleship."
If congress will give the American
sailor chance sufficient junior Off
GERS can be provided in months
time.
The secretary says within the next
four years the navy will need $3.50
additional officers, and that during
that time the naval academy cannot
turn out more than 300 graduates.
Annapolis cannot furnish these
officers. Then why not do the sensi-
BILE thing, the patriotic thing-pro-
mote the warrant officers?
Under the present rules an enlisted
sailor cannot go higher than warrant
officer. The only exception is It re-
cent rule allowing the promotion of
five warrant officers a year. One
out of 5000 men anxious to &C
higher!
In the army the humblest private
may aspire to be lieutenant gener-
al. In the navy the American sailor
boy must stop at warrant officer.
In the British navy the lowest en-.
listed man may hope some day tc
command England's finest battle
ship. In the American navy Jacl
can only hope to be petty officer
1t is not fair. 1t is un-American.
AS the people learn this situation
they are displeased. They are proGC
of their navy and interested in it,
efficiency. They are demanding
that congress provide competitive
examinations for promotion.
If the republic is another name 70
opportunity why bar the meritori
Gus American sailor from his ambi
ton?
If aristocracy or bureaucracy stant
in the way the more reason for thu
reform. Is it not strange that Secre
tary Moody should overlook a rene
dy so patent? A remedy so pa
triotic?
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FLORIDA
CbankSgiving Proclamation.

1t should be with unfeigned graft
tude that the people of Florida will
assemble with annual Thanksgiving
to make Acknowledgements to AL
mighty God for the rich blessings
received during the year that is
drawing to close.
To the people of our state it has
been year of confidence, tranquil
ty and progress. The general
health of our citizenship has been
good; the treasures of our fields, gar
dens, mines and forests have been
poured forth in increasing quantities
and every path of honest toll has led
to comfort, cOntentment and happi-
ness. A highly favored people, mind
full of their dependence on the bOun-
ty of the Oliver of all good, should
seek fitting occasion to express their
feeling of gratitude and alteration,
and should rejoice at each annual &C.
currence of these seasons, when hal
lowed memories should fill our
thoughts and Christian love and
charity characterize our acts.
1t has long been the beautiful Gus
tom of our people, on day in each
year especially consecratsd to per-
sonal pfety, and devotion, with CRATE
fui hearts to give thanks for all our
blessings in the past, and to devoted
" supplicate their gracious cOntinu-
ance in the future.
Now, therefore, in conformity with
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Government statistics show that
the Miami Valley in Ohio produces
better grain and purer water than
any other section of this country.
1t is Natures garden. Right in the
heart of this favored spot is our dis
tillery. We have at our very door
two essentials for producing the
finest whiskey in the world-the best
grain and the purest water. Add to
these one of the most completely
equipped distilleries ever operated
and an experience of 36 years in dis
tilling whiskey and you have com
bination that is unequalled am
where. That's why HAYNER
WHISKEY is the best for medicinal
and other uses That's why we have
over a quarter of a million satisfied
customers. That's why YOU should
try it. Don't forget that it goes di-
rect from our own distillery to you,
with all its original strength. rich
ness and flavor, carries UNITED
STATES REGISTERED DISTTIJ-
Frs GUARANTEE of PURITY
and AGE and saves you the dealers
enormous profits. Your money back
if you're not satisfied. Read our
offer elsewhere In this paper, The
Hayner Distilling Company,
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DR.. f. S Grill, would make an eX-
cellent presiding officer for the Flor
ida Senate. The doctor is one of the
most active democrats in the state
and merits the honOr.-Gaineville
News.
Right you are, Mr.. News. But did
it ever occur to you that this same
Dr.. f. S. Grill is just the sort of tim
Der needed for a really first-class
business Governor.
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custom and the proclamation of the
president of the United States OF
America, !, WILLIAM $. JEN.
NINGS, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE
OF FLORIDA, do recommend the oh.
servance of THURSDAY, THE 27th
DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. d., 1902
rs a dny of thanksgiving and prais,
to Almighty God for his mercy and
goodness vouchsafed to our state and
people.
May his protecting care guide us
and keep alive in us Il patriotic low,
for the free institutions given us as a
heritage.
In testimony where.
of, | have hereuut(
set my hand and caus-
ed the Great Seal o!
the State to be affixed
GREAT sEAL) Done at the city OF
Tallahassee, this the
10th day of November
in the year of our
Lord one thousand
nine hundred and two
and of the indepen-
dence of the United
States the one hun
dred and twenty-
seventh.
WILLIAM S. JENNINGS.
Governor.
By the Governor. Attest:
H. CLAY CRAWFORD.
Secretary of State.
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The "lily-white" republican party
in Alabama is rot yet large enough
to make white speck on the solid
democratic back ground.
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]. Pierpont Morgan has doubtless
made note of the fact that the treas
ury surplus is now $9l 100000.
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Gov. Odell of New York has
doubtless noticed that virtue some
times gets its reward by narrow
squeak.
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FUk SALE..--Fhd ANIglg I Per &d GtB16
Pa|atka Gas Light & Fuel Company,
Pa1atzaz T1orida-
Payable SemAnnually July 1t and January 1s
DENOMINATION OF BONDS $500 EAcH
Total Cost of Gas and Electric Plants, $4,000
Total Issue of Bonds, $4,000
Cost of property exceeds Bonded Debt, $4,000

Bonds the GtuctGn the EISt Light Plant and
esn79 LIGHT &
company furnish ness careful
managed ind ma o u
ipo fmoherp ant tsOnef re How
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Administrators Notice.

six months after date, to wit; on 1th uT i,1n
May, A. ID 1908, or as soon Thereafter aisslas OF
be heard. will file with the County JuUul'unts
Putnam County, Florida, my inal acy acc he
and vouchers, as the administratF Snpnty
estate VIM. L. Mel cod. late OF s9lG ~, ne
deceased, and to be discharged I'''"
further administration of said estate,
J.E LANE oy
Administrators
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THE PALATKA News
AND ADVERTISER.

Entered at the Palatka, Fla. postoffice as
mallable matter Of the second-class.