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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11

World. and Knights Of the MaccaDees'
and the young men have one OF the
crack military companies Of the state,
with a good armOry.
Banking Facilities.
Two banks handle the banking bust
ness of the town. The First National
has a capital Of $4,000, the Citizens
State Bank a capital of 100000 and
both have combined deposits running
from $40O, 600 to $780, 900. A number
of smaller banks throughout the coun-
" also constribute to the banking Ia
ciiities Of that section and illustrate
the importance of the business inter
ests of which Mariana is the center.
These banks are the First National
Bank at Graceville, with a capital Of
$25, 600; the Cottondale State Bank,
with a capital Of SIS 200; the Central
State Bank of Campbellton, with
capital of $4,000, and the Bank Of
Sneeds, with a capital of $4,000.
Handsome Buildings.
In the way of public buildings,
Mariana is equally as advanced as
she is in other respects. The county
seat Of Jackson county, her citizens
take great pride in the magnificent
new $50, 900 court house which was
recently completed and from the dome
Of which the surrounding country
may be viewed for miles in every di-
rectfon. The new Carter store and
office building, a picture OF which is
shown elsewhere in these columns,
would be a credit to any city, while
many of the old business houses are
giving way to new and modern struc-
lures.
Mariana has an excellent telephone
system, with long distance connections
and with lines extending to Cott0ndale,
Chipley, Blue Springs, Cypress, DELL
wood, Butler, Greenwood, Rascum,
Blountstown, Gainesville, Millville,
Wewahitchka, and St. Andrews. W.
H. Milton is president Of this COM
pany, Walter Kehoe is secretary.
and wv. Burton is superintendent.
Mariana is. in fact, a little city OF
business, push, enterprise, and affords
an ideal place for either business or
residence purposes. She has from
1000 TO 1000 population and her PEG
pie are possessed Of all that hospital
ity and culture for which the old South
was SO famous, while they possess on
the other hand the industry and ener-
gy which is making the south of to-
day the richest section of the country
In closing this article I cannot do
better than quote, in part, the beauti-
full word ;picture of Marianne by c. C.
Packard, of the North & South. Mr..
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11
POST OFFICE
At MARIANNE
Records Show How Town is
Growing and Business
is Increasing.

The post Office at Mariana is a
busy place any day, but it is par
ticularly busy place on Saturdays
when lac farmers swarm in from the
country and every business house gets
busy in proportion to the business
done at the postoffiCa
Postmaster l.. WiselOgel was very
ready to give The Journal the statis-
tics of his office, because those sta
tistics make a good showing for the
town and the postmaster is proud of
Mariana. Postmaster Wiselogel was
appointed three years ago last June
and the Office has experienced a won
derful growth since that time. The
stamp sales have increased from a
little more than $4,000 to nearly So
500, the money order business has
more than doubled, and several new
rural routes are about to be started.
The stamp sales by years have been
as follows:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11

saw cotton-hundreds of acres OF
lt-that they told me would easily
go a bale to the acre, and soma of If
even more. There was sugar cane
that looked as green and heavy anC
healthy as imagination could picture
and what With COW peas, velvet beans
Watermelons, sweet potatoes, and all
OF the farm and garden products that
this section produces in such abund
ance, it would have made the eyes OF
an Iowa or Illinois farmer stand out
in amazement if he could have seen
it.
Grows Good Tobacco.
The writer saw tobacco, both under
shade and in the sun, that was the
equal TO any which the hundred-dollar-
an-acre lands of Gadsden county pro-
duce-and this tobacco was growing
On land the equal of which can now
be purchased for from So o $25 per
acre, according to location. Jackson
county grew tobacco, and grew it sue
cessfully, long before \the, war, and
Jackson county is now growing
Sumatra wrapper that IS the equal of
the imported article and will bring as
much in the market
Fruits of all kidds-peaches. pears
figs, plums, Satsuma oranges, berries
grapes-everysh thing that is indigenous
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11
Mariana the New-Old
West Florida City
Continued from page seventeen.)

pie from the surrounding trade terri
tory come in TO dispose OF their pro-
duce and do their trading he would
quickly understand why Mariana IS
2 good town and why 1t Will always
be a good town The center or that
broad thoroughfare is filled and pack
ed and damned with wagons, buggies,
horses, mules and oxen, and the peo-
pie swarm into the adjacent business
houses by the hundreds.
And what is better, these people all
have money. 4 Mariana business
man told me that he himself could
never understand where all of the
money came from. He only knew that
practically all of his customers had
cash with which to pay for what they
got and where a man did not bring
the cash with him, his credit was
pretty apt to be good
Transportation Facilities
Mariana is not dependent upon one
railroad TO handle the commerce which
the industry of her own people and
those about her create The beautiful
ChipOla river. which was naYigated
long before the whistle Of the lOcOmO-
tive was heard and which afforded
transportation facilities for the great
commerce which Mariana handled
before the war, is still as valuable a
feature in the development of the
place as it was in the times which are
referred to.
Since the coming of the railroad,
commerce on the -ChipOla river has
been partially abandoned, but the Chi
pOla Transportation Company has re-
Gently been organized and a 90-fOot
steamer is now being built, to be
used on a line from Mariana to Apa-
iachicOla, a distance OF some 100 or
more miles and traversing a territory
which will yield an immense volume
of business. Inc line also gives
Mariana a direct tide water connec-
ton.
The boat itself will for the present
run only from the Look and TrembIe
Falls" 20 miles south of Mariana,
and small boat between the town
and the Falls will be put on and the
freight will be transferred from one
boat TO the other at that point. The
Importance of the stream, however, as
a highway of commerce will probably
result at no distant time in securing
an appropriation to make it navigable
all the way from Mariana to the
gulf.
A new railroad is also projected
the Georgia. Southwestern & Gulf
which il is believed Will give TO Mari
anna still another line OF transporta-
ton and when this is bUilt, the town
will have the advantage of competitive
railroad systems as we'll as the water
and rail systems which she now en-
joys.
Public improvements.
Mariana is keeping abreast of the
times in public improvements She
has a waterwOrks system, a sewerage
system. an electric lighting system,
and there is general talk of paving
ler main business thorOughfare,
Churches and Schools.
She is going to build a new high
school building, with large audi
.Orium and has. churches Of the Meth
Ddist Baptist, Episcopal and Presby-
terrain denominations. all Of which
lave large membership and a largo
attendance.
There is lodge each of the Masons,
Knights of Pythias, Noodmen of the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11

others will shortly be put on. The
five routes will easily serve from
1000 to 1880 people. There are. also
two star rOutes-one to Greenwood and
one to Cana.
The Mariana postoffice is. now loca-
ted in one corner Of the handsome new
Carter building, picture of which ap-
pears elsewhere in this edition, and it
is one of the coolest, nghtest, and
most business-Nke post Offices in the
state.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11
Rural Routes.

There are now three rural routes in
operation out of Mariana, and two
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11
Stamp SaIt
Money! Orders,

The number or money orders issued
have been as follows:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-11
Jackson the Richest
West Florida COUNTY

Continued from Page Seventeen
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05
GAS MADE FROM
WHEAT STRAW

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec A.
(SpeciaD The process recently in
vented and patented by J. Russell
Couts Of Cleveland, Ohio, for turning
ordinary wheat and oat straw into
Illuminating and fuel gas threatens
to revolutionize the Canadian North
west, and already several plants are
under construction.
The quality Of the gas produced
from straw equals the best coal gas.
and can be delivered at less than half
the cost, thus leaving a large profit
for the manufacturers In Western
Canada each year thousands upon
thousands of tons of stray are
burned for the purpose Of getting i
out Of the way. so the cost Of material
for the gas-producing plants being
built by the company will be compar-
atively nothing in addition to the
price of hauling.
At Beatrice, Neb., the company err
ected a trial plant for lighting the
town. and it proved so successful
that negotiations were at once oDened
for franchises in many towns in the
United States and at the same time
an active campaign was commenced
in Canada, but so far the majority of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05
IMMIGRATION TO
SOUTH GEORGIA

COLUMBUS, GA, Dec A. Especially
The Georgia and Alabama Indus
trial Index says in its issue for this
week:
The bringing of farmers from the
Northwest to Southern Georgia will
be of mutual benefit to the desirable
newcomers and the section in which
they will locate The climate, Of
itself, would be a superb attraction,
and the lands which they will cult
vate are among the most productive
in the country Georgia and Alabama
offer unexcelled advantages to the
farmer as they do to the manufac-
turer and to the investor. Thou
sands upon thousands Of acres need
but to be tickled to laugh a harvest
and to homeseekers every condition
says, Come. More people will mean
more business for the mercantile es-
adjustments. a larger market for the
products of factories. need for more
houses and eventually the building of
electric interurban railways that will
aid in the development of this sec
ton to a degree that no other one
factor can surpass."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05

ton spoke in opposition to DR., Mac
Aruthur's views and all called at
tention to the fact that DR.. MacArth-
ur had omitted to say what he
thought of reading the Bible in the
public schools. To be consistent,
they said, DR.. Macarthur would have
to eliminate this also from the pub
lie schools.
Il would favor a book" said DR..
Macarthur, made up of the selec-
tions from the Bible, to be chosen by
a committee consisting of Christians,
Jews, and even atheists. I would al
SO include extracts from the Koran,
from Buddhistic writings, or any
book of great religious creeds. These
selections should teach moral truths,
and should be read in the public
schools in place of the Bible"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05

showed up better than it ever did
before under the guidance of young
Moorehead. His father, famous as
golf player, and deeply interested in
sports, became interested. This year,
when the University won game after
game without defeat, the elder
Moorehead became enthusiastic.
The test came when the Thanks
giving Day game of the teams old
rival, State College. 1t was bitter
contest, but the college was shut out
without score. John K. Moorehead
was wild with delight. Since last
Thursday he has taken his son back
to his heart, told him that he has de-
monstrated that he is every inch
man, and extended to him and his
young wife the place that belongs to
them in the family circle.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05
KING
NOT A PRISONER

LISBON, Dec Especially
The baseless character of the alarm
list rumors representing that Portu-
gal was on the eve Of civil war and
revolution has been established by
the Independent investigation of
staff correspondent of the Associated
Press.
There. seems never to have been
the slightest excuse for the stories
circulated from the frontier that the
King was a virtual prisoner in the
castle, that the crown prince had
been banished, and that the navy
had mutinied
A strong suspicion exists that
such reports were part of cam
paign Of Premier Frances enemies,
instituted to create distrust abroad
in the country's financial position,
and thus discredit and bring about
the downfall of the premier at home
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05
PREACHER WOULD
REPLACE BIBLE
FavOrS Moral Text Book
for Schools.

NEW YORK, Dec. 4-(Special) -
The Rev. DIR. r. S. Macarthur sug-
gested at Calvary Baptist Church
Sunday morning that instead of read
ing the Bible in the public schools
a moral textbook, composed cf sclec-
tons from the Bible, the Koran, the
Talmud, and even from atheistic
writings, be studied. DR.. MacArthur's
congregation ofteA applauds his
ideas, but there was no visible sign
of approval Of this suggestion or for
the position t On by the p"5'Jr that
all reference to Christ and Christian
ity be eliminated from the CHRIST
mas celebrations in the schools La
ter one of The members rose and said
he was decidedly in favor of the con-
tinua.icn Of the Bible in Jhe public
schools, and was generously applaud
cd
1T = nc part of the duty of the
public schools, said Dr. Macarthur.
ito teach religious dogmas Religion
is an indispensable part of an educa-
ton but il is not the business Of the
public Sc1, OILS. 1t is the duty of the
nome and church to give religious
instruction, and if it is neglected. the
responsibility rests upon them.
Perhaps the public schools might
be opened at certain times for relig
ious instruction by different teach
say, on Wednesday for two hours by
a Catholic priest; on Thursday by a
Lutheran minister; on another day
by Jewish rabbi; or perhaps the
children might be permitted, with
out too much encroachment upon
their other studies to be absent from
school for certain hours for religious
instruction"
Three members of the congrega-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05
AMERICUS is STRUCK A
BLOW BY BLIZZARD
First Real Wintry Day is
Here.

A real, live strenuous and emerge
tic blizzard bore down upon Americas
yesterday, causing the retirement of
the last belated and risque straw
hat and the production of the fur
coat in it's stead. The day opened
calm and beautiful, but before noon
the wind was blowing a gale and
the mercury had taken decided drop
unto itself. 1t was by far the cold
est day Of winter and the suddenness
of the coming of the blizzard made it
felt all the more keenly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05
SONS WINNING TEAM
MELTS FATHERS HEART
Gut Off for Marrying
Mothers Maid.

PITTSBURG, PA, Dec. 4.-(Spe-
ciaD-John Aston Moorehead, son
of John K Morehead, Jr., the wealthy
Pittsburg man and member of one of
the oldest families of Pittsburg, has
been fully forgiven for running away
with and marrying his mothers
French maid
For over year the young man has
been hoeing his own row., supporting
ing his wife, paying the rent for
his humble cottage, and making
good" in every sense of the phrase.
When, on Thanksgiving Day, the
Western University of Pennsylvania
football team defeated the State Col
lege by 6 to O., John K. Moorehead,
Jr, threw both his pride and his
hat into the air, gave one yell, and
gathered his son to his breast
1t was his son John who had
coached the University team and
made victory possible.
Married French Maid.
The marriage of Young John Moor
head with his mothers French maid
early in the spring of 1906 was a
great sensation in Pittsburg. The
boy was Just out of Yale, where he
had obtained great fame as an athl-
etc. He was home for the Easter va
cation, and was just in time to greet
his mother who had returned from
Paris with a petite French maid with
beauty and an accent which attracted
young John.
He straightway lost his heart to
the young French woman. The SER
wants began to talk, and soon the
talk reached the ears of Mrs. Moore
head.
One Sunday morning the maid was
called in by Mrs Moorehead and
confessed all. She loved John and
John loved her She was ordered
from the house AS she was passing,
weeping, through the front door of
the Moorehead home John appeared.
He appealed to his mother, but she
was firm. The girl who had dared to
fall in love with her son must go
Then, mother" spoke up the young
man, IF she goes / go with her"
Gets Job As Coach.
They were married in New York
the next day. and the Mooreheads re-
fused to relent Young John had
never performed days work in his
life. With his income shut off, he was
in a serious predicament.
But he was young and willing. He
heard that the Western University
needed a coach The students and
the members of the faculty were his
friends, and he could do the work.
He applied for the position and was
given it. His family was indignant
that a Moorehead should do such
work. But it was honest labor, and
the pay was just enough to keep the
wolf from the door.
Last year the University team
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05

the towns and cities appealed to
seem TO be awaiting the results at
tanned by the gas producers now un-
der construction by the company at
Strathcona and Portage IN Prairie
before committing themselves to any
agreement
Last Winter the fuel famine
throughout Western Canada resulted
in much hardship and suffering, but
If the process OF the new company
proves rs successful here Is ii has
elsewhere there will be no repetition
of the terrible times OF a year ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05

One Indian holding down an allot-
ment in Oklahoma is named John
Hot Air The news from the State
leads us to suspect that he has num-
erous relatives in the publicity de-
Washington Post
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05

Nevertheless and Notwithstanding,
when a woman says she wants a
new hat her husband is going to pay
for one without going to the trouble
of Tipping coin to see about it
Washington Post.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05

The tariff may not be revised at
this session, but the Democrats will
no doubt see to it that the subject is
mentioned in the columns of the
Congressional Record Washington
Post
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-05

Even yet, there are people Of limited
financial facilities who do not know
what a clearing house is.-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
yh,tes Observation-Disclosures an1ua 0rubnr II 1907

afflicted, but had been to the school for
deaf-mutes and could read and write
He was an upright and respected clt1-
zen and his sudden demise Is mournea
by three brothers and like number OF
sisters, as we'll as numerous friends
and neighbors. He was about seventy
three years old.
O. o. Dinsmore has sold his interest
in the blacksmith shop to his partner,
David Anderson, and expects to go on
The road for a wholesale house and sell
blaclsmiths' supplies.
Our postmaster has bought eighty
acres of land within the coruor-
ate limits of the city. He expects to
engage in the culture Of flowers and
rearing of pets as soon as Bryan ten
ants the White house.
Joseph Faulhaber, who recently sola
his farm northeast of town for ninety
dollars per acre, expects to move TO
Dickinson county in the spring.
Mrs Isabel Anderson, who has been
sick for some time. is rapidly regainlng
her former health and vigor.
Charles Sheriff will sell his house.
hold goods at auction next Saturday.
He is going to Washington, which
state he expects to make his future
home. He has been the night man here
for several years for the Iowa Central
We had, as he styled himself, an
eminent chiropractor," DIR. w. Ira
Miller, here for some time, but he sud
denly dropped his extensive practice
and sought greener fields, to escape the
fate of the Marshalltown chiropractor.
Corn in this community is about
two-thirds of crop. Many claim that
they have as good crop as usual, but
we think when they come to pick 1t
they will find it to the contrary, but
then the munificent price more than
compensates for the shortage in the
crop. Corn is 80 cents, oats As cents,
eggs 90 cents, butter 81 cents, pota-
toes rs cents, and hay $40. Why
shouldn't the spirit Of the farmer be
proud?
Miss Helen F'rette is suffering with
appendicitis.
Peter Apland, our popular jeweler,
has purchased a new automobile OF the
Auto-Car make. He made his initial
run to Cambridge Sunday morning In
two hours 1t is two-Seater.
Attorney Alderman, of Nevada, was
seen on the streets of Story City We'd
nesday of this week.
Miss Helen Jorgenson is seriously Ill
with a complication Of heart troubles,
and her recovery is very much in
doubt.
Our electric light plant has been on
the bum since Saturday night, and the
town will be shrouded in darkness UNI
til the arrival Of repairs from Chica-
go.
Rev vangsnes and Rev. Guttebo are
attending Lutheran church meeting
in DEBORAH.
Mrs. Charles Wier has gone to Palo
Alto county to visit her daughter. Mrs.
Frank Sheffield, who lives five miles
west of Graettinger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
CORNH|LL I0COg$ $3.50
Ames College Instructors Under
take Unusual and Costly
Experiment
COMPLETE GROWTH SET UP.
Will be Used in the Baroratory at the
State Colege-Root Construction
Will be Visible and Progress Noted
Details of the Novel Experiment OF
Statewide Interest.
COMPLETE GROWTH SET UP.
TO rimss-Republican.

Special to Times-Republlcan.
Ames. Oct 1.-THE Iowa State col
lege has a hill of corn on its expert
ment farm at Ames that bids fair to
cost as much as small farm. Its ex-
pense when mounted, will be In the
neighborhood of $3.50, and it is only an
average hill of corn at that.
About three weeks ago the farm
crop department decided to mount
hill Of corn in such a manner as to
show the complete root construction.
Any one who has ploWed in an old
stubble field has some idea what g. net
work of roots is attached to a stalk Of
corn and what a task it would be to
dig these up without breaking them.
First a circular trench, having a
radius of about twelve feet, about
three feet wide and five feet deep was
dug around the hill. The stalk of corn
was now tied to a frame work to keep
it upright. A stream Of water from a
big fire hose was then turned against
the earth at the roots. AS fast as the
trench filed with water it was pumped
out by centrifugal pump attached to
small gasoline engine. The work has
been going on interruptedly for three
weeks and there is still weeks work
before the specimen will be out Of the
ground.
When secured, this specimen with
its entire root system is to be mount
ed and placed in the farm crops labor
atory.