The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-08-06

Mrs. John B. Stetson was recently married to a
Portuguese count.
No rain to speak of in DeSoto county this week
The groves are needing water
We congratulate Punta Gorda on having secured as
principal of her public schools, the Hon. w. N
Sheats, former State Superintendent and one of the
foremost educators of Florida.
The Lake City Index says the new Central Com
mtee of the Democratic party is made of very differ
ent material from the last Will the good Brother
plain which he thinks the better? We all inter-
ested and wait for his answer with anxiety.
The Peoples Party of Florida will meet in Ocaa on
August eth to appoint state electoral ticket for
Watson and Williams, the Peoples Party nominees
for president and vice president. Watson has been
invited and it is expected that he will be there.
It is stated by one who knows, that strawberries
can be grown in Florida at cost of from 500 to
SIPS and that acre will produce from $500
to $1,000 worth of berries. Looks like DeSoto county
might at least furnish the home markets, but we
never have.
The past week has been an unusually hot one for
Florida Mercury reaching into the nneties several
times We have heard of no casualties for even in
Our hottest weather if find shade the breeze
is always cool and the nights invariably comfortable
Hot winds in Florida are never felt.
The Sheath gown an effort to introduce which has
scosvspf4ed thssworld, asneaed on the stage at
Jacksonville and Pensacola From the.<descriptiops
given by those who have it, in her
'nightie" would be modesty itself compared with
this modern innovation, that fortunately stands no
show of becoming common.
Sweet potatoes SELF m Colorado at this season at
severity five cents per peck If we could manage the
transportation problem how quickly Florida would
lower those prices And yet, at twenty-five cents
per peck the home market in Tampa is barely sup
piled. We could get to Tampa with OK teams and
we raise the potatoes, but we won't.
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The prevalence of paralysis is, according to some
physicians, due to maaral conditions. These may
largely be overcome without expensive trips to the
mountains, altho the summers in the mountains are
very pleasant dose to take. During the summer, a
careful diet consisting largely of vegetables and fruits
with regular monthly qunine and calomel treatment
for short period will greatly aid in keeping paraly
sis at bay. 1t is worth trial at least and will cost
little and do no harm if the medicines are taken
in moderation.
The dreadful fre-iend has been getting in his
Satanic work in British Columbia this week where
several villages have been totally destroyed several
hundred lives lost and millions Of property devastated
by fire that originated in the brush, was famed BY
strong wind spread rapidly, following mountain
range eating down into the valleys along its base.
All efforts to stop the fire have been unavang it
having already spread over an area of 100 square
miles, and unless rain or change of wind occurs will
ere this have crossed into Montana, in the United
States
In the dull times Of summer start some new enter
prise to help your town or county. prominent
citizen Of DeSoto was heard to say this week that
what this country needs is fewer loungers and more
workers. The markets in Arcadia today contain not
quart homemade syrup, can't buy sweet potatoes
fruits, and yet sit around and talk hard times
For years Arcadia has had no strawberries to speak of
because nobody took the trouble to grow them, and
yet we can grow strawberries, sweet potatoes, cane
and lots of other things in and about Arcadia that al
ways bring profitable prices in the home markete.a.