The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-09-10


Office Second Floor Espenaub Building Oak Street. Arcadia
Boston had big fire last week.
Another Tampa man suicided by the laudanun
route last Saturday night
The public schools in the state are generally open
ing this year the first Of September
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County Commissioners and School Board in session
in Arcadia this week. Reports next week.
Porto Rico had an earth quake shock of short dura
ton one day this week, but nobody was hurt.
Scientists are all the time discovering that some
common thing in nature which everybody understood,
is not so at ALL The latest is that thunder and light
ming are not in any way related to each other.
The wet weather still continues with every day
one or more showers, but we are not complaining,
for there is no excess of water in the streams
bitches and the air Of nights is delightfully."- cool.
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A disastrous fire in the mining city of Rawhide,
Nevada, last week rendered three thousand people
HOMELESS and destroyed practically every business
house in the city. The citizens of the state caring
lberAlly for the destitute.
Il Labor Day was celebrated last Monday that being
the first Monday in September in those cities having
labor organizations. The citizens Of small cities like
Arcadia have need of any holidays just at present
What we want is more work days
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ThEpetely destroyed last week by forest fires
that started in the Mesaba Iron range Of mountains,
ninety miles north of Duluth. Other villages one as
near to Duluth twenty-five miles, doomed being
surrounded by fire. The property loss is esttpated
at two millions, with probable loss of life
AS straw which shows the way the wind is blow
ing Tampa dealers in liquors to have their city
licenses reduced from $3.50, to $500, while many
strictly legitimate businesses have the license in
creased from fifty to two hundred per cent, and a
number of legitimate businesses hitherto exempt from
city license have been added to the list. What will
strike most folks strange however the fact that
banks and boarding houses put on the free list.
To an outsider it looks if the Tampa city council
needs revising.
The Wright Bros. of Dayton Ohio, one in France
and the other in America are demonstrating the sue
cess of their Aeroplanes, to navigate the air For
many months these brothers have been working with
the greatest secrecy their flying machine and have
only recently allowed the machines to be photo
graphed or SEEN Now that their invention is being
displayed to the public it strikes the observer as being
much simpler in construction than the airships of
other inventors Their aeroplane is of the heavier
than air variety, and If it stand the tests required
will be purchased by the U. S. Government 1t is
confidently expected that the Wright Bros, will make
good their claim Of having the best airship yet in
vented.
Ice making plants are, as rule, too expensive to
! come into domestic use, but inventors have been
working models that are to be cheap and handy
for the housewife Of ordinary skill to use Kitchen
ice making machines are already, in limited quantity,
on the market some so low in price as seventy-fve
cents. The device is similar to an ice cream freezer
the water of which the ice is to be made being in the
inner bucket and the bucket placed in nitrate Of
ammonia. After being we'll shaken the ice FORMS
Better and more satisfactory kitchen ice making ma
chimes are on the French market at from IS to SCI
according to size and capacity that operate on the
principle of the FIRST named one but are fitted
with automatic rockers that once SCI II, ,,oto,. L,