The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-09-03


Office Second Floor Espenaub Building Oak Street, Arcadia
We are waiting to hear that our recent rains have
caused much splitting of oranges in the groves.
September comes in bright and clear as a welcome
change from the rainy days Of the last week in
August
The deaths reported result of the recent foods
In the Carolinss and Georgia now numbers over
seventy the larger percent colored people.
A Tampa weather observer reports that for period
of eighteen years the temperature of that City
has been 800 for the month of September.
There is to be meeting of the utmost importance
to everyone who has this section Of Florida at heart
at the Court House on Saturday afternoon at p m.
Every business and grove owner should be
present
Our last page has this week been turned over to
Nocatee correspondent, at least most of it. We
didn't intend to use any of it ourselves but fate
seemed against us this week. However THE CHAM
PIoN quite up to its usual high standard this week.
even if it does miss our ideals some this time
While the showry weather of the past ten days has
been rather damp and inconvenient to the person
obliged TO be out of doors, there has seldom been
finer time in which to transplant trees put out potato
and strawberry vines. Much work of this kind has
kept the farmer and h9StiSultusie
lodging : salII ssi5I5cx' =. lSlearts exceed
ingllX4 e
Atho somewhat in the rear of the procession
Tampa has had the sheath skirt. But some aggrava-
ting newspaper reporter has been unkind enough to
throw doubts as to the right of the garment shown at
Tampa to the name 1t is unkind to so befudde the
curious that they will always doubt whether the thing
they paid to was the real truly sheath skirt or
only base imitation
The full dinner pail slogan is seldom heard in
republican campaign speeches and republican litera-
ture this year. In its place they have naugurated
the Prosperity Banquet where lot of prominent
republicans get together and make speeches telling
each other how prosperous the country is. But so
long as the laboring mans pail is empty and unused
the prosperity cry of the mllionaires will avail little
in securing votes.
The Pensacola Journal was the first in Florida to
send in really worth while contribution to the Bryan
and Kern Campaign Fund. The remittance was for
$4,000 and was sent in last Friday. Editor Mays
has been untirng in his efforts to arouse the patriotic
democrats of the South to the necessity of helping in
financial way the election of the party nominees.
and his efforts have been successful to an extent that
should make him happy.
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The rains in the Carolinas and upper Georgia hav-
ing ceased the high waters are fast recedinp and the
work of repairing damages Is being prosecuted with
great vigor. The many thousand homeless and /
hungry of Augusta Georgia being clothed and fed
by the generosity of their more fortunate neghbors
and the help of the government The railroads arel
fast getting tracks and bridges repaired and trains in
motion. 1t is wonderful how quickly the energy of |
well directed human effort can bring order out of
chaos and obterate all traces of the devastation Of
the floods that were greater than any previously |
recorded for many years.
prominent judge in South Florida says in speak
ing OF the acts Of DeSotos commissioners as called to-
public notice by correspondence recently published in
The CHAMPION: 1t has always been puzzle to me I
why the people should be so utterly careless in the
selection of county commissioner men whose power
t&deal with the county finances is only limited byl
pr own sense Of propriety and right But year
FER year they keep on putting in men who happen
be good fellows and popular in their respectivel