The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-02-06

Office Second Floor EspenIaub Building Oak Street, Arcadia
The king and crown prince of Portugal were assas-
sinated last week at Lisbon.
DeSoto exhibit of pineapples is certainly remark
ably fine 1t is charge of Mr.. VIM. Crouch, OF Punta
Gorda. This exhibit comes mainly from Punta
Gorda.
The Thaw trial resulted last week in verdict of
insanity and Thaw was at once taken to the insane
asylum from which no doubt, he will find it easy to
to secure release by process of law
Mr., w. W. Bateman is OIL hand at the State Fair
with splendid exhibit from the northern end OF the
county 1t is genuine surprise to those OF us who
know the capabilities of that part of the winter graaen
of America.
Commissioner Ed Scott is at the State Fair with
his worthy assistants. The DeSoto exhibits did not
arrive in Tampa until Tuesday noon and it was only
by long pull and strong pull that DeSoto was at
all in shape for the opening Wednesday noon. We
shall be in better shape with little more time to get
our display in order But DeSoto gets there just the
same!
We were pleased this week to hear the name of
Tax Collector w. c. Langford mentioned as pos
sibe candidate for representative III the legislature
Mr.. Langford is one Of DeSotos sons whom the
people have been proud to honor with public trust,
and one that has always proven worthy of every con-
fdence placed in him. He has determined to become
LAWYER is studying to that end and will be we'll
qualified to represent county in Tallahassee
There are just lots of printing Offices in Florida,
but there is only one whose imprint is Champion
Artistically Neat Printing" 1t doesn't cost you
anything to have that imprint on your stationery,
your booklets, your posters, and yet it is worth dol
lars to the OF printed things. The reason is
simple. Good material, worked up in the CHAMPION
way by CHAMPION typographical artists means the
BEST and that is what Champion Artstically
Neat Printing" stands for.
The question has come to us from number Of
sources: What is the matter with Arcada's Water
Works and Sewerage Systems? The Bond Trustees
accepted the city we'll several months ago. The
mains tower, etc., for the works have been in
place and complete for nearly year. and yet have
not heard that the city water available for public
use, and is getting to be notable topic of popular
discussion on Our streets AS for sewerage: We
understand work was suspended last summer on aC-
count of wet weather 1t is now dry. 1t has been
dry for several months and still there have been no
visible operations toward the completion of this much
needed public utility. We don't want to blame any
one for these things, still we do think it time ror a
public explanation, removal Of the cause for talk
Don't all speak at once but let one put us right
as to the wherefores of the situation
Two years ago the City Council granted permits
for "shacks'' to be built on Our main thoroughfares
until substantial buildings could be completed in
which to conduct Arcadias growing business.
These permits contained clause which pledged the
removal of the shacks' as early as January first,
1907. When the year 1907 was young there were
still a number Of brick and stone buildings under
construction and the council considered it advisable
to allow the shacks" still another years lease of
life in order not to too much dscommode our bust
ness people who were doing their best to get into
good buildings. That was right That was right
That was just. But now! THOSE SUBSTANTIAL
BUILDINGS ANE BUILT, and several of THOSE
SHACKS" STILL REMAIN on Oak Street to mar
the beauty of otherwise handsome business center
There still in existence some of the old sidewalks
ruined by the fire, and almost impossible. We don't
know whose duty it is to attend to these matters bt