The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-01-16

The Tampa merchants are certainly up and coming
We notice one of them is advertising spring ready to
wear hats for ladies!
The weather man has been busy this week. Fol
several days we treated to high winds on Satur
day and Sunday night to rain and on Tuesday anc
Wednesday nights to white frost. Owing to the
moisture in the atmosphere the frost showed like a
light fall of snow, but only very tender vegetation
was nipped The bananas were not frozen and the
roses are still blooming.
An accident that cost 10 lives was the burning of
the Boyertown, Pa, opera house on the night of
January 10. About 500 people were in the building
attending Sunday School exhibition when tank
that contained gasoline that run the moving picture
exploded. 1t is said that in some cases whole families
were burned and of the 500 in the building not more
than hundred escaped without injury. 1t is most
shocking affair, and emphasizes the necessity for
greater caution in the of explosive oils.
The Jacksonville Mid Winter international Expo
sition will open Saturday, January rs complete The
building is about finished now and many exhibitors
are putting up booths, but the grounds about it, /
which will be handsomely laid off and planted will
hardly be ready for the inspection of visitors until
about two weeks more time and work have been
given to them. Just as the promoters of this expo
son are proud of the fact that no call has been made
for National, State Municipal aid so are they de-
termned that it shall break the record for expositons
by its state of preparedness on the opening day.
Tines Union.
The oranges now being shipped from this section
are beautiful in shape and color. ripe and delicious
as only fully ripe Florida orange can be, and yet
the most dlscouragng returns being received
from the commission houses. Some growers are
grumbng over receipts of 40 cents per crate for these
same delicious oranges that arrived at the market in
prime condition. Is it any wonder that such expert
ences drive growers to an early before THANKSGIVING
market Folks will buy oranges for the HOLIDAYS but
are now spending their money for the necessares of
life, tor oranges are still luxury to most of the
world and when money is scarce luxures are INDUCED
in only by the few.
The editor OF the Tallahassee Sun has not been S
stngy IN his attention to our candidate for Governor
General Albert W, Glchrist. Some weeks we think
the Sun treats him real nice and then again we Won
oei no" TIC General can be so goodnaured as to /
stand the other things that are not so complimentary
One week the Sun designated Gichrist as an old man
and last week he is called kid and informed that Iii
there is in the State House no arrangements for e
warming milk or holding kindergarten meetings. All o
OF which goes to prove that the man who runs for
office must expect all sorts of criticism and sarcasm
and ii he gets a few boquets thrown in should be O
happy General Gilchrst doubtless has already re- il
called the tact that even newspapers do not make or
unmake governor, and accepts whatever comes SC
G.
Four newspapers in the county arc this week ..
presenting to the public through their columns their
EDITORS protests against the recent action of the :.
county Commissioners in requesting the county off
,als TO give their legal notices hereafter to certain
PAPER Perhaps our Board of County Commissioners
Ire not aware of the fact that their action is e,a,
mere being State law against boycotting' It was ?.
so Illegal tor them to designate the neNsbaner i; a.
when the tax list should be printed as they did. do
ecenty enacted law makes February the month in Oh
phlch the tax list shall be given out Doubtless now g,
nat their attention has been called to these rrepnla
es I'ey VIII at their next meeting rescind their 70
ction as taken in the January meeting Evidently 1f