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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
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ADJUSTMENTS.

Theater-"Geo. Washington. Jr.," a
merry musical play written by George
NJ. Conan. viii run the remainder OF
the week. opening this afternoon and
evening.
Orpheum-Another TANNED audi
ence last night. saw the new bill. A
strong number OF headliners is intro
duced of whom the clever pair or peo-
pie In the "Chinaware' act. is the fore
most
srRnd--A big turnout Is expected
tonight for the holiday presentation Of
the Girl and the Stampede headed
by Miss Grace Lambert.
Lyric-The Moore Stock company
in the Cow Boys Honor" VIII run
the remainder OF the week. a special
matinee being given today and Satur-
day.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
THE USUAL SPREAD.
Commercial Club Tables Present Al
Turing Appearance Today.

The Commercial club management
in general, and the culinary depart
mont In particular. is doing itself cred
IL, individually ana collectively. on the
annual New Years spread. The table,,
are placed in the shape OF the letter
u whereon are spread all the deli
oacies of the season, and In shapes
and style OF arrangement calling for
the exercise of considerable Ingenuity
and artistic taste. Hundreds of
pounds OF turkey, geese and chicken
are part OF the program, with most in
wiling salads. jellies, dressings. and an
array of edibles and condiments gem
orally sufficient to satisfy the most
exacting epicure and expert gastron-
omist. The dining room is open tn
members of the club and invited
guests from IL noon today. until mid
night, and Manager Harris Is seeing
to II personally that no member or
quest escapes hungry. The decorations
are very attractive.
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PERSONAL.

e r. Calvin. vice president and
general manager of the Southern Pa
cihc. Is spending the New Year holi-
days with relatives here. He denies
having any knowledge of any changes
being under contemplation in Harri-
man circles.
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HE MUST RETURN.
CARD OF THANKS.

The undersigned desire to return
sincere thanks to all who so kindly
aided us in our recent bereavement.
y. ]. ARTHUR,
MRS LIZZIE THoMAS-E DWARD.
NJ j. THOMAS.
j. w. THOMAS.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

GILLEY-1n this city January 1. 1908,
John il, son of James c., and Martha
Gilleyi Aged years, 10 months and 10
days.
Funeral services Thursday. at II a. m.
from 546 West Third North street
Friends are invited to attend. Inter-
ment In city cemetery.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

II. f. Evans Florist, 40. s. Main St,
Floral designs q speciality. Phone 9e1,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

ness He could advise the young men
TO be manly, ambitious straighttor-
ward the older men TO clean theh
teeth. TO keep young, TO enjoy them
selves In innocent recreation. TO re-
new their youth by renewing their
minds with good thoughts nobly ex-
pressed: the housekeepers TO check dis
ease through the practical sanitation
OF the home and Its surroundings. lie
could do more in such work than the
best OF preachers. His sentiments are
always noble and uplifting; his life
Is his creed; uprightness and cleanh.
ness Of life of thought. of body. and
his characteristic. His voice Is Ike
the music OF pleasant waters and his
soul radlates from his countenance.
His face. as anyone who ever became
familiar with It. viii testify Is bene
diction: It blesses all whom IL shines
upon His laughter is tonic, his
word Of good cheer. n New Year s res
olutlon.
HE MUST RETURN.
This man, whose happy facility of
speech causes his doctrine to distln
as the dew, as the young rain upon the
tender grass: whose mind is filled with
the noblest and best thoughts of men
sentiments of truth and honor, we'll
conceived and beautifully expressed;
whose heart beats In sympathy with
every man who is honestly and bravely
seeking the upward road. and whose
charity fails not for him who is on
the down grade. how can we let him
go? We cannot. He must return to
us and finish the work which he has
begun"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01

CORNISH-At the residence of her sister
Mrs. Derbldge. 500 North First West
this city, January /, 1908, of paralysis
Hannah Cornish in her 66th year Ma
tive of England
Funeral services will he held Friday
at 2 .. M from tho Nineteenth wsi-i
westinghouse. Friends are invited 60 al .
tend. Interment in city cemetery
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DIED.

JoHNsoN--1n this city, December 81.
1891, at $3.50 p. M, Dorothy Hazel In,
FAINT daughter OF j. Herman and Hazel
Woodruff Johnson born December "a
1897. lnterment private, January l. 1905
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HADDOCK-At the residence OF his
daughter. Mrs D. G. Heminway, ia
South Ninth East, this city, January /.
1908 OF cancer, Benjamin Haddock In
his lSt year. Native of Merthyr
rydlrl, South Wales, and came 10
Utah from Middlesborough, Yorkshire
England.
The funeral services will be held FRI
day, at D. m. from 164 South Ninth
East. Friends invited to attend. Inter
ment in city cemetery.
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STAKER-At 1911 South First West
street, December 81. 1901. OF cancer
William II Staker,in his 18th year Ma
tive of Canada.
Funeral services Friday, at / p. m,
from the funeral chapel of Joseph VIII
liam Taylor dl. South West Ten.plo
street. Friends are invited to attend. In
terment in city cemetery.
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1908-12-05
IN REMINISCENT MOOD
DAYTONA IS PICTURED,

Jeanette, now Miss Smith and Miss
Jones. That lubberly boy | left with
the tenor voice is now talking bass. He
isn't whistling through his thumbs to
his chums up at Giles dock OF shooting
BIS at sand or lbs over ON the beach !;
he's Just cast his first vote for one of
the Bills and is full of business enter
priseS Those proud and chivalrouS
Benedicts who in the conventional
black" led to Hymen's affairs the fairest
flowers of our fair city, how are they
comforting themselves? Sobered and
settled lot walking the floor nights,
thinking thoughts not found in the re-
vised version or the catechisms and
quite at variance with the injunction
found in commandment No. 3, dodder-
ing and cooling the lusty-lunged little
Franklin Edwards, Donald Les les,
Henry Us, Jean Frances. Mira MaNines
Elsie Donas, future senators and presi-
dents, club women and suffragists
Humorously speaking these general
changes are observed by the occasional
visitor Dropping the jocular vein and
speaking specifically there are many
faces once SO familiar | miss. Our eX-
Mayor Chas. l.. Smith with his strong
yet kindly face, strong voice and strong
personality, eX-Mayor Harris, master
| artist, as also was his talented wife, in
his chosen work; jay" Wilkinson, the
, recognized Apollo of Daytona, and liked
by all; W. r. Jibb, who smilingly took
our money and showed Us out the gates
Death has claimed its shining marks.
Their voice Is stilled, we miss their pres
ence and lament their loss 1t must be
source of great JOY to those nearest to
our departed friends to realize the rich
+ legacy they leave in AN unsuhied name
and in well spent lives. Their achieve
mentS live, and this and future genera
tons share the benefits of their labors.
As editor J. NJ. JolIey stood quite
above the average; he had clear con-
ception of the duties and responsibilities
OF the position and kept his paper upon
a high plane He wrote gracefully. flu
emily, lucidly and with a purity and fin
lsh of dlction that marked the man of
ability and character: his paper was
clean and wholesome, never obscure.
lurid or reckless. Many Florida editors
might take pattern with profit to them
selves and TO their constituents. As
postmaster he served his patrons in
business like way, observing duty strict
ly and painstakingly. He was a loval
Daytonian and contributed in large
measure to the present beauty, standing
and worth Of our city, and his loss is
felt.
1t WAS pleasure to know d. A. Blod-
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1908-12-05

Major and Mrs. Abercrombie
spent Thanksgiving day with their
children at the Wayside Inn, on
Myrtle avenue.
C. r, Simonds, of Jacksonville,
joined his wife in this city Wednes-
day for few days visit with his
mother and brother.
Miss Alllene Wilson came up
from Jamison Mills Wednesday and
spent Thanksgiving with her
parents on North Beach street
Mrs Z H, Hotchkiss expects to
leave next month for France, where
she will spend the winter with her
daughter who is attending school.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Twining ar
rived from Haskins, Ohio, last week
and are again located in the Gar
land house on South Beach street
for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs E. F. Oates and
Mrs Oates mother, Mrs NJ E. Sill
vernall went to DeLand Thursday
to spend Thanksgiving with Mr.
Oates parents, returning by train
on Friday
H. d. Parrish and sister. Miss
Dora H., arrived Wednesday of last
week from Great Darlington, Mass.
Miss Parrish conducted manicuring
and chlropodist rooms on Volusia
avenue last winter.
Messrs. D. E. Austin and H. J.
Schultz and their families enroute
to st Augustine in houseboat in
tow of a launch stopped at this
place for a time Thanksgiving dav.
The party were from Jensen.
A. c. kirchner, for some time IN
charge Of the telephone line here
has gone to indianapolis, Ind.
where he has accepted the position
of district inspector for the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Geo C. Bolles. of Miami, visited
with his grandmother, Mrs. Julia r.
Bolles, Friday of last week. Mr.
Bolles is prominent attorney Of
the Magic City and was recently
elected supervisor of registration for
Dade county.
-, Duncan McDougal, representing
the Peters Shoe Company, St. !
LOUIS has been in the city taking
orders for his firm, Mr.. McDougaI
always looks forward with pleasure
70 his visits to Daytona, where he
has many friends.
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1908-12-05

gett, a man of strong character and
worth, a giant in the business world, yet
gentle rs woman with his neighbors
and friends. He was quick to recognize
the Incompatible beauties of our city.
and Was pleased to come and make it
yet more beautiful rs a glance at his
South Ridgewood premises shows. Day.
tona is richer by his coming this way.
Another prominent figure but short
time ago so familiar on South Beach
street is gathered with our fathers. He
played IA prominent role in the early
hiStoryeof the city, and left lasting I'M
pint for good. }. II. Niver has answered
the last earthly roll-call, but glance at
the records show his worth in develop
ing city He had Just surrendered his
business cares, built Il delightful cottage
and decided to move slowly and easily
down the western horizon when the
summons came, aud II. Niver an
swered Ready"
One of Gods noblemen, big hearted
and distinguished looking, was William
Wicking. Jovial, keen sense Of humor,
he was always a welcome presence in
any gathering He WAS connected with
several important business enterprises,
and an important factor in the early de-
vclopment of the city. May the sod
rest lightly on Mr.. Wicking's grave.
John B. Parkinson, aggressive, reg
ular storage-battery of energy, grasped
as with hooks of steel every question of
moment; he mastered the details and
was SO intensely interested, interesting
and in earnest that i'll the presentation
of any argument in any cause he cham
pioned he usually carried conviction
and "won out" He labored in season
and out of season for the town he loved,
and his premature departure leaves a
void difficult to FIJI. Daytona were bet
ter with Parkinson in every block
And Col c. II. Spencer, the noblest
Roman of them all. With his passing
conspicuous landmark is gone This
is why the writer thought the Colonel
possessed of extraordinarily large men
tai calibre, of astute discrimination, q
giant oak is 1t were towering above the
saplings at its feet: the writer twelve
winters ago assumed editorial charge of
the Daily Daytonian. Meeting the Colo
mel on the street after the initial ap-
pearance | was cordially greeted with
Your paper is clever, out Of the ordin-
AIRY; am for you, young man" He
proved that he meant it, and this is why
we treasure his memory.
Col. c. c. Post had the bearing of
courtly SUutherner Of anti-bellum DAYS.
The pressure Of urgent business de-
mands were never 50 insistent as to
make him abrupt, and yet few men in
the Daytona district ever drove at one
time more diverse business schemes, en-
terprl@es which pushed to successful
issue were establishing Us firmly upon
the rock OF success. Helen Wilmans
Post, a woman of Unusual mental at
tainments, attainments which gave her
a aturai reputation, was likewise con
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1908-12-05

sad reflection to q more cheerful con.
temptation it is interesting to note the
I improvements met with at every turn
New streets, new pavementS, new dwell
InsS, new hotels, club houses, business
houses, new industries and enterprises
more push and speed. A eursory glance
around town reveals more changes and
improvements than there is space fol-
tn" scribe to dilatr upon
On the southern side enSconccd among
the pines. The Pines was reared.
Farther north additions to that very
popular hoStelry. "The Ridgewood''
We're noted. From its roof garden a
magnificent panorama spreads before
the bcholder.
Jas H. Baker has lifted the Saratoga
Inn skyward and 1t looks Smllingly out
upon the broad Halifax
Herr Schmidt has added extensively
and the Villa of yorc is now preten-
tlouS hostelry.
Another new and popular candidate
tor public favor is the Magnolia, under
the management CT Mrs Celeste Kinks.
The popularity of The Dcspland rem
dcred an enlargement imperative. The
proprietor, L. N. Waite, yielded to the
demand
The Bennett gives emphatic evidence
OF 4 taxing patronage by improvements.
The Prince George looks spick and
span, is modernized and Messrs. Hill
yard and Holroyd will place. it in the
fore front.
The Austin is another candidate for
FAVOR looking out upon the Halifax.
A large number of others have added
t" and improved and especially have
comfortable and commodious boarding
houses been built or improved.
Across the river the Princess Issena
Is :. charming retreat. 1t was begun by
Mrs. H. W. Post and finished under the
uitttioh Oh HtT daughter, Mrs Ada vii
mans Powers.
The Colonnades, distinguished for
looks and service, has doubled its "a
pacitv and Messrs johnson and GRAY
are projecting improvements which Will
make 1t decidedly popular.
The Clarendon has enlarged till il i
no" by odds the largest in the Daytona
district and ranks in every desirable
way with the great hostelries of the
State.
The transition across the riyer-Sea-
breeze and Daytona Beach-is Ak
marked as in Daytona proper. There
ao here have new streets been opened
up, granltoid paFements laid artistic
cottages built, lawns made and studdad
with ohrubbery and made velyctv with
grasses and bright with flowers. II i
a story OF magic growth, replete with
interest to those who come and 90 and
note vlci5situdes.
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1908-12-05
EVERYBODY WELCOME EVERYBODY WELCOME:
) Gruber Morris Hardware Company.

spicuouS i'll all this work, and now that
they have joined the majority on the
other side We forget our differences and
conflicts Of opinions and drop Il flower
in tribute to their good deeds which live
on. They were big and vigorous OF
mind, faithful to their obligations, lib
eral with their friends, and are incurred
by friends and followers far and wide.
All of US enjoyed watching II. F.
Douglass load his pipe and the draughts
of satisfaction in the cloudy rings of
smoke he blew toward the ceiling Of the
old City Hall will linger long ia many
memories. There is bound to be lots OF
mtlloWneSs, kindness and soundneSS in
the makeup of any man who could sing
as Ii. F. Douglass sang. He was always
at his post, and usually right up with
his work, and if he sometimes seemed to
present a grutf exterior You kne- he
was right within.
mother familiar figuIe on Daytona
streets, but recently passed to the I'M
known bourne from which but one has
ever returned, was Alexander Bury. No
more gentle-spiritcd, refined, agreeable,
companionable people than Mr.. and
Mrs. Bury visited here. The Bible says
there is better land than Haytona-
many are 10th to believe it-and that
such as they will be reunited. even
happier and better than here.
And still another to answer the last
roll-call was J. NJ. Garland, prominent
III church work, and for years a conspic-
uous figure in the development of Day
tOna- The ranks of the Gold Guard
have been decimated; their arms have
been handed down TO those now OF
Daytona's firing line, and all hope and
believe they may acquit themselves
with IS much credit as have the distin-
gulshed coterie, whose noble and often
Self-sacriticing achievements inspired
this brief, desultory running sketch
A commanding figure was the Rev. C.
". Arnold; Of unusual height, and of
striking appearance: he WAS one Of the
very few men who could ride a bicvcIe
without q compromise of his dignity
and he delighted in this most healthfuI
diversion. He WIS every WAY eNrm-
piary, consistent and critically careful
The writer called one day at the rectorv
and asked for program Of his Thanks
giving exercises. He replied: you
mean Thanksgiving services. ." The
correction was accepted and program of
services" published,
A great fAvoTite with church gocrs
and citizens generally Vas the late Rey.
C. NJ. Bingham 4 stalwaIt character
mentally, physically and morally. ne
has left lasting imprint OF his strong
personality. 1t is paying light tribute
to say that Daytona and Volusia county
are vastly better for his HAVING lived
and wrought here. Pinewood Is hal
lowed by holding hls earthly ashes in
repose.
others W HON We did not know except
ny sight ART missing, safely anchored on
the foreign shore Turning from this
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1908-12-05

E nest Nichols, of Bar Harbor,
! ! MAI e, is in the city and will bold a
l.l;,t- with EIanklns, the druggia
during the season.
j. d. Maley and II. I. Tites, tso
dogs and two guns made pleasant
sSxtet ont for feathers Thanksgiving.
! They bagged a fine string.
Mr., and Mrs, f. N. Twining a.
rived from Haskins. Ohio, last sesf
and are with Mrs. Twining's rsla.
tlves on South Ridgewood svenus'
Miss Julie Z Carney, of Meridian,
Conn, who conducted the Womans
! Exchange in this city two years ago
Is reported to be quite i'll at her hdus
IN that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Mason
left last Friday for Hastings shs's
they will spend a couple Of weeks
and then proceed to the Isle Of
Pines for the winter, coming %
Davtona some time in March Oh
or April
Mrs. Montana s Ludlow. prup't
etor of the Parkinson House, arrived
Thursday from Urbana, OHIO g
companied by her mother ~
Agnes Stone, and H. B. HARVARD O
Rollen, y C., who will again s1as'
in the management of The Pafflf
son, which opened for the seasn
Tuesday.
F. B. Wright, train dispatch
st, Augustine, with his wife ssw
been down on 4 visit to Mrs.
father, Col. bingham Cescaa
Bingham, Mr.. and Mrs. Wneas
went to DeLand and ate ThahlT
giving bird and accompanlnas
with Mr. Wright's parents.
II. ". Stafford, of JacksoaTas
accompanied by his friend.
Owen. aboard the formers laasss'
stopped over at this place Thaay.
giving day. The boat is a elaea
cabin launch thirty feet IN leas.'
and the gentlemen are on era.7
Miami or farther south as the i
strikes them.
Seth Shear. the father of
Shear, arrived from Asbury IN n
New Jersey, last week ana
spend the winter with his son.
seven years since Mr. Shear M, -
here, but his friends will note ~.
change in him beyond the fact -
he has had the misfortune 70
his hearing,
J. G. Gardner. of Lake ba'I -
who some time since, purchases
Jesse Rowe property on Ridesss
avenue, Holly Hill, was marflea "a
last "Wednesday
hete with his BRIDE
day. Mr.. Gardner has $
and made much ImpIo
nent in the Rowe house.
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1908-12-05
Short Tributes to the
Departed.
A Running Sketch Caught from
the Seat of a Speeding
Motor Car.
tBY l.. 4. DEMAREE)

To one who has spent five consecutive
winters in the Ohio valley, delightful in
the good old summer time" beyond the
power of pen to describe, but caprecious,
abominable with its rapid fire of hot,
cold and temperate blasts from every
point of the compass three days
drizzle followed by binding snow
storm. sleet, a thaw, sluSh, verit-
able Pandora box. metaphorically speak
ing, Jupit II Pluvius shutting the cards
to one say who has been an ocular,
auricular and 5entent witness of such
meteorological freakishness the Daytona
environs promise a respite
Her sunkissed waters reflect bright
ness her festoons of Spanish moss wave
welcome, the clusters of golden citrus
fruits delight the eye, the laundering
sbrf pounding upon the finest beach in
all the world thrills the soul; the leaping
fish, the diving water birds, the barking
squirrels, the trailing vines, the varia-
gated flowers, the balmy trade winds
from the Indian islands blend in one
great Soul-pleasing harmony: these and
many other attractions not to be re-
sisted make this the mecca of the
Yankee, the rendezvous of the old
Rebel, the sanit.rium of the ailing-in
fact constant source of delight for
everybody from everywhere.
Did you ever stop to notice what
marked changes in people, in business,
in the appearance of things in general
occur in the brief space of five years?
The marked changes in our own families
have come imperceptibly, perhaps. the
transition, owing to daily association,
not being noted, but to the one absent
for half decade very decided change
is observed; a more generous sprinkle of
gray hairs, a maturer voice, more dig
nlfed bearing characterize numbers
whom | shall not mention by name,
men and women of middle life, good yet
for many years of usefulness, A few,
beginning to show the weight of years,
are slowing down. The romping girl Of
twelve with frockS at knees and flowing
curls has metamorphosed; curls gone up
and frocks gone down, has passed the
debutante milestone, not Annabelle and
The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1908-12-05

", B, Mccoy received a three
horse power Gray engine last week
Ior use IN the little boat in which
he travels between this place and
his home at Holly Hill.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-09-22
SPLIT ~ HEARST PARTY:
independence Candidate for Cover
nor Of Georgia. Is for Bryan.

Independence Candidate for Cover
nor Of Georgia Is for Bryan.
An Atlanta dispatch says serious
split developed in the Independence
party of Georgia today, when Chair
man Sutler, OF the State executive
committee, announced that no eiec-
toral ticket would be put in the field.
At the same time National Chair
man Clapp, of the party. filed with
the Secretary OF State a complete Fist
of State electors.
Following a meeting OF tie State
executive committee an official state
ment was given out by Chairman
Bernard Sutler, declaring that it was
more important to wage State cam
uaign for Governor than to put an
electoral ticket In the field. Com
menting on Tuesdays action, he
said: THE action OF our executive
committee means that our candidate
Mr.. Carter. will support Bryan and
Kern in the national election Et
means further that Mr.. Carter RS
an independent Democratic candidate
for Governor.