The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-01-23

office Second Floor Espenlaub Building Oak Street, Arcad
The Annual Grand Lodge of Masons is in session
in Jacksonville this week
Rev. H, Boice Taylor, of Kentucky, will preach a
the Baptist church next Sunday.
President Brown has designated February ii a
DeSotos Day at the State Fair in Tampa, this year
The Florida orange market is picking up some
what in the north, but does not yet go above 81 pc
box.
majority and Bob McNamee wears the dark colore
laurel,
Arcadia this week is learning how the Hon. D. |
Fletcher of Jacksonville, looks. Many pictures o
him are in the store windows. Mr. Fletcher is
candidate for U, S. Senator.
The roast handed out to the Ocala Banner edito
recently by Senator W. James Bryan is rich reading
But if the Ocala editor doesn't know it all we tip
hats to him as being the oldest journalist in Florida
The State Federation of Labor Association is hold
ing its annual meeting this week at Gainesville.
Seventy delegates from all parts of the state in at
tendance.
Acquantences of Phillip Isaacs, formerly of Fl
Myers, will be sorry to learn that Mr. Isaacs has lost
his savings of several years in South Florida, in the
Knickerbocker Trust Company failure in New York
recently.
Make your arrangements TO go to the State Fair
If you cannot so before try to be there February
H. DeSoto Countys Day. Let us make it CRANE
rally day and expect to meet ali of old friends
and neighbors and make new acquaintences.
The Lakeland News last week appeared as a sever
column eight page paper, chock full of news and
live matter including editorials that indicate pros.
perty, in no small measure. We congratulate editor
Hetherington on his pluck and success
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Jacksonville Big Show, the Mid Winter EXPOSE
ton will be formally opened on next Saturday,
January IS. President Roosevelt will send telegram
of congratula ion, that will be received on special
wire on the grounds. The admittance to the En-
position is put at the low price of twenty-five cents.
Governor Broward and the governor of Georgia will
be present on the opening day and deliver addresses
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Mrs. Carrie Nation, with her little Ratchet has ar
rived in Tampa, She does not however expect 10 de-
inolish saloons by of muscle The weapon she
now uses is moral suasion through her speeches and
temperance paper called The Hatchet which she
publishes i'll Washington, D. G. She expects 70 re-
main i'll Florida some months making HEADQUARTERS AZ
Tampa most of the time, and will do active ,rohi
bition work.
THE CHAMPION renders heartfelt thanks for q
number OF elegant calendars presented to this Office
by our friends While we cannot use all of them we
have friends i'll far from town sections who are con-
tnuay writing to us for calendars with whom we
are glad to divide. The calendars this wear are I'M
usually fine and would ornament any home or Office
Our thanks are especially due to the Chattanooga
Medicine Co. whose DeVoe calendar holds a h;gb
place IN our regard; the Dodson Printers SUNNY ca
OF Atlanta, whose calendar for 1908 is f of vo,,h,
information The banks of Arcadia have furnished
us with some OF the most artistic calendars we have
SEEM ana the White Sewing Machine Co.. Kabricb
q Co. sent us an elegant one The South Florida
Loan q Trust Co. has given us one that ann .als 70
our love OF the beautiful, and is much prize6 To
our merchants also we return tha,ke Gov ill.,. 80.