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WEST EDEN.
SPRAY.

F. L. Hadley, who has been in poor
health, is now gaining.
School begins Monday, with Miss Clara
Merrill teacher. Miss Merrill came Sat
urday.
Clarence Hopkins, of Trenton, is spend
ing few days With his sister, Mrs. Ger
trude Clark.
Mrs. Florence Seavey and family are
visiting Mrs. Sesvey's sister, Mrs. Maggie
Richardson.
Mrs. Emily Babbidge, OF Stonington, is
spending the winter with her sister, Mrs.
N. w. Higgins.
A pie sociable was held in Town Hill
hall Friday evening for the benefit OF
West Eden chapel.
Frank Power will build . blacksmith
shop. which will supply q much needed
want in this section.
J. Lee Fogg and xife went to Bangor
Friday to spend q short time with Mr..
Fogg's daughter, Mrs. Bernice Phillips.
Jan. 9. NJ.
A son WAS born to Mr.. and Mrs. Murray
w. Lurvey Tuesday, Jan. I.
Frank Power will leave to-day for Fall
River. Mass, where he has employment on
government job.
A supper was given by the V. /. society
Saturday evening. Proceeds $l3.I3, for
the benefit OF the church.
Mrs. Fred Gonys, with little son Fred,
OF Bar Harbor, is with her mother, Mrs.
Ida Rich, while Mr.. Gonya is taking q
trip in the South.
e. Hamor recently received severe
kick from horse he wss trying to catch.
Fortunately he had on heavy clothing.
and no internal injury was received. II
was very narrow escape for Mr.. Hamor,
who is in the eighties.
The V. l. society held its annual BUSH
ness meeting last Tuesday evening. New
officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Carolyn Burns; first vice. presi-
dent, Mrs. Oracle Fogg; second vice.
president, Mrs. Agnes Mayo; secretary,
Luella Sargent; treasurer, q. W. Mayo.
The West Eden Sunday school elected
new officers recently as follows: Super
intendent, ID. G. Hall; assistant super
intendent, Mrs. Luella Sargent; secretary,
Mrs. Leila Trip; treasurer, Mildred
Mayo; organist, Eleanor Kittredge;
assistant, Edith Hall. Good work has
been done in this school, and there was q
good attendance through the past year.
Jan. 10. NJ.
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no other.

gone to Portland to visit his brother, {
A. Lunt and family, before going to wai
for the winter.
The annual meeting OF the IVES. II
mont Improvement society was held JAM
at the home OF Mrs. Abbie F. Lunt. n
following Officers were chosen: Prs
dent, Mrs. Sylvia Reed; vice presid.s
Mrs. Lizzie Thurston; secretary, vi
Abbie F. Lunt; treasurer, Mrs. Len, 4
Robbins; committee, Mrs. Maud websx
Mrs. Della Webster, Mrs. Nettie RumE
solicitors, Mrs. Letitia Sprsgus. "
Eunice Lopaus, Mrs. Jennie Dow, Ms
Anna Lunt, Mrs. Myra Rumill.
Jan. 8. THELxl
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= .xra,cAs has suLscri6er, al i07

80 AMERICAN has Subscribers al i07
a. ths III post-ofces IL Easccek Csa ast.
Az IA. otses payess IL .hs cea,..s cor.
CAN IL net tie oR;s pa2e1 printed in
Hancock coGsty, and kcs nerez Gained -
be, bat it is the only paper ikGt eGa prep
sTiy be called CouSTE paper; al tn
rest are merely local papers. The circsi2 :
!Sez TIE AMEREcA.g, barring the Bar
Rdrbor Records Summer list, Is larger
than that Of oil the Other papers pftased
In Hancock county
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PARTRIDGE COVE.

Mrs. James Grant, who has been ill, is
somewhat improved.
Charles West has rented William KEEL
lens house, and moved in last week.
William Kellen has returned from Cut
Ter and is stopping at Edgar Springer's.
Mrs. Everett Mcfarland and Mrs. Will
SON Eaton have been quite i'll the past
week.
Jan. H.
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FRANKLIN ROAD.
Fred Graves is ill with grip.

Daniel Mckay is hauling hay to Sullivan.
Charles Graves has returned to
Charleston to school.
Mrs. Lottie Williams and Mrs. Lena
Stewart were in Franklin recently.
Mrs. Laura 7. Sinclair, with little son,
OF Ellsworth, visited her father, A. E
Tracy, last week.
Lovers of birthday surprise parties gath
cred at the home of Reuben Williams
Wednesday evening to celebrate his?
birthday. With the assistance o. his good
wife, dainty refreshments were served
and an enjoyable evening was spent.
Jan. 10. G.
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LAsiOINE.

Miss Flora Stratton is visiting friends
in Islesford.
F. L. Hodgkins, who has been in Mel
rose, Mass, several weeks, returned home
Friday.
DR.. c. E. Owen, representative of the
anti-saloon league Of Maine, spoke in the
church Sunday morning.
Jan. ID. H.
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DEDHAaf.

Daniel Burrilt has been i'll for ssy.s
days with throat trouble.
Valentine Estes has returned from /
visit to his daughter in Milford.
Miss Mary Waning is in the gensa
hospital at Bangor for treatment,
Mrs. Charles johnson spent last sss
with her daughter, Mrs. John Jellison !
Gardiner.
Ian IN
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nail-driving contest was decided in favor
of Mrs. Annie Wentworth. An old
fashioned spelling match was also greatly
enjoyed. Refreshments were served and
short programme Of music and reading
was presented.
Jan. 6. Vox PoPULI.
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WEST FREMONT.

Mrs. NJ. L. Dix visited her brother n
w. Lunt, last week.
Mrs. Sarah A. Reed spent Saturday and
Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Zulma s.
Clark, on Clark's point.
Nettie c. Lunt returned to her work in
Boston Monday, having spent few days
here with her parents, g. w. Lunt and
wife.
basil Lunt, who has been visiting his
sister, Mrs. W. A. Clark and family, has
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TRENTON.

Cecil Lord, of Bar Harbor, is visiting his
uncle, b. S. Carpenter.
A. s. Kingsley, Of Bar Harbor, was
the guest of Capt. T. H. Bowden and wife
few days last week.
Jan. ID. MAY.
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COUNTY NENs.
r., additional Count /. Meas. see o.ssr fG2s,
EAST suILTYAN.

d. L. Weste pest, G. A. &, installed Of
ficers Jan. rs follows: Comma aaer'
John L. Perry; senior vice-coE1 nsnder,
Elbridge Stevens; junior vice-eommander,
Epps H. sargent; chaplain. James &
Ashe; quartermaster, Witlism B. Thomas,
adiutsnt, Sa Gin o. Hardison: officer Of the
day, Andrew Doran; officer Of the guard,
Robert 5iaisdell; patriotic instructor, Jo-
seph ]. Roberts; delegate TO department
convention, Joseph j. Roberts; alternate,
William B. Thomas.
ID. L. weare woman's relief corps held
its annual installation of officers al the
regular meeting Jan. 4. The officers are
as follows: President, Absie A. HaTii-
ton; senior vice-president, Fhete h.
Squirting; junior viee-president, Geneva
P. Sargent; chaplain, Rachel (. Smith;
treasurer, Lucretia e. Downing; secretary,
Alice Farrin; conductor, Lynetts /. Perry;
assistant conductor, Charlotte Ycung;
guard, Lutte GuptiiI; assistant guard, Iss-
belle Stevens; musician, Sara Workman;
patriotic instructor, Cora Roberts; color
bearers, Loie II. Hammond, Ellen Sargent,
Louise Bickford, Mary j. Perry; delegate
to department convention, Geneva P. Sa--
gent; alternate, Lynette l. Perry.
Han G. SPEC.
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BAR HARBOR.

Eudora widow, of John Salisbury,
died at the home Of her son,
Marston Salisbury, Saturday morn
ing, after an illness of several months.
She is survived by four sons-Marston,
Wilbur, Bayard and Reuben, and
one daughter-Mrs. Pearl Manchester,
OF Colorado.
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EXCITEMENT IN SULLIVAN CENTRE.

EXCITEMENT IN SULLIVAN CENTRE.
Tuesday, Jan. Z, nearing dusk, a horse
fell by the wayside. His small driver
reused the neighborhood to get the animal
on its feet, which meanwhile was lying
contentedly in the alder bushes.
The storm OF wind and rain was at lis
height, the hour when most people were
deep in the first Stun bers Of the night,
when Benjamin Baker discovered his
chimney was on fire. 1t was bad burn,
and the wind blew the flames down over
the windows and made it appear that the
house WAS on fire. This excited the
women, and the girl started for Graham s
to get help, aroused them and started in
the opposite direction, fell down and hurt
her knee, got drenched and gave it up.
Frank Graham thought their house was
on fire, could hardly breathe for smoke,
got his lantern lighted and rushed through
house and barn, broke globe, and came
back to say he could not find any fire.
Pstten was warned by telephone, also
Fred Noyes. Mr.. Patten fell into the
ditch and wet his foot. Everard Noyes
started with pail Of water; dropped it at
corner of Baker house; Harold came
around the corner, hurt his shoulder,
stepped into pail and spoiled that.
Fred Noyes rung the church bell until
exhausted. Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson was
awakened by the furious ringing OF the
bell; could not think whether it was
Christmas, Fourth Of July or a call to
clean the church. Andrew Havey dressed.
but seeing lanterns going and coming,
waited to learn the locality of the fire.
Mabel Urann telephoned home, as Mr..
Urann was away. Mrs. Urann slipped
into wrapper and started to wake Fred
Urann, fell into the stream and nearly
drowned. Fred ran all the way to
Bakers, arriving out of breath to see the
last Pickering sparks from a burning
chimney.
Jan. ID. H.
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Miss Olive c. Cushman, Of Seal Harbor,
is spending few weeks with friends here.
Mrs. Ada NJ. Bunker, who has been at
work in Gouldsboro. is home.
Fred Ash and wife spent Friday night
with E. J. Robertson and wife in Winter
Harbor, and attended the l. o. o. F.
installation.
School closed Friday, after a successful
term taught by Miss Caroline Mcclure, of
Cherryfeld. Miss Mcclure left Saturday
for Birch Harbor, where she will teach.
Those from here who attended the
public installation and ball of the l. o. o.
F. of Winter Harbor were James A. Hill
and wife, George Allen and wife. F. P.
Noyes and wife, n. Noyes, Miss Mildred
Noyes, Z. A. Lawrence, E. II. Stevens and
wife, Mr.. Whitcomb, Gilbert Gouldsbor
and wife, Linwood Sargent and family.
All report very enjoyable time.
JAN 49, L,
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WEST GOULDSBORO.

Miss Myrtle Merritt is on the sick list.
Mrs. ]. B. Clark is spending few days
with friends in East Sullivan.
Roscoe P. Noyes, who has been spend
ing his vacation with his uncle's family
here, returned to West Sullivan sunday,
where he will spend the winter with Mrs.
A. P. Havey and attend high school.
Jan s. L.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1908-01-30
VOL. XVI

DeLand Record: Barring one
or two frosts, the present winter
is like the old time winters in
Florida. Even tender vegetatio n
has not boon injured by cold, and
the rains have been plentiful for
early spring planting of crops,
truck gardens aud for a heavy
orange bloom. The Florida peo-
pie have very bright prospects for
the year 1908. The orange crop
will be hummer, the truck fields
are yielding immense crops,
and the field crops will be larger
and better than ever, if no sum
mer drouth comes.
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S. A. Giles has u fine little pin
cry from which he is now ship
ping fruit and also has grapefruit
and orange groves.
M, M. CASTOR has a pinery from
which he is now shipping, also a
fine young orange grove and hun
dreds of thoroughbred White Leg
horn and Buff Orpington chickens.
Mr.. CASTOR makes Il speciality OF
shipping eggs for settings and
selling this fine thoroughbred
stock for breeding.
j. Hurton & Son have three
acres of pines under shade cover
and have fine orange and grape
fruit grove.
Il. N. Brown has a 2-acre pinery
and fine young orange grove.
VIM. II, Rankin has one of the
really fine homes in this section,
fronting on the bay, and makes a
speciality Of growing pines, orOn
ges aud grapefruit. Mr.. ROnkin's
grove is one of the best in this
vicinity.
VIM. Renses has a 3-acre orange
grove and a fine shielded pinery,
from which he is now shipping
fruit.
Continued on page2)
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Times-Union:- Gen. GiIchrist
says in his platform: 'The taxa
tion of every little enterprise in
the state throws a burden upon
industry rather than on wealth."
The occupation tax laws, state and
municipal, seem to have been de-
signed to discourage the poor from
attempting to make an independ-
ent living. They are carried to a
pitiful degree of detail. 1t is q
broad principle of taxation that
real estate and personal property
should bear the burdens of the
state. II is wrong in principle to
tax any industry, large or small.
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Prosperous Florida.

"Florida looks prosperous"
said Mr.. Young, a member of u
New York fruit firm, to the New
York Packer man. "There seems
to be evidence of prosperity on all
sides. | noticed particularly that
every little hamlet is getting a
bank, and facilities for doing bus
mess and growing with pros
perity. The late bloom Of orange
crop came on faster than was an
ticipated, consequently there was
3 great deal Of fruit on the mar
ket by the first of the year. | un-
derstand that the average price of
oranges, on the trees was Sl.50 and
grapefruit ranged from $1.50 to
$3.50 on the trees, according to
quality.
81 do not remember now which
estimate among those which have
appeared in the papers was con-
sidered the nearest to the mark,
but | believe the State has two
thirds of the crop Of last year,
and if we don't have freeze or
some sort of parasite does not
affect the trees, ! am of the opin-
ion that there will be II pretty big
crop next year, as the foliage
looks fine and the trees healthy
and strong"
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The Atlanta Journal, which OPP
posed prohibition in Georgia, has
the following report concerning
its effect on Atlapta's police court
business for the first Monday after
the prohibition law went to in
effect:
Nineteen adult cases and two
juvenile cases, in recorders court,
Monday morning, was the sum
total of the docket with which
Judge N. X. Broyles busted him
self on the first Monday after the
advent of prohibition. The re-
cords demonstrated an astonishing
comparison between these figures
and those shown by the docket in
the same court one year ago. On
Jan. Z, 1907, there were 129
adults tried by the recorder, and
IL Juvenile cases were heard. Of
the adult docket there was a
difference of 10 cases between the
two years, IN favor of 1908; and
the juvenile docket showed a
difference of nine.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1908-01-30

The Fort Myers Breeze having
alleged that eight-tenths of the
newspapers of the State are sup
porting Mr.. Stockton for gov
ernor, we have made a cursory
glance at the list and have come
to the conclusion that our Breeze
friend is mistaken. There are
about $50 newspapers published in
Florida, and we cannot count ff-
teen of them supporting Mr..
Stockton. About ten of them are
supporting General Gilchrist; the
remaining 125 appear to be non
committal or neutral. Will our
Breeze friend please give us the
list of newspapers that are sup
porting Mr.. Stockton!
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High School Notes.

1t is highly gratifying to note
that all the old students came
back on time, thoroughly ready tc
begin the work of the New Year.
We have quite II number of new
students, also, who have entered
the various departments of the
school.
1t is not at all seldom that va
cation of any kind is demoraliz-
ing TO q school and results in care
lessness and indifference on The
part of the students toward their
work. We shall have to make an
exception of our folks just here.
We have never seen students more
energetic, any better behaved, or
in any better spirit toward the
school work than these are. There
is no explanation for it unless we
admit that these are a good body
of students, anyway.
The attendance for the past
month has been very good, the
students of Miss Buffers room
taking the lead. 1t ought to be
gratifying to them TO know this,
as they are closely pushed by
some of the other rooms.
The following is the Honor Roll
upon which we notice many famil-
lar names:
10th Grade - May Straughan,
Undine Jordan,
9th Grade - Vic Straughan,
Claire Sheffield, Dot Sewell.
sth Grade May Huffman, Mel
lie Whitaker, Naive Mccain,
Vera Shaw, Maude Messer, Flor
ence Hagan, Bette Knight, Billie
Knight.
7th Grade Ruby Rasch, Ber-
tina Keen, Helen Huffman, Coe
Allen, Leon Mizell, Carl Ander-
son, Carrie Lewis, Burtram Nc
Cam, Mary Wilkins, Willie Mi
zell.
9th Grade = John Williams,
Permelia Straughan, Frank Con-
cannon, Karl Concannon.
9Th Gaade - Carrot Taylor,
Maudie Cothran.
4th Grade Wallace Gaskill,
Edward Mccain, Dick Straughan.
3rd Grade -Lillie Gaskill, Cecil
Bryant, Pearl Singletary, Ethel
Addison.
1st Grade - Ula McGehee,
Florrie Hankerson, Paul Bryant.
Send your orders for printed
commercial stationery to this office.
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Pardon Abuses.

Tampa Times:-A northern gov
ernor paralyzed a whole lot Of
philanthropists, busybodies and
attorneys for the defense, by
coolly refusing to see and hear o
delegation who wished to appear
before him and clamor for the re-
lease and pardon of u man who had
killed his brother and his brothers
wife so that he might come into
their property. The wretch had q
fair and full trial and was con-
demned to be hanged and the
governor deserves the thanks of
mankind for refusing to be both
cred with maudlin proceedings
against justice.
The truth is that tho pardoning
power of executives is much abus-
ed. The time to plead for Grim
inal is when he is on trial. Then
is when his oGense should be fully
investigated and his punishment
measured out according to law
and Justice. But of late years
the task of prosecution is but half
done when u man is convicted and
sentenced. The whole business
must be threshed over again before
the pardon board, and somehow il
seems that the board is softer than
even the mellow run Of juries.
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Times Union: - The PUNTA
GoRDA HERALD tells d nature
story of a persistent and savage
attack made by an otter upon a
man who followed a cow into a
bayhead and surmised that the
otter was mad. Of course that
might be, but offers have been
known to attack and fight savagely
in defense of their young. If Mr..
Koon thought he was breaking up
a home, he might have shown
more consideration for the rage
or terror of the little hero or hero
inc. The odds are largely in
favor of the guess that a mother
died to save her young, but only
Roosevelt can know certainly now
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PUNTA GORDA'SP PRAISES
Proclaimed by the New York
Packer Correspondent.

AllO IVA iNopOhNNhN Va VhN ANSW
York Packer, who visited Punta
Gorda two weeks ago and made a
careful inspection of the town and
its surroundings, wrote the fol-
lowing unprejudiced report to the
Packer of Jany. 18th;
Punta GOrda is no doubt one of
the finest located towns in the
state; with the Peace river, three
miles in width to the northwest
and Charlotte Harbor bay to the
west, with the broad Gulf Of Mex.
leo back of both, there is little
danger of cold weather enough to
freeze the most tender vegetation,
The land is more than ordinarily
rich and will produce anything in
fruits or vegetables. Water for
irrigation purposes is easy to DO
had and many fine flowing wells
are now in here, one large well
throwing its flow twenty-five feet
above the surface.
Pineapp!es are the leading pro
duct, and the Punta Gorda pine
apple is conceded to be the finest
in quality and size of anything
of its kind in this country, having
been awarded first premiums
wherever exhibited. Oranges and
grapefruit do equally as we'll here,
while those engaged in growing
vegetables are meeting with en-
couraging success; yet what Punta
Gorda needs most is more vegeta-
bic growers, and the wonder is
why more people do not come here
for that purpose, since land can be
bought here for from SIS to $50
per acre, according to location,
not quality, as all lands here are
good for any purpose desired.
This is also by far the largest
fish shipping point in the state,
has II fine harbor and with extend
ed and improved docks, which are
now planned for in the near future,
will have shipping advantages
second to none in Florida, Punta
Gorda is healthy to live in, has
a sociable and most hospitablc
class of people, good stores and,
not least, an up-to-date newspaper,
the PUNTA GoRDA HERALD, A. p.
Jordan, editor and owner, which
has the reputation of being more
quoted from and less criticised
by the press in general than any
other paper in Florida.
The growers and most interest
ed people in the agricultural and
horticultural growth of Punta
Gorda include the following:
f. T. Perkins, Crescent pinery,
has 3 acres in pineapples under
shade cover and ten acres of oran-
ges, grapefruit, tangerines, lem
ons, lines and kumquats, also
many varieties of tropical fruits.
A new variety of lemon is grown
here which deserves special men
ton, as it is the most pc sct
fruit of its kind nature has pro-
duced. This is named the grape
lemon and is of the usual size, a
pure rich golden yellow, perfectly
smooth, with a thin /kin and full
of juice and very heavy. This
lemon is in every way superior to
the imported article and ought to
command the highest market
price. Judging from the mann
moth fancy pines now being ship
ped and the fine variety Of other
fruits grown here, Mr.. Perkins
must certainly understand thor
oughly how to grow the best.