The weekly true Democrat., 1909-05-07

IslIaAasssS. Friday. Nay z. 1909.
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The orange blossom Is now the State
flower.
Peter Collier, the great New York
publisher, dropped dead on Saturday,
April 24th.
Be sure that you wear a white flower
on Sunday. It is Mothers Day. and
this In the proper way 10 commemorate
II.
Tallahassee gardeners are eating
roasting ears while our Northern
friends are still roasting their ears
around the CRATES and furnaces,
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Senator Humphries writes 20 his pa
per from Tallahassee that the most
serious problem before the Legislature
ls the financial condition Of the State.
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81. Petersburg has had 100, 900 postal
cards, OF city scenes, printed for dis
tributiOn In the North. Tallahassee
should be doing something In the way
Of advertising lie advantages.
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We have received the Journal and
Year Book Of the SiEty.hfth Annual
Session Of the Florida Conference Of
the N. r. Church, South. IL contains
q full statistical status Of this great
religious denomination in Florida.
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The Pensacola Journal figures that
the May crop Of flies In that city ls only
q half million short, but that this win
mean twsnty-six million and one hun
dred thousand by June. What is Talla-
hAssse doing toward their destruction :
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Tallahassee is 70 have a wireless telo-
phone. BrsdsntOwn Herald.
For the use Of the gum shoe polite
ians Pensacola Journal.
Oh, no, these are with us too infre-
qusntly. The wireless will be used to
get fishing conditions from the Gulf.
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The Dade City Star has absorbed The
Democrat Of that place, and now
Brother Bowden will be able 10 publish
q better paper than ever One good
paper, rather than two sorry ones, can
do much toward promoting the interests
Of Pasco county.
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Hon. John p. Stokes, Of Escambia,
achieved q signal victory In the House
yesterday by the almost unanimous pas
sage Of bis loan shark" bill. there be.
Ing only two votes recorded against Il.
This IL one Of the most meritOrious
measures that has come before the
session Of the Legislature.
Columbus, Ca, citizens claim that
when the g. F. a A. Railroad enters
Columbus, Tallahassee merchants will
patrOnlEs Columbus wholesalers In pref.
erence 20 the Jacksonville wholesalers.
The Tallahassee merchants will patron
lee that city and that railroad which can
offer the greater inducements.
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One serious interference WIN tht op |
GRAFTON Of the prohibition laws In GeOr-
gia and Alabama has been the substitu-
ton Of 'neer beer" saloons. Senator
Humphries goes a step better for Flor
IDA and introduced a bill shutting out
all drinks that contain ~ high as two
per cent. Of alcohol In the interest OF
genuine temperance we hope Il will
pass. --.
The Senate haa voted 10 indefinitely
postpone the consideration Of the
WALES claim. There was never q more
just obligation againat q State than
this, and II h lneOnesivable how the
different Legislatures can treat Il with
such Indifference. But Colonel WALES
b q fighter and he is now more deter.
mined than ever 10 collect this Obliga-
ton. And The True Democrat believes
that he win ultimately succeed.