The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-29

NEWS NOTES
Items of Interest Gathered
at the Capital of
Florida.
speciaI to The Journal.

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the requirements of paragraph ,, sec
ton 46, page 10, Of the Digest of
School Laws of Florida, Hon. w M.
Holloway, state Superintendent of
public instruction, will call conyen-
ton of county supsrintendents, high
school principals and others who may
be interested in the cause of educa-
ton, to meet at Lake City March 10
IS, 1909. Lake Cit1 was chosen as
the place of meeting because of the
accessibility of its CENTRAL location.
Heretofore these conventions have
been held at the capital in April, dur
ing the session of the legislature, but
Mr. Holloway has decided that an
earlier date is desirable on account of
the short length of tine at the dispos-
al of those whose duty ii is to formu-
late the ideas and suggestions gained
at these conventions INTO bills to be
enacted into laws by the legislature
then convened. Usually, by the time
the bills are ready the legislature is
in its last days of rush and confus-
ion, a state not conducFe to a quiet
consideration of important measures;
so. in order to avoid having matters
pertaining to the schools passed over |
or given but Scant and Unsatisfactory
consideration, Mr.. Holloway intends
that this time everything shall be in
readiness before the 6tA of April, |
1909.
II is of the most vita importance |
that the coming Legislature shall re
organize existing schod conditions
and bring the state out Df the chaos |
produced by the recent supreme
court decision in the cale of DeSoto |
county
Death of Mrs. MsCaa.
Ts-fNa
born in Houstoun, FloTid, August 4.
1870. Her parents. Davii Lang, col |
onel of the Sth Florida Confederate /.
regiment. and Mary Campbell Lang, |
moved 10 Tallahassee abgut the year |
1875 II was her their daughter was |
married to Mr.. BuTwell iBoy5Nin Nc |
Caa. Mr.. and Mrs. McCaa lived in
hareS- rnUved 70 JacksoRviife and
from there to Portsmouth,, Va. in
which city Mrs. McCaa passed away
on Saturday, the 23rd inst, after an
! illness of twelve days.
Mrs. McCaa always remembered
| her girlhood home with deep afec-
ton. IL was here that there came 10
/ her the GROWING joys Of her young
| womauhoOd, also the most poignant
9Tiefs.l Her beloved mother lay In
| Gods acre at the foot of one of Tai
/ Iahassee's old clay hills, and beside
her Two little ones that for rev
brief months had brought TO the young
wife the glory of motherhood. Here
| were hosts of friends and familiar
seems never forgotten, never faded
jntctifstant memories, but loved, long
ed Tor and sOTely missed, ana So
vbh she had laid aside the pleasures
ami mains of life, loving thought plan
neI to bring her home" again. and
Iio4ng hands laid her where she would
i bEe wished to lie
/ Small in body but large In soul.
have, gentle and loving, her cneefy
fsposition and charity OF thought 10
4 men. made for her friends, ad-
hiring and sincere, wherever she
kent. and many were the hearts IN
his CITY that were saddened when
the news came that she 1ad passeu
on into the great beyond.
I The burial service was read in St.
Johns Episcopal chuTch-the church
in which she had been married and
into which she had brought her chill
dren for baptism. The CaSket was
loaded with flowers. the last tribute OF
loving friends, and they w1O bore her
we're friends of her youth grown to
manhood. Her husband and father.
brothers and friends stood near uhtli
nothing was left but a flower-coVered
mound and a memory, fragrant Win
the odor of the sanctity Of life well
spent, and of an example LETT tor the
glorious Inheritance of her children.
A young son and two little daughters
survive TO be their bereaved fathers
and grandfatheT's comfort and nope.
Besides Mr.. McCaa and Colonel
Lang there were present At the burial
relatives and friends who had come
up from other parts of the state:
These we're Mr. Campbell Lang, %
OIdtown: Mrs. Henry c. Denton, OF
Gainesville; Mr.. T. NJ. Cox, DR.. and
Mrs. Daniel. MI and Mrs. Louis >.
Peck, Mrs F. A. Gibbons, Mr.. Chris
TOPPER MathesOn, and Mr.. J. H.
Burroughs. of Jacksonville
The paIlbeareTs were Messrs. John
Henderson, James Randolph, A. H.
Williams. b. c. Whitfield, George
Perkins, Charles Monroe, Jos. A: Ed
mondson. DR. H. E. Palmer and Dr.
E. NJ. Brevard.
The City Election.
More than usual interest was man
ifested Tuesday in the election of the
new mayor and council. The contest
was exceeding close, and the candi-
dates were kept in suspense all day
until the final count which gave 156
votes to Francis B. Winthrop for may
or. as against 142 for Foster c. Gill
more.
The two tickets. the Citizens" and
the Peoples as they were called,
contained in each case the same
names for councilmen. with two ex-
ceptions- Tne Citizens ticket won
The same was the case with the
names voted upon for the executive
committee, only in this instance one
man IN Zach ffcEaf Inst ont r II