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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28
EVENING STORY.
WHERE THE AcoRNs GROW.
BY Carl Jenkins.

Copyright, 1911, by the Associated
I Literary Press.) .
I "Just in time for the acorns, my
dear" added Miss Dolly Durham tc
her welcome to her school chum, Miss
Cathy Dalton, Of the city, as the latter
reached the railroad depot at Ravens
rest. r. -a...r r r -s L. ~
ooh, are there acorns?" ..-s.
"Pecks and pecks of them-nice
acorns-sweet acorns--acorns falling
on your head as you kick around in
the dead leaves!"
picture!" 49, e
And there's mani"
"You can't mean it," 49,. ....., ~.
But do He's young mani"
Better and better!"
He's mysterious young man,
with black eyes and curly hair"
ooh, Molly! I'm 80 glad | came!
Go on, quick"
II don't know his name He ap.
peared week ago in a very mys'
FERROUS manner" "
"How delicious!" =
II was up on the hill after acorns.
There's stream there. I was carry.
ing my hat in my hand and whistling
Yankee Doodle and had just jump
ed over a log, and my hair was down,
and know I looked my very worst,
when"
Yes, when -..'
when ran right on him - the
man the young man the mystic
rious young man."
"And he was gathering acorns?"
mo, he wasn't. He was fishing.
Yes, he just sat on log fishing, and
couldn't see that he had caught a
thing" .....s... ,...a 81. ~.
"And you screamed?" So
"Not scream! Cathy Dalton, do
you think I'm child?"' E%
well, he raised his cap to your -
mo he didn't l don't believe he
even raised his eyes, though he must
have heard me. He Just sat there
like chump and bobbed his fish
line, and he paid no more attention
to me than if were goose on the
other bank"
"And everybody says you are SO
handsome"
"Yes."'
HE must be SO near-sighted that
he can't see the end Of his nose. And
you had to walk off alone?"
Eyes, but broke down bushes and
dubbed trees to show him how 1 felt
about it. Since he was trespasser
on mothers property he might have
had the manners to ask me II farmers
didn't feed pigs acorns to fatten them.
I looked back four times Eefore the
bushes hid him, but he sat there
bumped up just the same"
"And wasn't he looking after you?"
mot a look There is surely a
mystery about him." FL
There surely is. but We'll get to
the bottom of it. Well go after
acorns this very afternoon, and we'll
see IL he ignores both of us. He may
be suffering from unrequited love, but
he needn't be cad about 1t. Just
wait till we march up to him!"
Dwight Pelham had graduated as
an M. D. at Columbia. His health
was not of the best, and he mad had
a hard time to pull through. Then a
friend had said to him:
go up the country and find quiet
place to rest. Fish, hunt and loaf.
Don't think OF hanging out your
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28
Theodore Roosevelt.

Charles Francis Adams, whoever he
may be, has made the discovery that
George Washington as a military man
was pretty much Of a failure. Judged
by results, however, Washington
seems to have been more or less sue
cessful. And results count. Washing
tons contemporaries evidently did not
share this view when they elected him
as the first president, and they knew
him better than we do. It's easy to
read a few chapters Of history and
then write minority report, but few
regulations, other than those of the
writer's of these screeds, suffer any
damage. - ~ ~ - -
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28
WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS.

Christmas means hope and it's
realization. The child grows
eagerl.r expectant as the time ap-
breaches for the visit Of Santa Claus.
while this fiction remains unquestion-
ed. the imagination opens new and
wider worlds, and ideals become so
much a part Of the mind that the
prosaic and commonplace can never
crush them. Until the youth reaches
manhood and independence, Christmas
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28
JOHN eIGELoW.

''The late John Bigelow,"" the New
York World says, "had many claims to
distinction. 3 AS Lincoln's minister to
France and Tilden's friend, trustee and
biographer, as associate editor with
William Cullen Bryant in the heat OF
the anti-slavery agitation and as an
author whose published works cover
nearly a half-century Of literary pro-
ductiytty. he was eminent In many oc-
equations. Yet it is for the civic SER
vice 81 his long lifetime, continued
after most men cease their industry
and eliminating in public activities
which won him the deserved title of
New York's first citizen, that he will
be best remembered. .ra~
"What link he was with 9 great
past! When John Bigelow was born
In 1917, Monroe, last Of the Virginia
line Of presidents, was just beginning
his first term. John Adams, Jefferson
and Madison were yet living. Clay
was again speaker Of the house, Wash
ington Irving had only begun to write,
Aaron Burr was seeking to recoup his
shattered fortunes in New York and
Abraham Lincoln was ragged lad
on an Indiana clearing. The nation
had only begun its territorial expan-
sion. Florida was yet to be acquired
and Texas annexed. Illinois, Alabama,
Missouri, Maine and Mississippi had
not been admitted to statehood. Not
for two decades to come was Fremont
to ind pathway to the far west.
ut was given to John Bigelow to
behold q rare panorama Of history and
Of Industrial development. When he
was born, the first American pudding
and rolling mill, the primitive begin
ming OF the steel trust had just been
built in Pennsylvania and the first
power looms set up in New England
mills. The railroad, the telegraph and
the Atlantic cable were yet to be, the
Mexican war still to be fought and the
slavery controversy threshold out. That
his life extended from the year Of the
beginning of work on the Erie canal
to the time Of the near completion Of
the Panama canal is perhaps the best
concrete measure of the progress It
comprehended.
"Mr. Bigelow lived through twenty
three presidential administrations and
his life comprised the terms of Office
OF thirty-flve governors Of the state
and forty-five mayors of the city Of
New York At his birth Dewitt Gin.
ton had just been made governor after
three terms as mayor, and he was a
boy Of ten during the administration
Of Philip Hone, whose diary reads to-
day like the far reflection of re-
mote past. He knew Thackeray and
Dumas, was familiar with the Paris
of Napoleon III, and Eugene, and
knew the New York of Fernando Wood
equally with sthe New York of McClel-
Ian and Gaynor. And at a period of
life when his contemporaries were re-
Taxing their activities he was devoting
himself with new vigor~to the public
service which constitutes his best
monument.
Truly grand old man, one whose
virility and keen interest in affairs
maintained to the very end of his
ninety-four years are an inspiration
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28

christmas is an evolution said
President Taft to the children of All
Saints church, Washington, Sunday
morning. "'Some day you will under
stand there is something better than
to receive gifts, much as you prize
them now. After a while, when hope
you will be able to make gifts, you will
find much more pleasure in giving
things to other persons than in getting
them yourselves" -
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number after cut down to the one to q

Carnegie prepared list of the
twenty greatest men Of history and
started something in the newspapers.
Someone came along with list Of the
twenty greatest women, and started
something else. George Fitch, the
Peoria Herald-Transcript philosopher
now comes to bat with the following
list of the twenty greatest statesmen:
T. r.. .E- .-,..o.,@ ~ tz. ... s r'~.s
The Man on Horseback. e - a.
1.-THE Man Platt Buried" 9 !" r
1.-THE Accidental President"
The Sage of Oyster Bay.
Teddy. . :
Harvard's Most Eminent Alumnus.
Representative Longworth's Father
in-Law.
Jacob Riis' Idol.
The Contributing Editor of Out
look" i.t
Theodore l." 49,,
The Chief OF the Rough Riders.
Chairman Barnes Nemesis. :
Chancellor Days Chief Bogy. 60
The Father of the Panama Republic.
The Author Of african q Game
Trails ~. 3 i ~ z. q =
The Hero of Portsmouth.
The Man on Elba. f..
The Organizer Of the Unacceptable
Club" ~ H. .t:fs ."
Theodore Roosevelt. G..
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28

The following table shows how the
Moon law has affected the saloon situa-
ton in Iowa cities, the first column
showing the number Of saloons before
the law was passed, and the second the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28

Shredder goes on claiming it's daily toll
OF hand, arm. foot, leg and life.
Cedar Rapids Republican: We hope
the Ice men are not beginning to wor.
ry. We are bound to have cold spell
sometime or other. There will be Ice,
as usual. I.aI !.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28

With a new sled in the house to be
broken in little Johnny will regard this
snow as nothing short of providential.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28

sleep from every pillow the block This devise is
one Of the most malignant weapons which capital
uses in It's efforts to- union labor. 1t has
gotten so that the alarm clock for hardness
has become joke in capalistc circles and is greet
ed with derison and gaping wound in the pay check
slumberous employe can hardly overseep couple
hours nowadays without having some heavy-jowled
emissary Of predatory wealth utter few jests
about the price Of alarm clocks. There Is quite
difference in the breath control of alarm clocks BY
the practice of deep breathing clocks are able
to sustain phrase until the fire department cuts
hole through the roof while others have poor
method and after uttering few terse remarks die
away on low g. The first time alarm clock peals
it's glad song into the ear Of who is belted up
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-28

Miss Mary Cheney of Chicago is
guest at the home Of Miss Ruth Hail.
632 North Court street
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Sidewalk Sketches
BY Howard L. Ram
THE ALARM CLOCK.

The alarm clock is fendish piece Of which calculated
with against the which
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-03
THEY AROSE

Our friend, General Jewell, in a re-
cent call anent the Confederate re
union, called upon the CITIZENS of Or
lando to "Arouse!"
Well, they aroused, arose and ariz
all right. In fact it was an arouse
ment, arosement and arizment, the
equal of which Orlando has seldom
witnessed
1t did us all good to have the old
soldier boys break bread with us. A
CHEEKY crowd they were, though pa
thetic indeed was the sight of the
Immortal Four Hundred" marching
down the street to the martial air Ct
the band, old men, for the most part
from seventy to eighty years of age
For two days many of them lived in
the battles of the past, but they are
marching to the peace of the future
Orange County Citizen.
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YORK AND LEROY ITEMS

Special Cor. Ocala Banner:
w. B. Newbern went up to the
Brick City Friday.
The genial face of 'Buckshot" Will
liams, a former conductor on the Dun
Mellon short, passed through York
last Friday.
Mrs. J. NJ. Barco of Cotton Plant
went to Ocala last Friday.
1t is reported that Robert Doug
lass, a faithful employee of Horne &
Co., has bought out Mr.. VIM. A.
Simpsons interest in the store at this
place, and from now on the firm name
will be Horne & Douglass. Mr.. Simp-
son will leave York about the Sth to
take much needed rest and to recu-
perate his health.
Mr.. Butler, the section foreman ct
Leroy, has placed the track just W est
of the depot in excellent condition.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. ellis Satur-
day morning, fine daughter. Moth
er and child are doing nicely.
Mrs. Roy George of Ocala came
down to see her sister, Mrs. w. v.
Weathers. recently, and returned ON
the evening train.
Miss Sue Barco was in York Tues
day transacting business.
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suMMERFIELD ITEMS
Lsmvi
Special Cor. ocala Banner:

Special Cor. Ocala Banner:
Rev. Mr.. Blocker of the Methodist
church held services here last Sun
day morning and evening.
Next Sunday Rev Mr.. Entzminger
will hold services at the Baptist
church. Preaching both morning and
evening
Mr.. Nathan Mayo went to Live Oak
last Saturday to attend the funeral of
the late Mr.. C. J. McGehee. Mr..
Mayo returned on Wednesday.
Mr.. r. L. Douglass, local manager
for the Florida National Land Com
pany, who is away on his vacation, is
expected home in few days.
A. j. Chancellor of Memphis. Mo-.
arrived last Saturday to become a
permanent settler. Mr. Chancellor
brought with him a carload of house
hold goods, pair of fine mules and
a quantity of farm tools. He is de-
lighted with the land he purchased
from the FLORIDA national Land Com
pany.
Geo. j. Hickey of Defiance, Ohio,
arrived last Sunday. and will be with
us permanently. AS soon as his res
idence is built he will send for his
family.
Mr.. A. d. Mitchell has leased Mr..
Higby's farm and has started to pre-
pare the ground for a watermelon
crop next spring.
Beginning next Sunday Father Har-
ding has announced that Sunday SER
vices will be held at $3.50 a. m, and
he hopes that all Catholics living in
this vicinity will attend, and De
prompt.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-03
SUPREME COURT HOLDS BOND
ELECTION LEGAL

In the matter of the bond election
for water works for the city of Ocala,
it has been held a legal election by
the supreme court of the state of
Florida
After the bond election this case
was carried to the circuit court by
Jos. Bell and G.. A Nash as citizens of
Ocala, represented by H. M. Hampton,
attorney, and the city of Ocala, repre-
scented by City Attorney Carlos L.
Sistrunk.
The circuit court of the county rul-
ed against Messrs. Bell and Nash in
favor of the city, from which an ap-
peal was taken to the supreme court,
and, upon consideration of the mat
ter, the supreme court has affirmed
the decision of the lower court, and
the bond election of the city of Ocala
for water works, ETC., has by the high
est court of the state been declared
legal, which will be learned with in
terest by the citizens of Ocala.
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FAIRFIELD FACTS

(Received too late for Weekly.)
Special Cor. Ocala Banner:
We chronicle with sadness the
death, on the morning of October %,
1911, of Mr. A. B. Rou. The deceased
spent many years in this state, and
was widely known. He had passed
his seth year, was Confederate vet
eran, member of the Baptist church
and was a Mason. The funeral ser.
vices were held at the grave, being
conducted lin the absence of the Bap.
fist pastor) by Mr.. L. S. Light. A
wife, four children and a large circle
of relatives are thus bereft.
Mrs. w. L. Goodwin returned home
on Tuesday from her visit to relatives
in South Carolina. Mr.. Goodwin be-
came so interested that he abandoned
his nowadays occupation of hog-catch
ing and met Mrs. Goodwin at Jackson.
vile. Mrs. Goodwin enjoyed her so
journ greatly, one feature being a
vast camp meeting on the grounds
where years ago her father was con
verted. We are all glad to have he1
with us again.
Fairfield is favorably situated fol
| circus-going. A large contingent went
to Ocala and the rest to Gainesville
The T. & J. favored the Gainesville
group with special train at conven
lent hours. Automobiles, buggies and
feet furnished the transportation &c
Ocala.
The grist mill and cotton gin are
again in steady operation. Mr. FAINT
of Morriston spent few days instruct
ing Mr.. Walker about the new gin
The latter gentleman seems now vel
on the job.
| Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. Payne drove tt
Ocala on Tuesday. They didn't stay
for the circus, and no doubt the Hon
M. L. will long regret this latter fact
| p w. GREEN.
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ITEMS FROM BLlTcHTON
20 ssss ses'.rs~sss.


Special Cor Ocala Banner;
Miss Legie Bitch has returned to
her home in Blitchton, after a visit
of several months in North Carolina
and other states.
Capt. Cobb, wife, baby and mother,
tinoJJ .Wqlltid O.. shrdlu hrdlu uu
and Mrs. Bryant visited Blitchton
last Sunday.
A rattler measuring six feet in
length was recently killed in Bitch
ton.
]. c. McCully, who is demOnstra.
ton agent for the Blitchton section,
is very much in earnest in his endeav-
ors to interest the farmers in the
scheme to know what an acre will
yield if cultivated as per his advice,
which he receives from the govern.
ment..
The farmers of Blitchton have at
last determined to prepare their
farms early in the fall for spring
planting, which means an abundant
yield, ease in cultivation and less
outlay and trouble in securing help in
planting season.
Quite few of the citizens of Nor
riston and Blitchton will pass through
Ocala next Friday to witness the
football game between Columbia Col
lege and the University of Florida at
Gainesville.
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"THE GIRL IN THE TAXI"

"The Girl in the Taxi" the laughing
success of the present era, will ap-
pear at the Temple theater Saturday
night, November 4th. This is the
play which created such sensation
in Paris and upon it's production in
this country scored the greatest sue
cess and achieved the longest run of
any play of similar nature in New
York, Chicago and Boston. Mirth
and merriment hold the reins and
drive with reckless pace over hills
and dales of side-splitting complica-
lions from curtain to curtain. THE
Girl in the Taxi" may truthfully be
said to defy every speed law, and to
drive along at high speed with no re-
gard for stop watches or brakes. A
cast of unusual excellence presents
the play, and no expense has been
spared in the costly production. Sing
ing, dancing and musical specialties
are interpolated throughout the play.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-03
STANDARD ITEMS
Special Cor. Ocala Banner:

Special Cor. Ocala Banner:
The school picnic at Oak Grove
Saturday was great big success
! The weather was a little unfavorable
in the morning, but later the sun
came out from his hiding place and
smilingly promised us a pleasant
day.
The crowd gathered about eleven
o'clock and were soon assembled to
hear the school program which
Though too short) was we'll rendered
and much enjoyed by all.
Then came the dinner which was
hard to beat The cooks in this Sec
ton are we'll in practice, and having
| plenty to cook made one feel that
they We'd with each other to see who
could prepare the incest things and
the most of them. The table fairly
groaned under it's burden of goodies.
but we were hungry as picknickers
always are and we all went away
wishing there was room for more,
for what had been eaten could hardly
be missed.
After doing all in our power in
looking after the dinner we were well
entertained by watching "the boys
play ball. of course we girls didn't
play and therefore don't know Just
how the game went, but we could
cheer them when they made a home
run" and when the umpire said three
OUT
After We were beaten at the game,
all being tired and feeling that the
day had indeed been a pleasant one,
we retired to our homes, hoping that
the golden future holds another
school picnic" in store for us.
After the picnic several of the
young people retired to the home cf
Mrs. Hackney where they spent the
evening in social games.
A crowd of worshippers gathered at
Pleasant Hill church Sunday morn
ing to hold services, but the minister
failing to come in, only aended to a
little church business and went
home or some where else to spend the
rest of the day.
Our school is progressing nicely
although there has been some little
sickness among the children lately.
Well goodnight,
SISTER ANN.
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RlCHESON INDICTED FOR MUIR
nEP

A special from Boston says that the
Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, pastor
if Emmanuel Baptist church, Cam
bridge, was indicted on five counts
charging murder in the first degree
by the Suffolk county grand jury for
the alleged poisoning of Avis Linnell
of Hyannis, on October IA. The
grand jury reported their finding to
Judge George A. Sanderson in the SUI
perior criminal court after hearing
more than thirty witnesses during
four days.
1t is understood the jurors were
unanimous in adopting the indict-
ment.
By a strange irony of fate Pastor
Richeson was indicted on the very
day set for his marriage to Miss Vio-
let Edmonds.
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FAIRFIELD FACTS
special Cor. ocala Banner:

Special Cor Ocala Banner:
On Friday afternoon. while attend.
ing 10 his duties at the barn of the
Fairfield Naval Stores Company, Mr..
r. S. Did was attacked by vertigo,
and dropped 20 the ground After a
short time he was found. DIR. Cat
trell was called In and Mr.. Didd was
carried home He has steadily i'm
proved. and has almost recovered
from the effects OF the attack.
Mr.. Thigpen and family. who have
been soiourning at Dunnellon, have
returned 10 their former home here.
Their car Of household goods is ready
for unloading today.
In spite OF the drop in the price OF
cotton the farmers are not allowing
the stock on hand In Smoak's GIN
house to diminish noticeably. The gin
has been running steadily for about
two weeks without any breakdown Of
the engine. Its renewal of grist-run-
ming on Saturdays has given much
satisfaction to our people.
Mr. w. T. Ivey. who farms with Mr..
nj. L. Payne. was in town today and
called on Mr. Smoak to purchase a
stump puller. When told none were
In stock he departed in sadness, re.
marking as he went: well, | don't
see how / am to dig my potatoes. I'll
need one" The sample sent in meas
ures 20 inches in length and ga
inches In circumference.
Mr.. A. l.. Barlar. our well known
machine agent and Sunday school 81.
perlntendent. returned from High
Springs Sunday afternoon. accompafi-
fed by bride, formerly Miss Ella
Downing. The bride. too, Il well
known here. having been the accept
able teacher of our public school last
session. The newly welded couple
were heartily welcomed at the church
on the assembling OF the Sunday
school. and later, at Mrs. SCOTS,
where they are spending their honey
moon. quite a crowd gathered. The
younger friends. unsteady inclined,
continued their expressions of good
will I'm a serenade on Monday even
ing
Still the opening of our school is a
thing in the future. Parents are
growing anxious. and Messrs. Stokes
and Tongue. our trustees, called on
the board at it's Monday sitting. At
the present writing we are hoping
that Mr.. Brinson will succeed in sup
plying us with a teacher.
Mr.. J. II. Carter went to Gaines
Vile on business Tuesday
Some beans are going forward by
express. ]. W. Wallace and NJ. l..
Payne are on the shippers list
Potatoes! Pindersl Syrup. Verify
our farmers are yielding good things.
We will be ready for Thanksgiving.
p. w. GREEN.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-03

The Chinese empire" is the Chi
nese empire no longer. This en-
pire that has stood for thousands of
years has been compelled to succunb
to the modern idea and is now con-
stitutional governments republic
save in name.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-11-03
NOTICE

1911 state and county taxes are now
due.
2 per cent. discount will be allowed
on November payments only. Please
be sure and bring a correct descrip-
ton of your property: an old tax
receipt that is correct is preferred
Yours very truly,
w. L. COLBERT,
11-3-1m. Tax Collector
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A sample case containing diamonds
valued at $4,000, belong to w. c. Bar
ry of Newark, N. J., was stolen from
the lobby of Chicago hotel Wednes-
day. A man was seen to stroll leis-
urely from the hotel with the case,
but it was believed he was the owner.
and no one interfered with him.