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The Clay City times., 1911-10-05
Averts Awful Taa1edv.

Timely advice given Mrs. G.. vii.
loughby, vt Marengo, Wis, Or.
No. prevented a dreadful TRACE
dy and saved two lives. Doctors
had said her frightful cough was a
consumption" cough and could
do little to help bei After many
remedies failed, her aunt urged her
to take DR.. Kings New Discovery.
81 have been using it for some
time" she wrote "and the awful
cough has almost gone. 1t also
saved my littl. boy when taken
with a sever bronchial trouble"
This matchless medicine has no e.
quail for throat and lung troubles.
Price Soc and 41.OO. Trial bittle
free. Guaranteed by Swann-Day
Lumber Co.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05
CONVENTION.

A mass convention is hereby
called to meet at the court house
in Stanton on Saturday, Oct. 14th,
1911. fos the purpose of nominal.
ing a candidate for Sheriff of Powell
County to be voted for at the No.
vember election under the device Of
the Log Cabin. All good citizens,
regardless Of their political affilia-
ton, are hereby invited to attend
said convention.
By order of Powell County Repub-
lican Committee.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05
Is The World Growing Better

Is The World Growing Better?
Many things 60 to prove that it is.
The way thousands are trying to
help others is proof. Among them
is Mrs. w. w. Gould, of Pittsfield,
N. H. Finding good health by tax.
ing Electric Bitters, she now ad-
vises other sufferers, every where,
to take them. ''For years l suffer
ed with stomach and kidney ,roub.
le." che writes "Every medicine
I used failed till l took Electric Bit
ters. But this grea. remedy helL.
ed me wonderfully" They'll help
any woman. They're the best ton
ic and finest liver and kidney rem.
edy that's made. Try them You'll
nee. Sec at Swami. Day Lumber
Co.'S store.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05
IT'S EQual Don't Exist.

No one has ever made II salve.
sjntment or balm to compare will,
Rucklen's Arn,ca Salve. LIS tn,
me perfect healer of Cuts, Corns.
Burns, Bruises, S,ras. Sral''s, 10 Is.
Ulcers, Eczema, Salt Rheum. F"r
Sore Eyes, Cold Sores, Chapped
hands or Sprains It's supreme. Un-
rivaled for Piles. Trv it. Only 25c
at Swann.Day Lumber Co.'S.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05
Wen Show You.

If you have any doubt the
goods you ought to buy, We waEt
to show yoa. If you have any
doubt about the place to 90, we'd
like to tell you several things about
our line. Full quality, great va
riety, low cost. All we say is
backed by what we do.
Williams Two Stores,
Clay City, Ky.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05
Gives Aid to Strikers.

Sometimes liver. Kidneys and
hnwels seem TO go on strike and
refuse TO work right. Then you
nee thosed pleasant little strike
break ers-Dr. Kings New Nife
Pills-to give them natural aid and
gently compel proper aotion. Ex-
cellent health soon follows, Try
them. 25c at Swann.Day Lumber
Co.'S store.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

The barn al the Orphans
Home was burned to- the ground
Tuesday night. The origin Of be
fire is not known. but probably
was accidentally freddy chicken
thieves.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

H. F. Hillenmeyer and Sons
have their fall announcement in
this issue. Everybody who owns
"a piece of land should have their
catalog which theysend upon re.
quest.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

The Administrators sale nf the
household goods and personal ef-
fccts of the estate of J. w.
Jones, deceased, will take place
at his late residence Wednesday,
Oct. II, 1911 at 1OO'clOck a. ~.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

Buddie Grow, of Spout Spring,
was here Monday and had bills
printed advertising sale of live
stock crop ami etc for October
10Th. See sale bills for particn-
lars.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

Corn is selling at ~ n barrel in
Scott county and farmers are
feeding milk tn their hogs. The
milk diet is proving u good one,
many hogs having gained a pound
day for thirty days and one
and one. fourth pounds II day for
each day of the succeeding
month.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

SOllie Martin will sell all his
personal effects and move to Mis-
souri,. The sale will take place
in this county near Log Lick Oc-
tOber 18th.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

F. B. Blackburn is in Cincin-
natl buying the fall stock of
goods for the store of Hardwick
& Go. at Stanton
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

These cool mornings are re.
mindful that frost must he near
and then winter little later on.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

There seems to have been some
trouble with our school of late
which we trust was settled at a
JOINT meeting of the Board, the
teachers and the pupils
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

Housekeepers who have been
paying eXorbitant prices for
brooms will not be pleased to
learn that there is little prospect
for a decrease in price. The crop
of broom corn this year is small
and $500 per ton is talked of as
the price.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

Powell county by voice of
the people IN an overwhelming
majority is dry again so far as
future operations are concerned.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

William Mountz, Jr. is back
to the city from Natural Bridge.
The season at the bridge Is about
over.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

Ike Wiler took a large drove
of cattle to his CLARK county farm
from this county this week.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05
W. Il. Mcclure is in jackson
this week on business.

Corn cutt ing and sorghum max
are occupying the farmers atten-
tiOn just now.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

Q. J. Swope, of West Bend,
was here Tuesday and renewed
his subscription to the Times.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05

here. Well give you the most for
them; we are sure of this-yOu
need only try it once and you'll be
sure, too. Williams Cash Grocery,
Clay City, Ky.
The Clay City times., 1911-10-05
Card of Thanks.

We extend our cordial thanks
and appreciation to all who so
promptly and kindly came to our
aid, upon the occasion of the
burning of the barn at the Or
phans' Home.
Miss Lea, Miss Kennedy, Miss
Stamps and the children.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

something of a few OF its citizens.
Where men have succeeded others
can succeed.
In 1884 the first house vas built al
Mcintosh by w NJ. Gist. He Landed
in Florida in January. He went PACK
to Maryland March 1st, and married
and brought his bride to Mcintosh
before his box house was hnisnea'
For some weeks they lived in the
house before the doors were hung ana
cooked under live oak tree near the
house. This was a plain double poX
house with plain, rough boards SET
I'D on end, one end nailed to the Sill
and the other end to the plate tnat
held the rafters. They lived IN TINS
horce for several years. Mr.. Gist has
brought up three daughters and one
son, and now lives in a nice two-story
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

ange grove. which was the founda-
ton OF his success. He has a good
farm OF over 100 acres, and some lois
IN Mcintosh, on one of which there
is good nine-room house. This
mouse has water and gas throughout
and brings Mr.. Price good rent. No
one could ask for better success than
he has had.
Mr.. W. R. Brown came to Florida
III 1898 young man just out of
school, and without money. He work
cd 1or wages some and raised crops on
otners lands on shares. In a few
years ne bought some land, and has
oeen adding to his holdings since nm
I'll now ne has one hundred and sew.
enty-hve acres in his hammock farm
tnlrty acres in orange grove, twenty
acres where his irrigation plant is
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

not stay, as they cannot get accom-
modations. There is a fine opening
for tourist hotel there.
Small game is abundant, and the
fishing in Orange Lake is very fine,
and a good many people would like to
spend some time here fishing and
hunting. The woods and fields fur
nish quail, doves, rabbits, squirrels,
sripe and duck in numbers and of fine
size make the lake their feeding
grounds during the winter.
Besides having two railroads, Nc
Intosh is on the main road from
Gainesville to Ocala, which will soon
De hard-surfaced. This road was found
By the scout cars to be the best and
shortest automobile road from Jack
scnville to Tampa, and now that the
New York to Atlanta road is to be ex-
ended to Jacksonville, this road will
he widened and hard-surfaced from
Jacksonville to Tampa, and made a
GOOD road from New York 70 Mon
real, Canada. Then Mcintosh will
5e on the main line Of travel Of the
auto tourist
We found at Mcintosh. among the
other evidences, two irrigation plants,
beth of the overhead, or Skinner, sys-
tenn. Mr.. w. R. Brown has had his
plant in operation several years and
has something over four acres irrigat-
ed. He grows several crops each sea-
son, starting in the fall with beans
and a small planting of lettuce for
early shipping, and as soon as the
beans are gathered he plants more
lettuce, and has continuous shipping
from December, when his first planting
Of lettuce is ready, to about April 1st.
Mr.. Brown has about two acres under
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

well equipped grist mill, which is run
every Saturday, and usually has full
days work, the meal made by this
mill being so nearly like the water
ground meal of the north that corn
is brought to this mill from quite a
distance.
We found nearly every family with
nice flock of chickens. and plenty
of milk and homemade butter, as all
have COWS. They grow the feed for
their chickens and COWS, as we'll as
for their other stock.
Mcintosh is noted for the corn it
grows. as it has taken first premium
at every fair held at Ocala, securing
The fine cup offered by DR.. Boozer last
fall to the precinct that would make
the largest and best corn show at the
fair
We found that Mcintosh was grow
ing good stock as we'll as good feed.
We found that S. H. Gaitskill had a
stock farm about two miles from town,
on which he is raising good horses,
having a Kentucky bred saddle stall
lion. He has also good cattle, with
four pure bred Shorthorn bulls, one OF
which came from Kentucky, and one
was raised by Mr.. S. F. Lockridge of
Green Castle, Ind; one was raised by
the Palmetto Stock Farm, near Ocala,
and one was also raised by Mr.. w NJ.
Gist of Mcintosh Mr. Gaitskill start
ed breeding the native COW to pure
bred Shorthorn bulls, and now has
some nice 7-S-bred heifers. We found
Red Duroc hogs looking as good and
well kept as the northern hog. From
this farm is sold yearly of stock raised
on the farm about 20 head of beef cat
tie and so or more head of fat hogs.
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w. NJ. Gist in 1884, Mr.. Gist and Mr..
S. II. Gaitskill having bought land
there and planted an orange grove in
1884, Mr.. Gist coming from Maryland
and Mr.. Gaitskill from Kentucky
Other kentuckians have come, beside
some good people from Georgia and
the Carolinas, and they have built up
. little town of which the county is
proud. as the Mcintosh people are not
ed for doing things" They are a
thinking. wide-awake people. and be-
iieve in having and enjoying the good
things as they go through life. AL
though it is but a little country town.
not yet Incorporated. quite a number
of the residences are supplied with
gas and water. One would almost
think they were/in a city residence
when they find the houses supplied
with these conveniences and Injuries.
They use the Kemanee pneumatic air
pressure tank system. pumping water
from deep wells into the tanks with
small gasOlene engines. and they Use
the acetylene gas for lights. and now
some OF the citizens are talking of in
stalling electric lights. using storage
batteries. When we asked how these
people were able to have these things
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

located. and an acre and half in
lots in town. upon which he has built
house that cost about $4,000, with all
conveniences in the way OF lights, wa
ter, etc.
The members of the firm of Chris
tian and Dickson had about the same
experience, both J. x. Christian and
Fl L. Dickson coming to Mcintosh
with no money, and both worked for
wages. Both now own good homes
and lands, in addition to their large
store-house and stock of goods.
w E. Allen came in 1885. While
vr Allen had a little more money to
start with than some of the others
named. the freeze of 1895 left him in
debt with a family Of five girls to
feed. clothe and educate. This Mr..
Allen has succeeded in doing in good
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

seven-room house, and has gas and
water all through the house. His sue
cess has been quite satisfactory, as
ne landed in Florida whit only $500,
and paid SIS per acre for the first land
he bought. Land was higher then
than now, as that was about the be-
ginning of the orange boom. This
left Mr.. Gist with but little capital to
work on. but he has made good.
In 1885 Mr.. J. D. Price came to Nc
Intosb. He had no money and could
not buy land An old resident of this
section who had some land, told Mr.
Price that he could take twenty acres
of land and plant it to orange trees,
and when the trees came into bearing
the land would be divided, each hav-
-ng ten acres. This was Mr.. Prices
start. When not busy on his own land
Mr.. Price would work for the neigh
bors by the day, and this money OBJ
tanned for his day labor furnished him
with bread and meat. Mr. Price soon
raised a crop Of vegetables. He
would gather the crops in the field
and his wife would pack them. Be
sides Mrs. Price soon had few eggs
and some surplus chickens for sale.
and they were soon able to buy more
land. Now they have a comfortable
home, quite goodsized farm, on
which Mr.. Price is growing some
Polled Angus cattle, and he has some
nice samples of the Doddis, besides his
home, with the original ten acre or
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

cover, using canvas, and no finer let
tuce leaves the state than he ships.
There was one year that he received
$4,000 for one acre of covered lettuce.
A-r. S. B. Robinson put his plant in
operation last fall. Both these men
have a bored well, from which they
pump water to irrigate with. Mr.. Rob
inson has about four acres. He uses
a rotary pump and gasolene engine.
These plants are both successful. At
ter the lettuce gets near maturity
they plant cucumbers Mr.. Robinson
IS planting some okra. These men,
like others at Mcintosh, are rot afraid
to try new things. They are progress
i've. and will try new plants and crops,
and this, in a measure, accounts for
their success.
Mcintosh wants larger hotel. and
would be glad to have a hotel man
come and build and operate the house.
The people living at Mcintosh say
tney are farmers, and don't know any
thing about the hotel business, but
they will subscribe for stock to any
new business that they think can be
made successful, as they have done for
the bank and the telephone company
We think they would take stock in
hotel company if they were given
reason to believe that a hotel man
was taking hold of it. The same can
be said of furniture factory. Around
and near Mcintosh there is an abun-
canoe of fine hardwood timber. good
OAK, ash, magnolia, gum and other
woods that would make beautiful and
durable furniture. But the Mcintosh
people are in this like they are about
a MOTEL. They say they are farmers
and this they can prove by their veg
eeaoles, by their corn, oats. hay. bv
their hogs and cattle, but they don't
know how to run mills or machinery.
except farm machinery, but if a good
man that knows the business of max
ing furniture will come among them
tney VIII take stock in the enterprise
and put their money in the business
Possibly nothing could demonstrate
better what Mcintosh is than to tell
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

general mercantile stores. Christian
G Dickson Co. have been doing large
business for years; w. E. Allen &
Co. have nice store; Walkup Broth
ers do a good business and Turnip-
seed & Gist are thriving and doing
nicely. J. w. Stephens has just open
ed in the Walkup Brothers new brick
building a hardware and furniture
business, and he has a nice stock. The
Walkup Drug Co., have a nice drug
store, and the Mcintosh Pharmacy has
a splendid establishment.
The First State. Bank of Mcintosh
opened for business about January
1911, and has done quite a satisfac
tory business from the beginning
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

tue baseman boys. J. A. Murrell and
oensrs' but it would be but a repeti-
tion OF those named. The good rich
iahdS OF Mcintosh have contributed
TO the success of all these people and
there is room for more
while Mcintosh is not INCORPORATED
the citizens have always worked in
Ia lnohy' and all pull together. Any
ing OF public nature has always
niee with hearty support and ready
eou'rioutions of time and money. The
swimming pool was of Joint effort.
also the cleaning and fencing of the
PARK and other things of like nature.
10" II is proposed to build sidewalks,
pa'ements OF concrete on both sides
~ the main business street. and it will
: uone by straightforward it win
= uone. This is the Mcintosh way.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

The gank officials tell us that they
cannot keep enough of their money
loaned out, as so few of the Mcintosh
people need to borrow omney.
Mcintosh has a telephone company
of its own. The citizens felt that they
wanted a telephone and they organic
ed little company, just for their own
convenience, and the growth has been
beyond their expectations. They con-
meet with the Bell Telephone Com
pany at Micanopy, and at Reddick
they meet the Ocala Telephone Com
pany. Their lines run several miles
west OF Pennington and south of Fair
field, running possibly ten miles west
and south from their home office.
Mcintosh has four churches: Pres
byterian, Baptist, Methodist and
CHRISTIAN. All have regular services,
some two Sundays per month, and
some every Sunday
The school house is located on a hill
in the center of the town, and is one
of the best high schools in the coun-
ty.
Orange Lake, just east of Mcintosh,
is Sc feet above sea level. The coun-
try west of Orange Lake is rolling, ris-
ing within a half mile TO III feet
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

Seine shipped last fall averaged 24O
pounds per head. This demonstrates
that Mcintosh can prosper if there
were no fruits and vegetables grown,
as a good living can be made growing
tie regular farm crops and raising
stock.
There are grown by the farmers of
l1cIntosh every year about 500 acres
Of watermelons, making 75 carloads;
about geo acres of lettuce, yielding
about $4,000 baskets of lettuce; about
800 acres of beans, yielding about 49,
900 baskets; about POO acres in cab
bage, yielding about 10000 crates;
and about 100 acres Of small crops of
onions, squash, peas, okra and radish-
IS, yielding about 10000 packages, and
about 200 acres of tomatoes, yielding
about 10000 crates. This is about
the average shipments from Mcintosh
station, as given US by the agent at
Mcintosh. But this is not full show
ing of the output Of the farms of the
Mcintosh section The transportation
facilities are good. The Tampa and
Jacksonville railroad runs about two
miles west of Mcintosh, and quite a
lot of her produce is shipped from
Dungarvan. Southside and Hickman
stations, on this railroad.
AS an evidence of the character of
the land near Mcintosh, there was
over $1,000 worth of hardwood timber
shipped out OF this section to the
Brown Bros, at Gainesville, during
the past winter, and this was the Sec
ond cutting of timber. These lands
were cut over about ten years ago,
and the most of this timber was hick-
DRY, some of the logs measuring I'D
over 500 feet. The size of this hard
wood timber is an indication of the
kind of land that grows it.
Mcintosh has comfortable hotels.
but is unable to meet the demand dur.
ing the winter. Quite a number stop
on there during the winter, but do
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

form, and besides his home, which is
substantial ten-room house, he has
thirty acres of good land, part of it
good orange grove, and has also a
good mercantile business. We think
Mr. Allen, under the circumstances,
has made quite a success.
The Walkup boys, Sam and John,
are natives, being born in Florida.
They have made a success that is
quite satisfactory. They farmed some
with their father, but before they fin
ished the high school course they left
home to make living for themselves.
After working for wages for a year or
two they built business house in Nc
Intosh and started a general mercan-
tile business. and Sam told us that
when they got their house built they
were two thousand dollars in debt
Now they own good house, 40x100
feet, with a ten thousand dollar stock
of goods, and last year they erected
the first brick building in Mcintosh,
which is 40x10O feet, two stories. This
they built to rent, and it is all cccu-
pied, the Mcintosh Bank using two
rooms, the Mcintosh telephone ex-
change one room, the j. w Stephens
hardware and furniture business oc-
cupying the first floor. with the ex-
ception of two rooms used by the bank
A part of the upper focr is a large
hall, used by the secret societies and
for entertainments.
We might mention the Flewellens,
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

In our travels about Marion county,
we spent a day at Mcintosh, a small
resAdence town on the A. C. L. r. R.,
in the northern edge of the county,
and about midway between Ocala, the
county seat of Marion county, and
Gainesville, the county seat of Alach-
ua county. about twenty miles from
each of these towns. This little town,
located on the west bank of Orange
Lake-one of the largest lakes in the
state-is a very pretty home-like
place. A plat of this town site was
made in 1885, and it has had a steady,
healthy growth since then, until now
there are about 500 people living
there. The first house was built by
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

il they had no money when they came
TO Florida. we were told that nearly all
OF them came to Florida with barely
enough money to buy ten acres Of
land and build board shack to shell
ter them from the weather, and have
made what they have since coming to
Mcintosh.
A drive through the country around
Mcintosh informed us how this was
done. The lands are fertile, and they
have made their money growing veg
etables for the northern markets, and
also from their orange groves. And
now they have good homes, good
roads and ride in automobiles.
In the little town there are four
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-04-14

above sea level. The land is high
hammock. rich. rolling and well drain
ed naturally. These rich lands tell
the secret of the success OF the McIn-
tosh people. as they often get four
crops from these lands in a season,
planting peas or beans in the fall, fol-
lowed with a crop of lettuce or cab
bage or potatoes. that followed with
crop of corn, and a crop of crab
grass or beggarweed hay, cut after
the corn is harvested. While they
have had the vegetables for their mon
ey crops. they have made corn enough
to feed their stock and fatten their
hogs. as Well as to make their own
corn meal Mr.. C. E. Bateman has a
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-08-31

was in the city last week after an alb
sence of several months and visited
at the homes of DR.. w. G. Miller, No.
1923 North Market street and Mrs.
Anna E. Foster, No. 315 North B
street. She is a guest this week of
her uncle, w. H. Sylvester, at Lynn
vile. Mr.. Moore will join her the
latter part of the week and they will
go home overland in their automobile
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Godfrey went to
Dies MoineS last evening to be guests
at the home of Mrs. Godfreys broth
err, Harry Ware. Mr.. Ware has pur-
chased mercantile business at Dan
vile, Virginia, and is removing with
his family to the new home in a
short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Ramsay, daugh-