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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

The business interests and citizens
of St Augustine have taken hold of a
number of projects for the opening
season, all of which will prove most
interesting to the residents and visi-
tors alike. Foremost among the i'm
portant undertakings now in hand
will be the four hundredth anniversa-
ry of the discover of Florida by
Ponce de Leon. This will be a weeks
celebration on the most elaborate
scale of the important historical
events presented with much pomp
and historically correct in every de
tail. The Ponce de Leon celebration
will be held during the first week of
April next.
Jacksonville's pubic library is ap.
preciated by the people of the city
and her visitors. The records kept
at the library during the past month
show that nearly 1000 books were
taken from the shelves by readers and
in addition to this thousands were
consulted in the building and hun
dreds of people spent more or less
time in the reading rooms
BY actual count there were twenty
boats at one time at the city wharf at
Cocoa unloading oranges This is
the banner year for Florida oranges
and Indian river Is holding up her
end of the YIELD
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
Why WhiskeY Is So Popular.

Washington.-Nervou exhaustion
and strain and tense excitement
among the people of the present day
was ascribed as the cause of the
enormous increase in the use of al,
coholic spirits in the United States
by DR.. ]. T. Searcy of Alabama, presi
dent of the American Medico Psyche.
logical association, in an address at
the concluding secession of the Ameri
can Society for the Study of Alcohol
and Other Narcotics. He discussed
the question why do men drink al.
coholic spirits" and declared it was
the great struggle to secure relief
and to attain some sort of phychic
consciousness that makes alcoholic
beverages a popular drink"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
Yeaas Get $1,000.

Lawrenceville, Ga.-Safeblowers got
at their work at Duluth when they
cracked the safe of the Bank of Du.
luth and secured more than $4,000. 1t
was evidently the work of experts
Two distinct explosions were heard
by about twenty-five persons, but no
one ventured out to see what was
the cause of the reports. The robbery
was discovered in the morning about
six o'clock. At that time there had
been SO much passing it was impos-
sible to track the thieves with dogs.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
GOV. JENNINGS AND MR..
cARMAN PRAISE FLORIDA
Interesting Article in Chicago Paper
From Former Governor of
This State

Jacksonville The Chicago Inter
Ocean devotes full page section to
Florida; its advantages and the tour
list travel to this state. 1t carries in
terviews from various men all over
the state; the leading descriptive ar
ticle of the section being by former
Governor Jennings, who goes into de.
tail in the matter of State develop
ment along agricultural lines. Cover
nor Jennings gives a full history of
the development of the pecan grow
ing in the State
Among the articles from hotel men
Is a short interview with H. R. Car
men. After stating that no state in
the union can vie with Florida in the
matter of hotels, he says:
'4The evolution of the hotel in Flor,
ida has been fully as marked as has
been the evolution of the State in re.
cent years.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
FLORIDA EXHIBIT AT CANAL
EXPOSITION is PROPOSED.
Governors Of Tampa Board of Trade
Adopt Resolution Calling Upon
Legislature for Appropriation.

Tampa-The board of governors of
the board of trade at their meeting
adopted a resolution calling upon the
next Legislature to make an appropri-
alton sufficient to provide for a suit
able exhibit from the state of Florida
at the Isthmian Canal Exposition to
be held at San Francisco in 1915. 1t
will be pointed out in a memorial to
the Legislature that California is
Florida's closet competitor in the cit
rus industry and that this state ought
to have an extra fine exhibit on that
account. A committee from the Tam
pa board of trade will appear before
the legislature to press the matter.
E. NJ. H7ndry and A. J. Knight
were elected delegates to attend the
national rivers and harbors congress,
which meets next month in Washing.
ton, d. c.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
TAFT WILL NOT FILL PLACE
Wilson to Name Ambassador for the
Vacant Post.

Washington Taft an
nounced through Secretary Hilles thai
the post of ambassador to Great Brit
ain, made vacant by the death OF
Whitelaw Reid, will not be filled by
him.
This announcement followed a con
ference between the president and
Secretary Knox.
The president believes that impor
tant diplomatic questions involving
Great Britain and the United States
can be handled successfully in Wash
ington by Mr.. Knox and the British
ambassador. He understands that
President-elect Wilson already is con
sidering a man for the London post
and he does not wish to appoint some.
one who can serve only few months
London.-The British government
has proposed to the government OF
the United States that a British bat
tleship should convey the body of the
late American ambassador to his ma.
tive land.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
Inc joke That Failed.

A farmer drove along the streets OF
Conway Springs. He had top box
on his wagon and over the edge could
be seen the heads of several sheep
and young stock. AS he drove on his
way he was accosted by dude, who,
on seeing the "hayseed," sang out:
Say, Noah, your ark seems to be
pretty well crowded today" The
farmer looked around and, uncon-
cerned-like, replied: Don't worry. ]
have saved a place for a jackass and
you can get right in" The city up
start looked sheepish and the farmer
drove on.-Kansas CITY Journal
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
tale OUTRACES TOLD TAFT
SEVERAL AMERICAN BUSINESS
MEN TELL OF HORRORS
IN MEXICO.
1t Was a Story of outrases, Murders
and Robberies-Many Amer
leans Held Up.

Washington.-President Taft lis.
tened to some startling disclosures
about conditions in Mexico. Four
American business men with Mexican
interests, two members of the senate
and congressman sat in the cabi.
net room in the white house offices
and heard the story vouched for by
all, told to the president by one OF
the business men who had been in
the southern republic within the last
few weeks. 1t twas tale of out.
RACES on Mexican women, Of muir.
ders and hold-ups of Americans, of
bandits who seized Americans and
held them for ransom, of general law.
lessness and disorder, such as sci.
dom has come to the ears of the
president since trouble began in Mex.
leo nearly two years ago.
The story came out at a hearing
which the president granted a party
of Mexican business men.
They did not ask Intervention, they
said, after the hearing was over. But
they did request the president to see
that life and property be made safe.
After hearing of an hour and half
the president promised to take up the
case presented with the departments
concerned
Senators William Alden Smith, OF
Michigan, and Fall, of New Mexico,
who conducted the investigation for
the senate of the two Mexican revolu,
tons; Representative Hamilton OF
Michigan; Prince Mckinney of Cleve.
land; w. C. Pence of Texas; H. S.
Stephenson of Los Angelese, and E.
X. Warren of Three oaks, Mich, were
present at the hearings
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
Farm COLLEGES Get $1,000 900.

Washington.-Senator Hoke Smith
made a favorable report from the sen.
ate committee, on agriculture, upon
his bill appropriating 100000 to ex.
tend the work of the agricultural and
mechanical colleges established under
the Morrill, act. The measure which
has already passed the house, where
it was introduced simultaneously by
Representative Lever of South Caro-.
lima. has been strongly urged in a
nationwide crusade by the National
Soil Fertility League of Chicago.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
Bird Sanctuaries.

Bird sanctuaries recently have been
established in England and in Aus
tralia. An attempt is now being made
to protect the herons of Egypt from
which country the birds rapidly are
disappearing before the guns of the
plume hunters. The bird-protective
work is becoming worldwide in its
manifestation, All countries finally
are becoming to realize the service
which the birds render to man.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
HYDE Sentenced to Three Years.

New York-ChaTles H. Hyde, for
mer city chamberlain, convicted OF
bribery in connection with the manip
ulation of city funds, was sentenced
by Justice Golf to serve not more
than three years and six months and
not less than two years in the state
prison. The justice, however, grant
ed a certificate of reasonable doubt
and issued a stay of execution, agree
ing to admit the prisoner to $4,000
bail, pending argument of his appeal
Bail was furnished and Hyde walked
out of court.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20

Chckasha, Okla.-An unidentified
man, who was riding the blind bag
gage" was killed and twenty were in.
jured, when Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific passenger trains Nos. 20 and
"a collided head-on at Ninnekah,
seven miles south of Chickasha. State
Representative T. ]. Brown of
Oklahoma is among those hurt. His
skull was fractured and his forehead
badly cut.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20

Copperhill, Tenn.-Elisha Bramlett,
son of H. NJ. Bramlett, shot Justice OF
the Peace w. L. Dalton through the
head. Bramlett was paroled three
years ago from the penitentiary for
killing Bob Bishop in Gilmer county,
Georgia, about nine years ago, and
served about seven years, when he
was pardoned on parole for good con
duct. A row over the Judgment OF
Justice of the Peace Dalton, which
was being resented by Bramlett was
the cause of the ARRAY. Bramlett is
at large.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
Ranker Parker Pleads Guilty

Blue Earth, Minn.-Berry W. Par
ker, former vice president OF the
State Bank of Commerce, Winnebago
Mimi, who recently was captured il
Georgia, pleaded guilty to the indict
ment of grand larceny in the first de
gree, returned by the grand jury. I'm
der the law, his sentence will be ar
indeterminate one, the maximum Of
which is ten years. In a statement
issued shortly before pleading guilty
Parker assumed all responsibility fol
the troubles of the bank, which, af
ter his disappearance, was closed.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
Order for Publication.


Office of Comptroller of the Currency,
Washington. D. o., October, %, 1912.
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence pre-
scented to the undersigned, it has been
made to appear that THE PUTNAM
NATIONAL BANK OF PALATKA'' in the
City of Palatka, in the County of Putnam
and State of Florida, has complied with.all
the provisions of the Act of Congress "tO
enable National Banking Associations to
extend their corporate existence, and for
other purposes" approved July u, 1882;
Now, Therefore, !, Thomas 7. Kane, Dep
uty and Acting Comptroller of the Ourren-
cy, do hereby certify that 1.-The Putnam
National Bank of Palatkan in the City of
Palatka in the County of Putnam and
state of Florida, is authorized to have sue
cession for the period specified i'll its
amended articles of association: namely,
until close OF business on October -, 1892.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF witness
my hand and Seal of office this Twenty
second day of October, 1912.
iSeaD T. p. KANE.
Deputy and Acting
Comptroller of the Currency.
Charter No. ISl3 Extension No. 3lSi.
lO-25-jt.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
IAome-Grown" JardInlere.

A gourd vine of the sugar-trough va
riety growing on our garden fence
produced a goodly number of large
gourds. l was puzzled about utilizing
them until l tried cutting the top OF
one and making it into a jardiniere.
The effect is quite satisfactory. The
big, round, bulbous-shaped gourd is Of
a dark brown color and takes a good
polish. 1t has a pretty rustic appear
ance with its pot Of ferns standing
InsIda Of it-Suburban Life
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20

EYES," says the cousin from the
east, who is being shown over the ir-
rigated ranch, but there is one thing
that puzzles me. How do you get the
water away up here?" 1--WE bring it
down from the mountain in those
fumes" explains the western cousin.
81 see all that plainly enough, but
how in the dickens do you pump 1t up
to the top Of the mountain?"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
Wasn't She 4 Woman7

Dat man ober dar say dat women
needs to be helped into kerridges
and lifted ober bitches. Nobody ebber
helps me ober bitches nur into kerr
ridges. And amt | oman? l have
ploughed and planted and gethered
into barns, and no man could head me.
And amt oman? l could work as
much and eat as much-whinst l could
git ft-as a man, and bear de lash as
well. And amt a 'oman?"-Sojourn-
- Truth. .
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
OrrinG for Drink Habit
TRY TT AT DIR EXPENSE

Try II Al UUR EAPENSE
We are in earnest when we ask you to
give ORRlNE trial. You have nothing
to risk and everything to gain, for your
money will be returned, if after trial,
you fail to get results from ORRINE.
This offer gives the wives and mothers
of those who drink to excess an oppor-
tunity to try the ORRINE treatment.
1t is a very simple treatment, can be
given in the home without publicity or
loss of time from business, and at a
small price.
ORRINE is prepared in two forms:
No. l, secret treatment, a powder; OR
RINE No. 2, in pill form, for those who
desire to take voluntary treatment. Costs
only $100 box. Come in and talk over
the matter with us. Ask for booklet.
]. H. HAUGHTON, Palatka, Fla.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20


1t appearing by affidavit appended to the
bill filed in the above stated cause that
Charles Howe, and all persons claiming
any interest under the said Charles Howe,
of the following described property or any
part thereof, to-wit: the VIZ of sec 4, tip 10,
ST. q e, Tallahassee Meridian, Florida, and
Rosetta Dent Kohler, Eva Dent Gray and
Judith s. Sanford. the defendants therein
named are non-rcsdents of the State of
Florida, and reside i'll the City of Cleveland
in the State of Ohio, that each are over the
age of Twenty-OnC years, and that there is
no person in the state of Florida, upon
whom the service of Subpoena would bind
such Defendants; it is therefore ordered that
said nonresident Defendants he and are
hereby required to appear to the Bill of
Complaint filed in said cause on or before
MONDAY, the 9th DAY of JANUARY
A. ID. 1913, otherwise the allegations of said
bill will be taken MS confessed by said De-
PENDANTS
1t is further ordered that this Order be
published once q week for u consecutive
weeks in the Palatka News and Advertiser,
a ne wspaper published in said County and
state.
Witness my hand and official Seal this
the 9th. day OF September 1912.
(SEALJ HENRY HUTCHINSON,
Clerk Circuit Court.
BY Henry Hutchinson. Jr., d. q.
H. l.. AN DERSON, Esq.
Solicitor for Complainant.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
IMPROVED PROPERTY
For Sale.

4 Acres land, IFS bearing orange trees,
4 room house. Price, 81 600.
5 Acres land, $50 bearing orange trees
Price, $1,000
10 Acres land, PIP bearing orange
trees. Price, $l,2OO,OO
40 Acres land. 20 acres of this is good
muck, 500 bearing orange trees and 200
young trees, good house and barn.
Price, s., 10000
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20

On the right will be a bronze tablet
showing the famous demonstration
made by DR.. Gorrie at the old Man,
sion House in Apalachicola, when he
demonstrated at a banquet table that
he had made artificial ice. On the
left side of the pedestal is the court
of arms and seal of the State of Flor
ida
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20

Mr.. PouItryman: II you are not get.
ting eggs, don't blame the chickens;
Hep them along by feeding Conkey's
Laying Tonic. Kennerly's Seed Store
has it, lO-ll-bt.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
DR.. L. V. BELL,
The Greatest Living
Germ and Disease
Exterminator.
Order For Publication.

In the Circuit Court, Eighth judicial Cir
cult, Putnam County, Florida-In Chan
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
SEEKING PROTECTION

From loss by fire every man should do
that has his own and his familys inter
ests at heart by having policy in a
sound company like the Aetna. We win
write you a policy promptly and see that
you get your indemnity promptly in case
of fire.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
SCULPTOR COMPLETES MODEL
OF THE DR.. GoRRIE STATUE
Gift Of the State of Florida to the
Hall of Fame In WASH
ington, D. c.

Observation-Disclosures is a DR.. Cor
rie, crank, down in Florida, who
says he can make ice"
This was a supposed-to be-witty pa.
ragraph in one of the leading New
York dailies along in 1S47.
Today, by national consent, there is
being prepared a statute of this crank
doctor in Florida, perpetuating his
name, in the Hall of Fame of the ma
tional capitol statuary hall in Wash
ington.
This statue is now complete in wax,
Piller, of this city, and the statue in
marble of Italy's finest Carara will be
presented to the nation in December
1918, as Floridas offering to the mem
DRY of her great man.
The wax model is seven feet tall,
hedoic, and will be placed on a pedes'
tai of pink marble, chiseled and
smoothed from a solid block, standing
three feet eight inches in height.
The plynth, upon which will rest
the figure, will be of Carara marble,
a solid block, five inches high, giving
the statue and base a total heighth OF
eleven feet one inch from the floor.
The inscription on the front of the
pedestal carved in the stone will be-:
FIorida's Memorial
to
John Gorrie, M. D.,
- Inventor of
Artificial Ice and
Refrigeration
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20
FLOWERS

Shipped promptly.
Roses, White and Pink $3.50 to
$500 per dOz.
American Beauties $500 per doz.
Carnations, White and Pink $500
per dOz.
Carnations, Red $2.25 per doz.
Lily of the Valley $1.OO
Easter Lilies ....... S3.OO
Double Violets ..... $500
Prices f. o. b. express office here.
MILLS the FLORIST Inc.
Jacksonville, Florida.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-20

When you buy Shoes here
you are sure of getting new
goods and better wearing foot
wear for the price than ever
before. Let us sell you one
pair and you will come here
always, as all are guaranteed.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-11-01
MARRIED
Girl. He
WRONGED

John Young and Olivia Scrogsins
were married by Judge Strang IN
the county court room this morning
Sheriff Murphy aud County Attorne}
Adams Witnessed the ceremony; they
we're there to see that the job was
done in thoroughly legal manner
John Young has been wanted ny
the Logan county officers for near
ly a year past asst January a war
rant was sworn out for him on a
statutory charge. Olivia Scrosgins.
the girl he today made his lawful
wife, was the complaining witness.
But Young evaaed the officers and
has since been fugitive. Last
night he came 10 town and was i'm
mediam;y spotted by the watchful
Jim Kirkwood This morning, after
a night spent in Jail, he decided he
wanted to do the right thing by the
little girl he had deceived the mar
riage followed this afternoon.
Miss Scrogeins has been in the
county poor farm i'm delicate health
for the past several months.
Upon his promise TO marry the
girl the county attorney agreed to
dismiss the charge against Young
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-11-01
SISTER JUSTINA HOLDS
HER REPUTATION WAS HURT
Asks for Money for Services A.
legged to Be Due--,TO
Print Book

A damage suit was started in the
district court this morning against
the Benedictme Sisters of the Sacred
Heart. by Anna NJ. Iowrey through
her attorneys h. A. .oar OF Clarks-
burg, W. va, and Hepburn & Chappell
Of this city, for S17 460
Attorney r. A. Ioar, Of Clarksburs,
West Virginia, has been here for seN-
eral days in the interest of Miss Anna
NJ. Lowry, known in religion as Sis
ter Justina, who was at one time =
sister in St Josephs Retreat, and
about whom "a great deal has been
said through the press Il will be re.
membered that Father Chas Stand.
aert had a notice printed about a year
ago 10 the effect that she was an
impostor. and warned people against
her. Il also appeared in the dail>
papers that she was known as
the tramp nun globe trotter etc.
MIR. l.oar has secured the services
OF local attorneys 10 assist him in the
prosecution growing out Of these pub
lications and a suit against the Bene.
dictine Sisters for services rendered
as a teacher This litigation promises
TO be very interesting and active. II
is understood that Miss Lowry has
many influential friends in the East
who have taken up her cause and Will
spare no money or pains to yindicaie
Miss Lowrys good name and repn-
tation.
Mr.. Loar left here for New Mexico
10 make some further investigations
regarding certain letters written by
Bishop Meerschaert 10 people there
which he says was an attempt to boy
cott Miss Lowry A suit may also
be brought against the bishop.
Miss Lowry has completed The man.
uscripts for book which is to be
published right away of her treatmen,
while in a convent the title Of the
book Will be "A Martyr in Black. %
The book is to be illustrated and EN-
belished by photographs from actual
life and actual scenes. Miss Lowry's
whereabouts since she closed her
school in New Mexico, has only been
known TO her attorney and few Of
her intimate friends
Miss Lowry is a very highly edu-
Gated lady and will no doubt produce
a very interesting and exciting
book. The case promises to be sen.
sational in the extreme.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-11-01
BRYAN
COUNTY
WILL CAST YES" VOTE ON
CAPITAL, WHICH MEANS
LESS TAXES
Special to the Daily Leader.

Bennington Okla, Nov l--As far
as Bryan county is concerned the
capital question is settled
The capital goes back to Guthrie,
where it rightly belongs That is the
sentiment of Bryan county. outside
OF two dark spots in the city Of Du
rant. Bryan county is 9N per cent for
less taxes and more business less
extravaganza and more economy
fewer rents and better accommoda-
tions" BY removal This consumma-
ton viii come The people OF Bryan
county are sore over the way Okla
homa City has lambasted the state.
The grafters have yanked the state
strong and energetically for rents at
S53,O 600 year and now are framing
up Tor a milHon-dollar hold up Bry
an county wants none OF H.