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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-20
SPENT
FOR BOOSTING
WELLEXPENDED
THIS IS coNcENsus OF OPINION
OF MEN WITH MUCH EXPERT
ENcE IN THIS LINE AND ALL
AGREE THAT BOARD OF TRADE
BULLETINS ARE GOOD.

That any town can well afford to
bear the expense Of publishing a bull
letin setting forth its advantages,
whether the bulletin itself is self
sustaining or not, is the opinion of
Senator Duncan u. Fletcher, who
bases his opinion upon his personal
observation. In a letter to Leland J.
Henderson. now secretary Of the PEN
sacola Commercial Association, which
organization is preparing to begin the
publication Of a regular bulletin. Mr..
Fletcher says this undoubtedly true.
the difncuity being to distribute such
publication where It viii do the most
good.
The letter Of Senator Fletcher fol-
lows:
Jacksonville, Fla, Sept. Is. 1910.
L. j. Henderson, Esq. Apalachicola.
Fla
Dear Mr.. Henderson: I have not
read every word of the bulletin. but
have looked through It rather care
fully and congratulate you on very
fine piece OF work from literary as
wen as mechanical point OF view.
Frankly, do not believe that town
of 5000 people can afford to print a
bulletin OF this kind. but confess
to almost total ignorance regarding
the cost of such a publication. know
It must take great deal OF time and
considerable skill to prepare the mat
ter. I imagine the cuts, paper and
printing win cost considerable money.
AS a means of advertising the town
and the community, / should say it
would be quite effective and your re-
turns from the bulletin ITSELF however,
would not begin to cover the expense
of getting it out. It is simply Ques-
ton of how much your town will be
willing to go dow min its pocket
monthly or quarterly for the purpose
of publishing to the world your re-
sources and advantages. There are q
great many people in all portions OF
the country reading about Florida and
1t may be that particularly just at this
time you could get the bulletin in the
hands of people where II would be
quite effective. The difncuIty would
be to get it where it would be read
by the people who were interested and
who might be Influenced.
| came down on the train from Chi
cago with an intelligent active young
j
literature he could find on Florida for
some months, who had travelled al
over the west and northwest and con-
cluded that he wanted to cast his lot
In Florida. He had become impress
| ed with the publications Of the East
kCoast Land Company and has gone
down there. advised him to take his
time and go all over the state. He has
a father, brother-in-law and other
members of the family who are wait
ing for his report He is very well
. educated, and a capable young man in
every respect, who understands that
he cannot succeed anywhere without
work and believe all of them would
make good citizens. The point is, II
| you could have the bulletin reach
people of this kind, you could very
well AFFORD to pay monthly or quar-
terly quite q sum to get it out.
With best regards.
Yours very sincerely
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-20
Iours very Sincerely,
d. u, FLETCHER,


"A live board of trade means that
you win have a live town." writes C.
P. Goodyear, the man who put Bruins
wick. Ca, on the map. He writes
further that a board of trade Is more
important than a mayor and council,
as the mayor and council are for the
town that Is: while the board of trade
is for the town that Is to be.
Mr.. Goodyear's letter in full. dealing
with commercial organizations and
bulletins, follows:
Brooklyn. Sept Is, 1910.
Hon. Leland ]. Henderson.
Dear Sir: am in receipt OF a
highly creditable publication from
your Board of Trade Of Apalachicola,
by yourself as editor.
want to congratulate you and
through you the Board OF Trade upon
the healthy spirit of optimism shown
all through It.
You surely have a live Board OF
Trade, and that means you will have
a live town.
A board of trade or other live COM
mercial body is as important to a
town as mayor and council. Yea,
more so. The mayor and council are
for the town that is; the board OF
trade for the town that is to be.
The dreamers do not dream. They
live in advance of their age. They
have imagination without which the
world stagnates and dies. Towns are
like individuals. They retrograde or
progress. They can't stand still. Like
to see such healthy spirit shown in
Apalachicola. Keep the good work
going.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-20
Imperial Russian Dancers.

Blase theatergoers and stuolous
music lovers and people Interested IN
art all find their interest Tor the
coming week centered in the ap-
proaching brief engagement Of the
Russian Dancers from the Metropoli
tan opera house. New York. This
company OF famous dancers. drafted
from the Imperial opera house of st.
Petersburg and Moscow, is the most
extensive ever given leave Of absence
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-20

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sration that has won a world wide
reputation by it's cures of this disease
and can always be depended upon? It
is known everywhefe as Chamberlain :
Cough Remedy. and is a medicine of
real merit. For sale by all dealers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29
HOW MEAT is SHIPPED

AS a result of the work of the pure
food commissioner under direction of
Jas. II. Wallis, the fresh meats now
being shipped by rail in this state
are protected from dirt and dust by
wrapping that is effective. Dressed
hogs and mutton are loaded here al
most every day for shipment to Poca-
tello, and every carcass is wrapped in
tough paper and then covered with
clean burlap sewed tight. Until re-
Gently they had no covering at all,
and when loaded on the trucks at
the depot they lay where all kinds of
dirt and dust was whirled on them
from the street where horses stand
and people spit expectorate, and ev-
cry particle of dust and dirt that set
ties on fresh meat sticks. In hot
weather flies added to the Infection
When you are at the depot take
notice of the present method of pro-
tecting the meat.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29

there the big fellows lay and blinked
their eyes and made faces lat you,
occasionally allowing themselves to
be hooked on a spinner. 1t was ag-
graVating, too. The big fellows were
feeding on a little midget black and
slate colored snow fly, and when they
struck they would shoot out Of the
water sometimes their whole length
| tried every brand that ANDY and
Jim put out, but there was nothing
doing in the fly line
We saw lots of ducks and geese,
got few fish, and waded back up to
the car in a snow storm. The tenn
perature, however, was not low, and
| enjoyed the fishing in the same
toys that | generally use in the sum-
mer time.
I also tried the fishing in Warm
river, but 1t was too early for good
fishing there, also.
mat night 'aL y o CLOCK we reached
Yellowstone, and the rotary cleaned
out the last leg of the "Y' and we
started back, tying up at Big Springs
for supper and for the night. The
next morning we saw a dog team of
eight dogs carrying provisions over
towards Mt Targee, but they were so
far away ! could not see them in the
finder of my camera. It was snow
ing when we pulled out, and we pro-
cceded back to Ashton in a snow
storm which promised to give the ro-
tary more work, reaching that point
at / o'clock.
Thus was concluded the first step
in good railroading for the safety and
comfort Of the prospective sightseer.
Next to the daylight run of the "Yel-
lowstone Flyer" through sunny
southern Idaho, which the railroad
officials say will surely come, | would
wish that the tourist could take this
trip into the heart of the great Snake
snow shed, for the latter is what
makes the desert to bloom as the
rose"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29

aHd boosted TIA ear over the en-
bankment into the stream below.
Aside from this a broken water hose
in the rotary and an occasional stop
to dig out the frozen snow under
meath the engines were the only in
cidents of note.
We stopped at the hatchery, and
the rotary went ahead while we
helped Deputy State Game Warden
Kendall and his assistants unload
their provisions and broke a trail"
to the hatchery. The snow was full
ly eight feet deep here, and a sack
of spuds was big load for one man
even after the trail had been tramped
down to a fairly good footing.
Supervisor Steele of the forestry
service, left the train here to consult
with his two rangers who were win
tering at the hatchery, and to try
and get out his gasoline speeder
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29

the train this year, accompanied by
Private Secretary Jones, and with
the car went his Incompatible south
ern cook, Willis.
In the two spot were Travelling
Engineer George Baker, Assistant Su-
perintendents McCauley and Nc
Laughlin, three indispensable units of
the organization of the north end, and
Superintendent Armstrong. The writ
er and the doctor rotated from one
car to the other, and to the kindness
and courtesy of every one from ED
Manson down owe debt of everlast-
ing gratitude for a most unique and
enjoyable experience.
The pillow made the water tank at
the hatchery the first day, and
dropped back to Warm river and
picked up tho remainder of the train,
and it was on the morning Of the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29

which had been showed in the fall
before. The snow was so deep next
TO the train that he shook hands
from the top of the train with his
rangers, who were travelling on skis.
The second night we were ION
spot" at Big Springs, and in the
morning the private cars were spot
ted over the river bridge, while the
rotary went up the hill, and we all
fished- down to where the Outlet"
of Henry's lake joins the river. And
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29

second day, going up the canyon
where the slightest accident meant
a roll down the mountain of four or
five hundred feet, that the occupants
of the Yellowstone" had close
call. While sitting at the breakfast
table, truss rod directly under
meath, rs feet long and three inches
in diameter, broke, luckily with the
longest broken end dragging. Other
wise, in all probability, the project
ing end would have caught on the ties
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29
Rides the Rotary
tContir ued from page p

park, through Island PARK station,
which serves Mrs. Harrimans sum-
mer home on the immense Guggen-
helm ranches to the west, over the
beautiful Buffalo, messy and quiet
and perpetual temptation to the an
gler, past Big Springs, the head of
Henry's fork of the great Snake riy-
er, over Rea's pass, and down the Lit
tie Madison to Yellowstone, where
the yellow stage coaches load and I'M
load the tourists of Uncle Sans fam
lily play ground.
Beautiful and enticing in summer
time, a great round eartnern bowl of
pines and MOSES, rugged hill sides
and open grassy parks covered with
every variety of wild flower and
grass, as well as the civilized timo-
thy where the homesteader had OBJ
tanned foothold; scanned with spring
mountain streams or mirror-like
clearness, alive with the native sal
mon, and imported eastern brook
trout from the state hatcheries; al
most irresistible in the autumn time,
with grouse and duck and geese in
it is in the winter time,
under its glistening, almost binding
carpet of snow that Island park, ira
versed only by the ski trails of the
srappers and forest rangers, and the
tracks of the wild animals gives you
fuller conception OF how the Great
Creator, in his wisdom, has made
his great basin to conserve the fife
giving irrigation water for the Snake
River valley, and reveals the incom-
value of this pleasure
ountry to the whole state of Idaho.
4 y.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29

tracks OF the Wild animals gives you
a fuller conception OF how the Great
Creator, in his wisdom, has made
this great basin to conserve the fife
giving irrigation water for the Snake
River valley, and reveals the incom-
pfehensible value of this pleasure
country to the whole state of Idaho.
In this huge bowl or basin, Henry s
fork of the Snake river and its doz-
ems of tributaries are formed and con-
tinually flow from gigantic springs,
which gradually assume the proper
lions OF streams. On the level the
snow is generally from four to seven
and eight feet deep, and in the can
yons as high as 20 and 80 feet deep.
Quaking ash trees bear mute wit
ness to this fact by their teeth
Scared branches 80 feet in the air.
In two months from now the snow
will be entirely gone except from the
deep canyons where the suns rays
rarely strikes, but in order to avoid
the washing away of it's road bed,
and the difficulty of clearing the snow
after it once commences to melt and
freeze, as we'll as to serve the big
Hartman ranch, open the saw mills,
permit the fish hatchery to resume
early operations, and commence the
hauling of provisions in anticipation
OF the travel season in the big park
hotels, the Short Line officials have
adopted the practice of clearing out
the road before the break-up.''
To this end they yearly pick their
best men, equip a train with the lat
est, up-to-date rotary snow plow,
their most powerful engines, coal cars
water cars, every known railroad APP
pliance, Jap extra gangs, outfit and |
cook cars for the engiremen and |
trainmen, and, fully prepared for ev-
cry sort of accident or obstruction,
they plunge into this SO miles of up
hill grade and. resisting snow.
For seven years Superintendent
Of the Montana division,
and builder of the Yellowstone branch
has accompanied the train and. had
direct supervision of the work Lucky
IS the man who. ingratiates himself |
TO the extent Of being taken on that
rain.
To sit in the lookout" of the ca
Ooose and watch the bending twist
ng train pushing its way up what
seems to be an impenetrable wall of
now, to see the molten stream of
NOW fly, at times over the tree tops,
at night when the opening
If the furnace doors of the engines
lights up tho clouds of escaping
team, smoke and flying stream Of
now, like the interior of boiling
Upper kettle, with the shrek of the
whistle rafting up through the silent
imber, is worth a week out of the
life of the busiest sort Of man.
And there is peculiar fascination {
n riding the top of such a powerful (
oncern, to take in with the sweep t
t the eye, the entire country you I
bought you knew so well, and which i
ow looks so strangely different; ko- /
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-29

And there is peculiar fascination
in riding the top of such a powerful
concern, to take in with the sweep
of the eye the entire country you
thought you knew so well, and which
now looks so strangely different; ko-
bakery is made joy from there,
swapping now the snow plow, or may
be the stream you fished last sum
mer, or perhaps the back track,
cleared out like some genii had been
at work with jack plane.
And the company takes good care
of it's men. Here, too, the best is
picked. Everything imaginable good
to eat is there, served with as much
care as to the magnate by those two
crack cooks of the commissary SER
vice, Messrs. Baker and PAUL., right
hand man of Commissary Superinten-
dent Gentch.
Comfortable beds and hunks are
provided in the bunk cars, and by 8
O'Clock every night house a tired but
cheerful bunch of railroaders
General Superintendent Manson
and Mrs. Manson in the yellow
stone" private car, made the trip with
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-29
Good Men Elected Trustees,
Resolutions Adopted.

The citizens of Plum Branch
Township or School District turned
out in full force last Saturday to
elect school trustees for the
next two years and cleo
ted B. d. Kitchings, w. r.
Freeland and j. w. Miller, and
under the management of these
men. we expect to have a school
equal to any, if not the best of its
kind in the county. At the wind
ing up it led little off into politics.
We have in our county two able
men and good citizens as any in
the state. both running for the
same office and the citizens of this
community believe they have a
right to run for the same or any
other Office that they may choose,
and therefore, the following reso-
luton was passed by a solid vote.
We, the citizens of Plum Branch
School District No. 1 do hereby
condemn the action of the recent
Democratic County Convention at
Edgefeld for endorsing one of her
candidates for a national Office
when she had two of her fair sons
aspirants for the same Office.
We will ask the Chronicle and
Advertiser to publish this resolu-
tion as it certainly doesn't seem fair
that our neighbor friend should
have been so treated.
Very respectfully,
]. L. Blackwell,
J. W. Miller,
J. w. nlacknell,
Committee.
Plum Branch, S. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-29
Interesting Letter From Plum
Branch.

On Saturday the 18th inst, a
week ago to-day, the patrons of the
Plum Branch high school met and
elected the following trustees: B.
D. Kitchings, w. r. Freelan6, j.
W. Miller.
Mrs. Ed Coleman and Miss Essie
Seigler are still on our sick list.
Mrs. Willie Holley spent the 3rd
Sunday and Monday following at
Parksville.
Mr.. Luther Bracknell and wife,
Miss Louise Cord and Thomas Nc
Allister, spent last Sunday with
Captain Stillwell at Mccormick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Banks went
on business trip to Mccormick
this week.
Mrs. B. D. Kitchings has had the
pleasure of having her mother, Mrs.
Cartledge, from Parksville, spend
this week with her.
Mr.. R. H. Wideman made a
business trip to Augusta this week.
Miss Ruth Mosely, Miss Price
and two Misses Hogan, all of Lin
coin, County, Ga, stopped over
with Mrs. Sam Wideman on the
18th, en- route home from Bessie
Tiff College.
Mr. Hawthorne Banks came
home sick from the S. G. G. /. and
is still unwell though better. He
completed all his work, however,
though he missed some of the COM
mencement exercises.
Miss Dorothy Miller is home
from the Orangeburg Collegiate In
stitute.
Miss Flowers from Lake City,
Miss Lomer from Prosperity, Miss
Ashmore from Troy, Mr.. Eddie
Walker and mother from Modoc,
have been guests of Mrs. J. w.
Miller during the week. In honor of
these, sociables were given in her
home on both Tuesday and We'd
nesday nights.
This scribe and family spent
Tuesday the 2lst inst, with MIR.
and Mrs. w. II. Parks. Mrs. Rob-
ert Parks and Mrs. Bob Price, of
Parksville, mother and sister
respectively OF Mr.. w. II. Parks,
were also guests. A good part of
the day was spent in fishing, and
while no fish were caught, the day
was pleasantly spent.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-29
Temperance.

Some time ago we sent mes
sage to Mr.. D. A. Tompkins of Char,
lotte, N. G. asking him to give his
views as to preference between
dispensary and prohibition in Edge,
field.
Mr.. Tompkins thinks we should
all strive for temperance and good
citizenship, rather than for law
which is more or less neglected af-
ter its passage, whether it be for
prohibition, high license or dispen-
sary method, regulating the liquor
traffic. We give his full answer as
follows:
Many a good citizen is an advo-
cate of temperance, and is yet una
BILE to find party or cause to which
he can tie up because noAe of these
get the desired result.
Prohibition doesn't prohibit, on
the contrary, when it is legally
most effective it promotes most
blind tigers.
High license wont do, because
the liquor interests and the ar-keep,
ers take possession of politics and
debauch these.
The dispensary won't do, because
the dispensary agent becomes cor,
rupt and steals a fortune.
Either of these three legal meth
DDS may be selected as being best
for any one community. Any one
of these three methods enforced is
better than the other two not enforc-
ed, and generally none of the three
are we'll enforced. Generally the
militant advocate think that the
battle has been won when the cleo
ton carries infavor ofhis or her plan.
When the election is carried, the
work in the cause of temperance is
just begun. To carry prohibi,
bition election and then stop is sim
ply to promote sblind tigers galore
In the country and in the manufac'
turing town prohibition is the best.
In the small commercial city the
dispensary might be best. In a com
mercial city, high license might be
best. But none of the three are
very defective in any case unless
rigidly enforced.
Temperance must be a growth
like education. The prime factors
which promote it reChristian works
and agricultural and industrial pros,
perity. These have been at work
for a long time and have caused no
table progress in the cause of tenn
perance. Formerly CASTOR Co.
n. G. did about as much illicit dis,
tilling as any county, perhaps in
the United States. All the forces
of prohibition were expended to
break it up. All the forces of the
United States government, in Its
revenue department., were expended
to break up illicit distilling. Meth
er of these had any appreciable eff,
feet to produce better temperance.
But the establishment in Castor
County of Benedictine Monastery,
devoting itself to teaching better
agriculture and good, but temper.
ate living, has had very material
effect. The good works of the pro-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-29

testant churches have been equally
advantageous to the cause Of tenn
perance. These persistent Chris
tian and other educational influences
have also produced important re-
suits. Next in importance to these,
and perhaps even more for practi-
cal results, has been the building of
cottonmills andother factories which
give profitable occupation to the
people without the necessity of re-
sorting to distillins. These two
influences together have practically
made Castor a real temperate
county.
By the construction of good
roads, and through these, the pro-
motion of commercial and social in
tercourse, temperance has been i'm
mensely promoted. In many cor
porations, employment is not given
to men who drink, and this of course
promotes temperance amongst men
who don't want to be prescribed.
In Edgefeld it would seem that
prohibition being in vogue, it might
as well remain in vogue. To make
a change to high licese or dispen-
sary would simply be to swap one
sorry horse for another sorry
horse.
For temperance the influence
above enumerated must be brought
to bear upon the subject. The
work of the churches, of improved
farming interests, of industrial in
fuenees by furnishing work and
prescribing drinking employees,
and the building of good roads, and
the development of schools and ed
ucation, will always bring about
more temperate life and make a
better citizenship.
Neither of the legal methods
enumerated above are here condemn
ed, but they will become effective
only through the development of a
citizenship that is in sympathy with
temperance. In other words, the
temperance must of necessity be of
slow growth, AID a part of Chris
tian civilization, and must move
about parallel with Christian civili-
zation.
An important material need in
Edgefeld county to foster temper
ance is good roads. The farming
interest is already doing fairly well.
The industrial interest is moving
forward at a satisfactory pace. Ed
ucation is advancing. Ansimprove-
ment of means of transportation
would be great help to these 9th
er influences, in bringing about re-
suits which the law does not seem
to be able to reach in a direct way.
For the restriction of intemperance,
prohibition, dispensary or high Ii
cense, is effective only In proportion
as the particular plan elected is ex-
ecuted and each of the three is very
difficult of effective execution under
law.
People are sometimes Incorporate
because of vicious dispositions, but
in the great majority of cases good
peoplewho are Incorporate are SO be-
cause of underworld. Bring about
the influences to correct both of
these, and add some proper diver
sions and recreaTions and the tenn
perance of a community would be
tremendously promoted at once.