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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

Kissimmee reports giant pineap-
ole grown on the Shaker farm near
Ashton that weighed twelve pounds
and five ounces. These fine pines are
grown in the natural soil without fer
tilizer. The Shakers have taken the
first prize at all the county and state
fairs with these pineapples, which are
the finest grown anywhere in the
atntp.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06
$1.OO Per Year.
commissioners
CALL ELECTION
As in Duty BOund---But will
Ask Jacksonville to Pay
the Bill.

A specially called meeting of the
board OF County Commissioners was
held on Monday. The meeting was 10
provide for the carrying out OF The or
der Of Governor GilchriSt for special
election on the l7lh instant 10 fill the
vacancy in the office of State Senator,
in order that the county will be reprc-
scnted in the Senate at the special SeS-
sion called for October 1St for the
special accommodation OF the city of
Jacksonville.
But the commissioners were all dis
gusted; they all look upon the action Of
The governor as piece of extravaganza.
The election will cost Putnam county
between $500 and 81 ,OOO-moncy We
are compelled TO GIVE AWAY, and
that, too, al time when we could use
il to advantage, and where il would do
HOME PEOPLE SOME GOOD.
The disgust in the board found vent
in the following resolution offered by
Commissioner Moody and seconded by
Commissioner Perry:
"The board of trade OF Jacksonville
having agreed with the Governor of
Florida to pay all expenses incidental 10
the special session of the Legislature, be
it,
Resolved that we take the matter up
with the Governor and ask that Put
nam county be reimbursed Tor all COSTS
of the special election called for Tues
day, September l7th. )"
On motion of Commissioner Perry
the name of John P. Wall, the regularly
nominated democratic candidate for
Senator, was ordered placed on the
ticket. The motion prevailed. None
OF the other parties presented names
and therefore Mr.. Wall will be un-
opposed
The Regular Session.
The regular session of the board was
held on Tuesday, all members being
present. There were a number of
matters of business of minor importance
up for consideration. Among them was
the ordering road tax warrants issued in
favor of all the incorporated towns in
the county for their share of road tax
money under Section $50. The com
mission appointed TO locate road be
tween lnterlachen and Grandin sub
mittcd plans and a map which were ap-
proved. P, d. Watkins, and J. IL.
Wylie were authorized to make a sur
vcy and get deeds for the right of way.
A warrant was ordered drawn in favor
of Alachua county for expenses of the
Smith trial in that county on change OF
venue. A board OF trade committee
consisting of ]. II. Haughton, p. ].
Becks and Frederick w. KellS urged
the construction of a public highway
from Palatka 10 Jacksonville via. Green
Cove Springs, and Commissioner
Moody moved and Commissioner Tim
mons seconded a resolution 10 take up
the matter of connecting the Clay coun-
ly road with the hard road at BoStwiCk,
thus completing the Jacksonville high
way through Putnam county.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

WANTED-RcSponsiblc persons to
advertise the Carens College of Dress
making. Salary or commission. See
MRS. BLACKWOOD, opposite Putnam
House. Aug. 'oV'l''
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

WANTED-Pine ties, hearts and saps
Soc for 7x9xS4 hearts; 3Sc for 7x9xS!
SapS. Inspection and settlement on the
road. Address w. A. HALLE Gaines
vile, Fla.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

When baby suffers with Group, apply
and give DR.. Thomas Eclectic OIL at
once. Safe for children. A little goes
a long way. 25c and so. At all drug
stores.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06
In Circuit Court, Eighth Judicial Circuit,
In And For Putnam County, Florida.
In re Dissolution Of PaIatka
Telephone Company.

To all persons Interested;
NOTICE is hereby given that on the 2lst
day OF september, \. u. 1917, the southern
corporuttou doing business in the state Of
Florida. hy its solicitors and attorneys,
Hilburn a Merryday, will apply to the
HonorubIe n. Wills, Judge Ot said Court
at gainesville, Florida. for an ouier ANA
decree, di,soIving PnlatEu Telephone Com
many as Il corporation.
THIS notice therefor as given TO all per
sons interested, that any Who uluy wish 50
To do. may appear before the above named
Court at the time and place aforesaid, ANA
then and there resist surh appltoajiun,
southern Bell Telephone a leiegruph 90
BY its attorney ana solicitors.
HILBURN a MERRY DAY.
Dated Pulatka. Fla, sept 5th, 1912.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

Comfort Shoes for Men and Women a
specially. Prices ranging from $1.25 10
81. 50 pair. l.. c.. SMITH.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

For regular action of the bowels; easy,
natural movements, relief of constipa-
lion, try DOan's Regulets. 25c at all
stores.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

A fine line OF Dotted and Embroider-
ed Swiss. Regularly sold at 25c, going
now at l0c per yard. l.. c. SMITH.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

WANTED-Board and room in pri-
vatc family by young married couple ad'
dress or apply Palatka News.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

Have you seen that Velvet Colonial
Pump we are selling for Sl4q. 1t is
an extra good value. l.. G. SMITH.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-06

Read the prices be-
low and see what we
are offering.
These are all first
flass suits of the new
est weaves and de-
signs=--this seasons
styles from the fam
bus Hart, Schaffner &
Marx, and Kirsch-
baum factories. We
Simply must have the
room, therefore the
Sacrifice.
The prices below
will warrant your
buying one and get
ting the good of it
next season, besides
THE long three or four
months yet to wear a
summer suit before
1.-THE winter season.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11
Early Flowing For
Winter Wheat.

AS a rule we do not think much
of the plan of following either
oats or wheat with wheat. Con-
tinuous growing of small grain
is not only hard on the soil, but
it gives an unusual opportunity
for the weeds, insect pests and
diseases attacking grain crops to
do their worst damage. We are
quite sure that if winter wheat
were never grown for more than
two years in succession on the
same land, that Hessian fly would
not be causing nearly the trouble
it is at present.
Nevertheless, it will often hap
pen with the very best of farmers
that it is advisable 10 follow
small grain with winter wheat.
To them we wish again to give
this advice: Disk and pillow as
quickly as possible after the
small grain harvest. See if you
can not stack the small grain, or
in some way remove the bundles,
so that you can get on the land
with a disk before the middle of
July. After you have given the
land a good double disking, see
if you can not give a good plow-
ting within a week or two. The
disking serves to check the loss
of moisture, but does not seem to
take the place of blowing under
the conditions which prevail
when winter wheat is followed
by small grain.
The ideal seed bed for winter
wheat is that prepared by deep
blowing, in July. This was in
dictated by a Kansas experiment
two years ago. Disking without
blowing gave a yield of four
bushels to the acre; shallow plow-
ing in September gave a yield of
fourteen bushels to the acre;
deep blowing in September
yield of nearly sixteen bushels to
the acre; deep blowing in July
yield of thirty-eight bushels to
the acre. Deep blowing in July
cost nearly SIS an acre, which
was So in access of the expense
of simply disking, but it paid
many times over, for it increased
the net profit by more than $40
to the acre.
Remember that the ideal seed
bed is one which has been stirred
deeply several months previously,
but has had time to become firm
and compact. There is an inch
of mellow surface soil on top Of
the firm sub-surface soil which
serves to hold the moisture. In
such a seed bed, the moisture
readily rises by capillarity from
the subsoil, but is not lost be-
cause the dust mulch on the sur
face holds it in. Theoretically
and practically, the best way to
secure such a seed bed is to pillow
deeply in midsummer and follow
the blowing every week or ten
days with a good disking.-
Wallace's Farmer.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11
Common Sense.

Gus Lundgren, at the Long
Bell lumber yard, wants to ex-
plain to the farmers about the
easily and cheaply constructed
Common Sense" silo. Silos
make farmers well-to-do. Go in
and talk with him about it.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11

If you are housewife you can
not reasonable hope to be healthy
or beautiful by washing dishes,
sweeping and doing housework
all day, and crawling into bed
dead tired at night. You must
get out into the open air and sun
light. If you do this every day
and keep your stomach and bow
els in good order by taking Cham
berlain'S Tablets when needed,
you should become both healthy
and beautiful. For sale by al
dealers.
DR.. English. Phone 1913.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11

the lack of hired help in the
home, This hired help problem
will not always be unsolvable.
You can go far to solve the prob
lem by making the work in the
house as light as possible.
The time is coming, and not
far distant, when this drift Of
farmers daughters to the towns
will be checked-even if it does
not cease altogether. 1t is pos
sible to make farm life so much
more desirable on the farm that
young people will not flee from
it. One of the most important
steps towards it is to adopt MOD
ern couveniences and labor saw
ing devices in the home, and
thus make the work easier. Do
ing so will go far to check the
movement of the farmer himself
to town. For it is the unneces-
sary drudgery in the farm home
that induces farmers wives to
persuade their husbands to move
to town.
The adoption of a rotation
and of stock farming will do
very much in this direction.
Every man who has 100 acres
of land should hire his help by
the year. He should give his
hired hand a house, a comforta-
bic one; should give him a gar
den and the use of a COW; let
him have a certain number OF
chickens; and thus solve the
problem of how to deal with the
hired hand in the farm home.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11

During the summer months
mothers of young children should
watch for any unnatural loose
ness of the bowels. When given
prompt attention at this time
serious trouble may be avoided.
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy can always be
depended upon. For sale by all
dealers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11
Gold Bond Flour.

Take this advertisement to
your Grocer and get a five cent
reduction on twenty-four pound
bag of gold bond flour. Not
more than two given to one fam
lily. Baxter Mill & Elevator.
Buy it now. Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy is almost certain to be
needed before the summer is over.
Buy it now and be prepared for
such an emergency. For sale by
all dealers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11
Bic Baxter Reunion.

This is a year of big doings in this
country, and the Big Baxter Reunion will
be one Of big doipgs. too. 1t will be held
August a6 to 81, and will be one continu-
Gus round of enjoyment. Speakers OF
national reputation will be on hand, and
the amusements will be of an interesting
and instructive nature.
No admission will be charged.
Free tents will be furnished the old
soldiers, and free camp grounds will be
furnished all others who desire to attend.
For information IS to arrangements and
privileges, address Chas. L. Smith, Bax-
ter Springs, Kansas.
Dysentery is always serious
and often a dangerous disease,
but it can be cured. Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarr-
hoea Remedy has cured it even
when malignant and epidemic.
For sale by all dealers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11

Services at St. Marks Episco-
pal church on next Sunday even
ing at 500 o'clock, conducted by
Rev. Alex. Hawke of Galena,
Kansas. All are invited.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11

A. ]. Thompson, D. D. S,
Phones 261 and 90.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11
PTeaSe no NOT overlook the

fact that an International Power
Hay Press will bale twice as
much hay on an average as any
horse power hay press. HO0dH.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-07-11

DR.. English. Phone 1913.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
PRAY AN INJUNCTION
TWO SUITS FILED IN cHANCERY
COURT AT JACKSON.
'nts Are State Auditor and State
--S Y. and Petitioners Claim so
~o-. Acre Tax Is in Vic
Constitution.

JseksCn.-The Pine Lamh @
and the N~ajOr-SOwers Saw Mill y -
of CovinghR county filed suits In
shaucery coNrt against Duncan ThonfR
SOL, state anlitor, and P. s Stovall,
state treasurer praying for IN injunc-
ton to restrain h,em from enforcing the
collection from the plaintiffs of . tax of
twenty cents an acre on timber lands
they own, a tax provided for in 80 act
passed by the last legislature.
The petitioners refer to the actios of
the state Legislature in enacting . Rv
levying IN annual privilege tar, or oc
cupation fee, of 20 cents an acre upon
each person, association, business firm
or corporation owning Or holding more
than 1000 acres of timber lands. The
petitioners maintain that the defendants
maintain that they srs liable for the
tax, and they ask that they be e~nioined
from proceeding against them. They
claim that the act is in violation of both
the Mississippi and the United States
constitutions.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
OTHERS KNOW US TOO WELL
Easy 60 Deceive Ourselves, but the
Rest Of the World IH Generally
Too Wise.

Senator Pomerene has a happy
knack Of driving home q statement
with an epigram.
At a luncheon Senator Pomerene
described a would-be l~itteratenr.
Thanks to whisky and strong
cigars" he said, "the poor fellow has
failed to make good. He earns a pre-
carious living by newspaper work,
but though he is so now, none of the
wondrous novels and thrilling stories
that he used to pirate about have ap-
peared.
And yet, in his shabby apartment,
owe a bottle Of cheap liquor and a
box Of cheap cigars, he will boast by
the hour-poor, gray, wrinkled duffer
of his unfinished MSS. Oh, they
viii appear yeti Yes, he will yet H.
lumine the world with the light Of his
genius"
Senator Pomerens sighed and con-
cluded:
"Ah. II We could deceive others a.
eNsily as we deceive ourselves, what
regulations we'd all have, to be surei"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
CANNOT AGREE
ON FREIGHT RATES
RAILROAD OFFICIALS AND coMMIS-
SIoNERS MEET.
SAND AND GRAVEL SCHEDULE
Injunction Suits Now Pending in Federal
Court Restraining State Commission
From Enforcing Rates.

Jackson.-It seems as if the contest
ed rates fixed by the Mississippi railroad
commission upon sand and gravel will
have to be fought out in the courts.
There was a conference held between
the commission and representatives from
practically every railroad affected in the
state. After the conference DIR. i. NJ.
Sheppard, president of the commission,
wa aked a to the outcome and wheth-
er or not the commission and officials
had been able to reach a settlement.
DR.. Sheppard replying said: "Abou.
all | feel at liberty to say in this re-
gard is that the proposition made to us
by the railroad officials was not salts
factory and was declined" He refused
to say what the proposition referred to
was.
Will the members of the commission
recede from their positioni was asked
the doctor, but he failed to give any
direct reply.
There are now injunction suits pending
in the federal court in which the diff
ferent roads seek to restrain the COM
mission from making effective the rate
recently fixed by them on sand and
gravel. The contention of the carriers
is that the rate is such as to render the
hauling of this commodity improbable
to them.
At the time the commission passed
the rate a statement was given out from
one member in which it was set forth
that a rate had never been in force on
sand and gravel; that in view of the
activity in road building such a rate was
essential and that the commission had
fixed one that was equitable to both the
carriers and to the public.
The injunction suit will not be argued
until some time in the vacation of the
federal court and it may be that the
members of the commissiin and the rail-
roads will be able to reach a compromise
before the time set for hearing them.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
ADVERTISE MISSISSIPPI.

Jacksonville executive committee of
the Commercial Secretaries Association
in Mississippi have been planning to-
gether for some time past to take a step
or two forward in promoting the devel-
opment policy of their organization.
These hard working and loyal boosters
have been looking around and studying
the methods of practical advertising as
carried on by merchants and trade or
CARNATIONS of other states. One fact
has been brought home to them quite
recently, which is that there is as fine
and promising a field of exploitation open
to a Wheels" as pertains
to any other state in the South. They
have noed the triumphant and aggres-
sive movement which resulted in equip
ping "Arkansas-on-Wheels and sending
that practical outfit into a dozen states
with its message of progress and invita-
tion.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
STANDARD FILES DEMURRER
ANSWER MADE 10 ROSS COLLINS
ANTITRUST SUIT.
Law Declared to Be Unconstitutional.
General Denial Made Of Allega.
tons That Company Operated
in Restraint Of Trade.

Northumberland has been made
by the Standard Oil Company to the
suit filed about three months ago in
Lauderdale county by Attorney General
'oss A. Collins, alleging a violation OF
tine tate antitrust law and asking for
n peaM Y amounting to $75O,OO0.
The deSsN. ~rer was prepared by Mayes
4 Maves Of 'ckson, representing the
defendant company, and a general de-
NAL is made to sl al cations tnat the
eompay has acted in resi- ami Oh trade
The defendant demurs TO tN'a' portion
of the bill alleging that the a~'enuaht
has exposed on the same day, In VA 'o,S
sites, towns and villages, its produeNs
at different prices, and cites chapter
1l9 Of the laws of 1908, IS not under
taking to make such sale q restraint
in, trade, and even if salt chapter did
SO do, it would then and thereby be
unconstitutional under the provisions of
the fourteenth amendment to the con.
stitution.
Denial is made of monopoly, denial
of attempt to destroy competition, or
that there is any cause for action. In
substance the defendant demurs to all
of the allegations made under the pro-
visions of chapter 119 of the laws Of
1908, and alleges that certain prOvis-
ions are in conflict with the constitu-
tion of the United States as being q
deprivement Of property without due
course of law.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
AMENDMENTS DEFEATED.
Official Returns From Fifty.Eight
Counties In.

Jackson.-State Secretary j. w. Pow
er hau tabulated returns from So coun.
ties that had sent in official returns of
the state election. The amendments to
the state constittion all failed beyond a
doubt according to the latest official
figures. A majority of the total cast SO
far would be 1860, and the third, or
initiative and referendum amendment,
received only 19,447, being now more
than 5000 votes behind. The Fl coun.
ties to be heard from will not overcome
this sum according to the best informa-
ton to be had.
The first amendment, to change the
style of legislative bills, has so far re-
ceived 1854 votes, or 1900 less than
enough to carry. The amendment to az
low nine jurors to decide civil cases re-
ceived the largest vote, 22,246, still
about 1850 behind.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
Built Her Own Home,

Miss Frances Lyon of Westwood has
the distinction OF being the only
woman In New England who lives in
p house literally built with her own
hands. Miss Lyons belongs to a club
whose members are practicing the doc
trine Of going back to the farm. The
club is limited to 40 members and
owns property to the amount OF 5 1000
and about 70 acres of farming land not
far from Westwood. Each member
holds a deed to one acre and the bal
ance Of the land Is held In common to
be rented to any member who wishes
70 try farming on a larger scale.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
STATE HOSPITAL REPORT.
154 Patients Have Been Admitted Since
Opening.

Jackson.-Dr. s.. H. Mclean super
intendent of the new state hospital has
submitted a report showing a record OF
patients for the month of October, and
also since the opening of the hospital
on June l.
During October 1874 patients were adj
mitted, sixty of them requiring opera.
tions. One death resulted. From dis
ease seven died during the month, max.
ing the operative mortality 1 2-3 per
cent.
The total number of patients admit
ted since June 1 is 1853. In all 277 OPP
e~rations have been performed. Twelve
died who had been operated upon, and
80 died from disease, making the total
number of deaths since the hospital
opened number SO.
This is considered a remarkable re-
port among medical men, as the major
ity of patients admitted at the hospital
are in an advanced stage of sickness be
fore entering.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-11-22
INCREASE ALFALFA EGREAGE
ON DRAINED AND PRAIRIE
PROVES A VALUABLE CROP.
As Acreage Increases Values &c Up
When Rotation Is More Widely
Understood, Experts Declare,
Greater Good Will
Result.

Agricultural COllege.-There are TIVE
sections in Mississippi where alfalfa
gIows successfully: On the well drain
ed buckshot lands in the YaEoo-Missis.
sippi delta and ON the black prairie
lands in Northeast Mississippi including
the counties Of Lee, Chickasaw, Clay,
Monroe, Lowndes, Oktibbeha and NOxu.
bee. There are also other counties with
small areas of prairie soil adapted to
the growth of alfalfa. There are At
present 90 900 acres in alfalfa in the
northeast prairie section. The alfalfa
area is being gradually increased year
by year. There are other large areas
in the state where alfalfa could be sue
cessfully grown if it were not for crab
grass.
+ This grass grows very vigorously in
all of our soils except the heavy lime
lands, and will choke or smother out
alfalfa in one or two years, generally
the first year from seeding. 1t is only
within the last ten years that alfalfa
has become a regular field farm crop
in the prairie section.
Twelve to fifteen years ago land in
this section was selling at from S12 to
SIS per acre; it is nov selling at from
$40 to SIS per acre. So far there has
been very little effort to use alfalfa in
a systematic rotation. The little data
which we have ,een able to collect in
dictate that after the land has been in
alfalfa for several years that Other
crops following the alfalfa will be in
creased from rs per cent to so per cent
in yield.
The cost of preparing land, seeding
and bringing the crop to the first cut
ting will be from Sc to $40 per acre..
The hay sold this season for from $14
to $40 per ton, (. 0. b. the producers
station. 1t rarely sells for less than
$14 per ton and this season the bulk
Of the crop was sold for SIG.