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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-08-28

continue to produce ana pepro-
duce that proposed system of pub
lie roads, and agitate the bcnd IS
sue for good roads. Then IN the
last issue, the Enterprise puts In
and shows how utterly 1aneces-
sary a bond issue for roads would
be. What an awful nadstakes
It's not bond issue for roads, but
for the boodlers around the coun'
ty capital who may succeed in IN
augurating the scheme to fool the
country crackers to approve their
plan and come their way.
The Enterprise points out what
has been done in the Arcadia dis
trict by Major Wells since San. l,
1913-built thirty-fve miles OF
graded road and clayed one mile.
1t took the Major about sixty or
ninety days to get ready to go to
work, but the teamster can't haul
his load without being hooked up,
nor can the banker do business
without capital, nor can gang OF
fools and grafters run q county to
the interest of the whole people OF
the county, and Wells knows these
few things. So when he entered
the Office of commissioner. he set
to work to do something worth
while for his county, aud with a
majority of his associates bought
the necessary implements with
which to work before sending the
anen out to work.
And if they keep on working
and buying necessary equipments
with which to work, .yoY will note
that by the end Of the year 1914,
if nothing serious prevents Wells,
Surrency & Co., will have built
more miles Of good roads than was
built from the first of June 1887
op 10 January /, 1913. But
while this is going on, it may
mean hard time for the advocates
of big graft games like $4,000
courthouse at a cost of $140, 600
to our people for II building worth
about 100000 and it about the
most i'll arranged public building
in the state, or proposed $780,
600 good road bond issue which
would pan out at $500, 900 and re-
suit in Arcadia getting u few of
her city sewers. cleaned out and
her streets extended q few miles
only, while the country crackers
pay the bills.
We say, let the good roads un-
der the government plan, rs rec
commended with the bond issue
frame. up, stop for moment and
look back over the history of our
county, as we'll as their own re-
cord. Go back to 1905 and note
the milIage for state and county
taxes; then note that the millage
continually increased from 1908 to
1919 until it had more than doub-
led. advancing from Is mills to 43
mills. Then note that the proper
ty values in DeSoto county during
these few years had about douh-
led. And note that the taxes
were well nigh paid and reached
the county treasurer. But the
question which now agitates our
people more, Perhaps than any
other question is what became OF
these large sums of money, reach
ing as they did up into the hum
dreds of thousands of dollars; and
who dominated, bound and. gagged
the several boards of county COM
missioners and dictated the ex-
penditure or waste of these funds.
Look around the county anc
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-08-28

Lakeland Telegram: If Judge
Hooker runs for governor and
Frank Mayes runs against him
that is, if they both run in the pri-
maries for the Democratic nomi-
nation, it will he such campaign
of courtesy and amenity on both
sides that the first editor or orator
who iniects a coarse or nnfeeling
word into the controversy will
shock the sensibilities of the en-
tire audience and be promptly
elected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

A special meeting of the Admission
Booster club was held Monday evening
for the purpose of discussing some pro-
jects under way for the Improvement of
the streets and bridges in the city. for
which they have been waging a cam
paign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
MONEY FOR OTHER
NEEDED REFORMS
Seed Presents Candidacy for
Governorship in Impress
sive Manner at Red Bay

Red Bay. August 25.-(Special)
Lieutenant Governor Walter D. Seed
of Tuscaloosa spoke Saturday here to
an appreciative and attentive audience
He presented his candidacy for the
governorship in a very impressive man
ner. His speech was prefaced with a
splendid recital of the natural re-
sources of Alabma, in depicting the
commendable things pertaining to
King Cotton" iron ore and coal.
The speaker contrasted southern in
dustry with northern achievement and
drew beautiful picture in prophetic
splendor of the destined future develop
ments of the south. He strongly advo-
Gated more liberal state appropriation
for agricultural experiment, comparing
the statistics of northern states with
that of Alabama, and discussed at
length Governor Corners attitude along
this line while governor of the state.
Mr.. Seed denounced the law in re-
gard to the raise of the salary of GER
tain officers in Alabama and declared
that the money should have been appro-
priated for other needed reforms. He
recommended a pension of $100 for
Confederate veterans regardless of de-
ficits or shortage of the state revenues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
Knew He Was Rjrht

menagerie was coming to the town.
and every fence, within a radius of five
miles OF so had been billed with the usual
lrrid announcements, says Tlt-Bits
Two yolsels--one old the other young
were gazing at the bills and wondering.
Roosevelt. and Ritchie's circus. The
biggest show on EARTH read the young
one.
"What-whats that?" asked the old fell
low, quickly.
The other read again the legend of the
showbills.
''Y'ou don't know what you're talking
about. That show KANT touch. John Rob-
inson's. He used ter cum here. and that
theer was q show wuth secin'. 1t was
the biggest show on this yere earth
The old man had evidently not been to a
circus for many years.
Read 1t for yourself tnen." said the
young yokel, '1 tell'ee that thing says
this is tho biggest show on oarth.'
Tho old man proceeded TO spell out tho
big letters. Flo waded through "Roose-
veit and Ritohie," and after a rest be-
s.ai, OH the remainder or the sentence
II. i-g-g-c-r-t s-h-o-w ON o-n-r-t-h,
s-o-p-t. l..
u .hnowed it,'' ! xnorod 81, shouted
tho Old man. jumping up and down in his
geo. THE biggest show. "oopt one, and
that thcer one was John RobinsonH."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

fault Do you think a man will stare at
me when you're walking with me? You
step behind and see whether men don't
look at me"
The husband hung back about a dozen
yards and for the length of the street
was surprised to see every man his wife
passed stare hard at her and even turn
around and look after her.
Sure, lasslei" he exclaimed, as he re-
Joined her, II was wrong and take 1t
back. I'll never say aught about your
looks again"
The wife had made a face at every man
she met.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

A series of services, known as the peo-
pies meetings, began Monday evening at
Parker Memorial Baptist church. DR..
w. f. Marlborough, the pastor. will do
the preaching.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

The school question was discussed at
length and more liberal appropriations
advocated for the common schools. He
referred to the ! mill tax for common
schools and advocated a constitutional
provision to that effect. He was severe
in criticism of Governor Comer's record
as governor and denouced his attitude
upon the question of state wide pro-
hibition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
TWO ENTER THE RACE.
FOR CITY ATTORNEY.
Arnold's Appointment at
Admission Creates Vacancy
MEET AFTER Sc YEARS
Epworth League of Talladega District
Meets Next in Anniston-Fine
Prospects for Boarding
Schools at Admission

Admission. August 25.-(Special) )-The
appointment of Judge J. j. Arnold to the
vacancy in the probate court of Calhoun
county makes a void in the office of city
attorney, which position he has held since
the last election, and lively race will
be run for the position by c. II. Young,
former city attorney, and C. P. Leyden,
a young attorney.
Judge Arnold has not yet taken the
oath of office and no date will be set for
the election until he tenders his formal
resignation to the city council.
The next meeting of the Epworth league
of the Talladega district will be held
in Anniston according to delegates who
have returned from the conference which
came to a close at Jacksonville Sunday
evening. The meeting there was ad-
dressed by het Rev. C. A. Bowen of Bir-
mingham, the Rev. D. c. McNutt of Pied
mont, the Rev. s. P. West of Jackson
Vile, and the Rev. F. NJ Dominick, presi-
dent of the north Alabama conference,
and ohters.
After a separation of sc years, neither
knowing where the other lived, j. NJ
Robertson, brothers, have just had happy
reunion in this city. The former lives at
Grand Valley, Utah, and his whereabouts
were made known to the Annstonian
by the Rev. Mr. Llewellyn and Judge S.
W. Tate. j. N. Robertson was a con-
federate soldier and j. A. Robertson is
a recorder at the probate court here, hav-
ing formerly been a newspaper writer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
How She Did 1t

From the Louisville Herald.
As married couple were walking down
one of the main thoroughfares of a city
the husband noted the attention which
other women obtained from passersby
and remarked to his better half:
Folks never look at you. I wish I had
married some one better looking"
The woman tartly replied: It's your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

came. Many others have given me testi-
mony to the same effect
When one undertakes to estimate the
loss to the south during recent years be-
cause Of this little insect. and then tries
to estimate the probable loss in the future,
the result must be appalling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

church and the other al the Campbellite
church. A number of new converts and
membership by letter. etc, We're received
in both churches mentioned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
Expense Without Avail

THE government had spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars for this purpose, but
without avail. The government experts,
entomologists, farm demonstration agents,
and others have done splendid work in
teaching the farmers better methods of
cultivation, rotation of crops, etc, but so
far as checking the boil weevil is con-
cerned they themselves admit that their
work has been failure. No method of
killing out the boil weevil, or checking its
spread, has been discovered and unless
something is done it will not be very long
until the entire cotton area of the south is
infested.
"Of course, some cotton can be grown in
the areas infested by the boil weevil, but
the yield per acre and per farm is greatly
reduced, while the cost of production is
greatly increased. A member of Congress
who owns a large plantation in an infested
section, tells me that it costs just about
twice as much to produce a bale of cot
ton now as it cost before the boil weevil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
Revival Over

Two very successful protracted meetings
closed here last week. one at Canaan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26
Would Prohibit Raising Cot
ton in Strip of South
100 Miles Wide
THUS DEPRIVE THE
WEEVIL OF IT'S FOOD
Says Cost Would Be Enormous But
Nothing to Compare With the
Depredations of the
Weevil Itself

Washington, August Especially SEN
ator e. D. Smith of South Carolina today
gave out the following statement as to his
plan to establish a cottonless zone for the
purpose of checking the eastward ad-
vance of the boil weevil:
For a number of years I have been
deeply interested in the boil weevil. l
have watched its spread from the time 1t
made its first appearance in an isolated
spot in Texas until it had not reached the
state of Alabama, and I have been ap-
paled by the damage wrought by its raw
ages. During all these years have been
hoping for the discovery of some method
by which the pest could be exterminated,
or even checked, but In both / have been
disappointed. The boil weevil continues
its march eastward at steady pace each
year, and in no section where it has made
its appearance has any method been dis
covered of minimizing the damage done
hx,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

President f. d. McDougall is at present
in New York. He has been assisting in
a series of evangelistie meetings there
and at the same time has been looking
after the financial interests of the An
niston college, which has had a remark
able growth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

I'VE are looking forward to the largest
enrolment in the history Of the college, -
said Dean w. A White of the faculty OF
the Alabama Presbyterian college in re-
ferring to the fall prospects for that
school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-26

The Rev. DR.. Joseph H. Spearlng presi-
dent of Noble institute for young ladies'
is equally optimistic in regard to that in
stitution. He has been dividing his time
between Admission and Columbia Military
academy in Tennessee, which he also
heads. He says that he hopes to bring
a number of young women from Tennes-
see for the Admission school.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31

began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and now am strong
and healthy. Mrs. ALICE DARLING.
RID. No. 2, Box n, Peutwater, Mich
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Says
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that could hardly stand on my feet
would feel like crying out lots Of times.
and had such . heavy feeling in my right
aide. had such terrible dull headaches
every day and they would make me feel
% drowsy and sleepy all the time. yet I
could not sleep at night
AFTER bad taken Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound . week began TO
improve. Ny backache was less and
that heavy feeling In my side went
away. I continued to take the Com
pound and am cured.
"You may publish this Il yoo wish. "
Miss CLARA L. GAuWTTz, RR. No. 4
Box 62, Peoria, III.
Such letters prove the value Of Lydia
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31
Considerate.

Considerate.
My little brother William had been
staying up rather late and went to bed
without saying his prayers. Mother
said to him: Why. Willie, I'm sur
prised at you! You haven't said your
prayers" Jaw. gee!" he answered.
Whats the use of waking the Lord up
Journal
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31

3 CXlV0b 0AS
ment I bad back
ache and bearing
down pains 20 bad
that / could not MT
In . chair or walk
ACROSS the floor and
/ was In severe pain
all the time. ! felt
discouraged - bad
taken everything I
could think Of and
was no better. !
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31
Good Advice.

Good Advice.
Bill see a school Of dueling, in
which prospective duelists shoot at
silhouette targets. has been opened in
Paris.
Jill-Take at the silhouette a pop,
but spare your brothers gore. old
top.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31
Ringing a Change.

Ringing a Change.
Coin to move again this Year,"
asked the office pest.
Nope. Can't afford to-
What cha goin' to do, them"
"Well.'' said O'Beetle. we've made
arrangements to have new street num-
bers put on the houses on our block"
Judge.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31

Opportunity probably knocked at
your door while you were out gossip
ing with the neighbors.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31

Nrs- winslow's Soothing Syrup for Childrs0
teething, softens the gums, reduces innAmma-
t1ou allays pain, cures wind cole Sc botsle-AA
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31

Don't be misled Ask for Red Cross
Bag Blue. Makes beautiful white clothes.
At all good grocers. Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31
His 6ueiness,

From the way that fellow has been
talking to you, judge he Is hot air
artist"
$50 he is-advertising agent for .
new furnace"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31
One Of ManY,

DO you believe in the saying that
success is sweet?"
Really, l never tasted it,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31

Old liars are young romancers gone
to seed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31
W0MAN COULD
NOT walk
She Was So m-Restored b
Health BY Lydia E Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.

Pentwater, Mich year ago lwas
verv weak and the doctor said bad .
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31
SUMMARY OF
LAWS PASSED
BY THE NINETEENTH GENERAL
ASSEMBLY AND APPROVED
BY THE GOVERNOR
IMPORTANT MEASURES
A COMPLETE AND CONCISE CON-
PllsTiON FOR FUTURE
REFERENCE.

Copyright. 1913, by Western News
paper Union.)
Denver.-The Nineteenth General
Assembly sent 1s7 bills to Governor
Ammons for his approval or rejection.
OF this number he signed l57, vetoed
IS, signed II in part, and allowed one
to become a law without his sigma
ture. The total appropriation made
by the Assembly is approximately 81
$4,000, II is impossible to get the
exact figure. OF this amount S1,777,-
123l2 is salary appropriations. The
Assembly enacted number Of very
important laws, among them law
creating a state highway commits
slOner with an advisory board and
giving this commissioner and board
the right to eNpend the internal i'm
proyement fund with the consent OF
the governor. Also the law providing
for the direct election OF United
States senator's; also a public utility
lew. law creating a coal mine COM
mission and a law creating horse
racing commission with power to es-
tablish rules controlling all horse
races.
The following is a general summary
OF the bills enacted:
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-31

races,
The following is a general summary
OF the bills enacted,
Some Of the Most important Ap-
preparation Bills.
Salary appropriation.-sl, III, 1879
5 b. No. 80 tBurTis).-Appropria
ting sll.Dg0 to pay back premiums at
Pueblo State Fair,
S B No. 104 Carver .-Appropri-
atnE sI62.JyO Industrial School for
Boys.
S B. No. 123 (Caryer) .-ApproprI-
atins 100000 State Home for Mental
Detectives,
s b. No. 157 ULlnes).-Appropria
ing s21+oo0 for State PenIteniary.
S. b. No 1G0 CBurris) ).-Appropri
ating slG7.5oo for State Insane Asy-
lum.
S. B. No. 1853 tReynolds1--APpro-
priating s26.700 for Normal School at
Greeley.
S. b. No l73 (Crozsl.-A79-ogrllf-
ing sS1.s0ss0 for Agricultural College
at Fort Collins
S. b. No. 231 lMacArthur) .-Appro-
priating $4,000 for Soldiers and Sail
ors' Home.
s b No. 235 (Affolter) .-Appropri-
ating sl5o.ooo for State University.
S b. No. 2G9 (sharpleyJ .-Appro-
1riating $4,000 for Industrial Work
shop for the Blind.
H B. No 4 (PhilbinD Appropriate
ing sll5.5O0 for Colorado Reforma-
tory.
H. B. No. 81 CCavanaugh) .-Appro-
prating s15.73o for Deaf and Blind
School
H. BIS Nos. 213 and PA (Gates).-
Appropriating $4,000 for Capitol
building.
Senate Bills.
S. B. No (Burris) Creating a
public utility commission and giving
T. power over all public utilities in the
state, except those wholly within in
corporated towns and cities, and abol-
ishing the present railroad commits
sion.
s. B. No. "a Wan Tilborg) .-Recod.
flying the banking laws of the state
and amending them to correspond
with the other laws relating to
finances.
s. B. No. 2S (Napier) Requiring
railroads to equip their locomotives
with headlights of not less than 1900
candle power.
S r. No AZ (Bellesfield) .-Re-enact,
ing the eight-hour law, which was re-
ferred by the Eighteenth General AS,
sembly, and which was adopted by
the people, but which was probably
killed through the adoption OF the ini-
tiated eight-hour law. This law Gre
ates an eight-hour work day in mines,
rmelters and kindred employments.
S. B. No 40 (Tobin) Fixing H.
cense for the operation OF motorcycles
and automobiles. and also a license
for chauffeurs; money to be divided
equally between state and county in
which macines are owned: money to
be expended on the roads OF the state.
s. b. No. 5S Gles) ).-Transferring
the Brand Department Of the state
from the office of the Secretary of
State to the Stock Inspection Com
mission.
S. B. No 63 (West) Providing for
the refunding of irrigation district
Londs.
S. B. No. 60 (Joyce) Placing the
resumption Of risk entirely on the EN-
ployer and abolishing all assumption
OF risk. even under contract. by the
employe.
S. B. No. 70 (Wm. c. Robinson).-
Repeating the Moffat tunnel bill
which was passed by the Eighteenth
General Assembly. the proposed bond
isue of which was defeated by the
people at the election last fall.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-10

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-10

THE BLUE AND III GRAY AT GETTYSBURG
each accommodating comfortably eight
soldiers, had been erected on the scene
OF this battle. The tents fell westward
with the slope Of the ground from the
Emmissary road to the point on Semi
nary ridge where the charge of Pickett
started on the third day of the fight.
They covered the Peach Orchard and
the Wheat Field" where thousands
of men were lost, and part OF the
ground over which Pickett charged.
but they did not reach the Bloody
Angle" or the base OF Cemetery ridge,
from whose height Meade's artillery
cut to pieces the legions of Pickett.
The formal exercises were held In a
tent near the Emmitsburg road, but
they lasted but two hours each day.
The veterans spent the remainder OF
the time as they pleased, renewing ac-
quaintances and greeting comrades
whom they had not seer or heard of for
the intervening fifty years.
Never In the time Of peace had the
old town witnessed anything that ex-
eelled In grandeur the parades of the
feeble veterans that passed along the
main street Of Gettysburg day after
day. The white haired soldiers. many
stopped from old age, marched In line,
either with the rebels or the Yankees,
each day Of the celebration.
The arrangements for feeding the old
soldiers We're excellent. Good meals,
differing greatly from those that they
obtained In the stirring days Of 1868,
were served the old soldiers and In
true camp fashion. The veterans In
the happiest humor waited In line to
get their rations.
OF the Union leaders only one corps
commander was there-General Dan
lei E. Sickles-death having mustered
out all the other generals-Meade. Han
cock, Howard, Slocum. Reynolds. Hunt
and Webb, while on the Confederate
side have gone Leo, Longstreet, Hil,
Ewell, Alexander and Pickett. whose
name win ever be linked with Gettys-
burg because OF the memorable charge
that his division made against the
Union center, a charge that will live
In history as long as valor Is com
~memorated.
On July 4 President Wilson was one
OF the speakers. Many other men no,
table throughout the nation attended
the celebration and reunion.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-10
SINGING FISH DISTURB TOWN,
This Remarkable Fish Tale Comes
From Bellevue. o.

Bellevue, O.-This town Is all fused
up over certain singing fish which
keep the villagers awake at nights.
These fish. a variety of bull pout, live
in the s~ubterranean streams which
flow under the place and, possibly be-
coming lonesome, come to the surface
and sing.
Anyway, they gather at the surface
of cisterns and quiet pools I'm the gath
ering dusk and chant In chorus what a
prominent poetess of Bellevue calls q
sweet, sad, haunting melody, which
she likens to the moaning Of night
winds through lonely, brooding pines.
She also believes that the pout in the
subterranean darkness keep track OF
each other by their cries and that tn,
droning sounds are their callings tt
their mates. But plain citizens who
are kept awake are beginning to cuss
the gosh blamed noise.