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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
LAST PILGRIMAGE
OF CONFEDERATES.
Reunion This Month at Chattanooga
Will Have Sentimental In-
terest All Its Own,

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 6.--Per-
haps the last pilgrimage they will
make as body to the famous battle
grounds of Lookout Mountain, Chica-
manga and Mission Ridge, will be the
1918 Reunion of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, May 27-29. The rail-
roads of the Southeastern Passenger
Association have made a thirty day
rate of cent mile. The War De
partment has loaned the requisite
number of tents and cots in order
that Chattanooga may suitably care
for the $4,000 veterans who are ex-
pected to attend, and who will be
lodged and fed free of all cost.
The United Sons of Veterans will
hold their reunion at the same place,
May 27-29. They will bring with
them the usual bevy of beautiful
Southern women, as sponsors, maids
of honor and chaperones, all of whom
will be lavishly entertained by the
citizens of Chattanooga.
Enthusiasm and interest never ran
so high in the South over the annual
reunion Of the battle SCARED veterans
whose spectacular parade at Chatta-
nooga is expected to be viewed by
over one hundred thousand visitors in
that city of like population.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
ST. PETERSBURG METHODS
ARE EXCELLENT EXAMPLES
Sunshine City Publicity Organization Makes Specially of Pro-
viding Something For Its Many Visitors to Do
by Dudley V. Haddock)

st. Petersburg's methods of enter
tanning the thousands of tourists win
tering there every season are the re-
suit of great deal of planning and
hard work. The Board of Trade has
put itself out time and again for the
accommodation of its visitors and in
no instance has it failed to be a pay
ing investment.
A scheme worked by the Board of
Trade for the last several years at a
cost of but a few dollars, which is
one of the best features of the many
which that organization has promul-
gated, is the tourist register kept at
Board of Trade headquarters. A reg
ister book is provided for each state
in the Union which is represented in
the city by tourists, and in these the
visitor registers his home address, his
st. Petersburg address and the date
of his arrival. The long table at the
boards headquarters is crowded all
day long during the winter with peo-
pie who are seeking Northern friends
in the city through this medium. Old
friends have met after years of sep
aration and meetings take place that
would make good fiction if the cir
cumstances in connection with them
were told.
These registers were first started
by several of the business houses and
in different stores in the city the books
were located. The Board of Trade
after several years took the scheme
up and widened it's scope, providing
register for every state and as.
sembling them in one place. Stats.
tics on the number of visitors from
the North spending the season in St.
Petersburg are easily obtainable and
the figures when totaled at the END
of the winter are astonishing. Ohio
Indiana and Illinois each had over
l,500 representative in the city las,
season and as those who register are
usually people who remain for sew.
eral months-the transient not vast.
ing time to visit headquarters for the
purpose of signing-the reports in St
Petersburg papers on the number OF
winter visitors are not guesswork but
are usually correct within one or two
hundred. The register idea is played
up so strongly that the first thing
tourist does on reaching the city
is to put his name in his state book
in order that his friends may know
he is in town.
State Societies.
One of the most popular entertain.
ment features is the Tourist State
Society. From year to year these or.
| CARNATIONS are active during the win.
ter and they have become so strong
that they play a great part in the
winter social life of the city. Eacf
state is represented by society ant
weekly or bi-monthly entertainments
are given by the talent represented
in the organization. The societie;
have their excursions on boats to diff.
ferent outlying resorts or on the bay
and sometimes vary these with trips
to West Coast points or with a picnic
at the end of one of the many SUI.
burban trolley lines. In furnishing the
new Augusta Memorial Hospital at St
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09

duce outside capital to seek invest
ments here. When transportation
rates are readjusted and freight rates
will be the same from South Florida
to New York as they are from New
York to South Florida. When pro-
ducing classes are willing to come
together upon system of marketing
their products that will eliminate the
auction market and the middlemen.
When we take our citizenship serious
ly, lay aside sentiment when we 20
to the polls, and place in Office more
men of constructive ability, who have
the power to discern the needs and
requirements necessary to the fullest
development of the country and who
possess the necessary backbone to
force the formulation of laws to
meet those needs and requirements,
regardless of the interests involved.
When these things happen land
they are being brought about every
day. prophecy will reach fulfllment
and we will witness the dawn of a
new day-the "Some Day"-when
Florida will take her place at the head
of the class.-Arcadia Enterprise.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
Real Florida Poetry"

For some unexplained reason, the
poets output in Florida this season
has been pitifully small. Usually the
tourist season develops one hundred
or more merry rhymsters, both local
and imported, who sing the beauties
of our streams and woods, our fruits
and flowers, our birds and beasts
imam included); and their home pa
pers are compelled at the risk of Sc
rious losses of subscribers and friends
to devote much pace to the presen-
tation of these immortelles in indie
structible type.
The past winter, however, we have
had a dearth of poets. Whether our
visitors have been too busy enjoying
life and our fellow citizens too busy
entertaining them, or whether there
has been a lack of inspiration, it is
not for the Tribune to say. But
speaking from our own experience
our poetry column and our poetry
wastebasket have been alike most
unusually empty throughout the fes,
tive period.
1t has remained for one rhymer tc
produce one little "piece" that saves
the season from utter mediocrity. The
pen a,:te u"e eld IN Cnicago and ne
iI written class i;;ti when !, mer,
its conspicuous puolicatlon IN r., an the
nlgn elaSs hterary journals Inc au,
thor Is Mr. y: M. Marshton' one OF
Tne edltors OF tne Cnicago RECORD
and sent by him to relatives who were
SPehulhg the winter at 81: Fetersburg
Maklng ms prod9ctlon OF special sig
niiiGahce IS Ine lact Ihat lts suoJec'
is the nopie blrd Which IS one OF th'
ooast' ana attractlonS OF 81. PETERS
Ourg-the awkward out picturesque
peIcan' ,.
naVlng mus demonstrated the po
etlc posslDllltles OF one OF our oldes
RESIDENTS ana most 1amlilar types, TN
Cnlcago poet mas opened the way 1ol
EFFORTS IN TINS directlon on the par
OF our gilteo local oards and baFd
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
LIGHT IN THE WEST.
Gleanings Of Facts From Suffrage
History to Those Who Still
Tread in The Darkness.

The light has broken long since in
the west. Wyoming, the pionce.
state, had equal suffrage from her
beginning as territory. The un.
fettered pioneers granted it as a ma
tural right without question. Tween.
ty-four years later, in 1898, women
received the franchise in Colorado
Idaho and Utah, following suit three
years later. For fourteen years the
cause stood still and then Washing
ton in 1910 and California in 1912
joined the ranks of the progressives
The election this past November
works the greatest single victory for
suffrage yet" said Ida Hustled Har-
per, "for with it 100000 new women
voters were added in Kansas, Arizona
and Oregon" Kansas was the first
break in the solid ranks of the middle
west, and it is expected that Michi-
gan, where the liquor dealers suf-
frage by open fraud, and Nevada and
Iowa will not wait long.
Now that 100000 women eniov
full suffrage in nine of these United
States, and limited local franchise
in some twenty others; now that wo-
men are voting in Denmark, Sweden,
China, Alaska, New Zealand.
Jane Adams, whom we all delight
to hail as the foremost citizen of Chi
cago, declares that Colorado has the
best labor laws for women and chill
dren in the whole world and it is in
tereSting to know that they have all
been put on the statute books since
the granting of womans' suffrage.
The list is as long as splendid.
Laws establishing a state home for
dependent children, three of the five
members of the board to be women,
making mothers joint guardians of
these children with the fathers; rails
ing the age of protection for girls to
eighteen years; creating juvenile
courts; making education compulsory
for all children between the ages of
eight and eighteen except themfwwyy
those taught at home, those over four
teen who have completed the eighth
grade, those whose parents need
their help and support; children of Is
or under 10 not to work more than
eight or ten hours a day in any mill,
factory or store: providing that any
person employing a child under ID in
any mine, smelter, mill or factory or
work shall be punished
by Imprisonment in addition to fine.
Theodore Roosevelt, in the Metro
politan Opera House, speaking and
to the east and especially
to New York State, to grant votes
for women, and holding that it is wo-
mans right to be represented in the
state constitutional convention, was
the principal speaker. Col. Roosevelt
remarked that civilization is spread
ing east fast.
He declared that equal suffrage in
the west had passed the experimental
stage. / found after a dispassionate
study of conditions in suffrage and
this is my strong argument not one
single case where it had done dam
age, but found case after case with
out number where the fact that wo-
men voted for the betterment of the
city's civic and industrial and social
conditions.
Signed; DE FACTO.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09

| Petersburg the societies have done a
great work, several of the organlza-
tions equipping rooms of the different
wards. Money for this purpose was
raised by making small charge for
admission to several Of the weekly
entertainments.
Another association organized two
years ago was the United States So
ciety, composed by combining all the
state organizations. Entertainments
given monthly by this association are
unusually interesting as talent is
drawn from the entire local and Wis
iting population.
The Sunshine Club.
For the old people, and many
younger ones who like the games, the
Sunshine Club, the most unique or
ganization in the city, was organized
several years ago by horse shoe pitch
ing and checker enthusiasts. Last
year the club, which had outgrown
the usual pitching ground afforded by
vacant lot, obtained permission from
the city authorities to use a portion
of one of the handsome parks. The
city engineer laid out the pitching
grounds, had long tables and benches
made, with checker boards painted
on the tables, and adder three GRO
quet grounds for the ladies. Through
out the winter hundreds of touris S
spent their spare time in the park
either engaged in the pleasures af-
forded or as spectators. Membership
in the club is fifty cents year, the
fund derived from this serving to
keep the grounds in order and to pur-
chase new equipment when needed.
These features can be easily adopt
ed by any resort in Florida, and they
form an unending source of pleasure
to the visitor who finds time heavy
on his hands. The state registers
help them find friends, bring people
from their home state into closer
communion and gives them something
to do in looking others up. The state
societies are easily ORGANIZED and may
be effected with but little trouble. The
playground afforded by the organi-
cation and the activity of an as%ocia-
ton such as the Sunshine Club keeps
the tired tourist in good humor and
when he goes back home in the spring
he does not tell friends that there is
nothing to do at St. Petersburg.
Sunshine City as Model.
st. Petersburg's methods Of pre-
venting visitors from becoming tired
of the place during a six or eight
months stay are the best in Florida
and were tried out thoroughly before
becoming adopted. Tue Board Of
Trade secures strong support from
tourists in carrying on this work and
it is paid a thousand shines over for
the trouble it takes.
Secretary E. C. Wimer, Of the Sun
shine City's Board of Trade, would
be glad to give complete "details u,
tourist entertaining if requested to do
SO. and his suggestions would be help
full to every resort in the state. Flor
ida has to prepare for the winter
visitor during the summer months
and now is the time to get an early
start.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
OUR PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.

Commencement Time" is here and
it is fitting that something should be
said about the pnblic schools OF Putnam
county, and especially the Putnam high
school. 1t has been our just pride thai
there are no better schools in the state
than those of Putnam county.
AS an evidence of this, those who
graduate from our high school take high
rank in the colleges and universities
which they enter, and number OF them
require no examinations 10 enter
A large number OF graduates will go
out from our high school this year and
we predict that they will measure up
with the graduates of other counties to
the advantage of Putnam.
This Speakes we'll of the faculty.
But the high school building in Pa.
latka is inadequate.
Prospective Florida settlers inquire
about schools and look up points and
places where they can best school their
sons and daughters. Are the education.
al boards OF our county and city alive 10
the school interests entrusted TO themi
and is it not time 10 inform the public
that we are in the field?
Palatka should lead in the capacity of
her schools any place in this section,
and il the matter is looked after it will.
We have made a good start. A site
has been purchased, and before another
school year starts, large modern school
building should be erected thereon
Less than five months will bring the
time for school opening around again
and people desire TO know what we
have to offer them in this line.
1t will require money to build a
school house like Palatka should have,
and the only method of raising this
money seems to be by bond issue.
So let our school board and trustees get
busy, call the election and give Palatka
an up-to date school building.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
TO OUR
GRADUATES.

Graduated Yes, nearly every hamlet,
village, town and city at this com.
mencement season of the institutions OF
learning, welcome home those who
have spent years in hard study and with
honors have graduated; and
Many are the hopes and expectations
centered in you-hopes that society will
be elevated, many immorals corrected,
wrongs righted and places OF importance
better filled.
Do you ask, where is your place?
The world is before you, and though it
may seem crowded, there are still many
wants that il does not advertise, TO avoid
a rush of applicants; but these wants ex-
ist, and are, indeed, very pressing and
very real, and your compensation will
be ample as you have brains, pluck and
energy TO earn it.
The world wants graduates who are
men enough TO search out these places
and make room for themselves; II wants
young women OF sufficient self.reliance
10 bear the disappointment OF not secur-
ing the position for which they apply;
most of all, it wants character, and II
very wisely declines to accept college
or school diploma as conclusive evil
dence OF that.
Therefore, we silently whisper, enter
into your life work with right motives,
earnestnesS, zeal and honesty of pur.
pose, and thoroughness that will satisfy
yourself: then others will be satisfied.
Realize the responsibilities which
have come to you, and assume them in
great humbleness, and yet, in true man.
illness, and bear in mind, by your fruits
we shall be known.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
WHAT WILL HAPPEN
SOME DAY.

Some day the groves of South
Florida will furnish the world its
supply of choice citrus fruits. Some
day the saw grass and palmetto of
South Florida will furnish pulp to
supply the worldwide demand for a
cheap print paper. Some day the
truck lands of South Florida will fur
nish the North it's supply of winter
vegetables. Some day the always
green forage crops of South Florida
will enable US to lead every other
State in the production of beef, but
ter, poultry and eggs. Some day the
phosphate and lime deposits of South
Florida will supply the continent with
fertilizer. Some day the sand-soaks
of South Florida will produce enough
around the world. Some day the su-
gar plantations of South Florida will
rival those of Louisiana. Some day
the waters of South Florida will fur
nish the fish and oyster supply for
the Northern markets. Some day the
rivers and marlboro of South Florida
will TEEN with commerce and indus
try and our peninsula will become the
threshold to Panama. Some day the
winter tourist will abide permanently
and the prospector and investor will
likewise come to stay. Some day
South Florida will indeed and in
truth become the rich mans play
ground, the poor mans paradise and
the sick mans sanitarium.
When? When, did you say?
When we learn to believe in our
selves and our country. When we
invent a method of muzzling the
knOcker. When we consider our coun-
try the common heritage of every cit
izen and cease to slur each other
as crackers" and "hardtops" and
other appellations born of sectional
prejudice. When we come to look
upon good roads as an asset rather
than a liability and proceed to con-
struct a complete system throughout
the State, as a matter or economy as
well as convenience. When our capt.
talists and financiers will devote more
attention toward encouraging enter
prises and industries that tend to de-
veloP our country's resources and in
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
II Saturday
Serincnette.
eye shall. 1"

Again we bark back TO the twenti
eth chapter OF Ezekiel, this time to
find there the 81 wills of God have
their corollary in the eye shalls" o.
men. The form varies. The eS
sence of the "Shal" abideS. They
SHALL" Eye SHALL "thc house o
Israel shall" The shall" is con.
slant. And its different forms n.
subject always mean The same thing
Gods people.
So, when God promises, man is
obliged. And this is but fair and
just; for the promise obligateS God.
Let us, therefore, always look bacl
of Gods 81 wills 10 find our
"ShaIlS."
The first of these "shalIs" is in.
volved with knowing. God never
POUNDS obligation 10 Him on igno
rance, but always on knowledge.
All His revelations in nature, in His
written Word, in the incarnate word
show US how He wants US to know
and serve intelligentIy. And III,
point of the "ShalI know" here is
that we shall meet His desire for Us
TO know with the effort TO know.
The eminent thing TO be known is
that Jehovah is the Lord. There is
no place for "other gods" before
Him. This is iterated and reiterated
The "Shall' is also coupled with
penitential remembrance. Israel had
past that was not pure, ways thai
were not straight. They had de
parted from Gods ways and gone
after idols And all the shame of it
was upon them. They were 10 be
weakened TO see this. There shall
ye remember your ways, and all your
doingS wherein ye have been defiled;
and we shall loathe yourselves
There was 10 be repentance not to be
repented Of. And that is Gods first
word TO man who would return 10
Him. John the Baptist spoke it.
Jesus spoke it. Peter spoke it,
Every great preacher of the Gospel
has spoken it. We need it. There's
no way else back 10 God. Then
here is the "Shall' of service. "In
my holy mountain shall all the house
of Israel serve me. Service, of
which we hear so much today, is not
a modern man.made discovery. 1t is
as old as the relation between God
and man. Do let us see that ere we
can serve Him acccptably we must be
right with Him. Let US not deceive
ourselves with the conceit that some
how service saves. Ii does not. 1t
but expresses the gratitude for being
saved. Let US shoulder our "shallS"
gladly. J. NJ. B.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
ONCE OWNED TOWN.
Kansas Spectator Now Living Neg.
lected and Alone in Poverty.

Neglected and alone, with old
friends dead and the last of his rela-
tives gone, the one-time owner of the
city of Weir, Kans., J. Fogel, is spend
ing the last years of his life in lit
tie room in small hotel in poverty.
Fogel once was a millionaire and
owned practically all of the town in
its pioneer days. He lost his fortune
but won part of it back several years
later. Adverse fortune pursued him,
however, until but few hundred dol
lars of his great wealth of early days
left. This he invested in a small brick
plant south of the town last year,
which soon closed.
Despite his misfortune he continues
to be optimistic, and plays the piano
continuously for hours, as he says,
ito keep up his courage" He is past
seventy.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09

Ortie E. McManigal, confessed dyn-
amiter, who has been a prisoner at
Los Angeles, Calf, since April, 1911,
will be released within 80 days, ac-
cording to attaches of the district at
torneys Office. McManigal says he
had not been informed he was to be
freed. He declares he turned states
evidence to ease his conscience and
not for immunity.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
Evil of Too Much Haste.

In the east and in tropical coun.
tries tomorrow is made use of in an
incident way. 1t is for US to make use
OF 1t In way that is scientific Hur.
rled legislation, rash enterprises, poor.
ly constructed buildings-superfcial
work OF all kinds-is due to our max.
ing sort of fetch of haste. We are
overturned, overburdened, oyeranv.
lous. 1t is the broader vision of life
that takes into consideration tomor.
70" and the day after, that enables MS
10 90 well the essential work of 70.
day. VI W
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09
Death Caused by Roller Skating.

The roller skate claimed its first
victim at Newbern, N. c., when Ellis
Meekins, 17-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Meekins, a prominent fam
lily, died as result of injuries sus-
tanned several nights ago while skat-
ing on the public sidewalks. Young
Meekins with several companions
were skating on the sidewalk when
some one playfully threw a strip of
wood in the path of the skaters.
MeekinS' skate hit the obstruction and
the lad was thrown with such force as
to break three ribs, his hip and caused
congestion of the brain. He never
rallied from the fall.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09

Images of Hindu gods and Buddha
have been discovered at Dhalagaon
near Rampal, India, formerly the cap.
ital of King Ballal Sen. Two months
back, an astrologer of Panchashar,
Munshiganj, is said to have predicted
that there lay hidden treasures in a
pucca building underneath a tank.
With the permission of the owner
and the government, the tank is be.
ing bailed out by him. AS a result,
the images were recovered and traces
of buildings found.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09

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