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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21
ON THE SPUR OF
THE MOMENT.
BY Roy K. MouIton.

Ice Cream, Social at HickeyviIIe.
Ice cream social tother night was a
notable success;
Given by the Ladies' Aid; most
hundred there, l guess.
Held'i it on the pastors lawn, which
was decorated bright,
Chinese lanterns hangin' round, and 1t
was a gala night.
Ezra Purdy worked all day turnin' of
the freezer crank,
Till he was so lame that he coufdnt
give another yank.
Amos Bibbins dished 1t up. 1t was
very plain to see
When a friend of his came round he
showed some Partially.
Every one who came along bought the
minister dish,
Till the good man was as cold as an
Arctic ocean fish.
Spooners' corner in the shade drew a
fine and dandy crowd;
Only place where kissin' games for the
young folks were allowed.
Only three or four fist fights over gals
disturbed the peace;
Otherwise the social ran right along as
smooth as grease.
All the profits was to go to the heather
out in Swat;
Walters ate so much ice cream, one
plunk's all the heather got.
chigsers.
News items from the tall grass In
form us that the annual war against
chiggers is on in earnest in all rural
districts. The chigger is not any part
of an automobile, as the name implies,
but is small ANNA! or bug, as the
case may be, which has sharp teeth
and an appetite like colored minister.
Chiggers cut quite a figger at Sunday
school picnics. The young man and
his best girl sit down on the grass
under a tree to consume the pork and
beans, and deviled eggs when the CHG
ger comes along, fastens himself to
some upholstered portion of the young
mans anatomy somewhere between the
ankle and the collar bone and proceeds
to CHG. The young man mutters
something that doesn't sound well at a
Sunday school picnic and grabbing
himself firmly by the affected terri
tory starts for the woods with a cry
of anguish, there to hunt out tree
which has rough bark and to rub him
self up and down thereon until the
chigger is reduced to such state of
mental and physical decentralization
that he is unable longer to CHG. One
chigger can CHG over every square
inch of a mans frame in less time
than 1t takes the Standard Oil Com
pany to declare a dividend and this has
been estimated at one second and
half, eastern standard time. Once the
chigger is caught 1t is an easy matter
to kill him. One good way is to hit
him in the head with an axe, but
more humane way is to tickle him I'M
der the chin until he opens his mouth
Then fill his mouth with snuff and let
him sneeze himself to death. The
chigger is three sizes smaller than a
spinal meningitis microbe and comes in
different shades, all the way from
chocolate fudge to a patent leather
polish.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

June is coming and June IS pretty
month in Florida. So are the other
eleven.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

The Duke and Duchess of Westmin-
ster have abandoned their intention Of
suing each other for divorce. Well,
who cares?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

The captain of the greatest battle
ship Is not by any means safe from a
slip of a school girls smile.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

The editorial page of the Times
Union for Sunday contained pine sepa-
rate items slurring President Wilson,
erS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

Keep your eye on the United States
senate.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

The time is coming when the tax
dodger will get his.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

When a man finds that he likes te
look into a woman's eyes he had bet
ter stop and think-and think again.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

The man who never goes to church
knows not what he misses.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

Some Of the interests are still howl
ing for Intervention in Mexico.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

Arizona put one over while the ad-
ministration was watching California.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

The people are pretty well posted
about what the legislature didn't do.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

Invieorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old Standard general strengthen
ing tonic, GROVES TASTELESS chill
tonic, drives out Malaria, enriches the
blood, builds up the system. A true
Tonic. For adults and children, soc.
(adv.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

Those bars on the farm are a de-
gree safer than those in the city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

West Florida, the garden spot OF
America
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

France anything worth remembering.
Sixty-one bombs have been thrown
in New York since January 1st, not
counting the one thrown into the Tam
many camp by Gov. Bill Sulzer.
The ultimate consumer now has
short session of victory. Dandelion
green's are ripe in the back yard.
At st. Louis butcher has made a
sausage fifty feet long. 1t would be
interesting to know if he can do it
and make both ends meat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

The legislature can't last long now.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

Don't, when in doubt.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21

Moline, Fla, May IS, 1913.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
Deaths.

John +. Hammond. 40 years, Emergency
l Hospital.
Lillian c. Burgess. year. sS1 Lonsfel-
low street northwest.
Katie B. Byron. ss years. Sligo Mil
road.
Edward sheehan. % years. Washington
Asylum Hospital.
Anna e. weIby. 50 years. s2s 4 street
southeast
william H. Cross. 81 years. Providenes
Hospital.
Jackson Tinker. As years. 1908 H street
Annie Cosinamo. 50 years. Garfield Hos
pital.
Mary E. Mann. IS years. zoos H street
northwest.
Ruhamch G. F1emmins. 81 years. i75S
Columbia road northwest.
Emily F. Ebberts, ~ years. sOC9 Cam
bridge street northwest.
William R. Ramsey. 76 years. II 8 street.
northwest
Thomas Crossen. months. 800 X street
northwest
Gilbert s. Cockrill. 10 hours. SOS Eighth
street southeast
Edward Barnes: 20 years. Washington
Maggie Berry. 4s years. ,s Sheridan
road southeast
Sallie Monroe. q years. Freedmen's
Hospital.
Nathaniel Caldwell, years. 1853 First
street southeast
Sarah Toliver, "a years, sIf street
southwest
Fannie Norris. 80 years. Chevy Chase.
d. G.
Charles Lilly. % years, r,is Collins
court southwest.
Luvinia Willis. S. years. ses z street
southwest
Agnes Lewis. 4s years. .se4 F street
northwest
James Jackson. 1 year, 17ss Kalorama
road.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
Vital Records.
Births.

6lItnS
Daniel r. and Mary r. Prettyman. boy.
John w. and Mamie A. Poore, boy.
Frank c. and Matte J. Perreil. girl.
David and Kitty II. Moss. boy.
William and Gertrude McOsker. girl
Luc:an and Rosie Maisti, girl
Robert b. and Louise B. Null. girl.
Peter and Lenora Hill, boy.
James A. and Lucy I. Head, girl
John A. and Elizabeth z. Golihew. bog.
Patrick and Sarah T. Cannon. girl.
Albert G. and Lucille 8. Bates, boy.
James s. and Mary Carpenter. boy.
Clarence w. and Catherine G. Cashour.
boy
Gilbert and Susie CockrilI. boy.
Lester w. and Lilly Boswell. boy.
Arthur E. and Mabel Bielaski, boy
Samuel l. and Bertha NJ Anderson.
girl.
Henry and Blanche Washington. girl.
william and Araminta Willis, boy
James and Irene Wallis, girl
William and Mary Robinson, boy.
Elijah and Ella Robinson, girl
John II. and Lillian b. Paxton, boy.
Mark and Lucy Morton. girl
Henry and Blanche Mason, girl
John and Sarah Martin. boy
Thaddeus and Amanda Jackson, boy.
Guy and Mamie Hill, girl
Harry and Ida Gwinn, girl.
yamessand Louise Bell. girl
Henry Ind Mary Butler. girl
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
Marriage Licenses

C. Marien Rhodes, of Troy. Ala. and
Gertrude S. Offett, of Washington.
Horace E. Cook and Sadie B. Stewart.
both of Brentwood. Md.
Ellsworth Ward and Inez Thorne. both
of Fort WASHINGTON, Nd.
Jesse Corben and Mary Penneil, both
/ Of Washington.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
DEATHS

LAcoPprbAN1on Thursday. July il. isis. st
1:s5 a. m, Mrs. CATHERINE LACOPP1-
DAN. widow Of the lste Adoiph Laeoppidan,
in her seventy-nrst Year.
Funeral Saturday. July l9 from her
daukhters residence. Mrs L. J. Bradley.
1e6 = street southeast. $50 a. m. Requiem
high mass AT ST. Peters Catholic Church.
second and c streets southeast. at a. m.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
WATCH & CLOCK REPAIRING

WATCH AND CLOCK REPAIRING Called
for and delivered anywhere.
NJ B. NORMAN. the Washington Expert
7O6 II st. y. E Phone Lincoln 200. l.
ANY AMERICAN WATCH, regardless Of
condition. repaired and guaranteed for 81
for July only. ID. JANoF. SOi ST. " w. -
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WORKINGMAN'S WANTS

Neutrality-suspicious. when summer
came around IL was expected that business
was al an end. but look at us now busy all
the time, giving big value in slightly used
suits 50 TO SO: one price. JUSTH'S OLD
STAND, slS d.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
OLD GOLD AND SILVER

HIGHEST PRICES paid for old gold, silver
and diamonds FOR MANUFACTURING
PURPOSES.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
FOR SAlE-LOTS
ICE CREAM AND ICES

TWO LOTS-Harvard ST., s925 for both; qui
buyer. OWNER. lIn D st 3 Z
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

LACEY'S, zoe Per Gallon
viii please you. COT New York ave- NJ. ss5.
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FOR EXCHANGE

WILL EXCHANGE EQUITY Of s. 800 in J.
story brick residence, rooms and bath
all modern improvements: good eighborhood
northwest section; valued at 5000 for
brance. near Washington valued at about
s., 500. 4206 sth ct. Col. 209s.
6 SUBURBAN LOTS for Model r Ford auto
mobile. BOX l23 Times office.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

AUTOMOBILES
HOLIDAY AUTOMOBILE Co,
Limousinss and Tourist Cars for Hire.
lus L IT. Phone North iEo =
FOR sALE-DeIivery wagon; will demon
-strete. Resr l4l7 ct. n. w. Phone
North 2sll. -. l.
so-H. p. 5-passenger touring car: very cheap
for quick sale. Call after ,. m 1874 I'd st.
N. w. Phone ". 51A
BUICK ROADSTER. for sale. model 10; nns
cheap. PECK-GIsH GARAGE. 18th and u.
s-cYLINDER, G-passenger touring car. 500:
49, Buick trucks. used only " days.
Phone Line. ssss.
FOR HIRt-AUTOMOBlLES
FTVE-PAssENGER AUTO
900 Per Hour.
None Better.
AUTO HIRE COMPANY. Line. 20.
MOTORCYCLES
MOTORCYCLE. four-cylinder Henderson ~:
model. less than year old; perfect running
f9nd!siop; nv cost ,sss; @ ssi sssS Apply Rosr
AUTO DELIVERY CAR-In nrst-class con-
nee. Caii At 7N sth st. n. w.
SECOND HAND MoToRCYcIEs.
AiCI1ses FEW GUARANTEED dG sLlGHTLrs usEP EP
BOUGHT AT BARGAINS.
BERRYMAN W1LIfAIs.
Main lse. ae 9Th st. ~. W.
HORSES AND VEHICLES
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES In good condi-
ton; for sale cheap. Inquire Of SERGT.
TAUsER at stables Washington Barracks.
saturday or Sunday. Il
OL.DS RUNABOUT-IAmp, top good rres;
overhauled; $50. sl4 X ct. s. E.
FAMILY DRIVING MARE for sale; black.
gentle, with two-wheel gig. l527 Farragut
st.. or phone Columbia 3sas Il
bugsy and harness; leaving city. so6 East
GANTZ has 10 car loads Of runabouts, sur
reys. and spring wagons. WIN sell them
REGARDLESS Of cost. l2oe st. N. W. L
FOR HIRE-Horses. carriages. wagons, day.
week or month; special prices. GEN. L1V-
ERY CO., INC, rear ~ Pa. ave. u. 1i0.
FOR sALE-lo head horses and mares: must
be sold at once. Rear 4es Pa. ave. n. W.
Call.
SPECIALS FOR JULY.
$6o top buggtes. .4b-O
SIS buggy harness.. d2D :
H. g. LEARY. $40 Pa ave. N. W.
o0aM N0aaoa mcc
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
FOR SALE-HOUSES

of six large rooms, on large lot, In fine
renting section of Columbia Heights; be-
tween two good car lines. A steady renter
at SIS. Price only 81. $50.
SHANNON 4 LUCHS, III 18th st. N. W.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

MONEY FOR SALARIED PEOPLE
and others upon their own names; cheap
rates; easy payments: confidential
D. H. TOLMAN, r. 506-523 18th st. " w
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

fOULTRY business well located In P. Geo.
Co., Nd; price $500; good value: rent So
year; % acres; room house. etc. To
ouy or sell stores see US.
NEW YORK BUS. BROKERS. 1923 F st.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

Tor $lbo; new house: never occupied; large
TOT; one fare; dne water. Address BOX
l36. Times office.
sIx-ROoM HOUSE: water in kitchen; lot
50xl1o feet; latrobe heat; 10 minutes walk
to car line: price. q, 900; sl50 cash, balance
sle monthly; Apply ARTHUR CARR. Hy-
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
For Rent

81 .o0-Five rooms and bath. pebble dash bum
galow. Slo3 3lst ST.. take r. /. ave. car ne.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

APARTMENT HOUSE: good income: trade
for farm or suburban home; pay commits
sion. BOX l42. Times office. l.
WILL RENT furnished. beautiful 6-room,
bath, cellar, 25 feet Of porch. cottage; d.
rectly at Peacock Station, Great Falls r.
R.; acres fenced; price $500; half cash;
not to exceed 1900 CAPT. MILLER,
Owner. care Room 81. p. o. Dept Il
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

GROCERY STANDS in leading market. rent
as: receipts $500 week; less than invoice
~ 500
NEW YORK BUSINESS BROKERS'. 1923 F.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
ROOMS AND BOARD


Northwest Section.
9Th ST n. w. 1s23-Apa1. 2, nice cool room.
2nd floor near bath with closet. for one
person, $3.50 month. i
sth ST n. W.. S24-Front rooms. board. IS
week; table board. $50; o'clock breakfast.
l.
ST N W. II06-F'urnished rooms. with
board; very reasonable. for mechanics.
II ST, IS3e-Opposite park: clean. cool. COM
municating room. with board: Virginia
cooking.
with private bath; home cool: reasonable.
sth ST. n W.. 733-Rooms and board. $500:
table. SO 50: a. m. breakfast.
9Th ST. n W. Ilos-Large, nicely furnished
front room: also hall room: home cooking;
reasonable.
Northeast Section.
KAY ST. n. e. 7l-Large front room. corner
house: excellent board. men s.. 80 week.
TABLE BOARD
T ST. n. W., lns-Strictly first-cIass table
board: meals served out. y. l4o6. I.
WANTED-RO0MS
GENTLEMAN desiring homelike surround
ings wishes room and board with small
family. BOX liS, Times office.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

run n6NT-S H6CES
TEN-STALL STABLE with water and sewer:
in 25-ft- alley, New York ave-. North Capt.
tol and SITS. For information apply to
THoS. H. MELTON. 1lth and II sts N w.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17
GENERAL HOUSE REPAIRS

+. H. F1TzsfMMoNs. 9os srd St n. W. Phi.
Main S26s-Brick work and cement work, es-
Inmates furnished. Repair work my speciality.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

RoOMING HOUSE. neatly furnished; good
income: cash or terms. 407 G St " w -
FOR 6ALE-The contents and lease Of an
u-room house for roomers and boarders; all
rooms now occupied: in the northwest sec
ton: reason for selling Ill health. Apply
70 David Wolf. Attorney-at-Law. 612 r ST.,
Ealston Bldg.
The Washington times., 1913-07-17

WANTED-SeveraI rooming houses for cash
clients; We list and advertise rooming
houses free.
-EoUITY BUS BROKERS. 1927 n. Y. ave
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-07-31
CBy LULU q. PARKER)

(By LULU q. PARKER)
These spare-minute gardens, de-
signed for busy women. are not for
NAL affairs, they are border beds about
by s feet in size and should be
planted along the walks, driveways
or fences.
The writer has tried every plant
recommended and combined them, as
here suggested, with nothing but
success.
Get good seed from reliable seed.
man. Phlox will not germinste at all
unless 1t is fresh. Cheap balsam seed
will produce poor flowers.
Plant tall sorts in row at the
back. Medium sized sorts in clumps
of dozen seedlings or more. and use
the low growing sorts for edging
Any of these little gardens will fur
nish enough cut flowers for the table,
with few to give away, beside
Frightening the yard from June until
frost.
Five minutes each day or half an
hour once n week given up to stirring
the top soil and wedding, will be all
the attention required after the plant
Ing is done.
No. l. ANIMALS for a sunny garden
with plenty of water. Flowers from
June until November.
One packet Cosmos, early Towering
! 3 to 4 feet; blooms in July until frost
Start seed indoors and transplant
feet apart In the garden In May.
One packet Balsam. l to ~ feet;
blooms June and July. Sow in thu
garden in May-thin or transplant II
In. apart.
One packet Phlox Drummondi. in
to / foot; blooms June and July.
One packet Dahlia, IS inches TO
feet; blooms September and October
Start seed in the house, set in garden
one foot apart after danger from
frost is past.
One packet Sweet Allyssum, in.
June to November. Sow seed in tn,
garden early. This Allyssum viii
thrive In a damp place as well.
No. 2. Garden In a dry sandy soil
These plants will require no watering
during the dryest summer, II weeds arr
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-07-31

the progeny of unrelated fowls is
thrifty and high in utility, points
which every breeder strives for.
The greatest handicap in mating
unrelated birds is to find strains with
like characteristics. When rearing
strain of Rocks for egg production
1t is sometimes hard to find a suit
able male, bred for the same results
as the hens he Is to be mated with.
Many breeders have distinct lines of
birds, bred for the same results, but
wholly disconnected along blood
lines. In this way they can furnish
their patrons new blood whenever
desired.
Many a good strain is run down or
ruined because of lack of experience
Of the breeder, One must know how
and why the breed to obtain best
success. A good pen of layers should
not be mated with a male or un-
known heredity. If a flock Of birds
Is purchased for an egg-laying
strain, to keep up their qualities,
the owner must know how they were
bred. and adopt the same plan with
them as the originator.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-07-31
Asks Carriers Aid on Roads.

Jefferson City-Twenty.three hun.
dred rural mail carriers may supervise
the repair of roads along their respec.
tive routes in Missouri, August 20 and
Fl. These are the days set apart by
GOV. Major as good road days. THE
governor received letter from ID. b.
Crmiston of Linneus. secretary of the
state Postmasters' association, ask
ing him to write to the fourth assist.
ant postmaster general of the United
States requesting that official to give
the rural carriers permission to sus.
pend work two days so that they may
assist in the improvement of the
roads comprising their routes. The
governor wrote the letter and SINH
lar request went forward from the
postmaster.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-07-31

believe more injury has been done
clay soils by blowing too deep than
by all the cropping yet done in the
country. One fact worthy of our at
tention is that in the cultivation of
clay soils We must keep the humus or
organic matter as close as possible to
the top of the soil until the physical
condition Of the soil is such that the
air may have access to the soil as
deep as the organic matter is turned
under.
Vegetable matter, when exposed to
the action of the air, will soon decom-
pose into carbon or vegetable mold
and carbonic-acid Large quantities
of vegetable mold and carbonic acid
make the soil pillow up light. loamy
and free from clods. On the other
hand, II this organic matter is plowed
under deep, the air cannot reach it in
the saturated, wet soil, and the decom-
position goes on slowly, and the prod
uct will be widely different Under
such conditions the nitrifying bacteria
cannot perform their work
When the air can have free action
through the soil, the clods will decom-
pose into carbonic acid, which will
liberate the plant food in the soil and
provide the growing plants with nour-
ishment.
When 1t is desired to deepen the
cultivation of clay soils, the work
should be gradual and there must be a
thorough iLNermixing of the soil with
vegetable matter as fast as it is
brought up from below.
AS a general rule it will be better
to apply fresh manure to the clay
soils, for the reason that fresh manure
mixed with the soil goes through a
process of fermentation which not
only increases the availability of its
fertilizing elements, but also assists
| in rendering soluble the portions OF
hitherto insoluble constituents OF the
soil.
| On a large proportion OF clay soils
| there will be more benefits from the
manure when it is applied as TOP
dressing to the grass lands. In this
way We grow more manure to incor
porate with the soil when It is plowed
After a clay soil has been improved
by underdrainage. tlllage, and fer
tilization so that it will grow good
crops of clover, It is an easy matter
to adopt a rotation OF crops In con
nection with live stock feeding that
will make sufficient manure to return
to the soil TO maintain it In a high
state of fertility.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-07-31
EgN}Is;,['{I.l
d ~
MORTALITY IN BABY CHICKS
often Attributed to Parent stock
When Fault Is Really Not inner
ent-Test for Cause.

The large mortality in baby chicks
is very often attributed to the par
ent stock when the fault is really not
inherent. In an effort to ascertain
the real cause for this condition make
a test.
Remove carefully all traces Of food
from the breeders, leaving none what
ever near thehm. Take some OF the
chicks that have the care of the moth
er hen and place them in the brooder
over night. Continue this for several
nights in succession, being sure TO
return them to the care of their
mother each morning. Each morning
note the condition of these little fell
lows, and IL they are not injured or
are none the worse for their expe-
rience in the brooder you will know
that the temperature in the brooder
is about right and the fault does not
lie in that direction.
With the brooder eliminated as a
possible cause for the mortality, you
most begin to look elsewhere. This
narrows itself down to one of two
causes-improper feeding or lack OF
exercise. Now test for the food cause
Change your conditions of feeding
radically and note the result. If the
cause is not from the feeding, 1t must
be from lack of exercise. Correct
this by supplying them with proper
amount of this requisite.
Simply finding your chicks dead ir
the brooder in the morning when they
are all crowded in a corner is no
sufficient proof that they died from
too low a temperature. Sick, weak!
and indisposed chicks will always hud
die together whether they are cold o
not.
They will not huddle together, how
ever, should the temperature be ex
cessively high, in which event the.
will spread apart. and when foun'
dead will usually be lying on thei
breasts. This condition, however, Il
seldom noted, as it takes very higl
temperature to cause them to spreat
apart and to cause their death.