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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
BRYAN OPPOSES SALE
OF THE EVERGLADES.
commoner Declares They Are Too
Valuable for State to
Dump Them.

Misunderstanding with reference to
the proposed exploitation of the Ever
glades by syndicate of wealthy Hol
landers, who, it is alleged, has offer.
cred $S,000,000 for all the remaining
interests held in the 'Glades by the
state, William j. Bryan, in an inter.
view, went on record as being EN-.
phatically opposed to any such dis
position of assets that in the near
future bid fair to be Of inestimable
value.
The offer which is now before the
governor proposes to take over a
million acres for So an acre. The
drainage board is considering the
matter, it is said, but the attitude
of the state officials is as yet I'M
forecasted
1t is a well known fact that at the
present time the state is cramped
for funds in connection with the
drainage work. The canals com
pleted and those nearing completion
have cost great deal more than
was expected, it is said, and mum
Der of the syndicates buying the land
in large blocks have failed in their
deferred payments.
The latter is partially accounted for
by their buyers falling down on their
contracts owing to the failure of the
land companies, with one exception,
to supplement the state canals with
laterals and side bitches, without
which the land is said to have little
value and can net be bs-,r successfully
farmed. .er~'.5
:s'4.eplying to the question as to
whether or not he had heard any.
thing about the newspaper report to
the effect that an offer had been
made by Hollander company to
buy out the remaining interests held
by the state in the Everglades, Mr.
Bryan said:
Yes, have heard of it. The Ever
glade land is too valuable to be
bumped off to any corporation. The
state has gone far enough to dem.
onstrate the feasibility of drainage,
the only thing necessary being to cut
enough canals to get the water off.
IF the state were to attempt to
turn the work over to corporation,
the contract would necessarily be
onesided. The corporation would
plan to make as much as possible
out of it, and would, of course, claim
all the profit in the proposition if it
succeeded, but it would throw up the
job at any time If it found it did not
pay
The state can get all the money
it wants by selling land as it needs
the funds, and every canal that it
digs adds to the value of the unsold
land.
Should the state want to give
anybody an advantage, it should give
it to actual settlers and not specula-
tors. A Spectator may be able to
develop a doubtful proposition, but
he is not needed when the PROPOSE
ton becomes an ordinary real estate
transaction.
ut is time to take the Everglades
from the domain of speculation and
deal with it as it is-a great reclama-
ton project which needs only time
and intelligence to convert this great
area into a garden"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
Women Won't March.

Chicago-There will be no band OF
Suffragists marching behind Presi'
dent Wilson and Mr., Taft in Washing
ton, March 4. The plan has been
dropped, it was announced here, by
officials of the National American
Woman's Suffrage Association. In
stead the Suffragists will march
through the streets of the national
capital March 3, headed by Mrs. Car
rie Chapman Gait, Miss Jane Adams
and DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. The OF
ficials said that it was poor policy
to play second fiddle to anybody.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
Notice of Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the Palatka Automobile &
Supply Company, for the purpose of re-
ceiving reports, eleCting directors for
the ensuing year and lranSacling such
other business as may come before this
meeting, will be held at the offices of
the above company, PaIatka, Florida, at
1880 O'Clock p. NJ, on the Ninth day of
January, 1913.
HERBERT CROOK,
12-l3.3Od. Secretary.
Notice is hereby given that the An
nual Meeting OF the stock holders of
the Florida Woodcnwarc Co., will be
held at their office January md, 1913.
w. p. MERRIAM, Secretary.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
Deserter confesses Double Murder.

Miami, Fla.-The mysterious muir.
der of two Italians named Rosani and
Spenelli, on Grass Key, in April, 1910,
was cleared up by the confession of
Francis Bridger, in Jail at Key West,
according to dispatches. Bridger was
arrested in Georgia as an alleged de-
serter from the army, following the
KIDNAPPING of a boy named Gallagher
in Miami last spring. He stated that
the Italians were assisting hi min dis,
posing of counterfeit money when a
dispute arose, in which he knocked
them both in the head
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
Notice of Stockholders Meeting.


dldlhdj ii"'S LSSNhDN' ~ $500
Dear Sir
Notice is hereby given that the regu-
lar Annual Meeting OF the Stockholders
OF the New South Farm & Home Com
pany, Florida Corporation, will be
held at the offices of the company in
Room No. 500 CONSOLIDATED
BUILDING, Jacksonville, Florida, at
10 O'Clock m. on January Sth 1913.
Very truly yours,
The New South Farm & Home Com.
pany, FRED w. TURNER,
Secretary
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
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City Happenings and :
Personal Mention. ,

Senator John P. Wall spent Monday
in the city.
The leap year ball has taken a four
years vacation.
John Dallow of Welaka has been a
visitor in the city this week.
Morgan Bohannon, ex-county COM
missioner of Bannerville, was a visit
or in the city yesterday.
Miss Jonita O'Haver has gone to
Keuka to spend a few days with rel
atives and old friends.
The Wilson Cypress sCompany Of
this city made Christmas gift to the
Palatka Fire company of $4,000.
W. B. Slaughter of this city repre-
sented Putnam county in the recent
state bull moose meet at Jacksonville.
The regular meeting of the Wo-
mans Club will be held at the Putnam
House Friday, January II, and will be
a musicale.
Benjamin Rodda, the popular shoe
maker, has moved his shop in the
building on Lemon street Just vacated
by Tom V. Cannon's meat market.
DR.. J. W. Darsey who has been
spending the holiday at his parents
home in Georgia, has been detained
owing to the serious illness of his
mother.
Robert Ray has formed a class fol
instruction in violin playing and will
take on additional pupils. Mr.. Ray
is the first violinist in the Chatta-
way orchestra.
The music class of the Woman's
Club will meet on Monday afternoon,
January 9th, at $3.50, at the home Of
Mrs. d. j. Coughlin. A large attend.
ance is urged.
The Mission Society of St. James
Methodist church will meet at the
home of Mrs W. M. Poage, in the
west end, Monday afternoon at 9
o'clock,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
Stockholders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the an.
nuaI meeting of the stockholders of G.
NJ. Davis & Son, will be held at the Of
flee of the company in Palatka, Fla,
on Wednesday, Jan. SIh. 1913, at 10
O'Clock a. m
G. NJ. DAVIS & son,
12-13.2t. By r. II. Cooper Sect'y.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
Owned Up,

"You know I refused you half
dozen times before we were married"
said Mr. Meekton's wife. YES" re-
piled her husband. 81 suspect that's
what has kept me from ever wanting
my own way again"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the An.
nual Meeting OF the Stockholders of the
Wilson Cypress Company, of Palatka,
tla., for the year 1913, will be held al
the office of the company in Palatka,
Fla, on Wednesday, February 5th, 1913
for the election OF directors and such
other business as may come before The
meeting.
+; II. WILSON, Secy.
PaIatka, Jan. I'd, 1913.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
Wants U. S. to Raise Own Sugar.

Wants U. S. to Raise Own Sugar.
Washington.-With the declaration
that the United States should raise
all of it's own sugar, the department
of agriculture issued an appeal to the
American farmer to go in for the
cultivation of the sugar beet There
are 100000 short tons of beets now
imported annually, says the depart.
ment. which should be raised at home.
"The average American consumes ~
pounds of sugar each year. says the
report, land only ten pounds of that
is produced in this country. The farm.
er should keep that money
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
East Florida Savings g. Trust Co.
OF PALATRA, FLORIDA,
AT the Close of Business, December 81, 1912
STATE OF FLORIDA,
COUNTY OF PUTNA M.

We, E. S. Grill, Treasurer, and W. S. Burdette,
secretary OF said Company, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the best OF
our knowledge and belief.
Z. s. GRILL, Treasurer,
W. BURDETTE Secretary.
ARTIST: W. II. Cook, J. F. Tenney, E. S. CT. H.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3lst
day of Dec. A. D. 1912.
SEAL L. p. Ross,
Notary Public, State of Florida at Large.
My commission expires Jan. 9th, 1915.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
NOTICE

The annual meeting of the stockhol.
derS of the Selden Cypress Door Com
pany will he held at the office of the
company in Palatka, Florida on Friday,
February 9TH, 1913 at 10 o o'clock in tn
forenoon.
GEO. B. SELDEN,
loot President
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
T. ~, w lLSOL
PaIatka, Jan, I'd, 1913.
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the Stock
holders of the Putnam National Bank
OF Palatka, Palatka, Fla, will be held
Tuesday, January 14th, 1913, at their
banking Office in the City of Palatka
between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4
p. M, for the election of directors fol
the ensuing year
A. S. WILLARD,
Dec. 4th, 1912.-5t Cashier
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
BANK STATEMENT.


Report of the condition of the State
Bank of Palatka, Palatka, Florida, at
close of business December 31st, 1912.
Resources.
Loans and discounts $780, $41485.52
Safe, furniture, etc. ------ 242790
Overdrafts ---------- 1879
Cash in safe and with banks, 52074.46
Total 49,. ,u...s,4,.-.. $40 ~ n1
,,..,ssr.- IVUd. -------- 1861 1.U5
Liabilities.
Capital Stock ------------ $3OOOO.OO
Surplus and profits ------- 8045.04
Individual deposits -------- 58087.95
Cashiers checks - 1870
Total ------------ $96171.09
DAVID HOWELL,
Cashier.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03

If you have any Real Estate to sell
place it with O'HAVER & KNIGHT,
they will find a buyer for you.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03

FOR SALE-Two mich cows-Ier-
seys-Appiy Kennerly Hardware Com
pany, Palatka.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03
Statement of the Condition of the
BANK OF CRESCENT CITY.

located at Crescent City, Florida, at
the close of business Dec 3lst, 1912.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-03

COUNTY OF PUTNAM.
Before me came C. T. King, Cash
Ter of the Bank of Crescent City, who
being duly sworn says that the above
and foregoing statement is true
condition of said Bank, as shown by
the books of file in said Bank.
C. T. KING.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 31st day of December, A. D. 1912.
PAUL C. SMITH,
Notary Public
My commission expires September Il,
A. D. 1915.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-11
COWS IN UPPER VALLEY

The citizens of the Upper Valley are
renewing their efforts toward securing
more cows. DIR. Withycombe, director
Of the Oregon agricultural experiment
station. will address the citizens to-
morrow afternoon and advise them on
points as to the selection of mich
cows and on general dairying. The
raising of more stock and the prOduc-
tion of butter for consumption of the
Lower Valley and Hood River city res
'dents offers an opportunity to the Up
per Valley people that should not be
overlooked. Water for irrigation pur-
poses is cheap in the Upper Valley.
and hay and gram can be raised =
abundance. There is profit in the
dairy industry for no indications point
TO a reduction in the price of butter
fat.
The Upper Valley people will find
that they will be able to make money
and to not only aid themselves but to
increase the general prosperity of the
valley by keeping at home as much as
possible of the large sums that are
now sent outside of the county for
dairy products.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-11
AGAIN THE BOAT LANDING

AT the first meeting of the CONNER.
cial club IN some months at the club
rooms Monday night. when the minutes
of the last meeting, held In the early
summer, when the Columbia was at q
high stage, ii was noted how the men,
bers of the club had wrestled with that
great problem that has absorbed SO
much attention during high water
times for the past dozen years, namely,
the question of securing a permanent
high water dock. According to the
minutes, committee of the CONNER
cial club had called on and conferred
with the city council. The ball was
started to rolling. but it has evidently
been dropped in digger hole; for until
the Monday night meeting of the club,
the high water dock had been forgot
ten. The river had subsidized and the
question was buried until the towns
people again had need of dock.
A II concede that some sort of a high
water landing is needed. Hundreds of
dollars worth of trade is brought to
the city every year from the Washing
ton settlements. These people ought
to be encouraged in their trips here.
Why not discover the ball and keep il
rolling until some definite action may
be taken on securing q permanent
landing place.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-11
PACIFIC'S WATERS ENTER CANAL

Last Sunday morning. when several
tons of giant powder were exploded,
lifting high in the air the last barrier,
the Pacific oceans waters we're al.
lowed to flow into the west portion of
the Panama canal and the seas waves
dashed against the gates at Mirahores.
The big ditch will soon be ready to ac-
commodate the passenger and freight
vessels of the World. 1t will be an
event in worlds history. Ii is task
that is noteworthy not so much for the
size of it. although no huger one has
ever been undertaken, but for the dis
patch with which the United States
government has pushed it to compile
tion. The engineers of the States have
worked with brain and Drawn in a fe-
verish haste, and the job has been
brought to near completion in a record
time, even beyond expectations.
The opening of the canal will have a
great significance to the entire Pacific
coast country, as well as to all portions
of the land. One would not think at
first glance that it would affect the
central states and middle west. How
ever, in no section have the railroads
been so active, those traversing the ma
tion longitudinally, as those making
such haste in iockeying or start to reach
gulf seaports, wheremuch of the inland
products will find an outlet for water
transportation. 1t will give the grow
ers of the Columbia river basin added
facilities for the shipment of their
crops. The apples and lumber of Ore
gon will travel to their destination by
water. Already northwestern fruit is
finding broader markets. Hood River
apples have gone to Australia. Wen.
atchee fruit is heading for Manila.
But no district will be more benefited
than that of local territory, on the
Columbia. II is in comparatively easy
reach of the Orient, and the canal will
bring it closer to European markets.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-11
CHINESE Use NEWS
PAPERS FOR WALLS
Pacific Coast Architect. J

The Chinese are the greatest con.
sumers of old'newspapers in the world
The official returns to the custom house
at Newchwang state that that port
alone in 1911 received 1918 tons of old
European newspapers valued at l4,50C
pounds.
1t is not at first easy to discover to
what use so much obsolete news can be
put. However, we gather that the
middle class Chinese prefer newspaper
to the native variety as a covering for
their walls. 1t has a greater power of
resistance and affords more effective
barrier to the invasion of the vermin
that plague Chinese houses.
Moreover, the natives are experts at
cutting out of the newspapers waist
coats which they wear next to the skin.
These paper waistcoats are said to be
the best possible protection aaginst a
sudden cold snap. In view of these
admirable uses TO which European
newspapers may be put it ia not sur
prisng to learn that the imports of
1911 show considerable increase in
weight.
The value of the import has, how
ever, declined. 1t is interesting to note
the reason for this decline. II is ex-
plated by the rapid development of the
native newspaper press which has
taken place during the last few years.
Chinese newspapers are now printed
for the most part on paper imported
from the United States. so that instead
of paying high prices for imported
newspapers the Chinese of the inten-
tion to use the '"etuns" of the native
press for their walls and their waist
coat. National (ShanghaD Review.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-11
REPAIRS RUSHED
ON FERRY ROAD

improvements have been rushed or
the road leading from the city to the
White Salmon ferry landing and 10 tic
landing of the boats of the Regulator
line. The freshet last spring tore the
roadbed up very badly in places. A
part of the highway is in the city lin
its and must be maintained by the
city, while the remainder is a county
road. Comodore o. G. Dean, of the
Hood River-White Salmon ferry sys-
TEN. appeared before the county court
last week, and in Is minutes time had
an order to proceed with the improve
ment of the highway.
''The city should hurry and make
the completion of its portion of the
road" says Commodore Dean, "for
the road il much Used during the sfall
months, when the orchardists are be-
ginning to haul their fruit in to the
markets. Just about all the apples
that go to Portland are shipped by
boat. One would be surprised to know
that last winter as many as l00,0
boxes of apples were hauled over this
road and when such a tonnage passes
over road it ought to be fixed up"
In addition to the apples, much of
the goods received in the city comes by
boat transportation. and the roadway
deserves the attention of the city and
council.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-11

The abundance of fish In the sea of
Galilee Is to this day the wonder of
travellers. Most of the fishing done by
the Syrians involves the use of nets
probably Identical In construction with
those of the apostles. and the best evil
dence of the fishing having through
the centuries been done with nets is to
be found in the ease with which most
OF the fish may be deceived with the
help OF any bait, natural or artificial.
The pellucid water of this beautiful
lake. with Its ever changing reflections,
Is In striking contrast with the muddy
deeps of the Jordan. but the silt in that
river, however unsightly to the eye,
does not seem TO inconvenience its fish,
which are extraordinarily plentiful
even In the lower reaches before II
falls into that deathly lake which the
Arabs call the sea of Lot.-London Out.
look.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-11
THE TENDENCY OF POPULAR MUSIC

Music and Morality" is the theme
of a paper written by Or. Calvin s..
White for recent bulletin of the Ore
gon Social Hygiene society. Dr.White
calls the attention of his readers to the
decline or. we might say, the degener-
alton in the sentiment expressed by the
popular music of the land since the
Civil war. And. indeed, ii is a far cry
from the sweet expressions of the old
songs we used to hear to the tawdry
choruses of the shortlived ragtime airs
of today. There seems to be uni
versal tendency to make the most of
and popularize cheap temporary music.
In fact. we cannot call it music. The
words maybe new, but the music of
popular songs is like the jokes of cheap
publications, rehashed product, old
songs cut and added to and served up
with new and suggestive words, and
yet the people listen to them. Writers
of these songs are employed by great
song factories and the stuff is poured
out mechanically. But it is stuff that
sells; for the manufacturers have be-
come proficient in press agenting their
wares, and the songs are made to
arouse the curiosity.
1t seems that popular melodies with
expressions that tend to uplift ones
thoughts, or musical compositions such
AZ the masters have left to posteritv
have no demand Today threre is not
the reward for study that formerly
prevailed and the cheap stuff is turned
out for the profit of those who follow
the industry of songmaking, because
the people want it,
1t all fits in with period when every
part of the country is going wild over
the Tango. the different kinds of dips,
and other dances. Preachers cry out
from the pulpit and reformers make
assets Of it. But things that ace new,
experiences that are novel, appeal TO
men and women, and all have to take
whirl at them. The new dances. the
singing of the new songs, are not in
harently evil. And yet they carry US
along, even though we are thoughtless
of the trend. to points where our minds
become further Needless of the old time
Puritanical viewpoint of things. lead
ing to status of society where every
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-09-11
PROGRESS MADE ON
COLUMBIA HIGHWAY

Citizens of Mutlnomah county. as
well as those of every other county in
which portions of the highway will lie,
are enthusiastically engaged now in an
effort to secure the completion of the
road next year, in order that il may be
ready for the increased traffic of 1915,
when many eastern motorists will be
here for the Panama exposition.
A survey of the proposed route
through Columbia county virtually is
assured through the substantial dona-
tions already received to provide pay
ment for the work and through the
promises of further assistance given
by interested and generous individuals.
Engineers have estimated that il
will require $1,000 TO do the work in
Columbia county. The road will pass
through about so miles of this county
alone. As soon as the money is sub
scribed actual surveys will be started
with the intention of having the task
completed before the approach of bad
weather.
Further work also will be done in
Multnomah and Clatsop counties. How
ever, SO far as Multnumah county is
concerned, the roadway has been sur
veyed and is in good condition. None
of the $500 fund now being collected
Is to be used in this county. Residents
of Multnomah, however, are among
the heavy contributors to the fund.
They desire thus TO show their interest
in the project.
Little time is to be lost If the work
is to be done this fall. and if the high
way is to be built from Portland to
the sea before the end of the summer
of 1914, which was the program prom.
ised at the meeting at Gearhart last
week.