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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
BANK OFFICERS REINDlcTED
Federal Grand Jury Takes Action In
The Pensacola Bank
Case

Pensacola-Two officials and two
former officials of the suspended First
National Bank here were reindicted
by a local United States grand jury
On the charge of misapplying the funds
Of the institution.
The defendants are William H.
Knowles, vice president; Thomas w.
Brent, assistant cashier; w. K. Hyer,
former president, and William S. Key
ser, former director.
Attorneys for the defendants attack
ed the previous indictments, alleged
that the grand jury returning them had
been drawn illegally. No decision of
their validity has yet been made, but
the government decided to ask for new
true bills.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
PORTRAIT OF GOVERNOR BRANCH
Was Presented To The State BY Mrs.
Nicholas w. Eppes of
Tallahassee

Tallahassee.-Throug the courtesy
of Mrs. Nicholas W. Eppes of this
city the state of Florida was this week
presented with an excellent portrait OF
one of the most distinguished men WHO
has figured in the states history
Gov. John Branch. This portrait has
been hung upon the walls of the gov
ernor's office where there have been
collected in recent years portraits OF
most of the former governors Of Flor
ida. Governor Branch, who was Mrs.
Eppes' grandfather, was appointed
governor of the territory Of Florida
as a Democrat by President John Ty-
Ter in 1874 Governor Branch was a
North Carolinian, born in 1882; and
when young lawyer served six years
in the North Carolina state senate from
his native county of Halifax. He was
1916 and was afterwards United States
senator from that state until secretary
of the navy in the first cabinet of
President Andrew Jackson. With his
colleagues he retired from the presi-
dents cabinet in 1881 and later serv-
ed again in the North Carolina SEN
ate and constitutional convention. He
was governor of Florida from the
time of his appointment by President
Tyler until the state was admitted into
the Union March 3, 1S45.
After a long, active and useful life
Governor Branch died in North Caro-
lima in January, 1868. There are in
this section of Florida a large num-
Der of descendants of this distinguish
ed statesman, among them being the
Hopkins, Eppes, Whitehead, Houston
and Bailey families.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

That Jacksonville is on parity with
Boston and in a more favorable posi-
ton than some of the other manufac-
turing cities of New England in the
matter of coal prices and ceal freight
rates, was the statement of Mr.. ]. Lo-
gan at the meeting of the governors
of the trade body and the special manu-
featuring committee which met to talk
over plans to secure more factories
here. Mr.. ]. ]. Logan is one of the
best fuel supply men of the South
east, as we'll as a prominent men,
Der of the Jacksonville board of trade
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
German Ship Dill Great Dam.
age Before Her End.

There has been great rejoicing in
England over the naval victory which
put out of action two commerce de
stroyinS German cruisers, the redoubt
able Emden and the k0enigSber@,
The kOenigSberg was bottled up iii
the Ruff river. opposite Malta island
in German East Africa. where she waA
found hiding by the British cruiser
Chatham.
1t is Il great feather in the cap Of
AuStralia's small navy that one IF her
cruisers. the Sydney. destroyed the EN-
den. whose exploits have become ia
nous in the annals of naval warfare
She was caught by the heavier arm
ed Sydney off the Cocos islands, in the
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
RUSSIANS REPORT SUCCESS
Swept by Driving Storms, Trenches
Knee Deep In Water, Troops OF
World War Hammer Away In Hope
of Victory.

Soldiers fighting in trenches knee
deep in water and swept by driving
rains is the story which still comes
out of West Flanders. where the Ger.
man troops and the allied forces still
hammer at each other with shot and
shell.
That serious encounters have taken
place along the User canal is indicat.
ed in the French official announce
ment that the Germans nave been
driven back to the right bank and
that the left bank. small section
of which the Germans had held fol
several days, has been completely
evacuated.
To the north of Ypres the allies
also have been successful, repulSing
a further offensive movement. This
was accomplished, says the French
general staff, with heavy losses to the
Germans.
On the other hand Berlin claims
a slight progress on the right wing
the capture of several hundred French
er and the taking of strong French
point in the forest of Argonne
Another proof of the severity OF
the fighting in that section where the
British forces are entrenched is given
in casualty lists just published at
London, showing the loss of 80 Brit.
ish officers killed, los wounded and
At missing.
Petrograd continues to report sue.
cesses in East Prussia and also in the
region of Soldau and Neidenburg
where the Russians. however, are
meeting with desperate resistance.
In Poland the AuStrians are eStab.
fishing defensive positions, while or
the Galician front the Russians are
advancing toward the passes over the
Carpathians.
Austrian troops invading Servia
have met strong resistance mt Naijevo
but along the river Save are making
progress
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

1t is at not surprising that persons
who have indigestion become di'cour-
aged and respondent. Here ere few
words of hope and cheer for them by
Mrs. Blanche Bowers, Indinana, Pa.
"For years my digestion was so poor
that could only eat the lightest
foods. l tried every thing that |
heard of to get relief, but not until
about a year ago when l saw Cham
berlain's Tablets advertised and got a
bottle of them, did l find the right
treatment. l soon began to improve,
and since taking a few bottles of them
my digestion is fine" For sale by all
dealers.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
Some Cotton Picking This.

Each picking nearly a pound of cot
ton a minute continuously for IL IL
hours, Ebert Watson and Try Watson
brothers, of Guntown, Miss, are believed
to have established a new high record
The two young men, sons of a prom,
inent farmer, each picked 657 pounds in
day of ~ hours, with 80 minutes lay.
off for dinner.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

Put a porus plaster on the chest
and take a good cough syrup internal
" if you would treat a severe case of
sore lungs properly. Get the dollar
size BALLARD'S HOREH0UND
SYRUP. With each bottle there is a
free HERRICK'S RED PEPPER Pc
RUS PLASTER for the chest. Sold
by Ackerman-Stewart Drug Co.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

A dispatch from Sofia says: "The Bull
garian government has received formal
assurance that the Greek government is
determined to maintain neutrality and
has refrained from ordering a mobilza-
ton. The Servian minister at Sofia an
nounces that Servia will offer Bulgaria
her normal support should Turkey at
tack Bulgaria. No friendly advance ha,
been received from Roumania."
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
CANAL EMPLOYEES.
Completion of Waterway Causes Re
duCtion of Working Force.

Completion Of Waterway Causes Re.
duction of Working Force.
The rapidly approaching completion.
Of the Panama canal and the consequent
reduction of the force of employees has
caused Col. Cocktails to repatriate num-
bers of these men thus thrown out of en-
ployment. Notices have been posted
that Panama canal government will
furnish free transportation to limited
numbers of West Indian former en-
ployes, to their homes, and to date
about 3,400 repatriation passes have
been issued.
While the governments obligation tc
return laborers to their home countries
was originally limited to those brought
to the canal work under contract, it has
been extended to include laborers who
migrated to the sthmus on their own
responsibility, but who could show a
period of service equal to that stipulated
in the contract. Now, principally as
police measures for the prevention OF
vagrancy, free transportation is being
offered to practically all employees out OF
work and the republic of Panama is ex
Guiding further immigrants likely to be.
come public charges.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
Strict Neutrality For Persia.

An official statement issued says Per-
STA has presented to all the powers a
note announcing her strict neutrality
The statement adds that Persia, snow
that the confagration has extended to
her territory" has asked for the good
Offices Of Great Britain to prevent "the
neutral soil of Persia from becoming Q
theater of war"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
Casualties Among British Officers.

A tabulated list of casualties among
British commissioned officers in France
between October 20 and October 27,
raises the total of officers killed, wounded
or missing to 1888. The Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, who lost seven officers killed.
eight wounded and two missing, and the
Royal Field artillery, ten of whose off
GERS were wounded, were among the
heaviest sufferers.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
Battle Tide Flows
For Allied Forces
EMDEN DESTROYED.
But Daring Captain and Prince, ar
OffiCer Saved

DHt ~NEhaih ana ar
Officer, Saved.
Two hundred men persisted wher
the German cruiser Emden was de.
stroyed by the Australian cruiser sgd
ney, but her daring commander, Cap
tain Karl Won Muller, and Prime,
Francis Joseph Of Hohenzollern. a %
year old naval lieutenant, were res
cued and are prisoners.
Official announcement to this eff
feet was made by the government
bureau.
The admiralty has given directiom
that all the honOrs of war be ac
corded the prisoners taken from til.
Emden, and that the German officer,
be allowed to retain their swords.
Prince Francis Joseph belongs ts
the nonreigning branch of the Ho
henzollern family. He has been at.
tached to the Emden since he wat
given his commission.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

Stop coughing! you rack the lungs
and worry the body. BALLARD'S
HOREHOUOD SYRUP checks irrita-
ton, heals the lungs and restores
comfortable breathing. Price 25c,
SOC and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by
Alderman Stewart Drug Company.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
MRS. MAbEN
WAS MADE WELL
By Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
table Compound and Wants
Other Suffering Women
To Know 1t.
Murfreesboro, Tenn. az have
wanted to write to you for long time

10 tell you Wnat your
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have done for me. l
was a sufferer from
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and l would have
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feelings, sick head
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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
Talk too Much.

A mob took two men out at Hop
kinsville, KY, and whipped them for
talking too much" If they would
do that in certain sections of Florida
there would be an army eating their
meals off the mantel for long time
to come.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

Petrograd.-George T. Marye, Jr., OF
San Francisco, the newly-appointed
American ambassador to Russia, pre-
scented his credentials to Emperor
Nicholas and formally assumed charge
of the embassy
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
Important.

Bear in mind that Chamberlain's
Tablets not only move the bowels but
improve the appetite and strengthen
the digestion. For sale by all dealers.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

The old topper doesn't mind being
treated for the liquor habit by men
who say: "Have one with me-"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

Lady's $500 and $4,000 suits at
Young's for $500.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-18
GET READY NOW
To WIN GREAT
AUTO PRIZE
Biggest Newspaper Contest Ever
Held in>the South Will Open
Next Saturday.

The greatest newspaper contest ever
held in the South will begin next Sat
urday when The Hearst's Sunday
American and Atlanta Georgian Auto
and Prize Contest opens.
The full list of the prizes to be
awarded those with industry and am
bition, which was printed in The Sun
day American, caused thousands to
marvel at the splendor of the array.
There are five automobiles, eight
pianos, eight diamond rings, eight
chests of silver eight business schol-
arships, eight solid gold watches, eight
bicycles, eight handsome genuine
leather suit cases and 40 S. fountain
pens to be distributed absolutely free
to contestants.
Get Ready for Good Start.
Get ready for a good start. You
may win the first grand capital prize,
$2,325 Hudson motor car or the sec
ond, a $1,620 Jeffery Ir or the $1,150
Overland. or the $3.50 Maxwell.
GET IN THE RACE EARLY.
Here is the way to enter:
Get somebody to nominate you. A
nomination blank will be found IN
every issue this week and next week.
The first nomination blank sent in
will start you off in the race with 1000
votes.
Ask for Particulars.
Then every subscription sent in by
you will add from 700 to 1000 votes
to your list. And the subscriptions
are easy to get to the South's great
est newspaper, Hearst's Geor~ian and
American.
If you want to know about the con-
test, ask the Contest Editor at the
Office of The Georgian and American.
He will answer all questions freely
and gladly.
In addition. you RAY obtain infor-
nation at the Contest Department in
the Empire Building. room 1915. That
will be the sole business of the work
ers thereto give you information ami
to aid you in every way.
Remember, get in the game while
it's new and if you are a willing
worker you are sure to come out sue
cessful.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-18
# BACKACHY OR
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Eat Less Meat, Also Take Glass
of Salts Before Eating
Breakfast.

Uric acid in meat excites the kidneys.
they become overworked get sluggish.
ache and feel like Jumps of lead. The
urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is ir-
ritated, and you may be obliged to seek
relief two or three times during the
night. When the kidneys clog you must
help them flush off the bodys urinous
waste, or you'll be a real sick person
shortly. At first you feel a dull misery
in the kidney region. you suffer from
backache. sick headache, dizziness,
stomach gets sour, tongue coated and
you feel rheumatic twinges when the
weather is bad.
Eat less meat. drink lots of water;
also get from any pharmacist four
ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoon
full in a glass of water before breakfast
for few days and your kidneys will
then act fine. This famous salts Is
made from the acid of grapes and lem
on juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to clean clog
ged kidneys and stimulate them to nor
NAL activity, also to neutralize the acids
in urine, so 1t no longer is a source of
irritation, thus ending bladder weak
ness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, can not in
jure: makes a delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which every one
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active. Druggists
here say they sell lots of Jad Salts TO
folks who believe in overcoming kidney
trouble while 1t is only trouble.-Advt.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-18
Atlanta Aid Sought
To Build Big National
Park Near State Line

The aid of the Atlanta Chamber Of
Commerce in the move to establish a
national park in the Appalachian
Mountains is being sought by George
S. Powell, of Asheville. N. C, secre-
tary of the Appalachian Park Assoc
citation. He will present the matter to
the chamber some time in the ne.r
future and urge the support of that
body. Robert F. Maddox vice presi-
dent of t., American National Bank,
is director in the association.
The plan is to establish a park on
the order of the Yosemite and yell
lowstone Parks somewher in the Big
Smoky Mountains, in the neighbour
hood of the Georgia, Tennessee and
Carolina lines. Under the Weeks bill
the Federal Government has already
purchased about 100000 acres of this
mountain territory to be used in the
scientific study of tree growth and for
the preservation of the heads of navi-
gable streams.
Already, says Mr. Powell, the move
is being supported by many of the
most prominent men of the South.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-18
Bodyto Reach
Atlanta Wednesday.

The arrangements for the last trib-
ute of respect to the memory of the
great Georgia statesman in his home
State have been completed. The
services i'll Atlanta and at Macon,
Senator Bacon's home city, will be
the most impressive with which a
member, of Congress ever has been
honored.
Plans for the reception of Senator
Bacon's body when it arrives in At
lanta Wednesday at noon provide for
one of the most imposing funeral
corteges Atlanta has ever seen. The
special car on which the body is to be
brought to the Georgia capital is to
be part of the Birmingham Special,
and will reach Atlanta over the
Southern Railway at 11:40 o'clock.
The members of Governor Slaton's
staff, headed by Colonel Frederic j.
PaXon. will meet the train at the
State line and accompany 1t to At
lanta and the State Capitol, where
the remains of the dead statesman
will lie in state for four hours, with
a military guard.
The funeral train is scheduled to
arrive at the Terminal Station at
11:40 o'clock. 1t will be met by Gov
ernor John NJ. Slaton and his secre-
taries the judges of the Supreme
peals, members of the Railroad Com
mission, Prison Commission, the
Comptroller General and all other
State house officials: all local camps
of Confederate veterans, General Rob-
ert X. Evans, commander of the De-
partment of the Gulf United States
Army, and his staff, the Seventeenth
Infantry and band from Fort Nc
Pherson, the Fifth Regiment and
band, the Atlanta Bar Association,
delegation from Macon and a delega-
ton from the State University at
Athens, and hundreds of private citi-
zens. Carriages will be in waiting
for the members of the Congressional
escort which will accompany the body
from Washington to Atlanta.
The procession will form at the
Terminal Station and proceed to the
State Capitol. 1t will be headed by
the Seventeenth Infantry Band. Then
will come the hearse. surrounded by
personal escort of Confederate vet
Grams; the Fifth Regiment, the Gov
ernor, and the Congressional commit
tee in carriages, and the bar asso-
citation and other delegations.
The body will be carried into the
corridors of the State Capitol, where
it will lie in state until 4:30 o'clock.
with a special detail from the Fifth
Regiment, Georgia National Guard, to
guard the casket.
Last Rites at Macon.
At $3.50 the body Will be taken to
the station and placed on the funeral
train, and taken to Macon, the OLD
home of the Senator, where the last
funeral rites will be held
The funeral train will be in charge
of Sergeant at Arms Charles P. Hig-
gins. of the Senate, who has wired
the H. NJ. Patterson & Sons Company,
which will have charge of the body in
Atlanta, the trip ana schedule of the
train. Forty persons will accompany
the funeral party
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-18
MARD| GRAS BOAT
SINKS; zoo ON
BOARD SAVED
Women Passengers in Collapse
When Taken From Lifeboat.
Ice Adds to Peril.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb IL
Caugh. in the swift current of the
Ohio River, the Queen City, one of
the largest inland waterway steamers
in America. sank IN eight feet Of
water early to-day Every one of the
200 passengers bound from Pittsburg
to New Orleans to attend the Mardi
Gras celebration was taken off by
life savers from the Government sta
ton, which Is about 100 yards from
the point where the steamer went
down
The Ohio River was full of floating
ice and the work of the life savers
was hazardous. Many of the women
passengers were in complete state
of collapse when lifted from the life
boats and taken to hotels.
The Queen City was trying to make
a Landing here, when she was caught
in the current and swept toward the
falls. Striking a pier of the Ken
lucky Chute" part OF the Govern
ment work to control the falls here,
she sank in eight feet of water.
After Night of Gayety.
The 10 passengers, aroused from
deep slumber after an evening of
dancing and merry making that had
marked the trip, rushed to the decks
OIL the DOdt. IiCIC tiiCy nv ~oP
tain w c. Leper. who told them to
ready to leave the boat.
put on life preservers at once and be
There was an instant panic, anc
the women of the party were with
difficulty treasured. Many of them
tried to jump overheard. moment
later the crews of the Louisville life
saving station, whose lookout nac
seen the boats peril the moment she
swung into the stream, came along
side the Queen City and began pre-
pairing for taking the passengers off.
Three hysterical women = the
Misses Lorena, Alice and Vera Ho-
dren. of Newport, Ohio. were the first
taken. The rule was Women first"
and the two big skiffs of the life
savers We're quickly filled with shiv-
ering, frightened women and children.
Rescue Quie',:y Made.
Fortunately, it was short dis
lance to the shore, and the trained
carsmen sped the skiffs through the
water. The passengers, as fast as
they landed, were rushed to the Gall
House.
Back and forth the life savers sped
until all the passengers. 10 in num-
Der had been taken ashore without
mishap. Meanwhile the crew OF the
steamer had seen there was not
chance to get her off. The fires were
drawn, and she sank in eight feet of
water.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-18
EASY TO DARKEN
YOUR CRAY HAIR
You Can Bring Back Color and
Lustre With Sage Tea
and Sulphur.

When you darken your hair with Sage
Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell, be-
cause it's done SO naturally, so evenly.
Preparing this mixture though at home
Is mussy and troublesome. For so cents
you can ~buy at any drug store the
ready to-use tonic called "Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur Hair Remedy" You just
dampen sponge or soft brush with it
and draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at time. By MORN
ing all gray hair disappears, and. after
another application or two, your hair
becomes beautifully darkened. glossy
and luxuriant You will also discover
dandruff is gone and hair has stopped
falling.
Gray. faded hair, though no disgrace,
Is a sign OF old age, and as we all de-
sire youthful and attractive appear
ahce' get busy at once with Wyeth 5
sage and Sulphur and look years young
er.-Advt