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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

John D. Livingston of Hollister
was sagatiating among his numerous
friends in the city one day this week.
Mrs. W. P. Merriam has gone to
Jacksonville for a short visit with
friends.
Senator Middleton of Pomona
presided over a meeting of local tur-
nentine operators held in this city on
Wednesday.
Sheriff Kennerly autoed to Gaines
vile this week to view the county
fair, and several fair young ladies
went along as his guests.
Mrs. J. L. Burton and her accom-
plished daughter Miss Jessie Harrison
Burton Of Crescent City, have been
guests this week of Mrs. J. N. Walton
The benefit to be given at the Kalb.
field Grand next Tuesday night will be
for the purchase of Thanksgiving
baskets to the needy. That ought to
fill the house. Anyone wishing to
donate good palatable, nourishine
food to the baskets can do so by
leaving at the board of trade rooms
J. F. Miller, manager of the beau
tiful Mt. Royal farm near Welaka
has sent the board of trade a large
jar showing samples of three varie-
ties of pecans grown on that place
Mt. Royal belongs to a member of the
well-known Whitney family of New
York, and is one of the show places
of Florida, occupying a slightly point
on the st. Johns river.
Charles Priddy returned home on
Wednesday evening after an absence
of some sixteen months spent in Sc
attic, Washington. He says the eli
mate there in winter is not to his lik-
ing and he longed for Palatka, so he
just threw up everything in the line
of business prospects and came back
During his stay out there he made a
trip up the coast of Alaska and sew
eral side trips to other sections has
given him an idea of the country such
as one can only get by seeing. He
brought a miniature totem pole back
with him and a lot of views of Seat
tie and these he is showing to his
friends, and he has lots of 'em here,
Next Monday night will be shown
at the Kalbfeld Grand a five reel
film of humorous situations in "a
Florida Enchantment." 1t is to be
presented by a large and competent
cast, in which Edith Storey easily
takes the star honor, although Sid
ney Drew is also seen to good ad-
vantage. The film was directed by
Mr.. Drew and tells the story of a
young heiress, who because she be-
lieves her lover untrue, takes
capsule which is guaranteed
to reverse the nature of all men and
women. So the young heiress be-
comes the gay Mr.. Lawrence Tai
bot and thereby situations both hu-
morous and awkward follow each
other in the fifth reel, when the dis
tracted heiress awakes to the thank
full realization that she is still Lii
liam Travers, the heiress, and is ready
to forgive her once doubted fance.
The scenes are laid in Florida, most
of them on the Ocklawaha river and
at Silver Springs. Several Palatkans
who were present when the scene
was laid will figure in the background
and a part of the living, moving ma
tives.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
COUNCIL ADOPTS
COMMITTEE REPORT
Recommending Rejection Of
Automatic Phone Or
dinance.

At the meeting of the city council
on Tuesday evening, Nov. 3rd, the
application of A. S. Metzner and as
sociates for general telephone
franchise for the city was referred
to the committee on ordinances. This
committee is composed of Aid. Leo
Jacobson, Walter Mentally and G. H.
Kennerly.
At the meeting of the council last
Tuesday night, the 18th inst Aid.
Jacobson reported that he had given
into the hands of the clerk an ordi-
nance, but that the other members
of the committee had a report in
which they recommended that the
ordinance be not granted. He had
refused to sign that report.
Aid. Gay moved that the report Of
the committee be read, and the mo-
ton was seconded and carried.
The clerk read the following re-
port:
We the undersigned members of
/ the ordinance committee of the city
council of the City of Palatka, to
whom was referred an ordinance en-
titled;
An ordinance granting to A. S.
Metzner, associates, successors and
assigns certain rights, privileges and
franchise for general telephone pur-
poses, respectfully submit the fol-
lowing as their report thereon:
After careful consideration and in
vestigation of the ordinance herein
before referred to, we find that it
would be unwise to grant said ordi-
nance for the following reasons, to-
wit:
list. Upon inquiry among the bus
mess men and citizens of Palatka
who are users of telephones, we have
found that a majority of them are
unalterably opposed to the installa-
ton of another telephone system in
the City of Palatka.
End. We can see no logical reason
! why or urgent necessity for two tel
ephone systems in this city.
3rd. The granting Of the fran
chise hereinbefore referred to would
create two telephone systems in this
city, and we cannot conscientiously
or consistently recommend that the
clClZenS OF faldCkd, WHO are users Oh
telephones, should be compelled to
expend money for the use and rent
of two telephones when the present
telephone system is sufficient for the
present needs of the city, and gives
the citizens of Palatka adequate and
efficient service at all times.
(Signed) C. H. KENNERLY,
WALTER McNALLY.
Ordinance Committee.
Alderman Pounds then moved that
the ordinance be read; his motion was
seconded by Aid. Jacobson. An
amendment was then offered by Aid.
Gay and seconded by Aid. Kennerly,
that the report of the committee be
adopted.
The amendment was carried by the
following vote:
Ayes-Ald. Yelverton, Gay, Davis,
Merriam, Kennerly, McNally and
Adams.
Nayes-Ald. Fearnside, Jacobson,
Pounds and Robinson-4.
This has disposed of the automatic
franchise for the time being, at least;
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
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CITY HAPPENINGS AND 1
PERSONAL MENTION .
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st. Marks Guild will give an oys-
ter supper on December 9Th at the
Athletic club.
Miss Blanche Brown of Hastings
spent the weekend with her sister,
Mrs. H. M. Fearnside.
Rev. P. T. L. Queen, former citi-
zen of Palatka, died in Jacksonville
this week.
Mrs. S. H. Bass is spending the
we k in Jacksonville on visit to her
daughter, Mrs. Spencer.
Rev. R. C. Drisco, late rector of
the Church of the Pilgrims at Po-
mona, was visitor in the city on
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howell A. Davis and
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Lecks went over
to Gainesville in Mr.. Davis car to
attend the Alachua county fair.
Miss Kate Lucas has been in ST..
Augustine all the week in attendance
at the bedside of her niece, who is
reported quite i'll.
R. s. Paine and party of friends
from Nashua were in the city Tues
day, having motored over in Mr..
Paine's magnificent touring car, pos
sibly the best in Putnam county.
Judge E. Noble Calhoun of St. Au-
gustine, one of the most eloquent ad-
vocates of the Florida bar, was here
on Tuesday for a short visit to his
old home town.
Sidney j. Brown, pharmacist of
Baltimore, Md, who has been spend
ing a few weeks with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Brown, left for
his home in Baltimore last Satur-
day.
Royal Stelts, for some tine a prin-
ter's apprentice in the office Of the
enlist in Uncle Sans navy as an ap-
prentice in the machinist department.
Good luck to the boy.
The city council has increased the
pay of volunteer fire helpers 100
per cent, the reason being that the
pay VI JuSAS NOIhSIS "nS GildC llilOulIG
too low. Heretofore they have re-
ceived but so cents for cav. and 81
for responding to night fires.
Miss Belle WelcA entertained at
bridge on Tuesday afternoon with
three tables. Miss Gladys Brown of
Tulsa, Oklahoma, won the first prize,
and the others went to Miss Eilene
Merryday and Mrs. H. M. Fearnside.
These ladies will meet next Tuesday
at the home of Mrs. Warner T. Hamm.
Accordin' to the Morning Postem
Serial there is German wireless
hidin' about in the swamps 'fernisnt
Palatka, somewhere, and if any of
you fellers see it, be careful, don't
touch it, but yell fer the perlice. 1t
is contraband O war and has no bus
mess hidin' in our swamps when they
have been declared neutral by the
highest authority.
James Evans who was boring new
we'll for the city water works, found a
flow of over 600 gallons a minute at
a depth of 155 feet through an s-inch
pipe. The flow is equal to two other
wells and the city council. when shown
that the water was found at a less
depth than Evans had calculated pos
sible and that Evans had lost money
by the deal, by resolution paid him
for 200 feet, so that he wouldn't lose
money on the job.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
Notice of Application for Tax Deed
Under Section s of Chapter 1888,
Inws of Florida.

Notice of Application for Tax Deed
Under Section of Chapter 1885,
Laws of Florida.
NOTICE is hereby given that
Hiram smith purchaser of Tax Certificate
No los, dated the End day of July A. u. 1900
has filed said certificate in my office,
and has made application for tax deed
to issue in accordance With law,
Said certificate embr; as the follow
ing described properly situated In
Putnam county, Florida, to-wlt:
Nel1 OF NwL, section a, Township 9. $.
r nge % F., 40 Acres.
The said land being assessed at the
date of issuance of such certificate in
the name of w. H. Blocker.
Unless said certificate shall be re-
deemed according to law, tax deed Will
is ue thereon on the 2lst day of December
A IT,. 1914.
Witness my official signature and
seal this the 10Th dav of November A. D..
1914.
(SFAL) HENRY HUTCHINSON
Clerk Circuit Court Putnam Co, Fla,
BY Albion X. Hutchinson, D.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

Almost all the failures in life are
by those who are not willing to fight
to the last ditch. Nobody likes a
Lady's $500 and $4,000 suits at
Young's for $500.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

GASOLINE ENGINE INvEN-
TION-Party interested in the same
with the late Thomas D. Evans, well
contractor, will foster his interests
by communicating with Mrs. T. D.
Evans, Palatka, Florida. 10-31-4t
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

FOR SALE-Pecan trees on the
Government lot. For prices and 9TH
er particulars, apply at the Palatka
postoffice.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

FOR SALE-Cheap, one square
Knabe Piano. Apply at News Office.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20

Call and see my line of Holiday
novelties. Miss Kate L. Lucas.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
CYRUS B. WATsoN's PORTRAIT.

Intense interest centers IN the presentation n
the Supreme Court OF North Carolina OF the por-
trait OF Hon. Cyrus B. Watson, OF Winston
Salem. popularity known as the War Horse q
Democracy" but who In reality IS and has been
for more than a generation the leader Of the
North Carolina Bar. The presentation to the Su-
preme Court will take place tomorrow. a which
time Hon. Clement Manly, OF Winston-Salem n
behalf Of the Forsyth County Bar Will deliver
the portrait to be suspended upon the walls q
the Supreme Court of the State. Chief Jusuc.
Walter Clark will make the speech of acceptance.
Aside from the signal honor to be accorded a
truly distinguished North Carohnian, the portrai,
is itself a tribute to the genius OF Mr.. N. K. Long.
son Of Judge Long, of Statesville. who a lew
months ago returned from a two years study
under the Masters Of Europe. Mr.. Longs work
has already attracted the attention OF the great
art centers in this country and abroad; but many
critics assert that his delineation of the features
of, the noblest Roman of them all as some -
his friends are pleased to term Mr.. Watson. has
eclipsed all former efforts and has caught his sub
ject in the very life.
Cyrus B. Watson has a fixed place IN the hearts
of the people of North Carolina. A Leader Vi
Democracy, a leader at the bar. a faithful and
true friend. he is an admirable character. a mans
man, one whom North Carolina is honored q
having as a son.
Clifford Pinchot, Progressive candidate for SEN
ator from Pennsylvania, predicts the Republicans
will nominate Penrose. Very likely, and as be
tween two evils like Penrose and Pinchot the
people of Pennsylvania will very probably decide
to choose neither, taking Palmer instead.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
O'Shaughnessy and Lind.

Atlanta Constitution.
Our lmbrogGo with Mexico has done us at least
one substantial service. 1t has DEVELOPED the
tact that there are in the American diplomatic
corps two men Of rare and impeccable discretion.
Nelson OShaughnessy and John Lind.
The one at the heart of things in the Mexican
capital and the other at Vera Cruz have served
Their country with signal efficiency. Above al.
they have done 50 with unhagging reticence.
they are In a class by themselves.
A revealing glance was secured at OShaugh-
messy in his hfteen-ninute stop IN Atlanta last
week.
The man was travel-worn, exhausted. fraved out
from tension OF months duration. 1t was natural
to assume he was bubbling with resentment,
bursting with opinions.
The trained reporters Of the town were loos-
ened on hum Yet they pried out not one lead
ing DIT OF information, despite their most inge-
NOUS questionings.
he found them. But he left them with a good
taste IN their mouths, a fine impression Of breezy.
enduring, courageous American manliness.
FOR he told them frankly he couldn't and
wouldn't talk about his experiences in Mexico.
"nere they touched his diplomatic mission. Anv-
'ning, everything else, he talked about with en-
saSihg freshness and candor. Once the inter
viewers got on the danger zone, ne shut them of
win a smile and Joke. that disarmed offense and
lett them humorouslv bafhed.
lhese TWO men are. we hope. precursors Of new
types IN our foreign service. Not stiff. not taking
themselves too seriously. reserved. vet sociable
they represent the great genius of this country.
May the OShaughnessys and the Linds multi
pS III america without regard to the speed limit
we can t have too many Of them.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
CONSERVATION OF HUMAN LIFE.

This Is an age when the effort is not alone to
cure, but in which there is an effort to prevent
illness by taking steps to prevent disease taking
hold on one.
The conservation Of human life is the great aim
Of the age, and in this cause the lavman, the ply
sician and the scientist must work hand in hand.
How to conserve health should be the matter OF
an open door to all, and with that splendid in
terest in the human race for which it IS noted the
medical fraternity is giving such information as
will be valuable to all people.
The News and Observer, which advocates all
matters which have to do with the betterment of
the people, has sought to be Of service in work of
this kind, and it is now going to publish a series
of special articles which it believes Will be found
to be of value.
These articles are by DR.. Albert S. Gray, of
Chicago. He is a physician, scientist, lecturer and
writer, who has devoted himself for the past ten
years to scientific research in the interests Of dis
ease prevention, and he has prepared a series of
articles embodying the net results of his study
and experience, under the caption, The Conser>
walton Of Human Life" These articles will prove
of unquestioned value to the public at large in
this period when the trend of human thought is
toward the attainment of physical we'll being, eff
cheney and longer life.
These articles go much deeper into the sub
ject than the several current health-advice fea-
lures. DR.. Gray is working not only toward the
education of the people in the interest of better
health, longevity and greater efficiency, but indi-
rectly for social bettennent, which will naturally
follow in the train Of improved physical and men
tai conditions and the requirement of self mas
terry and the habit of individual thought.
DR.. Gray proclaims the doctrine that the way
to be well is to be sensible, and that being healthy
is a duty which each individual owes not alone
to himself but to the human race. His articles,
which are sane, Illuminating contributions to the
publlc's knowledge Of health principles. will ap-
pear in the News and Observer on Mondays, Wed
nesdays and Fridays as features on the editorial
page. The fact of the series, which has to do with
individual obligation to the race, will appear to-
morrow
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
Sp1.I # h% P~eaa
The Pressure For Peace.

Nebraska State Journal
The first thing to happen alter we got into
trouble with Mexico, according to our lingo
brethren, was to be an assault by Japan. Ma
dero was supposed to have it all arranged that
the moment the United States INTERVIEWED IN
Mexico, Japan was to join the Mexicans against
us in return for concessions in Mexican territory.
That arrangement was supposed r continue Up
to the present.
Now that we are in actual peril of war, Japan
is among the nations that have put themselves to
pulling for peace. The Washington dispatched
tell us that while the "A B c" powers-Argen-
tina, Brazil and Chile-are doing the active me-
dating, every other nation is throwing its inh,l
ence into the scale for peace.
This inspiring spectacle is calculated to con-
vince the world Of what peace propagandists have
long understood-that the conditions making for
peace or war are not now as they used to be.
When the Monroe Doctrine was promulgated. ter.
ritorial conquest was the chief motive Of inter
national politics. War was then in the interest
OF any ambitious nation. The age of conquest
has now gwen way to the age of commerce And
that makes the for peace as strong az
was the pressure for war in the preceding period.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
Nxcge MaN mancm

~ =, ye who complain of the grind, remember
~ these words (Which are trueD: The drear-
lest job one can find is looking for something to
do! Sometimes, when my work seems a crime,
and I'm sorely tempted to sob, I think of the
long vanished time when I was out hunting a
job. I walked eighty
OMETH1N TO DO. miles every day, and
climbed forty thousand
high stairs, and people would shoe me away, and
peit me with inkstands and chairs. And then,
when the evening grew dark, I knew naught Of
comfort or ease; I made ne a bed in the park,
for supper chewed bark from the trees. I looked
through the windows at men who tackled their
oysters and squads, and probably grumbled again
because they we're tired of their jobs. And I
was out there in the rain, with nothing to eat
but my shoe, and filed with a maddening pain
because I had nothing to do. And now when I'm
tempted to raise the grand hailing sign of distress,
I think of those sorrowful days, and then I feel
better, I guess. I 60 at my labors again with
energy vital and new, and say, as I toll in my
den, Thank God, I have something to dol"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12

R~aleigh's chapter of the American Institute of
Child Life is meeting regularly and will do a
needed work here if it is properly supported. 1t
would be difficult to study too carefully. or too
exhaustively the problem of the child.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12

Richard Harding Davis is said to be under
arrest at Mexican City, but as an adventure of
that sort was probably one of the things that
took him to Mexico City, there is no need for
anybody to get excited.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
NJ forming Tonic

Swift
AZURE has left every man a capacity of
being agreeable, though not of shining in
company; and there are a hundred men suffi-
GENTLY qualified for both, who by a very few
faults, that they might correct in half an hour,
are not so much as tolerable.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12

Guiltords creamery, a new enterprise for that
county, is doing we'll. It's delightful to see this
and other evidences of the development of the
dairying industry in North Carolina. This State
has been importing its butter too long already.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12

Occupation of Vera Cruz will prove the best
thing that ever happened to Vera Cruz. This
prediction is forecasted by the circumstance that
it has been decided that the santa ton of the
city shall be looked after under directions given
by SurgeonGeneral Gorgas. of the United States
Amy. Gorgas knows how.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12

The water company of Mt. Holly. Pa. will be
required by the courts to pay SILL on account
Of the illness of three children with typhoid fever
That Is the way to hold a water company up to
its responsibility. Touch it on its pocket nerve
and results will come.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12

General Huerta declares that whatever his fate.
he will face it like a man. He will if the brandy
supply does not get too low.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
l. FOR S1.7O

There has never been offered In North Carolina
so much good reading for so little money as We
are offering under the following proposition: For
s170 we will send the following for one year:
The Weekly News and Observer, an eightpage
weekly newspaper.
The Commoner, an able monthly journal, pub
hshed by William Jennings Bryan.
Tho Farmer and Mechanic, sixteen page North
Carolina home and farm weekly journal.
Thus for One Dollar and Seventy Cents you
can get all these papers one year.
v. c. MOORE, Manager.
TUESDAY. April IL, 1914.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.

In some OF the ant-adInIn1StratOn newspapers
it has been claimed that France has been looking
with favor on the threatened rupture between the
United States and Mexico and is hostile to the
United States. When the relations between Mex
leo and the United States first became seriously
strained there were evidences which seemed to
indicate that the French press would sy1npathize
with Huerta, but recently the comment in the
French newspapers is said to have been more
friendly to this country. Statements to the con-
trary published in this country have brought forth
protests in the French papers editorially and in
the form of letters from prominent Frenchmen.
One of these writer's says: The noisy manifesto
tons in certain newspapers originate with certain
interests. but generally the vast difficulty with
which the United States is faced is perfectly re1og-
nized here. France has large material interests
IN Mexico and desires an end Of the anarchy and
the establishment of peace and security, which is
exactly what the United States is trying to bring
about
France, like Japan, is controlled by sane and
sensible men who realize that hostility to the
United States is justified neither by the attitude
OF this country to other countries nor bv the de-
,nands of a sound national policy. The friend
ship Of the United States with ali that that i'm
plies in commerce and general world influence
is sor7ething that no nation is going to treat
lightly.
Prospects of suitable Coastwise steamer trans
portation facilities for both New Bern and vii.
nnington seem good. Those cities have not Sc.
cured precisely what they want, but they are
making Roadway. With exceptionally favorable
railroad rates they were disposed to overlook their
splendid natural facilities for transportation and
it took the equalizng work of last wears freioh+
rate agitation to get the cities BY the sea to real.
ize completely the need for them to use to tho
utmost the advantages OF their location.
The Gibsonvile Times makes its houp NTH
Mr.. l.. T.. Barber as editor, Mr.. R. / Steele &c
assistant editor, and Mr.. |. w. Burke hrSnas.
manager. The Times makes a good anne J,
and If 1t holds the fine line of ADVERTISING With
which 1t starts off, it should be able to stav :,
the game and make some money to boot 100
vlded OF course 1t IS getting a suitable rate 81
the service.