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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
PHILIP BEALL
HEAD OF OWLS
HE is ELECTED PRESIDENT AT
THE RECENT MEETING AND Sc
LECTION OF NEW OFFICERS.

Phillip d. BealI is now president of
Nest No. 1874, Order of Owls, having
been elected to this officer recently
when the members met and selected
officers for the new year as follows:
Past PRESIDENT. N. Hutchins*
President-Phflip D. Bean.
Secretary-D. Everett.
Treasurer-Robt. II. Anderson.
Physician-Dr. I. H. Stokes.
Warden-T j. Dunn.
Picket-Dan Meyer, Jr.
sentinel-John A. Johnson.
Trustees-L. W. Nelson, Joe Fitz-
patrick and Scott NJ. Loftin.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
TERsELY TOLD.

$500 REWARD-Th,s, Js1 r. a
reward for evidence Sufficient to convict
any person found stealing subscribers
papers after delivery Of same by carrier.
Oak Grove No. {, Woodmen's Circle,
will have an invitation Thursday. The
degree team Is requested to be at the
hall at $3.50.
Rev A. C. S. Smyth, rector Of St.
Katherine's church, left yesterday
morning for Santa<Rosa in the interest
of the church. and will be absent for
about week.
c. Ryan of North Paiafox street, is
again very ill. He has been confined
to his bed since Monday.
Hon. W. A, Mcleod of Milton, was
in the city yesterday. Mr.. Mcleod is
a representative in the next legislature
from Santa Rosa county.
Hon. Peter Tomasello of Bay Point,
was in the city yesterday on business.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
COOL WEATHER
VISITS SECTION
TEMPERATURE DROPPED DOWN
TO 27 DEGREES YESTERDAY
MORNING AND IT WAS QUITE
CHILLY LAST NIGHT.

Decidedly bracing weather prevailed
in Pensacola during yesterday and last
night and from all indications will
continue throughout today and TO-
night. The lowest temperature re-
corded was q degrees yesterday morn
ing and ice formed in many open
places and remained during the day
despite the fact that the sun came out
clear and added considerable warmth.
The cool and bracing weather, low
ever. is due to leave this section with
in the next twenty-four hours.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
BUSINESS GOOD
At POSTOFFICE
RECEIPTS FOR FIRST FIFTEEN
DAYS OF MONTH CONSIDER
ABLE LARGER THAN FOR SAME
PERIOD LAST YEAR.

Business is good at the Pensacola
postoffice and Postmaster Hancock
fails to see any signs of a business
depression in this community.
For the first fourteen days OF De-
cenber. always the heaviest month OF
the year, receipts from the sale OF
stamps show an appreciate gain over
the same period last December. Last
year the receipts for the first fourteen
days aggregated S5,s4e.45, while this
year the amount is $5,s57.19.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
wHEwl TEN BELOW!

Pittsburg, Pa, Der. 15.-Cold records
for December 15 were broken here to-
day when the mercury at the weather
bureau registered Z.3 degrees below
zero at s o'clock and unofhclal RECORDS
in the suburbs were reported 10 de-
greeS below.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

The following letter to Santa Claus
was handed to Conductor L. E. B. NC
Voy, of the L. & N: Dear Ffleno:
If you see Santa Claus, tell him to
be sure and remember me and my Mt
tie sisters and brothers. From Pearl
Reeves. GalIiver, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
Nh. AND MRS. JOHN MAURlcH
ARE PARENTS OF A SON

Mr.. and Mrs. John Maurieh OF NO.
1890 W. Garden street, are the proud
parents of son, who arrived at tnelf
home Sunday. and they are receiving
tloe CONGRATULATIONS OF their friends.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
RAINES OPENS
BUSINESS HERE
FORMER MANAGER OF ALoNZo
RICHARDSON g. CO., OPENS OF
FIcE AS PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
AND AUDITOR.

Col. r. T. Raines, former manager
at Pensacola for the accounting firm
OF Alonzo Richardson & Co. OF At
Ianta, has severed his connection with
that Arm and has opened an office
In this city as q public accountant
and auditor.
Mr.. Raines has opened offices on
the fourth floor OF the American Ma
tionaI bank building, where he will be
glod to see his friends.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
Letters to
Santa Claus


Dear Santa Claus: I am a little
boy. nine years old. live in Moline,
and / will spend Christmas in Pensa-
cola. / go to school In Moline. I
study five books, and am in the third
grade. / want you to bring me a box
of tools, and a checker board, a tor
pedo boat, some sand paper a cap
pistol, and a lots Of fireworks and q
sword Don't forget the poor little
girls and boys. I will be in Pensacola
with my sister, Mrs. H. j. Voegtle, 524
West Garden street. Your little friend,
| William Howard Jr., Moline. Fla.
Dear Santa Claus: I want you
| to bring me doll and buggy, tea set.
some fruit, little stove to cook dolly
/ something to eat, and song book
and some A. B. c. blocks and q bed.
That will be all for this Christmas.
Much love to Santa. Wilma Gladys
Williams, Moline. Fla.
| Dear Santa: Please send me a
wagon with four wheels, one knife and
one horn and one whistle and little
wheel barrow and a rubber ball, and
tool box with hammer. Ratchet and
saw in it. Richard Byron Williams,
Molino, Fla.
Dear Santa Claus: / am a little boy
seven years old. I want you to bring
me little grocery store and too
chest and humpty dumpty set. YOU
friend Kenneth Purdy.
Dear Santa: Please bring me Z
doll. Fern Williams, Moline, Fla
] /
tie girls, Altha and Mary. I want yol
to bring me a doll and doll carriage
table and some chairs. MY little sis
ter, Mary, wants doll and carriage
and tea set, doh clothes. Please hav'
a cap on her doll. Please don't forge
! the fruit and candy. Wish you AM
all the little children a Merry Christ
mas. We are your little friends, Alth'
! and Mary Thompson, soS West Gardel
street, Pensacola, Fla.
: Dear Santa Claus: ] am seven year
| of age, and go to school No. 4. am 4
f, the second grade, and love my teache
= very much. Please bring me draw
ing book and paints, some fireworks
a cap pistol and rubber ball an
some marbles. cat eyes and fints
Your little friend, Thos. e. William;
PIT West Intendencia street.
Dear Santa Claus: I am not OF
> enough to go to school yet, but / ca
help mama at home. Please bring m
a doll and carriage, wash tub an
: board, and tea set, doll bed an
. if you can please bring me prett
= pair of shoes, and a rocking chat
: Your little friend, Christine William
: PIT West Intendencia street.
1
- Dear Santa Claus: ] am a Httl
= boy of six years. I go to schoo
:, MY teachers name is Miss Hendel
= | son, and 1 love her. I am the onl
boy at our house, and I don't wal
= you to forget and bring girl things
me. I want a gun, boat, horse ar
= wagon. Don't forget my three sister
"a Otis, Orene and Oneida. Floy is ;
- our house, too. Bring lots of fruit
u Lovingly, James Otis Manning, 2"
a East Gregory street.
~ Dear Santa Claus: Please send n
81 a stove, doll, tea set, doll buggy,
B. c. blocks, some fruits, candy al
!, pecans l want some fire cracke
. and a sewing box. Glen William
= Moline, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
BELoW ZERO REPORTED.

Chattanooga. Tenn, Dec. l5.-Chat
tanooga is experiencing the coldesc
day of the present winter. The Their
nnometer registered 8 degrees above
zero at Z o'clock this morning iu The
city; l below zero on Lookout Noun
tain and zero on Waldeu's Ridge.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

We are as anxious to open
accounts with good Gus
toners as to make cash
sales. Don't postpone your
purchase of clothing for lack
b ready cash. Galin's, 20 S.
Fs}afOx.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
LOWEST I'M TWO YEARS.

Birmingham, Ala, Dec. l5.--LaWest
temperatures since January, 1912
were felt In Birmingham TUESDAY
when the thermometer registered 10
degrees. The mercury is relatively
stationary.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 15.-Nashville
began the day with the temperature
at 31-2 degrees above zero, the cold
est OF the winter. BY 9 o'clock the sun
had appeared and the mercury was
rising slowly.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

Dear Santa Claus: I want a pair OF
shoes, some candy, fruit of all kinds,
and some marbles. Thomas S1gurd
Peterson, r. f. D. No. L, Box IT.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

Dear Santa Claus: 7 am little girl
live near Gull Point, Fla. I am
six years old. I have been a smart
little girl and have learned my letters.
Can spell lots of words. read for my
papa every night. Now, dear, old
Sandy, please bring me a big doll, a
doll bed. some little dishes, an auto
mobile, q teddy bear, and just any
thing you think that will be pretty
for a nice little girl like me. VIII
close. Edna Majors.
Dear Santa Claus: / am a little
girl, seven years old. Please bring
my doll cap and a set of long clothes
like a baby's. A box of candy and
some fruit, a little doll. pretty piece
of hair ribbon, a ball. I won't ask
any more, as / know you will have
struggle getting something for all
the children, but will appreciate all
have asked for. Your friend, Lucille
Hardy.
Dear Santa Claus: I am studying
hard. I am in the third grade this
year and like my teacher, Miss Wat
ers, very much. Will you please bring
me a rain coat and book satchel, from
the good year store and drawing book
| W1tA paints, little gun LudI SIOOLS
| with cork, some cat eyes and fiints,
some neck ties. I would like an over
coat if you think you can spare all OF
this at one time. Your friend Paul
tJ. Williams 81 West Intendencia
street.
Dear Santa Claus: I am al little
girl, six years old, and in the first
grade. I learn very fast. want you
to bring me doll, doll bed, and car
riage, some fruit and candy, ribbon
and please Santa don't forget my lit
tie cousins, for they are coming tC
spend Christmas with me. Bring then
some things. From your friend, Cath
crime Roberts.
Dear Santa Claus: As Christmas i:
so very close will write you what
would like to have you bring me
Please bring me a knife, hat, train
; tbugle, and some fireworks, nuts, cand!
! and some fruit. l go to school ever!
day and study very hard. Please
Santa don't forget my little cousins
Herman and Elos, who live at so
! West Gregory, Pensacola, Fla, From
your friend, Sidney Lewis Roberts, r
!, F. D. No. 4, Pensacola, Fla.
Dear Santa Claus: I want You t.
/ bring me a doll cradle and a doll stow
i and tea set, some ribbon, some nut
} and candy. Lots Of love to you an
/ Mrs. Santa Claus. I am wishing you
! Merry Christmas and a Happy NeN
y Year. From your friend, Amelia Rob
:. erts, r. F. D. No. 4, Pensacola, Fla
!. p. S.-Don't forget my little cousin:
Adeline and Address Strather, in Pen
sacola, Fla.
|. Dear Santa Claus: I want a water
: a dozen marbles, cat eyes, blcyci'
v suit of clothes, pair Of shoes, som
t candy, and fruit. Carl Emil Pettersel
O r. F. D. No. 1, Box II.
). Dear Santa Claus: I want a pair
t shoes. some candy, fruit of all kind
J, and some marbles. Thomas Sigur
1 Peterson, r. f. D. No. L, Box II.
The following letter to Santa Clau
e was handed to Conductor L. E. B. Me
|. Voy, of the L. & N: Dear Friend
d If you see Santa Claus, tell him
s be sure and remember me and my III
:. tie sisters and brothers. From Pea
Reeves, GalIiver, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

Dear Santa Claus: I want watch
a dozen marbles, cat eyes, bicycle
suit of clothes, pair of shoes, some
candy, and fruit. Carl Emil Petersen
r. F. D. No. 1, Box II.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

Dear Santa Claus: Please send me
a stove, doll, tea set, doll buggy. A.
B. C. blocks, some fruits, candy and
pecans l want some fire crackers
and sewing box. Glen Williams,
Moline, Fla
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
SAGDAD INN
eAoDAD, FLA.

~~nod and Operated by Bagdad
Land & Lumber Coz.
A. Modern ConWeniences, Excellent
SSQlsjne, American Plan-Rates, 81 per
Say and UP. Buss meets all trains.
MISS ALL. Mana1or.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16
Whole Country in the
Grasp of the Ice King

CONTINUED from Fires Page)
since 1909 when 10 degrees was re-
corded
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

reward Tor eVIdence Sufficient to conVic
any person found stealing subscribers
papers after delivery Of same by carrier
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

Dear Santa Claus: I am not old
enough to go to school yet, but can
help mama at home. Please bring me
a doll and carriage, wash tub and
board, and tea set, doll bed and
if you can please bring me a pretty
pair of shoes, and a rocking chair.
Your little friend, Christine Williams,
217 West Intendencia street
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-06

to identification of the man. / mean
10 respect his secret absolutely.
NO one can tell what he has suf-
Tered in carrying this hidden wrong
In his life. When he did the dishonor-
able thing by copying the essay t.
won him the medal, he doubtless i'd
not realize the price he was paying
for the golden priza for excellence
which was not honestly his. g" Youth
Is proycrbially thoughtless, and
stranly like their elders, at times
young men show a singular failure to
measure things at their right value,
selling cheaply mans honor for a
little baublc and short hour of
popular applause. But this boy had
something in him just a bit too fine
for him to hold to an honor which he
own honor. So he suffered in the deep
silences of his own soul. and the me-
dal, intended to be a shining badge
OF worthy achievement, became an
ever present, intolerable hurt to his
cleancst thinking. and made the COM
mon work Of the hands seem sadly
in vain.
HE could not keep the medal and
he recovered his manhood by sending
1t back. None Of us can tell what It
cost him to do thi5-what doubts, what
struggles Of mind. what anguish of
soul. He had to reach down into the
depths of his character to find the
strength thus TO face the shame and
humiliation of possible exposure. But
in doing it lie played the man, and
as hard as 1t was, went the only way
by which he could have. found again
his lost self-respect, his ease of con-
science. and peace of mind.
II venture the statement that he
Is happier at this hour than he has
been in long time. He knows he has
done the only thing real man could
do under the circumstances. He must
also have within him sense of VIC
tory strong enough to make him all
but sing as he goes about his work,
and hold his head higher than he has
held 1t for long time. and face life
In the inspiring consciousness that
he has found again something very.
precious which in shadowed, blind
hour he carelessly let slip from
him.
ut is thus moral tonic to read this
page OF human experiences in which
Is the record Of a mans playing the
man-and recovering his integrity
OF character over a hard and bitter
rond of effort"
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-06
WAS UNWORTHY
TO KEEP. MEDAL
SO YOUNG MAN RETURNED
1T TO PRESIDENT OF THE
COLLEGE
A CONTRlTE SPIRIT
Caused Him To Make Aclnow-
Judgement Of Wrong He Had
Done College and Himself
A CONTRlTE SPIRIT

Much discussion has been caused by
the publication of the facts that DR..
Fl. n. Snyder has received from some
graduate of Woffort college cOntrite
letter in which this person admits that
he had received fraudulently medal
awarded in some college competition.
He returns the medal to the college.
Stories OF conscience money" are
not infrequent. Office holders who do
not work and draw big salaries are
never known to send .any back to the
treasury but occasionally there comes
the refreshing account OF some heart
broken person who wishes to get his
conscience squared with the world.
John Austin, the man on the corner,
one day this week received a letter
from 4 person who had stolen some
thing out of the store and wished to
relieve his cOnscience by confession.
These incidents come up almost dali
ly, but that Of the medal being re-
turned Is without parallel. tp
In speaking of the gold medal which
was returned to him Wednesday
morning by former Wofford student,
who felt that he could keep 1t no
longer because he had won 1t unfairly,
DR.. Henry Nelson Snyder said that in
stead of destroying the medal as he
had Mt first thought OF, he would OBJ
literate from it all traces an distin-
guishlg marks which might lead to Its
identification, and will in time award
1t If such an occasion should ever
arise, to some student who shows some
signal qualifications Of manhood
which may compare with The wonder
full victory tho original owner won in
his own soul when. tia returned It.
This medal with the history attached
to it. and symbolic, off, tho great
struggle which once went y4Sonsin
mans soul and In which his finer quail
tiles OF manhood were finally victor.
ious after the long ordeal will indeed
be one to be proud, of.
DIR. Snyder addressed the college
students in the chapel as follows
This mornings mail brought rue q
letter with gold medal enclosed, in
It. 1t was from q former student OF
this cOllege-a student who left the
college before any one of you entered
1t. A part of the letter read as fol-
lows: fg
so long as there is weight in
my soul and conscience that my work
Is sadly in vain. God requires me to
make o confession and give up this
medal, which liz not rightfully mine,
do not know what to do with It. +
am sending It to you to dispose !, Of
1t at your discretion" -
From this letter / have torn the
signature, and from the medal l shall
obliterate every mark that might lead
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-06
CUBBARD CREEK LETTER

The Belton Journal. .,s.
A few farmers of this section arc
beginning to thin little cotton. II
is still very dry and crops are suf-
ferlng. We have not been able to
get stand of cotton yet.
Mrs. E. Willingham. of this section,
Is visiting Mr.. and. Mrs. Andy Holland
near Williamson. ~; 47'.
Master Charlie and Miss Bessie Nc
Mahan visited Miss Bessie. Susie and
Robie Saylors., Of this section, Sunday.
j. F. Saylors. of this section, spent
Saturday night with bis friend, Andy
Holland. near Williamson. ! ,,siu,;,;.s4
A happy crowd OF boys and Eirls.
of Cubbard Creek, spent last Thurs
day in Anderson at the Soldiers Re-
union.
.Grandy snipes, Of Belton, was Wis.,
itor in this section Sunday.
Dorchester baseball team played
Toney Creek Saturday and the game
went to Dorchester by a SCORE Of Il
toto. iss. \
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-06
WHAT Is An AMERICANA

What Is an American citizen? We
OF this section 0f the South do not
realize the compleXity OF the diffusion
OF races In some parts OF the United
States. There is In the hill country
Of South Carolina less than one per
cent OF foreign born population, and
those whom we have are SO welded
into our plan Of living that they are
just like nll the rest Of us--and some
OF them have no superior in citizen
ship and patriotism.
With reference to the different
kinds of people going to make up the
population Of this country. we have
never seen anything put with so much
force and effectiveness as was Pres
idcnt Wilson's fuGcral Grafton on the
occasion Of the burying Of the dead
from Vera Cruz. This is his descrip-
ton OF American citizens:
Notice that these men were d
our blood. mean of our American
blood, which is ont drawn from any
one country. which Is not drawn from
any one stock. which is not drawn
from any one language OF the modern
world. but free men everywhere have
sent their SONS and their brothers
and their daughters to this country
In order 10 make the great compound
ed nation which consists Of all the
sturdy elements and Of all the best
elements Of the whole globe.
listened again to this list with Il
profound interest ut the mixture OF
the names, for the names bear the
marks OF the several national stocks
from which these men came. but
they are no; Irishmen or Germans or
Frenchmcn or Hebrews any more.
They were not when they went to
Vera Cruz: they were Americans be-
cause Of the stock from which they
came.
Therefore they were In IL peculiar
sense our blood and they proved it by
showing that they were of our spir-
that no matter what their defi-
vation. no matter where their people
came from. they thought and wished
and did the things that were Ameri-
can; and the flag under which they
served was flag in which all the
blood of mankind Is united to make
nation.
That Is n beautiful sentiment. beau
tifully expressed. We believe in re-
stricted immigration. the kind that
will bring us citizens. hut we do not
believe in letting down the bars and
letting the criminals OF other nations
make n mere refuge OF our country.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-06
DORCHESTER ITEMS

The BeltOn Journal.
Rev. w. w. Lethers. pastor of Dor
chester, was a delegate at Shady
Grove Sunday.
Messrs. w. S. Bradley and Jim Dun
can attended the all-day singing at
Six and Twenty.
Mr.. G. T. McMahan and Miss Vera
McMahan attended the union meeting
at Neal's Creek Sunday.
Mrs. Hattie Campbell and Miss Josie
Campbell spent Tuesday afternoon
with: Mrs. w. N. Cox.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mute Hayes was de-
lightful visitor to Anderson Tuesday.
Mr.. G.. T. McMahan and Miss Vera
McMahan and Will Hayes and Miss
Lois Hayes went on fishing trip to
Saluda river Thursday.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-06
THE SUMMONS.
tBy william c. Bene..,

Today the dreamy distances -
OF Grape-stained. purple hills
Spun out thin, hazy mist that ran
To greet far plains where streams be-
gan
Worldfaring from their rills.
And oh my heart was singing, dear!
The wood. the wind, the sun
With agc-old scents my nostfils thrill
ed ",''
With fierce, young strength my being
filled
rne hills and I were one!
For, foilOw-follow-fo
The sweet wind calls to me.
Hill-rim to misty hollow
'Tis follow-folIow-f
And oh far the; hill crest that halls
The first gust Of the sea!
-
Today to cloud-blown sky above
My reckless gage Is flung.
Today a creaking highroad tree,