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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26
SUDDEN DEATH OF YOUNG WO
MAN

The friends of Miss Bertha Hooker
of Sparr were greatly shocked over
her sudden death Saturday morning,
which occurred at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. w. Hooker
Miss Hooker was apparently in the
very best of health, and her death
will always remain a mystery. With
out any warning whatever Miss Hook
er, while going about her morning
duties, fell dead.
Miss Hooker was a popular young
woman, and her death brings grief to
many relatives and friends.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26
ocALA GIRL WINS HIGH HONOR

Judge David S. Williams Tuesday
received copy of the Syracuse IN.
W Daily Herald, which printed a
splendid picture of his youngest
daughter, Miss Polly Williams, for
merly of this city, with the announce
ment that she had just won a post
graduate scholarship in the Syracuse
College of Fine Arts. Miss Williams
Ocala friends will learn with a great
deal of pleasure of the success she is
winning in her art studies.
Miss Williams will leave soon for
Europe to spend the summer studying
art.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26
KIDDING AN ORANGE GROVE OF
sTuMPS WITH DYNAMITE

On Tuesday Mr.. C. r. Kendig OF
Baltimore, Mr.. and Mrs. George l.
Carlton and Mr.. and Mrs. J. e. Thorn
as of Sparr were visitors in Ocala,
and in the afternoon we had very
pleasant visit from the gentlemen
composing the party.
Mr.. Kendig is a brother of Mr.. John
Kendig of Philadelphia, the owner OF
the fine orange grove near Sparr.>-
Mr.. Kendig came down to superin-
tend the removal of vast number OF
big live oak trees and live oak
stumps from the grove, and he says
that he has had vacation right. He
struck Florida, too, in it's hottest and
dryest time.
1t was found impossible to fell the
trees with the usual methods, as they
were so large that in falling they
would be likely to injure any number
of orange trees, and then, after fell
ing them how were the stumps to be
removed from the ground, some of
which measured fully four feet
across? To fell trees and remove
stumps like those required some en-
cheering skill, to say nothing of the
display of muscle and endurance.
AS necessity is the mother of in
vention,' it was finally suggested and
resolved that dynamite be brought
into requisition. But the handling of
dynamite is no child's play and on
first acquaintance, at least, must be
handled with some method similar to
the methods of mediators.
1t was finally ascertained that a
Mr.. A. l.. Peters of Fort Mccoy had
had some experience with dynamite
He was sent for, and Mr.. Kendig says
that it was simply marvellous how he
performed his work.
In some instances the great over
tapping limbs had to be made to fall
in a certain direction so as to do no
injury to the orange trees. The limbs
were dismembered as deity and as
smoothly as if done by surgeons
knife, and in every instance the limbs
fell exactly where they were planned
to fall and in no instance did they
do particle of injury to any of the
orange trees.
The stumps shared the same fate.
The stumps were blown into many
fragments, but every piece fell ex-
actly where it was planned to fall.
Mr.. Kendig says that it was marvel
Gus.
There were six hundred pounds of
required seven hundred and fifty
caps.
The explosions sounded like the
cannonading of Villa on Torreon, and
the wreckage was not unlike the aft
ermath of a great battle field.
How to get rid of the debris was
the next consideration, but after due
cogitation a plan was originated
where this problem was solved, and
the grove was rid of the trees thai
have, like giants, been standing senti-
mel over enchanted land for many
centuries.
The Kendig grove is one of the fin
est in the county, and Messrs. Ken
dig, Carlton and Thomas say that the
leaves and the fruit, Notwithstanding
; the protracted drouth, have a rich
glossy, healthy color, and the fruit is
holding well.
We enjoyed the visit of these gen.
tlemen exceedingly, and the manner
| of the removal of the trees and stumps
was given to us much more graphic
ally and with more thrilling details
than we have been able to give to our
readers.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26
MR.. MCKAY WILL NOT E
TAMPA'S POSTMASTER

Representative Sparkman finds, to
his great regret, that Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson will not consent to the
appointment of his friend, Captain
James Mckay, as postmaster of Tam
pa.
Captain Nc Kay is very popular
but he is seventy-four years old, and
the Postmaster General rules him
out on that account.
The department is calling on Mr.
Sparkman for another recommends
ton.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

Miss Nellie Stevens left Saturday
for jacksonville, where for the next
six weeks she will have charge of the
primary department at the summer
normal. Later Miss Stevens expects
to go to the mountains for a short va
cation.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

Mr.. H. w. Douglass was in from
his farm at Shady Tuesday, with a
wagon load of melons, which were OF
good size and color. He says that
the farmers of his vicinity enjoyed a
good rain Monday afternoon. which
was most helpful to the crops.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

The rain has reached us at last.
After a terrific wind and thunder
storm about Z o'clock Tuesday night
the rain came down in copious show
ers. 1t comes late, but not too late
to do a great Geal of good. We are
all thankful.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26
FOR SALE

The property of L. Wohl, compris-
ing 70 acres, except 10 chs So in Sc
cor, and ex chs and W by 10 chs
n and ex S1a, and ex 21s acres to
Griggs. For full legal description OF
this property consult Marion county
records, page 346. For further parti
culars communicate with Alex Klein,
1122 Forest Ave-. New York. N. Y.
6-1913t-w.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

FOR SALE-Team of large brood
mraes and colt. Mares weigh about
1900 pounds each. One seven, other
eight years old. James Collins, Belle
view. Fla. adj w 1t.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

Save money and get Gamer. Put
up your own tomatoes and other
fruits. We have both the cans and
Gamers, and all appliances for can
ming. Marion Hardware Co. 6-54t adj.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

hot countries. An Anglo-Indian in our
train was so tanned that the whites
of his eyes were sun-burned.
From the diary Of
DAVID H. KIRKLAND.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

BISCAYNE PRODUCE co. Miami.
Fla, solicits consignments of yegeta-
bles, cantaloupes and melons. ad-3t.w
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

Mr.. John H. Mathews one of Can
dler's hustling citizens, was Tues
day visitor.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

COW FOR SALE-Fresh young Jer-
sey cow for sale cheap for cash. w.
D. Carn.-ad 6-19
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26

ne railway running from HOFC
Said. pronounced Port Sade) to Cal
TO is an excellent one, the coaches
were large and new, being divided
into compartments, with an aisle run
ming along one side. The train was
vestibuled after the modern fashion.
Egypt is-or rather that part of it
in the desert. For many miles we
ran through country as barren as
a Missouri river sand-bar. Then sud
denly we ran into the valley of the
Nile, every foot of it cultivated, and
green with growing crops. The vii
lagos built of mud and the same
crops growing in the fields. In look
ing through the Bible, as a child, !
saw strange pictures. l have seen
many things in real life today that ]
remember to have seen pictured in
the old Bible. The farmers here pillow
with a wooden stick, drawn by two
oxen, and at one place l saw a camel
and an OK attached to plow. They
carry water on their heads in an
earthen jar, and the well is still the
great meeting place. We saw a good
deal of corn, and many of the houses
were covered with corn-fodder. Cam
els are as numerous in Egypt as cat
tie in Kansas, and on every road We
saw men riding queer little donkeys
You do not know what sunburn is un
less you have seen man from thu
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31

IS HELPS
TOO PRONE TO CoPY'EUR0PE
Americans Often Deceived by the
Handsome E%xterna,s of European
Cities.

Those Americans who assume that
American cities to be beautiful must
be slavish limitations OF European
cities will find plenty OF food for re-
flection in what a famous and up-to-
date city p~lanner has to say in oppo-
sition to their views. He is no am
PANTY patriotic American, be it said,
but a Europeap-D Werner Hege-
mann, n of the best-kh6Tn experts
In city planning IN Germany.
After doing ID great deal of work
In ~remOdeling cities abroad he visited
this country last year to study our
cities and their problems at close
range. The result Of his observations
is told by him in an article in Land
scape Architecture
lie declares emphatically that
Americans are altogether too prone to
be deceived by the handsome exter-
nails of European cities. which too
often conceal terrible conditions Of
ugliness and overcrowding; that Euro
pean problems are by means identical
TO those confronting us over here;
that neither Europe O America will
ever find a really etficacious remedy
for congestion, unsightiiness, and the
other evils besetting their cities by
looking into the past, but must devise
something entirely new, based on the
new conditions that have arisen since
the original plans for cities were
made both here and abroad. He
writes:
The admiring attitude of the Ameri-
traveller toward the s~plendor OF
famous cities like Paris, Berlin, and
Vienna might often be altered con
siderably if he clearly realized how
manly hundreds of thousands of the
,citizenss Of those much-quoted capitals
end supposed model cities are suf-
fer~inggVtr&ey -the~ most inhuman con-
ditiOnS of OVercrOWding.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
SAFETY FIRST IDEA SPREADS
Accident Prevention Methods Which
illustrate What Can Be Done by
Small Railways.

Two accideut-prevention methods
recently followed by a small electric
railway in Pennsylvania indicate for
chilly that the smaller railway proper
ties are capable of developing effective
safety campaigns wen II they cannot
afford to adopt the more costly meth
DDS OF their big brothers. One is the
practise of having the men report
bad lighting in the vicinity of bad
roadway, and the other is the analysis
Of accidents on the basis Of territorial
divisions. AS to the first, almost ev-
cry railway which operates over un-
paved highwavs has had to foot more
than n accident claim that should
have been paid by the municipality. II
the danger spots are reported by the
inmate or repair them to a degree
which will insure safety. Again, the
plan of analyZing accidents on the ba-
sis of territorial division offers the
advantage Of concentration In redu-
cling some n form Of accident. Thus,
on the line in question derailments
We're ~distinctiye of one section, acct
dents from badly lighted highways Of
another and accidents from ~disOrderly
conduct Of a third. BY applying q ter
ritorial analysis each characteristic
trouble was minimized without spend
ing money where It was not required.
Electric Railway Journal.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
Revolutionary Patriot.

James Lowell, a distinguished ia
triot of the Revolution, died lU0 years
ago in the town of Windham, Me. Mr..
Lowell was born in Boston in 1887
and graduated from Harvard college at
the age of nineteen. He delivered,
April ., III. the Grafton before the
town authorities on the Boston mas
sacre. Because of his display OF pa
tEiotism he was imprisoned by Cen
eral Gage Immediately after the battle
of Bunker Hill. Subsequently he was
conveyed to Halifax with the British
army, and remained in confinement
until exchanged for Governor Skene in
the latter part of 1776. From 1916
until 1852 Mr.. Lowell was a member
of The Continental congress. IN later
life he filed a number Of public Of
fees in Boston.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31

man advised me to try Lydia +. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and | got a
bottle. | felt better the next month so
l took three more bottles of it and got
well so ! could work all the time. I
hope every woman who suffers like | did
will try Lydia r. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Mrs. p. w. LANSENG,
Route No. /, Florence, South Dakota.
Why will women continue to suffer day
in and day out or drag out a sickly, half
hearted existence, missing three-fourths
of the Joy of living. when they can find
health in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound?
For thirty years it has been the stand
ard remedy for female ills, and has re-
stored the health Of thousands of women
who have been troubled with such alb
ments as displacements, inflammation,
liberation, tumors, irregularities, etc.
If You want special advice write to
Lydia T.. Pinkham Medicine Co. Conf
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by *
woman and held in strict confidence.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
WAY TO PREVENT MOSQUITOES
Good Paving an Efficient Method of
Getting Rid of the
Pests.

All advocates Of various kinds Of
itary qualities, but it IS 20 often that
health promotion is given as the sole
reason for repaving. In "a recent COM
munication TO the Detroit city coun-
ell certain worn, paved alleys are de
scrfbed as being in al insanitary con
dition, on account Of the depressions.
which hold accumulations of filth and
stagnant water, creating a nuisance
and menacing the health of the pub
lie. Mosquito breeders in worn-out
pavements are just as efficient in rails.
ing the s%preaders of malaria as a
similar puddle In an unpaved street
Engineering Record.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
THEY HAD TO BE ''SEBENS"
'Bena's Method Of Reasoning in Mat
ter Of Slippers Quite Plain to
Those Who Understand.

Bena Was much excited over the
prospect of camp meeting that was
about fto take place in her neighb0r-
hood. For weeks she had been pre-
pairing gay and gaudy feathers for the
array, and now her outfit was com
plete, save a pair of m~uch-desired pat
ent leather slippers. She approached
her mistress.
Mis- Ford" she said, Il sho wants
to sit a pair O slippers TO de meetn'
commences, an | amt got a single
Cent lef'.'
What size do you wear, Benaf'
asked her mistress.
Nah right numbah is fo'," she e
piled. but ! has &c wear seboIts,
cause fo's hurts me dat bad ! jes'
natchely CANT hardly walk.'-Wonl-
an Home Companion.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
Town PLANNING Grows.

or passing interest, 1t may be noted
that seven states in the United States
and four provinces in Canada have
enacted laws authorizing municipal
ties of 10000 population or more to
establish city plan boards or commits
sions; that twenty-five cities in the
United States have organizations for
the promotion of city planning; that
thirty-four cities Of the United States
have city plans developed in lesser or
greater degree; that nine cities in the
United States have authorized art
commissions; that Twenty-Five cities
and towns IL the Inited. States. and
six cities In Canada have authorized
city planning commissions. These
statistics are compiled from a recent
report OF F1avel Shurtleff. secretary OF
the National Conference on City Plan
ming, and from data contained in the
peDliee IN a ~uasfiouDafr
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
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University Of NOtre Dame
NO EXPERT WITNESS NEEDED
Quite Evident Mr.. Miggs Was Right
When He Testified as 10 tie
Handwriting.
"LihGl. indeed"

SAANaStd
Old MiGgs repeated the words to
himself duly and uncomprehending-
~. as he tramped along to the court,
where he was to appear as witness
in a local libel suit.
Nervously he entered the witness
box.
The fierce looking lawyer eyed him
caiculatingly.
Do you swear he asked, that this
is not your handwriting?"
Il don't think so,'' stammered
Miggs.
Now, be careful" ~insinuated the
lawyer. Are you prepared to swear
that this handwriting does not resem-
bic yours"
Yes" answered Miggs trembling.
You take your oath that this does
not in any way resemble your hand
writing sOlemnly queried the
learned man.
Yves, sir" stammered the witness,
now thoroughly frightened.
We'll, then. prove it," denounced
the lawyer, t~riumphantly, as he
thrust his head toward the witness.
This action woke the last spark of
dropping courage in poor Miggs, and
:hrusting forth his head, he yelled:
Cos / can't write!"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
Laws Uncertainties.

Farmer Hornbeck, philosophically.
you cant tell which way he will
jump, nor how far; an it is jest about
the same way with a jury"
That so?' returned young Jay
Green, in a noncommittal way.
Yep. For instance, in the case OF
PUNK Jarvis, who has jest been tried
over at K~ickyhasset courthouse for
pullin' out his brother-in-law's wills
kers by the roots in a fight, the jury
discharged PUNK an fined his brother
in-law ten cents, the regular price of u
6have."-Puck.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
Cutspoken.

Mrs. Smith four sons made the life
Of her old colored servant a burden
One day Uncle Andy was busy in the
garden, hoeing corna and for half an
hour Tom. the most mischievOus of the
%quartette had amused himself throwing
clods OF dirt at him. At last Andy
threw down his hoe and stamped indig-
nantly down to the house.
Miss Ella he said to the little cui-
prit's mother, "Ah jes' has TO tell WI
dat dat boy Tawm am de meanes' chile
yu got-an' ALI tells yu TO yo' face
and tells you behine yo' back"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
PRIZE FOOD. -
PaIatabIe, Economical, N~ourishina.

A Nebr. woman has outlined the
prize food in a few words, and that
from personal experience. She
writes:
After our long experience with
Grape-Nuts, / cannot say enough in
its favor. We have used this food al
most continually for seven years.
I'VE sometimes tried other adver-
tised breakfast foods but we invariably
returned to Grape-Nuts as the most
palatable, economical and nourishing
of all.
When I quit tea and coffee and
began TO use Postum and Grape-Nuts,
! was almost a nervous wreck. ] was
so irritable | could not sleep nights,
had no interest in life.
After using Grape-Nuts a short
time | began to improve and all these
ailments have disappeared and now
am a well m My two children
have been almost raised on Grape
Nuts, which they eat three times a
day.
They are pictures Of health and
have never had the least symptom of
stomach trouble, even through the
most severe siege of whooping cough
they could retain Grape-Nuts when all
else failed.
"Grape-Nuts food has saved doc90r
bills, and has been. therefore, & most
economical food for u.s."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
ville." in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above Ietterf A Jew
one appears from time In time. They
are uenuine. frue. and fall ~ huur>.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
WHAT TO DO FOR HOT
WEATHER SKIN TROUBLES

With hot weather the worst
skin suffering for some folks. Eczema,
hives, heat-rash, insecticides, poison
oak or ivy, s%unburn, chatting, and a
dozen other troubles make life unen-
durable. But YOU needn't worry.
That soothing, antiseptic resinol ONT
ment stops itching and burning in
stantly, allays inflammation. and soon
restores the skin to perfect health,
even in severe, stubborn cases. Doc
tors have prescribed resinol ointment
for 10 years. At all druggists'.-Adv.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
Snakes Got His Roll.

Il lost 1925 trying to kill rattle
snakes. and nOw | am going to walk
back to my home in brooklyn ex-
planned a man about forty-five years
old, who said he is Ezra Sellen.
Sellen said he started for a walk
from his boarding place. encountered
n lot of r~attlesnakes, Killed some, fed
from the others, waded a stream, and
he had just money enough left to ride
TO this city and took the state road
out of town.-Middletown IN. V Dis.
patch to New York World.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
Musical Note.

Why is the scholarly-looking man
slamming down his windows SO
hard?"
Il will tell you why, the scholarly
looking man is slamming down his
windows SO hard"
The scholarly-looking man is.
slamming down his windows so haITJ
because the hurdy-gurdy out in front
is playing the same tunes that he
paid five dollars to hear last night at
grand Opera."-Judge.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
The TANGO in Church.

Mother, like countless other moth
and hesitating of late. She had taken
dancing lessons. She practiced the
various steps at home with father. Lit
tie Frances had heard much Of the
lingo that goes with the tango, and the
hesitation. She knew all OF the
phrases.
A few days ago Frances went to
church with her mother. Frances had
not learned al, Of the ceremonials OF
this church for, after the mother knelt
outside the pew, Frances looked up at
her and whispered:
Mother, what did you do the dip
for?'-!ndianapolis News.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
IN SUCH PAIN
woman CRIED
Suffered Everything Until Re-
stored TO Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Florence, So. Dakota. III used to be
very sick every month with bearing

dow pains
backache, and h al
h e d a good
deal of the time and
very little appetite
The pains were so
bad that | used to-
sit right down on the
floor and cry, be-
u it hurt me SO
and | could not do
any work at those
An old WO-
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-07-31
A Mere Toy.

Silas-That city fellow follows his
vocation closely and yet he spends
all Of his time at play.
Hex-How does he manage that?
Silas-He leads a string orchestra.