The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-05
COL. FRANK |. MAYES !
DIES At PENSACOLA
Editor Pensacola Journal
and Possible Guberna-
torial Candidate.

| SOl. FRANK II. Nldye SullOr and
manager of the Pensacola journal,
died at his home in Pensacola last
Monday morning.
His death was due to erysipelas
complicated with pleurisy. He suf-
fered the attack Wednesday, the 9th
leaving The Journal office in the af-
ternoon for his home. From that
hour he grew steadily worse and for
fully forty-eight hours had been
conscious only at periods. About
II o'clock Sunday night the attending
physician abandoned all hope of his
recovery as he had begun sinking
rapidly.
Col. Mayes was we'll known through
out Florida. He had large number of
acquaintances and his closest friends
were those who knew him best and re-
cognized his true worth. He was
model employer, always solicitous of
the welfare of those employed in the
various departments of The Journal
and during one of his last moments
of consciousness he inquired regard
ing them. To them he was more
than employer and friend.
On December %, 1899, Mr.. Mayes
was married to Miss Lois Kingsbery
of Hartford, South Dakota, and to
them was born four children, How
ard Lee, Charles Albert, Margarita
and William Kingsbery Mayes, all of
whom survive. Besides these a
mother, Mrs. Jennie T. Mayes, a
brother, Charles j., sister, Miss
Maud E. Mayes of San Diego, Calf,
and a sister, Mrs. Bianch Elfrink, of
Chicago. survive. TIE latter left
last night for Pensacola.
The date and hour of the funeral
will be announced later
Forty-One Years of Age.
Col. Mayes was born in Rock
ford, Ill.,, Dec. 16, 1878, ard was the
son of James 0. and Jennie T.
Mayes. His father was farmer and
his boyhood was spent upon the
farm in Illinois, Iowa and South Da-
kota. When he was thirteeh years
of age his father died, leaving a wild
cw and five children of which he was
the eldest, without means of support
except what their South Dakota
ranch yielded. 1t was then that he
first faced the difficulties Of life, and
the next few years were spent in
helping his mother run the farm.
During the winter months he attend
ed the public schools.
A succession Of years of drouth
and crop failures decided him
against making agriculture his life
work. Born with a bent for both
books and business, as we'll as an in
domitable perseverance and grit, he
determined to go to school, and he en-
tered the Dakota University at Mitch
ell. where he studied for three years,
earning his livelihood at the same
time. He then taught school for two
years, and in 1896 he first came to
Pensacola, becoming a reporter on
the Times and remaining for eight
cen months, when he again sought
the cold of Dakota, becoming part
owner of the Mitchell, S. D. Gazette.
In 1899 he returned to Pensacola
and later became editor and controll-
ing owner of The Pensacola Journal.
He was president of the Mayes
Printing Company and also part own
er of the Meridian Dispatch.
Socially he was a member of the
Osceola Club. the Elks, of which he
was past exalted ruler, the Knights
of Pythias and the Knights of Mac
cabees. He was member of the
Presbyterian church and of the Y. NJ.
C. A..
Col. Mayes was elected delegate
from the Third district in 1908 to the
Democratic national convention in
Denver and was again elected dele
gate to the convention which nomi-
mated President Wilson. He was
chairman of the Third congressional
committee and was reelected to that
position when the committee held its
meeting and re-organized last year.
Mr.. Mayes also had held other public
positions, both in the city and coun-
ty. He was colonel on the staff of
Albert W. Gilchrist, when the latter
was governor of Florida, and served
as president of the Florida Press As
ISOLATION.
Col. Mayes will be pleasantly re-
membered in Palatka. 1t was in
this city that he presided over the
1912 meeting of the Florida Press As
ISOLATION, as the vice president, and
it was here that he was unanimously
elected president of the association.
He attended the boat ride to Crescent
City during the meeting and at that
city took a prominent part In the
banquet exercises rendered by the
'iT~ns.