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The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02
OVERLOOKED TWO POINTS

Ordinarily l believe city should
own its public utilities, but when
owned by the city the people should
be taken into partnership, and the
water and lights sold to consumers
the tax payers-at as near cost as
possible, considering depreciation and
overhead expenses, but ] am informed
that the light plant of Ocala has
made big money for the city and that
big money coming as a direct tax on
every consumer of lights as a profit
above expenses, is being used to meet
the needs of the city In lieu of the
S19, 900 uncollected taxes of 1914. The
greatest good to the grs. atest number
is my motto. If the fight plant of
Ocala will not furnish me electricity
for less than cents per K. w. H.,
then | want the Florida Power Com
pany, or any other corporation or per-
son to furnish it TO me for less
Postmaster Rogers.
The Star is afraid that its states
manlike old friend has overlooked two
important points in this matter. One
is that the money made from the cleo
tric plant goes to pay city expenses
] that have to be paid anyhow If they
were not paid from electric current
profits, they would have to be paid by
direct taxation. Some people may
say, that is as broad as it is long. Col.
Rogers would find it was broader
than long, for the bulk of direct tax
alton must be paid by property own
ers, one of whom he is. Moreover
Col. Rogers and other property own
lers can cut down on their electric
bills by using less light or power. But
they couldn't cut down on their direct
taxes after they were once levied
4 There is one thing that property own
i ers do not seem to consider In connec.
ton with the electric current. Thai
is that it causes a good many people
who do not pay taxes to help pay
city expenses. There are quite {
number of people in Ocala who de
not pay a cent to the city tax collec
! tor, although they have as much ben
eft as any one from the street paw
} ing, lights and police protection. The
only way to cause them to help beal
: the city expense is to make them pa!
for license to do business, for waite
: and for electric current Cutting
: down rate of current and putting an
/, other mill or two on the tax rat
would help every one of these people
and it would add to the load tina
I every real estate owner has to carry
The other point that Col. Roger
r overlooks is that the Florida Powe
Company has not proposed to sci
current to the individual citizens.
offers it to the city government
t which will in turn give it to the peo
e pie at whatever rate it sees proper
!. The question of taking money froT
\ the earnings of the electric busines
e to pay other expenses, and raising o
d lowering the taxes, will remain tn
same We have no idea that tn
Florida Power Company, or any othe
t company, would offer the city G
e Ocala current for such low rate,
t the city of Ocala did not alread
possess its own plant. Once ths
: plant is out of the way, or tied VI
there is no telling what the peopl
might have to pay for current, an
also have to pay in direct taxation.
Let the people of Ocala hold on I
their own property, and try to in
prove it and use it for their ow
ibeneft
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

Judge Alton B. Parker, who once
tried to run for president between the
attempts of w. J. Bryan, is visitor
in Miami, having come to Florida to
see the observation-disclosures Jour
nal.
The Star was trying to say some
thing of Judge Parker's visit, but the
Journal has said it neatly for us.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

The Russians defeated the Turks in
a sanguinary battle in northwestern
Persia one day last week. The Turks
lost 1900 men, which will go long
way toward making up for the nom
eombatants that they have massacred
in that region lately.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

mothers. these wo-
men. ex9erieuced in
this EzOst happy
period, advise the
use OF Mother S
Friend.
Applied externally
TO . the abdominal
muscles It's purpose
is to relieve the
TtuCitle tension lIuou
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

The commander of the Eitel Fried
erich should be compelled to say
whether his ship will sail or intern,
and keep his word. He is following a
course that is strain on American
hospitality and liable to cause grave
trouble for our government, which is
pursuing its usual mollycoddle foreign
policy in regard to him.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02
BOARD OF TRADE
Special Meeting of this Important
Commercial Body will be Held
This Evening

A special meeting of the Board Of
Trade viii be held this evening
Matters of Importance are to be con-
sidered and all members are urged to
be present.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

A dispatch from Berlin says that
the storks have arrived from the
south this spring earlier than usual
That is nothing to wonder at. A
great many young Germans were
married just before they were rushed
off to the war eight months ago.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

Raymond Swoboda, the man held
by the French police on charge OF
trying to blow up the steamer La
touraine, may be an American citizen,
but his name sounds like it was i'm
ported from India.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

Havana can stand the Johnson
Willard fight, but even Havana would
not allow it on Easter Sunday Day
tona Journal.
Shucks, man! You are away off.
The good church members wanted to
see the Easter parade and the scrap,
too.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

The st. Petersburg Independent
says a state reform school for girls
is needed. Well, we don't know. It's
bad enough to have boys roasted
alive.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

Russian peasants are dying on the
battlefield by the thousand, but when
the war is over the survivors will be
further from the grade of dumb,
driven cattle" and nearer the standing
of citizens of the world.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

Thomas r. McMechen, president of
the American Aeronautical Society,
believed that the Germans are pre-
pairing for tremendous raid thru
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

The German submarine campaign
has already caused Britain much
trouble, but the Germans seek to cheer
the British up with the statement
that they haven't yet begun to fight.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

The frost of April / barely missed
this section, but it hit everything
above the Florida line. The truck in
Southern Georgia, which either escap-
ed the frost of the week before, or
had come up since, was mercilessly
cut down.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

The drugs used in our prescription
department are the best to be had,
and ACCURACY is our watchword.
The Court Pharmacy. 19-tf.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

The Little Trained Nurse says: Get
your Easter egg dyes at the Anti
Monopoly Drug Store, 5 cents per
package. 24-9t
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02

Another report comes today that
Austria is trying to make separate
peace. The Star doubts its truth. 1t
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02
L. ALEXANDER
PRACTICAL
CARPENTER AND BUILDER

Careful Estimates Made on al Con-
tract Work. Gives Moreand Better
Work for the Money than Any Other
Contractor in the City.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02
Experienced Women
Advise Mothers S FrienC

because it is 50 perfectly safe 70 u
and has been of such great help 10 8
kc.et Il a..t.. -
The Ocala evening star., 1915-04-02
NOTICE

Easter cards, The Murray Company.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12

bassy in Constantinople had been so
impressed with these reports of the
railroad building, in fact, that even he
besieged the Associated Press CORE.
spondent for the truth.
The activity of persons who circu-
late such rumors as are calculated to
falsely impress the populace with the
success of the Allies gives the military
authorities considerable trouble. The
penalty for such an offence may be as
much as six years Imprisonment and
a fine that may mean the confiscation
of all the property the offender has.
But even this drastic measure does
not make the rumor mongers more
careful. Almost daily a dozen of such
cases are disposed of with varying re-
suits. A few nights ago meteor fell
near Constantinople, the career of the
celestial wanderer coming to an end
with vivid fash of light and sharp
explosion. The next day it was as
serted by rumor that British aero
plane had thrown bombs upon the
buildings of the Sublime Porte.
The disposition of the Constantinople
newspapers, however, to publish all
the facts that they can obtain was re.
Gently shown in the reproduction by
most of the newspapers here of some
of the dispatches which had been for
warded to America by the ASSOCIATED
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been married at st. Georges, but the
list of English weddings outshines
them from the point of view of the soc
ial column. Mr. Maisey's most cher
ished possession is a piece of silver
ware presented him as token Of graf
itude for his share in the wedding o.
the Duchess of Marlborough to Lord
William Beresford. At one of his
weddings the register was signed by
two Kings and two Queens, at another
by four Prime Ministers. The forme.
occasion was the marriage of Lady
Mary Acheson to Robert Ward, at
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12
ANOTHER WEEK OF
DEVELOPMENT IN DIXIE

Bridge over St. Johns river nea.
Lake Monroe, Fla; convent building,
Greenville, Miss; garage buildings
Andalusia, Ala, and Atlanta Ga,
factory building Winter Haven, Fla :;
railway passenger station and ware
house, Savannah, Ga; pier Sarasot
Fla. school buildings, Ozona, Curlew,
and Wall Spring Fla; warehouses
Clearwater and Pensacola. Fla. Con
tracts have been wrded follows:
Bulkhead, Jacksonville, Fla; passen
ger station, Myakka, Fla; packing
plant extension, Moultrie, Ga; paving.
Moultrie, Ga; road construction.
Clarke and Lamar counties, Alabama,
school building, Hemingway, S. c !;
warehouse, Moultrie, Ga; wharf,
Charleston, S. c.
Warehouse terminals with million
feet of storage space and 5000 fee.
of ock room, sufficient to accomo
date 20 large sea-going ships at one
time, will be built at Mobile fiAla., by
a company which has increased its
capital stock from $4,000 to 100000
for the purpose, Mobile and Chicago
capital is interested.
Industrial plants will be established
as follows:
planning mill, Spartanburg, S. c.;
lime plants, Brooksville and Indian
River City, Fla; phosphate plant, near
Mulberry, Fla; cooperage plant, Mo-
bile, Ala; incinerator, Colu1nbus, Ga;
laundry and flour and grist mill, Rock
Hill, S. c.; bakery, Jacksonville, Fla:
gas plant, Greenwood, S. c.; grist
mills, Andalusia and Morganville Ala" "
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12

Church in Hanover Sqhare, has prob
ably officiated at more aristocratic
weddings than any other man in tn.
history of Great Britain.
st. Georges is the church of all
others where the Londoner of wealth
or title goes to be welded, and Mr.
Massey as Paris Clerk has taken an
official part in every marriage there
for nearly forty years. On an average
300 marriages are celebrated at st.
Georges every year
The squat old church located little.
more than a stones throw-Grom the
heart of the fashionable shopping dis
trict, has been a great place of pill
grimage for American travellers since
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Ed
it'll Kermit Carow were married there.
Mr.. Roosevelt it is related, walked in
from Browns Hotel in a bowler hat,
with Sir Cecil Spring Rice as his best
man, and was married with the mini
mum ceremony" The one page in
the register in which he described
himself as "ranchman" is now al
most disfigured from the attention of
numerous visitors, who have even
been accused of trying to chip OFF
small pieces of the old table on which
the register rests.
Since the time of the Roosevelt
Carow wedding, many Americans have
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12

COLUMBUS, Ga, Sept. 1.-THE In
dustrial Index says in its issue for
this week:
"Bouyant confidence that the steady
Improvement in business is to con-
tinue in increasing volume during the
next four months at least is q notable
and highly satisfactory feature Of the
general business situation.
Construction operations continue
steadily, with some large items re
ported, and there is growth in the
number of announcements of indus
trial plants to be established.
Extensive facilities provided for
financing the cotton crop create very
promising conditions regarding the
marketing of the staple and bid fair
to be an important factor in determin-
ing the price.
"The banking position is exception
ally sound The steel mills are being
operating practically at capacity. The
whole situation, especially in this sec
ton of the country with its cotton
crop, is so much better han i was a
year ago that there is little compari-
son. There is a market for cotton al
fair price, whereas year ago there
was no market. Industrial plants
were idle are bein goperated on full
time. Business men are confident OF
good business during the coming fall.
There are helpful results from the
practice Of economy.
Among the items of construction
work to be done, as reported this week,
are:
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Constantinople, they are merely those
heard most often and seemingly believ-
ed by a large number of the Greeks
and Armenians.
Seeking enlightment as to the reas-
on for such an odd rumor as the pres
ence of American canal diggers, the
correspondent learned from a Greek
resident that the Allies had engaged
American engineers to dig the sup
posed canal because they had such
success in canal building at Panama,
and that the object of the cana,
through the Gallipoli peninsular was
to afford camel for the Allied fleet
to reach Constantinople without hay
ing to pass the DardanelIes' forts,
whose strength, no one here, even
Greeks and Armenians, longer doubt.
The suggestion that such a canal
would be the task of several years
was altogether lost on the men who
believed the rumor.
The report that the Allies have built
a military railroad from Sid-el-Bahr
to point twenty-five kilometers north
is even more widely believed. The
truth is that the Allies would have t.
run the railroad in circles in order to
make it twenty-five kilometers il,
length unless it penetrated the Turk
ish lines.
An attache Of the American En-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12
Remarkable Reports
Being Circulated And
Gain Credence In Turkey

CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 11.-As
instances of some of the remarkable
war rumors afloat in the Turkish cap
ital the Associated Press correspond
ent found that the following had cir
culation and credence among a large
number of Greeks and Armenians, and
even some uniformed Turks.
That American engineers were en-
gagged in digging canal across the
narrow part of the Gallipoli PENN
sular; that the Anglo-French allies
had built and put into operation a
railroad twenty-five kilometers long,
and that the Allies were now busy de-
building the Greek towns along the
Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea-
which were destroyed during the var
ious bombardments. Lastly, that the
French and English would be masters
of the Dardanelles, Sea of Marmora
and the Bosphorus within fourteen
days.
There are, of course, no American
canal builders anywhere near the
Dardanelles; there is no such railroad
as the Allies are said to have built
the Greek towns are in ruin as before,
and the fourteen-day period allowed
for the penetration of the straits is
recurrently prolonged.
The rumors mentioned are not the
most extravagant that one hears IL
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12

which the signers were the present
King and Queen (then Prince and
Princess of Wales) King Edward and
Queen Alexandra. The occasion was
the arriage of Mr.. Asquith and Miss
Tenant, and the four Prime Ministers
were the bridegroom himself, Mr.
Gladstone, Mr.. Balfour and Lord Rose
berry.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12

Your advertising is read in the
Times Recorder. There's gold mine
in every advertisement ON the DOL
LAR PAGE.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12

Press correspondent. They were pub
lished as showing what a neutral cor
respondent had found on the PENN
sula.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-12
MADE RECORD PERFORM
INC ARISTOCRAT|C
MARRIAGE

LONDON, Sept. 11.-Charles Massey,
who has lust retired from public life
as Parish Clerk of st. Georges
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16
Local News.

"The Twenty Million Dollar Mys- tery"
 Contractor J. A. Sullivan, of Hope, was here today.
 The price of The Nevada News is only one dollar per year.
 For Sale cheap, a good Mule.-H. B. Mckenzie, Receiver. Advt. 4dw Jno. A. Davis was looking after lcatters up a Smithton this morning. We Buy, Sell or Trade for any thing of value. See us.-Moore & Martin.
 Advt. For Sale-Good farm mules and horses.-J. c. Woodul, Prescott, Ark ansas. Advt. tt. R. o. Westmoreland, of Gale, was attending to business affairs in Pres colt today.
 J. T. Adams, of Emmet route num- Der two, was looking after business in the city today.
 Miss Marion Brooks Is down at Texarkana today for visit with rela- tives and friends.
 If you are not subscriber to The Prescott Daily News become one now and read "The Twenty Million Dollar Mystery"
 There will be meeting of the Ne vada County Teachers Association held at Sutton March 9th and it is desired that all teachers attend.
 "The Boom" two reel Lubin drama at the Gem this evening will please you. One of Geo. Ade's comedies will also bring out that laugh. Advt.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16
ROYAL IN ITS MAGNIFICENCE
"Founder's Room" in Pittsburgh Car
 negie Library Is Splendid Apartment.

A recent report of the Pittsburgh Carnegie library contains a picture of the founders room,' of which a writer in the Boston Evening Tran script says:
 Tt seems to be vast apartment, about fifty or sixty yards long and nearly as wide It has indirect light ing and a Jagged floor upon which one might play hopscotch if one felt inclined. There are four or five thrones in the room, one on each side of the fireplace, and there is a table with a lamp on it. The room is very mag nificent; it has all the spaciousness and discomfort of a royal palace
 What Mir. Carnegie does in this room we are not told. There are no sleeping accommodations, unless one of the thrones is really folding bed. It does not look cozy enough to use for an ofIice'
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16

Born-This afternoon to Mr. and Joe A. Bailey, of this city, a girl.
 Get this weeks Saturday Evening Post from Jack Johnson, Jr.-phone 242. Advt.
 The News has quite number of old newspapers for sale at its oce on East Elm Street.
 Joe F. Haynie, route number two. was transacting business in the city this afternoon.
 Fresh Crisp Celery, Cranberries, and good line of fruits.-Douglas Brooks and Co., Phone l57. Advt.
 Still cutting hair and shaving at the West Side Barber Shop.-you are neXt.-Cragan x Cummins Advt
 A. J. Aston, one of the merchants of Bevins, was here this morning dICSllulllS lo buSlicSS HldlleIS.
 The Banks of the city will be clos ed next Monday, February 22nd in observance of Washington's birthday.
 Magic Washing Stick-Can be used on the most delicate of fabrics with perfect safety-10 cents per stick Hosterly Drug Store. Advt.
 Presiding Elder Hayes is in Benton today having gone there to attend a mid-yoar meeting of the Foreign Mis- sionary Society of the Methodist church.
 FOR SALE OR RENT:-l have an ide3l place for a man who wants to run a small farm in town. Large gar den, large lot and barn, commodious Ichitken house. Seven room residence with all city conveniences. Conven- tent location, IT, B. Mckenzie. Advt
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16
U. $. GOVERNMENT LAND FREE

Under Special Act of Congress the agricultural land in the U, s. Forest Reserve of Arkansas can now bel homesteaded in tracts of l6O acres aI each person free of cost, l,OOOWN acres free pasturage range wheN cattle, hogs and sheep fatten eight months in the year without grain. M overflow lands. Country very heal, thy and well watered with running streams. We select these agrlcuIIa' ral lands, take applicant to lands and locate you, Send 25c for State map showing location of Reserve and copy of Special Act to
 A. V. ALEXANDER,
 Locating Engineer
 Little Rock, Ark
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16
WHAT OTHER STATES ARE
 DOING.

Arkansas is not the only state that is talking good roads. In fact every state in the Union is turning more at tention to road building than ever be- fore. Arkansas cannot, must not, be behind her sister states in this move ment. The following letter to The Manufacturers Record, from the gov ernor of Mississippi show that this state is wide awake on road improve ment:
 Mississippi Executive Department,
 Jackson.
 'I have had very little experience with good roads, and 1 am therefore, not very we'll qualified to write on this subject. 1 will state. however. that l have had great deal of ex- perience with bad roads, and 1 am thoroughly competent to speak on that subject.
 '1 have known property situated within ten miles of a town to double in value on account of a splendid road being built by the property that gave easy access to market If people would stop to think of the very small cost of covering the entire country with good roads and the many advan- tages that accrue to the citizens on account thereof. they would imme- diately begin the building of roads everywhere. In the last four or five years l have seen gravel roads built Tn this State covering a distance of something like ten miles, and now homes are being built along these roads as though they were street ear lines in a city. It shows that nothing could be done to develop the country, bring the people closer to- gether, do away with the drudgery of country life and take people back to the farm more than the building of good roads
 EARL BREWER,
 ."Governor "
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16
Wanted Quick Settlement.

The humors of that type of lawyer who is known as the ambulance chaser are not lost upon Representa- tive Howard of Georgia, who, by the way. has not even sympathy for the type. He reCounts the story of an elderly negro who was run over by a wagon. A sympathetic attorney rushed tc the hospital and offered to handle the case on contingent fee.
 Go way fun ne white man. said the old darky, feebly.
 But I want to help you said the lawyer
 The old man showed a gleam of in terest.
 Does you?' he said
 The lawyer nodded.
 Den" said the victim, you go out an find de man dat run into me and bus his haid wide open!"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16

The Prescott Daily News will be delivered to your residence each after noon for 10 cents per week Or. it will be mailed to you each afternoon for 20 cents per month, "The Twen- ty Million Dollar Mystery" begins in this issue and will be run every Tuesday until completed. The story will be shown in motion pcturos at the Gem on the following day-Wed- nesday of each week.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16

Read "zudora" today,
 Read "Zudora" next Tuesday. Start "zudora" on page three of this issue.
 Dr. J. T. Sandlin, of Emmet, was here this morning.
 Duncan B. Brown is over at Delight today attending to business matters. Our Phone is Number 157. Try our service Douglas Brooks & Co.
 Advt For Rent-Good four room house. gas and water. See Levi Moore or Ira Gee.-Phone 143. Advt. tf. L. F. Cappleman, of Little Rock travelling salesman for a Memphis wholesale drug house, is in the city today attending to the needs of our local druggists.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16

If you didn't make any New years resolutions at the beginning of the year now would be good time to re- solve that you will adopt more sys- tematic and business-like way of farming this year.