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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
AUDIT OF BOOKS ORDERED
Clerk And Treasurer Instructed To
Verify And Certify To Board
Amounts On Deposit

Pensacola.-On request of the Amer
lean Surety company's representative
who attended the session, the board
of county commissioners in special
session adopted resolution instruct
ing the clerk and auditor to verify
and certify to the board the amounts
to the credit of the county treasurer,
]. Ed Williams, on deposit in the va
rious banks of the city, and at the
same time called upon the banks of
the city not to pay from the various
funds of the county any amounts un-
less upon warrants signed and coun-
tersigned by the chairman and the
clerk of the board or else from the
board of public instruction. The rep
resentatives of the surety company en-
tered no explanation of why he de-
sired these balances, but said his COM
pany admitted no liability on the
bonds of the county treasurer. The
latter failed to make new bond
when those of all other county Off
Gals were received and approved. All
bonds expire on January l, where the
officers were elected in the Novem-
Der election. The county treasurer
was one of the officers reelected.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
$4,000 FOR CANkER
Appropriation Is Included In Urgent
Deficiency Bill Which Is Re-
ported To The House

Washington.-An appropriation of
$4,000 for investigation of the citrus
fruit canker by the department of ag-
riculture, was included in the urgent
deficiency bill reported to the house.
The appropriation of $4,000 with
which to fight the citrus canker, which
it now seems certain will pass con-
gress, is of great Importance to the
growers of Florida, as it gives them
$4,000 in all with which to conduct
the fight against this dread disease,
$4,000 having already been secured
through public subscription. The fight
against the canker has been prose
cuted by the Florida Growers and
Shippers League, with the assistance
of the Florida Citrus Exchange. The
government appropriation is to be
used as the secretary Of agriculture
may see fit, and it is probable that
some of it will be spent in ascertain,
ing whether there is any method of
cure. At present the only known way
of dealing with infected trees is to
burn them.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
Bujldjnu Erected In a Day

sTarpon Springs.-The erection of a
board of trade building, which was
scheduled to be built from sunrise to
sunset, was accomplished and the city
board Of trade met the same night.
This marked an era of unusual ener-
gy and much civic pride in the towns
progressiveness and truly shows what
unity and harmony its members pos
sess one for another and their Venice
of the South. Each hours work was
photographed and the pictures sold,
the proceeds being given to the aid
Of the Belgians. Not only the board
of trade members gave their assist.
ance, but the town as whole lent
a hand and heart to the work and
a beautiful building, large enough
with room to spare for its members
was finished complete, being equipped
with all modern conveniences.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
COURT TO INVESTIGATE
Alleged Bandit Brothers Await Courts
Action-Said To Have Lived In
Swamp BY Robbina Stores

Observation-Disclosures to have ex-
listed by their wits and carried on a
life of thievery, two brothers, Rich
ard and Percy Trantham, eighteen and
nineteen years Of age, are awaiting
further investigation into their cases
at the county jail.
The two lads were placed under ar
rest by Deputy Sheriff c. W. Arnold,
who had been working for months on
clue which might lead to the bottom
of many robberies occurring in Pan
anna Park, and in the neighborhood Of
the city limits. When finally traced
the young boys were located at an
improyised cabin, which they had con-
structed on two floating logs in the
swamps near the plant OF the Gulf Re-
fining company and in5 The neighbor.
hood Of the Florida bsrich Farm,
What is thought to Be stbaen Property
to the amount of several hundred dol
lars. was found secreted short dis.
lance from the cabin in the marsh
where, apparently, no person would
ever attempt to enter. A large tool
chest filed with valuable mechanical
devices, silverware, dishes, wrenches
new paint brushes, thimbles and Jew.
elry composed the alleged booty, some
of which has already been identified
by the owners.
1t is stated that several attempts
have been made by the sheriff to 10.
cate and capture the alleged thieves,
but every attempt has been halted
when the men disappeared into the
marsh.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
COMO.

DR.. Vail of New Jersey is a guest
at All-view cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Ballart of Sy-
racuse, N. Y. ARE again occupying
their cottage for the season. Every
enc is pleased to see them back again.
DR.. w. R. Mills of Syracuse, N. Y,
is guest at the Highland House.
He has bought the Baptist church
property and intends to have it re-
modelled into bungalow.
DR.. Leonard Meinz of Winchester,
Mass, is g1est at the Highland
House.
DR.. and Mrs. Stebbins of Syracuse,
N. Y, are guests at the Highland
House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Northrup of Utica,
N. Y, are guests at the Highland
House.
Russell Crimson of st. Augustine, is
the guest of Joseph Heard.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
CANNED FISH TO FISH STATE
EXCHANGE Claims Florida Has Better
Fish For Canning Purposes Than
Is Shipped Into The State

Tampa.-The Tampa Tribune, ir
speaking of shipment of canned sal
mon, recently received in this city
says:
The meanest and least-prized fish
that exists in Sour immediate waters
is better than the best salmon that
was ever caught.
Yet, with an unlimited plenty OF a
better product right at our doors, we
buy quantities of an inferior fish
and eat it from can.
With a greater supply of the fresh
article than we can possibly consume,
we pay for the preserved article.
We bring 299,95O pounds of canned
salmon in one shipment all the way
from Puget Sound, when our own
rivers and bays TEEN with the finest
fish in the world.
There is really no excuse for the
purchase of anything in cans in this
state.
There isn't any article that comes
to Florida in this form that Florida
cannot produce in much finer quail
ity within it's own limits.
Instead of buying canned goods,
Floridians ought to be getting at
home all they can use of the fresh
article and have enough left to send
in cans to less fortunate sections.
In other words, Florida ought to be
filling cans instead of emptying them.
Bringing canned fish to Florida
ought to be joke.
And it will be when the people of
this state begin to fully realize our
own resources and to utilize them both
for home consumption and shipment
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01

people have a right that it should be
so maintained. The great excava-
tions also mar the beauty and can
not easily be repaired. There is also
danger that some one may fall into
them and the city be called on to de-
fend suit for damages. The parks
and streets of Crescent City ought to
be kept in their native condition, at
least until used, and it is doubtful if
the works of man can even then i'm
prove on their natural beauty. If
the council wants to do something of
real benefit to the place it will open
up the streets of the town now under
fence of private citizens. The day is
coming when these streets will be
needed.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
New Marines At Pensacola

Pensacola.-Things are lively at the
Pensacola navy yard. Advices tell Of
the expected arrival of three hundred
additional marines, and of the coming
of the u. S. S. San Francisco, which
will be kept at Pensacola in connec.
ton with the maneuvers of the subma-
rines and the mine-laying practice
work. The new detachment of marines
is not a part of the advance regi.
ment" which has headquarters at the
yard but a different division and one
yard, but a different division and one
the Florida navy yard.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
Bio Tomato Crop

Observation-Disclosures three and four
thousand acres of tomatoes will be
planted in the Homestead section this
year, according to reports received
from growers of that district, and
the work of getting out the crops is
now well under way. This, 1t is be-
lieved, will be the largest acreage ever
planted in south Dade. county. 4
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
To Discuss Citrus Insects

Orlando.-W. W. Yothers Of the Bu-
reau Of Entomology, Orlando, Florida.
has gone to Washington to consult
the officials of his bureau regarding
the work on citrus insects. He will
read a paper on Spraying for the Con-
troll of Insect Pests on Citrus Fruits
In Florida" before The American AS
sociation of Economic Entomologists
which meets this year in Philadelphia.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01

The liver loses its activity at times
and needs help, HERBINE is an eff
fective liver stimulant. 1t also pu-
rifles the bowels, strengthens diges-
ton and restores strength, vigor and
cheerful spirits. Price SOC. Sold
bv Ackerman-Stewart Drug Co.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
Bialow Audit Authorized

Tampa.-Another audit Of the books
of the Ybor City Building and Loan
Association was authorized by Judge
F. M. Robes of the circuit court,
and the accounts of Silas L. Biglow
are to be again gone over with a
view to ascertaining whether there
was shortage. That this be done
has been asked by the Biglow heirs,
but has been resisted by the attor-
neys for the receiver of the associa-
ton. w. Cutter of Boston, Mass,
has been chosen as the accountant
to do the work, both sides agreeing.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01
Her Praise Was Premature.

Lady Gushington ito great tenor,-
You sang that last song beautifully.
was in the supper room, but 1 heard
every word. You have improved; you
have. really. The Great Tenor But
Il have not sung; ! am nextI-London
Illustrated Bits.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01

An invitation to breakfast was, VAS
Macaulav's opinion. one Of the supreme
tests ar friendship You invite man i
to dinner" he wrote TO MrS' na.' ~
Beecher stowe. because you uluS NUS. -
vite him. because you are aequaiu'v -
with his grandfather, or because II T., 3
proper that you should; Oul you uish
a man to breakfast because you WE" ,.o,,
to see him. You may be sure Il SV y
are invited TO breakfast that tnere .
sOmethspv agreeable about you.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-01

AS man grows older his bump of
conceit gradually becomes dent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

Exclusive service the Survey Press
 Bureau)
 At least one great fund restricted by the dead hand" has been released for twentieth century usefulness through the efforts of St. Louis social workers and an act of the city fath- CTS. A public trust fund of more than a million dollars, known as the Null lanphy emigrant relief fund, practi- cally inactive for 40 years for want of beneficiaries is now being applied to the aid of travellers and immi grants.
 Established in 1851 by the will of Bryan Mullanphy, former mayor of St. Louis. it consisted of third of his fortune, then amounting to little over half a million dollars. He placed the funds in the hands of the city of St. Louis as trustee, administered by board of IS members appointed by the city council
 Mullanphy's purpose was to furnish substantial and permanent aid to the great stream of homeseekers passing through St. Louis on their way to tEc new lands of the west. So great was the need of aiding stranded pioneers that the will was written to apply to this group alone: Poor emigrants and travellers coming to St. Louis on west"
 In the early years of the fun thou sands were aided. St. Louis was then the western outpost of the railroads and hundreds made 1t their outfittirg point for the long journey on horse back. or by prairie schooner, or steamboat up the Missouri.
 nt pf t1,a roi n ttt A rapid filling up of the west caused the great stream to dwindle. Fewer ard fewer applied for relief. The funds. formerly overtaxed to meet the need. row were thrown back upon the board for investment.
 So thoroughly did the board appre- ciate that the funds day of usefulness ago it made application to the courts for the right to use the income for another charitable purpose. The pur- pose selected in the application was the erection of hospital for the ir- 6igent poor. The courts, however, de- clined to permit this use of the funds as not sufficiently related to the in- tent of its founder. So the fund con tlnued inactive; its large income pour ed into real estate investmc s and the improvement of its tenement property -tenents. which. by the way. are among the ''models" of St. Louis.
 It was in 1913 that group of c:t- izens. sitting as the socal uervice com mittee of the Civic league. examined exhaustively the possibilities of the fund. The simple discovery was made that still there was stream of ii1- poverished homeseekers. migrating through and to St. Louis; that in tfe new migration from the old world there was just as legitimate . field for use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

No work that you do with your hanis can spoil your spirit, your ideals; if you truly want to keep yourself good and pure and sweet, no matter what sort of drugery- like work you happen
 to be doing
 But you are saying of course you
 know that the world is full of fairy
 princes with gold automobiles and sill
 ver-bowed yachts. country estates and
 counting houses full of bonds, but
 what's that to do with you behind yo.r
 little counter at the big department
 store, or seated at the manicure table
 in the remote little corner of a great
 hotel or trimming hats and bonnets for
 crahbed old customers to pick to pieces
 in a millinery shop or even waiting cn
 8 table in a cheap restaurant? Listen.
 It doesn't make ray of difference what you are doing; the one thing that
 counts is how you are doing it. To go back to the fairy story. Cinderella's two step-sisters had per-
 sonal invitations to the ball at the ralace.
 There was every reason to believe that they would meet the prince and at least have the opportunity of try ing to please him with their reputed fascinations
 Nobody thought poor little Cinderella had a show. Yet it was she who went | in to supper with the prince, with her little arm through his, graceful ard timid. .far-sr Doubtless there were many more beautiful girls at the ball than she, lut it was her sweetness that charmed the prince.
 Even the step-sisters came home l talking about her graeiousness to them. 1 The king said to his queen that 1 never before had he seen a maiden so l lovely and so gentle of manner as
 Cinderella.
 | Those who know the little fairy tale 1 (and is there one who doesn'tD know 1 that Cinderella's sweetness was not
 assumed with her jewel gown that came from the godmother's wand. for what sent her to the chimney corner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

more,' said another girl. tiny and
 blackeyed and pretty as picture.
 Take us. for instance. Reckon how
 we'd feel if half a dozen mice ware
 hitched up to takesus in white satin
 lined coach to a ball. Gee. wouldn't it
 be great"
 They giggled and soon were lost In
 the crowd but l kept thinking about
 the conversation and when I read the newspaper story not long ago about
 the little notion counter girl it came
 back to me again.
 I've been wondering in my mind If the days of fairy godmothers and princes partnerless at a grand ball waiting until the right girl" shall ar lrive-wondering if they are over and gone forever, and I've come to, the con- clusion that the story book romance of Cinderella is not to be mentioned
 ir the same breath with the more won derful things that have happened lo girls in these latter days. Why, when you come to review
 newspaper history for the last 10 years you will see that romance far frcn ptlHS uedu anu DuTIGO, IS WOrkln2
 harder than ever bringing to Cinder- ella maidens as good suitors as the kings son in the wonderful story and
 the satin-lined coach evolved from a pumpkin hasn't anything on the mod ern Pullman car when it has been es- l pecially decorated in honor of sorne | fair bride who stepped from a chip- | hey corner as deep in ashes as the l one Cinderella left.
 C1nderellas prince, rich as he might have been considered in his day anu time, couldn't compare with what the modern rich man has to offer the girl | of his choice except, of course, his low l ing heart, which is as it has alway.
 been since Eden was created with only | two people in it.
 And Cinderella hasn't a single or ! Eortunity to compare with what tl,s average girl has today.
 | Here's the point: When the oppor
 tunity of her life came, Cinderella wa.
 ready to meet it and there is not on,
 single line anywhere to indicate tha
 the king and queen didn't welcome tht 1 erstwhile little "cinder" wench cor dially and graciously as the daughter l of their royal household-the futur, l queen of the country
 There isn't day that some persol l like this doesn't wrinkle a funny it
 tie face and wonder where she coult wave her wand and make it blossom { good deed.
 | It doesn't make ray of difference what you are doing; the one thing tha l counts is how you come out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

women, too. cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham' s Vegetable Compound enough for 1 know never would have been as we'll if I had not taken it and I recom- mend it to suffering women"
 Daughter Helped Also.
 "I gave it to my daughter when she was thirteen years old. She was in school and was . nervous wreck, and could not sleep nights. Now she looks 50 healthy that even the doctor speaks of it. You can publish this letter if you like. Mrs. RENA BOWMAN, 161 s. 10th Street, Ironton, Ohio.
 Why will women continue to suffer day in and day out and drag out sickly, half-hearted existence, missing three fourths of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia B. Pinkham' . Vegetable Compound?
 If you have the slightest doubt that Lydia ID. Pinkham's Vegeta- ble COmp0undwi help you, write to Lydia B. Pinkham Nfedicine Co. (cOn11denttal) Lynn, Mass. for ad- vice. Your letter win be opened, read and answered by Q woman and held n stK1ct co60Aoncos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

Did you happen to read a story n girl at the notion counter in a big department store in a western city being left a fortune of many thou sands of dollars by lady entirely un- known to her?
 If you did, you must have said as I said, that it sounded like fairy tale.'
 The unknown fairy godmother ex p,ained in her will that she had left the bulk of her fortune to the notion counter girl because once that little girl had been gracious and kind to her when she was serving her, while the rich lady was in a temper and acted very badly.
 And yet they say the day of fairy rodmothers" has passed,
 Well, it isn't so.
 Most other things change, but tho crop of fairy godmothers is as greai now as it has ever been.
 As l see it the little notion counter girl is the real figure in latter day romance and instead of being figure to pity it is she who should be e,,- vied by the girl who is born with ev- erything.
 I remember once in New York standing on the corner when buncl of little shop girls stopped. too. wait ing for car.
 I couldn't help hearing their con- versation and l became very much in terested in it.
 Cinderella had cinch of it. lit t. red-headed one said peevishiy Anybody could marry a prince if sht had a fairy godmother."
 There aint no fairy godmothers GC
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
Godmoters Are Still Around Looking For Cinderella

Sometimes she comes In, looking not unlike a little old brown withered leaf to have pair of gloves fitted or to see if she can find pair of comfort able shoes, and because she Is little and wrinkled and faded, and maybe more or less querulous the girl who serves her might not be able to divine her real nature.
 Any of us can be polite and sweet tempered when there's nothing to fret or worry about. but it's keeping sweet tempered and polite when things go wrong, that is the real test of natures snd that helps when the fairy god- mother comes our way
 After you've been tested and tried then you can never tell what a fairy godmother is going to send you for a reward.
 Then the question comes:
 How shall we set about gettin 3 cady for the fairy godmother and the prince?'
 First, have and retain all the sweet womanly qualities that are yours by divine right of gentle womanhood. Good breeding Is not a question of acquired manner" but the simple, being kind and gentle and considerate of those about you. Let the very best and tenderest qual- ities of heart and mind assert theni- selves always and even you will soon be surprised how many princess-lilSe qualities are lying dormant. ready to be awakened. I read book the other day and one sentence from it haunts me still A man is describing the girl he loves and he says of her:
 she's like this: It's as If all tie lovely flowers in the world had been melted together to make her one sweet rose"
 Listen.
 There are not so many "real' roses in the world with hearts of gold that any single one of them blooms aud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
Japanese a Potato King

From the New York Sun.
 Lodi. Cal.-Rcading a story of the visit of George Shima, the potato king of this section, to Los Angeles, in d paper of that city. merchants of Lodi recall that not many years ago the Japanese capitalist could not obtain credit in the stores of this city not because he was not honest, but as a newcomer he had not established credit.
 Those business men who refused to trust did not anticipate that in few years Shima would control S7,o0) acres in California, and have 5000 acres in his own holdings, and have estaD- lshed large credit in California banks.
 quarter of the 4000 GOO sacks of pota- toes in California, and today he owns half of the 50ooo0 sacks unsold in the state.