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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-03-25

l.. N. Wood.
Tramps Blamed in Spread of StOck
Disease
Yonkers. N. Y, March 90. ,~
While score of deputies here,
armed with shotguns, are continu
ing their work of slaughtering ever
bird and beast, except horses, that
come within the precincts of hocf
and mouth infected farms, Sheriff
Ulrich Weisendanger requested the
police of all communities of south.
ern Westchester county to round up
all tramps, These men are blamed
for the spread Of the disease
throughout this part Of the country
The danger lies in them sleeping
one night in barn where there arr
infected cattle and carrying thl
germs the next night to another
farm.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-03-25

Mrs. Vim. Shannon returned to
Hannibal, Saturday after several
days visit with her parents, A. S.
Jayne and wife
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
A CITY OF HOMES

Altoona, Penn, has demonstrated
thel ivableness of the small Ameri-
can town, and shown the needless
ness of the bad conditions which pre-
vail in tur industrial cities.
Forty-five years ago the Pennsyl
vania Railroad established the first
of its shops in the hills of central
Pennsylvania, just below the famous
Horseshoe Curve; and as the Penn
sylvania Railroad grew Altoona
grew along with it, until now the
city has more than $4,000 inhabi-
tants, most of them railroad work
ers
The one influence which makes
these $4,000 people different from
the people in other towns is the con-
tinued and intelligent activity of the
building AMI loan associations that
have made it possible for IS per
cent. of them to own their homes.
This remarkably high percentage
OF home-owners is not more remark
able than the character of the homes
themselves. Many of the most COM
! Portable and commodious houses on
! the best thoroughfares of the town
are owned, not by the salaried Off
Gals of the railroad shops, but by the
men who sweat and toll all day long
in the CRIME of those shops.
That is what the building and
loan associations have done for the
Altoona workingman, or rather what
the Altoona workingman has done
for himself. Every man wants his
own home; and if he be reliable, he
can have it.
The Importance of such a condi-
tion is unquestioned, and many of
the big cities are working to the
end that their people may enjoy the
satisfaction and contentment that
proprietary sense insures. Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh and Cleveland
areall urging thenecessity of more
individual homes, but Altoona has
already anticipated them, and is en-
joying the fruits of it's foresight in
a widespread prosperity. THE
Worlds Work"
If Lakeland takes advantage of her
opportunities, she may have what
these great cities will find it very
hard to secure at this late day in
their growth. For she has very
large contingent of railroad men;
and she may have the building and
loan associations continued "intel-
ligent activity" if she will, with but
trifling effort, to give them and
others good homes, and fix their resi-
dences here, to assure the city's con-
;iaued and healthy growth.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
THE GREATEST CROP YEAR

| The government crop report for
! August is the greatest one ever made
1t places every material interest OF
| the United States on a firm founda-
ton.
AS summarized by the Chicago
Herald the report shows nearly B.
100000 bushels of corn worth
we'll over 2.OOO,OOO,OO In Wis
consin % per cent of the acreage
goes into silos--in Michigan 10 per
, cent-and this adds materially to
the money value ofthe crop.
About 966,OOO,OOO bushels of
wheat, worth considerably over ST.
600, 100000.
Over 1,4OO, 100000 bushels of oats,
worth over 100000. Barley,
! rye and buckwheat, worth close upon
5000, 100000 more.
Food grain crops, without count
ing rice, which has become an i'm
portant crop in Louisiana, Arkansas
and some of the southern states.
total in value over $4,000, 900
on the basis of average prices this
year. and many foot up to $500
600, 1000.
Hay moves up we'll towards the
front rank with 100000 tons in
sight. worth over 100000, 900, and
one or two cuttings of alfalfa yet
to be made.
And POTATOES, Irish and sweet,
promise pretty near 100000 900
bushels. with an estimated value of
about $270.OOO,OOO.
Again the American farmers, in
spite of bad legislation and the
general depressing influence of gov
eminent upon business. by their in
dustry and with the blessings of
Providence, have done more than all
other agencies combined to lift the
country out of the slough OF
dependency, and have put all de-
pendent industries upon the road to
the greatest prosperity ever known.
Buoyed up by wonderful success,
with greater hope than ever, with
better farming, the future for the
basic industry of this country has
never looked so encouraging as it
does this 139th year of American
independence Jackson tMich.).
Patriot.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
SAYS THE WEST IS FOR
CONCRETE IN ROAD BUILDING

an letter received by The POST
from A B. Otwell, dated at Seattie'
the writer has become thrilled WIN
,ho manner in which they do
things" out in that western country
and the perfection that it attain
ed in all projects undertaken. Par
ticularly is this so in the line OF
road-making-and few mlscei-
10 neous extracts from his recent let
ter may prove of interest.
"Say. | wish that the commission
ers of Palm Beach county could
como ont here and see how these
neople in California, Oregon and
Washington handle the road ques-
ton, | have ridden over mile after
mile of concrete highways, fourteen
to sixteen feet wide, four inches
thick. and put down with the same
care that we, in Florida, devote 10
our sidewalks, What do you know
about such work as that?
Tell Frank Encell have been or
dering sent to him some road liter
allure from all points north OF Sac
ramento. The whole west has
taken up concrete roads as the only
lasting pavement-and while it costs
more at the start its upkeep is so
trifing and it's durability so great
that for the next fifty years there
will be no thought of replacing any
of it. have ridden over many
miles of this sort of road-and !
know that there is nothing that can
beat them for smoothness and COM
fort and it stands to reason that
there is hardly bit of wear on
them. With proper foundations
there is nothing to compare with
them for durability.-West Palm
Beach Post
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
TEACH CHILDREN TO SWIM

The lesson of the Eastland will
not be fully learned If it is directed
only to the punishment of respon-
sible persons and the improvement
of navigation laws and ship inspec-
ton. There is another side to ii
that is just as important. Passens-
ers themselves have their share OF
responsibility for their own safety.
Even with the best laws, the
safest construction and the most
punctilious care, accidents will hap
pen. And what then? Shall the pas
sengers be drowned like SO many
helpless infants, just because they
don't know how to swim?
No moral drawn from the Chicago
disaster is palmer than the need OF
every body mastering this simple art.
Hundreds of persons were drowned
in quiet river not more than thirty
or forty feet from the shore, with
hundreds near by eager to help
them. What a simple thing, to
swim those few yards. or to keep
afloat until help arrived. Yet all
those human bodies, lighter than
water and so easy to keep afioat.
went down like stones.
Swimming lessons ought to be
popular in Chicago, after that. They
ought to be popular in every com
munity in the country. Some of the
big universities now refuse diplomas
to students who cannot swim That
is good; but it's better to catch
them YOUNGER 1t would be an ad-
mirable thing if no boy or girl was
allowed to graduate from any public
school without learning to swim.
The schools might very properly pro-
vide instruction, and also special
swimming facilities where they are
needed Jacksonville Metropolis
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
1T WILL HURT
THE WHOLE SOUTH

The immaasurable disgrace put
upon the State of Georgia yesterday
BY the criminal brutes who lynched
Frank when he was supposed to be
safely in the keeping of its leadins
1eGal institution is likely to bear
fruit in the national election next
year. If President Wilson is defeated
then and the Democratic admins
tration goes out Of power it will not
be because of the foreign policies of
the government or of the compare
tive stagnation in trade resulting
from world war, which the un
thinking and the prejudiced lay
| upon the Democratic party; but il
, will be because the North, normally
Republican, will go back to the Re-
publican party because of such bar
barism as that in Georgia, and we
the line of the old sectional preju-
dices supposed to be dead.
Those people up there will reason
that if commonwealth which calls
itself the Empire State of the South.
hasn't education and character ami
civilization enough to even create an
efficiency system that will protet :
its own leading penal institution
against the successful assault of
Of al h,.,vt ha
murder of a helpless prisoner. it is
high time to put out of power in the
national government party of
which that State is one of the chief
opponents.
The great mass of the people of
Georgia are civilized, humane and
aw-abiding, but all the same they
will re held responsible at the bar
of public opinion for this unexam-
Piled outrage in the murder of Frank;
and it is quite possible that "the
frank case" will be an issue in the
national election, put there by Re-
Publican politicians at the North
VIC will point to it as evidence that
tho South is not civilized.
All this, of course, means nothing
to the ignorant and vicious yahoos
and hoodlums who disgraced Geor-
gia yesterday, for they neither read
Eor think, but it ought to mean a
great deal to the educated thinking
people Of that State, for conse.
quences of tremendous import at
fectin,g the most vital interests OF
the whole South may result from the
crime
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
IN the CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA IN AND
FOR POLK COUNTY.

Florida 4 Georgia Land Company, Corpora
zion. Complainant.
". W. McCrary. noe McCrary, Pearce r. Nc
Crazy. Mamie McCrary and Mary william
son McCrary. Defendants
BILL TO QUIET TITLE
1t appearing by affidavit Of counsel for the
complainant In this cause that Pearce r. Nc
Crary, Mamie McCrary. W. W. McCrary and
Zoe McCrary. defendants in the above entitled
cause. are non-residents OF the State Of Flor
ida, and that the said Pearce r. McCrary and
Mamie McCrary reside In the City Of Houston
STATE OF Texas and receive their mail through
postoffice box No. ll5S In the said city and
that w. W. McCrary and Zoe McCrary reside
In the town of weatherford, in the State
OF Texas and that each Of said defendants is
over the age Of twenty -one years and that
there Is no person i'm the State Of Florida the
service Of subpoena upon whom would bind
the said defendants.
I. is therefore ordered that the said ?earce
r McCrary, Mamie McCrary. W. W. McCrary
and Zoe McCrary be and they are hereby re-
durcd TO appear TO the bill Of complaint
filed in said cause on before the 4th day
Of October A. d. 1915, otherwise the alega-
tons Of the said bill Of complaint will he
taken confessed against each of said de-
PENDANTS.
II is further ordered that this order he
published once a week for four consecutive
weeks in the Lakeland Evening Telegram, a
newspaper Of general circulation published in
Polk County, Florida.
Done and ordered at Barlow. Florida. this
18th day Of August. A. D. 1915.
Y. A. JOHNSON. Clerk Circuit Court
ROGERS & SPENCER.
Solicitors for Complainant, tSeal
STATE OF FLORIDA,
CQrNTY OF POLK
] hereby certify that the above and foregoing
t1 frt,a 80 IL. II -
cation madein said cause file in my office.
Dated at Barlow. Florida, this lith day Of
August A. u. 1915.
J. A. JOHNSON, Clerk Circuit Court
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR WORK

We wish Editor Hetherin gton
would write up his trip in leafiet
form-or for presentation book
let gifts. Believe it would be a fine
plan. Who is there who would not
want to buy copies?
This lisa helpful verse for August
or any month. ut will often tighten
your burdens if you try to bear the
hurdensof others
Thereare many papers printed in
Florida which strive to give their
readers, each issue new hope,
purer, more unselfish desires, and
stronger faith in God and humanity.
Great are the opportunities for edi-
tors.
Two fine news items just in from
our secretary friend, Mr.. Clifford
Hampton, of Delray Endeavorers.
One reads thus: ION August I'd at
$50 in the afternoon a large COM
pany of young folks headed by the
c. E., gathered at the ocean peach
and enjoyed bath About forty
were present. At six o'clock lunch
con was spread in the pavilion, a
social time followed" This is not
only a refreshing item for warm
August. but it is "right-to-the
point, saying a good deal in few
words. Delray has fine society.
For the first time probably ever.
Miami is to have a Christian En-
deavor convention in November,
when that most rapidly growing dis
trict in the State Union, Southeast
ern, will not only entertain dele
gates from its various societies, but
also the Southern Field Secretary,
better known as the Interstate Sec
rotary, Karl Lehman, from
Boston"
Mt. Dora Congregational church
vas slightly hurt by lightning re-
cent Saturday evening. If it had
been the day following, and thoes
faithful Endeavorers filling the en-
tire evening service hours, as they
do during Pastor Marshs vacation.
would it not have been worse than 1t
was?
Next Sunday the C. E. Topic is "a
Sound Belief; Why and How to Get
It." Our experience has been that
the way tho keep hold of genuine,
"old-fashioned religious faith" is to
let alone thenew tangled isms that
we har Of new and often. It is not
wise to plant weeds in a garden If
1t is to be place where first-class
vegetables are to grown. Who
would?
Miss Ethel Sharpe, secretary for
the Orlando society suspended for
thesummer, writes that during Dr..
Stsrg's absence on vacation, a young
Congregational minister, Mr.. Guild,
is serving, and that he Seems inter.
ested in Christian Endeavor. An
up-to-date young man must be Mr..
Guild!
Last week Monograph and many
personal letters were sent in behalf
of our three-fold secretary work,
Press, Sunshine and Introduction de-
partments. Several responses have
come already to us for news from
more societies, and it brings Gu
enlargement to have such desired re-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18

derived through their system Of pj
ing. The orange and graDe,r|
culls were pooled monthly and h
total number of Gull boxes for n
month were divided by the M
money received that month TO \
the rebate per box per month N
was then multiplieu by the numb
of Gull boxes that each grower |,
in the pool and he receives his rsh,
accordingly. Checks were isSs
Wednesday and mailed to those Vi
participated in this rebate system
The actual cost of packing
shown on the annual statement, pa
one cent per box for sinking tuI
allows rebate of little more tta
three cents for grapefruit and abb.
one and a quarter cents for orarss
nut no rebate on tangerlnes.
The actual cost of packing durra
the season places oranges at IS \
cents, grapefruit 33 1-2 and tange
ines AZ 1-2. The average cost \
the year on all varieties was
cents per box.
Thetotal number of packed bcls
shipped for the season by the Wiris
Haven Exchange was 162,276e
The money paid out under the \
bate system was obtained thruA
the following classification;
Association rebate, 4,1O2.SS sf
exchange rebate, $S11.39; culs
pools, $S79.74; making total I
81, Wilmer Haven Chief
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
FALSE ALARM ABOUT CHARLIE

| Charles Thompson of Ocala, well
known in Palatka, where he formerly
resided, is accused of jumping into
theriver at the foot of Reid street
about 10 o'clock Tuesday night and
browning. The little l2-year-old
girl, who said she saw him disappear
in the dark depths of the river, gave
the alarm, and several policemen and
others in thecity spent several hours
that night in trying to locate the
body, butwithout avail.
Next day Sheriff Kennerly had a
force of several men dragging the
river in the immediate vicinity, and
Just before noon two sticks of dyna-
mite were exploded, causing such an
upheaval as to bring the body to the
surface had it been near there.
Thompson is young and peculiar;
he is crediatel with being but half
witted; he has a brother and sister
living IN Ocala; his parents are dead.
Thompson was seen in the city that
evening, but has not been seen since
Many doubt that he was drowned.
and nothing will convince them
short of discovery of the body. The
News will refrain from publishing
his obituary until it can be assured
that the young man is still dead
Palatka News.
This probably refers to Crazy
Charlie" who we understand was in
Palatka recently, but is now back in
this city and around as usual
Ocala Banner.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18

A good many people in this coun
try have the notion that Mr. Roose
welt is still the popular idol of the
west and that President Wilson,
while respected out there, has no
strong political hold upon the people
and at the first opportunity that
they will so testify at the polls A
Louisville, KY, man, himself a Pro-
gressive, who followed the recent
Roosevelt trail on the Pacific coast
has this to say of the feeling ou.
there now:
1T is something more than sup
port; it is an earnest, almost impas-
stoned, admiration for the president.
Mr.. Roosevelt is still a man of great
power in the west, but the people
there, and some of his od-time fol-
lowers, deeply resent his open or i'm
Piled criticism of the president.
"A reporter encountered spoke
with deep anger of Mr.. Roosevelt
and some of his speeches.
Why do YOU denounce your for
mer leader so violently?'
well, perhaps l am unjust but
Mr.. Roosevelt is unjust to the Pres
ident; his praise is measured; his
condemnation undignified, and out
here we are for the President. and
we want him to know it, for he is
performing task that ought to
command help from Mr.. Roosevelt,
the kind given by Judge Taft, who
said we are all standing behind the
President
This is not intended as an inter-
view; it is the substance of a series
CT talks with men all along the
route. u found nowhere any dis
sent, the expressions in one sentence
being: The President is right, and
we are with him."
After fifteen years immunity, Gal
weston, Texas, lying on an island
two miles from the mainland, has
again met the crushing force of one
of those terrible hurricanes born in
the caribbean Sea, and which seem
to have special fondness for the
Texas coast. After the storm of
1900, in which great part of the
city was wrecked and about 1000
lives lost, Galveston sought to Sc
cure herself against future disaster
from that cause by building a mas
sive seawall around the city and it
was thought to be perfect protec-
tion agains the mountainous waves
hurled by the hurricanes against
the island. Doubtless it helped some
Monday night, but the telegraph is
telling an evil story today of i'm
mense wreckage and heavy loss of
life. Wires into the city are down
and the causeway from the main
land, two miles long, wreck, and
the full factst are coming in slowly.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18

Henry Ford, the famous automo-
bile manufacturer. is probably in
business touch with more people in
more parts of the United States than
any other one man, and his testi-
mony about the alleged hardness of
The times orght to have exceptional
value. When he was in New York
the other day he had this to say on
the subject for one of the newspa-
pers there:
Prosperity has returned to the
United States. | am getting reports
from every quarter, and there is not
one bad spot. The farmers have
plenty of money and crops are good. !"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
NOTICE. F. & A. M

There will be special meeting OF
Lakeland Lodge No. 81, F. & A.
NJ, next Thursday ni2ht, at I
o'clock There will be third degree
work and refreshments. A full at
tendance is desired.
j. F. WILSON, w. NJ.
f. o. Garland, Secretary.
Tu-Wd-Th.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
GROWERS GET BIG REBATE
FROM FLA. CITRUS EXCHANGE

On Wednesday of last week the
winter Haven branch of the Florida
Citrus Exchange distributed among
its members s7,231.73, which repre-
sents the rebate for the past season
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
Last Sinh Of the Moor,

A rocky eminence on the outskirts
Of Granada, Spain. Is known as Eel
ultimo sospiro del Moro" 1.-THE last
sigh Of the Moor, because, accord.
ing to the legend, Boabdil. the last
Moorish monarch. took leave there Of
the land of his birth.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18

We trust that no acrimony in de-
bate has moved Editor Straub, of the
st. Petersburg Times to penalize lis
by cutting off his excellent paper
from our exchange list. We haven't
seen copy of it since he affirmed
that we were an Artful Dodger, and
that was away back in the middle
Of last week.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18

Alfred L. Atwood, of Austin
Mimi, shows himself man of good
taste and judgment when he says
that Senator Fletcher would make
an excellent running mate for Presi-
dent Wilson in the national cam
paign next year. We cant think of
a better man for that job.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18

/, suits. But we need more press re-
porters, instead of the longtime
faithful few
GRACE. A. TOWNSEND.
Interlaehen, Aug. 18th
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-18
THE LAKELAND NEWS,

a weekly newspaper giving q resume
o. loral matters. crop conditions.
county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere
for 81 so per year.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-02-10
STORES Of MEXICO
CLOSE, FOOD short
Ban On villa Money Leaves
Thousands OF Residents
In Want.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1o.-Most. de.
plcrable conditions continue to exist
at Mexico City. according to adyices
reeelyed at the State Department.
Al tho hanks and principal bust.
ness houses remain eioSodI chiefly be.
s1dscs q thu; Cdrran1a order declaring
the VIA Ard Echihuahua money In
circulation there no yslue and non.
receivable. Large quantities Of this
tdcsoy were nEuse at NJ City.
Tic condition OF the poor. partly
onithis account and partly because Of
the actual scarcity OF the necessaries
OF lie u growing worse. Carranza.
who ID 81 Vera Cruz, has promised
that he will send relief. This relief,
however, Will be extended only to
tbs very poor. III ID said, and will not
relieve the distress Of the middle
class and business interests gener.
Giiy.
The Garranza authorities are ag.
grayating the situation at the capital
byI shipping out ofathe city quantities
Of its own supplies for the use OF
troops In the field instead OF letting
the stock go for the Euseyof the people
Of the city. Horses are being con.
fiscated ttoitheE further embarrassment
OF business.
The spnnishS ambassador called -.
the State Department and discussed
conditions In Mexico with officials
there. II IS now understood that
there Is no immediate danger OF the
Spanish charge d,afaires at Mexico
City being deporteds by Gen. obreson.
The relations OF the diplomatic corps
With the Carranza authorities have
not improved and there is still pos.
sibility that representatives OF for
eign governments may withdraw
from Mexico altogether, leaving their
interests in the hands Of consular
officials.
puval West; formerly Federal lis.
trict Attorney at San Antonio. came
to WASHINGTON and conferred with
Secretary Bryan about affairs ip Mex.
leo They will have further confer.
ences 10 was said at Mr.. Bryan's Of
fce. Mr.. Bryan said MI. West is not
now IN the employ Of the State De.
partment and was not in any way as.
sociated with the former political
leaders Of Mexico who have been
meeting at SanlAntonio.