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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-10-05
Sheriff's Monthly Report

At the meeting of the county COM
missioners, Monday, Sheriff j. L.
Dishong submitted the following
report covering the criminal bus
|ipess transacted through his of
flee for the month of September:
Assault, intent to murder, 6
cases; selling liquor, 3 cases; va
grancy, 3 cases; threatening to
kill and murder, 2 cases; forgery,
q murder, 2; breaking and enter
ing, intent to commit a felony, l I;
obtaining signature under false
pretenses, |; concealed weapons,
/; embezzlement, 1 I; violating the
game law, l cruelty to animals,
|; aggravated assault, ! f.; obstruct-
ing public road, 1; grand larcen-
cy, ! beating board bill, /; petit
larcency, i; perjury, /; fraudu-
lently marking unmarking hog, /
Tatal- 30.
5 plead guilty, found guilty,
l discharged, l placed under peace
bond, 6 bound over to county
court 10 bound over to circuit
court-30.
"a convicts on road today, AZ
prisoners in Jail during Septem-
Der, 80 prisoners in Jail today, |
prisoner captured for other coun-
ty,
$4S.61-fnes collected during
September, $478.82-fne and
cost bonds on hand; total $527.40.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-10-05

ditions prevailed, there les been
some delay and probably minor
damage as a result of too much
rain. Citrus fruit is reported to
be in good condition, but the crop
will be short. Cane, sweet pota-
toes and peas are generally good.
Cotton picking is nearing compile
ton over much of the belt. = A.
j. MITCHELL, Meteorologist. "
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Honor to Whom

Editor Herald Permit me tc
thank you for your kindly mention
of myself in last weeks Herald IL
connection with our street i'm
-provements and also with til,
Charlotte Harbor bridge. In re-
gard to the latter, however, you
do me more than justice when you
speak of me as one of the prime
movers in the enterprise.
The prime movers of this enter,
prise were the progressive PEG,
pie of Charlotte HarbOr and THEN
representative on the board OF
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-10-05
Synopsis of Weather and Crop
Conditions in Florida for the
Week ending October 3, 1915

The week was dry over most of
the western portion of the section,
but showers, generally sufficient,
occurred over most Of the PENN
sula; and along the east coast
line, some heavy rains occurred,
especially on the 9th, Goth, and
Both, and on October I'd. The dry
weather was favorable for hay
making and cotton picking, but it
was too dry for the setting of
strawberry and cabbage plants.
In fact, trucking generally is
backward. On the east coast,
where previously favorable con
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-10-05
s5-Mile Extension.

The extension Of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway from Sebring to Immo-
kalee, Fla, distance of eighty five
miles, has already begun and approx
imstely twenty FIVE miles Of the road
bed has been graded and five miles
of rail laid south of SebriRg. This
extension is called the Scenic High
way because of the great beauty Of
the particular section through which
II runs.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-10-05

Meadow were at Woodrow one
day last week.
Autos on the Dixie Highway are
thick as flies in molasses in July.
w. j. Colson attended to bust
ness in Woodrow Saturday.
Clarence Dodson has returned
from a visit to his old home in
Georgia, where he owns a good
farm.
The Daughtry boys were cow
hunting in this neighborhood last
week.
Joe Falcon made a trip to Bull
head place last week on pleasure
and business bent.
The writer believes he has the
best excuse in the world for being
absent from the pages of the es-
teemed Herald last week and
the meagerness of this week s
budget. Monday week he took
his son, who is suffering from
camp dysentery, to TT. Myers to a
physician and went and came in a
steady rain. He caught" an aw.
| full cold. Tuesday week, noon
while cutting wood to "make the
pot BOIL" he laid his foot open
with the axe and nearly had blood
poisoning. Wednesday, while
helping "hogtie" wild boar, he
got kicked in the left side and had
two ribs fractured! Do you
blame us, Mr.. Editor? MARS. .
The many friends of Miss Dav-
ison, our most popular young
teacher Of the jackson School
Woodrow, Fla, will be glad to
know that she is improving this
week and back ON the job.
w. w. Clarke of Winston-Sal.
EN-, N. c., was in the Woodrow
neighborhood this week, looking
after his grove and trucking inter
ests, being SO ably managed by T
B. Ingraham and Son. Mr. Clarke
seems highly pleased with the
progress and likes our side of the
river "just fine.
Jennings and Son of FIT. Myers,
managers of The Mutual Realty
Co., were in Woodrow this week
coming via Olga bridge in their
Catalack car. They \inves-
tigating property near the Pros
pect hard road with view to buy
ing.
Jno. Cole, who recently rented
the homestead of DIR. G. T. Blan-
chet near Woodrow, has closed
the deal with Jno. Hass for 10
acres of the latter's land near us.
We are more than pleased with
the idea Of having the Coles settle
near Woodrow.
j. c. Falcon was in Woodrow
Saturday, bringing with him Miss
Louise Rosenbaum, and Messrs
McWilliams and Todd, the latter
two gentlemen going to Punta
Gorda via evening train on bust
ness.
We notice a "notice" on a
fence post this week. near Wood
row, which read as follows:
WANTED, A pair of glasses
to suit Charlie White; he is hav-
ing trouble in seeing fences :"
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In Justice Court 7th District, DeSoto
County. Florida,

In Justice Court 7th District, DeSoto
County, Florida.
w. A. Duval VS.. Thomas Reynolds
Notice of Attachment.
To Thomas Reynolds;
You are hereby notified that = WritTof
Attachment has been issued against YOU
and your property attached to satisfy tho
demand of w. A. Duval amounting 10
10000. Now unless you appear before
S. +. J. Trabue, a Justice OF the Pence
in and for said County at his office in
Punta Grda. Florida on the 9th day Of
November 1916 judgment will be rem
dered against you and your property sold
to pay the debt.
Given under my HAND and seal at Pun
ia Gorda. Florida, on This the 29 lay Of
September 1916
(SEAL) s. f. j. TRABU1,
]. II. Hancock, Justice of the Peace
Pitts. Atty. U-NJY-6) 7th District
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Notice Of Masters Sale

Notice is hereby given that under and
by virtue of a final decree Of foreclosure
Issued out of and under the seal of the
Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Cir
cult Of the State Of Florida, in and for
DeSoto County in chancery sitting, in
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-10-05
Northeast of Woodrow
By Special Correspondent

By Special Correspondent
Correspondent Relates Tale of
Woe z
Harry Colson has gone to Pun
ia Gorda to make his home with
his brother Chas. c. Colson, and
attend school.
Arch Hogan drove his 4-cylin-
der horseless carriage" to
Woodrow Thursday and brought
back a load of groceries and feed
for the Meadow neighborhood.
w. j. Colson has erected a new
stable and buggy shelter and fenc-
in his yard at the Dixie Home
stead.
j. j. Williams and family, of
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
LAND BLESSED BY NATURE
Inhabitants Of Small Italian Fishing
Village Are Among the Fortu-
nate of the Earth.

One of the oldest and quaintest lit
tie independent states that ever ex-
listed in Europe-the tiny Republic of
Noli, founded before Rome and main
tanning its liberty for many centuries
until Napoleon swept away it's priv
ileges-is today merely a fishing vii
lage near Genoa, but it is full of re-
minders of its former greatness, and
affords a wonderful glimpse Of medic
val times. Destroyed by the Cartha-
ginians in PIT B. c., and who knows
how often by subsequent marauders,
there seemed no limit to her powers
of recovery. This quaint little fishing
village maintained itself as a SOW
ereign state for centuries, took a prom
inent part in the quarrels of Guelphs
and Ghibellines, SEN doughty warriors
to the Crusades, commanded the in
terest of emperors and popes, and
only succumbed at last to the armies
of Napoleon. Dante clambered hither
over terrible hills on hands and
knees, and r~evenged himself by con
signing Noli to his "Purgatory.'
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

where these products retail as fancy
fresh eggs. This large yearly turn
over gives Egypt an intimate relation
ship with the Englishman's breakfast.
table.
Dinocrates of Rhodes, architect and
friend to the famous Macedonian, laid
out Alexandria. He planned the city
as an affair of right angles and sharp
corners, including the whole in a
parallelogram quadrisected by two
main thoroughfares. This regularity
of city-plan hat Dinocrates developed
was the beginning of the school of
gridiron city-building, of the imper-
sonal, strictly business city only now
waning in popularity.
battle-ground Of West and East.
The exotic Grecian city was a bat
tleground from the start. The East
and the West met and fought out their
differences to a finish there. Greek
learning and Greek philosophy found
refuge in Alexandria, and there an
tagonized and finally blended with the
philosophers of the East. Christianity
and Paganism fought some of their
most bitter battles there; and the
Jews, the Christians, the Pantheists
and the philosophers fomented many
bloody riots, in which the tickle, vio-
lent, loot-hungry Alexandrian mob
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

There was one woman, seventy-six years old.
whom l noticed especially. She was sitting in
one of the workrooms, where there were about
three hundred women; some were making lace,
some making clothes on sewing machines given
by the Rockefeller fund other were knitting, and
as l came into the room l heard the strains of
the "Brabanconne," the Belgian national anthem.
They were singing it while they worked-young
and old-and as their voices rose in unison and
the beautiful words, Belgium ever must be free"
rang out clear in this little world of o%utcasts,
among these women who have, many of them,
lost all, save their patriotism, l caught sight OF
the old woman. She was making lace. and her
toilworn hands, her deeplined face and the un-
utterable sadness of her eyes made a picture un.
forgettable and impressive.
The children look happy and healthy in the
nursery, where the wee ones are; in the kinder
garten and in the schoolrooms, where sweet
faced nuns, whose converts have been burnt be-
fore their very eyes, have taken up their work
here, and in this strange, new environment are
teaching the exiled boys and girls to take up the
tasks which will soon fall upon their young
shoulders.
All the work of the camp is done by the refu-
gees themselves, and there are various work
shops and classrooms besides. One very inter.
esting feature is the work done under the guild
ance of the English Society of Friends.
They have furnished all the material and are
now teaching the men in the camps to construct
portable houses. At Gouda there are 60 of these
now finished, and they are delightful little homes
consisting mostly of two rooms, a living room
and a big bedroom, divided into two or more com
partments. The houses are painted white out
side, with green roofs, and inside they are paint
ed light gray. All the furniture has also been
made in the camp shops, and as each man I'm
ishes one entire house he is allowed to live In
It With his family.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

notched wheel. At each operation of the machine
an escapement at the bottom of the channel re-
leases a rivet and lets it drop down under the
riveting hammer.
The only machine work done on the novelty
Valentines, made up with silk and satin puffs and
bows of ribbon, which must be applied by hand to
the cards, is the printing of the colored design
and the blocking out of the cards. The puns and
shirred borders of the many designs are made
With remarkable rapidity and %neatness. The puff
is made from a semicircle of silk, the edges
gathered as they are being pressed into the glue
by drawing and pickering them with the finger
nail. Two pieces of cardboard, cut to the desired
curve and covered with colored silk Tapped over
the cardboard and glued to the under side, form
the borders. The silk is also gathered as the
edges are glued down, and the border pieces are
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
HOLLAND NOW MOTHERS
ABOUT 10000 BELGIANS

In Holland there are now four large camps, for
Belgian refugees only, containing about seventy
thousand persons, as against seven hundred thou
sand last year, and all over the country are
private houses rented by the government and
some by private subscriptions where people OF
the better class. who are, however, as penniless
as the others, are being cared for, says a New
York Herald correspondent.
The Dutch government pays all their expenses.
It costs IA cents a day to feed the growns-ups in
the camps and the children s cents a day" In
the private houses they cost 2S cents and 20
cents, respectively. Their clothing and school
ing is an extra expense, and has so far cost APP
proximately $55, 900. The building of the various
camps totaled $4,000 and a special fund for
the eventual restoring OF homes now equals
$4,000.
visited one of these camps at Gouda and was
most enthusiastically greeted. America is a pass
word that assures one a welcome wherever Bel
gians are. There are sixteen hundred persons
there now-young and old, men and women, and
many, many children. Over them all a spirit of
calm seems to have fallen. They have found a
temporary home, an interval of quiet, between
last years sudden horrors and the years Of toll
that lie ahead of them when they shall have re-
turned to their ruined, barren lands again.
There are faces sad with the sorrow of loved
ones lost in the war-anxious ones who have not
heard for months from husbands and lovers, and
who know not whether they still live-some who
are ruined and who know that when the war Is
over they must start afresh their hard struggle
for existence, and there are some, the older ones,
who have that saddest, most hopeless look of all,
who know that for them life holds naught but
sorrow and poverty.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
Soft Gingerbread.

One teaspoonful molasses, one.third
cupful butter, one and th~ree-fourths
~teaspoonfuls soda, one-half cupful sour
milk, one egg, two cupfuls flour, three
t~easpoonfuls ginger and one-half tea
spoonfuls salt. Put butter and mo
lasses in saucepan and cook until boil
ing point is reached; remove from fire,
add soda and beat vigorously. Then
add milk, egg well beaten and remain
ing ingredients mixed and sifted.
Bake about fifteen minutes in a hot
oven.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
Inoersolrs rrlbute to Women.

Ingersoll paid the following tribute
to women in his lecture on Shakes
peare: In those days little attention
was given to the biographies of wom-
en-. They were born, married, had
children and died. No matter how
celebrated their SOM became, the
mothers were forgotten. In old times.
when a mar achieved distinction,
great pains were taken to- find out
about his father and grandfather, the
idea being that genius is inherited
from the fathers side. The truth is
that all great men have had great
mothers"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

ragged in unforgettable religious tu-
mults. In one such tumult the sur
passingly beautiful pagan priestess
Hypatia was torn to pieces to glut a
british populace.
The famous Alexandrian library was
the bridge between the culture OF
classic Greece and the cultural needs
of early Christian and Mohammedan
Europe. Much of its treasures filtered
through to the Moor and to the Chris
tians through the scholarship of Rome.
The library was destroyed in the war
flood which followed the rise of the re-
ligion from the desert; and the burn
ing of the great book-treasury has
been keenly deplored by scholars Of
each generation succeeding.
In the latter years of the eighteenth
century the city was held by the
French. 1t had sunk to the status Of
a small village under centuries of Mo-
hammedan misrule, having a popula-
ton of less than 1900. Under Mo-
hamet Ali, the wise and cunning Al
bantam, it regained much of its pros
perity. English control of the city's
as we'll as Egypt's welfare dates from
1882, since which date a new city has
been developed and one that bears a
greater degree of relationship to the
West than to the East.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
Oatmeal soup.

Cooked mush, n cupful; butter.
two teaspoonfuls; chopped onion. two
tablespoonfuls; bayleaf,. one; yolk of
egg, one; milk, one quart; salt, one
half teaspoonful; pepper, one-half salt
spoonful. Soup kettle, spoons, meas
uring cup Cook onion without brown
ing until tender. Then all the oat-
meal, milk bayleaf, salt and pepper.
stirring carefully, keeping temperature
below boiling point. Strain through a
fine sieve, reheat and pour while hot
over the beaten .yolk of egg,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
Wanted % biz Amona Books.

Robert Boggs, keeper of Ye Olde
Franklin book shop in Brooklyn. when
found ear death from age and star
walton. recently, pleaded to be let
alone. Don't take me to the hospi-
tai" he said; I'm too old. l don't
want to cause trouble to anyone. /
want TO die quietly among my books"
In his shop. nailed against one OF the
bookcases was a small sign on black
tin, reading, I'VE refer all needy cases
TO the Brooklyn charity bureau"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
Hot Tea

II you want to serve the biscuits
fresh and hot here is a good way to
proceed: Into n quart flour put
~teaspoonful salt, three level tea
spoonfuls baking powder. and sift all
together into a small mixing bowl.
Then melt one tablespoonful shorten
ing and pour into N cupful sweet
milk, pouring all into the -four. Light
ly mix to the consistency Of dough for
rolling. Roll and cut one inch thick.
placing in baking pan ready for the
oven4 Place the pan in a cool place
until wanted for baking, about 20 min
utes before serving. They can be
prepared in the early morning and
left all day.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
LEXANDER THE GREAT, Ii

A LEXANDER THE GREAT, like
~ an erratic meteor, flashed
~ across the browse of civiliza-
tion-weary Egypt; and, per
haps as a memorial of his dedication
In the land of the Pharaohs, he left
behind him the beginnings of a vigor-
GUS Greek city, Alexandria, destined
to be the gateway for a flow of west
ern regeneration to the worn valley,
and today, with Constantinople and a
few other places, one of the greatest
prizes for the contesting army mil
lions in the East, says a National Geo
graphic society bulletin. Alexander
built his city in 1872 b. c. upon the
ruins Of an Egyptian town. Rhacotis.
After more than 1000 years Alexan.
dria has become the life of Egypt, its
largest port, one of the busiest ports
on the Mediterranean and an impor-
tant world-city.
The modern city is divided into two
parts, n of which, inhabited by Mo
hammedans, is a l~istless tangle of ORR.
entail narrow. crooked streets and I'M
inviting buildings, while the other, the
European quarter, is solidly built and
possesses many of the essential con-
v%eniences of the American or Euro
pean metropolis. 1t occupies a ridge
of land between the Mediterranean
and Lake Mareotis. The Rosetta
mouth of the Nile lies more than thirty
miles to the east. Cairo, the interior
metropolis, lies 129 miles by rail to
the southeast, and the Suez canal Is
more than 140 miles to the east. The
city is linked by a network of railway
and telegraph lines to the other towns
of Egypt, and is in telephone connec
ton with Cairo.
Business City of Nile Valley.
Alexandria is the counting house
and the commission Office of the Nile
valley. The British chamber of COM
merce has its headquarters there, and
there, too, are located the head offices
of many of the largest commercial or
CARNATIONS doing business in the near
East. The value of the city's trade,
in normal times, is about S240, 000, 900
a year The western harbor, designed
for a modern, first-rank commerce, is
visited annually by 5000 vessels. The
chief articles of export are grain, cot
ton, beans, sugar and rice, and the
business is largely in the hands OF
Europeans, of whom there are $4,000
in the total population of 400, 600. The
city is connected by cable lines with
Cyprus, Malta, Crete and Port Said,
One of the interesting phases of Alex.
andria's m is that it sends 80.
100000 eggs each year to London
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

Everybody is rich in this poor mans
paradise, says the Wide World Maya
zine. During the anchovy months it is
not rare for the 12O boats to earn
$500 pounds in a night, or s15,000
in a season. Through fish alone a
man earns far more than a clerk, be-
sides which he has no appearances"
to keep up. Under these happy condi-
tons he oon acquires lands and
houses, which afford a steady revenue
while he sleeps or fishes. The earth
here has only to be scratched in order
to bring forth wealth, so rich is the
soil and so abundant the water.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12
INTERESTING BITS

Apparatus has been invented by a
Paris doctor for pumping anesthetics
into a persons lungs and insuring the
administration OF a definite dose.
Batteries carried in a hsherman's
pocket supply current to an electric
lamp inside a celluloid minnow which
has been invented for night fishing.
A Lexington (Ky.) woman has pre-
sented her husband with nine children
in Is months. i've at one birth and
four at q second.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-12

Now" is a constant syllable tick.
ing from the clock OF time. Now"
is the watchword of the wise. Now"
is on the banner of the prudent. Let
us keep this little word always in
our mind; and whenever anything
presents itself to US in the shape of
work, whether mental or physical. we
should do it with all our might. re-
membering that now" is the only
time for US. II is, indeed, a sorry way
to get through the world by putting
OF till tomorrow. saying. Then" | will
do 1t. Mol this will never answer
NOV" is ours. Then" may never be.