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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
CONTRACT FOR NEW
WILSON RESIDENCE
HAS BEEN AWARDED
L. S. Johnson, Contractor,
to Begin Work Imme-
dlately.

Mr.. +. H. Wilson Of the Wilson Cy-
press Company has this week award
ed I contract for the construction of
his new and beautiful residence on
the river front to L. S. Johnson of
this city.
It will be remembered that some
thing more than a year ago Mr.. Will
son purchased 100 feet of river front
Of Miss Mulholland in Mulholland
park. This lot runs back from the
river 1870 feet and is situated Just at
the head Of Water street. 1t is a
beautiful site and Mr.. Wilson has
hecu many times congratulated on Sc
curing it.
His now home is to be a handsome
affair Of two stories and with broad
veraudas. The house will be modern
in every detail and is to be built af-
ter plans made by W. B. Camp, archi-
tocr, Of Jacksonville. The grounds
are such as to permit the laying out
OF beautiful approaches. The exte-
rior Of the house viii be finished in
shingles up to the second floor when
the balance will be finished in pretty
and artistic panels. Besides the Iiv-
ing room and library, dining room,
kitchen, etc, the house will contain
four bed rooms on the second floor,
and in addition will have two large
sleeping porchos each facing the riv-
er, There will also be two baths on
this floor
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
PASTOR CASON GETS
A SILVER SERVICE
As Token of Esteem in
Which he is Held by
Congregation.

Rev. P. @. Cason closed a six year
term as pastor Of the First Baptist
church in this city last Sunday, when
farewells were said. The pastor
preached at both the morning and
evening services and before large
congregations.
1t was at the evening service when
the presentation of the silver service
was made. 1t was beautiful set
and the pastors voice trembled as he
feelingly accepted this final token of
the esteem in which he has been held
by he congregation.
only an evening or two after the
Ladies Aid Society met with Mrs.
Z. \. Thomas, where a social time
was held and delicious refreshments
served by the hostess assisted by
Mrs. E. Loomis. Here it was that
the retiring pastor was presented
with solid leather travelling bag
from the society, and in the bag was
Il present from each individual men,
Der of the society.
The same afternoon the society
elected new officers for the ensuing
term as follows: President, Mrs. J.
T. Ashby; vice president, Mrs. NJ. La
mon; secretary, Mrs. B. E. Jarrett;
treasurer, Mrs. 7. B. Munich.
Pastor Cason was to leave on
Thursday. He has been busy pack.
ing and moving his household goods.
He goes to Tullahoma, Tennessee,
and enters upon his service there
next Sunday.
Last week The News stated that 4
meeting of the church would be held
en- Wednesday night, Aug. I'd, to con-
slider extending a call to a new pas
tor, but for certain reasons this meet
ing has been postponed until Wednes-
day evening the 9th inst.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
HIGH SCHOOL WINS
IN LIBRARY CONTEST
Several Hundred Thousand
Votes We're Cast for the
Several Contestants.

The Library Contest in this city
closed last Saturday evening at 8
O'Clock, but the race was so close
among some of the organizations thar
every ballot had to be counted to de-
termine the winner.
The beautiful library and sectional
book case go to the Palatka High
School. They polled $780, votes,
winning over the other contestants
by a plurality Of 192,1S1 votes over
the Palatka Public Library.
This contest which began sixteen
weeks ago, started off easy, but as
the count was published from week
to week showing the standing Of the
numerous organizations which were
in the contest, the interest deepened
until it included thousands of zeal
Gus pupils of the schools and ardent
members Of many churches, lodges
and other organizations each bent on
winning the prize for their favorite.
The work Of the school children was
especially systematic and earnest.
The merchants and business firms
all seem to he highly pleased with the
results obtained from the contest and
we feel safe in saying that this con-
test has brought the merchants in
Palatka who gave votes, very much
business which otherwise they would
not have received. The vote for the
public library was 297 ,526.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
SIEG HAS PATENT
ON MONEY MAKING
HOUSEHOLD NEED
With Chances Favorin8 its
Manufacture in
Palatka.
Chas. H. Sieg blew into the city O

Chas. H. Sieg blew into the city on
Monday.
Say, but I'm glad to get here" he
breezed. "Chicago is hottern Ell
Paso; | haven't been as comfortable
in many week as | am right now
here in old Palatka. Have a cigar.
How YOU :, gettin' on. old boy?"
Under his arm Mr.. Sieg carried a
morocco bound volume which he pro-
duced and opened. 1t contained pho
tograveurs of the front and side ele-
vations and diagrams of a combina-
ton bookcase. phonograph cabinet,
writing desk, and commode, ETC.,
which Mr.. Sieg explained he had in
vented during his idle hours in the
"Windv Citv." and on which the Pat
ent Office had lust issued him letters
patent.
These photographs showed the pat
ented contriyance to be a most beau
tifuI niece of furniture. II is col
Iansabie-can be folded up-and can
ha easily Skinned. It holds a pho
rooI,anh on top and has a place for
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
ATLANTIC & GULF |NS.
co. Of PALATKA
MAKES BIG DEAL
Buys Business Of Washing
ton Benefit Insurance
Company
And Lincoln Amenican Ins. Co. of
Jactsonville-Larges Insurance Deal
Put Through in Florida in
Many Years.

The Atlantic & Gulf Insurance
Company Of this city, Of which Mr..
G. Loper Bailey is president, has pur-
chased all Of the business in force Of
the Washington Benefit Insurance
Company, which, in addition to its
own business, had recently purchased
the life, sick and accident business in
force in the Lincoln American In
surance Company.
These companies have agencies in
Tampa, Lakeland, Orlando, Sanford,
Gainesville, Miami and Jacksonville.
In acquiring this business at a cost
of many thousand dollars, the Allan
tic & Gulf Insurance Company OBJ
tains the services of a large number
of tic best known and equipped in
dustriu! insurance agents in the
State, and IN additional annual IN
come Of between thirty and forty
thousand dollars.
This transaction places our home
company in q commanding position
in the field it occupies, making it
one Of the largest insurance compa-
Aics in its line in Florida.
The company'5 Jacksonville office is
located on the fifth floor Of the Flor
ida Life Insurance Company build
ing. 1t is beautifully furnished with
every convenience for the prompt and
correc. handling Of the large volume
Of business which it enjoys there.
The Jacksonville staff at present con-
sists OF manager, cashier, superin-
tendcnt and eleven agents, in addi-
ton to which it has numerous agents
employed in the other towns men
toned
The loyalty of the agents of the
old companies to the new management
is all that could be desired. Not
one OF them having resigned his po-
sition to 90 with any other company
in the State. Most of them have
been visited by the President, Mr.. G.
Loper Bailey, or the Secretary, Mr.. J.
Walter Hillard. who state that all
agents are giving their new employ
crs The heartiest cooperation.
The Atlantic & Gulf Insurance
Company was organized between five
ard six years ago, during which time
it has been managed conservatively
and had on its books before this re-
cent purchase, a business Of consid-
cradle volume. The Company is
dividend payer and nearly every
stock holder lives in Palatka. For
this reason Palatkans will rejoice at
its enlarged field of operation.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
ClPT. K0ENIG OF
GERMAN submarine
Eludes British WarshiDS and
Starts for Germany.

Norfolk, Va, Aug. 3.-The German
merchant submarine Deutschland
passed out of the Virginia Capes at
S:3O o'clock Wednesday night, appar-
entity unobserved by the Allied war
ships waiting for her, and, so far as
known here, is now safely on her
homeward voyage to Bremen.
No mtoward incident marked the
departure of the giant submerSibla.
She was accompanied only by her tug
and 4 newspaper dispatch boat when
she began an eighteen-mile dash from
lower Chesapeake Bay to the Capes.
After proceeding slowly most of
the way down, she increased her pow
er at $50 o'clock and reached the
Capes Just after dusk. None of the
Allied cruisers was visible as she
passed through. Whether he sub
merged before reaching the three
mile limit is unknown. The two ac-
companying boats only know that she
disappeared unharmed and that to all
appearances she had a clear field
ahead to a point where she could
submerge in safety.
Within half an hour after the last
light of the Deutschland had disap-
peared, her tug, the Thomas F. Tim
Minis, hove into sight, seemingly sat-
isfed with her work, and headed up
Chesapeake Bay in the direction of
Baltimore, from which place the Deut-
schland sailed yesterday, twenty
three days after her sensational ar
rival from Bremen.
The Bremen, sister ship of the
Deutschland, reported due here with
the Deutschland's departure, thus far
has not appeared.
The Deutschland started for the
Capes after arriving early today at
a cove up Chesapeake Bay.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
T., WyIlie's Father Dies.

nan.displayed news story in the
Tgn Wart Times of Sunday, July
(% ..1Is lTsN Of the death in that city
! IT, telIf iobn Henry Cook, for many
MI. ..,,.osident aside of the c. W. Dilling-
|arS cpnonanv, and a civil war veter-
P'l = tGi,,p tbe age of rs years.
\ i.aorest ~ e here relies on the fact tn, that
lnteleII' HeI was the father of Mrs. VIII
~ Y Wy 'Wyllie, whose husband a a. was ,33.;, 50
|rg tH{ n pIP PaIatka and the Archdea .
|s allo of the diocese of Florida.
IN n R?PS R5i no.ady i. Mr. Cook paid a visit
+, Rev. ard Mrs. Wyllle@ en- IN November ,9,''A l
ip:S sors ~ clolj do availed little Ne
Fg 'n S@,' Enre to New York IN May,
FIIirs IIi,rnssorej until July 22, Wnen he
aI 'pis ,parefully away.
||,' ras buried from st. Mary's
III Manhattan, and laid to rest in
\ Easjl' l!JIown cemetery on Tuesday, July
~ tSu'' Nav he rest in peace and may
|g5, n.on p'I Sympathy will be felt by Pa
.t}sTs yeyF for Mrs. Wyllie in her be-
Erement
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. NJ. Earnest will
start next Tuesday on their annual
fall purchasing trip and outing. The
only difference between the trip which
will begin next Tuesday and those of
former years is that this one will be
made in their auto.
And for the purpose they have a
new seven passenger Jeffrey touring
car of the 1917 pattern. Surely there
should be good time in store for
these busy people on the way up. Of
course it will be business again when
they get to New York and get to nos
ing around the wholesale houses look
ING for goods to interest Palatka Gus
toners of the big department store.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
NATIONAL FARMERS
UNION CONVENTION
For Palatka Receives Ap-
prevail Of President
Barrett.

In a telegram received by Mr.. N.
b. Shontz on Monday, President c.. S.
Barrett of the National Farmers Ed
ucational and Cooperative Union Of
America, gave his approval to the
plans for holding the next National
Convention Of the Union in this city,
and President Barrett has designated
the third Tuesday in November as
the day Of meeting.
In the meantime Mr.. Shontz, who
has been appointed State Organizer
for the Union, is busy organizing
branch unions throughout the county.
He has already organized branches at
East Palatka, Orange Mills, Palatka
and Peniel and has every good pros
pect Of lining up the farmers and fruit
growers all over the county in the or
ganization. He hopes to make this
section into a great centre Of workers
for the welfare Of the organization,
so that when the convention meets
here with its hundreds of delegates
from all parts of the United States
that will feel as if they were indeed
among friends.
Mr.. Shontz is live wire; he is
practical farmer and knows the needs
Of the men engaged in that work.
President Lecks, under resolution
CT the board of trade, has appointed
his central committee to take charge
Of the general plans for entertaining
the big convention. Mr.. Lecks HIM
self by virtue of the resolution be-
comes chairman of the committee, and
associated with him will be Mayor
Merriam and Mr.. M. C. Walsh, edi
tor of New Florida. This committee
will appoint sub committees as they
may be needed.
1t is the intention to give the visi-
tors to this convention, and the ma
iority of whom have never seen Flor
ida, the time of their farmer lives.
They will be taken on an excursion
to Crescent City, where the orange
shipping season will then be well un-
der way. Here they can see the big
Grange groves laden with ripening
fruit, and see the modern process
cf packing and shipping.
They will also be given auto rides
through the agricultural sections Of
the county and to the big camphor
farm, the only farm Of its kind in
the United States.
Gov. Trammell, Senators Fletcher
and Bryan and other distinguished
Floridians will be present, and an eff
fort, with some excellent prospects
Of success, will be made to have Pres
ident Wilson here for an address to
the gathered farmers from all sec
tiOns of the country.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04

Rev. Charles Winner of Lake Helen,
Florida, will preach both morning
and evening next Sunday, August 9th.
On Wednesday evening, August
9th, the regular monthly business
meeting of the church will be held at
which the matter of calling a pastor
will be taken up. All members of
the church are urged to attend.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-04
heath Of Mrs. Mathews.

u,, 7. W. Mathews of this city,
s,I a5r weIl-kuown to many of our
|nnie nIs as a woman Of culture and
|, % bor generous, kindly Christian
|s.raster, as died suddenly of heart fail
\ s's.t IN the night last Saturday. Mrs.
[sfews wa, a native of Clay coun-
/ hut had with her husband lived
|TayaI years in this city.
The The funeral was held on Sunday
|Apmoon and was conducted by Rev.
Cr3dy of the Methodist church.
f. irterment was in Oak Hill. Much
|r3atby is felt for the bereaved
[H5and.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-02-17

right length, but 1t must also be of
the right width, and this can be Sc.
cured only by finding a brand of stock
ing that is just of the right proportion,
and then sticking tC it.
Tall women heve most of their
stocking trouble from breaking at the
knees. Recently. however a progress
sive manufacturer put extra length
stockings on the market for the tall
woman. But when these special hose
cannot be bought, the regular sort can
be heightened by sewing a strip of
muslin on in the shape of an extended
hem.
Much time in darning stockings can
be saved by simply sewing on the
paired numbers that come in woven
tapes especially for the purpose. In
this way one can see at a glance when
the stockings come from the laundry
just which should be paired off.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-02-17
STOCKING LORE WORTH NOTE
Proper Fit, and Other Details, Are
Seldom Given the Attention That
They Deserve.

Now that black dyes are scarce,
women throughout the country have
been urged to wear white or light
colored stockings. We have been
warned several times of the dearth
of dyes for black stockings, but APP
parently the supply of black stockings
is good and the dye seems to be as
good as ever, Probably later in the
season we shall feel more acutely the
effects OF the dye famine.
Really there is wisdom in wearing
white or light-colored stockings, apart
from the reason of the dye scarcity.
Now that shoes are worn extra high
one can wear white or light stockings
without having them show, and, in
fact, so familiar have stockings other
than black become 20 most folk that
there is no reason that we shouldn't
wear them, anyway. Light stockings.
especially white, wear better. on ac-
count of the absence of the chemicals
OF the dye. Besides. white stockings
can be washed cleaner If you must
wear the cheaper sort of STOCKINGS
there is no comparison between the
cheap black stocking and a white
stocking at the same price The white
one at the price is both more durable
and feels better to the skin.
Few persons realize how important
it is to see that stockings fit perfectly.
1t is, III fact, as important as to see
that shoes fit well, for chiropodlsts say
that many foot ills result from stock
ings that are too tight or from stock.
ings thai are creased ana wrinkled.
Not only must the stockings be of the
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-02-17

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 that 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, vic.
lent lOot-hungry AleXandrian mob
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 it's 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 CT 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
small village under centuries of Mo.
hammedan misrule, having 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 well 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 log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-02-17
HIGH CROWNS IN VOGUE
FASHION TURNS TO IDEAS OF A
PAST GENERATION.
Hats Copied From the Paintings of
Alfred Stevens Have Been Taken
Up by Those Who Set the
Styles in Millinery.

We are quite Alfred Stevens" so
far as our hats are concerned. This
popular painter has always had a
strong influence on the world of fash
ion. When he was living he painted
all the fashionable beauties of his day
IN their best and most attractive tot
lets, the Empress Eugene, for exam
pie, and all the lovely women of
Queen Victoria's court, writes Idalia
de Villiers, Paris correspondent.
Just now the high-crowned Alfred
Stevens hat is an absolute rage in
Paris. | have sketched one of the
new models, and you viii be able to
see fer yourself that the outline is
as charming as it is unexpected
The narrow brim of this hat was
covered with mink fur and the exag-
geratedly high crown was made of
bordeaux red silk ribbon, the latter
being arranged in a series of large
loops over a stiff net crown.
Directly in front there was an oxy-
died silver rose. This style of hat
HUNS CittI hlIllS Wucu WORN III cOnJulC-
ton with a smart little tour de cou, as
shown in my drawing Any woman
possessed of small, regular features
will find these Alfred Stevens hats
most becoming and it must always be
remembered that the hair must be
dressed close to the head when sucn
hats are worn
Very high-crowned toques are also
fashionable this winter the material
used for these toques is almost always
velvet and no trimming is introduced.
I ey fit close to the head and are
pressed down over the hair. The folds
OF velvet are so cleverly manipulated
that they form sort of cup in the
middle, while the sides rise to unex-
pected heights. Lewis, the famous
Partisan milliner, is again using large
weeping feathers, and when this
artist gives a decided lead one may
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-02-17
LAND BLESSED BY NATURE
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 it's liberty for many centuries
until Napoleon swept away its priv
ileges-is today merely a fishing viii
lage near Genoa, but it is full of re-
minders of it's former greatness, and
affords wonderful glimpse of medic
val times. Destroyed by the Cartha-
ginians in 217 B. c., and who knows
now often by subsequent marauders,
there seemed no limit to her powers
Of recovery. This quaint little fishing
village maintained itself as a SOW
ereisn state for centuries. took prom
inent part in the quarrels of Guelphs
and Ghibellines, sent 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 hther
over terrible hills on hands and
knees, and revenged himself by con
signing Noli to his "Purgatory"
Everybody is rich in this poor mans
paradise, says the Wide World Maya
zine. During the anchovy months it is
not rare for the 100 boats to earn
$500 pounds in a night, or G15,000
in a season Through fish alone
man earns far more than a clerk, be-
sides which he has no appearances"
to keep up. Under these happy condi-
lions he soon acquires lands and
houses which afford 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 go abundant the water.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-02-17

them with nails driven through board
A into their ends. Drive a nail into
each of the strips near the outer ends
&C, Fig. q, and tie the end Of six
foot length of clothes line to one of
these nails Gig. ~.
To attach the chest-weight to a
door, it is necessary to rest the bot
tom edge of board A upon the door
latch, and strips B upon the door
knobs, then run the rope attached to
one of the nails c around the face of
the door, around the hinged edge, be-
meath the lower hinge, back to the
second nail, and then tie securely to
the nail. To prevent board A from
scratching the edge of the door, tack
piece of heavy cloth over the back.
The weights are made of tin cans
filled with sand or earth, preferably