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The Washington times., 1916-07-06
MAY WHEAT EXPORTS
SHOW SLIGHT GAIN
Foreign Business "Comes Back"
After Ten Lean Months.
Corn Also Gains.

A slight gain in exports Of wheat for
May-the FIRST after ten DISASTROUS
months-was reported by the Commerce
Department today. The export of this
commodity was 1895 bushels
seainst 14.1s2. ~ for May. 1915.
Owing to prevailing high prices OF
last year. however. the cash figures
show loss for the month of more than
100000.
The loss of more than sl12. ooo. 900 has
been registered In expectation OF wheat
for eleven months ended May 30 over
the corresponding period in 1915.
This discrepancy Is explained partly
by the generally higher prices during
1915. tho loss In actual bushels being ap.
proximately 100000.
The figures on corn exported during
May are %.s3s.262 bushels. an increase
over May. 1915. OF l.3o1. z1s bushels. and
approximately 81. 900. 900. For the eleven
months ending May 80. exports have
dropped off over 100000 bushels and
over 5000. 900.
are A.517.s7o pounds as against l9.543. olb
for May. 1915. For eleven months. how
ever. a gain OF 100000 was registered.
with a money gain OF about 3s.0oO.0Oo.
Grouping the following commodities
bread stuffs. cotton seed oil. cattle,
hogs and sheep. meat an ddairy prod
ucts. cotton and mineral oils-the fig
ures for May show exports Of $1l7,T5.-
s2o as against 800, 762.475 for May. 1915.
Figures for the eleven months ending
May 30 also show a gain In this gener-
al grouping. Total exports In dollars
being N,102. la. Stan increase fap-
proximately $50, 900, 900.
The Washington times., 1916-07-06
Special Saturday Summer Schedule.

Washington to Harrisonburg, southern
Railway. Beginning Saturday. July and
on Saturdays ONLY thereafter until Sep
TENDER IS. 1916, inclusive, Southern Rail-
way train No. p. which now leaves
TO leave Washington las p. NJ, passing
Manassas 2:57 p. NJ. Riverton Junction
6:22 p. NJ, Strasburg Junction 6 :04 P. NJ.
and arrive Harrisonburg S:l0 p. NJ. No
change in other trains and connections.
This arrangement only for the Summer
Months. Consult Agents.-Advt
The Washington times., 1916-07-06
StOrk Visits Woman. 60.

BLOOMINGTON. Ind. July 6.-Enoch
Grubb. of Blooming. Ind. sixty-six
years old. announced that the stork had
left an eleven-pound baby daughter at
his home. Mrs. Grub is more than
sixty. The new baby Is the nineteenth
child. All the offspring are living.
The Washington times., 1916-07-06
Bill Would Bar Liquor
"Ads" From the Mails

Senator Hoke Smith yesterday in
troduced a bill forbidding the mail
ing of liquor Advertisements or cir
|culars into territory where State
laws prohibit such publications
The Washington times., 1916-07-06
To Address Lodge.

DR.. j. shera Montgomery will deliver
a patriotic address to lebanon Lodge
No. Z. F. A. A. NJ, at the regular meet
ing OF the lodge tomorrow evening at 9
o'clock All master gnasons are invited
The Washington times., 1916-07-06
LOCAL MENTION.

"Chaplin Caught in the Rain" Va.
today The Lure of New York" Be.
Phone Your Went Ad to The TimeA
Main ESQ
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13
Sc. A COPY; $3.50 A YEAR
THE BESSARABIAN
FRONT SCENE OF
BLOODY FIGHTING
Two Hundred Thousand Loss on
Both Sides
THE RUSSIANS TRIUMPH
On this Western Front Germans
Appear to Have Made Gains
Reduce French Trenches in
Champagne Sector

London, England-The fighting
on the Bessarabian front has
been perhaps the bloodiest of the
entire war on any front. 1t is es-
timated at Vienna, reports from
there state, that nearly 100000
men were lost by the Russians
and the Teutons in the battling
around Czernowitz the past ten
days.
Apparently there is a lull there
now, with the Russians holding
the ground they gained at heavy
cost, and the Austrians and Ger
mans trying to repair the gaps in
their broken front. The Russians
dominate Czernowitz, but there
seems to be no truth in the earlier
reports that they had taken the
town. The Austrians have evac-
uated at least a portion of the city
but they have not entirely with
drawn. Military authorities here
are of the opinion that their po-
sitions in the immediate vicinity
of Czernowitz are untenable and
that further gains by the Rus
slams may be announced shortly.
The Russians have algreat a.
mount of artillery now, with ap-
parently an abundance of high
class munitions, and their heavy
fire has been causing tremendous
losses in the Austrians ranks.
On the western front the Ger
mans appear to have gained some
ground that they lost to the
French some time ago in the
Champagne sector The French
war office, while admitting that
the new German offensive was
successful at first, claims most Of
the ground was retaken. The at
tack of infantry was preceded by
a whitening artillery fire which
crumpled up the French trenches
in the style that has preceded al
most every attempt to take
trenches on that front.
The Montenegrin war Office
statement admits defeat by the
Austrians at several points, but
claims the Montenegrins inflicted
severe losses on their enemies and
gave ground only under sheer
press of numbers. The morale Of
the Montenegrin army is splen-
did.
A statement from Berlin is to
the effect that the submarine
which sank the Italian liner Porto
Said in the Mediterranean last
month, causing loss of lives of
six passengers, was an Austrian.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13

vote against any of the direct
nominees of the Primary, it being
well known that the President is
mot direct nominee. | there
! fore do not favor the Resolution
recently adopted by the State
Democratic Executive Committee.
The Bryan Primary law permits
only Democrats to vote in the
Democratic Primary, thus chang
ing the nature of the former
White Priary to a Democratic
Primary, debarrimg Socialists,
Republicans and others, from
having any choice in the selection
of the State and County officers.
! am not a member Of the Or
ganization referred to in the Res
olution. / have no idea as to it's
membership. | have no way of
determining how many voters,
Catholic or Protestant, would be
prevented from voting in the Pri-
mary, who are now Influenced
in voting for or against any Can
didate by any religious test or on
account of religious belief, ,denom-
ination or sect with which the
Candidate is affiliated" If en-
forced, it may diminish the
$4,000 or $4,000 who now vote n
the Democratic Primary to $4,000
or 10000, thus inviting opposition
to the ticket.
The members of the committee
who shot off this shot, undoubted.
ly thought they did it for the ben
eft of the Democratic party. The
shot is so loaded and aimed, how
ever, as to benefit certain candi-
date or candidates and to injure
a certain candidate or candidates.
| have seen it stated that there
are between 100000 and 6,000,-
900 voters, members of such or
ganization in the United States.
TO this, add those who will be
f" influenced in voting for or a.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13
NIIDIItI W WTI1Vffr'T
Candidate for L. s. Senator

tricts be requested to furnish the
board with as many as five copies
of all bills to be paid.
On petition of Geo. W. Gate
wood and others, two public
roads were granted in the Ber-
mont section.
The Board entered into execu-
tive session to consider the matter
| of selecting an official newspaper
! for the ensuing year After dis
cussion, a motion prevailed ap-
pointing Commissioner d.. Skip
per a committee Of one to draft
proposition upon which the pa
pers be requested to submit seal
ed bids at the next regular meet
ing of this board.
Action taken by the board Nov.
18th, 1915, establishing special
road and bridge district in the
Charlotte Harbor territory and
ordering an election for bonds to
be held in said territory on Jan.
11th, 1916, was rescinded.
Moved by w. G. Welles and
seconded by John Hagan, and
carried, that Peace River Phos-
phate and Mining Company be al
lowed to pay 1915 tax on west
half of northeast quarter, and lot
2 or west half of southeast quar-
ter, all in section 35, township 80
south, range % east, at the same
value as surrounding lands, plus
a value of $4,000 for junk i'm
provements thereon.
Blazers report of L. L. Cato, j.
G. johnson and j. T. Baxley was
accepted and approved.
A motion prevailed authorizing
the sheriff to purchase bedding
for Jail.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13
AN GORGEOUS BLUNDER
Made by the State Executive Committee May Cut the DEM
ocratic Vote Down to Thirty Five
Thousand

Editor The Herald II have
Ebeen requested by one of the pa
pers of the state to express my O.
pinion in relation to the resolu-
ton adopted January 9th, 1916,
by the State Democratic Execu-
tive Committee, regulating the
qualifications of voters in the
Democratic Primary.
Prior to the enactment of the
Bryan Primary Law in 1913, there
was held in this State practically
| a White, called Democratic, Pri-
mary, at which every White
| Qualified Elcctor in Florida could
vote, the understanding being
that the voter would not vote a.
gainst the State and County tick
ct thus nominated. This was ta-
ken to include all the Candidates
except those for President and
Vice President. In other words,
the Republicans, Socialists, and
others, could vote in such Pri-
mary without forfeiting their
right to vote for the President of
their choice. In this way many
Republicans and others, having
voted in the Primary, at first
swallowed the State and County
ticket, and afterwards swallowed
i the entire ticket, becoming good
Democrats.
This, in my i7@gment, is the
only way in which we can have
one White Party in Florida. If
we were to have two White Par
ties, neither being negligible
factor, one would call upon the
Negro for assistance, compelling
the other to do the same. Their
fore, instead of having two White
Parties, with the Negro to settle
their differences, | have always
favored and | favor now, one
White Partyin which every White
qualified Elector may vote, the re-
striction being that he will not
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13

taxes and for hearing complaints
of those affected by such equali-
zati0n; and,
Whereas, 1t is very difficult
matter for the various bills incur
red to reach the proper officials
to be audited and paid by the
Board of County Commissioners
by the first Monday in each
month, which date has been the
customary meeting date for the
past many years; and,
Whereas, Under the present ar
rangement it is necessary for the
members of the Board of County
Commissioners to audit and write
up each bill, thereby making a
great deal of clerical work for the
board, which consumes great
portion of the time of said board
which really distracts their minds
from the more important matters
which should have careful con
sideration; and,
Whereas, If the county clerk
had all the bills in hand for some
days before the meeting of said
board he could have bills audited
and warrants drawn and it would
only require a short time for the
board to check up the work Of
said clerk and stamp their appro-
val or rejection on same, and the
chairman sign all warrants, and
thereby facilitate the work and
save time and money; therefore,
Be it Resolved, That the date of
the regular meeting of DeSoto
county be and the same is hereby
changed from the first Monday in
each month to the first Wednes-
day in each month, after the first
Monday, except when the law re-
quires the board to meet on the
first Monday;
That all bills incurred for the
previous month be required to be
o. K. d by the county commits
Sioner from whose district same
originates, or by the sheriff, clerk,
or whosoever duty it might be to
pass upon same;
That said clerk be required to
audit said bill as to correctness of
figures, etc, and to arrange in
proper form for filing and draw
warrant for same and have bill
ready for the approval of the
board and the warrant ready for
the signature of the chairman;
That the clerk have prepared
at each board meeting a list of all
bills audited of the various funds,
and each commissioner be furn-
ished copy of said list;
That the bond trustees of the
special road and drainage dis
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13

town of Punta Gorda, in order to
make a complete and creditable
improvement to advise as to ma
terial to be used, and as experts
in road construction to make all
proper tests of material before
and during construction; to sup
erintend the construction of said
work, keeping a resident engineer
on the ground whenever neces-
sary, and visiting the work as of
ten as may be necessary to secure
first class work and to see that
plans and specifications are fully
complied with. Provided, that if,
at any time, any person employed
in connection with the said work,
| by said engineering company
shall be unsatisfactory to the
county commissioners, such per-
son shall be discharged and re-
| placed by a person satisfactory to
the county.
AS compensation for such serv-
ices said company shall be paid 2
! per cent. Of the estimated cost of
! the work as soon as a satisfactory
contract shall be let for the work,
or if it be decided to have work
done otherwise than by contract,
Hthen said 2 per cent. shall be paid
as soon as a satisfactory plant for
doing said work can be installed
and put in working order.
One and a half per cent. Of said
estimated cost shall be paid when
work is half done, and upon com
pletion of the entire work said
company shall be paid a sum
which when added to all former
payments shall make sum equal
to per cent. Of the actual cost of
the work.
Provided, further, that if it
shall be found that the cost of a
modified sheet asphalt pavement
on four inch base of rock and
mari shall exceed $4,000, the
work may be discontinued under
the said specifications at the OPP
tiOn of the county, and the 2 per
cent. payment above provided for
shall be in full for the services Of
said engineering company.
Road petition was received
from j. H. Brown and others ask
ing for a road in the Zolfo dis
trict.
Sheriff filed his report.
Following resolution was made
and unanimously carried:
Whereas, The statutes of the
State of Florida do not fix the
date for the meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners of the
various counties of the state-ex-
cept the dates for equalization of
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13
SOUTH FLORIDA FAIR
Announcement Made Relative to
Products for Exhibition

Tampa-Directors of the South
Florida Fair, the dates of which
are February 4 to u, announce
that they will be ready to receive
products for exhibition ten days
before the opening date, and all
products will be given the best
possible care, The exhibition
buildings will be completed dur
ing the coming week. They are
the most attractive ever erected
for the use of a Florida fair.
Hundreds of premium lists and
thousands of advertising folders
are now being distributed
throughout Florida and other
states. Those desiring premium
lists can secure them from their
postmasters, boards of trade, or
express agents, or by writing to
A. l.. Allen, secretary of the Fair
Association.
There is now no doubt that at
tendance at the fair from other
states will break all records, and
the visitors will include hundreds
of hOmeseekers. Directors of the
fair request that Foridians write
their friends and newspapers
"back home" and request that
they attend and advertise the
movement for.the development of
South Florida. Much good can
be done in this way.
All features of the Gasparilla
Carnival, the amusement and
crowd drawing adjunct of the
fair, have been contracted for,
and they will be novel and clean
i'll every particular.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13
PETITIONS FOR PARDON
Weakness of Human Nature in
Sngning them

Sometimes when we consider
the weakness of human nature in
signing petitions at the solicita-
tion of friends, especially when
the pardon of some criminal is
sought, and reflect how almost
yards of names are attached to
such petitions, in which each sig
nature represents neither sinceri-
ty nor honest conviction of the
truth of the statements made in
the petition, we almost wish that
the board of pardons would shove
all such documents in the waste
basket and give them no weight
in deciding upon the application.
AS a rule they represent merely
the ignorance and indifference or
the moral cowardice of the signer,
who, rather than offend friend
asking his signature, would give
the weight OF his influence as a
citizen to the work of destroying
the efficiency of the courts by
turning some criminal loose on
society. The board of pardons
probably wouldn't go wrong if
petitions, barring exceptional
cases, were treated as newspaper
men deal with the great quanti-
ties of free advertising literature
that reach their desks and were
promptly swept to the discard
Lakeland Telegram.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13
JANUARY MEETING
BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
Regular Monthly Session-Report
From Official Minutes
ROAD coNTRACTsAWARDED
Proposals for Constructing Fort
Ogden Drainage Canals Called
for-Time of Meeting Changed
Other Transactions

The Board of County Commits
sioners met in regular session IN
Arcadia, January 3rd inst
Members present: l.. W. White
hurst, chairman; John Hagan, W.
NJ. Whitten, w. G. Welles and d.
l.. Skipper.
TIE following business was
transacted.
The. comptroller is hereby re-
quested to allow C. L. Boggs. $50
valuation on lots and 5, block z,
town Of Gardner. The reason for
this request is that the present as
sessed valuation of 5000 is exces-
sive.
Blazers report of d. A, and n.
S. Mcleod of a public road was
received, and upon motion duly
made, seconded and carried, was
adopted.
The following resolution was
made, seconded and adopted, to-
wit:
Be it Resolved, That it is the
sense of this board that in the
event Lee county constructs a
hard surfaced road ON the line
between DeSoto county and Lee
county for a distance of nine or
ten miles in ranges thirty and
thirty-one east, that the road tax
hereafter collected from the lands
In this county lying south of the
Caloosahatchee river within said
=ranges shall be devoted to the re-
endorsement of Lee county for
one-half the expense incurred in
hard surfacing said road.
Pension claim of Mrs Amanda
Peden was submitted to the
board and duly approved.
Contract was entered into with
j. w, Farr for hard surfacing
roads one to ten inclusive, in
Special Road and Bridge District
No. /.
b. f. Stewart, A. w, Davidson
and B. G. Lettering, committee ap-
pointed by the board, reported
recommendations relative to the
Fort Ogden drainage district and
the construction of bitches cost
ing approximately $2,347 A.
The report of the committee
and its recommendations were re-
ceived, placed on file and concur
red in; and that the original re-
port of said committee, filed April
1915, was amended as rec
commended by said committee;
and the canals and as modified
are hereby established as public
drains, the same to be constructed
under the supervision of said
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13

gainst any Candidate by any re-
Iligious test or on account of re-
| Iligious belief, denomination, or
sect with which the Candidate is
affiliated. If all such, voters
were debarred from the Democra-
tic Party the Democrats could
not possibly elect the next Presi-
dent. Why force such voters out
of the Democratic Party? ] do
not favor the Resolution.
1t is a well known fact that
the Anti-Saloon League will fav-
or a Candidate for the Senate
who will vote for National Pro-
hibition, well knowing that, in
case the state should go against
Prohibition, such Senator would
be voting against the expressed
wishes of the majority of the e
lectors, because, if National Pro-
hibition succeeds, it would force
lState.wide Prohibition on the
people of Florida through the
votes of other States and against
the wishes of the people of'Flori-
da. Suppose the members of the
Anti-Saloon League had been de-
barred. They make the princi-
lpal plank of the Prohibition Par
| lty, the predominant "test" of
voting for or against a candi-
date in the Democratic Primary.
This with the others, would have
debarred most of the voters Of
the Democratic Party, rendering
the Democratic Party a negligi-
Bile factor, practically busting"
| it.
There should be no restrictions
placed upon a White Voter, vot-
ing in the Democratic Party, 9TH
er than he will not vote against
any of the State, Congressional
and County nominees Of the Pri-
mary. That is the best way in
which to build up the Party; the
other is the best way in which to
tear down the Party.
the Party.
] can well believe that there are
some church people, Catholic and
Protestant, of pronounced senti-
ments or prejudices, who are Gin
fuenced in voting for or against
any candidate by any (some) re-
ligious test or on account of reli-
gious belief, denomination or sect
with which the Candidate is affili-
ated." This is the first time in
the history of the State in which
a religious test has ever been ap-
piled to a voter. 1t is against the
spirit of the Constitution. 1t is
sacrifice, not upon the altar, but,
deep down into the hell-hole of
political partisanship, of the reli-
.gious sentiments and prejudices
of some of the best people OF the
state.
Whose fine steel-pointed dag
ger is behind that Resolution | do
not know. | am satisfied that the
members of the Executive Com
mittee considered that they were
acting for the best interests of
tn Party.
Very truly yours,
ALBERT w. GlLCIRlST,
Candidate for II s. Senator.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1916-01-13

Miss Jeanette Stout has re-
Gently had some very convenient
and important additions and 9TH
er improvements made to her cosy
cottage on the bay front.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
AUTO DREAM GOES GLIMMER1NG
New Rural Mail Carrier Notifies Post
master That He is Going to
ssJunln His ,Tob. q,

John G. Baum, recently appointed a
rural mail carrier to work out of Ke-
nosha who was expected to go to work
on next Thursday morning, has notified
the postmaster that he is not going to
accept the appointment. Baum has
done some figuring and he fails to see
how there is going to be any profit in
running an automobile thousand miles
a month at salary of a hundred dol
lars. He told the postmaster that he
had decided not to enter the service.
A new examination will be held as
soon as possible. Baum was one Of
the four carriers who planned to make
Kenosha rural routes the first in the
state to have automobile service. He
figured the cost and said: cit can It
be done
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
MOTORCYCLE IN FLAMES
Machine Owned by Robert Armstrong
Is Destroyed When Cigarette Gets
Too Near Overlooking Tank.

A motorcycle belonging to Robert
Armstrong was damaged to the extent
of a hundred dollars at a spectacular
fire near the Hill Garage on Friday
night Armstrong had brought the mo-
torcycle to have the gasoline tank filled
He was smoking cigarette. Better
throw that away suggested William
Crowley who was in charge Of the work
of filling the gasoline tank of the
motorcycle. mo danger at all, re-
turned Armstrong. just then the tank
overfowed and there was an explosion.
Crowley was badly burned about the
arms and hands and the flash went
into his face, burning off his eyebrows.
The fire department was called and it
took two tanks of chepical to get rid
of the fire. There was no danger to
the garage at any time.