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Evening star., 1916-12-27
DRILLS IN ORDER
FORD. c. INFANTRY
Reuiment Resumes Maneuvers
Interrupted by Practice on
the Rifle Range.
CAMP VISITED BY STORM
BYJ. CROSBY MCCARTHY,
Staf Correspondent.

Staff Correspondent.
CAMP WILSON, San Antonio, Decem-
ber 27.-After an absence of nearly
month the companies of the Sd District
Infantry made their appearance on the
drill field today and went through vari-
Gus close order movements. 1t was the
first drill that had been held since De-
cember 1, none having been engaged in
during the regiments stay at Leon
Springs.
Drills and minor maneuver problems
are to be the order tomorrow and the
next day and then the District militia
men will have another three day holi-
day over New Year day.
"Norther" Descends Upon Camp.
Today the militiamen are experience
ing another norther. the tail end of the
storm reported to be so severe farther
north. Although temperature is well
above the freezing point. the change
has been felt by the men. for the
norther followed summer weather
which prevailed yesterday, when the
mercury reached eighty.
Two hundred men of the Sd Regiment
are to be entertained tonight at a
Christmas party to be held at the San
Antonio Y. w. c. A Friday night has
been selected for the dinner at which
the officers of the Sd District Infantry
are to be the guests of those of the
1st Mississippi and I'd West Virginia
regiments as the result Of the victory
won by the officers team Of the Dis
trict regiment at Leon Springs re-
Gently.
Wants Rifle Practice Completed.
Col. Young is endeavoring to perfect
arrangements to have men who failed
to finish their rifle practice at Leon
Springs returned there in motor trucks
some day in the near future to COM
plete their firing. Some of the officers
will return to complete their pistol
practice. The trip will be for only one
day. the men returning to Camp Will
son in the evening.
Evening star., 1916-12-27

Ambassador Gerard.
No indication of the tenor of the
note appeared in the German papers
today. Its text will be published to-
morrow,
Evening star., 1916-12-27
MILITARY MEN FAVOR
GOOD ROADS SYSTEM
Lieut.. Col. Fairfax, New York Ma
tional Guard, Points Out Neces-
sity in Time of War.

Military men everywhere. and es-
pecially United States Army officers
who have seen service on the Mexican
border, are now the strongest advo-
Gates of good roads, according to Lieut..
Col c. w. Fairfax. n. G. S. n. Y, who
was a visitor in the National Capital
yesterday.
Army men have come to a perfect
realization of the truth that heavy
guns that cannot be moved because of
poor roads have no value whatever in
time of war;" said the visitor.
Col. Fairfax's expressions regarding
good highways as strong arm of mill
itary defense were given at American
Automobile Association headquarters
in the Riggs building, where he visited
to obtain road data for the balance
Of an automobile trip to Miami, Fla.
from his home in Geneva. N. Y, where
for several years he was president of
the Geneva Motor Club.
Evening star., 1916-12-27
ALL PARTS OF COUNTRY
WILL Be REPRESENTED
Chamber of Commerce of u. S. to
Hold Annual Meeting Here
Starting January 81.

Representatives OF commercial Or
sanizations all over the country have
their intention of being
present at the fifth annual meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States which is TO take place
here at the New Willard Hotel jan
uary 81, February / and .. The rail-
road situation. national defense and
many other important subjects now
under public discussion viii be taken
up.
In statement concerning the con-
vention made public at the Washington
headquarters of the national chamber
in the Riggs building 1t is said:
''In dealing with the preparation for
conditions after the war. prominent
speakers viii discuss separate phases.
such AS business. finance. transporta-
ton and education for foreign trade.
OF particular interest will be that
part of the discussion devoted to the
railroad situation.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
LOST

ASSOCIATED BIBLE STUDENTS Of
Punta Gorda will have a study of the In
ternational Sunday school lesson every
Sunday at 300 p. m. upstairs in building
ing formerly occupied by Chadwick Dry
Goods Co. Every body interested invit-
cd No collection.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
Weather Forecast for the Week
Beginning Sunday, April
80, 1916

Washington Unseasonably
cool weather, with frosts, will
prevail during the coming week
in the region of the Great Lakes,
the upper Mississippi and Ohio
valleys, and the Rocky mountain
and western Plateau regions. In
the Atlantic and Gulf states mod
crate temperatures the first half
of the week will be followed by
cool weather after Wednesday.
Generally fair weather will pre-
vail during the next several days,
except that local showers in the
Mississippi Valley and the dis
tricts east thereof will attend the
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
A Good Greed

Here is a creed offered by the
National Hardware Bulletin. If
you can subscribe to it you are a
good citizen:
81 believe in my town. | be-
lieve in her people, in her boys
and girls. | will make myself a
committee of one to make of this
a good place in which to live and
mighty hard place to leave.
81 believe in my town. | be-
lieve in her institutions, in her
schools, in her churches and her
stores.
81 believe in her street broom
and the street sweeper, and IN the
paint pot. | believe in ne'er an
empty can on a vacant lot but
many a full one in the larder
Never again will | throw waste
paper or rubbish in the street OF
alley.
81 believe IN my town. De
lieve in trees, Gods first temples
grass instead of ash heaps, ano
flowers instead of weeds. May
God bless the tongues that give
honest praise and concentrations
and may He doubly bless the eal
that is deaf to scandal and gossip
If | cannot speak good of my
neighbor | will hold my peace
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04

IN each issue with many handsome pho
tographs concerning Fiorida& - solves
problems of the fruit grower'wbe trucker
and livestock farmer througl&its query
departments and its authoritakve articles
Three months subscription, rs cents;
six months. so cents; special offer, two
years for $1.0O. Sample copy free. Ad-
dress Florida Farmer and Homeseeker,
St Augustine, Fla
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eastward movement of a disturb
ance of moderate intensity that is
now over the Plains States. 1t
will probably reach the Atlantic
coast Tuesday or Wednesday. An
other disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about Wednesday or
Thursday and move slowly east
ward, probably reaching the Mid
die West at the close of the week.
This disturbance will be attended
by general rains.-E. H. BOWIE,
| FOrecaster.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
Little Boy Dies

Joseph Marion, seventeen
months-old son OF Mr.. and Mrs
P. O. Hickman jr,, a bright little
fellow, died at 1890 a, m. ycster-
day, after brief illness, and will
be buried in Indian Spring Gem
etery on Pineapple river this af-
ternoon at 4 O'Clock. The be-
reaved parents have the heart
felt sympathy of many friends in
their bereavement.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF
Which is Better-Try an Expert
ment or Profit by a Punta Cor
da Citizens Experiment

Something new is an expert
ment.
Must be proved to be as repre-
sented.
The statement of a manufacture
err is not convincing proof of mer-
it.
But the endorsement of friends
is.
Now supposing you had bad
back,
A lame, weak, or aching one,
Would you experiment on it?
You will read OF many so-called
cures.
Endorsed by strangers from
far-away places.
It's different when the en-
dorSement comes from home.
Easy to prove local testimony.
Read this Punta Gorda case:
r. NJ. Coston, carpenter, Punta
Gorda, says: 81 had bad attack
of kidney and bladder trouble. |
suffered from such severe pains
across my back it was all | could
do to reach for my tool box while
working. If i stopped over it
was almost impossible for me to
straighten up without taking
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
500 Reward, 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that -
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken IN,
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the, dis
ease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assistlns
nature in doing its work The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that 1t fails to cure SEND
for list of testimonials.
Address: F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
Sold by all Druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for Constipation
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
TIL esday Evening

Glass of music-Program:
Chorus, Through .Sylvan
Glades"-Glee Club.
Piano "a hands,, Jolly Cop
pcrsmith," C. Peter Lola Ras
mussen and Margie Barnhill.
Piano, Polonaise in A Major
Chopin--Ethel Oliver.
Reading, "Aunt Elnora's He
ro"-Dannette Dreggors.
Piano, Glove Dreams, A. l.
Brown-Hazel Baldwin.
Piano a hands,, "Poet ant
Peasant Overture" Suppe-Thel
ma White and Maude Cochran.
Song, "Funny Little Fellow
Twelve Girls.
Piano, Wandering Stars,
Observation-Disclosures McLane.
Piano, ga May Day." Rath
bu,n-Edward Smith.
Reading, "I'se Bad"-Mar!
Corbett.
Piano, Gin a whirl, " WachS-
Elizabeth Cooper.
Reading, "The Bear Story,
Rilcy-Eulala Lawrence.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04

This has been commencement
week with the Punta Gorda High
School. Starting with the rell-
gious exercises of Sunday night
a different program has been pre-
sented each night to date and the
graduating exercises take place
tonight. Singing by a special
union choir and music by the
Punta Gorda orchestra were fea-
lures of the Sunday night pro
gram. Pastor j. H. Albert of the
Presbyterian church preached a
strong commencement sermon.
To give full and detailed re.
port Of every interesting feature
of commencement is beyond the
limits of this paper. The pro
grams are given as best present,
ing what has been done. 1t need
only be added that nothing bet
ter in commencement exercises
has ever been had III EullUa bor-
da, all taking part having reflect.
ed credit upon both themselves
and their teachers.
Sunday Evening
Prelude, Mrs. Mcqueen, organ
ist.
Hymn, Congregation.
Invocation, Rev. II. R. Wood
son.
Anthem, Union Choir
Scripture Reading, Rev. T. ).
Sistrunk.
Offertory, Orchestra.
Announcements.
Vocal Solo, Mr.. George Dewey.
Commencement Sermon, Rev. j.
Fl. Albert.
Hymn, Congregation.
Benediction.
Postlude.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04

KNOW ABOUT FLORIDA FROM AN
AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE - Florida's
oldest and heading farm and home month
ly magazine prints instructive information
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
HOUSES TO RENT OR sALE-one
MISCELLANEOUS

VISITING CARDS-Visting cards
printed from appropriate type faces. lin
en- or velun finish 25 for Soc. 50 for 75c..
100 for $l.0o-TIiE HERALD.
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hold of something for support.
Two boxes of Doan's Kidney
Pills cured me and | have never
been bothered since"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don T
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the
same that cured Mr.. Coston. Eos,
ter-Milburn Co, Props, Buffalo
N. Y.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04

When it costs me nothing at least,
! will spend my money here, and
by so doing leave a part of the
purchase price to circulate in the
channels where its equivalent in
wealth was originally created, to
do good among the folks who are
a part of the community of which
| am a part, in the place that |
call home, sweet home.
81 believe in my town"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
COMMENCEMENT

Piano a hands,, "The Robin s
Return" Fisher-Hazel BALDWIN,
Frances Wachob.
Reading, "He Tried to Tell
His fe''-Elizabeth Coram.
Piano, "Marche Hongroise, "
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Rasmussen.
Song, "If | were a boy, . "lf |
were a girl"-Louise Gautier,
Dick Cooper.
Piano a hands,, "Jol Black
smith," Paul-Vera EuDSfik and
Elizabeth Cooper.
Reading, "Uncle Pete and
Marse George Cooper.
Piano, moonlight on the Hud-
son." Wilson-Louise Gautier.
Reading, Naughty Zelle y
Bonnie Bell Boykin.
Piano, "Grand Polka dc Con-
cert" Bartlett-Thelma White.
Song, Wishes -Four boys
and four girls.
Play, "Frog Hollow Lyceum. "
Miss Lii Pennington Director
Of Music.
Wednesday Evening
Glass Exercises-Program:
Song-Elise Blount.
Address of Welcome-Pearl
Singletary, Saskatchewan.
Piano, "Grande Valse de Con-
cert" Lito Mattel - Elizabeth
Mayes.
History-Ruth Johns.
Piano a hands,, "Fan Fare
Militaire," Bohm-Misses Ethel
Oliver and Dorothy Rasmussen.
Prophecy-Harry Barrow.
Reading-Sallie Jones.
Piano, "Silvery Waves" A. P.
Wyman-L0uise Gautier.
Glass Poem, by Glass Poct-El-
Use Blount.
Legacy-Anna Laubach, Vice
President.
Orchestra.
Farewell Address-John Boyle,
Class President and Valedictorian
Orchestra.
Crazy-A one-act farce in
which Sallie Jones, Harry Barrow
and John BOYLE took part.
Tonight
Graduation Exercises - Pro-
gram:
Invocation.
Chorus, "Come Where the Blue
Bells Ring" f. H. Bracket
Glee Club.
Essay, "Great Women Pearl
Singletary, SalutatOrian.
Piano, Grand Marche de Con,
cert, WOllenhaupt-Ethel Oliver.
Annual Address-Dr. A. A
Murphree, Pres. University OF
Florida.
Chorus, Dawn of May" Fran
cesco Berger-Glee Club.
Essay, Preparedness" - Jno
A. Boyle, Valedictorian.
Presentation Of Diplomas-Hor
Jas. o. Buckley.
Piano a hands,, Witches
Flight" Russell--Elizabeth Cor
am and Hazel Baldwin.
Benediction.
Graduates-Harry Vivien Bar
row, John Alexander Boyle, Elise
Elizabeth Blount, Ruth Thelm;
Johns, Pearl Susan Singletary
Sallie Frances Jones, Anna Ma,
Laubach, Elizabeth Forsyth,
Mayes, Ethel Lucille Oliver.
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Affected BY Business.

"The girl in the photograph place we
patronize nightly is just full of affecta
ton
"But she must consider that it is her
business to put on airs. baltimore
American,
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CLASSIFIED

Rz' Advertisements inserted under this
mead for cents per line each insertion,
six words counting a line. Advertise
ments running ten times or more will be
inserted for 8. cents per line each time.
No advertisement inserted for less than
IS cents.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-05-04
Monday Evening

An operatta, "The Smuggle-
man." was given in the open
court of the school house, one
hundred children of the primary
and intermediate grades in cos
tunes taking part. This was fine,
the little ones acting well, due to
careful training by their several
teachers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-04
LET THE PEOPLE RULE!

From Leslie's.
 A woman p years of age is suing a man aged T in Poughkeepsie, N. T.. for breach of promise.
 A civil war veteran who died in St. Louis recently leaving fortune of s4,- 000,0o0 was regularly drawing a govern ment pension of s25 a month.
 Billy Sunday got ssO00 thank offering at Ocean Grove recently and used it II to buy a home for an old preacher who was his mentor years ago.
 e For joke a man tossed a lighted match into a can of gasoline which a boy was carrying at Long Island City N. Y, recently. An explosion followed and the boy was burned to death
 An inebriate arrested at Dobbs Ferry N. r., recently. drew from his pocket Bible and read from Timothy the verse: Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. ? He acknowledged that he had been drinking beer and was sent to cell
 A man was nominated for sheriff ot a Missouri county recently after he had run for the office for 36 years un- successfully. He declared that he would be a candidate as long as he lived and if he did not succeed, he would leave codicil in his will telling his son tc run for it until elected.
 A democratic banker in North Dakota complained that Comptroller of the Cur rency Williams circulated at public ex- pense among state as well as national banks 12-page pamphlet giving the comptrollers side of his controversy witt the Riggs National bank at Washington And the people rule!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-04
Would Abolish Fees

The personnel of the committee of 100. citizens of Jefferson county who will urge support for the educational amendment
 to the constitution will be announced by Sunday, Commissioner John H. Hornady said yesterday. Morris Bush, president of the Chamber of Commerce, will name
 the members of the committee, These workers will have among others
 one big fact to aid them in their fight
 for the amendment" Commissioner Horn- ady said. 'Tf the people of Alabama ac- cept the proposed educational amend
 ment, it will prevent them from paying
 nearly $5OO,000 in supplemental and incl dental fees.
 An inspection of the total public school funds for Alabama will show that ap- proximately $45O,0OO a year is paid in supplements and fees. In Birmingham
 there is s50.000 a year paid in incidental fees. If the amendment carries, such fees will be abolished, and the people will be taxed to meet the needs for school ex- penses The burden thus would be uni- formly borne by the taxpayers, and this system would prove far more equitable than the present.
 We expect Jefferson county to roll up a big majority for the amendment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-04

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 A VIEW YORK high school teachers are llW trying to induce music publishers S and teachers to expunge the ne- gro dialect from certain airs, which, in default of others. are rapidly becoming the folk songs of Americans. The idea back of this move is that immigrants learn corrupt English when attempting to master the picturesque phraseology of the black race.
 When the restless instinct for change and reform lays it's hands on native American songs, it is time to cal1 halt. Our duty to the immigrant, though it Is gl eat and seldom discharged in full, do.s not include the remodeling of the few distinctly native possessions we have Cur songs, just as they stand, belong tc us and should be left alone. The immi- grant must learn his English on some thing else.
 Nor do we want our own sons and daughters to grow up unfamiliar with our original and unspoiled song litera- ture. The school teachers who ask learned college professors to edit Dixie would commit 8 sacrilege if they coun- tcnanced an interpolation of pure liter ary form at the expense of the pie tLresqueness of the song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-04
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

You'l never really know what telling ways a girl has until after you marry her.
 About the only way to make your wife obey you is to tell her to go ahead and do as she pleases.
 A man is just as hard to please as a woman He raises cain every time his wife asks him for few dollars for clothes And if his wife isn't as stylish locking as other women he is ashamed to go out with her.
 Our idea of hunting for trouble is to subscribe to a matrimonial agency in a1 effort to land a mail order bride.
 Mother is entitled to most of the bou- cuets, but don't forget to give father a kind word every now and then. Father may seer, mean at times, but the fact of the matter is that he is merely hard up and worrying how to make both ends meet.
 Every time we see a stern-faced suff whu is wearing mans hat and man s collar end tie and a mans coat and vest, we realize that it wouldn't require q waole lot of encouragement to make her add the pants to the outfit.
 The more we think it over, the more we wonder how Eve ever managed to get along without a box of talcum powder.
 Another nice thing about married life is that the later you get to bed the earlier your wife wants you to get up and explain all about 1t. Maybe you have noticed that the man who has whiskers on his face has them on his jokes, too.
 The reason why mother tells daughter that no gentleman will stay later than 10 o'clock when he calls on a girl is be- cause when father was counting her he used to wait around and ride home with the milkman every morning. If the price of meat keeps on going up it will take a mighty brave man to eat hash about a year from now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-04
POEM BY AUSTIN DoBsoN

From London Memories" by Brander
 Matthews. in the October Scribner.
 I should be false to another friend if I failed to note here that Burners appre- ciation of Dobson's art was as helpful to me as Lockers. I find a letter of the time in which he sent me hints, calling the lines ITO Greek Girl' the most purely beautiful of all Dobson's work, resting the spirit if it did not touch the heart Most classicism shows us only the white temple, the clear high sky, the outward beauty of form and color This Gro Greek Grip gives US the warm air O. spring; the life that pulses in a girl 8 veins like the soft swelling of sap in a young tree. This is the same feeling that raises As You Like It above all pas- toral poetry. Our nineteenth century sensibilities are so played on by the trou- bles, the sorrows. the little vital needs and anxieties of the world around us, that sometimes 1t does us good to get out into the woods and fields of another world entirely, if only the atmosphere is not chilled and rarefied by the lack of the breath of humanity"
 A few years later when reprinted the papers on Locker and Dobson in a volume called Pen and Ink, essays on subjects of more or less importance" I asked Burner and Dobson for poems to go in the front and at the back of my book. They acceded to my request; Bun ner's epistle in rhyme will be found at the end of my volume; but when Dobson gave me his verses he expressed a doubt as to the propriety of his contributing to a book containing a criticism of his own work. Since this appeared to him to be question of taste, I could do no more than yield to his feeling; and Lane supplied me with a predatory poem, Pen and Ink" Dobson's lines may now appear in print for the first time:
 With pen and ink full many sin
 The reckless race of men begin:
 Not only with their black or blue
 They stain the page of virgin hue;
 "Eut thereupon, forsooth must spin
 Their tangled web of false and true
 With pen and ink
 And worse than this-they willy grin To think how all their kith and kin,
 Ay, and the long-eared public, too,
 Must buy these desperate things they
 do
 With pen and ink!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-04
THE MEMORY MYTH

From the New York Telegram.
 Before Victor Murdock, the Kansas statesman, took to the tall timber-in Japan-to avoid voting at the coming election he started telling few tales out of school in Golfers Weekly.
 In one he explodes the memory myth the supposed marvellous gift by which a representative, for instance, while shak- ing hands, remembers and calls by name every last man in his district.
 It's no gift, but a keen search for and later recollection of some physical dis tinction, facial blemism, peculiar pitch of voice, tilt of the head, an odd gesture or gait.
 Isn't it terrible" Mir. Murdock recalls one oampaigner saying-'isnt it terrible how many of them look alike? And then" relates the Kansan, "he turned to me and with vehemence asked, Don't you thank God for wart.'
 We have no desire to throw any cold water on the campaign, but the truth is mighty and murder will out.