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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
FEW BUT FAITHFUL
Five Good Roads Workers Attended
the Dixie Highway Council Meet
ing in Ocala Friday

Five men attended the meeting of
the Marion county Dixie Highway
council Friday afternoon in the Board
of Trade room, and of these five three
were members and one became a
member. 1t was necessary to have
the new member in order to make a
quorum. It was the first annual meet
ing of the council, and all of the Of
ficers were reelected with the excep-
tion of the president. R. R. Car
roll was chosen to fill that Office.
The officers for 1867 will be:
Louis HI. Chazal, president; R. R.
Carroll, vice president; David S.
Welch, secretary; w. v. Wheeler,
treasurer; j. j. Gerig, director. w.
d. earn, chairman of the county COM
missioners, became member. Those
present at the meeting were: J. J.
Gerig, ]. D. Rooney, who has life
membership, David S. Welch, w. D.
earn, w. A. Bennett and Louis II.
Chazal. 1t had been hoped that the
attendance would be large, and that
the membership would be consider
ably increased. There are at present
only seven members of the highway
association in this county. 1t was de-
Acided that all of these members form
a committee on membership to make
a strenuous effort to obtain more
backing for the Dixie Highway. A re-
port on the condition of the two
branches of the highway in this coun-
ty will be made to the Central Florida
Highway association next week, in ac-
cordance with the resolution adopted
by the latter organization at it's last
meeting.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
SUFFRAGE PLANK STUCK

ST. Louis, June 17.-After an un-
successful fight to throw out the
suffrage plank in the democratic
platform, as approved by President
Wilson, the convention at 3:09 p. m.
adopted the whole platform, includ-
ing planks on suffrage and Ameri-
canism, by acclamation.
The fight on the suffrage plank,
the first row in the convention, was
led by Governor Ferguson, of Texas,
and seemed to have a chance of sue
cess until Senator Walsh, of Mon
tana, told the delegates that Presi-
dent Wilson considered the suffrage
plank as written, necessary to the
success of the party. Roll call of the
states showed only 181 IL votes for
the Ferguson substitute against SS8
1-2 for the original plank.
The adopted plank is as follows:
"We favor the extension of the fran
chise to the women of this country,
state by state, on the same terms as
the men," The fight on the plank
came in from minority reports sub
stituting a plank which would have
left the matter entirely to the states
without any expression of opinion fa-
voring suffrage.
Governor Ferguson, in leading the
fight on the anti-suffragists, declar-
ed that suffrage is purely matter
of states rights and that the question
and wording of the majority plank
was "presumptious recommending to
states on how to conduct their cleo
toral."
Suffrage leaders considered the or
iginal plank much more favorable
than the declaration given them at
the republican convention and threw
their entire strength into the fight in
behalf of the administration leaders.
Senator Walsh's plea that President
Wilson had urged the plank and to
reject it would cause a discordant
note in the proceedings prevailed and
the minority report was defeated.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

were scattered. 1t is reported that
three Mexicans were killed. So far
as known there were no American
casualties. Two companies of the
twenty sixth Infantry were immedi-
ately rushed from Harlingen, Texas,
to Olmito,. ten miles north of Browns
vile, in an effort to cut off the bandits
who were reported at midnight head
ed for the Rio Grande.
MEXICAN POLICY UNCHANGED
Washington, June 1.-THE warn
ing from Mexican commanders that
movements of American troops, ex-
cept in retirement toward the border,
will precipitate hostilities, won't
change the purpose of the United
States to keep the expedition under
General Pershing in Mexico, or pre-
vent the American commander main
tanning the safety of his column and
dealing with bandits. No further
southern advance is contemplated
Direct word from Gen. Pershing is
awaited.
Colonel Bell told General Funston
over the telephone of the warning
given by Trevino, the Mexican COM
mander. It is thought he obtained
this information from high Mexican
officials. Diplomatic officials here are
inclined to believe the warning was
for home consumption and not pre-
lude to hostilities.
Secretary Lansing, in statement
given to the press this afternoon, sale
the situation was unchanged. The
reply to Carranza's note is withheld
pending possible additions covering
the San Ignacio raid and Trevino's
reported ultimatum.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

Speaking of gates and fagmen,
the Star was eyewitness this morning
of an incident that shows fagman
is only advisory while gate is man.
datory. The 11:15 train was back
ing into the A. C. L. station when a
party in an auto took notion to
beat it across the Oklawaha avenue
crossing. The fagman waved but
the autoist disregarded the warning
and dashed over the crossing only a
few yards ahead of the train, taking
en- unnecessary risk. The fiagman
was disregarded, but there is no dis
regarding a gate.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

Since that article slandering Flor
ida appeared in Golfers Weekly a
few weeks ago, the sale of that pub
lieation in Ocala has increased about
80 per cent.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

No. 538, which pulls the Ocala-
Wilcox daily special, is little engine
TO a sawed-off train, but Engineer
Estabrook and his fireman take as
great interest in it as though it was
hauling the Pinellas special and keep
it one of brightest and neatest on the
line.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB

The secretary of the Commercial
Club will appreciate it if members
will call at his Office (the John Dozier
Coz and get their membership cards
renewed, as all cards expire June Is.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
STRIFE ON THE sTYR

London, June 17.-Germans yester-
day engaged the Russians in the
Stokhod and Styr sections, says the
German war office. Parts of the army
of General Bothmer is fighting the
Russians north of Przewloka.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
BROKE UP A BAND

Brownsville, June 17.-United
States troops late last night engaged
g band of between fifteen and thirty
Mexican bandits about ten miles east
of San Benito, Texas, and after ex-
changing a few shots the Mexicans
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

SAFETY FIRST-Bring your pre-
scription to US. Then you KNOW it
will be filled exactly as your doctor
ordered, compounded by thoroughly
experienced druggist. The Anti
Monopoly Drug Store. IDIOT
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

Ask J. J. Gerig why that pile of
sand is stacked up by the sidewalk
in front of the stairway leading up
to the Commercial Club.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
BIG FORCE ON THE BORDER
ANOTHER BORDER ALARM

Laredo, June 17.-Texas rangers
and armed citizens were rushed to
Islitas, twenty miles up the river to-
day on report that Mexican bandits
had been seen approaching. There
are few details. A body of Carranza
troops is in that vicinity.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
EDEN WENT UNDER

The British destroyer Eden has
been sunk, according to London dis
patch. Thirty-one members of the
crew were saved. Three officers are
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
GERMAN SHIPS SUNK

Copenhagen says that Swedish
fishermen report two large German
steamships torpedoed and sunk in
the Baltic last night.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
AMERICANS ARE READY

Funston's army is so disposed that
swift punitive action could be taken
if invited by an overt act of Carran-
za's army. Funston has nearly fifty
thousand men.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
TROOPS WILL MOVE ON HOT
TRAILS

Despite General RicauPs warning
that any American troops crossing
the border will be attacked, soldiers
will cross if on shot trail"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
TOOK A BUNCH OF TEUToNs

Along the Verdun front, in France,
the Germans attacked at Avocourt
with hand grenades last night, says
Paris official statement. In the
Deadman's hill region the lombard
ment was intense.
In the Vosges, after violent bonn
bardment from hill 425 to east of
Thanh, the French infantry penetrat-
ed first and second line trenches and
brought back number of German
prisoners.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
A Week Ago They Were a Hun
dred Miles Away
DASHNG FRENCH ATTACK BROKE THRU THE GERMAN LINES N
THE VOSGES
Press)
(Associated Press)

London, June 17.-The defeat of a
Russian cavalry force south of the
Dneister in Galicia by Austro-Hun-
garians and the starting of general
fighting along the Volhynian front,
was announced in an Austro- Hungar-
ian headquarters statement yesterday,
according to Berlin wireless.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
AGREED AND ADJOURNED
Presidents Request Kept the Suff-
rage Plank in the National
Democratic Platform
ASSOCIATED Press)

Coliseum, st. Louis, June 16, S:45 p.
m.-The democratic convention adopt
ed the party platform by acclamation
and adjourned sine die.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

When you want the editorial de-
partment at the Star Office call five
cne-two rings"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

The Evening Star may always be
found on sale at Gerig's News
Store. 17-u
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

Eat OCALA-MADE bread. There's
none better than Carter's Butter
nut. 2O-n
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
ALMOST AN ULTIMATUM

San Antonio, June 1.-THE atti-
tude of Carranza troops is attract
ing the greatest interest of Funston
and his staff. Bandit activities, how
ever, are given careful attention.
Army officers regard Trevino's warn
ing to Pershing as little less than a
declaration of hostilities since it may
be necessary to send detachments to
pursue bandits menacing outposts at
any time.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17

Glass dishes for block butter at
The Book Shop. 3t
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-17
Pershing's Men, TheySay, Move
at their Peril
CARRANzES OFFICERS SEEM DETERMINED TO INVOLE THEIR
COUNTRY IN A CONFLICT
(Associated d Press)

Washington, June 17.-Gen. Fun
ston has advised the war department
that Colonel Bell at Ell Paso reported
to him that General Pershing has
been warned by Gen. Trevino, Car
rama commander at Chihuahua City,
that any movement of the American
expedition south, east or west would
be the signal for an attack by Mexi-
can forces.
HANNA CAME OVER HOME
Laredo, Texas, June 17.-Phillip G.
Hanna, United States consul general
at Monterey, one of the two remain
ing consuls in Mexico, is here. Half
a dozen Americans came with Mr..
Hanna.
CALLED OUT THE CONSULS
San Antonio, June lit is learn
ed here that Phillip C. Hanna and ].
P. Silliman, United States consul at
Saltillo, were ordered to the Ameri-
can side by the state department.
OFFICIALS NOT INFORMED
Washington, June 17.-Mexican
embassy officials said they were not
informed of any message Trevino had
sent. They declared examination of
what purported to be the text of the
warning published this morning was
sufficient proof that it either was
badly garbled in translation or fab
rication. They didn't doubt, however,
some warning had been sent.
BIG FORCE ON THE BORDER
Practically all available United
States troops are on the border or in
Mexico. The militia of three states
are in service. The guardsmen of
other states were notified weeks ago
to be ready, if called upon.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-28
USE PAPER FOR BEDDING

Paper beds, with paper sheets and
paper pillow cases are now being used
in Germany by the poor. The material
for mattresses and bedding has be-
come so dear that it is impossible for
any but the comparatively rich to af-
for them. The mattresses are now
made of strong sheets of paper pasted
together and filled with dried leaves
of beech and oak, trees. These leaf
mattresses are said to be as comfort
able to lie on as any filled with feath-
crs.
The paper that is used is toughened
by special process, which prevents
it from tearing easily. The leaves
for filling the mattresses and pillow
cases have been collected in the great
German forests by hands Of children
at practically negligible cost.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-28

day, April 21st and the lowest was 25
degrees on Wednesday, April 10Th,
making an absolute weekly range in
temperature of Al degrees. The high
est temperature for this week taken
from SO years of record was 80 de-
grees on April 10, 1910, and the low
est for the same period was 6 de-
grees on April 7, 1885,
The total precipitation for the week
was 0.02 inches which fell during a
fresh gale that lasted about fifteen
minutes Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock
sp. M. There were 4 clear days and
3 partly cloudy days. The duration
Of registered sunshine was 66.4 hours
out of 97.5 hours the sun was above
the horizon, or 68 per cent of pos
sible sunshine. The wind force was
moderate to fresh with prevailing dir
ection from the southwest. The ex-
treme velocity was 46 miles an hour
from the west on the 21st instant
The weather during the week was
generally favorable for farm work
and the farmers in this vicinity are
well under way in the seeding Of
spring grains. Pastures and range
grass made slow progress. However
everything in the vegetation line is
in normal condition fro ma climate.
logical point of view.-C. w. Ling
Observer, Weather Bureau.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-28
WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT

Havre. April %, 1916.-The wealth
er was mostly clear with normal daily
mean temperature, during the seven
cay reriod ending Saturday, April %,
1916. The days were bright and SUM-
ny and the mercury rose daily above
the average high temperature for this
period, yet the nights continued fros-
ty with freezing morning tempera-
lures. This week takes US beyond
the period when the average daily
low temperature falls to the freezing
point. The highest temperature dur
ing the week was 66 degrees on Fri
The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-28
THE PROBLEM OF GOOD ROADS

Next to the things that we eat, the
clothes that we wear, and the roof
that covers us, We are interested in
the roads that We travel.A country
of bads roads is a bad country in
which to live, says the Scientific Farm
er. This has always been so and it is
especially so now that the life Of the
farmer has been enlarged by the auto
mobile and the telephone. Good roads
are essential to reduce the cost of
transportation from the farm to the
market to a minimum as well as to
bring about better social relations
Money spent on intelligent road con-
struction is money we'll spent. But we
are sorry to say that for the last
fifty years the money and effort spent
on road work has been largely thrown
away through the ignorance of those
in charge of road construction and
road repair.
The greatest obstacle in the way of
efficient road construction is the Sec
ton line bogy. Why the publ. has
hung to the practice of making public
roads conform to sec:on lines in spite
of the Typographical features Of the
country through which they are laid
is beyond comprehension.
A road is like a chain which is only
as strong as it's weakest link. AND
one hill or one bad spot makes al err
tire tcn-mile road impossible. There
will never he an efficient road system
in this country until it is made to con.
form to the contour of the surface
The power Of eminent domain must
be invoked and roads laid out ane
tuilt irrespective of individual proper
ty rights. They must follow the
lines of least resistance.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-28

sickness and death decreased-and
with them vice and crime. What has
seemed hopeless struggle for more
than a generation was won.
Other cities in Europe have done
the same and with the same results,
but what makes Liverpool's figures of
unusual value is that the new houses
are occupied by the same people who
occupied the old ones. In some cases
the population on given area in the
new buildings is 80 per cent the same
as that which lived on the area in
the old buildings. So here the effect
of housing is not, complicated by
questions of different occupants, of
better food or clothing or generally
higher standard Of living. The hous-
ing only has been changed and the
results are striking.
Washington is attempting much
the same work, though in a less dra-
matte manner. Congress has enact
ed a law which goes into effect on
July l, 1918, according to which all
the alley dwellings in the District
of Columbia must cease to be used
for dwelling purposes. Meanwhile, in
order that there may be accommoda-
:irn for those who will be forced to
seek rev homes It. street houses,
thnr has been organized limited
H. ls1s that wi be not only sanitary,
dividend company which is to build
houses that will be not only sanitary,
that will provide not only abundance
of light and air, but houses attractive
architecturally, homelike in their ar
rangements and containing bath rooms
and provisions for hot water in place
of the old outdoor closets and n.y.
drants.
Such houses as these cannot, OF
course, yield the return upon the in
vestment that the old houses did. Ir
fact Congress in its act Incorporating
the Ellen Wilson Homes, limited its
dividends to five per cent net. But
they will yield to their stockholders
a dividend in the form Of satisfaction
because of a needed work we'll done
To their tenants they will give relief
from preventable sickness and deatl
and an increase in the joy of liv
ing.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-28
CROP AND LIVE STOCK REPORT

NltOf AMI LlN T. OIONn NLA ON
Washington, d. c., April z, 1916
A summary of the April crop and
live stock report for the State of
Montana and for the United States,
as compiled by the Bureau of Crop
Estimates, and transmitted through
the Weather Bureau, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, is as follows:
Wheat
State-Condition April l this year
IS per cent of normal; eight year av-
erage of condition figures for April
/, "a per cent.
United States-Condition April
this year, 1873 per cent; ten-year av'
erage April l condition 1878 per cent
Rye
State-Condition April this year
SO per cent; ten-year average April
condition, 96 per cent.
United States-Condition April
this year 87-8 per cent; ten-year av
erage April condition, 89.9 per cent
Hogs
State-Losses from disease pas
year, 22 per cent; ten-year average
90 per cent.
United States-Losses from dis
ease past year 6.63 per cent; ten-yeal
average, 6.62 per cent.
Cattle
State-Losses from disease pas
year, Ia per cent; ten-year average
20 per cent. Losses from exposure
past year, 2.5 per cent, ten year av'
erage, 81 per cent.
United States-Losses from dis
ease past year, 1876 per cent; ten
year average, 2.01 per cent. Losse:
from exposure past year, LOT pc
cent; ten-year average l.56 per cent
Sheep
State-Losses from disease pas
vera ,1.5 per cent; ten year average
2.3 per cent. Losses from exposure
past year, 80 per cent; ten year av
erage, 4.3 per cent.
United States-Losses from diseas'
past year, PIG per cent; ten-year av
erage, 2.48 per cent Losses from
exposure past year, PIT per cent; ten
year average, 3.11 per cent.
Horses and Mules
State-Losses from disease pas
year, Is per cent; ten year average
1.8 per cent.
United States-Losses from diseas'
past year, 1.75 per cent; ten-year av
erage, 1876 per cent.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-28
HOUSING AND HEALTH

Plans have just been completed for
he erection of series of model
homes in the City of Washington for
the purpose of demonstrating to the
Nation the relationship between good
housing and good health. These are
to be known as the Ellen Wilson
homes and are not in the nature of
an experiment, but are intended as a
demonstration to the entire United
States.
The intimate connection between
bad housing and bad health and good
housing and good health is clearly re-
cognized in Washington, where the
alley dwellings have long been a mat
ter of concern both to the health
authorities and to public spirited citi.
zens who wish the Capital city te
be an example to the Naion. The
.lleys have been paved, sewers anc
water mains have been laid in them
they are lighted and cleaned as are
the streets, yet they keep their ole
lead over the streets when it comes
20 totaling the figures for disease
md death.
In this, Washington's experience
has been like that of Liverpool ano
other European cities which tried un
successfully to make badly situated
dwellings wholesome by cleaning ane
fumigating. After thirty-three year:
Of unavailing effort TO improve tina
which was fundamentally bad, Liver
pool finally decided that the only hop.
lay in wiping out it's insanitary areas
1t demolished the old houses by th'
acre and in place of them built new
houses. Where dwellings, have beel
crowded so close together that ther'
was scarcely passage room for stou
man to squeeze his way to one Of th'
old rear houses, it built new dwelling
opening upon wide spaces which pro
vided light and air. Immediatel!
The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-28
CANADA NEEDS FARM HANDS
That the farmers of the Dakotas

That the farmers of the Dakotas
and Minnesota are very much exer-
cised over an unprecedented shortage
of labor this spring and summer, es-
pecially during the harvesting season.
is the opinion of Charles A. Buckner,
of Minneapolis, who tells the Wash
ington Post of steps already being
aiken by the boards of trade of the
various cities of the northwest and
the cooperation of Minneapolis mil
!ers.
"When it is realized that the Cana
dian government intends advertising
throughout the United States for
some 10000 farm laborers to replace
those who have enlisted and gone to
he front, the serious position in
which the farmers of the great wheat
growing states of the United States
are likely to find themselves can be
seen. I have information from sourc-
es l have small reason to suestion
that the Canadian railroads will make
a fiat rate of cent a mile to labor
ers from the border line at whatever
their point of entry to their destin-
alton, and that contracts are about
to be let for advertising in some 5000
newspapers of the United States to
secure laborers to harvest the crops
of the prairie provinces. That sub
stantial bonuses will be given there
is little doubt.
"Recent spirited discussions at
meetings of the boards of trade in
Montreal and other Canadian cities
has brought out the fact that further
recruiting of troops would disturb
;; the economic affairs of the country
seriously, and Lord Shaughnessy has
pointed out that there are about 275,-
900 men under arms in Canada who
could not under present transporta-
tion conditions get across the sea for
| 10 or IL months.
"Upon the action of the British
government will depend largely the
proper harvesting of the great wheat
crop of our northwest, for if the Sec
ond Canadian contingent, is to be kept
under arms instead of gathering the
grain of the provinces men must be
had from this side of the border TO,
that purpose"