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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
PEank-Giilis Wedding

DR.. F. NJ. Plank of Jacksonville,
formerly of Chattanooga, and Miss
Christian 0. ellis were married this
morning at O'Clock at the home of
the brides sister, Mrs. H. E. Wicker
sham, in this city. Rev. Daniel j. Cur
RE, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, performed the ceremony. In
mediately after the wedding DR.. and
Mrs. Plank left for a tour of the
west, which will occupy several
months, after which they will make
their home in Jacksonville. The
groom is physician of national rep
utation, and the bride is one of Flor
ida's most charming and accomplish
ed ladies. She is especially popular
in Walton county, where she has been
engaged in educational work ever
since she was grown, and her many
friends here wish for all the happi-
ness SO noble woman deserves
DeFuniak Herald.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
Don't Poison Your Child
With that Sickenins
Calomel.

1t IS almost crime to dose children
with calomel-that nauseating, pois-
onous mineral that some folks still
think IS the one thing that will relieve
constipation, headache and other bill
ious conditions. I wouldn't give calo-
mel to a deg unless I wanted to kill it.
When you need liver or stomach
medicine, use safe, guaranteed veg
etable preparation like Martins Liver
Medicine. 1t tastes good. It acts
powerfully on the liver and bowels
without pain or gripping. And it often
saves one from spell of sickness.
One of the best known men in Had
dock, Ca, is c. H. Keller. On the 18th
OF May ne wrote the following letter
to the proprietors Of Martins Liver
Medicine:
Il have FIVE children in school and all Of
them showed decided sallowness and were
very sluggish. l gave each OF them dose
OF Martins Liver Medicine night and morn
ing for two days. Their compilations cleared
mp and they are now normal children in
every respect. The medicine did not inter
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
Will Move to ocaIa to Reside

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Fish of Chicago,
will arrive in Ocala in a few days,
and they expect to make this city
their home.
Mr.. Fish expects to purchase a
stock farm near this city and will
engage largely in the raising of fine
stock. He could have selected no bet.
ter place in the state to locate, as
our numerous splendid stock farms
will attest. Mr.. Fish was referred to
this section by a number of promi.
nent south Florida cattlemen.
At present Mr.. and Mrs. Fish are
visiting in Tampa, the guests of Mrs
Fish's sister, Mrs. Tom Lykes. Mrs.
Fish before her marriage was Miss
Hazel King Of Arcadia.
This paper extends cordial vel
come to Mr.. and Mrs. Fish, and hopes
that they will become permanent resi-
dents of our little city.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
THAT BACkACHE SPELLS DAN
GER
Action Today May Save Oeala People
Future Misery

A bad back isn't bad thing if it
serves as a warning of hidden kidney
disorders. Kidney diseases are fright
fully common today. We over-do so
much. We don't give the kidneys a
chance 20 rest up, and while bad
back, some urinary disorder, an occa-
sional dizzy spell or persistent
headache may be the only outward
sign, the kidney trouble that is be-
hind it all may be overlooked or neg
lected. Put your signs to use. Take
them as warnings. Fight off kidney
weakness. 1t takes only slight kid
ney disorder to start case of fatal
Bright's disease, from which 100000
people die in the United States every
year. Prompt treatment at first
that's all that's necessary to keep
kidney weakness from turning into
gravel, dropsy, govt, heart trouble or
Bright's. Use Doan's Kidney Pills
the Oldest, the most widely used, the
best recommended kidney pill. Fifty
thousand Americans recommend them
publicly Here's one Ocala case:
H. ]. Ashley, Prop of the Ashley
Sheet Metal Works, says: Il used
Doan's Kidney Pills. which I bought
at Gerig's Drug Store, and found them
TO be just as represented. They soon
relieved me of backache and disorder
ed kidneys ! think if taken as d.
rected Doan's Kidney Pills will cure
kidney complaint, and l don't hest
tate giving my name praising them
Price 60c at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Ashley had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.-adv (2)
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
PROTECTING OUR SOLDIERS

One of the great uses of the pro-
ceeds of the sale of liberty loan bonds
ts the protecting of our soldiers in
France-protecting them by arming
and equipping them with every means
of offense and defense and supplying
them with proper food and medical at
tention. and everything needed to
make them powerful and effective
This idea of protection of our SOL
diers has been further enlarged, as
Secretary McAdoo now proposes life
and disability insurance for the men
who go to the front, and adequate pro-
vision for the support and protection
OF their families. A conference was
held in Washington lately with repre-
sentative insurance men Of the coun.
try and it seems that this insuring
will have to be done by the govern
ment, and will not be done by private
insurance organizations. Here is an
other wise and just use of govern
nent funds that should meet with
the approval of the nation.
In speech before the conference
Secretary McAdoo in part said:
1T is crime for great nation to
take man and send him to fight for
his country and refuse to make ade-
quate provision for him and those
who are dependent upon him and
leave them possible objects Of the
charity or generosity of their neigh
bors.
I'VE must see to it not only that
every American soldier is equipped
with the best that American money,
ingenuity and skill can provide, in or
der that he may fight with the utmost
effect and sell his life as dearly as
possible for his country, but we must
see to it also that every American sol
der shall go to the front with the
comforting and supreme satisfaction
OF knowing that his loved ones will
not be dependent upon charity, but
that they are as much entitled to COM
pensation for what they are sacrific-
ing in order that he may go to the
front as he is entitled to compensa-
ton for what he does at the front. -
Official Bulletin.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
DEATH OF LITTLE ETHEL MIL
DRED HUFFMAN

Little Ethel Mildred Luffman of
Oak died at the Marion county hos
pital in Ocala a few days ago This
little one was the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George huffman. She was three
ly little girl, and her death has caus-
ed an aching void in the hearts of
her parents that can never be filed.
The parents have the sympathy of
their many friends in their great be-
reavement.
The remains of little Ethel Mildred
were laid to rest in the family burial
grounds at Anthony, Rev. STRIPPING of
Oak conducting the funeral services.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Camp and sons
Henry and Clarence left Tuesday aft
ernoOn for Lake Toxaway, where
they will spend month with Mr.
Camps sister, Mrs. G. F. Armstrong
of Savannah, at her beautiful summer
home in the mountains. The first OF
September Mr.. and Mrs. Camp expect
to go to Buffalo, Y. Y, for a couple OF
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. E. r.
Fitch, after which they will go to
Muncie, Indiana, for short visit with
Mr. and Mrs. c. p Johnson, and en-
route home will visit relatives in east.
ern Virginia.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
GEN. z. Nj. LAW

Gen. E. NJ. Law of Barlow, who has
for several years been the ranking Of
ficer of the Confederate army, having
been a major-general at the close of
the civil war, is spending the summer
months at the place of his birth, Oar
lington, S. c., where he and Mrs. Law
are mingling with a host of friends
and relatives.
Gen. Law, who has done much to
love a nation into peace" has writ
ten the editor of the Times an appTe-
ciated personal letter, in which he ex-
presses JOY at the fact that the ma
tion, at the time when it was thrust
into the war against Germany, was
firmly reunited. He rightly gives
credit for restored unity to the vet
Grams of the Union and Confederate
armies-the men who did the fighting
in the great war of brother against
brother, and then took up the work
of healing the nations wounds.
Gen. Law, who has devoted his life
to educational and newspaper work,
will return to Barlow in the fall. He
is a member of a commission which
will place a statue of the Confederal
general, Kirby Smith, a Floridian, in
the halls of congress during the win
ter months. He is one of Floridas
most beloved citizens-Tampa Times.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ. Howard return
ed home the middle of last week from
a short visit with Mr.. Towards faith
er. DR.. H. c. Howard, ar Champaign,
Illinois They went to Champaign in
Mr. Towards brothers. car, Mr.. Mar
shall Bowler driving, and they had a
very delightful trip. Returning they
went to Baltimore. and came down by
boat to Jacksonville. Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard went up to Champaign espe-
cially 10 be with DR.. Howard on his
birthday, which was celebrated on
July 18th, with a reunion of the How
ard family.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

iere with them in school and did nc, srip~
like liver medicine formerly used. Ny youn
est child, three years old. vas sick last sumo
mer and 1t took careful nursing and ne n
tention OF physicians to save him. and ava
sure that few doses OF Martini Ii,
Medicine has prevented recurrence Of III.
same trouble. Therefore / feel II my dstv
10 others to let them know what Martins
Liver Medicine did in my home"
You run no risk in buying Martins
Liver Medicine. It is a recognized
standard preparation, made according
to the prescription Of a prominent
Southern physician. 1t is composed
of absolutely pure drugs and is guar
anteed to give positive satisfaction.
If after taking a bottle Of it you are
dissatisfied with the result, carry the
empty bottle to your druggist and
you will receive your soc back.
If your druggist hasn't Martini
Liver Medicine, he can easily get il
for you. Do not accept any substi-
tute. There is no other medicine
"just as good"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

DR.. Jack Halton and wife of Sara
sofa came up from that town Sunday.
Mrs. Halton returned last evening,
but DR.. Halton remained over and
left on Wednesday for Fort OgIe-
thorpe, Ga, where he will join the
army medical corps DR.. Halton is
one of the most popular and widely
Tribune. Mrs. HaltOn was formerly
Miss Edna Swain of Anthony
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
Mr.. Frank Sanders Married in This
City on Sunday

The many Ocala friends of Mr..
Frank D. Sanders were very much
surprised Sunday night to learn that
he had been very quietly married in
the afternoon at the district Metho
dist parsonage in this city, the pre-
siding elder, Rev. Ira Barnett, per-
forming the marriage ceremony. Mr.
Sanders bride was Miss Lillian Nor
rison, very charming and attractive
young Inverness girl, member of a
prominent family of that place. Mr..
Sanders and Miss Morrison motored
up Sunday from Inverness in Mr.. San
ders' car, and accompanied by Mr.
Emerson, of the Florida Title and Alb
Istract corporation drove to the parson-
age, where they were married in the
presence of several other witnesses.
Immediately after their marriage Mr.
and Mrs. Sanders returned to Inver-
ness, where they will be for the pres.
ent, but later will probably make
their home in Jacksonville, where Mr..
Sanders is connected with the Jack
sonville Abstract Company For sew
eral years he resided in Ocala being
with the Florida Title and Abstract
Corporation, and has a host of warm
friends here who are interested in
learning of his marriage, and congrat-
ulate him on winning so lovely a
young wife.
MIR Sanders is from Brooksville. be-
ing the eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. B. Sanders of that city, and he is
nephew of Mrs G. W Martin, Mrs.
R. G. Blake and Mr.. Britt Sanders Of
this city, and also a nephew of Mr.
Robert Sanders of Dunnellon.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03
GIRLS! LEMON JUICE is SKIN
WHlTENER
How to Make Creamy Beauty Lotion
for a Few Cents

for a Few Cents
The juice of two fresh lemons
strained into bottle containing
three ounces of orchard white makes
a whole quarter pint of the most re-
markable lemon skin beautifer at
about the cost one must pay for a
small jar of the ordinary cold creams.
Care should be taken to strain the
lemon juice through a fine cloth so
no lemon pulp gets in, then this To-
ton will keep fresh for months. Ev-
cry woman knows that lemon juice is
used to bleach and remove such blem-
ishes as freckles, sallowness and tan
and is the ideal skin softener, whiten-
e rand beautifier.
Just try it! Get three ounces of or
chard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and
make up quarter pint of this sweet
ly fragrant lemon lotion and massage
it daily into the face, neck, arms and
hands.-adv.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Miss Martha Kate Rentz, who is
the guest of Mrs. j. H. Mason in Tam.
pa, is being most delightfully."- enter
tanned in that city, and is having a
wonderfully good time. On Tuesday
night Miss Rentz will be the honor
guest at swimming and supper par
ty, at which Mr.. Guy Zewadski will be
the host, and she will be the guest of
honor at several other social func-
tons.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. r. T. Adams and
Carmichael's pretty cottage on Fort
King avenue, where they are keeping
house. Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael and
littel daughter have moved to the
Carmichael farm on the river for the
present.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Dewitt Griffin have
returned from Bradentown, where
they have had charge of the Manavis-
ia Hotel since the first of April. Mr..
Griffin has returned 10 the Elk.
change National Bank.-Tampa
Times. Mr.. Griffin is a Marion coun-
ty boy, being one of the sons of Mr..
and Mrs. A. r. Griffin of Anthony.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Capt. S. r. Pyles. who has been in
South Carolina with relatives for
some time past, has returned home
Captain Pyles was very i'll while he
was away, but is now much better.
He was accompanied home by his
daughter, Miss Catherine Pyles, who
has been visiting relatives for some
time in Indiana and South Carolina.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mrs. L. W Deal and baby of St. Pc
tersburg are the guests of the Misses
Brooks for a few days. after which
they will visit Mrs. Deals aunt, Mrs.
J. H. Dunn. Mrs. Deal was formerly
Miss Ruth Moore, and lived in Ocala
for several years.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mrs. W. J. Frink, who has been
spending the past three weeks in
Ocala visiting her father, Mr.. D. E.
McIver, left on last Friday for
Gardner, near Arcadia, where she will
join Mr.. Frink, who is with a sawmill
at that place This was Mrs. Frink's
first visit home since her marriage
in April, and her friends made her
visit an exceedingly pleasant one.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Miss Ossie Griffin of Anthony is
spending few weeks with the fam.
lily OF her brother. Mr.. ]. Arthur Grit
nn' OF Tampa, who are summering at
Haven Beach.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

The Ocala friends of Mrs. Dallas T.
Jeffcoat and children will be sorry to
know that they will not return to
Ocala to reside. They will make their
home at Plant City, and for the pres
ent are with Mrs. Jeffcoat's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Spier, in that city.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr. Harper Atkins of this city, who
has been with the Tampa Times for
some time past. expects to return
home on Saturday. He expects to go
to the army.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

MI Joseph Shuford expects to
spend the next month or six weeks in
Asheville, N c., visiting neighbors
and friends.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. A R. Sandlin of Or.
lando drove up to Ocala Sunday after
noon in their car for a short visit
with Ocala friends.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. Earl Davenport OF Belleview.
who is well known in this city. has
been spending the past few days in
Brooksville.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Colonel and Mrs. John VI. Martin
expect to leave in few DAYS for
Biltmore, North Carolina, where they
will remain until fall.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Dixie claims that the hundred booze
joints in Jacksonville caused the city
to lose the concentration camp.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. Arthur Masters, formerly of
this city, but who is now secretary
OF the Tampa Association Of Credit
Men, was we'll known visitor to the
city Monday, arriving on the limited
for short visit.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Anderson have
returned home from Atlanta, where
they spent a week, going up espe-
cially TO see their three sons, Messrs.
Robert, Leslie and Edward Anderson.
all of whom are at Fort Mcpherson.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Osborne and
Miss Gladys Osborne have gone to
Plant City and Tampa for few days,
going down in their car.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Pasteur and chill
dren returned home Sunday night
from Daytona Beach.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-08-03

Mr.. Earl Hester of Leesburg, for
merly of this city, enlisted last week
in the United States army.
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-08
FOOD "sHoRTAGE"?

FOOD SHORTAGE? - How
much longer are the people Of this
city going to submit to extortion
perhaps highway robbery would be
the filter teTm) in connection with
the food prices? While the dealers
are merriIy boosting prices and the
newspapers are aiding them by pub
fishing articles about food shortage,
the farmers in Iowa are wondering
what all this hallabaloo is about.
No wonder, for here is what the
farmers around Knoxville, Iowa, re-
ceived for their products during
Christmas week, when Chicago deal
ers were busy bleeding their custom
ers. For fresh candled eggs they got
just "a cents dozen, while you, Mr..
Easymark, paid so cents. For but
ter they received % cents a pound;
for cream, SO cents a gallon; for Ivel
hens, IL cents a pound; roosters, 6
cents a pound; broilers, Is cents a.
pound; ducks, 10 cents a pound;
and for turkeys, for which we are
annually ''held Up," they received 20
cents pound for young ones and IA
cents pound for old ones.
Ponder on this, you who paid 80
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-08

ing Mrs. Byrne to eat in brutal
manner, because she teaches truth,
science and birth control
Why is patriotism dead? Because
unjust law declares children illegiti-
mate and Furnishes parents for mar
rying. Why are Socialists gaining?
Because mothers are starving, chill
.dren are hurled into institutions and
mothers are sent to hell. This is the
law in free America.
A. pension of $50 month to every
woman with a baby will enable every
woman to kick out bodily every
drunken husband and worthless male
companion, and give all Magdalenes
a channce to live for her child part of
the time, instead of all her time for
worthless blisters who won't work.
Woman would be cleaner and more
particular about her male compah-
ions because she would have $50 a
month steady income. = Allen Ste
ven, 1854 N. Robey.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-08

license, but from a general contempt
for all laws that seems to invariably
follow in the wake of dry legislation.
The teaching of moderation and the
use Of light wines and good beer will
develop industrious, healthy, intelli-
gent, weI-behaved and sober citi-
zens. - Herman F., ZierVogel, 1888
W. Hastings.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-08
MOTHERS
UNIVERSAL

UNIVERSAL MOTHERS PEN
SlONS. = Judge Neil is one Of best
friends that woman ever had. But l
would go even further. Iwould give
every woman who dares to have
baby, whether married OF single, $50
a month, with no questions asked.
We could then put all investiga-
tors, snoops, rubbernecks, charity
regulators and anaemic reformers to
some useful productive labor, such
as hoeing potatoes, instead Of keep
ing them on the charity payrolls,
dead expense, that must now come
out of the poorly-paid workers.
The morals court would have to
shut down, because the visible sup
ply of misery would be cut OF. There
is only one worse he'll shop on earth
than the morals scarlet letter"
courts, and that is the saloon or the
war in Europe.
In some respects the European
war is more humane, because it kills
men, women and children instantly,
while our puritan morals court tor
lures women from the time they be-
come mature and healthy to their dy-
ing day. Even the child is followed
unto the third and fourth genera
ton between head. experts, psyche
pathic know-it-alls, morals inspec-
tors, investigators and virtuous, bald
headed judges who, like Solomon,
have waxed old in years, ready to say
"All is vanity and anguish of spirit"
Read PearsOn's magazine for Feb
ruary and March, if you do not be-
lieve me. Read it and then please
tell me all that the American flag
stands for" Why do people often
say "to hell with the flag and the
constitution? Because oficialdom
enforces unjust laws. such as fore
Connecticut western news., 1917-06-21
HUBERT BILL APPROVED.
Congress Expected to Hasten Plan For
 Gigantic Air Fleet.

Congress Expected to Hasten Plan For
 Gigantic Air Fleet.
 The administrations program for an immediate appropriation of $600,00O- 00O for aircraft building was acceler- afed by assurance given to leaders in both houses of congress that the sen- ate subcommittee of the military af- fairs committee had practically decided to report favorably upon the Sheppard Hubert bill to create department of aerunautics, the head of which shall be . member off the cabinet.
 One of the most important witnesses before the committee will be Brigadier General George O. Squier, chief of the signal corps of the army who will give the benefit of his experiences on the western front during recent tour He gives unqualified support to the air craft program evolved by the war col Iege in conjunction with the aircraft production board of the Council of Ma tional Defense and asserts that the United States can give the allies su- premacy over Germany in the air and through it's greater power in that fight ing arm hasten the defeat of the cen tral powers. ,.