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Malvern daily record., 1917-02-22
TO ORGANIZE
 CARPENTERS UNION

Robt. A. Pettefer, of Little Rock, General Organizer for the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, arrived in the city this morning, and is today talking to the Carpenters of ths city, in regard to organizing a local union of that craft in this city. Mir. Pettefer states that he is receiving much encouragement from those he has met, and it is probable that a meeting will be held tonight, or tomorrow night to form the organization. He asks. us to state, that those in terested in the matter may reach him by calling the Commercial hotel, where he has his head quarters while in the city.
Malvern daily record., 1917-02-22
SENATE JUGGLES
 |. OF 4. BILL
Strikes Out Names of One Com missioner, and Substitutes Another.

Little Rock, Feb. 22, .43 D. m.-The University removal bill was amended by the Senate today, striking out the name of M. E. Dunaway, as Commission CT, and substituting J S. Maloney, giving the opposition a chance to offer amendment re- stricting expenditures of the two Universities to four-ninths of a mill. It is not known whether the amendments will be accepted or not. Proponents of the bill secured postponement until this afternoon.
 Senator Greenhouse intro- duced an anti-lobbying bill.
Malvern daily record., 1917-02-22
LEAGUE PROGRAM FOR
 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY .25th

Leader-Miss Clarice Baker. subject-"T The Department of Home Missions; What it is and What it Does'
 Song-Ameriea.
 Lesson-Isa 35, 1-10
 Quotations-Miss Laura Lee Hannum.
 Presiding Elders Institute:
 Presiding Elder-R. E. Cloud. Members of Institute-M Misses Irene Smith, Marion Burwell, Marion Murry, Clariee Baker Messrs J. E. Cooper, Van and Olin Harrell, Mcdonald Murry, Morton Garden and D. G. Allen. Special Music.
 League Benediction 6.::30.
Malvern daily record., 1917-02-22
TO ABOLISH STATE
 CAPITOL COMMISSION

Little Rock, Feb. 22.-Both houses of the Legislature have passed bill to abolish the State Capitol Commission, and to make the Secretary of State custodian of the state capitol. An effort was made in the House to substitute a Board composed of state officers, but this failed. The House adopted an amend ment limiting the number of en- ployes under the custodian.
Malvern daily record., 1917-02-22
SERVES ONE HOUR
 IN COUNTY JAIL

Having been convicted in the Justice of the Peace Court of E. W. Thornton, of DeRoche town ship, on the charge of Petit Larceny, and sentenced to serve one hour in jail, Will Mangham, came in this morning, and serv- ed his sentence, after which he was released, and returned to his home.
Malvern daily record., 1917-02-22

Tomorrow, February g, there will be meeting of the Royal Arch Masons at the Masonic hall, for the purpose of confer ing the Royal Arch degree on several candidates. After the business meeting a banquet will be held at the Malvern hotel.
Malvern daily record., 1917-02-22
BIG VICTORY
 FOR PROHIBITION
One-Third of U. s. to Be Bone Dry Under Act Passed Con- gress Yesterday.

Washington, Feb. 21.-Abso- slute prohibition legislation took its longest forward stride in the nations history today when the house, after two hours of up-- roarious debate, approved by 3 four to one majority a Senate measure which would raise an iron-clad barrier against inn portation of liquor into pro- hibition states. It is expected to receive the approval of President Wilson within a week, making about one-third of continental United States " bone dry
 The provision is the most far reaching that could be enacted by the federal government and as sweeping as possible, under any method short of a national prohibition amendment. 1t would cut off entirely liquor im- portations, amounting now to millions of dollars annually, in- to states which have forbidden manufacture or sale, but have permitted importation for per sonal use.
 Ic EEAp aE RIA fTIoNT
 Advocates of prohibition divided among themselves over the expedicency of the step. Some friends of the cause de- clared that so drastic law would have reaetionary effect. In the same way those who have opposed prohibition were not unanimous in opposition when the vote was taken. The roll call brought cheers and cries of ''bone dry from all parts of the house, however, and the result was greeted with a noisy demon- stration.
 The vote was announced as 321 to 72, but a recheck of the roll changed it to 319 to 72. Party lines were broken and re- personalities from prohibition states were recorded in the negative. So large a vote seldom s recorded.
 ALREADY BY THE SENATE
 A provision barring liquor advertisements from the mails in states that prohibit such ad- vertising is included in the measure, which is a rider to the annual postofice appropriation bill, inserted by the Senate last week on motion of Senator Reed by vote of 55 to II. Although appropriation bill will go to con- ference because the house dis agreed to other Senate amend mnts, there is little possibility that the prohibition amendment VII be altered.
 Members of Congress expect President Wilson to approve it. It is said that all the legislative riders, including the Reed a. mendment, will become operative as soon as the president signs the measure.
Malvern daily record., 1917-02-22
 GIBBS

has 3 good mules for sale. Cash ]. or credit, and corn to go with them.
 PHONE 261, or EXPRESS OFFICE
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28
EARLE HARDY, in September Sea Power
A Possible Solution

parently they were outcasts who had
known better times, for one of thon,
ne said, spoke of himself as Judoo
". +. Loper and the other caIleJ
himself Captain Joe Harris. Anntb u
er man in the settlement he rcfnrrod
to simply as "old man Coopero WIZ bo
seems to have been the onlv laq;t;
mate native of the place and apnar
emily the possessor of wife and
family. anu
Into this wilderness region tbaro
came one day a young man who SAID
he had wandered down from COW
ernment station in the North. Ho
said that his name was Brown and
that he hailed from New York He a
was without food or money and .e
asked for chance to work and a
place to stay. According to the old
man, the settlement adopted the
young stranger and Ma Cooper conId
not have treated him better had he
been their own son. 1--WE were
mighty glad he come" said the old
man. "He brought US news and we
hadn't heerd nothin' about the cities
and things for good many wears.
| reckon you amt never wanted to
hear news that bad" And actually
the old man remembered and proceed
ed to repeat to us some of the news
that the young man Brown had told
them years and years before.
For six months or so young Brown
lived in the settlement There were
no trails blazed out of it and it would
have been pretty difficult for him to
get safely to civilization had he want
ed to go. At the end of that time
government surveying party came
to the settlement and lived at the
cabins of these pioneers while they
were working in the vicinity. After
the surveyors had pushed on toward
the coast, young Brown suddenly
said, "This looks like a good chance
for me to see more of the country. |
can follow their trail by the trees
they have blazed." So out of the
settlement he went But it was not
many weeks before he was back
again. Then he went to old man
Cooper and told d story such as the
settlement mad not heard in all its
history. In the first place he opened
bundle he had brought back with
him and poured out quantity of
gold coin. Eve was clean scarf,
said the old man. "when we seen
what he had. But he says that gold
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28

FLORIDA'S MILLION GUESTS
PER YEAR.
(Tampa Tribune.)


Florida entertains a million tourist
guests every year.
Florida raises the first and finest
vegetables and fruits for the national
markst-over $24,000,000 worth last
year.
She produces more Havana cigars
than Havana. Tampa alone turned
out over 28,O00,000 in January-313,-
10000 in 1916. One of Tampa's ci-
gar factories enjoys the unique dis
tinction Of being "Purveyors to the
Court of Spain"
Florida'S fishery industry gives en-
ployment to thousands of men and
hundreds of vessels. Over $4,000, 900
worth of red snapper, shad, green tur-
ties, ETC., are caught annually and
shipped North. The shrimp industry
alone amounts to over $1,OOO,OOO a
year. Express records show $1,000
barrels of raw shrimp shipped out of
Fernandina last year. Over 10000
barrels were canned. Shrimp, oys-
ter and clam canning plants are in
nearly every coastwise town. One
concern in Pensacola has fleet of
thirty vessels constantly catching red
snapper for making canned chowder
and potted fish. A 100000 plant in
st. Petersburg is to catch sharks and
make leather from their skins.
Timber and lumber products with
tar, turpentine and ship stores amount
to over SIS 100000 annually.
Most of the fuller's earth in the
United States and $4,000 worth of
kaolin comes from Florida.
In the mining of phosphate rock for
fertilizers Florida rivals any district
in the world. The total value of
phosphate in 1915 was $3,762,239.
She is the only State that produces
sponges of commercial value. Tar
pom Springs ships more than $780,
600 worth annually.
Her shipyards in Jacksonville are
building vessels to help in the war.
Last year Florida's manufacturing
industries amounted to $71, 1863, ,656.
Her farm products were valued at
S84,335, ,164 and this year they will run
higher. AS Florida newspaper an
nounced lately: "The potato grow
ers of st. Johns County have made
so much money this year that they are
fitting farms up with city conve-
niences. Several farmers in that
county have abandoned lamps and
have put in small electric light plants
to light their houses and grounds"
This little newspaper paragraph
supplies the keynote of great posi-
bilities in Florida for advertising and
selling goods to the well-to-do farm
ers. When man gets to the point of
installing an electric light plant on
his property, he ought to be special
ly good prospect or anything in the
line of labor-s saving machinery, COM
modities of merchandise that men,
bers of his family need.
Manufacturers of most of the COM
forts and luxuries of life ought to re-
alize the opportunity that here opens
itself to them-an opportunity that
will find the best development through
the columns of the leading Florida
newspapers. They are the connec-
ting link between factory and consul
mer.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28
Diphtheria Germs.

Diphtheria germs mr!tiuly SO rapidly
that in tDe course Of twenty-four hours
there may be many m:liomS. Mean
while they are rr"du iIl- diphl heria
toxin. one of the uNo~t powerful poisons
known. which is ahsNri ed by the body
and causes the general symptoms Of
the disease.
The germs enter the body through
the mouth or nose. They may he trans
ing, or they may He transferred to the
lips by the use of the common drinking
cup or other utensil or by fingers soiled
by touching sone object which an in
fected person has just used.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28
Foolish Question.

An official who was making up an
assessment roll because of some recent
street improvements called at each
house on the improved streets to learn
the names of the property owners. At
one house he climbed out of his car,
went to the door and knocked.
"Who owns this rroperty?" he asked.
"Why, | do" the woman answered.
The official get her name and put It
down in his book Then he took a
squfHt at the size of the lot.
How many feet?" he asked.
1.-TWO. of cOurse!" the woman snap
ped, wondering whether he thought she
was Observation-Disclosures News.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28

man Brown Of the wrecking of the
Hornet and the death of his father.
| had become greatly interested in
the story, and soon after this l wrote
to W. H. Moody, then Secretary of the
Navy, making an inquiry cncerning
the Hornet. asked also if there
remained any record of man named
Brown as having been in her crew.
The following reply was received
from the Navy Department.:
Replying to your letter of the %
uftimo requesting information in re-
gard to the U.S.S. Hornet, and asking
whether the name Brown was among
the officers or the crew: you are in
formed that the Superintendent of the
Library and Naval War records Of
flee, to whom your letter ives referred,
reports as follows: Hornet (3rd)
brig, 1S guns, Master Commandant
Otho Norris, U. S. Navy. Ordered to
join the West India squadron and sail
ed from New York February 5, 1929.
Arrived at Pensacola, Florida, March
4, 1929, and ordered to cruise off the
coast of Mexico.
"Reported November 5, 1929 by
Commodore Elliot to the Secretary Of
the Navy to have been dismantled in
a gale of wind off Tampico, and the
U. S. S. Peacock sent to her relief.
December 2S, 1929, Master Command
ant Mccall, of the Peacock, reports
having raised off Tampico an anchor
with forty fathoms chain supposed to
have belonged to the Hornet, consid-
cred lost September 10, 1929, off Tam
pico.'
"The Chief of the Bureau of Navi-
cation to whom your letter was also
referred, reports as follows: The rec
ords of this Bureau and of the Audi
tor for the Navy Department, show a
James Brown to have enlisted April
5, 1928, and to have served as Boy
on board the Fulton to April 80, 1928,
and on board the Hornet to Septem-
ber 10, 1929.
"No further record found of James
Brown, and no other person bearing
the name of Brown found to have
served on board the Hornet in the
year 1922"
Very respectfully,
W. H. Moody.
1t will be seen that the above re-
ports agree with the old mans story.
In regard to the James Brown who
is reported in the above to have serv-
ed as "Boy" on board the Hornet, |
quote from letter received from
Captain William P. Pearde, formerly
of the English Navy: "In the old days
of the navy the term Boy was ap-
piled to a class of boys or men who
were not able seamen. They were
ordinary seamen or apprentices, who
were supposed to do all the mental
work of the shin, such as attending
officers, etc" Many were full grown
men.
Ex-Governor Hendry, who knew
well our old man of the wild and his
story of the Hornet said to me,
"There is doubtless much of truth in
the old mans story" I learned later
that scrub and sawgrass still grow
along the stretch of coast in as wild
a tangle as when the gold is said to
have been buried there, and also. that
as the old man told us, "Tis bad luck
for him that seeks it. and more than
one man has gone stark mad in his
fruitIesS search for the buried treas
ure."
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28

Brown died among the Indians. "But
my story does not end yet," said the
old man, "and let me tell ye, it grows
more and moro Interesting"
Such is the power in gold that the
man Cooper wasn't likely to forget
what he knew; and when the Indian
war was disposed of, another boat was
rugged up, and taking a helper he
started again down the coast. They
found the pass of which Brown had
told them, and the point he had des-
cribed. Scrub and sawgrass and
mangroves grew thick together, and
higher than their heads. Fresh deer
tracks marked the sand at the waters
edge. Bounding out of the boat and
resolving on vension for their sup
per, the two men, for the moment,
forgot the gold in the desire that hun
ger brings.
Soon Cooper, thinking he saw a
deer through the branches fired, find
ing too late that he had shot his COM
rade. So ended attempt number two
to get that 100000 of Mexican gold.
And let me tell you, nothing but dis
aster follows every attempt to get
that gold.
Cooper put his friend into the boat
and went home, and nothing could
ever induce him to 60 to that spot
again. But one day some years la
ter, Cooper lost his anchor in the riv-
er. He needed iron, too, to make his
boat stauncher; and iron, you must
know was none too plenty in that
wilderness region in those early days.
Then Captain Harris, the old coaster,
said to his friend Cooper, 81 came
once upon piece of an old wreck
down the coast. | wouldn't wonder
if might get you the iron you need"
So down the coast he went a1d
brought back pieces of iron long and
strong, and told of the masthead he
had seen still bright with it's trim
mngs.
Then it was that Mr.. Cooper told
Captain Harris what he knew about
the wrecking of the Hornet and Of
the buried treasure.
Not many months after this, grim
death came and claimed the good old
man Cooper. But before he passed
away he raised his right hand end
solemnly repeated to his friend, Cap
tain Harris, what he knew about the
Hurled treasure and its location, and
told again of the gold his eyes had
seen when the young man Brown came
back from the coast.
Captain Harris and Judge Loper
tried more than once to go to the
spot where he told them the gold was
hidden. "But tell ye," and the old
man shook his long forefinger warn
inglv at us, II tell We its bad luck
to the man that does it. More than
one man roves this coast to-day gone
stark mad in its search
The old mans story was done. lie
had given US all he knew, or any one
else knew of the fate of the warship
Hornet
Nevertheless there is more to be
tcld.
And the reader must remember that
those men in that Florida wilderness
had never heard of a warship Hornet
until the young man named Brown
came among them and told his story
and showed them his bundle of MeXi
can gold pieces.
Now comes my sequel to the cd
mans story, and YOU may Judge how
well one tallies with the other. Soon
after the sinking of the Maine in the
Harbor of Havana, an official list
,..,- r,h1;cbaJ rivipr +ho popoac of
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28
Harmonious Effects.

Dent you think some of the comic
pictures are out of all proportion?"
Not at ALL" replied Miss Cayenne.
"Only people who look as they do could
possibly make the remarks attributed
to them. n."-WashingtoH Star.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28
Even More Terrible.

"In Morocco men bid for their wives.
Just think of being put on the auction
block and having men bid for you! 1t
must be terrible"
Must be-" assented the other girl.
"And just suppose there were no bids"
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28
Has High Opinion of Chamberlain's
Tablets.

81 have high opinion of Chamber
lain's Tablets for biliousness and as a
laxative writes Mrs. C. A. Barnes.
Charleston, III. "T have never found
anything so mild and pleasant to use.
Nv brother has also used these tab
let's with satisfactory results" Ack-
Drug Co.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28
The Next Step.

ut is oniy step from life to DEATH"
remarked the invalid father.
''Yes, and a stepfather afterward."
replied the precocious child. - Town
Topics.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28

VIII cure your RheumatisIu
Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps,
Coke, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and
Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects
Etc. ARtiseptic Anodyne, used in
ternally and externally. Price Csc.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-09-28
land where fiction lags at

land where f'c''0A 'AsS Al
J, so,ds Of the Irish orator keI KEEP, !
i'tvrSn ors}n the letter from the
as ,ss,rlsnent rsaea giving in dry, Of II
!, tSe last record of the u
lns'I ssdden impulse, remember
~ i'ud: Of the old yarn spinner,
EIrids 1,r Ia Everglades, l mao a
!. 'tIs' tss Navy Department for
:, '1s 1rseearding the U. S. brig
'I'I 7 had had not even known that
!, .Tsr 1ar been a ship Of that
g. III limited States Navy, and
'ls s,d Tli little thought that l
l.,ire i've any answer to my in
'ss' mis- letter, giving such strlk. $ II :,
..mstion lr,s ion to the story of the
\ I,,"rr''y nsn who was our host for
n 'tI, that far off spot in Flori;
" ' - distinct thrill. l had
mn mon the story of a treasure
/, VAS a true story; a story
and murder and the search
h gold in which men Saerl-
rlveS. -.
s,t0v told us by our host in
W II then the letter written me
srorable An W. H. Moody, Sec
ihe Navy. You may make
|, comparison of facts, names
N, and weigh in your own
!, Drobable truth of the old
tm. I confess that for a
M months it put the idea in
M % hunting for the treas
rs in southwestern Florida,
TT,rd the Everglades, and we
!, Across the cabin of an old
III had lived so long in the
Ed the unrealities of the
Everglades that there was
N preternatural in his fixed
iapses into an distracted
| He told US that he had come
,iis at the end of the Civil
Il had gone into that conflict
Mn the ranks of the Confed-
ri he had come out of it a
sEn Old man. Wounds had
s vitality, but fever and
done worse with him, and
nj had the stamina and ann
Aar up under the competi-
Utilization. So he had wan
Sn to Florida until he had
hnd his home in the thick
yd swamp lands of that re-
sn.
d wanted to climb a tree
B the world behind me, I
he drawled. II reckon for
h fifteen years | lived with
lD humans and then I come
De Niakka River
tIN be impossible for me to
b the old mans narrative in
lge dialect. As he told his
M we're some phrases which
u not understand. But the
ft will give YOU.
Nskka River he had found
fFand a settlement, and there
made his dwelling place.
Eae Two men of the settlement
E'nhe became intimate. Their
we loper and Harris. Ap-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25
SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS NEAR
irish Convention eaid 70 Do on Eve
Of Success.

London. Oct. 24.-In the house Of
commons Henry e. Duke. chief secrs-
tary for ireland, said that last Febr,i-
airy the British government had de-
ported prisoners from Ireland because
Germany was again Offering helping
hand to the Sinn Feiners.
Mr.. Duke declared that the recent
troubles In Ireland had arisen because
the convention was doing well and the
Sim Fsin leaders wish II 10 fail. He
said the government intended to do Ito
utmost to prevent criminal acts with
such intention.
The belief was expressed BY Mr..
Duke that the convention was on the
eve OF . solution Of IT. problems. FIs
announced that while the constitution
was In the making the government
would do it, utmost to avoid the policy
Of n1aking, arrests. which he cOnsid-
cred - likely only to help the seces-
sionist propaganda.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25

GERS elected: Miss Deborah
Roberts, president; Miss Serene
Bisset, vice president; Mrs. E.
Steinbring, secretary; Mrs. N.
Cohen, treasurer. J. F. Drummer
explained the purpose of the
Liberty Bond and how every per-
son could do their share by pur-
chasing Liberty Bonds. The next
Red Cross meeting will be held
Monday evening, October 20, at
the church. Let's have a rous-
ing meeting.