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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
MEETING OF MARION PRODUCTS
COMPANY.

A meeting of the members of the
Marion Products company was held
Friday night at the board of trade
rooms, with Mr.. A. A. Winer, presi-
dent, in the chair.
The most important business of the
evening was the consideration of the
charter of the company, which was
adopted, and will be published at an
early date. This charter refers princi-
pally to the manufacture of the now
very important peanut, which is SO
we'll adapted to this particular sec
ton, and it's many bi-products, in
Guiding peanut butter, peanut oil, etc.
After the adoption of this charter
the election of vice-president was
taken up, this office falling to Mr. D.
S. Welch, and board of directors as
follows: Messrs. j. NJ Meffert, w T.
Gary and E. NJ. Osborne.
The lineup of this new concern is
a positive guarantee of its success, all
of the above named gentlemen being
practical and successful business
men, and will prove very important
move in the development of this and
surrounding counties.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
RED CROSS COMFORT KITS FOR
THE SOLDIERS.

Washington, Sept. 15.-Half mil
lion circulars on the making of com
fort kits and bags were issued today,
by the American Red Cross The
ton at any Red Cross Chapter. A
million comfort kits are to be made
at once for the men of our army and
navy. A million more will be made
for the Russian Revolutionary army,
as pledge of cheer to the allied ar
mics on the eastern front. The Red
Cross is to be under no expense for
these kits, all being provided as gifts
from the women who wish to make
them.
Miss Florence Marshall director of
the Woman's Bureau announced that
the circular embodied the suggestion
of the war department, of General
Pershing and of Major Grayson NJ P.
Murphy as to what the men wanted.
Three types of kits are suggested, a
with pockets, one for the trenches
and one suitable for hospital use.
Anything similar will be gladly well
coined The kits are to be made Of
plain khaki Colored cretonne has
not been advised because it is dan
gerously visible when carried by
troops at the front.
The circular is illustrated with dia-
grams of each type of bag. II lists
the personal equipment given TO each
enlisted man by the war department,
in order that women may not dupli-
cate these articles in filling the COM
fort kits. But ii also notes that the
regular outfit of any soldier is liable
to be lost or destroyed and that ad-
ditional supplies even of his neces-
stiles may be welcome to him al the
front
The Red Cross Commissioner in
France has advised about comfort
kits as .; ,wa
They should contain pipe and 10
bacco pouch, heavy socks. handker
chiefs, "a h cloths and soap. nouth
organ or game, pencil, writing paper
or pad, and envelopes, and if not toe
expensive, single-bladed knife and
spoon.
1 They should be made OF stout ma
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
GOVERNOR EMPLOYS COUNSEL
FOR HIS DEFENSE IN SUIT.

Tallahassee, Sept. 14.-Col. w. c.
Hodges, well known lawyer of ITALIA
hassee, a candidate for governor on
the Bull Moose ticket at the time Park
Trammell was elected chief executive,
has been employed by Gov. Sidney ].
Cats to represent him in the suit of
ID. G. Ten Brook, of Fort Lauderdale
supervisor of Broward county, who
claims that the chief executive in con.
versation at Jacksonville recently
damaged his (Ten Brook's) character
to the amount of $4,000.
The suit, filed by w. I. Evans, a
Fort Lauderdale lawyer, in the circuit
court of Duval county, is an action for
alleged SANDER Service of the writ
was made on Gov. Cats at Tallahassee
in the executive offices by one of the
deputy sheriffs of Leon county. Attor.
ney William G. Hodges has written
the clerq of the court at Jacksonville
for copy of the declaration. The writ
is returnable on the next rule day,
October I, at Jacksonville in the
court of Judge George Copper Gibbs.
Asked what he thugh of the mer-
its in the case, Col. Hodges, who is
said to have succeeded Col William
W. Flournoy of DeFuniak Springs as
personal legal adviser of the governor,
said that he would have to see the
declaration before he would know
positively what Ten Brooks charges
ara.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
Attest:
Attest:
FRANK HARRIS,
AdjJtant General and Chief OF
Staff.
DEATH OF MR.. w. w. HOWELL

Anthony is mourning the death OF
Mr.. w. w Howell, father of Mr.
James E. Howell Mr.. Charley Howell
and the late Mr.. Lee Howell.
The deceased was 50 years of age
and came to this county frim Mis-
souri, in 1883
Mr. Howell was a splendid citizen
and led blameless, upright life.
He was taken with commissions
Monday morning and was sick only
few hours
he was buried at Anthony Tuesday
afternoon and the funeral was largely
attended
He leaves a wife, a daughter-in-law
the two sons already mentioned and
host of friends to mourn his death
This paper sympathizes with the af
flicted ones in their bereavement.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
may be had from the division supply

may be had from the division supply
service.
The suggestion for hospital kits de-
scribes the making of a souvenir
pocket, where the invalided soldier
may store his little collection of
treasures which more often than not
includes a scrap of shell or the bull
let that brought him to the hospital.
No playing cards are to be included
in the kits that go to Russia, and no
mouth-organs or knives and scissors
for the hospital kits.
A list of additional articles is sug-
gested that may be added if indi-
viduals desire to have their bags par
ticularly full of plums for the man
"out there"
Blotting paper, chewing gum. choco-
late (if wrapped in tin fold. corn
plasters, collapsible cups. compressed
tea-tablets, compressed matted milk
tablets. scrapbook containing good
story of jokes, gaiter-laces, khaki-coI-
ored, garters, knife. two bladed. such
as boy scouts use. marbles, nail brush,
pinboll with pins, puzzles, scissors.
folding in sheath; water-tight match.
box, postcards, shoe laces. black for
the navy, khaki-colored for the army.
slippers, especially for hospital kit:
talcum powder. tape. white. black or
khaki-colored. toilet paper.
Completed articles should be sent.
If possible. to the nearest Red Cress
chapter When this cannot be done.
they should be sent directly to the
Red Cross division supply service
in the nerest of the following cities:
Boston. New York. Philadelphia,
Washington. Atlanta. New Orleans.
ST. Louis, Cleveland. Chicago. Mime
apolis. Denver. San Francisco or Sc
attic.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
OFF FOR THE ARMY,
Twenty-three of Marion's Select Men
Left at 1:15 p. M. Wednesday
Over the A. C. L. for Camp
Jackson

Wednesday at 1:15 p. m. twenty
three of Marion's select men left over
the Atlantic Coast Line Railway in
charge of Mr.. Mordecai N Gist for
Camp Jackson, there to go into train
ing and afterwards to become a part
of the American army in France.
Besides Mr.. Gist the following are
the names of the other young men
comprising this contingent:
Henry G. Shealy, Walter E. God
win, Harmon L. Clemmons, Rufus D.
Walker, James NJ. Harper, William
F. Adams. William K Finley, Angus
T.. Knight, John w. Muldrow, George
Eglezos, Arthur r. Hogan, William F.
Sherrouse, Riley NJ. Boulware, Wellie
Weber. George H. Dewitt, John L.
Leitner, Jr.; Virgil J. Randall, Lee P
Dupuis, Charlie H. Grannis, Burton
H Hooker, JUNE A. Perkins, Charlie
A Hicks.
In Washington city when these Sc.
lect men started on their journey for
the seat of war the president of the
nation headed the great demonstra.
ton that escorted them to the depot
to do them honor
One hundred thousand joined in the
demonstration in New oYrk city.
In Jacksonville the mayor headed
a great demonstration that paid these
men fitting honor and in all of the
smaller towns of the state similar
honors were shown them.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
PRESENTATION OF COMFORT
BAGS TO COMPANY 4

Just after retreat Saturday after.
noon the members of Company A
Second Florida Regiment, National
Guard, marched from the armory to
the public square to receive the Com
fort Bags" that has been made for
them by many of the ladies and girls
of Ocala and other portions of the
country
Rev. Bunyan stephens, of the Bap
fist church, was chosen to present the
comfort bags to the boys and he did
this pleasing duty in a few we'll
chosen words of comfort and praise
for our soldier boys and with appreci
alton to the mother, wives, sisters and
daughters who have in all things and
at all times the comfort of their sol
der boys at heart.
Every member of the company was
presented with one of these bags and
when Mr.. Stephens had finished his
|speech assisted by Mr. Chazal. Mr.
Gilman nand several others, the bags
were distributed with the hope that
in their camp-life they will form q
great comfort 10 them.
The comfort bags were gotten VI
through he efforts OF Mrs G. \. Oft
mann. and her thoughtflllness in mi.
matter is very greatly appreciated b.
the members OF Company A
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
WANTS INFORMATION.

Trenton, Fla, Sept. -, 1917
OCala Banner,
Ocala, Fla
Gentlemen:
viii you kindly put me in touch
with the manufacturing plants OF
your city who might be interested in
buying good pine wood to be shipped
from Hardee over Dunnellon- Wilcox
branch, A. c. l..
Yours truly,
A. P. HARDEE.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21

her share of Florida's allotment.
The Ocala Board of Trade has ap-
pointed a special committee to look
after this matter and this committee
will see to it that Marion gets her
full share.
1t never was needed worse than 1t
is needed just now. We wish The
amount was many times larger.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
A GOOD OMEN.

The farmers of Manatee county it
is stated, are getting ready to kill
the weevils that usually infest corn
in the cribs. They have taken the
first steps by putting their cribs in
shape for fumigating the corn. I'VE
hope to put all our corn to better
use than weevils feed by using car
bon bisulphide and silos," they ex-
plain.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
MEETING OF CONFEDERATE VET
ERANS IN JACKSONVILLE
GENERAL ORDER N. 7.
To All Florida Camps Confederate
misunderstanding:

To All Florida Camps Confederate
misunderstanding:
Comrades:
AS heretofore stated the next Re-
Union of the State Division of the
United Confederate Veterans will
meet in the city of Jacksonville on
Tuesday and Wednesday, October eth
and 10th
The Seminole Hotel has been
selected for general headquarters
and the sessions will be held in
the spacious assembly hall of that
hotel on the tenth floor, the same
having been generously and gratuti-
ously put at the disposal of the di-
vision.
Owing to the wOTld-war in which
our nation is now an active partici-
pant all social functions which have
hitherto been the most pleasing fea-
lures of our annual Reunions will
be omitted
Borrowing the language of General
West of the Third Brigade the gen
eral commanding hopes that the Ia
dies will graciously pardon our ap-
parent want of gallantry and will pat.
riotically accept the conditions
through which the nation is passing as
a fitting justification for our so do
ing.
All camp dues and full reports are
requested to be sent to division head
quarters at once.
BY command of
ALFRED AVER,
General Commanding
Attest:
FRANK HARRIS,
AdjItant General and Chief of
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
LEMON JUICE IS FREckLE RE-
MOVER
Girls! Make This Cheap Beauty 10.
ton 20 Clear and Whiten
Nour eli,


Squeeze the juice OF two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
Of orchard white, shake well. and you
have quarter pint OF the best
freokle and tan lotion and complexion
beautiier. al very. very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter VIII
supply three ounces OF orchard white
for few cents Massage tlAs sweet.
~ fragrant lotion into the face. neck
arms and hands each day and see
how freckies and blemishes disap.
pear and how clear soft and white
he skin becomes Yes + IS harm
less. I'D
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
MARION TO GET HER SHARE OF
GOOD ROADS MONEY.

The United States government has
made certain appropriation for good
roads to be apportinoed to the several
states and of course Florida comes in
for her share and Marion county for
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21

AR and Mrs ? Phillips have
returned from a very thoroughly en-.
1ovabie motor "trip on The east coast
going as far south as Miami Home-
stead. Cocoanut Grove. etc. They had
Is their guests on this trip Dr ana
Mrs ] NJ Gross.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21

Miss Isabelle Davis will return to
Sutherland shortly to continue her
studies at Southern College.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21

Fifteen new silos have recently
been erected in Duval county. A suo
is an evidence Of good farming.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-09-21
HOME FROM THE WAR ZONE

Miss Ruth S. Whittier, F. N, is at
home at Belleview for awhile from
her two years work in the war zone.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
CITY PLANTS SHADE TREES
Women of Oakland, Cal, Aid superin-
tendent of Parks in Beautifica-
tion of Residence Streets.

All of the big residential streets in
Oakland are to be planted with shade
trees, according to Lee S. Kerfoot, SUI
p~erintendent of parks. He will be as
sisted in the matter by local society
women.
The plan had its inception at after
oon teas and other social gatherings
where society women met. The sub
ject of lining the residence streets
with trees of uniform growth and
species vas often discussed, and a
committee appointed to take the mat
ter up.
According to the park superintend-
ent, the plan is to use trees grown
by the city In its Conservatives in
Lakeside park. Poplars, willows and
EUCALYPTUS will probably be used, and
no two varieties will be planted on
any one street.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
PLAYERS "WITH A PAST"
ARE POPULAR THIS YEAR
Return to Big Leagues Of Bobby WAL
lace, Veteran Of Veterans, Shows
Trend of the Times.

Major league magnates and mana
gers are showing a strong preference
this year for ball players with a
past"
In ordinary times the big league
pilots pay little attention to pill toss
ers who have seesawed back and forth
from the minors to the big show. They
usually break their necks bidding for
the 'phenoms" who spring up in the
tall and uncut sticks, and they have
paid some fabulous prices for this class
of players.
But 1917 is no ordinary year. The
majors have been slow to sign young
sters and seemingly eager to jump at
the chance of getting players who
have had big league experience, but
who, because of age or some minor
defects, have failed to stick on big
time.
The recent signing of Bobby Wal
lace by the Cardinals is a most vivid
example of this tendency. Bobby
Wallace, the veteran of veterans; a
player whose name appeared in the box
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
NOT ALL HEROES AT FRONT
Manus Dugoan, Twenty-Year-old
Irish Lad, Saves 25 Miners, but
Loses His Own Life.

Not all the deeds of bravery are In
the war zone. When a fire in the
Spectator mine, near Butte, Mont, en-
tombed several hundred men and
brought death to las others, a twenty
year-old Irish lad named Manus Dug
gan, known as a ''nipper boy" or tool
boy, saved 20 miners by his GOODNESS
and s~elf-sacriflce. But he paid for de-
votion to duty with his life. His body
was taken from the mine five days
later.
When the first flash of flames, smoke
and deadly gas cut off all retreat from
the mine, Duggan was caught with n
number of companions In n distant tun-
mel. Reared in the mines at Butte,
he knew every nook and turn in the
underground workings. He guided a
party of miners through the tunnels to
n spot comparatively free from gas
and fire. There he constructed a tenn
porary bulwark. He had few timbers
at hand, and principally put off the
fires approach by building a wall of
dirt, rocks and clothing taken from his
companions and the bodies of those
who already had fallen victims to the
fire. AS fast as one temporary wall
was thus constructed, he fell back with
his charges and built another. He
finally directed the party to a point
where their rescue was effected by
miners from above. Whether the boy
turned back to seek others or was
overcome while building his last de-
Tense against the rapidly approaching
flames and gas, no n seems to know.
But he died at his post and his body
was buried among the victims Of the
grim tragedy.
But what he did will never perish
from the memory of % men who owe
their lives to the 'nipper boy" Manus
Duggan.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Love Schedule.

Girls in love amt no use during the
whole blessed week. Sundays they're
looking down the road, expectin' he'll
come. Sunday afternoon they can't
think of anything else cause he's here |
Monday mornings they're kind Of
sleepy and dreamy, and slimpsy and
good for nothing on Tuesday and We'd
nesday, Thursday they get absent
minded and begin to look off toward
Sunday again, an nope around and
let the dishwater get cold right I'M
der their noses. Friday they break
dishes and go off in the best room
and SWIVEL an look out of the winder.
Saturday they have queer spurts of
workin' like all possessed, an spurts
of frizin' their hair. An Sunday they
begin it all over ag'in.-Coopersville
Sun.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
CornmeaI Pancakes.

Take two cupfuls of -four sifted
with a ~teaspoonful and q half of bak-
Ing powder, with the same amount of
salt. Add a cupful and a half OF boil
ing water to a h%alf-cupful of cornmeal,
cook five minutes, turn into a bowl and
add one and a fourth cupfuls of milk,
n beaten egg, a third of a cupful of
sugar and the flour mixture. Stir well,
then add two tablespoonful of melted
shortening. Cook on u creased griddle.
Mush that has been nodded makes a
delicious breakfast dish, by frying the
slices in a little hot fat.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
A Vermont Genius.

New England, If we may accept the
testimony of the Harwick (Vermont)
Gazette, will not let itself be outdone
by ancient Greece. Zeuxls, who paint
ed grapes so naturally that the birds
came to peck at them, has his worthy
rival in Timothy Tripe, a Bellows Falls
sign painter.
Tripe completed q mail-order course
in sign painting a few days ago, and to
show his skill, and incidentally to get
a little free advertising, he painted a
board fence on the side of a barn that
faced on the main street. It was q
success artistically, but it got Tripe in
to trouble.
1t looked so natural that several
farmers skinned their knuckles trying
to hitch their teams to 1t, and num-
berless English sparrows wore them
selves out trying to alight on it. They
would slip down the side of the barn,
hit the ground, assume a worried x
preston, and fly away.
The climax came recently. Tripe
has a vicious bulldog, named Francis
X. Bushman. The dog chased a book
agent down the street. The stranger,
in trying to get away, attempted to
jump the fence, and drove his head in
to the barn. He recovered sufficiently
to consult a lawyer, and a lawsuit may
result.-Youth's Companion.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
How Trenches Are Dug.

Each man in an officers training
camp is given an intrenching shovel,
about the size of a big tablespoon, and
a small pick. He is expected to dig his
trench with those small tools. Each
man must start lying fiat on his
stomach and dig himself into the
ground. In about two hours an entire
system of trenches, beginning with the
skirmishers' trench, and ending with
the reserve trench, is finished, together
with the parapets in front to protect
the men from the front to protect the
men from the enemy's fire, and the
paradoes behind to keep out pieces of
bursting shell. After the men have
dug their trenches down so they are
out Of range they sometimes get a
shovel a little larger than their in
trenching tool. That helps consider
ably, for the intrenching tool takes out
about a quart of earth with each move
ment. Each man carries his intrench-
Ing tools on his back.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11

had to change my views. It's the other
way around. They are ~elevating me-"
Mrs. Flavia Bayes stared in speech
less amazement at her son. Things
had come to a worse pass than she had
even suspected.
"HiltOn Bayes! Are you losing your
senses?" she gasped.
81 hope not" he answered quietly.
Hadn't l better go now and look over
those repairs you asked me to see
about2"
He did not wait for further discus
sion. but went out of the room.
Mrs. Bayes was plainly troubled
about her son, and the situation was
aggravated when Helen Berkeley
called and inquired If Hilton was still
doing those queer stunts down in the
Bowery." She laughingly wondered
what he thought he was going to
achieve by his dip into socialism. The
very word socialism" had a startling,
ominous sound to Mrs. Bayes. Good
heavens was her son being branded
as a SOCIALISM" This certainly was
the last straw. Then she opened her
heart to Miss Berkeley and told her
how troubled she was over the turn
Hilton had taken and how powerless
she seemed to be to influence him since
he had got in with that dreadful set"
Miss Berkeley sympathized with her
and conided the fact that others of
their friends deeply deplored Hilton's
eccentric" departure from the straight
and narrow path of good society,""
thereby making matters much worse
for the unsuspecting son in the eyes
Of his mother.
Miss Berkeley was implored to use
her influence to turn the young man
srom the error of his ways, and prom
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
Serenity in Thick Of BroiI.

The environment of the commander
in chief, Sir Douglas Haig, is strongly
suggestive of his conduct of the war.
Before war became a thing of precise
science the headquarters Of an army
head seethed with all the picturesque
details so common to pictures of mar
tial life. Couriers mounted or foam
flecked horses dashed to and fro; the
air was vibrant with action the fate
of battle showed on the face of the
humblest orderly. But today things
are totally different. ALTHOUGH armv