The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-30
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STATE NEWS ITEMS.


Flagler county farmers Will plant
4,O0O acres in Irish potatoes this VIM
ter.
John Marshall Martin, IS years OF
age and living at Ocala, is the last
living member of the Confederate
congress. He was also soldier OF
the Confederacy and served with Gen.
Kirby Smith, and was severely wound
ed at the battle of Richmond, KY.
He was elected to congress from Flor
ida, served one term and then re-en-
tered the army.
Florida subscriptions to the Y. M.
c. A. war work fund went $1,000
over the States allotment.
Gov. Cats says the reason he |
broke with Hon. w. w. Flournoy was |
because the latter gave him poor ad-
vice.
Gov. Chas. S. Whitman of New |
York spoke at the Atlantic and Deep
err WATERWAYS Convention in Miami
yesterday. =,
The estate of the late Henry M.
Flapler has been officially reported at
100000.
The Punta Gorda Herald says that
an Arcadia negro who had enlisted
was urging other negroes to enlist IN
the army. He said: at sho is er
good thing. Dey gives you S3O er
month, en- all de close yer need en- all
yer kin eat, en- dey hauls yer Ground
on de kyars and de ships free, and dey
takes yer to France en- it don't cost
yer muffin; en- if yer gifts kilt, dey
'balms yer body en- sends it back ter
yer wife and she gifts all de money"
Richard Croker, former Tammany
Hall boss, now in his 76 year, lives
at West Palm Beach.
A free bridge is to be built, across
the Mantee river connecting Braid
entown and Palmetto. The twin ci-
ties will pay for the structure.
Mrs. Edgar Lewis of Fort Pierce
has been unanimously elected presl-
dent of the Florida Federation OF Wo-
Robert f. Perry, the man who
claims to have discovered the north
role. smoke at the Atlantic Deeper
WATERWAYS convention in Miami last
Tuesday.
Richard L. Hickson, AZ years of
are, was shot by Miss Frances Will
liams. a twenty-year old white girl,
in Miami street car Monday morn
ING, She claims Hickson had attack
ed her the night previous. The girl
has good sense, too; says she won't
talk until the trial.
: The Florida Cracker published at
= Orlando has launched campaign TO
7 divide Florida and make Orlando the
/ capital of "Tropical Florida" but it
r saws nothing of that tropical freeze
in Orlando last winter. and which
, went as far south as Miami.
While James Cummings, student
= in the naval aviation school at Miami
e was several hundred feet in the air,
e had an explosion. He brought the
4 airplane down. to the waters of the
/ bav and saved the lives of himself
: and G. L. Mcmillan, the mechanic
= who accompanied in the air.
Gov. Cats has proclaimed Satur.
: day, Dec 1st, as "CattIe Tick Day
0 throughout the realm.
0 D. C. Gillett. president of the Tam
4 pa Southern Railroad, has let con-
tracts to build the road from Tampa
d to Palmetto.
l The Florida Sunday schools have
!. been asked to observe "safe and
n sane" Christmas. Safety first.
e Senator D. U. Fletcher was in Oca-
), 10 to open the Marion County Fair.
The Senator has been doing some
e hustling through Florida the mast two
5. weeks and getting acquainted with
d corditions.
It When officers of Ocala went to ar
rest Henry Hogan a white man whom
" thev suspected of conducting a blind
l. tiger, thev found one suit case filled
: With whisky. They went to arres,,
Hogan. but he saw thev had him and
e he sIashpd his throat with razor
J. from which wounds he died.
'e The Florida Bank & Trust Co. OF
lie st. Petersburg, after a suspension OF
% five months. opened its doors agar
f. or Monday to resume business.
l. DR.. Stacv R. Radford, wealthy
planter and physician, living on {
beautiful plantation out from Talla
hassee, shot Claude Walden, me
G chanic in employ of the Messer gar
ace in Tallahassee on Monday. Rad
40 ford is said to have been under tn
no influence of LIQUOR. The shooting oc
CURED at the GARAGE and was owe
nc delav in rerairing a machine left b
" Padford. Waldon IS shot in the nee
f. and may die Radford is in Jail wait
w. inc the outcome.
of Gov. Cats made the opening spcec
of at the ninth convention of the Eas
Coast Chamber of Commerce IN MI
of ami on Monday afternoon. His oper
nd ING sentence was: "If Florida won
N. reclaim the Everglades, YOU peopl
10 down here will be justified in formin
MT a new state to do the lob, and if yo
want old Cats to help, I'll com
no down." He was presented to the cor
lre vention by President Frank Baker, q
- "FIorida's great commoner."