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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-09
NOTICE OF MASTERS SALE

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
as Special Master in Chancery. under and by
virtue of decree Of foreclosure made and
entered by the Honorable John s. Edwards
judge of the Circuit Court Of the 10th Judi
cial Circuit Of Florida, sitting for Polk coun-
ty in certain cause therein pending where
In Amalia Hsege ct al are complainant and
r. Leslie Goode ct ais. are defendant said de-
cree being dated March 27th A. p. 1918,
Twill on the fifth day OF August A d. 1918, al
the front door Of the court house in Barlow
Florida. between the hours Of eleven O'Clock
a. m. and two O'Clock p. M, the same being
the legal hours Of public sale, offer for sale
to the highest and best bidder for cash, thu
following described real estate situate in Poll
county, Florida, to-wit:
Lots one and two in the southeast quarter
of section ten as per the subdivision Of thu
Florida Development Company, being ten acre;
more or less in the southeast quarter Of sale
section ten, township twentyseven south
range twenty-seven east, for the purpose Of
satisfying said decree and the costs Of thu
sale.
| July 9th, 1918.
L. C. JOHNSON,
Special Master In Chalcery.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-09

Siam produces more than forty va
rieties of rice, some of which are rip
ened in seventy days from planting,
while others require six months.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-09

Eight hundred cases a, .
have been cured during gu,
perience. This is a cor,,,
comes to us from civil n.
men are drafted. These
;-backslide at some future +.
they are released from N.
pervision, but for the ttna
least, 800 lives have bee,
normal and temperate, y
Corgan, in Golfers Week,
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10
Automobile Owners Fined

The Arcadia News reports that
Sheriff Dishong is active in arrest
ing automobile owners who are
violating the new automobile law.
During the first two days after the
law went into effect, he arrested
twenty-three owners and drivers,
and they were taken before the
county judge and they were fined
$1,000 each, with costs added.
Gone of the gentlemen" says
the News, pleaded "that he did
not know there was a new state
automobile law. The sheriff told
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

Leesburg has put a ban on all
the tent shows until after the war
and the Commercial says that,
"The common tent show must
take a vacation and do its bit for
Uncle Sam" Perry hasn't put a
complete ban on the tent shows
but the license is so high that it
takes nerve for show to come
here.-Perry Herald.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

him, that the matter had been
printed several times in the Daily
News. The amount of fine he
paid would pay for the Daily
News nearly three years. There
is positively no economy in not
subscribing for your daily paper.
Not long since a gentleman told
US that one issue of the paper was
worth $500 to him. Learn a les
son from these experiences and
send in your subscription today"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

For navigation by small craft
no extensive improvement of the
river channel may be required,
for only where phosphate over
burden has been dumped into it,
and where old lighters or boats re-
main sunken and logs or trees are
concealed beneath the water is
there any menacing distractions
to be removed.
So, let the river be made ready
for more extended navigation and
hasten the time when boats will
regularly plow faf$lp that water
way, handling freight and passen-
gers on fixed schedules,
Good for Arcadia! That town
made "scoop" when it secured
the location, on the big prairie out
from that city, Of the government
aviation station. Punta Gorda,
too, will reap benefits therefrom.
The boating, bathing and fish
ing in Charlotte Harbor will be ir-
resistable to Uncle Sam s aviators
and with a taxi line, as proposed,
to bring them there, they'll be
coming in large force whenever
leave from camp is granted.
And another attraction yet for
the khaki-clad lads will be the
pretty girls of which Punta Gorda
boasts more in proportion to pop
ulation than any other place in
the country.
With the big tourist hotel again
open and Ray Payne in charge,
Punta Gorda has further cause to
Irejoice.
Let's hope that the hotel will
not again remain closed during the
tourist season, as was the case last
winter; and that Mr. Payne, con-
tinuing in charge from season to
season, will ultimately have a
full house" there each recurring
winter.
Considering all of these things
that give promise Of benefiting
, Punta Gorda, the close of
the war and restoration of normal
COZ ditions, the town ought to de-
veop by leaps and bounds.
The war will have it's compen-
sations, though it, seems terrible to
contemplate these from the self
ish standpoint Of individuals or
communities; but in the impetus
that will be given to the tilling of
the soil in that locality, already
destined to become one of the
Imost important vegetable-ship-
ping points in Florida, it will the
more quickly reach that stage of
development.
Government ownership of rail
roads will grow out of the war
the taking over of the lines for
operation during the war is the in
Iitial step-and more just and
now discriminatory transportation
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

The concensus of opinion among
our farmers is that, if proper steps
are taken to put the land into a
good state of cultivation, the pres
ent cold weather and the prevail
ing cold all winter long is prom
ise of good crops the coming sea-
son. 1t is an i'll wind that does
not possess some good somewhere.
-Ocala Banner.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10
PEACE CONFERENCE
RESUMES SESSION
Bolshevilzis and Central Allies
Again Confer
CRISIS PENDINGIN GERMANY
Artillery Duels Continue on All
the Battle Fronts.-British and
French Repulse German Raids.
Great Attack on Ypres Front
Threatened.

Russia apparently will continue
peace negotiations with the CEN
tral powers at Brest-Litovsk. A
Berlin dispatch from Copenhagen
says that Russia S representatives
arrived at Brest-Litovsk Monday
and that negotiations were to be
reopened yesterday afternoon.
Foreign Minister Trotzky accom-
panied the delegation.
Official confirmation of this re-
port is lacking, but probability is
lent to it by the fact that neither
Russia nor the central powers has
declared officially that the peace
negotiations have been broken off
definitely. Germany suspended
the negotiations temporarily late
last week because it could not
meet the Russian request that the
conference be transferred to
Stockholm.
The political crisis in Germany
brought about over the annexa-
tion policy of the government is
most serious, according to reports
from neutral capitals. 1t is re-
ported that Gen. Won Ludendorff,
as leader of the military group,
threatened the resignation of him.
self and Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg should the government
continue to support Foreign Sec
retary Won Kuehlmann peace
plans. The German social demo-
Gratis have adopted a resolution a.
gain declaring that the honest
recognition of the democratic
principle of the right Of self-deter-
mination in occupied territories
can bring lasting peace.
In London it is felt that the cen
trail powers will be compelled to
make answer to Premier Lloyd
Georges statement of war aims,
which apparently has brought a.
bout better feeling in Great Brit
ain. President Wilson and Pre-
mier Clemenceau have congratu-
lated the British leader on his
statement. The German newspa-
pers in the reports express disbe-
lief in the earnestness of the Brit
ish premier.
Artillery duels continue in the
west, but the Germans have car
RED out only two raids, one south
east of Ypres and northwest of
Verdun, which were repulsed by
the British and French respective
ly. The German artillery fire in
the Ypres front has been very
strong for some days, and the oc-
casional raids there may be fore
runners of a determined attack,
either an effort to regain posses
sion of the dominating hills in
southeastern Flanders.
Accommodating engagements a.
long the Plave and lively artillery
duels between the Asiago and
Plave have occupied the troops on
the Italian front
Ten sailors were lost in the sink
ing by a submarine of British
torpedo boat destroyer in the Med
iterranean. Others on the vessel,
including the officers, were saved.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

A reader of the issue of The
Herald of December Goth, 1917, if
familiar with the clay of the
land" in that section of Florida,
does not have to be unusually far
sighted to realize that the dawn
ing of a new era for Punta Gorda
is at hand.
Not only that one number of
The Herald, but other issues dur
ing the past few months have re-
ported enterprises or projects in
contemplation the carrying out of
which will inSare a brighter and
more prosperous future for the en-
tire section adjacent to Charlotte
Harbor.
The big bridge across the bay
between Punta Gorda and the
town of Charlotte Harbor is des-
tined to prove quite an asset to
both towns.
AS the connecting link in the
Tamiarni T"oil it will bring
through there a large part of the
automobile travel to and from the
lower east coast.
Tourists motoring down either
coast will hardly pass up the op-
portunity of making the "loop
trip" through the Everglades to
the other coast before or when
Eleaving the state. In normal
times this will be a big thing for
Punta Gorda.
And, now comes the proposal to
construct new hard-surfaced
road between Fort Myers and
Punta Gorda, with ferry service
across the Caloosahatchee, greatly
shortening the distance between
the two places.
Good thingl Push it through.
This will result in benefits to
both towns for, in connection with
the Tamiami Trail, it will divert
from other routes certain automo-
bile travel that would not other
wise come that way.
1t is easy to see that with the
completion of the proposed road
benefits will accrue to Punta Cor
ola and Charlotte Harbor and
neighboring communities, as well
as to Fort Myers.
The opening of Peace river to
navigation, as now proposed, is a
project the carrying out of wh;c'
will prove of great advantage to
all the fertile valley drained by
that stream.
Punta Gorda will derive bene-
fit from the re-establishment of
navigation on the upper river. in
way which needs no details of
explanation; and water transpor-
tation cannot but be of value to all
Iup-river points.
This really is an important mat
ter, for the shame Of such stream
as Peace river remaining closed to
navigation is emphasized in times
like these, when the transportation
systems of the country are so con-
gested.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10
Big Hotel Again Catering to Tour
lists, Wars Compensations, Gov
ernment Ownership of Rail
roads and Development of
Lands Point to Great Future
Arcadia Will Rejoice When
New County is Carved
rates will accrue to the benefit of
farmers and fruit growers.

rates will accrue to the benefit of
farmers and fruit growers.
Another of the compensations
of war, but removed from Punta
Gorda s immediate advancement,
and the cause of humanity per-
haps, is the fact that unless a gen.
eral disarmament is one of the
terms of peace, the United States
will become the leading military
and naval power of the world.
A more perfected military sys-
tenn will be the outgrowth in
this country-certain objectiona-
bic features of army life and GUS
toms which have been commented
on by The Herald, will be elimi.
mated.
The American soldier now has
better opportunities than ever be.
fore, but there are still handicaps
for those who are ambitious to at
tain commissioned rank in the ser
vice that should be removed. This
expense ofputftting himself as al
officer initiates against a man Of
limited means; and, in the train
ing camps, where there were fail
ures, it may be that the use Of
"Lilliputian diplomacy" by some
of the discharged men saved then
embarrassment. A number Of
those Withdrawing voluntarily ex
planned to friends that it was be-
cause of inadaptibility, lack OF
leadership, deficiency in horse.
manship, etc.
In the development of the coun.
| try as a world power, it is not be-
yond the limits of possibility for
Punta Gorda to become an impor-
tant naval base. The town has a
natural harbor many another sea
port might well wish to have.-At
a minimum of expense Charlotte
Harbor can be made to float the
biggest navy of the world.
No harm can become of contem-
plating big things, like this, even
though the possibility of their
coming to pass be very remote !;
but the suggestion of Punta Cor
da for a naval base serves to em-
phasize the fact that the town is
superbly located and has natural
advantages that will in time to
come make it one of the most i'm
portant sea port towns of Florida.
And with it all, the time will
come when Arcadia will arrive at
a fair way of thinking and rejoice
to see a new country carved from
the southern part of DeSoto.
The writer once heard a Cali
fornia visitor in Punta Gorda say
that the town is so situated and
possesses advantages and re-
sources the development of which
will make it the Los Angeles of
Florida.
Yes-that and more is possible.
Great will be the Punta Gorda of
the uture.-KENTUCKY NOUN
TANNER.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10
A SOUTHERN EMPIRE
LYING UNDEVELOPE Ed
In Which Limitless Supplies Of
Meat and Sugar
CAN EASILY BE RAISED
A Frostless Region, Beyond Com
pare for Cane and Cattle,
Where Animals Become Peren-
mails and Cotton and Weeds
Form Trees


Form Trees
While all the country is dis
turbed over the meat and sugar
shortage a vast district lies unde-
veloped at the south end of Flor
ioa which might furnish both to
an extent which would make any
anxiety about them absurd. With
millions of acres of soil rich in nj
trogeneous plant food, needing on
ly applications of phosphate from
the territory Immediately north of
it, and of the potash that has be-
come so scarce, to make it we'll
balanced soil, it promises under
present drainage operations with
the aid of these to become fully eff
fective, to be a rich agricultural
empire, another Cuba, so far as
sugar production is concerned, be-
yond compare for cattle. In that
frostless region-as nearly frost
less as perhaps any known-cot-
ton becomes a shrub, or tree, beg
garweed grows into a tree and
other plants which are ANNALS in
North and Central Florida become
perennials.
Such are the Everglades as de-
scribed by an agricultural expert
who has devoted time to observa-
ton and study of those millions of
acres of Florida s wealth in unde-
veloped lands. To be sure there
are some drawbacks to cultiva-
ton of these lands, but none un-
surmountable and hundreds of
thousands of acres in some parts,
notably about Cape Sable and the
Thousand Islands, have few or
none Of the Objectionable features.
There, he says, stalks of sugar
cane are seen five years old or old
er capable of yielding sucrose to
as full percentage as that of Gu
ba, with no more of glucose. Ac-
cording to analyses by Prof. Blou-
in, acting director of the Louisi-
ana sugar experiment station, Gu
ban and Hawaiian cane yields II
to 19 per cent of total solids, Is to
Is per cent Of sucrose and from
three -tenths of one per cent to full
ly one per cent of glucose. Florida
cane, such as is grown in central
Florida, yields respectively, Is, 16
and l per cent of these constitu-
ents. Louisiana cane varies from
10 to 19 per cent of total solids, 7
to IL per cent of sucrose, l to ESQ
of glucose. Favorably as the
Florida cane shows in these an
alyses, we are assured that the
Everglades can produce, with as
few replantings, cane as rich in su-
crosse content as that of the Gem
of the Antilles.
All the forage grasses and le-
gumes flourish amazingly in the
'Glades, says our informant, bear
ing out the testimony of other OBJ
servers. 1t would be difficult to
find any section of any other coun-
try possessing such advantages
for cattle-raising. With food in
boundless abundance, no inclem-
ent seasons to protect them from,
few predatory beasts to guard
them against, cattle would in
crease at rate which would make
the beef, pork and mutton pro-
duced there the cheapest in the
world.
All that is needed is the magic
touch of capital to supplement the
lavishness of nature and Florida
would possess an asset which
would make her, in few years,
one of the richest states in the
Union.-Times- Union.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

Zolfo is getting ready to pave
some of its streets with brick. War
conditions are not tending to keep
Zolfo back, but rather is it on the
upgrade.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

In a recent communication
a Punta Gorda enthusiast,
who was here last winter,
makes observations that are
= of interest to Herald readers
in that a glowing future for
the town and nearby commu-
mites is held ont.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

The total gain in the Tampa
Clearing House in 1917 over 1916
was over $S,000,000.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

Big Bridge, Tamiami Trail, New
Road to Fort Myers, Making
Peace River Navigable, Area
dia's Aviation Field, Possible
Naval Station Viewed as Con-
tributing Factors, Arp "a n e
Factory Likely
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-05-07
OUR FLAG SPEAKS

You call me Old Glory
In song and in story,
You call me the banner you love.
How oft you have told
That you love each bright fold
As it floats in the heavens above !
Would you leave me today
The plaything and prey
OF a despot far over the sea?
Or viii you enroll
With your heart and your soul
| For the banner that floats DER
the Free?
What dross is your gold
If you shrink and withhold
That gold in the time of my need
The wealth you deny me,
When tyrants defy me,
Is pitiful profit indeed!
You waved me for years
And hailed me with cheers
When war was not here to affect
me;
What part have you shown
In the Liberty Loan?
How much will you give to pro-
tect me?
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-05-07
The Strother Motors Co., Inc.

are running around loose back
there. In my opinion those lads
are afflicted with the disease COM
monty known among soldiers as
Cold Feet or symptoms thereof.
Many of them, too, from all reports
seem to have been bitten by the
Matrimonial Bug
SO l guess we, the members OF
the A. E. f., will have to import
our better halves. Was not much
surprised, but must admit | had a
gentle relapse when | heard of some
of my relatives marriages. As the
saying goes-'most anything is la
BILE to happen nowadays AS for
me, think there is no possible
hope. l think when | get back | will
travel in the interest Of the S. 0. r..
(Sons of Rest, at least for Il while.
They're taking good care of me
though-even going so far as to
number us. My number is 52,4l2.
Gee, Pm lucky though, some of the
BOYS have numbers past the million
mark. Guess they have to keep
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-05-07
500 Reward, $lOO

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is catarrh. CataTrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature i'm doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in the curative power OF Hairs
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that il fails
to cure Send for list of testimonials.
Address +. j. CHENEY a. CO, Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-05-07
VlNOL MAKES
WEAK WOMEN
STRONG
Positive-Convincing Proof

We publish the formula of Vinol
to prove convincirgly that it has the
power to create strength.
r Cod Liver and Beef Peptones, Iron
- and Manganese Peptonstes, Iron and
Ammonium Citrate, Lime and Soda
Glycerophosphates, Cascarin.
Any woman who buys a bottle of
Vinol for a weak, rundown, nervous
condition and finds after giving it a
fair trial it did not help her, will
have her money returned.
You see, there is no guess work
about Vinol. Its formula proves
there is nothing like it for all weak,
rundown, overworked, nervous men
and women and for feeble old people
and delicate children. Try it once
and be convinced.
W. S. Lloyd, Druggist. Mt. Sterling, Ky.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-05-07
FOR THEM THERE IS
NO SUBSTITUTE

We have substitute bread from sub
stitute wheat,
And substitute butter, and substi-
tute meat,
Substitute sugar, and substitute
spice,
And substitute prunes at a genuine
price;
We have substitute hats and sub
stitute shoes.
And substitute clothes Of substitute
hues;
We have substitute poems with sub
stitute feet,
And a miserable strap for substi-
tute seat;
But the boys that have gonel u
where and 0, when
Will ever substitute be for oui
men?
-Cynicky Phin.
1t might be suggested that model
husbands would serve for this pur-
pose, models being limitations of the
real article.
No doubt you have, no Doubt
SO have we.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-05-07

Satan will have a fine bunch of
volunteer stokers, mostly Huns,
when the Kaiser finally shows up.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-05-07

The Advocate for Printing.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-05-23
Jones Theatre
to Have $500
Pipe Organ

As a companion accomplishment to
the building OF the beautiful Jones
Theatr. and rs an appropriate ad
dition 70 II. Mr.. Jesse Jones and his
father. l. a. Jones have purchased a
swect-toned organ. costing 1880 to
be installed in the Theatre Beavtiful.
The music lovers OF Canon City will
no doubt. BE- pleased with this news.
as also will the movie fans because II
means the best OF good music will BE-
available Mt all times.
The contract for the organ was Civ
i.n to the Sesbury Smith company OF
Chicago. thru their representative.
Mr. Schulten.
The Jones' are certainly never sat
!sfied with doing things by halves
and when the new organ ia installed
Canon City can bonst OF theatre ms
beautiful and possessing ns many ad-
vnutages as any in Denver or any
other small city of the state.