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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25
BIG ACREAGE IN TOMATOES
To Be Planted at Punta Gorda
This Winter

The Fort Myers Press of Mon
day states that Sam Bruton, a
well known citizen of Fort Myers,
has bought the largest citrus
packing house in Punta Gorda
and associated himself with the
Standard Growers Exchange of
Orlando for the purpose of doing
a large business in growing, buy
ing, packing and shipping fruits
and vegetables, This exchange,
the paper states, owns extensive
interests in California and is the
largest shipper in that state. This
concern controls 40 per cent of
the East Coast tomato crop, and
intends to develop tomato grow
ing on an extensive scale on the
West Coast, starting their first
development at Punta Gorda be-
rause of its large available acre
age, and are now contracting to
plant from 200 to 500 acres in to-
matoes for the coming season az
Punta Gorda.
In their contracts with respon-
Sible tomato growers, the ex-
change furnishes seed and fertili-
zers at market prices and agrees
to buy the crop before the seed is
planted.
Another feature Of the Stand
ard Growers Exchange is their
grove lease and rental proposi-
ton, by which it takes possession
of a grove, cultivates, fertilizes,
prunes, sprays, picks, packs ano
sells either for an annual cash
rental or per centage of the
fruit. The leases contracted for
are for period of five years, and
Mr.. Bruton has already leased
Several of them in Lee and DeSoto
counties.
"The increased development in
tomato growing at Punta Gorda,
Mr.. Bruton explains, will add
payroll to that community of no
small Importance, as the tomato
picking following the citrus crop
extends the harvest season, ana
generally speaking there is al
much money in tomatoes as there
is in citrus fruits. Good men will
be hired by the year, and most or
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25
How Birds Save Crops

~ farmer who thought the rob-
bins were pulling up his young
cabbages learned from student
OF bird life that the birds were
pulling up only those plants
which were dead; and this was to
get at the wire worms at the root,
which had caused the plants to- die
and which would destroy other
o@bbages if left alone. In another
ease a group Of farmers thought
the meadow larks were destroying
their crops. An ornithologist per-
suaded one farmer to spare the
larks ON his place. The other
farmers shot them. The result
was that the man who spared the
larks was the only one for miles
around who had an oat crop. The
birds killed the insects which de-
stroyed the other crops
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25
County Exhibits to the Front at
Florida State Fair

Jacksonville, July %. The in
terest that has been displayed by
various counties Of the state, ev-
en- at this early date, augurs much
for the success of the county ex-
hibits at the Florida State Fair
and Exposition, November 9th
to December 9Th.
Already fifteen counties Of the
state, and among them some that
did not exhibit at the last fair,
have engaged space in the Coun-
ties Building, made appropria-
lions and their boards of county
commissioners, commercial bodies
and county agents have already
commenced the gathering of ex-
hibits and provisions for the col
Letting of such products as are
now in growth. In addition,
movements are on foot in about
twenty other counties, which will
undoubtedly eliminate in their
exhibiting at the fair. The fol-
lowing counties have reserved
space this early: Monroe, Dade,
Pinellas, Broward Palm Beach, St.
Johns, Bradford, Clay, Escambia,
Leon, Gadsden, Walton, Washing
ton, Jackson, Calhoun.
This early interest in the State
Fair on the part of these various
counties is not only gratifying to
the fair management, but indi-
Gates that the whole state is alive
to the fact that Florida is called
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25
Poultry Clubs, Attention!

Miss Minnie Floyd, in charge OF
State Demonstration Poultry
Work, writes:
"The manager of the State FAN
has recently created a new de
partment of the poultry show for
the Girls and Boys Poultry
Clubs Of Florida. The Fair will
be held in Jacksonville, Novem-
Der 81 to December 6.
"To the girl and the boy max
ing the best individual record in
the state will be awarded each a
gold medal. They will be award
ed according to the method of
scoring found in the back Of the
poultry record books.
''F'or the best county exhibit Of
Girls and Boys Poultry clubs in
the state $25 will be given; for
the second, $15; and for the third,
$40. In the county competition
each exhibitor must furnish com
position, record book, and exhibit
Consisting of one cockerel and
two puIIets). The work will be
scored as follows: Record book
20, composition 20; exhibit 60.
"For further information,
write to the Secretary Of the Flor
ida State Fair for new cata-
logue. Your home demonstration
agent or | will also give you fur
Their Instructions later on. But I
am writing you now so that you
may keep your record book accu-
rately; select your best birds for
the exhibit, give them the best
care and attention, feed, etc. l
am counting on each of you doins
your best to help your county.
10 over the top to show the
fair association you deserve the
recognition they are giving you,
and to win a prize"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25
Loyal Lazaruses

perhaps the second word In
the heading should be Lazari, but
/ it is supposed to be Hebrew, and
Hebrew is not spoken in The Her.
aid Office
The editors of South Florida
are loyal bunch. Loyal to their
communities, their state and their
government. Nearly every office
in the association has one or more
men in the service, and Uncle
Sam can depend on the undivided
and hearty support of the South
Florida press until the Allied SOL
diers march through the streets of
Berlin, singing Yankee Doodle,
and the American boys, plant the
Stars and Stripes in the kaiser's
flower garden.
Those resolutions passed by the
South Florida newspaper fellows
show that they are the kind who
are able to take bitter medicine
and smile. They are ready to do
any work cut out for them to help
lick the kaiser. If they were told
to go to hades after old Bill, they
would throw up their hats and
holler everytime they knocked the
head out of another barrel OF
birthstone. Winter Haven Chief.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25

those employed will be employed
three-fourths Of the time in re-
munerative occupations.
"Mr. Bruton, who is web
known here as a successful ship
per and grower and his conserva-
tive business methods should be a
guarantee of his operations at
Punta Gorda, as well as his assU-
citation with the Standard Grow
ers' Exchange"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25

upon to make greater efforts in an
agricultural way than ever before,
Our people, generally, are coming
to realize that the production OF
food to sustain it is as necessary as
the raising of an army itself, and
the dissemination Of information
helpful in these achievements and
that there is profit in friendly
competition by displaying the
products of these efforts.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25

A wet and dry election viii be
held in Nassau county, August
LIST. Nassau is one Of the very
few GASES in Florida and it will be
bone-dry August End. -Wauchll-
la Advocate.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25

. Daily thought: click a WAR
SER WY A"i
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25

Okeechobee county will vote on
the wet and dry question Aug.
Bird. The citizens of that county
are now in the midst Of the fight
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25

YES the declaration of indie
pelluence can also be heard a.
round the world,
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-25

Florida leads all other states in
money expended for good roads.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
Will SONS NOTE LOGICAL
CLIMAX SAYS HITCHCOCK
Will Meet Americans Approval He
Says; All Right, But Sen
ator Lodge Finds.

Washington, Oct. 24--Senatpr Hitch
cock, Democrat, Of NeDraska, Chairman
of the COMMITTEES on Foreign Relations,
said last night discussing the President $
reply to Berlin:
II think the President has brought
to very logical climax the ecorrespondence
with Germany However much difficulty
we have had in understanding the German
notes, the Germans can have no possible
difficulty in understanding this note.
The President practically tells them that
they must democratize their Government
in order to secure terms Of peace and as AN
alternative that, if they persist IN The
retention of the old form of mIlitaflsiic
Government, he will consider nothing
but unconditional surrender. II seen $
10 me that il amounts 10 giving The
German people their choice. and he
lieve il will produce a political crisis III
Germany
u think the note will meet the APP
provnl of the American people. and
think il will receive the approving sup
port of the Allies. | doubt there will
bc an armistice for some time, because
il is almost certain that a crisis will
follow in German internal affnlrs dur
ing which time nobody will have the
power 10 make final arrangements.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, rank
ing Republican member of the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, said;
THE President SAYS in his last sen
fence that. if we must deal with the
military masters and autocrats of Ger
many, we must demand mot peace ne
gotiations, but surrender With this
/ am in full accord, as ! was with the
Prcsidci T. statement Of Sept y.
In the first paragraph the President
saws that, rs the present German Gov
ernmcnt, which, rs all he world knows
is controlled by the Kaiser and he mill
tary party, represents through It MIN
isters the majority OF the Reichsiae
and an overwhelming majority Of the
German people, he feels that be cannot
decline to take up with the allied Gov
crnmcnts the question OF an armlstice
With this | am not in accord, for the
German Government decrlhrd IN the
first paragraph and that described IN the
last sentence are one and the same.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
j. S. k|RPLAAE COURSE
CALLS FOR YOUNG men
Rigorous Training Essential for
Soldiers in This Branch of
the Service.

Washington. Oct 24-The course OF
instruction arranged for airplanc and
balloon observers recently called Tor IN
greater numbers by General Pershlng
because of their very important function
over the line of battle. was outlined
today in an announcement by the War
Department The training Is as rlgor-
otls as that prescribed for any branch
of the army.
Applicants after passing the same rlgld
physical examination that IL gwen pilots,
will be sent to n ground school for eight
weeks of general military instruction IN
addition to preliminary training IN wire
less telegraphy. aerial photography and
the use 0f machine guns. These not
suited for the work are eliminated at the
ground school.
This instruction will be followed by n
seven weeks course Mt Fort Sill, Okla,
or the coast artillery school al Fortress
Monroe. Va Students who have had
advanced mathematics will tie selected
for the latter school as more technical
training is required for observers who
will direct the fire Of heavy guns.
The next work for the applicants will
be first flights and training IN the cXecu-
tion of all duties of the aerial observer
including reconnaissance, photography.
direction of artillery fire and infantry
contact patrol work This period of
training requires FIVE weeks The course
will be concluded with three weeks
course in aerial gunncry, IN which the
observer will be trained IN defensive
tar
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
Brazilian Balm for
Spanish Influenza
and Pneumonia

Druggists should supply themselves
with Sl.00 bottles of this invaluable
remedy during this time of epidemic.
We are receiving scores of orders
daily for this size from families i'm
Wilmington, Delaware, and the PENN
complaining that the druggists
do not keep il on hand, and the small
bottles do not contain enough. They
need to saturate the system TO kill
this tough germ. Take z a teaspoon
full every hour-you can always get
Sl.00 bottles of Mr.. DanfOrth or Viii
mington or any Philadelphia Of Baiti-
more jobbers. Some retail druggists
have sent to us for doz and then
doz 81 90 bottles.
B. F. Jackson & Co., Proprietors,
Arcade, n. Y.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
ROOSEVELT FLA[ES j?
OVER a PEACE POINTS
Thoroughly Mischievous" is His
Criticism Of Presidents Bases for
Negotiations to End War.

Oyster Bay, n. Y, Oct. 25.- Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt sent telegram last
night to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
which empodled his comments on Prcsi-
dent Wilson's reply to Germany a
duplicate Of the telegram was also sent
10 Senator Miles puindexter and Scna-
tor Hiram Johnson, because, IS the ex-
President expressed it, he desired, to
make my appeal 10 the represent atiyes
Of the American people from one ocean
to the other.
The Telegram follows:
"As an American citizen I most earn
estly hope that the Senate Of the United
States, which is part Of the treat y-making
power Of the United Stses, will take
affirmative action against o negotiated
peace with Germany and in favor Of q
peace based on the unconditional sur
render Of Germny, also earnestly hope
that on behalf Of the American people
il will declare against the adoption in
their entirety Of the fourteen points
Of the Presidents address Of last January
as offering basis for q peace satisfactory
to the United States.
WANTS GUN-mADE rEAcF.
Let MS dictate peace by the ham
mering guns and not chat about peace
10 the accompaniment 0f the clicking If
typewriers. The language Of the four
teen points and the subsequent state
menis explaining or qualifying them Is
neither straightforward nor plain, but if
construed in it's probable sense many
and possibly most Of these fourteen
points are thoroughly rnjschievous, and
il made the basis of. pence, such peace
would represent not the unconditional
surrender Of Germany, but the condi-
tio1al surrender Of the United States
Naturally they are entirely satisfactory
10 Germany and equally naturally they
arc IN this country satisfactory TO every
pro-Gaman and pacihst and Soeialis
| and anti-American so-cailed nternation-
aljst
The only peace offer which we shoule
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25

neither an untrustworthy friend nor ~
irresolute foe. Let Us clearly show that
we do not desire 10 pose as the umpire
betwcen our faithful and loyal friend
and our trcacherotIs and brutal cnefnics
but that We are the stanch any II our
friends and the staBeh foe ~ our enc
mics. When the German people rcpudi-
ate the II0henzollerus then, aDd not un-
III then, IL will ~ time - discriminate
between them aud their magtcrg.
II hope the Senate and the House will
uass some resolution demanding the IN
conditional surrender Of Germany as our
war aim, and stating that our peace
terms have never yet been formulated
or accepted by our people Pnd that hey
will be fully discussed with our allie
and made fully satisfactory 70 our own
people before they are discussed with
Germany"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
DANIELS BOOSTS FORD.
Eagle Boats Doing Big Work, Says
Navy Head Asking Auto Build
er's Election to Senate.

Washington, Oct. 24 24.--Secretary Dan
icls in public statement today, urging
Michigan voters To support the candidacy
Of Henry Ford for the United States
Senate, declared naval officers Of the
United States and foreign countries
have pronounced The eagle boats pro
duced at the Ford plant in Detroit as
next To the destroyer, the best weapon
TO exterminate the submarine By
next summer Mr.. Daniels said, the
government expects To have hundred
or more of these craft completed.
In referring to MIR Ford as a Sen
atoria candidate the seeretary's state
ment says
an war he knows how to produce
weapons 10 win peace and in the pro-
blems To be settled after his practical
judgment as Senator would he of the
highest value
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25

"My own view IL q very simple one.
There IL no German Government IN es-
istcnce with which | would discuss any
thing. / deplore Mt this stnec, when We
victory, any discussion or exchange OF
notes with the German Government
The only thing now is 10 demand uneo1-
ditional surrender. ! would leave that
TO Marshal Foch and the Generals of
the armies. When they report that the
German army has surrendered and ceased
to exist as an army III being then, and
not until then, let the Allies and the
United States meet and agree what
terms they will impose on Germany TO
insure the safety of civilization and
mankind "
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
JAPAN CHE( rs CHINA.
Must Net Turn 10 Other Nations for
Loan During War.

Peking Tuesday, Oct % News
papers here print long editorials on the
report that Japan has attached conditions
to the return Of the Boxer indemnity.
II is said that ii is required th,.t China
shall frame a schedule Of subjects to be
submitted 10 the peace conference under
Japan guidance and that the Chinese
and japanese delegates q the conference
cooperate under the latter guidance
concerning matters ot palicy.
II is also SAID that Japan asks that
China will not contract loans with other
Powers during the war. aud also will
allow free export Of minerals and cotton
L. Japan
Irquiry has failed 10 s,l,stantiatr these
reports. tu5 there are indications that
there i good ha>is for tllcm
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25

allied governments with unrestricted
power TO safeguard the situation on
land and sea.
No official statement has been vouch-
safed regarding the details Of tho arniis-
tice. The only authorized official state
ment as To the kind of an armist,ce Presi-
dent Wilson. has in mind is that en-
bodied in the note to Germany. His
definition of the armistice is one that
would leave the Allies in position to en-
force any arrangements entered into.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25

Other fancy Satins at 35c ID s5c.
50 inches. Many ~tyies II select from
10 styles of plaid and striped gngham.
Several excellent for house dresses. and
at this low price to clean UP. Value CC
50c a yard, at. .....---. ..-...... JIG
Our contracts of this cloth we're PIaced
SIX 10 eight months ago before the new
advance on raw silk.
Full line of plain coiored Venetian. C1
Excellent for coat lining. A Yard - L
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
Il. r. r. MEN WIN CONTENTION
RaiIroaders May Join nion Labor
Board Rules.

Washingto on, Oct - The War Labor
Board of which ex-Presdent Taft and
Frank T. Walsh arc JOINT chalrmen.
handed down decision yc> arday IN the
dispute between the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company and certain Of its
employees. in which it held that twenty
nine mon must he rcinStatcd by the com
pany which. il found reason to believe.
had Disseminated against union employees
in violation Of a proclamation issued by
President Wilson on April Q, covering the
rights OF workinCmen to organize
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25

LINING DEPT.
Here's a chance to make your old coat
look new FloWered Venetian and tnsel
effects. Value S1.25 To $50. r10O
Special, Saturday only, yard D l.UU
These not only make excellent Innings,
but are sold for bag trimmings and for
draperes.
1000 yards Of silk and cotton Crepe de
Chine, all shades. Excellent quality. Sells
everywhere at 75c and $50. Special 20
Saturday price. ............... CJc
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25

consider from Germany of this time = 40
offer TO accept such terms rs the Allies
without our aid have imposed on Bulgaria
We ought 10 declare war ON Turkey with-
out an hours delay. The failure 10 do -
hitherto has caused the talk abo Z
making the world safe for democracy 70
look iinpieasantly like mere insincere
rhetoric. While the Turk il left IN Europe
and permitted 10 tyranize over the
subject people the world is thoroughly
unsafe for democracy.
ASKS LIGHT on Wilson's WORDS.
Moreover, we should find out what
the President means by continually re-
frrrlng 10 this country merely as the
associate instead 81 the ally of the ma
tions, with hose troops our own troops
are actually brigaded IN battle. II he
means that We are something legs than
an ally Of France, England, Italy. Bel
GUM and Serbia, then he means that
we are something less than an enemy
Of Germany and Austria We ought TO
make it clear 10 the world that We are
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
To Prevent Influenza

Colds cause Grip and influenza Laxa-
tive Bromo Quinine Tablets remove the
cause, There is only one 'Bromo Quinine
T. ". Groves signature on box Soc
Adv
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25
Receptian 10 Candidates.

A reception will he given To the can
dbdates on the Republican state ticket,
from 3 10 10 o'clock on Saturday evening,
November 2, by the Young Mems Re-
publican Club
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-25

As a general thing there isn't ruel
discussion of a compromise peace Whei
Que party Is convinced tnat he ran whif
the Wher
Meade County news., 1918-05-16

Is rrcner than Croesus. and adore
rich men,"
81 hate 'eml" announced O'Reilly.
Then for second time ne took Rosa's
dimpled hand. saying. earnestly: "rm
sure you know now why | make love
so badly, dear. It's my Irish con-
science. And you'll wait until come
back, won't you"
"Will you be gone-very long7" she
asked.
0'Reilly looked deeply now into the
dark eyes turned to his, and found that
at last there was no coquetry in them
anywhere-nothing but lonesome.
hungry yearning-and with a glad. in
coherent exclamation he held out his
arms. Rosa varona crept into them;
then with sigh she upturned her lips
to his.
"Tll wait forever" she said.
Meade County news., 1918-05-16
SHE USED TO
BE CIR AY
Society Ladies Everywhere Use
Ma Creole" Hair
Dressing.

The well-known society leaders hair
was prematurely gray, perhaps just
like yours, but Mrs. j heard Of LA
Creole" Hair Dressing-how thousands
Of people everywhere had used 1t with
perfect satisfaction. It is not dye.
but preparation designed especially
for the purpose of gradually restoring
color to gray or faded hair, and which
Is easily applied By simply comblng
or brushing through the hair. la
Creole" Hair Dressing positively eradl-
Gates dandruff, keeps the scalp in a
healthy condition and promotes the
growth of new hair; brings back q nat
ural, soft, even, dark shade to gray
or faded hair, and makes 1t lustrous,
full of life and beautiful. LA Creole"
Hair Dressing Is sold and guaranteed
by all good drug stores everywhere, or
sent direct for $1.20 by Van Vleet-
Mansfield Drug Co., Memphis, Tenn
(Advt.)