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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06
PRUNE FOR MELANOSE
Summer Cleanup to Control the
Disease Should Begin Now

1t is no easy task to control mel
anose in the citrus grove. Persist
ent and systematic efforts are re-
quired to reduce the injury in
groves where the disease has be-
come well established. The ma
ture and growth habits of the fun
gus causing the disease, and the
extended period during which the
fruit is susceptible to attack Of
fer little encouragement for rely
ing upon fungicides alone to G.
liminate the disease. Pruning
must be resorted to, says HI. L.
Stevens of the University of Flor
ida experiment station.
An application of any fungi
eide gives protection for limited
period only. 1t does not removc
the cause, and spraying must be
repeated at frequent intervals to
be effective. Melanose seems to
yield readily to the standard fun
gicides and with frequent appli-
cations may be kept under con-
troll However, the number Of
sprayings required to give full
protection to the fruit throughout
the season doubtless would prove
so costly as to make this method
of control in most cases pro-
hibitive.
Thorough and systematic prun-
ing seems to offer a more practi-
cable method of control and has
the added advantage of removing
the source and cause of the
trouble. The dead twigs and
branches of the trees are the chief
| ources from which melanose is
spread, This dead wood harhors
and propagates the fungus from
one season to the next and so long
as it is allowed to remain in the
tree it will be. an active source
from which the disease may
spread at favorable opportunities.
Every period of rain causes a dis
charge of spores and a more ac-
tive growth of the fungus within
the dead wood. Even though the
surfaces of the dead twigs be COW
cred with coating of fungicide,
|this will not affect the growth of
the fungus or its spore production
in the dead bark tissue beneath.
Neither will it affect the discharge
of the spores, for the spore-bear-
ing parts will penetrate the COW
ering and protrude far enough a.
bove the surface to discharge
their masses Of spores beyond
danger.
Where the dead wood is remov-
ed from the trees and destroyed
and such trees are afterward kept
free from dead wood little troub-
lie should be experienced from
melanose. 1t is not possible by a
most careful pruning to eradicate
entirely the fungus from a grove,
but by pruning regularly each
season, removing all visible dead
wood and sickly growth, the a.
mount of fungus can be kept
down to a minimum, which will
materially decrease the injury
from melanose.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06
WATCH FOR SICK HOGS
Don't Let Any Disease Make
Headway in the Herd

Don't take a chance with sick
hog, Act quickly. Get a veteri-
marian or the county agent imme-
diately. Don't wait single hour
when you suspect disease in your
herd. Use the telephone if you
have one or, send to town at once.
)nly prompt action will stop hog
cholera losses, Every hog saved
will help win the war. That is
the message the University of
Florida extension division is car
rying to farmers in all parts Of the
State.
The latest report of the commits
sioner of agriculture places the
number of hogs lost in this State
by disease, 1876, at 1854, val
ued at $248,937. Hog losses in
1916 by disease rose to 100 per
1000 in Florida against an aver
age of 48 per 1000 for the entire
country. AT least 80 percent of
these losses were attributed to hog
cholera. That Florida farmers
are striving to reduce this heavy
loss is shown by the fact that
county agents treated more than
a hundred thousand hogs against
diseases and pests in 1917, and
saved from death hogs to the val.
ue of $160,2O3.
The time for argument about
antihog-cholera serum is past. Elk,
lplicit figures are readily available
which prove Enthusiastically that
when administered in time by
competent persons, hog-cholers
serum will keep well hogs from
taking the disease for period OF
three to six weeks. Not argu.
ment but quick action is impera-
tive to get serum and trained
operator to the farm to treat the
hogs. Hogs will be saved and the
nations meat supply increased if
every farmer will Immediately
upon sign of disease call in the
nearest available expert to dag
nose the complaint and admins
ter whatever treatment is neces-
sary.
Because a single outbreak of
hog cholera on any farm is a mat
ter of moment to the entire COM
nunity, and because hog-cholera
infection is rapidly spread in
many ways, farmers are urged to
employ every possible measure to
keep the disease out of their
herds. Your county agent will
give you specific directions for a.
voiding infection by sanitary and
Fself-quarantine measures, also di-
rections for the isolation and
treatment of cholera-infected
hogs, and directions for diSinfec-
ton and restocking the hog lot.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06
BREAD INDIGENOUS
TO SOUTH FLORIDA
Lots of Il in the Woods Around
Punta Gorda
BIG LoAvEs IN THE GROUND
Indian Name is Tuckahoe; Old
Southern Slaves Called it In
dian Bread; Known Here as
Coontie or Cumpty.

Florida should feel special in
terest in the 5,500-ton steel cargo
steamship "Tuckahoe," launched
recently from the yards of the
New York Shipbuilding company
in thirty-seven days after laying
the keel. Pending some new a.
chievement in individual riveting,
the steamship was launched, and
it is now announced that a negro
won the riveting contest. The
building of the Tuckahoe not on
ly makes record, but sets pace
in ship construction.
But what Floridians are, or
should be, more than ordinarily
interested in, is the name given to
the ship The Christian Science
Monitor says that "Tuckahoe" is
a name borne by several villages,
small towns and creeks in the u
nited States. 1t is of Indian orr
gin, and properly belongs to sin
gular substance, having the size
and appearance of a war loaf,
found below the surface of the
ground in certain parts of the
South, and called Indian bread.
Tuckahoe is sometimes used as a
substitute for arrowroot. II is
merely an interesting coincidence,
lof course, that the steamship
Tuckahoe starts out Immediately
as "bread ship"
Evidently, then, Tuckahoe is
the uncommon name for Florida s
own coontie, or coontah plant, and
called by some "cumpty root" 1t
grows wild throughout the
southern half of the state, and is
so abundant in the pine lands that
any able-bodied man may easily
make 50 or SO a day gathering it
for use in making starch.
In the early days the pioneers
|of South Florida were aided
greatly in living expenses by
gathering the roots of this plant
and converting it into ctarch. AT
ter the starch was extracted and
the "Red Water" drained off, the
pulp was used in making bread
and quite as good bread as the
war loaf which we know today.
The red water, used as fertilizer,
produces marvellous crops. The
oontie plant is found now and
then in and around Clearwater,
though it is rather out of its lati-
tude here.
It is only one of the numerous
wild plants of Florida which meet
the needs of man in a variety of
ways. And so the lonely coontie
should feel highly honored in hav-
ing our first steel thirty-seven-
day steamship named after it
Clearwater Sun.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06
TUESDAYS ELECTION
WHITEHURST BEATEN
BY Anti Division Bolshevih by
Small Majority
ELECTION WAS VERY QUIET
Good Men Win for State Offices.
Whitfield for Supreme Judge,
-Swearingen for Attorney
General and Yon for Auditor.

The primary election Tuesday
passed off quietly throughout the
state. Good feeling appears to
have prevailed everywhere. Re-
turns received by The Herald up
to noon yesterday indicate that
Whitfield has won for supreme
Judge, Swearingen for attorney
general and j. Will Yon for state
auditor.
There were so many candidates
for state tax commissioner that it
will be several days yet before the
definite result will be known,
In DeSoto county, the fight was
on the question Of county division,
w. w. Whitehurst stood for di-
vision; j. B. Cochran against it.
1t appears that Cochran has won
by nearly 200 majority and will
go to the legislature.
In Punta Gorda, the chief inter-
est centered in the choice of coun-
ty commissioner, Returns up to
noon yesterday indicate that our
local candidate, w. M. Whitten,
has won by a safe majority over
his two competitors.
If late returns show any
changes in the foregoing results,
they will be given on the inside
pages of The Herald. .
The election as conducted here
was very gentlemanly affair.
There was no i'll feeling, no elec-
tioneering save by printed cards,
and the election managers stood
the strain and worry with pa
tience and complaisance. About
9:15 p. m, they announced the
vote, as follows:
For attorneys general Gibbons,
II, Swearingen 20.
For supreme judge-Buford II,
Whitfield 80.
For tax commissioner-Bowen
Sc, Brown 16, Shackelford 81.
For tax commissioner, short
term-Bethel 80, Holloway SIS.
For state auditor-Lancaster
SO. Yon 33.
For states attorney, tenth cir
cuit-Lawler 46, Rogers so, Tim
berlake Is.
For representative-Cochran IA
Whitehurst 119.
For county commissioner, Dist.
3-Delaney l, Stewart %, Whit
ten 118.
The following are county re-
turns reported up to noon yester-
day, They are not all official, but
are fairly reliable:
Moore Haven-Total vote So.
Whitehurst 40, Cochran II, De-
fancy 81, Stewart 10, Whitten 5.
Bermont-Delaney II, Stewart
/, Whitten 3.
Cleveland JWhitten IS, White
hurst 10, Cochran 6.
Fort Ogden-Stewart SO, Whit
ten 7, Delaney 0.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06

The thing to do with pro-Ger-
man is not to make him kiss, but
serve the flag.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06

An effort is being made to have
Tampa made port of entry for
sugar. The suggestion seems to
be good one and one that will re-
lieve the shortage in South Flori-
da.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06

every effort to provide an abun-
dance of leguminous hay by grow
ing legumes suitable to the soil
found on his farm.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06
Weather Forecast

Forecast for the period June 3
to s, inclusive:
South Atlantic and East Gulf
States-Fair and warm first half;
showers second half.-HENRY
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06

me by the voters who know me
best, will take away the sting of
defeat and fully recompense me
for the worry and expense of the
campaign.--WM. M. WHITTEN.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06

Levy County: One farmer in
the Morriston neighborhood
makes speciality of raising hogs.
He sold more than $4,000 worth
of hogs last season.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-06-06

The awful question, "What
shall ! have for dinner?" is easily
answered if your shelves are full
of home canned products.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
CHICAGO TO BE DRY
8-15-22-2o.

Chicago, March DIVISIONS of a
Chicago as dry as the Sahara desert.
following the first announcement of
the governments intention to abolish
the sale of liquor within FIVE miles
of naval training stations and camps,
resulted today in the hurried calling
of conferences of hotel men and sa-
loon keepers.
The first Interpretation Of the order
was that because of the location of a
naval camp at Grant Park, in the
heart of the city, it would affect all
downtown Chicago Later reports
which specified that it applied only to
the Great Lakes naval training station
III this district dissipated the gloom
in many quarters. At the Great Lakes
station, which is thirty-hve miles from
Chicago, it was said there was not
a town within five miles of the insti-
tuition in which the sale of liquor is
licensed and that the order will serve
only to check the sale of intoxicants
by blind pigs"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
FITZGERALD PLUMBER
THOUGHT he NEEDED
NEW PIPES

My stomach and intestines were
always full of gas and l often had
severe collie attacks. The pain and
soreness caused me to think l needed
new set of pipes. Since taking
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy all this
has disappeared and my only trouble
now is to make enough dough to buy
all the food I'd like to eat" 1t is a
simple, harmless preparation that re-
moves the catarrhal mucus from the
intestinal tract and allays the inhanl-
nation which causes practically all
stomach, liver and intestinal ailments.
including appendicitis. One dose will
convince or money refunded. Dem
mark Drug Co. adv
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
Half Your AiVing
Without Money Cost

We are all at danger point. On
the use of good common sense in our
1918 farm and garden operations de-
ponds prosperity or our going broke"
Even at present high prices no one
can plant all or nearly all cotton, buy
food and grain at present prices from
supply merchant on credit and make
money. Food and grain is higher in
proportion than are present cotton
prices.
It's time above all others to play
safe; to produce all possible food,
grain and forage supplies on your own
acres; to cut down the store bill.
A good piece of garden ground,
rightly planted, rightly tended and
kept planted the year round, can be
made to pay nearly half your living. 1t
will save you more money than you
made on the best three acres of cotton
you ever grew!
Hastings 1918 Seed Book tells all
about the right kind Of a money saw
ing garden and the vegetables to put
in it. It tells about the farm crops as
we'll and shows you the clear road to
real and regular farm prosperity. It's
Free. Send for it today to H. G..
HASTINGS CO., Atlanta, Ga.-Advt.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
DRAFT FIGHTER ENLISTs

Moultrie, March 6.-Grover Ed
mondson, former representative in the
Legislature from Brooks county whose
speeches questioning the constitution
atty of the draft law last summer at
trcted state wide attention, has enlist
cd IN the army and has been assign
ed to duty at Camp Johnson, at Jack
sonville. Edmondson in letter to a
TREND here says that he is anxious to
hnish his training so that he can be
sent to France. He plans to locate in
Moultrie when he returns from the
war and with that end in view he has
changed his residence to this city.
Edmondson is in the draft age and
has wife and child.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
SAYS GERMAN GAS IS WORST
FEATURE OF WARFARE

Savannah, Ga, March 6.-Frederick
Hahn, formerly employed by the Sa-
vannah Morning News, who went to
France as second lieutenant in the
first batch of American soldiers that
left this country, has been promoted
to a first lieutenant according to let
tiers received here. He is the first
Savannahian under fire with the
American contingent. In his letter
he says it is hard to get sleep, par
ticularly in view of the bombardment.
But, he says, after you have slept
through one bombardment, you can
sleep through anything. He says the
worst part of the warfare is the Ger
man gas, but Uncle Sans men are
gradually learning how to cope with
that deadly substance. Lieut.. Hahn
says the boys get fine treatment from
their officers. and he speaks glowing
ly of the French girls.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08

such comparison will relieve
great deal of the neutral reserva-
ton and answer some big questions.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
HIGHWAY COMMISSION
TO ASK COOPERATION
OF STATE OF FLORIDA

Atlanta, Ga, March Judge T. +.
Patterson, chairman of the Georgia
highway commission, and perhaps
other members of the commission
will join in Georgia the Dixie High
way tour from Chicago to Miami
which is to be held the latter part of
this month.
Judge Patterson will ask Highway
Commissioner, John F. Gilbert, of
Florida, to meet him when the tour
reaches Waycross and go with him
over the central division Of the Dixie
highway from Waycross to Jackson
Vile and Miami> Judge Patterson
hopes to arrive at some understand
ing with the Florida commissioner
whereby Florida will construct a road
through Nassau county, from Jack
sonvillc to the St. Mary's river to-
ward Waycross. The Georgia high
way commission, on the other hand,
would improve the road from Way-
cross to the St. Mary's river, meeting
the Florida road there This would
eliminate the bad stretch of sand be-
tween Waycross and Jacksonville, es-
ptcially in Charlton county Georgia,
and Nassau county, Florida, which is
the worst stretch of road upon the
southern end of the central division
of the Dixie Highway.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
kNERYOUS WRECK
From Three Years. Suffering. Saw,
Cardui Made Her We'll.

Texas City, Tex.-ln an interesting
statement, Mrs. G. H. Schill, Of this town,
says: "For three years suffered untold
agony with my head. | was unable to
do any Of my work.
just wanted to sleep all the time. for
that was the oaly ease could get, when
was asleep. became a nervous wreck
Just from tie awful suffering with nv
head.
Twas so nervous that the least noise
would make me jump out of my bed. |
had no energy, and was unable to do
anything. My son, young boy, had to
do all my household duties.
was not able to do anything until I
took Cardiff. took three bottles in ALL
and it surely cured me Of those awful
headaches. That has been three wears
ago, and know the cure is permanent
for | have never had any headache since
taking Cardui. ..
Nothing relieved me until took Cardui
II did wonders for me.'
Try Cardui for your troubles-made
from medicinal ingredients recommended
in medical books as being of benefit in
female troubles, and 40 years of use has
proven that the books are right. Begin
taking Cardui today. NC-l34
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
FAILURE

What is failure? It's only spur
To man who receives it right.
And it makes the spirit within him
stir
To go in once more and fight.
If you never have failed, it's an even
guess
What is a miss? It's practical shot
Which we often must make to en-
ter
The list of those who can hit the spot
Of the bulls eye in the center.
If you have never sent your bullet
wide,
You never have put mark inside.
What is knock-down? A count of ten
Which man may take for a rest.
1t will give him chance to come up
again,
And do his particular best.
If you've never been bumped in a
rafting go,
You have never come to the scratch
| know!
James Stokes.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
TROUBLE IN THE FAMILY

Atlanta, Ga, March 7.-Because of
his wife's alleged German sympathies
growing out of the fact that German
blood flows in her veins, w. H. Mil
Ter, of Hot Springs, Ark, has filed
suit in this city, alleging that her con-
duct became almost unpatriotic fol-
lowing our entrance into the war He
alleges that she treated him with
"frigid GOODNESS and would hardly
speak to him because he attempted to
defend President Wilson,"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
RUBBER COMPANY OPENS
BRANCH OFFICE \ ERE

Branch Offices of the Doss Rubber
and Tube Company, of Atlanta, for
this territory will be opened this week
by r. R. Wright and F. L. Miller at
the Lee-Grant hotel. These men will
be the Fitzgerald representatives of
this new Georgia corporation, which
is building large factory opposite
Fort Mcpherson, to manufacture
puncture-proof inner tubes for auto
mobile tires and guaranteed castings.
Local interest in this project has
been manifested by business men re-
Gently because many of the stock
holders live in this section of the
state and some of the directors are
well-known throughout Georgia.
With the return of favorable con-
ditions construction work on the fac
tory of the corporation has been re-
sumed and it is expected the building
will be completed next month.
Indications are that a permanent
agency of the company will be es-
tabiVhed in this county by T. J. Da-
vi5Y(ice-president and general mana
ger Of the company.
According to G. ]. Reuter-. we'll
known rubber expert, who has been
selected to take charge of the me-
chanical departments at the Doss fac
tory, ample facilities will be provided
to handle orders for the products of
this Georgia industry to help meet
the unprecedented demands this year
as a result of wartime emergencies.
Officers and directors of the COM
pany some of whom are well-known
here, are: DR.. N. c. Doss, president;
T. ]. Davis, vice-president; w. B.
Stovall, secretary and treasurer; Ray
Rudasill T. c. Galloway and Judge
Andy Calhoun, of Atlanta; John F.
Holden. Crawfordville; J. G. Jackson,
Stockbridge; DR.. T. ]. Simmons, of
Brenau College, Gainesville; ]. c.
Johnson, Lithonia; W. w. Hunt, Hi
ram; Nesbit Harper, Lithia Springs:
lizzie Bashinski, Dublin; Sproul
Fouche, Gainesville, and T. J. Mel
drim, of Darian.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
CITATION

Georgia-Ben Hill County.
Whereas, Sam Haverheld, Admins
traitor of May Haverheld, represents
to the Court in his petition, duly filed
and entered on record, that he has
fully administered May Haverfeld's
estate:
This is, therefore, to cite all per-
sons concerned, kindred and credit
ors, to show cause, if any they can
why said Administrator should not
be discharged from his administra-
ton, and receive Letters of Dismis-
sion on the first Monday in April,
1918.
J. R. HORTON,
o-lo-Z@-@9. Ordinary.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
CITATION

Georgia-Ben Hill County.
J. Z. Turner, Guardian of Josephine
Peacock Harrison, has applied to me
Tor a discharge from his guardianship
OF Josephine Peacock Harrison. This
is therefore to notify all persons con-
cerned to file their objections, if any
they have, on or before the first Mon
day i'll April, next, else he will be dis
charged from his guardianship as ap-
piled for. ]. R. HORTON.
o-lo-@z-19. Ordinary.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH

Fourth Sunday in Lent.
Sunday School 10 A. M.
The Vicar will be in Douglas on
Sunday
Tuesday, Cottage Prayer meeting at
Mrs. A. K. Halls home, 402 West
Magnolia street at $50.
Wednesday, Holy Communion, 10
A. M.
Friday, services at 10 A. M.
Brief addresses at each service.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
NEW DRAFT CALL
MAY BE IN APRIL

New York, March 5-Announce-
ment of the date of the next draft is
imminent. The Provost Marshal
General has prepared an important
announcement" which is believed to
deal with the time and method of
summoning the second levy.
The best available opinion is that
the first men will move to the camps
in April.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-03-08
Sister Looked Better Asleep.

John, with his grandma, was look
Ing at his little sister, who was asleep.
John was just trifie jealous of his
sister and as he looked at her he
turned to his grandma and said: "She
looks better asleep"