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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-08
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Il
FLORIDA'S OLDEST TOWN
New Smyrna Claims She IInteresns Points About the
Remarkable Home-New smyrnas Superior
Ocean Inlet viii Be improved BY the Government
Previous Awful Mosquitoes Not Troubling Much Now
Wonderful Brook-other Mention
BY JACKERCRACK


killed him if he had not quickly
drawn a revolver and shot him dead.
The paper man was acquitted on
the ground of self.defense He is in
active journalistic work in Florida
today, editor of a daily in one of the
leading cities.
New Smyrna has, running along
the north side of its chief business
thorofare the prettiest brook in Flor.
IDA. It is deep, with high straight-up
rock walls, like the Suwannee river;
the transparent water babbles and
ripples over its sandy bottom; big
oaks and little palm trees throw
their arms affectionately over it in
its peaceful flow along Canal street,
and then it drops gently into the
North Indian river on the east front
Of the town. Some one has gushing
ly and truly said, "a thing Of beauty
is a JOY forever;' this beautiful,
cheering, refreshing brook will be ap-
preciated more in the years to come
when the town becomes thickly pop.
ulated,
New SMYRNA has one of the best
inlets for narbor purposes on the
Florida East Coast. 1t is north Of
the town. Halifax and Indian rivers
both run into it. After the u. s..
government improves it-as it event
ually will ocean-going ships can
come right in to docks at New Smyr-
ma The town, with its advantageous
location, IS miles south of Daytona,
IS miles east of DeLand, and 33 miles
north of Titisville, has a business
scope that i'll make it cut larger
ant larger figure in affairs of the
whole East Coast from Georgia to
Key West in the future.
Standing on the main street of the
town, or near its water front, and
looking east mile and a half, one
can see looming above grand trees
century or more old the front and
tower of what looks like a glorius
home. Such it is. A man, his wife,
and little girl came there from Ohio,
in 1882 and secured hundreds of
acres, all woodland, and erected their
charming lifelong home. The house,
with its 36-foot long front porch. has
IA rooms and bath, 1t has been
the joy and soothing haven of the
expanding family friends and visi
tors delight "a years. 1t is a Mecca
for the lonesome and weary stranger
who beholds it.
Hundreds of acres around this big
house. Some Of these will be occu.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-08

New Smyrna Fla, Aug AFTER
reading on the bill of fare Of the only
lunch counter doing business now in
Daytona, the following, Baked
Beans 80 cents" I put myself in an
automobile and FASTENED to New
Smyrna, 13 miles south. There !
read some news on a restaurant bill
that ran thus: Bread and milk %
cents" Is it any wonder my thoughts
turned longingly to Lakeland, where
one can get big meal for Is cents
1t has always been claimed that
st. Augustine, on the Florida East
Coast, is the oldest town in the Uni
ted States. The Daily News in Pen
sacola has line under it's head that
reads thus, "The oldest paper in the
oldest town in the United States"
New Smyrna, also on the East Coast
says it is itself, the oldest town of
all. This place being so miles south
Of st. Augustine forces the idea that
1t would be likely to be settled be-
fore st. Augustine. Pensacola, hun
dreds Of miles west, and which could
be reached in pioneer times, only by
long trip around Florida's southern
point Cape Sable seems, naturally,
the State to be either settled or even
discovered hundreds of years ago.
The Spanish landed in New Smyr-
ma in 156 and built a fort and mis-.
sion, both of which are here today.
The town is built like a city suburb
after one gets off the main business
street; broad avenues, with white
shell driveways that are shaded, and
arched by great trees which are scat
tered all around except in the road
way reserved for vehicles and auto.
mobiles plenty of green grass ex-
cept in the driveway; cement or shell
sidewalks, and back of them COM
Portable, roomy homes with plenty of
fresh air space all around them
thus in this semi-tropical luxuriance
live the people. Ocean breezes from
two miles away temper and freshen
the air most delightfully."-.
The town has $500 inhabitants. A
few of them landed here some time
after Columbus stepped ashore at Cat
Island, south of here. The intelli
gence of its people is shown by the
fact of there being two lively news
papers published here. One of them
the Breeze, started in 1885. One OF
the former editors of this paper years
ago was assaulted when coming
10 shore in boat, knocked into the
water, and his assailant would have
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-08
JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY

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The SCHOOL OF MECHANIC ARTS-For boys young men,
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-08

der and surrendered to the command.
ing officer at Preside. While serv.
ing term in the prison stockade
here on the charge of assertion,
Kern escaped, went to Mexico and
was last seen going south on a
freight train with France and the
war as his objective.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-08

to punish persons accused of work Oh
farms on Sundays, but have commend
ed them for so doing. This was re-
ported to the Department of Agricu!-
lures recent farm labor conference ID
Birmingham, Ala. Not long ago the
rural churches of Indiana, in q con-
ference at Purdue University, took the
position that it is quite right and
proper to do farm work on Sunday II
that Sunday work is necessary to pro-
duce food crops to help whip Ger
many.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-08
HOW TO FORGET

If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it you would find
You'd soon forget to think twas true
That someone was unkind to you.
II you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who were sad
Although your heart might ache a bit
You'd soon forget to notice it.
Ii you were busy being true
To what you know you ought to do
You'd be so busy you'd forget
The blunders of the folks you've met
II you were busy being right,
You'd find yourself too busy quite
ITO criticize your neighbor long,
Because he's busy being wrong,
--Rebacca Foresman.
Y . . . . . . q . . DANA . q
- Do Your Duty .
= BUY WAR SAVINGS .
. STAMPS o
20 Do Your Duty q
q q Q Q . q . q o q q q q q q
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-08-08
COMMEND SUNDAY FARM WORK

Judges in Tennessee have refused
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
WHAT RED CROSS is DOING

! hospital supplies, sewing and surgical
dressings, or On knitting. Work done
at home can not be counted except in
the case Of knitting.
AS special orders are expected in
the hospital garment department, it is
urged that when the worker has any
choice, she pledge her hours to that
department where the need will soon
be the greatest.
People who work at night and can
not come to the day time meetings.
can have their time attended to, tive
and a half. and eleven and a half
weeks respectively.
Among the out Of town auxiliaries
these regulations apply as they stand
to Montrose, but an extension of
time is given to other auxiliaries
having SO few meetings per week
that the required time is not avail
able.
A separate announcement will be
made by the knitting committee, as
different system of counting will
be used in this department
The shipment from the sewing de-
partment of the Red Cross included
70 pajama suits, 80 hospital bed
shirts, 10 helpless case shirts and
cape bed jackets.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01

The following announcements are
made by the instructors at the Red
Cross shop:
Beginning with Monday of next
week, record will be kept of the time
spent in the Red Cross shop by people
who wish to wear the Red Cross on
their caps and aprons. 1t will be
necessary to pledge before hand GER
tain amount Of time, thirty-two hours
to be completed inside of four weeks,
for which the cross for the apron IS
given. Seventy-two hours inside of
nine weeks, for which the cross for
the head covering is given, and rs
hours inside of sixteen weeks, for
which red bar under the cross is
given.
In case the work is not completed
within the specified time, the record
must begin again. This does not ap-
pl to the 12s hour period which may
be completed in what the instructor
will consider a reasonable time.
Each person wishing Red Cross
will be given card on which the
record Of her hours will be marked
with a punch by the instructor to
which she must show it at the end of
each period she spends in the shop
Crosses must be obtained either on
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
Registration Process Defined for Ger.
man Subjects by Head Of
Southern Iowa
District.
WHO MUST BE ENROLLED
Wife Of Citizen or Subject Of Ger
many Must Perform Duty
Arrest Follows Dis
obedience.

Wome- of German extraction or
born in the United States do not have
to register June II to 26, no matter il
their parents are German natives.
There are several exceptions to
TINS rule, however, which are clearly
defined in an official notice sent to
registrars by Chas. w. McCarty Of
Ottumwa, Ia, chief registrar for the
southern district of Iowa
The rules governing registration OF
German women aliens are these:
All female natives, citizens, deni-
zens or subjects Of Germany or the
imperial German government, of the
age Of fourteen years or upwards who
are within the United States and not
actually naturalized as American citi-
zens will be required to register as
German alien females.
When Americans.
A female, irrespective Of the citizen
ship of her parents, born in the q. s.
and subject to the Jurisdiction there
Of, is an American citizen and is not
a German alien required to register.
unless she has become naturalized in,
or taken out the oath of allegiance
to Germany: or, she has married a
citizen or subject of Germany who has
not been naturaliZed in the United
States, as any American woman who
foreigner takes the nation
atty of her husband.
n Married.
A female originally citizen or SUBJ
ject of Germany who has become ma
turalized in the United States will
not be required to register unless
after such naturalization in the United
States she takes the. oath of alleg-
lance to Germany or otherwise re-
sumo her German nationality, by mar
rying a subject OF Germany who has
not acquired naturalization in the
United States.
The wife of citizen or subject OF
Germany who has not been naturaliz-
ed in the United States are aliens
and must register Also all female
or fourteen years and up
wards, unless prior to April 6. 1917,
they married American citizens.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
TALBOT MEN
HERE JUNE s
Convention OF Fifty Iowa and Hi.
nois Grand Agents Sched-
uied-Rslroad Man
Speaks.

Fifty country agents Of the o. A.
Talbot company, representing towns
in both iowa and Illinois, will hold a
convention in Keokuk June and 6.
The agents will talk over different
grades of grain and the general
handling of the grain business. A
member of the operating department
of the c. B. & Q from Chicago, is ex-
pected to be here to address the men
on the evening of June 5, at ban
quet in the Hotel Iowa.
This is the first time joint con-
vention of the Iowa and Illinois grain
men has been held here.
The headquarters of the conven-
ton will be at the Hotel Iowa.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01

City, Mo-, March 20, 1875. His mar
riage to Alice Davis took place in
that city, September II, 1899. Later
the couple moved to Carthage, H., go
ing from there to Hamilton.
Surviving are his widow and Ave
children, Mrs. Maggie WEIGH of Han
nibal, Mo-; J. G. Lewis, Fay, Carrie
and Bubble Lewis, all living at home.
In addition, two sisters and four
brothers in Platte City, Mo. survive
him.
Interment will be made near Ham
ilton.
The deceased lived at SIT South
Seventh street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
\ Z1e II 4
HAMILrON GATE CITY
n HAMILToN: IL. JUNE I -
HAMILTON, ILL, JUNE /.

where they will spend a month, when
they will move to Carthage, where
Professor Johnson will be supertn-
tendent of the Carthage high school
the ensuing term. Their many friends
are pleased to see them in our midst
again.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Williams re-
ceived a card May 20. from their
son. Homer, Jr., stating that he had
arrived safely in France Homer has
many friends here who with his rel
atives. are glad to learn that the
voyage over seas proved safe to him.
Adelia Ann Karnes was born mt
Suffer, Ill.,, in the year of 1862, and
passed into her rest at her home
Saturday. May 25, 1918, aged fifty
SIX years. In her early gil nood she
united with the Christian church.
. he deceased was married to William
Tanner and four children were born
to this union, two dying in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Tanner moved to Ham
ilton in 1890, which had since been
their home. During the last four
months Mrs. Tanner had been a great
sufferer with a complication OF dis
eases. Funeral services wera held
at the Christian church Sunday. May
26, Rev. A. l.. Macarthur conducting
the sad services. Interment was at
the Greenwood cemetery. Mrs Tan
ner was home loving woman, deyot-
ed to her husband and children, who
will keenly feel their loss Of aife
and mother. A son, George, and
daughter, Ida, with the husband and
large number of relatives, mon..n
her death. A large number of out
Of town relatives and friends were III
attendance at the last services cf re-
spect. In their sorrow the relatives
have the sympathy of all our citlLen-.
Mrs. Chas. Fisher and baby are
visiting the lady's relatives at Basco
this week
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
LIQUOR CHARGE
is DISMISSED
keokuk Man Taken on lnterurban
Car by State officer Had EN-
pIoyed Counsel to
Defend

A charge against Tom Kollmyer.
charged in superior court ten days ago
with illegal transportation of liquor
into the state has been dismissed at
the instance of W. A. Potter, state
agent and other county and city OFF,
Gals. Kollmyer employed legal coun-
sci to defend him, recently.
The state agent found that Kohl
myer, while he was on the car, was
an innocent party to the finding OF
beer and whisky in the trolly which
was making a trip from Warsaw to
Keokuk. Three other men were
charged with transporting liquor at
the same time. Their cases have not
been heard.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
Y. w. c. A. NOTES

The membership committee will
meet Monday night for o'clock sup
per.
Swimming classes will begin at z
o'clock Tuesday morning at the
Young Mems Christian association.
No one is to enter the pool until ap-
plication is made at the Young
Woman's Christian association.
The cafeteria committee will meet
Tuesday p. m. at o'clock.
The finance committee will meet
Wednesday p. m. at 2:30.
The student branch will hold a
meeting at 4:30 o'clock Thursday
p. m. There will be program OF
music and readings. This is the last
meeting of the student branch until
Sent ember
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
keokuk Soldier, Sergeant at Camp
kearney, California, Owes His
Existence to "vamp's"
Lucky Pin.
SHE IS THE GoDMoTHER
Actress. Received as Real Patron Of
the 15sth MISUNDERSTANDING
Take Fortune for EN-
bIem Now.

Saw fellows, wouldn't it be great to
have YOUR life saved by Theda Bara,
tho greatest vampire of the movie
screen?
Sergeant William BRASIL, keokuk
soldier boy at Camp Kearny, Cali
fornia, thinks 1t is.
Theda didn't actually save his lie.
hut indirectly she did. 1t happened In
this way:
The acrtess was made godmother OF
the 15Sth infantry of which BRASIL is
= member. So tickled was Theda that
she went to kearny, made a tearful
sneech to the boys and gave them all
cood luck pins. These were of metal
and particularly attractive to the boys.
Pins on His Emblem.
Sergeant BRASIL received his pin
which is in the shape of Taurus the
Bull. He pinned it under the flag OF
his left shirt pocket as he was going
to bayonet school.
And then something happened.
BRASIL accidentally stumbled over
some obstacle as he was about to
tump into a trench and he fell almost
sauarely upon the point of his own
bayonet, San Diego newspapers say.
Lucky Star Saves Him.
But the point of the bayonet caught
In Brassirs lucky star and saved him
nasty cash or even worse. The bay
onet would probably have pierced his
heart
A newspaper story from California
saws: "Since that 3rovidential es-
cape, BRASIL is a firm believer in
signs and he wouldn't take fortune
for the bull" pin that his godmother
gave him."
BRASIL, in a letter to Keokuk rela-
tives says he feels lucky to have es-
capped serious injury. He believes
Theda Bara may be vampire on the
screen but off it-why she's lovely
lady, th'sall.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
BE WHEATLESS
TO END OF WAR
Conference Of All States With Hoov.
er Decides That Even Big
Crop Shall Not Make
Wheat Bread.

BURLINGTON, Iowa. June Her
bert Hoover telegraphed Food Ad-
|ninistrator Deems that at a meeting
|of federal food administrators in
Washington. representing all the
states, it was the unanimous view
that even If the harvest OF this year
proves aboundant, "it will be the first
|duty of the American people to place
|eyery grain they can save into stor-
|age against possible bad years
|ahead, and in consequence there
should be no anticipation of unlimit.
fed wheat bread until the war is over.
Some of the most inconvenient
restrictions can no doubt be lessen
|eo on the arrival OF, large harvest,
put II We are honest with ourselves
I'VE will maintain restrictions requir-
|lhs the use of some substitutes, both
domestic and commercial, and we will
continue the requirements of high
aliiing extraction and the elimina-
lon OF non-essential use If and waste
IN flour and Bread
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
THIS MONTH OF
BRIDES, ROSES
War Time Has Not Hurt "Let's Get
Married. Attitude Of Couples.
Clerks Records
Show.

June, known as the month of bloom
ing roses and blushing brides, is at
hand. It's really no time for one to
feel respondent over a decreasing
number of marriage licenses. Rather
is it time to don hopeful smile.
Lets get married" is still in the
air.
Licenses were issued to thirty-two
brides and grooms last June. During
the month of May this year there were
seventeen couples who took out Ii
censes in the county clerks office.
Seven Of the men were twentyone
years of age or under.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
Relief from Eczema

Don't worry about eczema or other
skin troubles. You can have a clear,
healthy skin by using a little zemo,
obtained at any drug store for 35c, or
extra large bottle at $780,
Zemo generally removes pimples, black.
heads, blotches, eczema, and ringworm
and makes the skin clear and healthy.
Zerno is clean, penetrating. antiseptic
liquid, neither sticky nor greasy and stains
nothing. 1t is easily applied and costs a
mere trifle for each application. It is
always dependable.
The E. w. Rose Co.. Cleveland. q.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01
CITY NEWS.

--Ninety-seven children have been
born in the southern half of Lee
county since January l., according to
the birth record in the county clerks
office. Fifty-three of these are boys,
forty-four girls. These children were
born in Keokuk, Montrose, Des
Moines, Van Buren, and Charleston
townships
Mrs James South of Galesburg,
who has been visiting Isabella Dean.
to her home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-01

James II. Talbot has announced as
a republican candidate for the Office
|of prosecuting attorney.
Kahoka sent a contingent to Mil
lard, Kansas, this week to work in
the cement works. Those going were
Guy Creger, James Shaffer, Joe Cur
tbs, Jr., Joe Curtis, ST., Ira Scott and
Ed Hassank.
Chas. w. Watson came in from
Kansas City and spent a few days
this week with Kahoka relatives.
Appropriate services in honor Of
the veterans of the civil war were
held in the city park Thursday after
noon. Music was furnished by the
Kahoka band. Rev. w. E. Tinney, of
Wyaconda, delivered an excellent
patriotic address
Miss Naomi Beard and Mr.. Emmett
Hurzeler were united in marriage at
the home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Beard, south OF
Kahoka, Thursday evening, May 80,
at o'clock, Rev. c. E. Newton, of
Kahoka, officiating in the presence of
number of guests. Following the
wedding ceremony a bountiful sup
zeler are a fine young couple and
have the best wishes of numerous
friends.
John Blizzard well known citizen
and business man OF Wyaconda,
dropped dead at his restaurant in
that city Friday morning at II o'clock.
He was in the act of handing Gus
toner an ice cream cone when the
final summons came.
Miss Marie Neff, of Columbia, has
- oil tor
and science in the Kahoka high
school the coming year. The school
is now only one teacher short, a
domestic science teacher.
Vernon Chester Muhrer, eleven
months old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry v. Muhrer. died at the family
home Thursday, May 80. Funeral
services were conducted at ST. Paul's
church Friday.
A quiet wedding occurred Wednes-
day, May %, at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. ].
Donnellson, Ia, when their
Oldest daughter Salome, became the
bride of Henry J. Dinger the Rev. P.
Bentham officiating at the ceremony.
Only immediate relatives of both
parties were present. The bride was
prettily attired in white pussy willow
silk trimmed in georgette crepe and
lace. The groom is the Oldest son of
Mr.. and Mrs Jacob Dinger of Kahoka,
Mo. They were treated by large
crowd with an old fashioned charivari
at Donnellson and when they got to ka- |
hoka Thursday, another crowd was
awaiting them, but was held as a /
party in honor Of the young folks !
Mr.. and Mrs. Dinger will make their i
home on farm near Kahoka
Geo. J. Klingler is on his way home !
from visit with his sons at Luse- |
land. Sask., Canada. He reports the !
boys are in good health and the crops |
are fine, but need rain badly. 1t was |
showing some the day he left, May "a. |
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dinger of Ka-
hoka, Mo-, are visiting the latter's |
home, Geo Klingler's Donnellson, Ia, |
a few days.
Miss Christel Klingler of Donnell- I
son, Ia, accompanied her sister, Mrs.
Henry pfnger. to the latter's new
home at Kahoka, Mo. Miss Klingler
will also visit other relatives at ka-.
hoka-