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ballot shall by the petitioners be sub- mitted with the petition, and on state wide measures, shall be submitted to the State Board of Election Commis- sioners, who shall certify such title to the Secretary of State to be placed upon the ballot; on county and mu- nicipal measures such title shall be submitted to the county election board and shall by said board be placed up- on the ballot in such county or mu- nicipal election.
 Limitation: No limitation shall be placed upon the number of constitu- tional amendments, laws, or other ineaAufessHAich may be- proposed, and submitted to the people by either initiative or referendum petition as provided in this section. No petition shall be held invalid if it shall contain greater number of signatures than required herein.
 Verification: Only legal voters shall be counted upon petitions. Pe- titions may be circulated and pre- sented in parts, but each part of any petition shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the person circulating the same, that all signatures thereon were made in the presence of the af- liant, and that to the best of the af- fiant's knowledge and belief each sig nature is genuine, and that the per son signing is legal voter and no other affidavit or verification shall be required to establish the genuine ness of such signatures.
 Sufficiency: The sufficiency of all statewide petitions shall be decided in the first instance by the Secretary /, of State, subject to review by the Su- preme Court of the State, which shall have original and exclusive jurisdic- tion over all such causes. The suf- ficiency of all local petitions shall be decided in the first instance by the county clerk or the city clerk as the case may be, subject to review by the Chancery Court.
 of any petition is challenged such cause shall be preference cause and shall be tried at once, but the failure of the courts to decide prior to the election as to the sufficiency of any such petition, shall not prevent the question from being placed upon the ballot at the election named in such petition nor initiate against the valid- Iity of such measure, if it shall have been approved by vote of the peo- pie.
 Unwarranted Restrictions PrOhib- retary of State, county clerk or city clerk, as the case may be, shall decide any petition to be insufficient, he shall without delay notify the spon- sors of such petition, and permit at least thirty days from the date of
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Health Advice Conducted Under Direc- tiOn of the U s. Public
 Health Service

The high cost of board and lodg- ing for MT. Rat is one of the big problems in economies for the United States today.
 Years ago, when ever a rat could get his rations and place to sleep at a nominal sum, a careful survey was made of the situation. It devel- oped that the rat population kept pace with the human population There was rat for every person in the United States. Investigations in feed stores, poultry stores, the farm. etc., established the further fact that each rat cost each person in the United States one-half of one cent each day.
 Estimates today by experts of the United States Public Health Service place the daily cost of the rat at one cent for each person in the United States, or $3.65 a year, just double the pre-war cost, conservative fig ure if the increased value of food stuffs since 1910 are taken into con sideration.
 A produce dealer stored 100 dozen eggs in his warehouse for two weeks. On opening the tub in which they had been placed he found rats had gnaw- ed hole through the bottom and removed Il 1-2 dozen eggs. Similar depredations happen throughout the United States, to growing crops of grain, the stored grain, fruit, vege- tables, young poultry, pigeons and merchandise in general, which it de- stroys.
 Then to add insult to injury the rats now and then transmit to man thrcughtheir fleas the dread bubonic plague. This disease has made its appearance in a number of Gulf ports this summer. While the Pub lie Health Service feels that it's ex- perts have been able to control the plague and prevent its spreading state and city boards sof health throughout the United States; have been asked to begin an active wal against the rat, not only as health precaution but as an important econ omic measure. Already number ot seaport cities andeven communities widely removed from the plague ports, have determined to get rid o1 the rat.
 Of all measures the most effective according to the United States Pub lie Health Service, is starvation. Thi. is accomplished principally by con structing buildings so that rats can | not get to the food in them.
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Bloody Garments
 May Show Crime

Harrison, N. J., Aug. 27.-The po- lice are Investigating new suit case mystery here today. Blood stained garments of a man and a wo- man, discovered in travelling bag believed to have been flung from a car window into West Hudson Park have set detectives on the lates, hunt savoring of foul play. Deer stains on the collar of a woman's blue serge dress and on the should. CTS of a mans telegraph messenger coat, are the center of interest in the investigation tonight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28

ort Worth, Texas, Aug. 27.-Fol lowing the long period of wet weath er A statement issued here by Pres tdent Lyday of the Texas Farmers union this morning, said his reports 9hoNed heavy damage to the cottor n fsotth and southeast Texas. Ht
 f2ceived no reports yet from
 and West Texas, but fears IT loss there. He said further
 TX now made and ready for the kests il rotting on the stalks be- Se the 1aymer can't get in the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28
Million Rubles
 Are Purchased For Twenty-Five Dollars

: Sebastapol, Aug. 27.-One million rubles were purchased for $25 here today by the correspondent, but af. ter he had paid 60,000 rubles for g meal, 10000 more for short cat ride, at the close of the day was 2 bankrupt millionaire. Grimea is ir an unhappy situation. It has 24 million rubles, but no real money and there is little to buy here.
 The harbor is filled with idle anc disabled warships and merchantmen There are no cargoes on the docks; street cars have been stopped be. cause of the lack of coal; stores have no stocks and streets are deserted except for an occasional carriage some wounded soldier or armed pa. trolman. The only life here is or the beaches or at the park at the entrance to the harbor. There, bath CTS for the most part women and wounded officers and soldiers, pass the time when not reading bulletins from the various south Russian fronts at the official news bureau These bulletins afford depressed Crimeans much encouragement Most women here have no hats, but wear veils or kerchiefs about their heads. Many are without stockings but are charging nevertheless, in bright inexpensive gowns which they dignify with an erect and indepen- dent carriage suggestive of Amer ican women.
 Six years of war have not broken the spirit of South Russian women, They "carry on" with the slight means at their disposal without con- plaint, and give whatever encourage ment they can to men battling with the bolshevik along the Dneiper riv- CT and in the Don and Kuban ter ritories.
 Sebastopol, with it's idle dockyards and railways operated only for mil itary purposes, has not, in spite of its 80,O00 inhabitants the dynamics of a city one-tenth its size.
 The old Russian naval base has lost all of it's brilliancy, most of it's warships are rusting at the docks and it's industries are closed. The civilian population is awaiting re- sumption of export trade, which is necessary for the betterment of the exchange situation and the restora- tion of normal trade conditions.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28
ADVISES SURRENDER.

Mexico City, Aug. 27.-Francisco Villa, the former outlaw, who, with his troops, surrendered recently to the government, has written to Pe- dro zamora, who raided Cuale and carried off British and American subjects, advising him to surrender. Villa urged Zamora to sacrifice his pride and obtain from President De l3a Huerta and Secretary of War Gales letter containing guarantees for us all.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28
FAIL IN CHANNEL SWIM.

Dover, Eng, Aug. 27,-Henry Sul- hyan of Lowell, Mass, who started Ut $40 o'clock last night in an at fempt to swim the English Channel from Dover to Calais, was taken from the water ten miles from the French coast, according to an unconfirmed x1pQrt received here today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28
VISIT Ex-KAIsER.

Wierengen, Holland, Aug. 27.- he former German Grown Princess, Who has been visiting her husband here, left here today to visit the former German emperor and em-
 eess. She was accompanied by her two sons, the other two remaining here with her father.
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To Destroy Malarial Germs

Take GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC. It destroys all malarial germs in the blood, and removes the impurities. GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC strengthens and builds up the system by purifying and en- riching the blood. You can soon feel it's strengthening, invigorating effect 60c.
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s25o.ooo FOR yANnY

( New York, Aug. 27.-Under the provision of the will of William K. Vanderbilt, the vanderbile university in Nashville, Tenn, receives s250QOO it became known here tonight when summary of the will was made pub. lie.
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EITHER WAY.

The republicans have been urging as reason for the election of re- publican president that Europe wants the Democrats returned so that the policies of MT. Wilson, who, they gay, has been European catspaw, may be put into effect. Now comes III. Herrick and says that the Vest e1n European statesmen are satis- fled with Harding's foreign policy md want the republicans returned to power. It would be interesting in this connection to hear what the IhrQpean statesmen themselves have IT say. Whether they want repub- lican or 8 democrat as president of the United States, of course, does not matter, but it would be worth while to discover just how the re- publican envoys to Europe have pulled the wool over their eyes, ol to what extent the Europeans have pulled the wool over the republicans eyes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28

Wonder who sent Arkansas over the top in the Republican drive ? Likewise, how high the top was?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28

Henry Ford has founded college. And soon he may be offering as in- ducements to prospective employees . minimum of seven dollars day and 2 degree.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28

The increase in population at Hell ena was very small and perhaps dis appointing to many residents of that city. However, mere figures do not tell the story. Almost any commun- ity would count itself lucky to have the spirit for which Helena citizens are noted. Helena is good town and growing }ne. and mighty live one, despite the census figures.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-28

The militant suffragists were mil itant up to the last minute. They scrapped even while Secretary Colby WAS writing victorious finis to their campaign.
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Title: At the time Of filing peti. tons the exact title to be used on ths
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09
JUDGE BRYANT HERS

The Gainesville News pays the fol-
lowing splendid compliment to Mr..
Bryant Heirs, former citizen CT
Ocala:
We are talking about JuGge HERS,
our county judge. The man who
probates will, looks after estates,
issues marriage licenses, officiates at
marriage ceremonies and sends moon
sinners up for life for selling booze.
You can't beat him. No one can beat
him for character and no one can
beat him for office Everybody loves
Judge HERS. He is just judge, an
affable gentleman and good friend.
He can stay where he is all his life,
if he wants to, or he can go higher
If he wishes. It's just with him.
He was born in the good old county
of Bradford. He was born on farm
and, in his young manhood, he taught
school. Both those things make it
sure that his good character is in
grained. Take up congressional
directory and read the short biogra-
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

phical sketches of the senators and
More than half of
them were born on q farm and. when
young men, taught school
Another thing about him is that
he has been travelling man and all
the travelling men are his friends.
They would bost him for anything.
We will not tell how old he is. Those
glasses he wears and that benign,
thoughtful, judicial face make him
look as if he might have been born
about 1867, which would put him
along about 53-that's just our guess.
Judge HERS read law under our old
friend Otis Green, in Ocala, and then
went to Jacksonville to practice. His
prospects were good there but the
panic of 1917 came on, Judge HERS
himself had serious reverses and this
was followed by long illness. With
health shattered he closed his law
office and went on the road
He is patriot. When the war
drums beat for the Spanish-American
War he was amongst the first TO
volunteers going into service with the
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09
REALLY WORTH WHILE

The wireless TELEGRAPH is fine,
Let all the poets harp it;
But wouldn't it be just divine
To have beatless carpet.
Youngstown Telegram.
No doubt these blessings would be
fine
And greatly swell the nations bliss;
But scientists of late opine
That what we needs a germless
kiss.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The germlesS kiss, the boneless fish,
The beatless carpet, all were. fine;
But listen to this soulful wish,
A songless cabaret for mine,
Springfield Union.
The beatless carpet, germless kiss,
And songless cabaret's your dope, +"
But for the height of human bliss
The smelless onion is my hope.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Each is blessing of it's kind;
They make welcome group.
But one more thing we hope to find,
And that's a noiseless soup.
Youngstown Telegram
All these things would make life more
happy.
And keep us in a whirl
But one thing more I'd say we need
Is a peach of a painless girl.
San Francisco Call
And when you come to name EN-,
If it's just the same to you,
Now wouldn't it be lovely
To have the fluless flu.
Pensacola Journal.
Newspapers have all named it,
The Pensacola Journal too,
Now the Banner will take a shot,
To make the Bond Issue go through.
IT. B.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09
Mr.. HOOVER LOCATED

Mr.. Hoover says he is not Mr.. Bry-
ans kind of a Democrat THE World
SO quotes him). Well, Mr.. Bryan has
suspected it for several reasons; first,
because the world offered him at auc.
ton to any party that would take him:
second, he does not know to which
party he belongs; third. he is not will
ing to help any party write its plat
form; fourth, he has been out Of the
country SO long that he is out of touch
With the American people; fifth, he
has made big fortune in short time
and has lived among rich people ever
since
When he says he is not Mr.. Bryan's
kind of Democrat we may take it for
granted that he is not in the same
class with the more than six millions
of Democrats who voted for Mr. Bry-
an three times, and that he is not in
sympathy with the reforms which Mr..
Bryan helped to secure The people are
acquainted with Mr.. Bryan's kind of
Democracy-they gave him a million
more votes in 1896 than any previous
Democratic candidate had ever receiv,
ed, and they made his vote the record
Democratic vote for twenty years We
now have Mr.. Hoover located and
know why he does not take the Demo
Gratis into his confidence and state
his position on public questions
Bryan's Commissioner.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09
{ WHAT ABOUT THIS?

There's something wrong here
1t has just been brought out that
manufacturers of stoves have, dur
ing the past two years, increased the
price of these very necessary articles
by only about thirty per cent.
Compared with pre-war prices, the
advance is said to be only about forty
per cent.
Now, it has undoubtedly cost the
stovemakers just as much more as 1T
has cost other manufacturers for
their raw material.
There is no question that increased
labor costs in the stove industry will
compare with those in any other
There can be very little, if any, diff
ference in their favor in the general
cost of doing business.
~ Why is it, then, that these manu-
facturers have been able to put their
product on the market at forty per
cent. advance, where others have
pleaded the necessity of lacking on
anywhere from hundred per cent.
to multiples thereof
The stove-makers may be charitable
men, but we can hardly credit them
with running their business at a loss
through Observation-Disclosures.
And if they are merely honest, what
about the others?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

FOR SALE OR TRADE Sterling
21x2S combination peanut picker; vel.
vet bean huller: oats, rice, rye and
corn shucker and shelter, all com
bined. Will sell for half the cost of
new one. This thrasher is almost
new, never thrashed but about 300
pounds grain. If interested call on or
write, d. N. MATHEWS, care Clark
son Hardware CO., Ocala. Fla. $3.50.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09
81 Never Knew You Could Keep Rats
Out of a Butcher Shop.D

What Ralph Watkins says: Fig
ured rats around store had enough to
feed on; wouldn't touch anything sus-
picious. Heard about RAT-SNAP,
gave it trial. Results were wonder
full. Cleaned all rats out in ten days.
Dogs about store night and day never
touch RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 25c,
soc. s1.00. Sold and guaranteed by
Marion Hardware Co, and the Court
Pharmacy. ad.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

Ocala Rifles. He was elected chair
man Of the Alachua County Red Cross
Chapter in 1913 and still holds that
honorable position. Bryant Dickson
HERS is living up to the full measure
of noble life.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

A torpid liver needs an overhauling
with Herbine It's benefits are i'm
mediately apparent. Energy takes
the place Of laziness, appetite returns,
and the hour Of rest brings with it
sound. refreshing sleep. Price, 6Oc.
Sold by Gerig's Drug Store.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09
WANTS

PARKER Lucky Curve Fountain
PENS ink the point anG not the I'm
gers. It's safety sealed. Ask US. The
Autobiography Drug Store.-12-5-tf.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

CROSS TIE CUTTERS-Write for
special prices and ship your ties OF
all grades to Gress Manufacturing
Company. Jacksonville, Fla.--o-5-lyr.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

SEED PEANUTS White Spanish
and North Carolina variety at l2h
cents Id. Irish Gray and Tom Watson
Melon Seed, at soc. lb. Texas Seeded
Ribbon Cane, Sorghum, Millet. Upland
Seed Rice. All Garden and Flower
seed.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

FOR SALE-One standard Ford, one
ton truck with cab and box. Run less
than five months. In excellent condt-
ton. Must be sold by the 18th. Cash
price 100000 Reason for selling, re-
turning north. Write p. o. Box 1,
Lake Kerr. Fla. 3-9-lt
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

FOXES WANTED-Young or old
ones. Ross Brown, McFall. Ala
bama.-3-26-4t.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

WANTED-Ten good. cheap logging
mules and three carts and harness
complete. Address Central Cypress
Company ,Centralia, Fla.-3-26-3t.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

FOR SALE-Large work horse. age
nine years. w. Z. STETSON. Cand-
Ter, FLORIDA. S-1s-4t
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09
N Q ICE

Notice is following
win on
:. - Monday. the Third a D.
~ the city nan
pc necessary to the
same together with the of such
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-04-09

city Tax Collector, ocala, Fla.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-02-21

scripts were placed in the hands of the
city commissioners, all ready for the
printer.
"Whyf" asks the reader who does
not know how hidden hands perform
their sinister tasks.
For a number of reasons, unsophis.
ticated reader.
First, the people may get the i'm.
preston that these plans have been de.
veloped and then put forward by their
commissioners. That not only may
boost the stock of the commissioners
with their constituents, but gives
some color of excuse for ringing the
city into the deal.
Second, to flatter the vanity of the
commissioners and to get them, in a
way, committed to the plans, thereby
making them less liable to hesitate to
act as the tools Of private interests
in advancing their projects.
Further, dear reader, what the com.
missioners probably will be asked to dc
before these interests are through with
them will be in violation of their oaths
Of office and may lead to compiled.
tions. The oath of office is not diff.
cult to hurdle. Once an oath Of office
is violated, the official will find it
much easier to violate. it a second time
third time, and so on.
Watchful walters are wondering If
Mr.. Lovegold will proceed to the bit.
ter end along the lines of his original
plans.
Not doubt of it, dear old citizen.
Mr.. Lovegold is not a new thing
under the sun. Many cities have him
he is type.
The political boss and the rich man
who 60 after what they want have one
characteristic in common. To those who
dare to cross their twisty paths, they
say:
"I'll show you!'
The ugly features of the lust OF
wealth and the lust of power, when in.
fluenced by anger, are not pleasant to
look upon.
The humble writer has had sad ex
periences, right here in this peculiar
city by the fresh-water sea, and well
knows whereof he speaks.
Mr.. Lovegold probably will attain
his goal in this matter, only to find
that, for the sake of doing so, he has
forfeited everything that really i.
worth while. The story of any sordid
and deceitful methods will live in Du
luth, long after gold shall have lost it,
power to thrill him and as long as thi.
city shall endure. Founded on rock, it
has ample promise of long endurance.
The odor of this story not all the
perfumes Of Arabia can sweeten.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-02-21
YOUNG LAWYERS OF CITY
FOUND BLACKSTONE CLUB
Fifty Brilliant Legal Lights Organize for "Social Purposes
Ony"-Possibity That New Organization Will Find Pre-
cedent for Helping Select Judicial Candidates.

The Blackstone club is the name Of
an organization recently formed by the
younger members of the only bar in
Duluth where real kicks can be given
and taken, legal treating, so to speak,
since the local advocates Of 2.75 min
mum succeeded in going over the top
couple Of years ago.
Maybe the late Mr.. Blackstone would
not recognize his new namesake and
maybe he would not wish to do so, but
the Blackstonians, or whatever you
may wish to call them, apparently care
little about such things, firmly believ-
ing and loudly alleging that the new
organization is "some baby" as they
say in Judge Perrin's Bingoland dis
trict.
Rip-saw inspectors have been trying
to ascertain why the Blackstone club
was formed, but there seems to be an
organized conspiracy on the part Of
the members to conceal the facts. This
attitude may be only another indica-
tion, of course, that the younger mem
bers Of the legal fraternity merely are
running true to form, following the
lead of the profession in such matters.
Even when the head-sawyer tried to
jar loose the information as to why
the Blackstone club, about all the sat-
isfaction he got was curt advise
ment that the club is for "social pur.
poses only"
The head-sawyer and others have
thinkings of, their own, however, and