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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-10-14
Summary Of Municipal Charter Law

act has been declared constitutional
as a result of a test case taken to the
courts from DeLand This summary
of the law, if carefully studied, will
give an intelligent idea of the steps
necessary in making tie proposed
change and just what the kind of
government proposed is like:
l. Under provisions of said chap
ter cities and towns may, by duly
constituted elections, enact new char
ters or modify existing charters with
out resort to legislative enactment.
Such new charter or amendments
may incorporate general municipal
powers or retain special powers pre-
viously granted by the legislature.
2. The first step consists in the
calling of an election by the govern
ing body of the city for a charter
board, in Punta Gorda, five in num-
Der. (This step has been taken by the
Town Council and the election is to
take place Tuesday, November 23rd.
3. The notice of an election for a
charter board must be published once
a week for four weeks next preceding
such election. The first publication
must be twenty-five days before such
election, and such election of a char
ter board is with the machinery of
the then existing municipal govern
ment. Irrespective of the number of
candidates the FIVE rpppiyipp tho hi
est number of votes are declared t.
be elected.
4. After such election this charter
board, within thirty days, must or
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-10-14
Out of Luck,

Upon my return from calling one
afternoon ran into my mothers.
My sister opened the door for ine. ana
without looking into the living room,
l blurted out: Gee. had the best
luck! Four Of them were not ut
home" When went In there sat
the four playing cards with my moth.
er. My embarrassing moment has last
ed ever since that day.-ChicasO Trib.
une.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-10-14
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat Of the disease
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly infiu-
enced by constitutional conditions. HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh.
1t is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the
System. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is composed of some of the best tones
known, combined with some of the best
blood purifiers. The perfect combination
Of the ingredients in HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE is what produces such Won
derful results in catarrhal conditions.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
+. J. Cheney & Co.. Props. Toledo. o.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-10-14

4 The people of Punta Gorda are
genuinely interested in the proposed
change to the commission-manag
form of government. This was
shown by theTlarge attendance at the
last meeting of the Commercial Club.
For their information, a summary of
the municipal charter law, as found
in chapter $40, acts of the legisla-
ture of 1915, is printed below. This
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-10-14
Modest and Reserved

Stymie-Hazzard made the stRth
hole in three and he's spent the rest
Of the day boring every one With de-
scriptions of each shot.
Greene - Some fellows are long
winded. Now | made eighteen shots
at that same hole and no one has
heard me mention any one Of EN-.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-10-14
The Usual Thinp.

Sir" Numbered Senator Blawhsw.
"day and night. from every stump and
busting. have denounced in no un.
certain tones the merciless rapacity OF
the soulless profiteers, and"
But" we asked, what. have you
done about it?"
Done? Heavens ebove! Haven't !
just said : denounced arkansas
City Star.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-10-14
No Wonder.

"There goes u man who cent bot.
tie up his wrath when he ss>esks OF
prohibition"
IBID he drink"
EMO, but he did make Nerk Lsxewk"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-10-14

Marcus C. Fagg, state superintend-
ent of the Children's Home Society
of Florida, has just completed ten
years of service with that institution
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20

amassed dollars are baptized with
the sweat and the blood of the toiler
who has been wickedly declassed by
the grasping overload.
"Laziness and greed are diabolic
brothers when each desires the pos
sessions of the other without having
paid for it value received"
DR.. Gillian then read the findings
of the labor committee of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church in conference
assembled in Des Moines last May;
it is also the pronunciamento Of the
Federation of Churches in America
These are some of them: Freedom
of speech; workers should share in
the responsibility Of the management
of all matters in which they are d.
rectly concerned; partners of in
dustry must have right to bargain
collectively thru their representatives
chosen from their own ranks; pri-
mary purposes of industry service
instead of gain, and wealth should
be produced for use rather than for
profit.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20
PASTOR DISCUSSES
LAB0R'S RELATION
Bible is Best Workers
Magazine, Says DR..
Gillian

Sunday morning was story hour
so far rain and threatening weather
was concerned, but we'll filled
house greeted DR.. Gillian at the
Methodist church as he rose to con-
duct the service. The newly arranged
choir led by Miss Lola Koefod rem
dered music worthy the place and
the occasion.
The minister's subject was "The
Relation of the Church and Labor"
and his text, "Co-partnership with
God" He said in part:
Whatever interests humanity in
terests the church as an agent of
God in the partnership of divine Gre
alton. The Bible is the best labor
magazine the people can possess,
there being more than one hundred
forty times the single subject of labor
is mentioned, aside from multitudes
Of occasions where work is noticed.
God stands on the side Of the
laborer continually and attempts by
the Golden Rule and other direct
teachings to protect him. Labor is
holy, and Jesus Christ the carpenter
was also the King of the universe.
Capital is holy If used for the pur-
pose for which it was created; vi.
to be a means Of affording just re-
Enumeration for the ones who make
capital possible thru their too often
unrequited toll; for many of the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20
BURGLARIES SHOW GREAT
INCREASE IN NEW YORK CITY

NEW YORK-Burglarly indemnity
companies declare that thefts in this
city have increased from 100 to 200
per cent over last year, which ex-
hibited one of the highest burglary
totals in the history of New York.
One hundred homes and business
places are looted every day. This is
the number which is reported to in
surance companies. To this add the
vast number of uninsured victims
and the daily total will hit up much
higher. Roughly and conservatively
estimated, the number of burglaries
committed within the year in New
York is 100000.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20

ments being distributed over a period
Of ten years make II easy for them
and the expense Of the upkeep of
the paving as compared with the ex-
pense of the upkeep for the earth
road in front Of their property,
makes the comparison very favorable
to the pavement. Then there are the
additional advantages of not having
to sprinkle so much to keep down
the dust and not have so much mud
tracked into their houses. House
keepers will appreciate this latter
consideration because under present
conditions people walking along the
sidewalks get some mud on their
feet at every crossing and much of
this mud is tracked into the houses
to the detriment Of the floors, rugs
and carpets and later when it is be-
ing swept, the dust penetrates
everything in the house. After the
paving is laid it is washed with the
street fusher and the crossings are
almost as clean as the rest of the
Sidewalk. This makes a substantial
saving in the work of houseclean-
ing and in the expense of keeping
the house in order and in the laun-
ier!ng of the goods within the house.
During the war we had our lib
srty bond drives and our victory
bond drives and all the other differ
ent drives and people met them and
paid them very cheerfully. The aver
age citizen thought he could not do
It, beforehand. but when the time
came and he subscribed his share
he found a way to pay it. Then the
next drive came and he did the same
thing over. If the average citizen
had been informed of the drives that
would be made and the demands
made upon him, say for two years
in advance, he would have felt like
surrendering; but he went thru and
met them and is glad he did.
If the average citizen of Black
loOI "ClO W UC lulOl lhCu lOW VI LhC
amount of demands in taxes that will
be made upon him in the next five
or ten years he would feel like sur
rendering but the average man does
not know his capacity for making
money for the next five or ten years
or for saving money by having these
things that cost money. People
should remember that they can al
ways do more than they think they
can and it is good thing for us
to be making up our minds to have
the best there is and to be willing
to pay for it and to buckle in and
make the money to pay for it. We
may not know how on earth we're
going to do it but that is for us to
find out as we go along. Let's make
UP our minds to pay taxes and get
something worth while for it.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20
RAILROAD COMPANY DOES
ITS SHARE

A few of the citizens of Black
foot keep remarking OCCASIONAL.
that the railroad company ought tt
park all of its right-of-way thru
Blackfoot. There are others who d.
mot expect nor ask so much of tht
railroad company and they think thu
railroad ought to park part of it!
right-of-way thru Blackfoot. Their
there are others not so strong In
their asking who say that the rail,
road keeps very nice park in Black.
foot and it would be nice if they
would extend it.
The editor of this little sheet has
often listened to see who makes
these remarks and then at the first
opportunity takes walk around past
their, own premises to see what kind
of park they maintain, and in many
cases, perhaps most cases, it is inter-
esting if not really amusing. One of
the good spirits who has been most
persistent in asking for an expensive
strip of parking to be made and
maintained by the railroad company
has generally had about the worst
looking place in town.
AS one looks over the town
to see who has we'll kept places, who
has weeds, who has trash or rubbish
on the premises and in the street
adjacent it makes quite an inter-
esting chapter indicating the char
acter Of the citizenship.
The unparked portions of the
railroad right-of-way have been
pretty we'll kept for many, many
years and they have been improved
each year as to their general condi-
ton. Within the last fortnight gang
of men has gone up and down the
right-of-way with shovels and made
very unusual cleanup of weeds,
sticks, bottles, glass, cans and other
pieces of rubbish besides leveling the
ground while they were doing it. Per-
sons who are interested in seeing
a nice piece of work, a we'll kept plat
and one that is credit to the rail-
road company and furnishes an in
teresting comparison to the premises
of almost all the people in town are
invited to take look along the east
side of the right-of-way from the
railroad park south for few blocks.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20
THE "MATTER WITH AMERICA

What's the matter with America
these days?
Too many diamonds, not enough
alarm clocks.
Too many silk shirts, not enough
blue flannel ones.
Too many pointed-toes shoes and
not enough square-toed ones.
Too many serge suits and not
enough oyeralls.
Too many satin-upholstered linn
cuisines and not enough cows.
Too many consumers and not
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20
Butter Story With Capital
B" Told by Presto Woman

Emnd just one Oh the HrSt settlers
in the Presto country writes letter
to the editor of the Republican and
makes some interesting comparisons
regarding the price of butter and
other commodities at different times.
The letter was prompted by an
article that Mrs. Just read in the Oc-
tober number of the New West mag
azine, entitled How To Eat Corn. -
In order to have the reader fully un-
derstand Mrs. Just's references in
her letter we copy the article from
the New West magazine. The reader
Is cautioned not to take the corn ar
ticle too seriously as it was in the
nature Of little joke between two
friends and the Salt Lake editor
made a story of it.
Mrs. Just's Letter
Now, Mr.. Trego, this is a Butter
story with capital B. Am sending
a COB to put on your corn as told
in the New West. If corn is all gone
try it on baked Russell.
l put T on, not for Trego but
it will fit in all right, but our brand,
the N. A. Just brand, was small 7
on the left hip so the butter in
herited it. This was before the days
of wrappers and T butter was in de-
mand. sold Danilson and Stevens
40 pounds for a barrel churn when
they were in business during the
later 70's. think got zoe a pound
and it took the entire lot to pay for
the churn.
Now, l have made butter ever
since l was Is years old and sold it
all the way from zoe to $1.25 and
never saw the time that l could not
get pound of good grade coffee
for the same weight of butter. Right
now l think could get almost 2
pounds of Pearson's for a dollar,
so I'm not kicking at prices. IT'S
not quite so hard to make a pound
as it was years ago. cannot say
about the coffee in this valley.
In '66 I took pounds of my good
fresh butter to make soap, got a
can of I've for one dollar from a
traveller going to Montana thru
Lincoln valley. The price of butter
was 75c but no one had soap to sell
and it would be about pound, for
pound if they had, so l got more
soap and we needed it; didn't have
many changes of clothes.
Now about butter again. | once
was one of the judges on the prod
uct and saw good quality cut
down because the paper was some
what rough. You are supposed to
wet the paper as you put it on and
anyone should know that makes it
rough when it dries. The main man
was a student from the A. C. and
was supposed to know. 1t reminds
woman slouchy if her shoes were
me on a party who would pronounce
not buttoned up. Now she may have
worn Congress CATERS & better say
elastic sides, not many will know
what that means.)
Now about that T brand; it does
not usually stand for Just, but in
this case it did and came cheap,
which often stands for us. 1t had
been used for poker about camp
fire and left by the freighters, so
Nels found it and made use of it,
When our cows were not many a
Frenchman who lived at the F. S..
Stevens ranch said it was very suit
able as T stood for thrift.
Well, as one of your staff says,
think l will stop now, but say, Mr..
Grosbeck is very interesting to us.
EMMA JUST.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20
AN UNUSUAL
AUTUMN

The season of 1920 will go down in
Idaho history as one of the long sea-
sons with very late frost. Frost
usually visits Bingham county about
the tenth of September and this year
we did not have any killing frost
until the middle of October except
ing in spots. Vegetation that was pro-
tected on the night of the frost con-
tinues in growing condition after the
middle of October.
We have sometimes had seasons
that brought frost every month in
the summer but the year 1920 is not
one of them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20

enough producers
Too much envy Of the results of
hard work and too little desire to
enable 1t. &#
Too many desiring short cuts to
wealth and too few willing to pay
the price.
Too much of the spirit of get
while the getting 10 good" and not
enough of the old Fashioned Christ
ianity.
Too much discomfort that vents
itself in mere complaining and too
little real effort to remedy condi-
tions.-Fargo On. d. FORUM
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20
HOW TO EAT GREEN CORN

One of the joys of the life of the
country editor, as l remember from
my own experiences some forty or
eighty years ago was to have the
farmer subscriber come in with a
watermelon, bushel of tomatoes,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20

The Altoona pastor who declared
that "the eight-hour man with
sixteen-hour wife needs to unionize
the home" contributed valuable
thought.-Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-20

Every legal voter in Bingham
member OF the Club
registered not without financial obligation themselves They
the above application membership then i'll
Bank Building
Backfoo Cut out the above application
deliver a above requested.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-05-21
ions of the law.

ions of the law.
Third, l desire to say that every
dollar that has been paid into the
Trustees office coming from the tax
on dogs was on the first day of May
credited tosthe Public School account,
as required by law, and any insinua-
tion to the contrary, | am sure, will
not be noticed by the thinking people
if the county, and | am sure my
friend Davis knew better at the time
he wrote the article referred to, if not
he should have come to the Trustee
office and examined the records that
stand open for examination and in
spection by him and everybody else,
at any and all times, and there salts
fled himself before making state
ment in public print, touching the
honesty of his fellowman.
w. F. APPLEBY.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-05-21

Mrs. Emma Boyd Spellings, of Ha-
eel, KY, teacher of piona, voice and
expression, was in Lexington the lat
ter part of last week, as a guest Of
Mrs. A. H. Morris. While here Mrs,
Spellings interviewed a number of
our people in regard to opening a
studio here and securing classes in
voice, music and epression for the
school year of 192O-2l. If the classes
are secured the music and voice will
be taught by Mrs. Spellings and the
expression taught by her daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Spellings, who is at
present in Boston at the Emerson
College where she is taking a post
graduate course. Mrs. Spellings and
her daughter will appear in recital in
Lexington at an early date. -,
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-05-21

Following in the footsteps of the
enfranchisement Of women comes the
ordination of women as preachers
and when the Cumberland Presbyter-
ian General Assembly meets in its
Goth session at Mckenzie, on the
goth inst, that subject will be
wrestled with. Those who are favor
ing taking women out of the age-old
sphere of woman their sex to "go the
whole hog" They ought to favor her
as a preacher, as members of al
trades and professions-in fact each
and every sext barrier ought to be
leveled and women should not only be
allowed to do but MADE to do all
those things heretofore regarded as
purely masculine. The homes, Of
course, will go to the devil unless the
men become effeminate or feminine
enough to rescue them-but what's
the difference? The poor, down.
trodden, abused women must be set
free. They-that is the idle, city,
rich women, aided by few in the
country towns, and with never word
from the USEFUL country woman
tell us that the chivalry, the protect
ing care of men, Landed to the skies
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-05-21

1t is to be hoped that the Chamber
of Commerce of Tennessee, just set
on foot in Nashville, will show bet
ter spirit in bringing industries and
enterprises to the State than has been
done by some of the commercial or
CARNATIONS in inviting new business
to come to their cities-for it has
been evident in many cases that these
commercial organizations have been
any thing but friends to enterprises
which would compete with the mem
bers of the organizations. Some GO
so far as to say that the main pur-
pose of such commercial organiza-
tons is ii keep foreign enterprises
away from their cities instead of in
wiling them to come-for instance
much of the business element OF
Nashville did not want the Genera
Motors Company to secure the pow.
der plant and come there.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-05-21

Levi P. Morton, former vice-presi-
dent and former governor of New
York, died at Rhinebec, his home on
the Hudson river, New York State, on
the evening of the 18th inst, having
reached the more than extraordinary
oge of ninety-six years. Mr.. Morton
amassed a large fortune in business
before going into politics, in which
connection he went to Congress, was
ninisteF5o France under President
Garfield vice-president under Pres
ident Benjamin Harrison, and Gov
ernor of New York.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-05-21
TILLMAN FOR THE SENATE.

]. R. Tillman, of Chester county, q
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion for the State Senate before the
primary Of August 9Th, was in Lex
ington Monday and his announcement
appears in The Progress.
Mr.. Tillman was born in Henderson
county, near Jacks Creek SO years
ago and was cut off from us when
Chester was formed in the early
eighties of the last century.
For twenty-five years he has held
positions of trust, that of superinten-
dent of construction work and in ad-
dition was superintendent of con-
struction when the great jetty wall
was erected at Galveston, Texas,
when that was made a deep water
harbor; also he filled the same posi-.
ton on a mile of the great drain
age canal, running South, from the
City of Chicago.
He has held membership in the Or
der of Railway Conductors for IS
years and is now a member of the
legislative committee of that order.
In 1917 he was Pictorial representa-
tive in the General Assembly from
the counties of Chester, Haywood and
Hardeman.
1t goes without saying that he is a
friend to the man who earns his
bread by the sweat of his face. Mr..
Tillman says he courts all sorts of in
vestigation as to his character and
record and on his character and rec
ord asks support in the primary. For
six years Mr., Tillman has been farm
ing in Chester county.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-05-21
SWINK FOR THE SENATE.

Esq. R. B. Swink, a member of the
County Court of Madison county and
direct Representative of Madison
county in the 61st General Assembly,
was in Lexington last weekend and
left his announcement as candidate
for the State Senate, from the coun-
ties of Madison, Chester and Hender-
son to appear in the Progress.
Esq. Swink was born, reared and
lived his life at Medon, Madison
County. AS stated he is a member of
the County Court of that county, and
has represented Madison in the House
and now asks to be promoted to the
Senate fthe 62nd General Assembly.
He says the record will show that
he voted for all progressive laws in
the last General Assembly and stands
on that record in the campaign, which
will close with the primary on the 9th
of August.