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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-05
Shelby County Farms

Truck farm ~ ~ acres. only mikes
northwest at Raleigh PIX. road Within
quarter q mile. One six-room. one
Iour-rcom and two two-room houses
tafgr barn and plenty OF other out q
houses Deep well Two mules. COW.
thFsc sows, Overland truck. In fact.
az tools and implements. A valkout
Abundance Of glass for hotbeds Fenced
anu cross fenced with hog wire fence.
Price $4,000 one-thlrd cash. balance In
I'VE Years.
Dairy farm % acres. on k,mbalt ave
nue. Two miles south OF Normal school
residence and tenant hous. Large
DAIRY harm with concrete floor. two
Concrete e.,l dairy houses. Land les well
ana on pike. Price only $4,000
3lS acres 900 in cultivation and pas
ture, 30 acres lespcdeza. Land lies
Wei, no waste. Good residence, four
tenant houses, two barns all fenced
Price $50 per acre. Terms
2u acres, with 100 cultivated. Half
mile OF car line, on pike road -Four
tenant houses. Rented this year for
10 bales lint cotton Price $40 per
acre $4,000 cash, balance TO suit.
1t3 acres, mostly cultivated, near sta
90 - AhAAA 'EtN ANtalufVtts lDuI
tenant houses, barn, etc Lies well,
|l-9 per acre on easy terms.
M acres, with 50 cultivated. On pike
road, Near school, church, etc. is
miles Court square Three tenant
houses. Productive land. Price 500
per acre. $1,000 cash, balance in three
years,
l52 acres with 90 cultivated. Rolling
TO level land, part creek bottom Resi-.
donce and three tenant houses, Fenced
spring water. on pike 500 per acre.
halt cash. balance five years at per
cent. ~
rs acres near Caplcville. on pike: 60
acres cultivated Two tenant houses
Level to rolling, IL miles Court square,
Price Sli,25O. One third cash, balance
i've years at 6 per cent.
so acres at Caplwile, on nike. All
fertile branch bottom land. win grow
anything. Rents for six bales OF cot
ton Price $3.50 per acre.
M. D. Brock, Hem. 3107
F. W. Faxon & Co., Inc.
s s. Front st. Phones Main 1861.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-05

Modern S-room, two-story on Union
Ave, newly painted and decorated
good heating plant, lot 64NZ20 feet, gar
age Tor two cars, servants house
IS. 500. terms.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-05
ORDER
INCUBATORS
NOW.
New Goods. All Sizes.

Queen hot water, 70-egg $3.50
Queen hot water 13O-egg ....... 2750
Buckeye hot water, 65-egg ...... IS 90
Buckeye hot water, 110-egg ...... 1850
Old Trusty hot water, 70-egg 80. 1850
Old Trusty hot water l00-egg... 1850
Old Trusty hot water, l50-egg -. 81 55
Roller Tray hot water 100 egg -. 5000
Roller Tray hot water l5U-egg -. $500
Prairie State hot air, 100-egg 900. 20 90
Prairie State hot air, 150-egg 800. 38 90
CypnerS hot air, 140-egg ....... $500
Porter soft heat, l00-egg ....... 24.40
Cycle Hatcher, hot air, 50-egg 80. $50
Breeders, all makes, $1,000 to .... 1000
Blue flamo wiCkleSs hoverS ..... 1850
Coal burning hoVers ............. 1875
Liberty electric incubator l00-egg 80. 20
Liberty electric incubator 150-egg As 20
Reed electric incubator, 70-egg -. 80 90
Reed electric incubator. 120-egg 81 so
Reed electric hovers, SlS.75 to -. 23.45
We can furnish electric incubators
for both city current and farm plants
using 81 voltage,
Ask for catalogue Of the kind of ma
chine you want.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-05

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTORS
A STRANGE PLANK

In the platform of 49, Republican
party adopted by the Chicago con.
vention is this plank:
We recommend that all ships engag
ed in coastwise trade and all vessels
pf the American Merchant Marine
shall pass through the Panama Canal
without the payment of tolls.
That is reopening of the fight of
several years ago, when President
Wilson demanded that the clause dis.
eliminating against foreign ships in
the matter OF tolls be repealed-and
won. That the law violated the treaty
rights of Great Britain in particular
was finally admitted by Congress.
In that contest Senators Lodge and
Root were on the side of the Presi.
dent, and many Republican newspa.
pers, including the Boston Transcript
were loud in praise of their stand
What are they going to say of the
plank of the Republican platform
that now denounces what they did
six or seven years ago?-Boston Post
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13
WHY IS FLORIDA

Florida rose out of the ocean.
Coral, sand, and seaweed, assisted
by wind, wave and tide slowly piled
together the long narrow and sword
that cuts the Gulf rom the Atlantic
For ages it lay under a kindly sun
kissed by balmy breezes, and Tapped
by the encircling arms of tropical
oceans. Birds of gorgeous color flew
in flocks like scarlet patches brushed
across the like scarlet patches brush.
ed across the sky. 1t masses of tro3i
cal trees and shrubbery filled in mile
after mile, and strange animals .freg
to amazing size and color.
Lovely land of sunshine and solemn
/ tropical peace and lassitude.
Far to the north the Puritan wres
, tied with wintry winds and establish
ed a code of ethics that took account
or every day of the week. fartha,
south, the Cavalier of Virginia wa,
fighting Indians all week and his cons
cience on Sunday. In the far west
aboriginal Indians had not dreamed O.
pale-face, and went to sleep tc
/ dream of the happy hunting grounds
Then while in Florida Ponce dt
Leon was hunting for the spring Of
eternal youth.
In Europe Bourbon plotted agains
Bourbon; past the sunny palms o.
Florida, a bold adventurer sailed, il
the hope OF looking first on the wide
i Pacific.
Far to the east, across the Atlantic
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

Let's see? Yes, the League of Ma
tions is making itself felt in the mael
strom of politics 1t defeated Joe
Bailey in his aspirations in Texas and
Governor Cats in this state. 1t left
at home Mr. Vardaman in Mississippi
Mr.. Hardwick in Georgia; Mr.. James
Reed in Missouri; Mr. Gore in Okla
homa and number of other senators
who conferred their hopes on Senator
Lodge rather than President Wilson
And Mr.. Harding will find that strad
ding so big an issue is neither safe
nor sane.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

George Mathews, one of the veteran
newspaper men of the state. in writ.
ing editorially in his splendid news
paper, the Fort Lauderdale Sentinel,
says that in the next five years the
Everglades will produce enough sugar
to supply more than one-half the sugar
needed by this republic. He waves
enthusiastic over the extensive invest
ments now being made by the big
capitalists of the North in Everglades
lands and says if ha had the money
ne would buy 5000 acres at once, as
he believes the best lands in the glad
es cannot be bought for less than
5000 an acre in five years time
T.-U. Short Talks.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13
THE REMOVAL OF MR.. MEees

Public. sentiment in Jacksonville
seems altogether with Mr.. Meggs and
his removal from the board of county
commissioners is almost universally
resented.
Everywhere while there we were
told that he had inaugurated more
reforms and had put more beneficial
movements on foot than any officer
the county had had in years.
The Times Union speaks of his re
moval in the following splendid man
ner:
Governor Cats has such habit of
removing public officials that there
was no occasion for surprise when he
removed Luther L. Meggs, chairman
of the board of county commissioners
from the position he held. Removals
is a mania with the governor and he
INDUCES in this favorite pastime of
his even though he afterwards some
times reverses himself by putting the
removed official back in position
again. 1t is one of his powers as gov
ernor and he probably wonders why
he should have the power if he does
not exercise it. He is like the Irish
foreman who fired a workman and
then employed him again-fired him
just to show that he was boss
Governor Cats has been cunning
for Meggs long time and we are glad
he didn't get him sooner. He spared
him for nearly four years OF the best
kind Of work for Duval county. Mr.
Meggs entered the political arena four
years ago and now he has gone from
it, but he has left his mark and his
works.
There was a time when a sort of
suspicion attached to the position of
county commissioner. There was a
suspicion that the man who held the
place would use it for his personal
ends. OF course many of our county
commissioners were men above sus
picion but some were supposed to
manage the affairs of the county in
a way to make their own property
more valuable.
For the four years that Mr.. Meggs
mas been in office there has been no
charge and, as far as we know, no sus.
picion of anything that savored of
consideration of personal interest
While Mr.. Meggs has been only one
OF five he had great influence among
his associates and has received and
deserved more than one-fifth of the
credit for what has been done by the
commissioners during his tenure of
office. He would have been charged
with more than one-fifth if the COM
mlssioners had acted in such a way as
to justify charges instead of credit.
but they did not. The record is a
clean one and Mr.. Meggs as well as
his associates have the appreciation
or the people of Duval county.
Living in Duval county for thirty
years we can say that in that time
his county never had a commissioner
that so nearly gave all his time to the
affairs of the county as Mr.. Meggs
has done. A man of wealth, he has
practically given up his personal af.
fairs and devoted all his energies to
the work his eneighbors entrusted to
him. When he assumed office he had
the confidence of the people of this
county and his conduct in office has
added to it.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

II is said that the automobile has
chased the horsewhip out of business
as the extinction of slavery put
an end to the manufacture of the
''cow-hide"-a little instrument so ia
rnniar in those days. So the water
proof coat has almost driven the UNI.
brella out of business and the walk
ing cane. The u. S. Forest Service
find that in 1912 there were several
cane, whip and umbrella handle man
ufacturers in New York; but today
there is not single manufacturer Of
walking sticks or whips in the State
and only one manufacturer of UNI
brella handles.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

The ''colored folks" are holding a
big meeting in New York city. 1t is
presided over by Rev. DIR. Mcclure of
Antigua, British West Indies: Among
other things he made the following
statement: "We want black men of
courage. 1t takes one thousand white
men to lick one negro" "The proof of
this statement, he said, lis to be found
in the battle of San Juan Hill and in
tie record of the negro regiments in
the great world war" Nothing can be
more harmful to the negro race than
utterances of this kind. There is no
necessity for them and the more
thoughtful ones should cause the
McGuires to put a bride on their
tongues.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

More and more public opinion is
crystalizing in favor of league Of
nations because it seems to offer the
surest guarantee against war and the
world is tired of war.
In the town of Lemont, a suburb of
Chicago. all the officials are under
arrest for "bootlegging.'
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

rail, water, air; by diplomacy, MIMI
tacture, and immigration, South AM
erica and all intervening islands ana
countries are being exploited for their
wealth of product and character. The
virgin wealth of forty countries ac,
opening to our trade. American gen.
ius and ambition is bringing this
wealth to our country.
Arteries. have been opened south
ward, and main one line through
Florida. The railroads OF the state
are burdened to capacity; new ma
chinery is called into service month
by month; Key West in year le1ped
into prominence as gateway IN rem
wears it's imports and exports VII
rival those of cities twenty times its
size.
Favor in geographical position s
opportunities to call to wealth ana
mower To list on "bridge ,of the
world" comes only to select caste.
ONLY few times in the worlds MS
fory does trade favor state as trade
has favored Florida. Palestine was a
bridge between Assyria and Egypt,
the then known worlds granery, and
the Jews who occupied Palestine be-
came the worlds proverbial traders.
New York YVES gateway, and no city
can take away its prominence, FOL
trade bending across the quiet pen
insula. 1t will never be quiet and SER
enc again. 1t is started on the high
way; its day has come.
Second. FLORIDA is Incompatible in
it's diversions.
Wealth brings leisure and leisure
seeks playground.
American, now five hundred years
old. has had time to grow leisure
class. Millions roll in affluence, and
this growing class seeks diversion
from the scene of toll and achieve
ment. People grow tired of their
arenas. Warriors need rest.
Florida is premier resting place.
ind in summer and winter the leisure
class is coming in increasing numbers.
With this class comes opportunity.
for the best ideas and the ripest ex-
perience come Win It. What these
successful people have done in every
section of the United States, we can
do under their guidance. If we are
willing to learn, and we should be,
Florida can incorporate the very best
of a great civilization into the life OF
the state. For development under the
instruction Of such a class, money is
no object. Money can be had for the
asking.
These two tremendous economic
phases give Florida it's assurances of
a future; they would not if they could.
The long, narrow strip of sand,
which was raised by the sea, upon
which the primeval stars shone
through velvety nights and over
which balmy breezes blew for un.
counted centuries, has become the
scene of modern triumphs. And yet
the same stars shine through the vel.
vety nights and the same soft breezes
soften the storms of northern winters.
This is he why of Florida.-Fort
Pierce News-Tribune.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13
THE SMALL TOWN EDITOR


We don't know who wrote it, but
it is worth the time it takes to read
it:
Consider the country Editor. He
weareth purple and fine linen. His
abode is amongst the mansions of the
rich. His wife hath her limousine
and her first born sporteth raci lg
car that can hit her up in 40 Sat.
Lo! all the people breaksta their
necks to hand him money. A child is
born unto the wife of a merchant in
the bazaar The physician getteth 10
golden plunks. The editor writeth a
stick and a half and telleth the multi
tude that the child tippeth the beam
at nine pounds. Yes, he lieth even
as a centurion. And the proud father
giveth him a Chrome.
Behold, the young one groweth up
and graduateth. And the editor put
teth into his paper a swell notice. Yea,
a peach of a notice. He telleth of the
wisdom of the young woman and Of
her exceeding comeliness. Like unto
the roses of Sharon is she, and her
gown is played up to beat the band.
And the dressmaker getteth two-score
and four iron men. And the editor
gets a note of thanks from the S. G. G.
The daughter goeth on journey.
And the editor throweth himself on
the story of a farewell party. 1t run
meth a column solid. And the fair one
remembereth him from afar with a
picture postal card that cosetth six
for a jitney.
Behold, she returneth and the youth
of the city fall down and worship. She
pickett one and, 10, she pickett a
lemon. But the editor calleth him
one of our most promising young men.
and getteth away with it. And they
send unto him bid to the wedding
feast, and behold, the birds are fash
toned by Montgomery Hawbuck in =
far city.
Flowery and long is the wedding
notice which the editor printeth. The
minister getteth 10 bones. The groom
standeth the editor off for a 12-montb
subscription.
All flesh is grass, and in time the
wife is gathered unto the soil. The
minister getteth his bit. The editor
printeth notice, two columns of obitn-
airy, three lodge notices, a cubit or
poetry and card of thanks. And he
forgetteth to read proof on the head,
and the darned thing cometh out
Gone to Her Last Roasting Place"
And all that are akin to the deceas
ed jumpeth on the editor with exceed.
ing great jumps. And they puIIeth
out their ads and cancelleth their sub
scriptions and then swing the ham
mer unto the third and fourth genera
tions.
Canst thou beat it?-St. Augustine
Record.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

Mr.. Harding says that he chad rath-
er have Industrial peace at home than
command the International peace Of
the world: The international peace
Of the world would be = guarantee OF
industrial. and social peace at home.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

Governor Coolidge. the republican
vice-presidential nominee is frank
enough to admit that the Chicago
platform is '.broad''-that its feet are
Tar apart, reaching from ex-President
Taft to hi Johnson on the League Of
Nations.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

we are receiving our fall line of
SHOES almost daily. FISHELS
S-6-4t.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-13

MIDDY BLoUsRs, the good kind.
at Fishers. 6-s-4t
Imperial Valley press., 1920-11-05

years. But by strange twist of fate.
H&rding ran against Foraker for the
senatorial nomination in 1914 and
won, ending the public career of the
famous Ohio boss wha had brought
him up in the political world.
Harding has a reputation through
out the country as being a second Nc
Kinley, He himself has often said he
saw little resemblance close friends
ot both see a parallel in their tariff
views and in their willingness tos be
guided by advice, and in some of their
mannerisms. Both have grave coun-
tenanccs and probably no enc ever
slapped either on the back.
Quiet Man
Under the Harding administration,
it IS likely that the great man" theory
OF the president which has prevailed
since Rossevelts dominating person
ality reiGned at the White House, will
disappear at least for the time.
Those closest to Harding say he
doe not consider himself a powerful
dominating figure in the sense that
President Wilson or Theodore Roose-
Welt felt themselves. His big task in
the next four years, as he is said to
see it, is that Of harmonizing. the best
brains Of the country and focusing
them on national problems. He feels
deeply his friends say, that there is
great crisis in world affairs which will
continue until the league of nations
question is settled. In that crisis
Harding expects to use the best minds
Of the country, as he puts it, in an
ctfor TO work out d solution which
the entire nation will approve. He does
not step into the presidency with the
intention of making his will prevail in
the nations affairs beyond certain
point. lis conception of the presi-
dcncy is the reverse of President Will
sons according to those who know him
best. Harding believes that the office
is largely an executive one and that
congress, not the president, is the
channel through which public opinion
should express itself. If this analysis
madc By his close friends is correct,
Harding, as president, will be inclined
to lay back and permit congress to
shape the nations policies, using his
own power only to carry the expressed
wishes Of congress into effect. This is
his theory, but whether the difficulties
Of practical politics will permit him to
carry j. out, only time can show.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-11-05

ties as sideline most Of the time.
Identified with the Ohio Republican
machinery since he became a voter,
Harding, however, has held office only
comparatively short time. He was
in the state senate from 1899 to 1903.
was lieutenant governor the next two
years, ran for governor but was de-
fcated, and went to the senate in 1914.
lie rounds out his first term as U.
S. senator March next, just as he
steps into the White House.
Harding was political protcge of
the late Senator Foraker Of Ohio and
was allied with his faction for many
Imperial Valley press., 1920-11-05

aute'nobile riding. That is one rea-
son Hardings never travel on the train
if good roads are available. Most Of
the trips to and from Washington are
by motor and all trips in Ohio are by
that method.
Plays Golf
Harding PLAYED tennis years ago,
but relies on golf for recreation now.
Neither reads great deal but they
are fond OF the theatre and especially
the more serious plays.
Harding has been primarily a news
paper publisher during his entire man
hood, although he has carried on poll
The Washington herald., 1920-04-03
MEXICANS SLkY
ANOTHER j. S.
CITIZEN
One Killed, One Stabbed
And Train Bearing Dip
lomat Dynamited.

One mora American has been mur-
dered in Mexico, and a train, bear
ing the American military attache
at Mexico City, his wife and two
other American passengers, has
been dyrsmited, according to infoE
nation received here yesterday by
the State Department.
H. A. Jafredon, employe of the
International Petroleum Company,
at Amatlan Camp. near Tampico, is
the slain American. Alexander
oberg. nationality unknown. but
presumed a citizen of the United
States. was stabbed, probably fatal
ly, in the same fracas.
Both were attacked by Mexicans
also in the employ of the company
on March so.
Colby Takes Action.
Secretary Colby telegraphed to
both the American embassy at
Mexico City and the consulate at
Tampico to make prompt represent
tations looking to the speedy appre-
hension and punishment OF the mUr-
dereTs.
Rebels are believed responsible for
looting the passenger train on which
Maj. Edgar w. Burr, attachc of the
American Embassy, and Mrs. Burr;
DR.. Florence Halle and a Mr.. Hurd.
also Americans, were passengers.
The train. on the Mexico City-Cuer-
navaca line, was attacked near Tres
Marias, on March 2S. Tres Marias
is within eight miles of Mexico City.
Airplane to he Returned.
The American Embassy reported
yesterday the Mexican government
had issued orders to return to the
United States the airplane of Lieuts.
G. l.. Usher and L. NJ. Wolf, United
States army. The two aviators were
forced to land at Nacozari, in So
nora. several months ago, and their
machine has been in bondage"
since then.
The State Department also heard
that the murderer of Lieuts.. Water
house and Connolly, whose bodies
were found on the beach of Los An
geles Bay, in Lower California, had
finally confessed to the crime. He is
Calixto Ruiz and is now in prison at
Mulege.
The Washington herald., 1920-04-03
THREE STATES
HITBY FLOODS

Atlanta, Ga, April 2.-Flood con-
ditions in sections of Georgia
Tennessee and South Carolina as
sumed dangerous proportions to-
day as a result of torrential rains
within the past forty-eight hours
Property damage is expected to
run high.
Train service was badly crippled
Thousands of acres of land were
reported flooded in North Georgia,
East Tennessee and Northwest
South Carolina.
Several cities and towns, includ-
ing Chattanooga. Knoxville, Rome,
Ga, and Abbeville, s. c., reported
heavy damage.
Sevierville. Tenn. was reported to
be cut off from the outside world
as a result of washouts.
The Weather Bureau announced
that the Tennessee River would
reach a forty-one-foot stage. eight
feet above the flood stage. by Sun
day morning.