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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30
COST or ROAD BUILDING

| Villages and counties contemplate
ing road building should get in touch
with the bureau of Public Roads of
the United States Department of
Agriculture, if they would save tax
payers from exploitation at the hands
of unconscionablc contractors. 1t
appears from information at hand
there has been sudden and heavy
decrease in the cost OF road building
material. Figures given cover wide
stretch OF territory, embracing prac-
tiCally all parts of the United States.
They run in brief as follows: Earth
excavation, common, SO cents cubic
yard; rock excavation, $1.26 a cubic
yard; gravel, $1.44 cubic yard;
sand clay, A 5 cents a cubic yard;
crushed stone, $3.42 a cubic yard.
Structural concrete of various classes
ranges from $14 to $21.2O "a cubic
yard.
For surfacng, the following are
the figures by the square yard: GRAY
ell. 40 cents; surface treated maca-
dam, so cents; bituminous macadam.
$1.06; bituminous concrete. $1.97;
plain cement concrete, $2.17; REIN
forced cement concrete, $2.54. Ce-
ment has been furnished by the fol-
lowing states at prices given by the
barrel: New York, S1.73; Wisconsin,
1894; Arkansas, s2.70.
Many county and village boards
are supremacy ignorant in matters of
road building as might be expected.
but they can operate along business
lines. Some of them may be able
now to take advantage of their col
lege courses which, if they taught
anything, showed the lanes down
which to travel quickly to obtain ac-
curate information. If our village
fathers have never seen a college,
then a little horse sense will guide
them along lines that will save the
public a great deal of money. Road
building is going on in every state OF
the nation and the more we have of
it the better, but the poor old brow
beaten taxpayer ought to be consid-
cred once in while, and road con-
tractors can scarcely be regarded as
special pleaders for the preservation
of the public purse.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30
CLIPPED COMMENT


Harding is my Shepherd; and
lam in want. He maketh me to lie
down or park benches; he leadeth
me beside the free soup houses. He
IreStOrcth my doubt in the Republican
party; he lcadeth me in the path OF
destru>uon for his party's sake
Yea, though | walk through the val
ley of the shadow of starvation l do
fear evil, for thou art against me;
thy policies and profiteers they
brighten me. . Thou preparest re-
duction in wages for me in the pre-
sence OF mine enemies: thou an
nointcst my income with taxes; my
expenses runneth over my income
Surely poverty and unemployment
will FOLLOW me all the days of this
normally administration and l will
dwell in rented house forever
West Union wv. Va.) Record
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

| hoWlIngs about the lawlessness of the
south. 1t is now in order for south
etn congressman and newspapers to
unite in a deserved and severe denun-
CITATION of the barbarous lawlessness
of the north At Herrin, forty men
were fiendishly murdered simply be-
cause they went to work to make an
honest living. In East Saint Louis
| and other parts of the lawless north
many men have been murdered for
the same reason, that they undertook
to work honestly for living for
4, themselves and families. This, to
say nothing of the reign of murder
and robbery in Chicago, New York
and other large cities of the north
When there is lynchlng in the south
1T is always for good cause. and no
man in the south is mob-murdered or
prosecuted because he tries to do
honest work, but this cannot be said
Of those parts Of the north in which
many labOrers are employed. The
federal government ought to send the
army to take charge of those lawless
regions OF the north, hunt down every
assassin, try him by court-martial
and have him shot. At Herrin par
this should be done, for the
courts there are in the hands OF the
who control the county Of
ficials.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30
RAILROAD OWNED PRESS

The Jacksonville. Florida, Journa
has openly raised the question as t.
the right Of a public service corpora
ton to own newspaper. "Tht
newspaper that is owned by any pub
lie utility corporation is not a free
press" says the Journal. at can.
not represent the people. it repre-,
sents the special privilege it is owned
to foster"
Presumably the question is being
agitated because Of the growing grip
of the railroads on the newspapers of
the South.
That railroad owned newspapers
are dangerous influence in any COM
munity, there seems to be no doubt.
1t is quite out of the question for
newspapers owned by railroads to
present to the public fair and impair
tial facts and editorial opinion on
such vital questions as freight rates
for example, yet upon an intelligent
understanding Of the freight rate sit
uation on the part of the public de-
Ponds the prosperity of the great
farming population that feeds the ma
ton and the cost OF living for the
public that must depend on the tiller
OF the soil. There are thousands of
newspaper readers in the cities who
never know the ownership of the pub
locations they look to for informa-
ton. The editors are unknown to
them. The city newspaper publish
ers and his readers have not that
close contact that exists between the
publisher of Il weekly newspaper and
his readers. Or course, the natural
assumption is that the newspaper is
the friend OF the public, the national
policeman watching the interest of
the people, and so people are turned
into an army OF Little Red Riding
Hoods and led to destruction by the
railroad wolf without ever suspic-
ion of their danger.
1t would be q beneficial service if
legislation were enacted prohibiting
the ownership of newspapers by pub
lie service corporations, and it is
quite within range of possibility that
this much to be desired restriction
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

| brought the quarantine officials and
agriculture down close on them. A
flew long sighted, deep-peering, men
| here and there, over the state refused
to be hoodwinked, refused TO be
blinded by the general seeming sur
render of a belligerent powerful fact
ion, however, and in urging their can
Edidacy for the legislature stood fiat
footed for a no-fence law, knowing
that with a nO-fence law established
and enforced tick eradication will fol-
low, but that tick eradication will
never precede no-fencc, if the range
cattlemen can help it.
The range cattlemen have succeed
ed in partially fooling a good many
good men in Florida on this new,
fake, tick eradication plan of theirs.
The cover has been snatched off now,
however, and the cattlemen stand be-
fore legislators, and people palpable
misleaders OF public sentiment, and
acknowledged attempted deceivers of
the voters. They admit they "are
against" tick eradication, and that
they only started this movement as a
back-tfre to burn against the ever
growing and fast-increasing flame of
public demand that the free range
and the cattle tick must go.
The only salvation for the growers
and developers Of Florida, and the
only chance for the pure bred cattle
men to succeed, is to compel a state
wide compulsory no-fence law from
the next legislature, coupled with
tick eradication.
The mask is torn off, the truth is
out. viii members of the next leg |
islature continue to believe the cat /
tlemen will submit willingly and !
helpingly to control and regulation
after that letter of the secretary to
the Kissimmee Valley Gazette?-
Tampa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

1.-The citrus outlook for next sea-
son is pronounced fair" declares the
Fort Pierce News-Tribune. The May
and June bloom has been prolific, and
set fairly well, according to the news
papers The groves are showing
much improvement since recent rains
fell. The Florida orange and grape
fruit crop is one of immense impor-
lance, and is watched from the time
for the first blooms to the end of the
harvest season with the greatest in
terest. AS one feature of the citrus
fruit culture overlaps the other. there
is never day when something of i'm
portance is not transpiring in the
groves. The early bloom was very
poor, and it remained for the June
blooms to come along and make
good" This has now been noted in
many sections, much to the satisfac-
ton OF growers and thousands of
others who are in one way or another
concerned. - Times Union Short
Talks.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

King street was cussed and dis
cussed from the bay to the city
limits at the last meeting of the
Commercial Club, the discussion
finally resolving in motion instruc-
ting the secretary to confer with the
city authorities and the officials of
the Atlantic Cost Line with the view
OF improving this street at once by
doing away with the open bitches,
laying curbs and surfacing, if posi-
BILE. Everyone who travels on the
tain to and from Fort Myers, wheth-
er they would or not. must come in
to the town and leave it by way OF
this street and the impression they
gain by its appearance is the impress
sion they get Of the town as whole
1t could be made presentable in ap-
pearance Immediately at very little
cost, and in few years could be
transformed into thing of beauty.
The town authorities seem to be TAX
ing lively interest in improving the
town as much as possible with the
limited funds available and it is
hoped that they will be able to find
a way to improve the appearance of
this eyesore.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30
Pooling Many Good Men

Representative A. II. Stuart of
Hillsborough county recently said to
the editor of The Tribune: Il think
some OF the Florida papers are max
ing mistake in trying to force no
fence sentiment on the legislature,
because the cattlemen are for tick
eradication and will assist in putting
over a good tick eradication bill at
| the next session"
The editor of The Tribune replied:
II am afraid you will find you are
mistaken. The cattlemen are putting
over a blum. or trying to, like they
! did at the last session, when the
State No-Fence League was asked not
to introduce its bill until the tick
eradication men got through their
legislation, which would have the
backing of the cattlemen."
The Tribune has had repeated re-
quests from men interested in tick
eradication, some of them even from
members of the old no-fence league.
asking us not to complicate matters
by insisting on no-fence law, be-
cause "the cattlemen are working for
compulsory tick eradication in con-
nection with the sanitary board and
the Florida Development Company"
Knowing the tactics pursued by the
catrlemen last time, and having seen
indication nf ha ~
much less change of heart, The |
Tribune watched with apprehension, |
county after county fall into line with |
the new tick eradication crowd. to |
the utter exclusion of the no-fence
movement. This paper had only |
its judgment to rely on that there is |
niger in this woodpile" of tick |
eradication. but while it strongly |
scented" him, only Wednesday did
it get a view of the corpus nigri it
self.
In brief note to the Kissimmec
Valley Gazette, Mr.. sam Summerlin.
secretary of the Cattle Raisers' Asso-
citation of Florida, reiterates that he
lis not now" and never has been IAN
advocate OF tick eradication" This
statement might not have been so
significant and indicative had it not
been for the further statement of Mr..
Secretary Summerlin, in the Gazette
that the recent action of the associa-
ton looking toward tick eradication
for some parts, possibly, of Florida
was inaugurated solely
with view to forming some
plan by which we could satisfy
the croakings of the news
papers, and at the same time
eliminate some of the friction
with the sanitary board-as
well as put ourselves in a de-
fensive position"
The Tribune invites the attention
of every member OF the Florida legis-
lature to the frank, defiant. insolent,
admission Of the secretary of the Cat
tie RaiserS' Association of Florida.
Some excellent men have believed
that the cattlemen of this state
underwent genuine old fashion
camp meeting conversion after they
saw what they had brought on them
selves by repeating all tick eradica-
ton regulations Of Florida, and
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

Jupiter Tonans appears to have 'it
in" for our esteemed Tampa friends.
On Friday night and also on Sunday
night, he hurled n thunder-bolt at
that city and put their electric light
and power system out of business,
which stopped the wheels of both the
big newspapers of that city. Maybe,
Jupiter does not approve of their
Boosting and cussin.'
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

can be brought about if the country
press unites in insisting upon it..
Reputable newspaper publishers have
right to protect the honor of their
profession. The integrity of the
whole press suffers in reputation
from this handful of prostituted pub
LEGATIONS whose policies of buncombe
and deception are shaped by public
service corporations whose sole aim
is to disarm and exploit the people.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

The appointment OF Hon. E. P
Green, of Bradentown, as a member
of the State Road Department to fill
the vacancy caused by the untimely
death of w. ". Clark, is pleasing to
the good road advocates of Char
lotte county, who endorsed him for
appointment, feeling that he is a big,
capable, broadminded man and a
worthy successor to the late Mr..
Clark.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

Punta Gorda doctors, who, by the
way, are the best in the land, have
so very little to do in town that they
are almost always six TO twenty miles
out in the country when fellow
wants to consult one of them about
a stomaCh-ache or something. And
you know, when a fellow has pain,
he wants to see a doctor right now.
AS it is now, if fellow gets shot,
ne has to depend upon the specta-
tors stuff their shirts into the bull
let holes until one of our doctors
gets back to town. If they don't
quit being out of town when people
are getting their arms broken by
Fords, somebody will soon start the
slogan, Every man HIS own doctor. "
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

The Punta Gorda Herald tells a
thrilling story of a battle between a
tuother rabbit and a big rattlesnake
that had seized one of her young,
but there is nothing said about what
that rabbit had been drinking. Ar
cadia News. Since the News raises
the question, well say it was Arcadia
moonshine. Nothing else would
make a rabbit fight a rattlesnake.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30
THE LAwLEss NORTH"

If the fiendish massacre OF forty
innocent men at Herrin, Illinois, had
occurred at any place in the southern
states. the long-eared blatherskites
in congress and in northern news
paper offices would have tortured the
atmosphere for weeks with volcanic
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

As it is now fashionable to use the
word amazing, advantage is hereby
taken of it to say that it is amazing
to observe how few writer's know at
what place in sentence to put the
little word only. Recently. in lead
ing editorial in 4 popular paper, that
little word was misplaced three times.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30

Hang out your banners on The out
er walls, Tuesday. and help make the
Glorious Fourth a really glorious
one.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-06-30
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
SEAL SALES At
HALF WAY MARK
Officials of Oklahoma Public
Health Association are
Feeling Optimistic
at Report.

OKLAHOMA CITY.-With the F'if-
teenth Annual tuberculosis Seal Sale
at the half way mark today officials
OF the Oklahoma Public Health Asso-
citation in charge of the sale are opti-
mistic.
Continued optimistic reports from
nearly every section OF the state in
cline health leaders TO the belief the
100000 state quota will be raised il
work is kept up. The sale closes the
end OF the month.
Pawhuska already has in the bank
more money than raised altogether in
last years and Grady county is an
other leaders with similar early Seal
Sale record.
Oklahoma County continues to re
port an encouraging response from the
public The last half of the sale will
be the intensive half. During The ten
days before Christmas Seals will be
placed on sale on the streets, in all pull
lie buildings and in the stores School
children will make canvases in many
sections, in others committees OF bus!
ness men will see that everyonS is CIV
su a chance TO buy Seals
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
A>~AiI.N\T OF ENID
JlIIlR GETS HE NRINU

ENID. okla.-J. &. Creighton. alleged
motor car thief. charged with sssaul,
with intent to kill when he shot and
seriously wounded e. 4. Andrews. coun
" jailor. on the night ot December 6
while attempting to escape from jail
has been hound over to district court
following his preliminary hearing. Bond
was set al 5000.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
PROMINENT MEN ARE
DEAD; FOUR INJURED

AKRON. Ohio.-Three prominent
Massillon men, one of them a city of
ficial were burned to death and fow
others seriously injured Sunday wher
flames destroyed cottage in which
they Were sleeping at Little Wadsworth
on the Portage Lake reservoir south OF
here.
George w. Williams, well known law
yer, of Massillon, is the most seriously
burned of the four survivors. Two 9th
er attorneys, Walter Holt, 2S. and FL
son Wefler, 80. both of Massillon, are
suffering burns and other injuries.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
Recei,rr Cor Minr Asked

llENRYETTA. Okla.-Suit has been
filed In the superior court by the United
Mine Workers ~ America seeking "a
regeivcrship Tor the Monarch Coal con.
rany. with mines at kusa. The plaintiff
siiese that the defendant COMP boy j. IN
debt to- Various miners in sums ranging
from $40 up to $50. aggregating to-
tai of tl50 and asks that receiver b.
appointed to conduct the mine until
these debts can b. raid off.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
JOHNSON INITIATED
INTO G. L. SOCIETY

NoRNAN-tS SpeciaU Thowas John
SON. Ardwore, was initiated into Alnh
Kappa Isl honorary commercial frs.
uuty pt th" University os Oklahoma
.s, THURSDAY uisH'
johnson t an ar's anl science jun
Joy ANA 's o.. son oi ". d; johnson
ut Aldiatt..
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

Published IN the Daily Arinoseiie.
Dee. ~. nc. "a. is. iS. and ~. 1879.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
POULTRY EXHIBIT is
OPEN AT NINITA

NINITA, Okla.-The Craig County
Poultry association has opened its win
ter exhibit Of poultry in the building
at the corner Of Illinois and Scrapel
streets. There are $50 entries, accord
ing TO D. f. Dial. secretary, who say.
that this is the biggest and best ex
hiblt yet held, considering both mum
ber of entries and quality of birds.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

For the convenience of the public this store
will keep open Friday and Saturday nights.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

and cattle thieves should be adopted.
those who nave los, stock this fall b..
heve.
10 Is believed that the thieves butch.
.'r the stock and then sell the meat To
.piy butchers or even peddle 10 from
house to house.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
NORTH AMERICAN LIGHT & POW
ER COMPANY PREFERRED

DIVIDEND NJ. u.
AT THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS DECEM
Der 8. 1872? A QUARTERLY DlNl
DEND OF ONE DOLLAR SEVENTY
FIVE CENTS (S1.75) PER SHARE
on THE PREFERRED STOCK or
THE COMPANY WAS DECLARED
PAYABLE JANUARY l. 1923 TO
STOCKHOLDERS OF RECORD Al
THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DE
CEMBER 20, 1922.
IL? Z. {. DINGS, Treasurer.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
rhilhlrn pn,r Hog Raiser.

MtskUBEE. Okla.--A ~ .ear oh
boy and / , year I'D girl are champion
hog taisefs of this county. They are
Charley Smith. dairtman's son. AMI
Nellie McCiendou. whose father Il a
! hug breeder
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18

COPENHAGEN Danish ship
Lituania, which left New York Dec.
6 for Danzig and Libau, with cargo
and passengers, is reported aground on
Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-18
Cattle RuStlerS
Still Ply Their
Trade in Usage

EAETLESVlLLE. oka rn Jly ot
me cattle ,hief has uo. passed many
might presume sine. tac Dg ranges cf
The Osag, and c,eg Washington sui
SoWat counties have broken up.
Although her.5mau stands llt uc
,,e chance 'o rct oVty with steer n
these mudygp time. 900, automobile has
been tgkor over 90. fhe ,'ile thief as
Well as th, huk ruhh,f DO .s Evidenced
n the reports which blyr u,'H coming
in t. the authorities d.ung ihc last
week
one 1uchcr who owns l h,.I ,f 900
lIttle south uf lar''s,.u. believe. that
ut least half a dozen have h..n stolen
from his fields during thr het DO days
The fact that Ga, tI.psr. hlt, bvyn
working with his hrr wt. first ,,i.
denced Thursday murnul when % mum.
her Of cows wcrc found mvlur' for
their calves The hands could mot finf
the calves but thcr, were number
90 tell tale blood spots ON tho GROUND
IN one corner of the pasture ana while
making a scaryh OF rlump ~ bushes
the head Of "a row was f0ufd aui enough
Il the carcass io reveal the fa,t that
The animal had b,on buipher,d aud the
pest meat and hide taken away .n an
utomobile.
Farmers Orlanige
At least five different farmers in tho
r'lsh creek district have missed ono ur
more Of their nlt calves aud cows this
weeks, u is said. ln many Instance
races OF quick hu,chering have been
found. one farmer a short distance to
he south of the city found the hide
and head Of one NJ his best Jersey ruws
In an obscure ylump Of trees one morn.
ing this week
The farmers and tock owners are
organizing against the thieves Il is 10.
forted. The mpiho,ls use,l hy the Anti
lorse Thief association generation
80 which rided the west II the horse
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-17

Robert A. McBirney.
Funeral director, 921 $. Main.
Phone Usage 191-45G.--Advertise-
ment.