The Sanford Herald, January 01, 1918

The Sanford Herald, January 01, 1918

Sanford (Fla.)

The Sanford Herald issue published on January 01, 1918. One of the oldest newspapers in Florida, The Sanford Herald printed their first issue on August 22, 1908.

Original 12-page newspaper issue: The Sanford Herald, January 01, 1918; Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida

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Sanford, Florida

IN THE HEART OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST VEGETABLE SECTION
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
THE SANFORD HERALD
IN SANFORD – Life Is Worth Living
VOLUME IX SANFORD, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1918 NUMBER 38
Happy New Year
ENTIRE COUNTRY SHIVERS IN GRASP OF COLD THAT BEATS ALL RECORDS
EVEN FLORIDA HAS TWO COLD NIGHTS OF LOW PRESSURE
Florida people hardly ever have cause to complain of the weather for this state usually has the finest brand of this article especially in the winter time but this winter has broken all records for a steady brand of cold and disagreeable weather. Our boast that the sun shines every day has been placed into the discard for the sun has been ashamed of himself for several days at a time lately and cold weather has been followed by a sure enough cold snap that hit the state Sunday morning under the most peculiar circumstances.
Something new in meteorology and weather history has been produced by the cold wave which is bringing near disaster to the growers and truckers of the state this week with temperatures which last night were expected to be as low as 24 here and possible 20 in the interior as for south as the twenty-seventh parallel. Never before has this section been visited by the effects of a cold wave following its arrival on the North Atlantic coast and never has the low pressure area which has attracted the wave to the Land of Flowers remained over this section. The procedure has always been a cold wave drawn south by the low pressure then following the low northestward.
Just what the damage to the headed lettuce and cabbage and other vegetables in this section will be problematical at this time as the weather has not warmed up sufficiently to estimate. Some of the growers are inclined to think that they will save some of the crops and that they will get a fancy price for all that they can ship in the next week as all the vegetables in the states north and even in Texas have been frozen.
There were many reports of the snow that fell at Jacksonville and other points farther north and there were even some people here in Sanford who saw snowflakes early Sunday morning. Dispatches from Jacksonville yesterday afternoon were to effect that snow was falling there and it seemed that snow would be seen here as the weather seemed propitious.
The cold registered here Sunday was 28 and the thermometer went down last night almost that far, making two very cold nights in succession. And while Florida shivered other cities farther north were doing more than shiver and the coal shortage made the suffering all the keener. In Florida there was plenty of wood and the shortage of coal was not noticeable. Estimates made yesterday of many of the orange groves over the state were favorable as the fruit and the trees have been toughened by the cold weather that has prevailed in this state for several months.
It will take several days to determine just what this phenomenal cold snap has damaged.
Rev. and Mrs. Hilburn
The following farewell to Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Hilburn upon their departure for Sanford shows how the good people of Ft. Myers appreciated this estimable couple. It is taken from the Ft. Myers Press:
The Press takes this occasion to bid a fond farewell to Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Hillburn, who took their departure this morning for Sanford, where Dr. Hilburn will immediately take up his duties as pastor of the Methodist church. During his two years pastorate here Dr. Hilburn has been a most faithful worker, endeavoring at all times to further the interests of his church and the work of God in which he was engaged. He is a true Christian, one who is not afraid to stand up squarely for the right, even though it bring protest. That the true worth of the man and his estimable helpmeet were appreciated in Ft. Myers was shown on Sunday last when the Presbyterian church revoked entirely its morning service and the Baptists help only a short service for the purpose of attending to some important matters and the congregations of both churches uniting with the Methodist congregation in one of the finest union services ever held in the city, the pastors of both visiting churches paying high tribute to their departing brother and coworker in the vineyard, while the loving tribute to Mrs. Hilburn by members of the Wesley Bible Class of the Methodist church was one of the most beautiful events in the history of Ft. Myers church life. Ft. Myers’ loss is of course Sanford’s gain, and those who know Dr. and Mrs. Hilburn commend them to the loving tenderness of the people of Sanford, their new home, and wish them all the joy that can be crowded into their lives.
Ocala Part Here
A live bunch of Marion county boosters were here Saturday enroute home from the state educational meeting at Daytona and stopped over here a few minutes to visit the Herald editor. They were Prof. J. H. Brinson superintendent of public instruction of Marion county his daughter Miss Myrtle Brinson, Mrs. Caroline Moorehead, home demonstration agent for Marion county, A. J. Stephens member of the Marion county board of public instruction and L. A. Henderson instructor of science in the Ocala High School. The good folks of old Marion almost forgot their own county in their praises of the Sanford section and said so much that we would not dare to tell it for fear of wrath of Harris and Benjamin of the Ocala papers.
Postoffice is all Right
Several of the state papers are commenting on the good work done at holiday time by their postoffice force and we want to add a line or two in behalf of the Sanford postoffice. From Postmater Elder down the force here have done remarkable work this season and the Christmas rush was met at every point by courteous treatment and most efficient service all along the line. Not only in the office but on the rural routes and the patrons of the office are perfectly satisfied with the service in every branch. This applies not only to the Christmas rush but our Sanford office can be commended for good service during every month in the year and the news paper is in position to know just what the force in the postoffice have to do in the way of service. And when this most efficient force gets into their new quarters in the fine new building we can look for the blue ribbon on the postoffice in every department. The Herald appreciates the postmaster and his faithful assistants and we know that the general public also appreciates them.
Red Cross New Quarters
The Red Cross Society has moved its quarters from the Elks Club to rooms in the Pleo Block corner of First street and Railroad Way.
SEMINOLE COMPANY EQUIPPED
THE GUARDS NOW HAVE THE GUNS AND UNIFORMS
The Seminole County Guards are in fine shape now and with the noncommissioned officers school every Tuesday night and the regular drill every Friday night the boys are being trained for regular service and if they are called upon to render service to their country they can be depended upon to do their full duty.
The uniforms are all here now and are being distributed to every squad in the county and with the excellent Winchester rifles that will shoot as far and as straight as any army rifle made the Seminole Guards are as well equipped as any body of men in the United States. The boys are willing to go to the ends of the earth for either their county their state or the United States and now that they have been equipped feel that they are ready for any call upon them in these troublesome times.
Every day that dawns shows the wisdom of those who first fostered the idea of having a body of well trained competent men in this county and the boys who have gone to the front who were members of the guards have found that the training of the boys here in Sanford has boosted them up a notch in the regular service. And this is a hint to those who are subject to service. If you want to get the rudiments of a military education before you go to the front as “rookie” if would be well for you to take a little training with the home guards. Some there were at first who came to mock when the guards were organized but stayed to praise and every one who sees the guards drill Friday nights are stuck with the real military air that pervades the armory in the Pico building and the soldierly appearance of the guards. They have been given everything from the school of the soldier to actual guard mount and Captain Dingee expects in the near future to give them a real hike in the country and camp at night where they will get a touch of the real thing.
Y.M.C.A. TO REACH ABOVE MARK
TWENTY MILLION WILL BE SPENT IN UNITED STATES
Atlanta Ga. Jan. 1. – Though the latest report issued by the War Work Council Y. M. C. A. from New York City shows $1 602 372 raised by the seven states comprising the Southeastern Military Department during the recent campaign it is sage to state that the total now exceeds $1 800 000 according to Executive Secretary S. A. Ackley.
Tennessee leads the southern states having subscribed over $400 000. Georgia has jumped from fifth to second place since the December 1st report with $351 580 raised. The other five states have also over subscribed their quotas in the following order: North Carolina Alabama South Carolina Mississippi and Florida.
A national increase of $2 000 000 in the subscriptions this month is estimated; $50 153 054 being the country wide total previously reported. This $17 000 000 over subscription has saved the day for the Army “Y.” Before the War Department made known its additional calls upon the Red Triangle its budget for nine months ending June 30 1918 called for an expenditure of $35 000 000.
It can be roughly estimated now that $20,000 000 of this fund will be spent for work among enlisted men in the United States. The budget October 1st estimated $11,120 000 but demands since have nearly doubled. An equal sum will probably be spent overseas with the men of the American army and navy; the original budget calling for $11,994 000. When General Pershing requested that the Army “Y” to take over the canteen service in France and outlay of $5.000 000 not in the budget was made necessary.
In France with out boys 1,500 secretaries will be used. About half that number was previously estimated. There are now 500 secretaries serving French Italian and Russian soldiers at the request of their respective government their numbers increasing on an average of 100 monthly. Work in the vast prisoner of war camps abroad will require expending at least $1 000 000 of the Red Triangle War Fund.
With army Y. M. C. A. “huts” valued at over &700 000 and over 500 secretaries on active service in twenty five training camps forts and naval stations of the southeast this department now has the largest equipment and personnel in the United States. Atlanta headquarters ships over 4 000 000 sheets of writing paper and half as many envelopes for use in the army and navy “Y” buildings in the southeast. There are now over 2 000 Red Triangle secretaries and navy service tkroughout [sic] the United States.
Orlando Merchants Easy
To be touched for $60 in cash and an order of $75 in merchandise is not very smusing but this is the plight which R. C. Woodberry of the Woodberry Company is in today after an experience with several smooth chaps who were supposed to be from Sanford Fla.
The same old trick of presenting a check for a larger amount than the cost of the goods was worked to good advantage. As related by Mr. Woodberry Wilbur Mason and E. R. Mason came to his store to purchase a grocery business. The stock purchased amounted to $75. In payment of this E.R. Mason presented a check for $95.00 Mr. Woodberry handing him $20.00 in change. Mason then requested Mr. Woodberry to cash a check for $40. It was afreed [sic] the bill of goods was to be held until Tuesday and then forwarded to Sanford which instructions were followed.
Mr. Woodberry was notified several days later by his bank that the check had been returned. Upon investigation it was found that Mason brothers were note known in Sanford and the bill of goods which Mr. Woodberry had shipped there had never been called for. Fortunately or [sic] Mr. Woodberry he was able to obtain the return of goods and his friends are offering him their sympathies on the loss of $60- in cash. – Reporter-Star.
Women’s Club Notes
Tomorrow Wednesday the 2nd is the day for the general club business meeting. It is hoped that every member will be present or in accordance with the rule furnish the treasurer Mrs. Geo Fox with sufficient reason for her absence.
Lake county commissioners have called an election to be held January 15th, to decide whether or not compulsory dipping of cattle sha [sic] prevail in that county.
Estimates show the Government Printing Office will use 100,000,000 pounds of paper, costing about $4,000,000 this year.
SOUNDS LIKE PLOT TO BOMB OUR CAPITAL FOUND IN TALLAHASSEE
LITTLE GIRL PICKED UP NOTE OF PECULIAR NATURE
The following weird tale comes from Tallahassee and sounds more like April 1st than Jan. 1st. It appeared in yesterday’s Tampa Tribune:
Tallahassee Jan. 1. – As a result of what local Chief of Police E. R. Isler believes to be a deep-laid plot to Isler believes to be a deep-laid plot to [repeat line in text] blow up the state capital Gov. Catts has ordered an adequate guard placed around the state house grounds tonight and each night in future with orders to shoot “any unidentified person who attempts to enter without giving a full statement of his business.”
The governor this afternoon told the chief of police to arm the men who have volunteered for the purpose “with shot guns loaded with buck shot.”
Late Saturday evening the little daughter of Photographer Max Bein found a note concealed and acrefully [sic] packed in an English walnut shell between the capitol and her father’s studio. The note could not be read except by holding it before a mirror and contained this message:
“Bombs are ready; don’t fail me capitol is unguarded; meet me tonight at home.”
Mrs. Bein to whom her little daughter ran with her find could make nothing out of the note but sent for the chief of police. He deciphered its language by holding it before a mirror when it became most legible. He reported the matter to the secretary of state in the absence from the city of the governor. The night force of State Comptroller Ernest Amos went home. Walter McLin and H1 Clay Crawford volunteered to guard the capitol Saturday night and did so forcing all passers by to take the street the chief having armed each one of them with a revolver.
Today Chief Isler called upon the governor and his secretary showed them the cleverly prepared note and handed them a full report of the matter in which he reminded the governor the “we are at war with the most rreacherous [sic] and damnable race on earth.” The result was that the executive came immediately to his office this afternoon consulted with his secretary of state and private secretary and ordered the establishing of a large posse about the state house tonight and in future. The chief said tonight:
“The governor did not regard it as a joke and said that if it were this is no time for jokes of that nature. He told me to take every precaution to protect the state property here.”
As no bombs were found in the capitol and no strangers attempted to enter the authorities believe the note went astray but that had it reached its destination a shapeless pile of brick might have told the story this morning.
Red Cross Notes
The work rooms located in the Pico Block are now open to the public and it is urged upon all who can to come and help the work along. Rooms are open from 8:30 to 12 and from 1:30 to 4:30.
The Post Office Department has established coastwise parcel post water routes to facilities service for the cantonments, which will operate to relieve war-time railroad congestion.
NEW YEARS BELLS
By Alfred Tenyson
Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night.
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress for all mankind,
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring our false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold,
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.


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PAGE EIGHT THE SANFORD HERALD December 28, 1917
AMUSEMENT
The Slacker
“The Slacker” is a nation’s devotion and a nation’s problem expressed in viable form. No American can see it without feeling a deeper love and appreciation for his country than he ever knew before. In the story, Margarot Christy and Robert Wallace have been engaged for two years, but he shows no desire to get married until war is declared. The announcement is made than single men will be called first. Then he hurries to the altar. His wife, intensely patriotic plunges into recruiting work. Her relatives and friends enlist but her husband does not. Finally she learns the truth, he is a slacker. Shame and anguish overcome her. How she meets her problem is told in a masterly way which will thrill the spine of the nation. The Slacker is a production for which every loyal American will give profound thanks.
This picture will be at the Lyric Theatre. Monday, Dec. 31.
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“The Slacker” at Lyric Monday
“A play that will thrill the nation.” Written and directed by William Christy Cabanne with the star supreme, Emily Stevens.
From “The Slacker:”
“Not all the fighting can be done by those who go to war.”
“Peace is wonderful, but the fearful, uncertain peace of one who fears a thief in the night, is not peace.”
“Yes, a slacker! I only wish the word were a whip with which I could lash you across the face!”
“It is terrible that the contest had to come; but isn’t it glorious to know that we have the will and the courage to grapple with the menace?”
“This family cannot contain one slacker!”
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Lyric Monday
The Story – Marguerite Christy and Robert Wallace have been engaged for two years, but still he does not ask her to set a date for the wedding. War is declared. Because single males are to be called first he now hides behind a woman’s skirt and insists on an immediate marriage. Marguerite is intensely patriotic and goes active work in recruiting. Her young men friends and relatives all enlist – except her husband. Finally she learns why he married her. She determines to make a man of him for the sake of the little life that is to come and she succeeds. A passion of patriotism is born in Robert Wallace’s heart, and he gives himself unreservedly to his country. Great heights of nobility, sacrifice and patriotic fervor are reached in this sublime photodrama.
“SERVANT” AN ABUSED WORD
President of United States, Heads of Banks, Ministers, Physicians, Are In Same Class
It is a pity that we have allowed opprobrium to attach to the good old word “servant,” opprobrium utterly unmerited. Talk about “help,” used quite inappropriately, says the Youth’s Companion, does not alter circumstances in the least, nor is there any reason why we should wish them altered.
Every one who is worth anything is a servant. The merchant serves his customers. If he serves them not well, the discharge him. The lawyer serves his clients, the minister his parishioners, the doctor his patients. The president of a bank is a servant, and so is the president of a railway. The president of the United States is the hired servant of the people of the United States, and few servants in any occupation are more abused by their masters.
Service, well and faithfully performed, is the only real dignity, and all the outward pomp and insights of rank are but badges of service, and disgraceful if they are not earned.
Service is life. It is only when we are doing something to serve the large movement of the world what we are entitled to live in it, that we really do live in it. Life is measured by usefulness. Of all the varied affliction that swift-footed age can bring, none is more oppressive than the sense of diminished capacity for service.
Not to be ministered unto, but to minister, not to be served, but to serve, is the utterance of the highest authority in spiritual matters. There is buy one disgrace connected with service of any kind and that is to serve ill. Let us perform whatever service falls to us, large or small, high or low, with all the real and all the strength that is in us. Then we shall be sure that when we depart we shall be missed. If only a little; and there is no more solid satisfaction in the world than that.
Meaning of Western Reserve.
The phrase Western Reserve means northern Ohio but it originated in Connecticut. When Connecticut, in 1786, ceded her western lands to the United States she reserved a large tenet adjoining Pennsylvania, now forming the northeastern corner of Ohio, which for several years was called the Connecticut reserve and then Western Reserve. Complete cession of the reservation was made in 1800.
Avoiding Trouble.
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says, or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure. – Marcus Aurelius
BRITAIN’S FLEET READY TO FIGHT
Most Powerful Aggregation of Superfighting Vessels Ever Assembled
HOLD MOCK BATTLES DAILY
Is Governed by One of the Most Efficient Business Administrations in History – Every Vessel Provisioned for Two Months
London – Britain’s grand fleet is not only the greatest and most powerful aggregation of superfighting vessels ever assembled by a nation but is undoubtedly governed by one of the most efficient business administrations in naval history. The enormous outpouring of treasure in money and supplies required to keep the grand fleet in condition to leave at a moment’s notice for an engagement with the enemy accomplishes maximum results. After a week’s visit with the fleet, the New York Sun’s correspondent was able to obtain a general idea of the results attained and of the plans upon which this enormous fighting force operates.
Primarily the grand fleet is protecting England from an attack by the German fleet. Since the beginning of the war Germany has known of the existence of this superior force lying silently in wait at its base in northern waters and the thought of contact with is has kept the Teuton navy well within protected harbors.
Secondarily the British battle cruiser squadrons are acting as a protecting force for the Scandinavian traffic, and now that America has brought into being a line of communications across the Atlantic, Britain’s fleet acts as a guardian for that vital thread of shipping. Every hour since the declaration of war in 1914 the fleet has been in readiness and its maintenance under such a long strain will constitute one of the glorious chapters in the history of naval affairs.
Provisioned for Two Months.
In the fleet are some thousands vessels of every kind, aside from it, battle cruisers themselves. Each battle cruiser carries a complement of eight hundred to a thousand men making in a human element well up in to six figures. The exact data cannot be given but the enormity would at most be beyond conception even if put down in terms of hundreds of thousands. Just one item that seems impressive and which brought up visions of the herculean tasks confronting the commanders of the fleet was the statement that each cruiser must be continually supplied with two months provisions of food, oil and everything else that would be needed by a small-sized city in case of siege.
His majesty’s ship St. Vincent is of the battleship type, built in 1908, and it was aboard her that I lived during my visit. She was engaged at the time in daylight target practice, carried out within the harbor in conjunction with the other vessels that made up the squadron. Every man was in his fighting position, carrying out his duties just as if the squadron were attacking an enemy. They were firing small shells through sub-caliber gun inside the monsters that are ordinarily used in battle.
Mock Engagement Every Day.
Behides [sic] this actual practice of engaging the enemy the entire fleet carries out daily a mock engagement directed from the flagship. The is done altogether on paper, the admiral of the fleet sending out messages giving the imaginary location of his vessels. At a given hour he sends out a message saying the enemy is sighted in a certain position. The fleet is supposed to be sailing at a given speed and when the various vessels come within range they proceed to engage the enemy. On paper many German fleets have been sunk and many allied ships have sunk to Davy Jones’ locker. Another method of keeping the men involved in the fighting is through a war “game,” in which the whole fleet is plotted out on charts and certain men designated to command the enemy vessels, directing their movements and playing their wits and knowledge against others who are supposed to be commanding British cruisers.
The same methods are used aboard all the hundreds of craft that dot the harbor. There is continued movement. One squadron is always in action some place on the water between the dreary brown kills or is steaming out to sea for patrol. Submarines disappear and reappear constantly and are sworn at by captains who are attempting to keep some target in line.
Throughout the whole of the seemingly confused mass of ships there is order and system. Daily or weekly charts show the efficiency of each boat. Not a tin can nor a bone is wasted, and the economy of each ship is known down to the last penny.
Find Cave of Winds.
Columbus, Kan. – A “cave of winds” has been discovered in the Columbus-Miami mining field near the state line north of Quapaw. The wind is so strong the miners declare their lamps are blown out the moment they enter. But that is not the only peculiar feature of the cave. It was once filled with water, but the pumps of another mining company, more than a mile away, has drained it. When the pumps are not working, water accumulates.
Water Covers 80,000,000 Acres.
According to the scientists of the geological survey, there are in the neighborhood of 80,000,000 acres of good land in the United States which is more or less covered with water. This, at the lowest calculation, represents a country bigger than Great Britain and Ireland.
Not Divisible.
Tunkinham met Bulkby in the street, an Bulkby said, “I’m a little short, and should like to ask you a conundrum in mental arithmetic.” “Proceed,” said Tunkingham. “Well,” said Bulkby, “suppoise you had ten dollars in your pocket, and I should ask you for five, how much would remain?” “Ten!” was the prompt answer.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
All Local Advertisements Under This Heading THREE CENTS Line For Each Insertion. Minimum Charge 25 Cents.
In answering an advertisement where no name is mentioned in the ad, please do not ask The Herald for information as to the identity of the advertiser. Usually we do not know who the advertiser is and if we do we are not allowed to give out this information. Simply write a letter and address it as per instructions in the ad.
FOR SALE
For Sale – One large gas range. Can be seen at the Rest Room. 37-3tp.
For Sale – English terrier pups, fine strain. Nick Zernovan. Sanford, Florida. 37-10tc.
For Sale – Two 60-gal oil tanks. M. S. Nelson, Box 1163, Sanford. 37-4tc.
For Sale – Ford truck 1917 model. In good shape. $275. Seminole County Garage. 36-4tc.
For Sale – One of the most valuable irrigated farms in the Sanford Celery District 10 acres tiled land with 4 flowing wells in first clas [sic] condition and 11 acres woodland 100 yards from loading station, just outside city limits, modern six room bungalow with bath and closet, not and cold water, servants’ house and barn. Price for quick sale $8500.00 terms. Reply to “Owner” care Sanford Herald. 35-3tc.
For Sale – 30 Cards Stove Wood. Price $7.50 delivered in city. W. A. Leffler. Phone 20. 35-tf.
For Sale – White Bermuda Onions, grown from the seed. $2.00 thousand. 25c per hundred. See C. H. Leffler. 28-tf.
For Sale – Fine lot of Registered Quroc Jersey pigs. Mrs. Endor Curlett, Geneva, Florida. 25-tfc.
For Sale – Very desirable celery and truck land, well drained, at Summerfield, Marion County, Fla., ½ mile from railroad station, ¼ mile from good school and church, also hard surface road. This land can be bought cheap for cash. Apply to Chas. White, Adams Park, Ga. 26-12tp.
For Sale – International Harvester truck, one half ton. 1914 model, water cooled. S. Runge, Sanford Ave. and Fourth St. 25-tf.
FOR RENT
For Rent – Three furnished rooms (upper) with bath, 409 Palmetto. 36-6tp.
Rooms for Rent – 919 Oak Ave. 22-tf.
Furnished Rooms by Day, Week or Month – Park avenue Flat, 105 North Park avenue, over L. R. Philips & Co. drug store. Mrs. C. C. Hart, manager. 30-tf.
For Rent – Three office rooms fronting on First street. Most desirable offices in city. Several other good office rooms in same building. Yowell & Speer. 23-tfc.
WANTED
Wanted – A Ford roaster, must be in good condition and cheap for cash. Address C. A. B., Geneva, Box 94. 33-8tp.
Wanted – To exchange good family horse for good mule, also want to buy good cow and some young heifers. M. S. Nelson, Box 1163, Sanford. 37-4tc.
Wanted – To repair your guns, sewing and talking machines, typewriters also. Call and see W. H. Rogers, 323 Palmetto avenue. 37-3p.
Wanted – Positi on [sic] by young lad. Experienced stenographer and billing clerk. References, Address Box 1412, Sanford, Fla. 37 tf.
Saturday Dec. 29th Monday Dec. 31st
SATURDAY and MONDAY SPECIALS
Just received a shipment of twenty-five dresses made of fine Silk Poplin finished in strictly new styles and no two alike.
One sale Saturday and Monday at $7.98.
See Window Display
Men’s Specials
Window display of Men’s Hats, among them the famous “Knox” and many Stetsons --- Special for after Christmas, Saturday and Monday $1.98 Each
See Window Display
Yowell-Speer Co.
Each First Street Sanford, Fla.


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PAGE TWO THE SANFORD HERALD January 1, 1918
THE SANFORD HERALD
R. J. Holly, Editor
W.M. HAYNES, Business Manager
Published Every Tuesday and Friday
THE HERALD PRINTING COMPANY
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE IN ADVANCE
ONE YEAR…………………..$2.00
SIX MONTHS………………..1.25
THREE MONTHS…………… .75
Delivered in the City by Carrier $2.00 Per Year in Advance or 20c Per Month
Payments in Advance Must Be Made at Office
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter August 22nd 1906, at the Postoffice at Sanford, Florida Under Act of March 3rd, 1879
Office: Herald Building Telephone No, 143
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Another year begins today. May it be a happy and prosperous one for all of us.
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The best New Year’s resolution that we can make is to pay cash for everything we buy in the year 1918.
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Everything has been raised except the subscription price of The Herald and this remains the same. Please reciprocate by keeping up your subscription.
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Editor Bob Holly of the Sanford Herald has become deeply humiliated because of the fact that he had a severe attack of the German measles. – Arcadia News.
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It may help the government some to take over Sanford’s old trolley line. Bob Holly would be a fine engineer, and Forrest Lake would look good as a conductor or fireman. – Orlando Sentinel.
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Just tell Orlando merchants you are from Sanford and you can get all the credit you want. They even take wooden checks down there. They have probably heard about month growing on trees in Sanford.
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Resolve that you will be an active member of the Sanford Board of Trade during the year and not only help by your membership fee but by your presence at all the meetings. The Board of Trade is the only organization that will hold the present status of the county and keep up the good work of boosting.
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Charlie Leffler, a former Sanford boy is assisting in organizing the county guards in Dade county. Charlie is a former member of the state troops, being captain of the Sanford company and the he knows the value and every sensible man knows that there will be trouble in Florida before the war is over.
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Behind the clouds is the sun still shining and despite the cold wave over Florida we can look for plenty of fine weather in the future. An early winter means an early spring and an early spring means in the states to the north of us means bountiful crops that will help to win the war. To those visitors among us from the north who have been uncomfortable in the “Sunny South” we wish to say that your own state in the north is much colder and if it is 28 here it is probably below zero in your state.
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“MY COUNTRY ‘TIS OF THEE”
“The right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the thing which we have always carried nearest our hears – for democracy for the rights of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion by right by such a concert of free people as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.” – Woodrow Wilson.
“No nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its rights with an armed hand. That orderly liberty which is both the foundation and the capstone of our civilization which can be gained and kept only by men who are willing to fight for an ideal; who hold high the love of honor, love of faith, love of flag and love of country.” – Theodore Roosevelt.
“Two principles have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue struggle. The one is the common right of humanity; the other is the divine right of kings.” – Abraham Lincoln.
“Do justice to all, and never forget that we are Americans.” – George Washington.
“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.” – Daniel Webster.
“Let us run high the old flag, the old, the true flag; the flag of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln; the flag of government of, for and by the people; the flag of national faith held sacred and of national honor unstained; the flag of human rights and of good example to all nations; the flag of true civilization, peace and good will to man.” – Carl Schurz.
“Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our Country, right or wrong.” – Stephen Decatur.
“This is my ambition for America; that wherever an American citizen may go upon the earth he will be honored and loved, because he represents a nation that has nothing but justice and kindness for all races of men.” – Charles Edward Jefferson.
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TOO MUCH FOR THE BIG ONES
Even the metropolitan press is finding its facilities strained to handle the immense amount of free publicity matter that is being sent to the newspapers. The city papers print from sixteen to sixty pages daily; and if they, with that much space and being issued daily are unequal to the task of publishing all this free matter, how can country weeklies like the Herald handle it?
Among other big dailies that are finding the task too heavy for them is the Tampa Tribune which, a few days ago, contained these paragraphs:
“If these bureau heads would see to it that communications sent out along conservation lines are of twenty lines instead of twenty columns length the papers would carry more of them.”
“The Tribune has about thirty days solid matter on its hooks from the various departments on conservation lines. The majority of the articles would make over two columns. A word to the wise.” – Punta Gorda Herald.
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ANOTHER MANIFESTATION OF KUILTUR
Of the loot taken from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by the defeated and retreating Turks the famous ostensory or monstrance of brilliants has been sent to the Kaiser in Berlin to take its place beside similar relics collected by the Imperial German government’s troops or those of its allies in the course of the war.
The trophy of war will unquestionably please its new possessor. It will serve as evidence of the acquisition of kultur by the Turks. It will constitute an enduring testimonial to the efficiency that Prussian masters have imposed on their cobelligerents.
No commander except a Turk corrected by Prussian overlords would look the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. If any man suggested to General Allenby the conqueror of Jerusalem that he should remove from the church its sacred vessels to send to King George he would be expelled from the camp; if an insane man should gather them up and escape with them to France or Italy or Petrograd or Japan or to any other countries allied against Germany he would be punished and they would be returned. The Bolsheviki might rob the church by the Russian people would scorn the act.
But the Prussian system is different. The world learned of it in the Boxer uprising. It reaches out for the astronomical instruments of China and it accepts the monstrance from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; and the Kaiser will keep the monstrance if he can. For such is the nature of kultur. – New York Sun.
Dr. Miller Local Surgeon
Dr. Oliver J. Miller has received the appointment as local surgeon for the Florida East Coast Railway. His territory will probably be as far as Titusville. Dr. Miller is division medical examiner for the A. C. L. Railway and his position with the East Coast was given him in recognition of his valuable services with the A. C. L. He will now act as medical examiner for the East Coast Railway employers since each employee is required to undergo medical examination before entering the service. Dr. Miller accepted this position with the proviso that it will be in force only until Dr. Neal returns from the army. Dr. Neal being formerly local surgeon for the East Coast Railway.
CURBSTONE CLEANINGS
BUDGET OF OPINION “JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME”
EVEN THE GATE POST NOT IN IT
A Chief Is Among Ye Taking Notes and Faith, “He’ll Print ‘em” --- So Says Saunterer.
Sundown
“When the wounded in hospitals come to die,” says a British officer, “their last request, in a great number of cases is for the prayer, “Now I law me down to sleep.’”
When my sun of life is low,
When the dewy shadows creep,
Say for me before I go,
“Now I lay me down to sleep.”
I am at the journey’s end, I have sown and I must reap;
There are no more ways to mend-
Now I lay me down to sleep.
Nothing more to doubt or dare,
Nothing more to give or keep;
Say for me the children’s prayer,
“Now I lay me down to sleep.”
Who has learned along the way-
Primrose path or stony steep-
More of wisdom than to say,
“Now I lay me down to sleep.”
What have you more wise to tell
When the shadows round me creep
All is over, all is well-
Now I lay me down to sleep.
B. L. T., Chicago Tribune.
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All that peace talk of Germany and Austria is not on the surface. I firmly believed that Germany is tired of war and Austria would have laid down long ago if that country was not controlled by Germany. Out of all this peace talk will come something definite in the early spring and about the time that America gets ready to launch a big drive it would not surprise me if that German people did not rise up and take the Kaiser off the throne and establish a republic and end the war.
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With lettuce going to waste in the fields all around Sanford there was none to be had at the local groceries last Saturday morning. This seems strange indeed and demonstrates more than words can tell that my city market idea was good last spring and is good now. It shows that the consumer should be supplied by the producer direct especially in our case here in Sanford where we have the greatest vegetable section that the world has ever produced and yet the folks in this city are forced to forego the pleasure of eating vegetables or they are forced to pay as much or more for the vegetables than the people of New York City. All of which recalls what I said many times about the real benefits to be derived from a city market and this idea should be revived at once. I told W. P. Stone of Union avenue mu tale of woe Saturday afternoon and that big hearted gentleman went to his farm and brought me in several heads of fine lettuce but others of my friends here are not so lucky and numbers of families are without lettuce and other vegetables especially where they depend upon the groceries for them. This should not be and out visitors who come here expect plenty of vegetables and they should be able to get them at all times.
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Thorndyke in the Palm Beach Post gets off the following pungent article:
“You may have seen notices that this government is to take steps to show the people in Florida how to take the fish from these waters, properly dress and clean them, and ship them in iced cares to northern markets. So? Goodness gracious, Annie, we’ve been doing that same little stunt for several past years, and surely I’ve never heard toll that the work was done improperly. Once in a while the government is a trifle, just a trifle, behind. A few months ago the authorities in Washington issued a lot of matter telling of how potatoes could be used in various mixtures with flour. Many figured the plan had been but recently thought out, but the grand dames in little New England were working that same stunt long before the Centennial exposition in old Phily in 1876. It wouldn’t surprise me to any time learn that the government believed that it would be possible to produce oranges and grapefruit in Florida – if some one from the pomological department up there would come down and show us how to do it. Yes, sir.”
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A few years ago the great cry of “efficiency” went up from a thousand big business enterprises over the country and the younger men were given preference over the older ones in the mistaken idea that an older man could not deliver the goods. While I am not in the young man’s class any more I feel young enough to give any one of the young ones a race for the money and know that I can do as much as any of them. Now that the war is on and the young men are going to the front the older ones are found to be in as good shape as the young men and in many instances in much ter shape. And those too old are being place in the important positions made vacant by the young soldiers. Thus necessity will bring big business back to first principles that a man is never too old as long as he can deliver the goods. Dr. Hirshberg of John Hopkins University gives us some good points in the following:
When is a man old?
Don’t throw up your hands and look for an answer in the ubiquitous, eternal, worn, rusty, and overworked statement “as old as his arteries.” This stupidity perpetuated error is nowhere near the truth.
A man is as old as his memory is acute and recent. This is a part of the solved riddle. If you have as clean cut, sharp and emphatic a memory for recent events as for youthful adventures, the snows and storms of bygone years, you are youthful, though you be a nonagenarian.
The period of senility begins in many men in their twenties. Then they become full of dry rot and as sent as plaster of paris in a cast. The instant you are sure you know as much as can be known, even about your own business, you are an old fossil.
Laplace was seventy-eight when the Stygian shades threw their death mantle over him. Still he was a very much younger man, perhaps, than you, friend reader, because he had traveled, studied, investigated and learned much, yet admitted that “what we know is nothing: what we do not know is immense.”
Briefly a man is an antiquated old relic frequently when his stature stop growing. His mind and senses often cease to grow with his bones. He settles down to his work and his domestic contentment in his twenties and is still there in his eighties.
One man I know has held the same position for thirty years. He is seventy.
“I have only held two jobs in my life,” he boasts. “I was a horse car driver for twenty years and turnkey for thirty.”
Wonderful, grand! How youth and age envy him.
Yet they should not. Such men are decrepit and senile in their staunchest, most vigorous physical period. They are in a rut and never grow or learn. They never forget anything and they never learn anything.
Montaigne was senile at thirty-eight, in the vigor of his days, because he then returned to his castle. Sir Walter Scott was old at fifty-five, because he stopped studying, learning and experiencing new things.
The satisfied contented man, as one writer puts it, “full of his little stock of principles, prejudices, ideas and methods at twenty-five or thirty-five, is a mindly old, worn out weed, a remnant that has been cut off and ceased to grow.
A broad-minded, open thinking man never grows old. The reason “old men” and “elderly persons” are not given positions usually is not because of bent backs, gray hairs and wrinkles, but because most employers, from bitter experience have found that they will learn little or nothing that is new. They seek rather to force their own prejudices and dogmatic ideas upon those around him.
Plumbers, carpenters, musicians, doctors and mechanics often become ages and set in the early twenties. It seems to be in the nature of living molded so that the muscles and senses resist a change in new directions.
Plumbers and others, when told by professors of physics or architects to do a piece of work in a new way or to them in a strange way will insist that “it can’t be done.” They will fight for their antiquated idea or method.
Youth, irrespective of the flight of seasons or the passage of years, consists largely in a capacity to do the things that have been done their old ways, as an intrenched habit for years, in a new and better way.
Youth means quick changes, sharp senses and adaptable muscles. It spells a wonderful ingenuity to take in strange and wholly different situations, events and opportunities in a quick and better way. It is supersensitiveness of the senses, muscles and other tissues. Radically new ideas, often contradictory to lifelong convictions, when they are absorbed and accepted quickly by any alertly intelligent person, suggest that he is very young, though his years number ninety and nine.
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“The grouch is decidedly a popular figure nowadays,” says the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. “He is the man who wins a commission. Disagreeable as he may be in the office, in the training camp, his stern demeanor attracts the attention of the powers that be. The namby-pamby, pleasant voiced person does not easily learn to rap out his orders with the action of a steel rat trap, however great his book learning may be. There must be a streak of grouchiness in a good line officer.
“But the slouch is in worse repute than ever. Dr. Hibben: In welcoming the Princeton students in the opening of the fall term, referred to a letter he had received from the adjutant general, who gave slouchiness of manner, carriage, mind and disposition are the chief cause of failure to win army commissions. The college president urged that students spruce up generally. It is easy enough to recover from slouchiness of garb and carriage but it is not so easy to make their mind behave. Students should take heed, but the teacher must play his park, too. Too much of our teaching is perfunctory and permits the students mind to browse about at ease.”
Neighborhood Meeting
An informal neighborhood meeting will be held at the residence of Mrs. D. A. Kelly corner French avenue and Fourth street at 2:30 p.m. Thursday next Jan. 3rd. The dasheen the tuber being introduced by the U.S. Government will be demonstrated in simple cooking form and other interesting domestic topics discussed. Mrs. Kelly cordially invited all those in the vicinity to attend.
Biley M. Fletcher Berry
Emergency Home Dem. Agt.
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Two crates of avocadoes recently shipped from Homestead, Fla., to Washington, D. C., a local grower sold for $34. At the same time a crate of culls consigned to the same market sold for $11. The three crates brought $45 gross and netted the grower $37.28.
In Palm Beach county the farmers and growers are going in for cooperative marketing and buying. Since this place has been adopted they claim to have derived no little benefit in the way of marketing their fruits and vegetables and in their purchases.
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January 1, 1918 THE SANFORD HERALD PAGE THREE
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY
Little Happenings – Mention of Matters in Brief – Personal Items of Interest
Summary of the Floating Small Talks Succinctly Arranged for Hurried Herald Readers
L. W. Verner solicitor for the Tampa Tribune is in the city in the interests of that great south Florida Paper.
In Duroc pigs for sale. Inquire at Hand Bros’ stables. 30-tfc.
Miss Myrtle V. Umdenstock of Oakland Fla. has been the guest of Mrs. W. A. Wilkes and Mrs. T. E. Speer in the past ten days.
Public Stenographer – Room 6, Gerner Woodruff Blgy; Phone 271. 3-tf
Mrs. Nannie Hudson and little girls Grace and Ruth of Oakland Fla. were the guests of her brother T. E. Speer and family for the holidays.
“Huylers” Candies, fresh by express direct from New York, at Mobley’s Drug Store. 29-tf
H.S. McLendon of the Florida Experimental Station was in the city yesterday calling on the farmers and visiting C. M. Berry the efficient county agent.
Middle aged woman with ten years experience nursing confinement cases. Apply to 1201 Park avenue. 37-tf
T. S. Huff will soon be known as the “Cabbage King.” He has shipped several carloads being the only grower to ship this quantity at this time and expects to realize a good price for the same.
Expensive Hemstitching Machine just installed at the millinery shop of Mrs. H. L. Durhart. Ladies of Sanford are invited to call and see the machine in operation. Fourth and Sanford Aves. 13-tf
J. A. Hutchinson is home from Camp Jackson at Columbia, S. C., where he is serving Uncle Sam in the army. Mr. Hutchinson was formerly a memory of the High School faculty and his many friends are glad to see him again.
Reginald Holly will leave Wed. afternoon for Marion Alabama where he is attending the Army and Navy College. He will go up for his final examinations in April for entrance to the Naval Academy.
The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Sanford, Florida, will be held in the offices of the bank in Sanford, Florida, on Tuesday, January 8th, 1918, at 10 o’clock a.m., for the purpose of clutching a board of directors to serve for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business us [sic] may properly come before the meeting. B.F. Whitner, Cashier. Tues -30-6tc
Henry Lee has been home for a few days visiting his parents. He expects to leave for the front and will be stationed at Cambridge, Mass., where he will be in the radio service of the aviation corps.
Among the visitors to the city are Mrs. W. B. Rice and little daughter Gwinelle and niece, Miss Annette Barber of Commerce, Georgia. Mr. Rice was here several days but was forced to go home on account of business. Mrs. Rice and little daughter were in Sanford for the winter about four years ago and will be remembered by many people here. They are guests of the Seminole Hotel and are home to visit with Mrs. Rice’s mother and sister, Mrs. Lucy Harber and Miss Thelma Harber, who are spending the winter here the guests of Mrs. R. J. holly.
Mission at Catholic Church
Beginning with January 6th (Sunday) Reverend Father Logan O. P. of Louisville Kentucky will conduct a mission of one week. This is to be a course of sermons on the dogmatical moral and Scriptural teachings of the Catholic church which will explain matters of faith and morals revealed in the Bible and made more perfectly explicit by definitions of dogmas.
These lectures are for non-Catholics as well who may wish to know what the Catholic church is. All are earnestly asked to attend.
The first sermon will be delivered on Sunday January 6th at 7:30. Questions may be asked of the missioner after the sermons which will be answered in the following sermon.
Teachers’ Examinations
The Florida Teachers’ Examining Board will hold examinations for all grades of certificates, in the court house at Sanford, beginning January 2nd, 1918. For further information apply to the superintendent.
T.W. Lawton
Supt. Public Instruction
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Annual Election of Officers
The annual election of officers to manage the affairs of the Sanford Board of Trade for the year 1918 will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday January 8th 1918 at the court house.
There is to be elected a president first and second vice presidents and six members of the board of governors; the president and vice president are members of the governors body ex officio the total body consisting of nine members.
On this occasion a full and complete report of the year’s work of the Board of Trade will be made an in view of the valuable work already accomplished and the work in hand to do it is urged that every one interested be present.
The constitution and by-laws of the organization require that all elections be made by nomination and ballot and in order to vote members must have paid up their due for at least six months in advance. In view of the valuable service being rendered you by this organization it is hoped that you will be present and cast your vote for the men you wish to see in charge of the organization for the year 1918.
Basket Ball Schedule
Dec. 14 – Cathedral, in Sanford
Jan. 4 – Stetson, in Sanford
Jan. 11 – Orlando, in Orlando
Jan. 18 – Ocala, in Ocala
Jan. 25 – Oviedo, in Sanford
Feb. 1 – Ocala, in Sanford
Feb. 8 – Duval, in Sanford
Feb. 15 – Stetson, in DeLand
Feb. 22 – Duval, in Jackson
March 4 – Cathedral, in Orlando
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ABOUT THE TOBACCO KITS
Slow Deliveries to France Make Slow Replies
Mr. R. J. Holly Herald Sanford Fla.:
Dear Sir: - We have been very anxious for some time to speed up the acknowledgements by postal cards of the tobacco kits sent to our soldiers in France and we have had our representatives in France make an investigation. He has just cabled us as follows:
“1600 cases kits on hand American Red Cross. Will be all delivered by Christmas.”
As you know before we presented to you for consideration the Tobacco Fund plan we had secured the co-operation of the American Red Cross to transport all kits to France and deliver them to the boys. Major Murphy is head of the American Red Cross in France and all shipments are consigned to him. The first shipment of kits was made to him in August and while the transportation to the other side is not so much delayed when the goods reach Bordeaux or any port in France the congestion of the railroad service is so great that the time they arrive in Paris is very uncertain and it is not safe to figure on goods being delivered in Paris under two or three months. Then there is considerable delay occasioned by the necessity of reshipment from Paris to our troops.
We are writing you about this as our readers may have felt some anxiety due to the fact that not many postal cards have been received as yet. However now that we understand thoroughly why deliveries are so slow and furthermore as we know there are so many kits on hand that will be delivered by Xmas we feel that you might want to tell your readers if they should ask the information that we have been able to give you.
Very truly yours
The American Tobacco Co.
A. W. Teybal Serv. Dept.
December 24 1917
Come In and Hear the Columbia Records for December
2394 Cheer Up, ‘LLiza; Melod Land.
2376 It Takes a Long Tall Brown Slim Gal---; One Step More.
2380 Cinderella or The Glass Slipper, Parts 1 and 2.
2392 Medley of Christmas Carols, Parts 1 and 2.
2389 Sometimes You’ll Remember; Most Wonderful of All.
2374 Children’s Frolic Christmas Morning; Santa Claus Patrol.
5996 Hello, Aloha, Hello! Fox Trots; Bailing Away on the Henry Clay; Fox Trot.
5917 Hello! I’ve Been Looking for You. Listen to This – One Step.
2384 I Don’t to be Loved a Little by a Lot of Little Boys; I’d Love to be a Monkey in a Zoo.
Gibson & Wallace.
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Beacham Wants Your Number
All proprietors of hotels and restaurants operating in the state of Florida are notified to send in their names and addresses at once to Federal Food Administrator Braxton Beacham at Orlando Florida.
This notification is issued for the purpose fo getting a complete list of the restaurant and hotel proprietors that they may be acquainted with the future plans of the United States Food Administration. All hotels whether large or small are included in this notification as are all restaurants and cafes regardless of their size of the extent of their patronage.
Following receipt of names and addresses which must be sent in promptly Administrator Beacham will send other notices direct to the proprietors so that they may have first hand knowledge of what is expected of them in the future. Part of the plans of the food administrator will be directed toward giving valuable advice and assistance to the hotel and restaurant men and Mr. Beacham desires each one to act quickly in sending in name and addresses so that no delay may be had in thoroughly posting those who cater to the needs of the traveling public.
All Members Please Take Notice
The Order of the Eastern Star has changed their time of meeting from the first and third Tuesdays to the first and third Thursdays of each month. Next meeting will be January 3rd, 1918. 3-t
Mr. George A. DeCottes has returned from Jacksonville.
Letter From Forrest Gatchel
The following letter from Forrest Gatchel at Key West to Capt. Dingee of the Seminole Guards will be interesting to his many Sanford friends:
December 26th, 1917
C. H. Dingee Capt. County Guards
Sanford Fla.:
Dear Friend:
Just to let you know that I am settled down now in the service of “Uncle Sam” for the duration of the war or unless something happens to me.
Am stationed at Key West with about 500 men.
We will be here for at least three months. Some will probably leave earlier than that just as fast as the training is completed they are put on ships and sent away.
We arrived at this camps just about two hours after a new ruling came from Washington that all recruits be put in detention for two weeks therefore we will be released New Years Day.
This is a fine crowd here including officers and we get the very best of good things to eat.
You can tell the boys that if they are called to the colors they will certainly appreciate the training and experience they derive from the County Guard organization. I certainly do appreciate it very much.
This is one of the many different kinds of writing material that the Y.M.C.A. furnishes us and all the boys use it too.
With best wishes for continued success of County Guards I remain.
Very truly yours
Forrest E. Gatchel
IN SOCIETY’S DOMAIN
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST IN AND AROUND SANFORD
Mrs. Norma King McLaughlin, Social Editor. Anyone having guests, parties or any article for this column, it would be appreciated if they would telephone 270.
The Thrasher home never looked lovelier than it did Friday evening when Miss May Thrasher entertained in honor of Miss Margery Clay who is Miss Norma Herndon’s guest and Miss Dorothy Waring Miss Agnes Dumas’ guest. The Christmas decorations were very attractive. Holly and mistletoe were in profusion and produced a charming effect. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Thrasher and Mrs. and Mrs. B. W. Herndon assisted in caring for the guests.
Those invited were Misses Fern Ward Helen Peck Ruth McDaniel Agnes Dumas Helen Hand Dorothy Rumph Serita Lake Ethel and Florence Henry Frances Chappell Frances Gonzales Norma Herndon Virignia Brady; Messrs. Norris Levis G. W. Spencer Israel Kanner Hawkins and Walter Connelly Max Stewart Ed Meisch Jack Leach Ed Betts Reg. Holly. J.D. Woodruff Frank Woodruff. Harry Lewis. Alfred Robson and Henry Ball. Out of town guests were Mr. Charles Fish Claude Lane of Deland Miss Helen Waring of Charleston Miss Helen Keating of Daytona Beach Miss Margery Clay of Arcadia Robert Frary and Mr. Roberts of Eustis. Delicious punch was served during the evening.
Mrs. A. P. Connelly entertained the Action Bridge Club yesterday afternoon at her attractive home on Magnolia avenue. The living room looked very lovely with its Xmas decorations of holly and mistletoe. After a spirited game the prize one of the new novels was awarded to Mrs. Pyleston who had made the highest score. The other guests were Mrs. Galloway Mrs. Clay Mrs. Neal Mrs. Miller Mrs. Roumillat Mrs. Vorce Mrs. Thrasher Mrs. Morse Mrs. Bishop Mrs. Gonzales and Mrs. McLaughlin.
The many friends of Miss Julia Hodges will be deeply interested to learn of her marriage Thursday evening at nine o’clock to Mr. Claude Whidden of Orlando. The Rev. Mr. Brownlee officiated. The ceremony was performed in the presence of a few friends and the couple left immediately after for Orlando where Mr. Widden is in business. The bride has grown from childhood in Sanford and is greatly beloved by all who know her and their many friends join in wishing them a long and happy life.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Herndon are entertaining this evening with a farewell dance for Miss Margery Clay who returns to her home in Areadia Miss Serita Lake who leaves Saturday for Stewart Hall and Miss Norma Herndon who leaves at the same time for Mary Baldwin in Staunton Va. Mr. and Mrs. Herndon are noted for their beautiful parties and the young people are anticipating a delightful evening.
A military bridge party was given at the Hotel Carnes Monday evening. The prizes fell to Mrs. Keelor, Mrs. Neal and Mr. Hayden. Others present were Mrs. Vorce Mrs. Parramore Mr. and Mrs. Wood Mrs Wallace Mrs Ball Mrs. Watson Miss Parramore Miss Hayden Mr. McLaughlin Mrs Morse, Col. Trasher and Mr. Barden.
The dance at the Parish House last evening was well attended. About twenty-five couples were present. The house was beautifully decorated and delicious refreshments were served. The young crown danced the old year out and the new year in.
With the Woman’s Club dance which takes place this evening at the Hotel Carnes, the reception to be given by the Rev. Mr. Peek and his mother Mrs. Johnathan Peck at the Parish House and Miss Norma Herndon’s house dance Sanford will be very gay.
Lieut. And Mrs. A. B. Peterson are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Starling. Lieut. Peterson returns to Spartanburg today but Mrs. Peterson will remain for several weeks with her parents.
Mrs. T. W. Getzen will entertain for her nephews, Hawkins and Walter Connelly with a moving picture party Thursday evening.
Mr. R. L. McKenzie the popular salesman for the Osceola Fertilizer is in Sanford for a few days.
Mr. Lake is in Jacksonville on business
The usual Friday night dance will be given at the Hotel Carnes Friday evening January 4th. Dancing will begin at nine o’clock with Mrs. McLaughlin as hostess.
Miss Margery Clay is the guest of Miss Norma Herndon. Mrs. Clay is with her mother Mrs. Doyle for several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Roumillat have returned from a visit to Miss Birdie Harris in Jacksonville.
Mrs. H. W. Cooper has returned from a visit to her parents Mr. and Mrs. Jones in Jacksonville.
The many friends of Mrs. R. S. Keelor of Westfield New Jersey are giving her a warm welcome.
Ralph Roumillat who spent Xmas with his mother left Thursday for Charleston.
Max Stewart, Reginald Holly and Norris Levis all go back to school this week.
Miss Helen Keating of Daytona is the attractive guest of Miss Ruth McDaniel.
Mrs. W. J. Thigpen will entertain the Every Week Bridge Club tomorrow.
Miss Dorothy Waring of Charleston is the guest of Miss Agnes Dumas.
Mr. J. T. Ball has returned from a business trip to Miami.
GREETINGS
Greatly appreciating the liberal patronage my friends have so generously given me during the first four months of my business, I sincerely wish to thank and assure them I shall strive in the future to deserve their confidence even more than in the past.
May the New Year hold all good things, Health, Happiness and Prosperity for you one and all.
Mobley’s Drug Store
E. D. Mobley, Druggist
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IN THE HEART OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST VEGETABLE SECTION
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY
THE SANFORD HERALD
ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
IN SANFORD – Life Is Worth Living
VOLUME IX SANFORD, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918 NUMBER 39
SANFORD BOARD OF TRADE MADE GREAT RECORD IN THE PAST YEAR
BIG MEETING NEXT TUESDAY ELECTION OF OFFICERS
On next Tuesday January 8th the annual election of the Sanford Board of Trade will be held at the court house at 7:30 p.m. On that occasion the secretary will show in detail just exactly what this organization has accomplished. Eliminating minor details thirty five enterprising accomplishments are to the credit of the Board of Trade the last being its success in securing a united States Government Marketing Bureau for Seminole county. This within itself is untold value to growers and many have expressed their satisfaction of the work done in the one instance alone.
Other things equally as important will be recalled at the annual election and it is hoped that the entire membership will be present. At no time in its history has Seminole county been shoved to the front as during the past year and a careful study of this cause is traced directly to the loyal progressive citizens who have through this organization placed our county on the map of the nation. Not only in an advertising way have we derived benefits but in traffic matters our farmers merchants shippers and receivers have been saved several thousand dollars annually in freight charges due entirely and solely to the activity and ability of the Board of Trade.
It is no longer a question of what the Board of Trade will do or can do is it “what it has already done for us” and can do for all concerned if we show this organization an interest in our own financial agency. Today the Board of Trade is enjoying a larger paid membership than ever before in its history. It has established itself as permanent and brought to itself the respect and confidence of every Seminole county citizen.
Unlike some organizations it has no income save its loyal members and some […] of its wonderful value. The secretary is devoting his entire time to the work and the Sanford Board of Trade boasts of having the only combination secretary and traffic expert in the state working successfully for the interests of the producer and shippers. The organization is officiated by some of our most prominent men who have given their time and money ungrudgingly for the upbuilding of your interest and mine.
There are to be elected next Tuesday night a president first and second vice presidents’ and six members as governors. You are respectfully urged to attend.
AUTO LICENSES BIG
Will Bring Money In the County Road Fund
Tallahassee Jan. 3. – Twenty four thousand applications for automobile license tags were properly made the comptroller and that many tags mailed out before midnight of the last day of 1917. One hundred and ninety thousand dollars was the approximate amount received for these tags. This was deposited by the comptroller in the various local banks being about equally divided among them. Comptroller Ernest Amos now has no hand about $8000 for tags which were not delivered before the first of the year but these will go in the course of the next day or two. At the outset 50 000 tags were ordered by the comptroller and his contract called for their delivery in the state house by the first of December but the first car did not arrive till the second and third car load has never shown up. In the year 1917 the various tax assessors of the state located 24 182 automobiles in the state and assessed them an average of $150 each. The comptroller this included but little more than 50 per cent of the cars in Florida so he ordered 50 000 tags and he believes he will have use for practically all of them.
After the expenses of the comptroller are subtracted from the total amount of moneys collected from automobile licenses 85 per cent of the remainder goes back to the various counties the amount they receive being based upon the assessed valuation of each county; and the other 15 per cent goes for the main tenance of the state road department. The 85 per cent however does not actually go back to the counties but is spent on their roads under the direction of the road department. The comptroller’s expenses will be heavy; a large force had to be employed to get the tags out on time the tags themselves coast $10 000. Tags for next year have to be bought out of this year’s collections and postage used in mailing out the tags amounted to between seven and eight thousand dollars.
WIRE TAPPERS HERE
Were Seared Off Before They Had Time to Fleece Any Victims
The game of wire tapping as old as the hills as ancient as the gold brick scheme spins to be popular in Florida every Winter and it takes all the vigilance of our officers to keep the rich tourists from falling into the snares of the well dressed gentlemen who throng the Florida cities looking for whom they can devour.
This week, two individuals landed here going to one of the local hotels and driving a Hudson car made themselves most conspicuous on the streets. They were being watched by the sheriff’s office and the local police force but were rushed by several amateur detectives before they had time to operate. The sheriff landed them to jail with their outfit but afterword turned them out when Mayor Davison took a shot at them but was also forced to let them go as there was no evidence against them further than the precession of the wire tapping outfit and part of this was confiscated by the mayor. They had one of the most complete outfits for the fake […] that has ever been seen here and there to no doubt but when they will […] many a sucker before the winter season is over. But they will not come to Sanford again.
Wire Tappers Urged to Go by Police
Acting on an urgent request by the city police four men known to be crooks and suspected of attempting to operate the old “wire tapping” game left St. Petersburg Saturday after they have been “tipped off” to Mayor Al F. Lang. The men were arrested by Detectives Nicholas and Sloat and taken to the city jail. They signified a willingness to leave town if allowed to do so and as no specific charge could be made against them here they were escorted to the train and allowed to leave. The men are said to have rented a residence here and opened a pool room where fake bets were made in an effort to lure “suckers” to give up their money. They had one man in tow but he did not “bite” and did give warning to Mayor Lang who had previously been notified that the men were crooks. A local visitor friend of Mayor Lang knew one of the men in the North and told Mayor Lang.
Chief Easters turned back three men who came here yesterday morning refusing to allow them to get off the boat from Tampa. Chief Easters said the men undoubtedly were crooks and when notified that they could not land here accepted the ruling placidly. – St. Petersburg Independent.
Matinee Party
A charming little matinee party was given in honor of Miss Gwynelle Rice who is visiting to her grandmother Mrs. Harbor.
The hostesses were Mildred and May Holly.
The invited guests were Mary Elizabeth Puleston and Camilla Puleston LeClaire Jones Maud Lake Pllye Nouman.
Ruth Henry Margaret Neal. After seeing the movies they all went down to the ice cream parlor and had refreshments. Afterward they bade the little guest Gwynelle Rice goodbye and the party ending at six o’clock all had a nice time.
One of the Girls.
ITALIANS START YEAR IN VICTORY
WINTER MAY WIN FOR ITALIANS IN THE ALPS
Italian troops have won the first victory recorded in the new year. The defensive line from Lake Garda to the Adriatic has been strengthened by the Italian success in driving the Austro Germans from the Zenson bridgehead on the western bank of the Piave which they had held since mid-November.
While holding strong positions in the mountain region from Asiago across the Brents to the Piave the Italian front along the Piave is now intact. The enemy has replied only with artillery to the French stroke which gained valuable positions in the Monte Tomba region.
The weather apparently also is coming to the aid of the hard pressed Italian army which has had little rest since the Austro German drive began late in October. Heavy snow is falling on the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Austrian frontiers. Troop and other trains are being held in the Alps by the snow and the food supply of the enemy troops on the Italian northern front has been cut off temporarily.
On the western front the coming of 1918 was welcomed by strong artillery duels in the Ypres Cambrai and Verdun areas. In the Verdun sector the Verduns have extended their ore in the left bank of the riker but have no attacks. The Germans attempted a raid near Loos north of Lenn Tuesday morning but were repulsed by the British.
With the entire Cossack territory reported […] against the […] Gen. […] toward Moscow and […] south of Moscow. All men of military age in the Don Cosack region have been called to arms and […] reported that Gen. Kaledines has 20 000 […] including man from the […] regular army under his command.
The station in the Roumanian front is reported to be very serious the Roumanians having rebelled against Bolshevik agents.
Train service bweteen [sic] Riga and Petrograd has been re-established.
A report has been received in London that the members of the American railway mission to Russia stationed at Irkutsk Siberia have been arrested by the Bolsheviki. Chairman John F. Stevens of the mission and other members were reported in Tokyo several days ago.
Now the declarations regarding German peace terms will be issued within ten days according to a Munich Bavaria statement. It is said the attitude of the entente powers presumably toward the terms expressed at Brest Litovak may bring about some changes.
Circuit Court Next Tuesday
Circuit Court for Seminole county meets here beginning next Tuesday. Judge Perkins will preside and States Attorney Joseph Jones will be the prosecutor. There is a large docket for this term there being some twelve causes for the petit jury to decide about and two murder cases. The docket of the capital crimes cannot be made up before the grand jury meets and there is a likelihood of the court being here several weeks before the docket is cleared.
Methodist Church
A First Methodist church – Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. At the close of the morning sermon the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered. All Christians are welcome to the Lord’s table. Visitors and strangers who are away from their church homes are especially invited to unite with us in this solemn service.
J. P. Hilburn Pastor.
The Maccabees will meet Monday night at seven o’clock for the election of officers.
RECENT COLD BRINGS UP OLD TALES
FLORIDA SUFFERED FROM COLD IN EARLY DAYS
The recent cold snap has set the oldest inhabitant to recounting his reminiscences which he does in an interesting way and at considerable length in Monday’s issue of the Times-Union. It seems that while snow storms have been rare in Florida’s history they have not been entirely unknown especially in Jacksonville which seems to be near the southern limit of snow fall. The severest storm of that kind in the memory of the present generation was Feb. 12 1899 when more than an inch of snow fell and the mercury dropped to 10 degrees. In the recent storm 22 was the lowest recorded. In the ’99 storm the roofs and sidewalks were [white] with snow and the storm lasted for two hours or more; it was preceded by a sleet storm and the citizens of Jacksonville had an experience with icy streets covered with snow that was unique to them although not uncommon in many northern states.
The year 1816 was known all through the north as “the year without a summer.” Every month in the year there was a frost. Crops were ruined all over the land farmers were despondent and universal hard times prevailed. We have no records for that year in Florida in fact Florida was not in these days except as a Spanish province. There are stories that ice formed along the Florida [coasts] but authentic records are lacking.
The Times […] goes on to say
The earliest information with reference to Florida and its cold waves is to the effect that a great freeze recorded in the year […] citrus and banana trees in St. Augustine were killed as well as many carious evergreens up the St. Johns river which were more than 20 years old. About Volusia the temperature on Jan. 3 1766 was down to 26 degrees. All tropical productions were destroyed except the oranges.
In 1744 there was a snow storm which extended over most of Florida. The inhabitants long afterwards spoke of it as an extraordinary white rain. So that the recent snowstorm had spread over Florida the second time in 125 years. In 1799 the temperature was very low and on April 6 a heavy frost occurred destructive to vegetation and the temperature was as low as 28 degrees at Picolata.
The severest cold ever experienced in Florida as far as known occurred on the night of February 7 1836 when the temperature went as low as 7 degrees above zero at Jacksonville and vicinity. The St. Johns Johns [sic] river was frozen several rods from the shore all kinds of fruit trees were killed to the ground – many never started again and the wild groves were frozen as far south as 28 degrees. In 1844 some large sweet orange trees on Drayton Island were bearing their fruit which could not have been killed in February 1835. The temperature at Fork King near Ocala then an army post fell to 11 degrees at that time.
In 1857 the mercury fell to 16 degrees at Jacksonville and to 26 degrees at Tampa 29 degrees at Fort Pierce and 30 degrees at Fort Dallas on the Miami river in south Florida.
Some low temperatures recorded at Jacksonville are as follows:
Degrees
January 12 1873 24
January 3 1875 24
December 30 1880 19
January 12 1886 15
December 30 1894 14
February 13 1899 10
February 14 1899 17
February 1917 15
In Tallahassee on Feb 8 1895 the temperature fell as low as 8 degrees above zero and on Feb 8 1899 it want to 2 degrees below zero. Tallahassee was immediately in the track of the storm which veered to the northeast after passing this point some miles.
It will be seen from these statistics that a fall of the temperature below freezing point 32 degrees has occurred many times and that by reason of occurring in December or early January when the trees were in a more dormant condition no great injury was inflicted upon the trees. It is only when the freezes have occurred in February when the sap was up and new growth started that the trees were greatly injured.
Sub-Tropical Mid-Winter Fair
It is a well recognized fact that for seven years past the Mid-Winter Fair held at Orlando has surpassed like expositions held anywhere in the south.
Letters on file in the secretary’s office we are informed by men who make a business of visiting officially all the fairs state and county held in the south declare that the Sub-Tropical Mid-Winter Fair at Orlando beats them all.
Notwithstanding the fact that nearly all Florida fairs have been called off this season on account of the war the officials of the Mid-Winter Orlando Fair early decided to continue as usual and if possible to surpass all previous efforts.
The premium list for the eighth annual fair is before us and it would appear that they have made good in their preparation for the fair to be held from Feb. 12th to 15th.
Many important features are sill in embryo but of those that are scheduled we note that the poultry show will eclipse anything heretofore held in Florida; for not only will the regular show be almost again as large as formerly but the National Barrel […] Association will leave […] thousand dollar exhibit to occupy an […] large building provided for the purpose.
The state’s department will also be away ahead of something hold for special efforts have been made to ensure large […] of Short Horns Jerseys […] and others and several ear loads are promised from without the state as well as a […] exhibit inside: in all at least there hundred head of the very finest.
The [..] department will come for a large state of attention as a number of large exhibits of […] Humpshires Poland Chinas, Berkshires and others will compete.
The National Berkshire Congress will meet in Orlando during the fair as well as several poultry association which means that there will be thousands of delegates.
The school departments of the fair will surpass everything of the sort ever told in the state. A separate building is being prepared for forty or more special booths and there will be a parade on Educational Day of fifteen hundred or more school pupils.
There will be a state High School meet and a cantata in which 300 children will take part.
The fruit vegetable and field crops departments bid fair to be away beyond the average for there is great competition along these important lines of industry.
There will be a government exhibit sent by the Agricultural department and in fact every division of the fair will be a wonderful demonstration of what can be gathered together to instruct and entertain the thousands of people who attend.
Among the entertaining features will be a great display a fireworks parades by several military and civic organizations each day contributing a share: Johnny Jones carnival shows races every afternoon and other attractions.
If any of our citizens wish to enter fruit crops fancy articles etc. write the secretary at Orlando for a copy of the premium list.
Catholic Boys Remembered Xmas
Among the boys in the camps of our army and those in the navy whose Christmas was made brighter by the receipt of a box from home were ten boys who have gone out from the numbers of the Catholic church here a committee of ladies from that church sending to each one a fine well filled box the appreciation of which is demonstrated by the letters expressing their gratitude which have been received.
SEMINOLE COUNTY’S RECORDS IN RED CROSS DRIVE IS WORTHY COMMENDATION
COUNTY HAS A GRAND TOTAL OF 1012 MEMBERS
The Seminole County Chapter Red Cross now has a total of 1012 members. Before the Christmas drive there were 415 members and the holiday campaign brought in a total of 601 new members and in addition quite a neat sum in donations. The line up showing new members is as follows:
Sanford 313 East Sanford 33 Georgetown 10 Altamonte Springs 18 Longwood 56 Chuluota 56 Geneva 61.
Bad weather ushered in the campaign and delayed its being launched for at least three days. It was also inconsistent because of weather to have any general rally but aside form this the efficient labor of the many workers is seen and deeply appreciated by those in charge of the campaign. It is expected however that within sixty days the membership will increase to at least 1500 because of the many new members now coming in since the campaign.
The Red Cross headquarters are now rooms 1 and 2 in the old Coast Line office building. Several sewing machine tables chairs and other things for efficient work have been installed and the rooms are now open daily from 9 o’clock each morning.
Mrs. Chase chairman of the purchasing committee is laying in a nice stock of material and it is hoped to provide ample material for the many workers who are volunteering for service.
The valuable work should be kept going. Those not only serving the soldiers of this country and the allies but demonstrated its great cause in the recent Halifax disaster and the earthquake at Guatemala sending aid in the way of food and clothing to these stricken people. Every man woman and child in this county should join. It costs only one dollar per year.
At the Congregational Church
“The Lesson of the Years” will be the subject for the morning at the Congregational church Jan. 6th. In the evening the theme will be “The Person where Number was 666 or Making a Failure of Life.”
This will be the last day that Mrs. Frye will serve as organist as she is about to leave our city for an indefinite stay at Philadelphia in the study of professional nurse work. A special program has been arranged for the evening and her special numbers will be of unusual interest. Her many friends will be glad of the opportunity to hear her again before her going. The program will be as follows:
Prelude Barcarolle Geo Noyes Rockwell; Anthem Break Thou the Bread of Life Marie Hine; offertory Song of the Nightingale Mecke.
Evening Prelude (a) Prayer and Response Geo. Noyes Rockwell; (b) Adoration Geo. Noyes Rockwell; (c) Miserere Verdi; anthem As Shadow Cast by Cloud and Sun W. Berwald; offertory solo Mrs. Julius Takach “When Thou Comest” (Stabat Mater Rossaini).
Speaks Sunday at Temple
Rev. Milo H. Massey pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hartwell Ga. has consented to speak at the Temple next Sunday at both the morning and evening hours. Rev. Massey is a splendid preacher having a great deal of experience in quite a few pastorates. De is an orator of no little ability and has that wonderful faculty of being able to hold his audience in absolute attention during the entire sermon.
For the morning hour 11 o’clock Rev. Massey has announced that he would address the congregation on the subject of “Forging Ahead;” for the evening hour 7 o’clock the young minister has prepared and willdeliver a sermon entitled “Spiritual Aristocracy.”
The Temple is well and comfortably headed and as Rev. Massey will be with the Baptist folk for next Sunday only every person that can should avail themselves of the opportunity to hear him.


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PAGE THREE THE SANFORD HERALD January 1, 1918
ROBBED CLOTHING STORE
Clever Thief Wanted More Clothes For Cool Weather
A clever thief who knew the lay of the land very well indeed broke into the Sanford Show & Clothing Co. store last night by breaking an arm hold in the glass front door and unlatching it from the inside. The work was that of an expert several of whom have been on the streets here the past few days. W. M. McKinnon the manager of the store is not certain as to the amount of his loss but is sure the thief of thieves have several fine suits, some shows, furnishings and suit cases. Just what time the store was entered is not known but the store is in the middle of the main business portion of the city and is lighted in front at night. Up to the time of going to press no clue has been obtained of the smooth individuals who are now wearing good clothes “somewhere in America.”
War News Summary
Germany has struck her first strong blow on the western front since the heralding of a great offensive and the British have held it in check. The attack which resulted in heavy fighting was made on a short front on the southern end of the salient before Tambrai. The fighting continues.
The attackers gained a foothold in British trenches but later were ejected in part by counter attacks. The German thrust was on a front of more than two miles between Marcoing and LaVacquiere and against positions which the British have held since the retirement after General Byng’s successful blow.
In the center the Germans were held for no gain, but on either end of the assaulting front the entered the front line. The British counter attacks drove the Germans from part of these positions and resulted also in the capture of some prisoners. Berlin claims that front line positions and a “few hundred” prisoners were captured.
The Germans also have been active at other points along the front, but their local attack in the Ypres sector and their raids northeast of Verdun brought no success. These efforts follow upon heavy fire in these three sectors, Cambrat, Ypres and Verdun, and may be forerunners of determined attacks.
In the Italian theater there has been only artillery actively along the northern front. German airplanes again have raided Patina much damage being done to buildings by incendiary bombs. Three persons were killed and three wounded.
Another advance upon the Nablus road, north of Jerusalem has been made by the British forced in Palestine. Against stubborn Turkish resistance the […] progressed three miles and captured […] Beeroth and three other towns. Progress also was made between the Nablus road and the Mediterranean coast.
In Petrograd Sunday the day was given over to peace celebrations marked by parades of Bolsheviki followers. Members of the German and Austrian peace delegations were spectators of the parades. The heads of German and Austrian delegations to the Brest Litovsk conference, Dr. Von Kuehlmann and Count Czernin are returning to their respective capitals. Delayed dispatches from Brest Litovsk indicate that while the representatives of Russia and the central powers agree on most of the peace terms there is difficult in the preliminary settlement of the question concerning German retirement from occupied Russian territory in order to give the inhabitants opportunity to decide her future for themselves.
One of the forts at Kronstadt, the naval base near Petrograd has been blown up by an explosion, according to a dispatch received in London. Bessarabia and Turkestan are reported to have declared their independence, while fighting between the Bolsheviki and their opponents is reported to be going on in Harbin and Ickutsk, Siberia. General Kaledines has been re-elected hotman of the Don Cossacks by an overwhelming majority.
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For Sale – English terrier pups, fine strain. Nick Zernovan. Stanford, Fla. 37-10tc
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For Sale – Two 60-gal oil tanks. M. S. Nelson. Box 1163. Sanford. 37-4tc
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For Sale – Ford truck, 1917 model. In good shape. $275. Seminole County garage. 36-1tc
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For Sale – 30 Cords Stove Wood price $7.50 delivery in city. W. A. Lettler. Phone 20. 35-tf
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For Sale – White Bermuda Onions, grown from the seed. $2.00 thousand. 25c per hundred. See C. H. Lettler. 28-tf
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For Sale – Fine lot of Registered Duroc Jersey Pigs. Mrs. Endor Curlett, Geneva, Florida. 25-tfc
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COUNTY HAPPENINGS
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A BUNCH OF INTERESTING ITEMS FROM CORRESPONDENTS – EVENTS OF SEMINOLE COUNTY – EFFICIENT REPORTERS FOR THE HERALD
EAST SANFORD
The potion of our last week’s letter did not get in the paper containing prat of the account of the Xmas entertainment at Moore’s Station church. The idea of the grownups was well carried out in the songs and there were readings by Mrs. Ellsworth and last but far the best of the whole evening was a beautiful Christmas story given by Mrs. Ira D. Martin in a most charming manner.
Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Williams from town and their children Sarah Elizabeth and Frederick were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stone and family of Cameron avenue on New Year’s Day.
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Squire of Cameron avenue had as New Year dinner guests Mrs. W. E. Squires Herbert Squire and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Chorpening and their young people.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Lewis of Detroit Mich. were guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Tyler a portion of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are to remain in Sanford some time this being their second winter here.
Miss Clara Allways of St. Louis Mo. is the guest of her grand par and Mrs. John Pezole of Beardall avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Bailey and children of Arablay Ga. have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Wilson for some time. They may decide to become residents here.
For the second time this season the growers cut lettuce on Sunday to save it from the frost. The crops are not hurt nearly as much as was feared they would be and every one is appreciative of the fact.
Snowflakes were noticed here on Sunday morning and Monday evening.
Mrs. French from near Boston Mass. has arrived to remain for the winter with her brother C. M. Stowe of Cameron avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard of Cameron avenue have been entertaining their relative Roger Montgomery from Georgia for some time.
Mrs. Lynch and Miss Hoffenbach of Ft. Valley Ga. arrived yesterday at the Howard home for a visit.
Mrs. Moses Jackson and two little daughters and Miss Mollie Kinard returned on Monday from a two weeks visit with relatives in Charleston S.C.
UPSALA AND GRAPEVILLE
Jesse Lee and wife with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Stedt spent a pleasant Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lee on the West Side.
We understand there was a Christmas gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ehrensberger also.
Dr. Denton was called out Wednesday for little Russel son of H. G. Lundquist and wife who was threatened with blood poisoning from an infected bruise.
Elmer Tyner who has employment with Stemper’s market for the holidays made a trip to Windermere Monday for his little sister Eleanores.
Mrs. Munson wife of Capt. Munson of the Savanah line and her little daughter Josephine have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lundquist. As Girhil Nylund she was well known as her girlhood days were spent here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thompson were callers from DeLand on New Year’s Day at the homes of T. O. Tyner and G. T. Ballinger.
Mrs. Sophia Peterson and her interesting little daughters Idalina and Edwina of the East Coast are spending a few days with her brother and wife H. G. Lundquist.
If the cold weather will kill out the malaria from the system evidently we won’t need to go north for we have had genuine articles for the last week going for three nights below freezing and a little sleet and snow thrown in for good measure.
Mrs. Ericson and children were calling in Grapeville at the home of Mrs. Hudgins Mrs. Lundquist and Ballinger while the latter spent a pleasant afternoon with her on Wednesday of this week.
Mrs. J. E. Lundquist and her guests Mrs. Munson and little daughter with Mrs. E. F. Lunquist and Marian and Adrian were calling at the home of Mrs. H. G. Lundquist on Friday.
Margaret Ericson visited at Mrs. DeForest’s on Friday learning how to knit some wristlets for the Red Cross while the former visited with Mrs. Swanson in the interest of this work.
WEST GENEVA AVENUE
Mr. George Mansfield left last Wednesday morning for Tampa after taking Xmas with his aunt Mrs. J. E. Vaughn.
We have had some cold weather for the last few days. Sunday we had a little snow and Monday a little sleet but not much. The orange trees are badly burned with the cold.
Mrs. Neal Culp and children Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Will Robinson and daughter Gladys Robinson and Mr. Jack Thompson and wife from DeLand were pleasant callers of Mrs. Vaughn New Year’s evening.
O how thankful we all ought to be to think we have lived to see another Happy New Year.
Mrs. Willie King left last Saturday for Miami after spending pleasant Xmas with his folks Mr. and Mrs. Will Robinson.
We truly hope this year will be a happy and a prosperous year to one all on earth. May God bless us all.
LONGWOOD PICK UPS
The ladies of the Civic League gave a silver tea New Year’s afternoon the proceeds to go to the Red Cross.
Geo. B. Upchurch of Birmingham Ala. is the guest of Mrs. Geo. Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. Crary and two children motored up Sunday from Tampa and returned Wednesday.
Miss Eva McQuarters of Orlando spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bristline.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Waits left for McIntosh Wednesday where they will visit relatives and friends.
Miss Maud Entzminger is visiting friends in Sanford.
Will Entzminger returned to his Home in North Carolina Wednesday.
It rains blows and snows and we are getting weary:
Be still sad hearts some time Florida sunshine will make us cheery.
WEKIWA AND ETHEL
The Ethel Christmas tree proved quite a success. The children had a nice program and did their best for Santa and who repaid them with the big treat as well as many other nice things.
E. A. Rush with family motored to Everton and Gainesville to spend Christmas week with Mrs. Rush’s relatives.
Mrs. R. J. Griffin and children are in Georgia with her people. They are expected home soon.
Minnie Holiday who has been home for the usual Christmas vacation returned to Rollins College Wednesday. Mis Frances who also came home for vacation will return to her school duties in St. Augustine Sunday.

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