VOL XXVIII NO 103 i Published Twice a and Thursday GAINESVILLE FLORIDA MONDAY JULY 1909 i ONE DOLLAR A WeekMonday EIjE > < > LARGEST VOTE YET CAST IN COOPERATIVE CONTESTM- iss Gertrude Guinn Saturday Received 406450 Votes Placing Her First in Western Section I The largest single vote ever polled in the contest was that of Mlsu Gertrude Guinn Saturday when she reached the number of 4iiG45j which now makes her stand first In the Northern and Western section for the capital prize the next highest vote being that of Miss Annie Kirk- land of Alachua who received 154010 Miss Hattie English also casts a vote of over 100000 and Is again In first In the Southern section Miss Rattle Ludwig whose picture appears In this Issue has boon a I Miss Hattie Ludwig Tioga worker and during the contest Las managed to remain at the head of the list during most of the time nnd now holds second place Only three more weeks remain for tie candidates to win the capital I rize but the remaining number wilt receive certificates and the first in each section will receive a cer- tificate for 100 in trade with the A It Harper Company which can be need to purchase any instrument they handle at no advance In price For instance If a piano sells for 400 you can buy it with the certificate and 200 and so on Following Is the result of the can Section Atlas Estelle Real 2320075 Miss Addle Goode 2303505 Miss Margaret Ledhetter 115141 Miss Nora Stalls 18449- 0Mls Bessie Carver 107840 Miss Mary Fernandez 5SHO Miss Gertrude llnrrod 57030 Hoard wass GainesvilleCentral n u position k ia 1 g xa five 3 Miss Myrn Swearingen 49390 Miss Ulanch Thompson 3t59JO Miss Aura M Lewis 25780 Miss Alice Schafer 19365 Miss Mabel Williams 14205 Mrs N W Taylor 11410 Miss Eva Bauknight 9190 Mss Annie Den Taylor 8005 Miss Grace Dullard 6175 Miss Ella Bailey 51SO Mss Curtis Pitts 2325 Miss Fannie Whiting 14SO Eastern and Southern District Miss Hattie English Miss Lornn McCredie Mcnopy 556110 Miss Mabel McCredie Mcnopy 532890 Mss Ella Jolly Orange Hts 483840 Miss Martle Chamberlin Mica ropy 420375 Mss Bessie Waits Hawthorn 175710 Mss Myrtle Hammond Haw- thorn 88800 Miss Cordelia Crown Point 71680 Miss Annie Lewis Hawthorn 67700 Mss Wilma Mnlnes Monteocha 60530 Miss Pattlo Zotrouer Rochelle 41235 Miss Lula Perry Rochelle 33045 Miss La Verne Dobbltt Mcnopy 32555 Miss Vandalla Star Waldo 31890 Miss Effie Tlson Earlcton 28995 Mss Jewel Godwin Hawthorn 24215 Miss Mary Hall Orange Hts 14700 Vise Gertrude Smith 14660 Miss Georgia Snowden Hatchet Creek 11705 Miss Mary Loulso Atwater Waldo 7235 Miss Nellie Reeves Mlcanopy 4800 Miss Emma Entcnza Waldo 3340 Miss Mamie Bailey Waldo 200 Western and Northern Section Miss Gertrude Guinn Hague645185 Miss Hattie Ludwig Miss Lucinda Bryant Dell 527160 Miss Vida Barren Dell 506290 Miss Annie Kirkland Alachua405340- Miss Eva Powell Alachua 369890 Mrs H Maddox Archer 271980 Miss Ellen Beville Arredondo 199660 Miss Rosa Lee Rives High Springs 157220 Mrs I Ware High Springs 106730 Miss Jewel Standby Hague 70695 Mss Aleen HollyArredondo48320- Miss Annie Dcville Arredondo 47175 Miss Emma Williams Trenton 3 275 Mrs R B Baker Hawthorn 13400 Mrs tJ E Parker LaCrosse 11315 Mss Katie Akin Arredondo 8060 Mss Ada Pearce Newberry 7050 Mss Pearl McLeod Alachua 3515 Miss Lula Gay Dell 1885 Miss Llztio Smith Newberry 630 Tacoma G29 0 Rocky I I Tioga Fair- banks 541055 ¬ Much Activity Shown in Savannah Cotton Market I SAVANNAH Ga July 24 The market for Sea Islands was firm with a good demand and good business was done considering the late sensor and small offerings at an advance In Itrices The better grades were alone affected the lower grades being still neglected Besides the local sales it is said a large proportion of the light interior holdings were also sold and unsold stocks have now become much depleted Crop accounts continue favorable in the main but the continuous rains resulted in complaints from sev- eral sections of damage from and also of running to weed and of light fruitage These reports come lave tnocth w f shed- ding ¬ in Georgia would be benefited by a little rain the precipitation having been unevenly distributed Sales for the week were 777 bales The following prices were based on factors quotations and are revised weekly on Fridays Fancy Florldas 22 22 Fancy Georglas 22 022 Extra choice Florldas 20 21 Extra choice Georgias 20 21 Choice Gas and Flasl8 19 Ex flue Gas and Flas15 16 Fine Gas and Flas 13 14 Com Gas and Flas 11 012 Let a want ad negotiate a trade for yoa of M ethiBC dcmi red L yw < A NOVEL RECEPTION Arrival of Bridal Couple at Archer Brought Hearty Welcome ARCHER July 24 Mr and Mrs T B Pearson returned this week from- a very pleasant visit of n couple of months at St Petersburg W J Groves of Morrlston stopped over a few minutes at this place yes- terday morning while enroute to Baltimore anti Washington He will be gone about two weeks Mrs J H Butler of Hernando Is very ill at the home of her daughter Mrs G R Mrs W L Jackson returned home Thursday evening niter a couple uf weeks spent very pleasantly with W F Wluecoff of Atlanta Mrs W H Powell and children re turned last evening from Mcanopy they having gone over Here to be present at the marriagt of Pow ells brother Dr A D Clmmblln and Miss Essie Smith- T B Tower of Newberry passed through Wednesday in his Reo car He was returning from his weekly visit to Floral City and reports the roads In good condition in that direc- tion now Mr and Mrs Alex Miller art visit- Ing relatives at Dalton Ga Mr Mill- er Is foreman of the foundry at the Maddox Foundry and Machine Co and will be away about two snore weeks Mrs C D Wood ton Howard and daughter Miss Lucy are having a- very pleasant location at Daytona Beach Mr and Mrs Spivey returned this week after a couple of weeks spent pleasantly with relatives at Windsor Between two and three hundred people were at the depot yesterday afternoon to welcome Dr A D Cham blin and bride home The Maddox dray was used as the royal carriage it having been decorated with red and white bunting A top was put on the wagon and covered with this pretty bunting and suspended from the top was red and white paper bells all sorts of old shoes and everything else imaginable Old cow bells were at tached to all the axles Mr George Taylors donkey was harnessed to the wagon A big fat darkey In black trousers a white vest and a derby hat drove same with another darkey leading the donkey A big cow bell was attached to the forelegs of the donkey so that every step gave a hideous noise Mr George Taylor and W H Stephens met the bridal pair at the station the rest of the crowd being stationed very quietly behind the depot They were escorted by this couple upon the platform where they smilingly and willingly entered their carriage amid a shower of rice old shoes whistles blowing tin pans beat- Ing and all sorts of unearthly yells Then the procession lead by Mr Tay- lor followed by the baseball team the girls and ladles the bridal wagon and brought up In the rear by all the on- lookers started on the way through town and out to their home After arriving at the home tho crowd and formed up In a line on both sides which the bridal couple passed through amid smiling faces and nil wishing them a long and happy life evening at S an Informal recept- ion was tendered them by several their friends Delicious Ice cream and cake was served to all They many handsome presents Ocala Saloon Closed Mr W A Kollenbergers saloon on Main street closed Its doors morning Mr Kallenberger las bad quite a run of bad luck lie 8 now sick at Lake Weir where his is spending the summer He a quiet orderly place and gave a square deal but it has teen evident for some months that ils saloon was one too many for the lty He has made many friends tere who hope be will soon be well on the road to prosperity again Star 22nd L lIes her- on small part- ed Last of Mrs dress- ed too 3 plat- form ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ MANY PLANTATIONS AR COMPLETELY DESTRO Destruction in Texas Felt 100 Miles Lila Gov Hoggs Residence Mass of Wrecks NEW ORLEANS July 24 Conspic- uous among the of property damage wrought by the West Indian hurricane along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas are the stories- of many famous old plantation homes having been destroyed in some In stands at points a hundred or moro miles in the Interior Foremost amou j these Is the old iJine of the late Gov Hogg of Texas n ar Columbia at the mouth of the Brazos river The news of the of tho old mansion and the devastation of fn hrond acres serves af n reminder to many prominent Southerners of the happy days they have beneath tho hospitable roof of Texas popular chief execu- tive Ills once elegant home is but- a mass of scattered wreckage a con illtion which marks many more lions In the same section In the light of the undtaputabl reports spent plant de- struction ¬ ¬ property destruction several mlllons of dollars was not greater loss of garded as Inexplicable Every hour brings row escapes Persons who ned fishing parties or oatin day In exposed places took the Governments waralB Wednesday morning and re- places of comparative safet At the Baptist Young ft campment on tho Gulf Co several thousand people w bled conditions bordering c prevailed Many of the were at prayer meetings wind struck them with such In one Instance It Is report carried parson pulpit and Into the Midst of his sock The rate began to soak t pers and all sought of shelter a re refuge < Two Chinese Maids Swea They Were Sold in Bon NEW YORK July 24 Two round checked little Chinese maids their almond eyes very very wide their straight bangs brushed flat across their foreheads their black brands laced with scarlet silk hanging pre- cisely down the middle of their backs tood demurely before Justice Wyatt- In tho childrens court yesterday and swore to a story which loft little sym- pathy In those who heard It for the two elderly celestial merchants who reported their children missing to the police on last Wednesday night For both little girls swore that they had been held against their will as household slaves harshly treated and forced to work long hours They were accompanied by an agent of the Childrens Society who had found them on the day following their dis- appearance from Chinatown at an East Side parish house The two ¬ < ¬ ¬ aado sworn statements w read la court Chin Flog Toy said she IH China for 1M hre g and sold again for gome Boralags her reads I had to get HP at had to work rig 2 oclock in the I would rather die tfcaa to Mott street The ether Moy Yam Toy Pending fall Investigation bo heW by the Childrens Si Their story has ajrovM another rigid Investigation town which has hardly set after the chaos and prefeJag lowed the murder of Klein f- An officer of said the Government would- to look Into what appears tual slave traffic eoll try the CJdWre i- so etlmee morning < Husband and Wifes Recovered From Bod- ies ¬ HOUSTON Tex July 24 The bodies of Capt R L Hettlson and wife scantily clad and girded with life preservers were found yesterday by boys at Morgans Point The corpses were lashed and clasped to acwther In the tangled sea weed Capt Bettison and his wife were among the ten who were swept off Tarpon pier Galveston by the hurri- cane on Wednesday Simultaneous with the report of the Usher ¬ recovery of the bodies of t sons comes tho news that Booth a boy of the party on the pier wa alive near Morgans Point 1 been floating on driftwood f fortyeight hours The Abernathy family High Island has been and no additional deaths t reported from the country Matagorda peninsula w 11 a dlning room Tilghman Cypress Mill Wrecked by Explo CEDAR KEY July the Tllga man Cypress Companys mill located near Cedar Key there was a disas- trous explosion Thursday One of the boilers blew up doing great damage- to the mill and wounding several 24At r The engineer was severely struck on the head tat te to recover Several others jnred but not seriously It ly take two or three moatha the damage Dr Warren er ws In Philadelphia at