V L,i I Tt,,,4, i RV , .,fF ' , t' .r ((1 '" " .,,4-, THE ,KISSIMMII .v VAILIT.GAZETTE: ,' JAY, OCTOBER 2f, ItlS. ra !!II i .. ____. .. __ ., .,, .. . a u . .. . ; rnand : ? ,''::=' """'" - .. ... .. . ;The' Kissimmee Valley Gazette I IH" begin reaping this extra harvest for themselves. "* NINETEEN REASONS 1 1 I- i'S ' ... They have the !land and can produce thf feeding Mrs..Carrie Chapman Catt:who i is the chairman' .icl + 'pI _., i crop, if they will but awaken 'to their opportunities. of the committee whcih ''is* directing the campaign I "' IsPcociiment1 t t ) e+...tamtt.Iu.g...F.l Florida should have this extra profit which, is. now for woman suffrage in New York has given nineteen , MIN ...... FTm. About ( i ran.v Kissimmee going to the Texas cattlemen<<: and to the railroads reasons why women should be granted the ballot t . ,f kl I w ..a... AND B. ti. vavi' AONKW, 0"t -_ who are shipping the cattle. In Addition, she says that all these reasons may be If.everyone walking. alongth* side ' "" :,' B. B. ...vo.... sMIt* ... ...**.T. The subject has been given a great deal of attention summed up in' just two: Because it is just and ''The commissioners of Osceola con walks'of \the city will carry a sharp .f Y."'' by the Florida press recently and some of because it is expedient ty hare purchased 600 subscriptions. knife I and, ''whenever" he Is swiped in .. .-.u.. Rate.lr. the comments may prove interesting. Other reasons are: to the St, Cloud Tribune and the KU- the face by a frond from a palm, ora ,;r 0 l On.On. COPT COPY. One Blx: :Months Tear ?-___.---____?.----._--._ fl 1.00 60 The Bradentown Journal : Because 8,000,000 women in the United Statesare simmee Gazette to be sent to twelve bit of bush, or a twig from a tree, P q On. Copy. Thr* :Month. .-.__.....-.._.___... .rat says wageworkers. and their health and that of future hundred select addresses. This method stop right then and there and cut off j, "What's the matter with folks here, ; / you ( anyway citizens is often endangered by evil working condi- of advertising has proved a great the offending growth' he will confer a r , ? ,.I-t' correspondents All .0mmunle..Uon.J must b**signed".pt from by the our.rlt.r.authorised tions that can be remedied only by legislation. Disfranchised ' success in the middle west-and thereis fayor upon owners too careless to. . i Rejected matter wlll'not b* returned un lea. called That's what a buyer for a big Texas cattle labor lowers wages, and voteless women! no reason why it should not come keep their premises in proper condi for concern said when Manatee county cattlemen were are compelled to take less pay for their work. into favor in Florida. tion. That is what I do at every op- (Entered In the Poitofflce In Klaelmm.e. Florida. loading a tram with range fed beeves to be takento Becaues the strongest interest in women's livesis St. Lucie county, in truth every I portunity. No property-owner has the ;, a* econd-clas matter. fw Texas to be finished for a better market on Texas in their homes and families, in having pure water, county in the state, should do like- right to allow the growth of his stuffto FRIDAY OCTOBER 29 1915 pasture and in Texas feed yards. milk and other foods clean and safe streets well- wise. No one thing: in the state will bother the passerby-but there area And it happens in this Case that the main stapleon supported schools. As all these are directly affectedby advance its popularity and wealth as lot of those who don't care how which the live stock is to be prepared for the politics, women need the influence of a vote. will local newspaper circulatidn in much they annoy others. There is but f y BONDS FOR BRICK ROADS better market right here in Florida, when it returns Because busy housemothers and professionalwomen other states.-Okeechobee Call. the one way; and that is to cut off the i\ -:- properly finished as Western beef is rice. The can serve the state only by the means used -+- bothersome growth and cast it from fj The good roads bonding fever has struck Osce- cattle are taken to Texas and turned upon the second by the busy men ; namely by casting a ballot. recent The Arcadia good roads News tour in of writing the enthusiasts the you. Of course one should do the act :[ ; ola county. growth of the harvested rice fields until frost Because women are consumers as well as pro- of that in proper manner-in a fashion not to ;. ; With Orange county to the north of us buildingan kills the foliage, and then they are put on rations of ducers, and as they bear their share of the burdens Entering Osceola city says: injure the plant in any way; and I . t extensive system of brick roads, with Polk coun- ground rice, cotton seed meal and by-products of of government, they should share alike in its privi Loughman we had a fairly county(good marl near i am particular to do as I should wish k i the cotton fields. to be done But cut them off ' by. -- for million dollars in bonds leges. ty in a campaign one to road nearly to the Cypress creek, witha build brick roads and with ever county between' The Texas people will just double the value of Because a government is neither democratic nor very well\ graded and drained roadto whenever you find them protrudingover I Jacksonville and Tampa preparing to build a connecting the cattle in sixty days, getting as much for two republican when one-half of the people have the the city limits of Kissimmee. Hers or intruding upon, the public : road from the northern to the southern' months of handling as does the Florida grower for power to control the other half but it simply placesall we found the main streets paved with Walk. And do it now-and all the : ; 't metropolis. Osceola county citizens have begun to three years. women under the rule of all men. instead of the brick laid flat on the sand in appar- time.-Palm Beach Post. . feel! that it is up to us to fill in our link. In this case it so happens, also, that millions of rule of a king or an emperor. ently very good condition. The Kis- Florida lacks -one+-of the great essentials i 4 The contract has already been let for.the build- acres of Florida land, now uncultivated, is peculiarly Because there is no reason why all women shouldbe simmee people, looking to their own which serve as an impetus ".i ing of the road from Kissimmee to the Orange adapted to the cultivation and production of rice, I included in the only classes deprived of suffrage; best interest are boosting the manu- for the stock-raiser. Should there be ': j ja county line to join the road from Orlando. There and with this advantage, that there are no frosts in namely the insane, feeble-minded orientals and facture of a cypress shaving brie packing-house and an ample stock- ; ' remains the stretch of road from Kissimmee to the this part of the state sufficiently severe to kill the convicts. saturated with asphalt or some other I yard once established in the state- Polk county line to join the highway through that rice pastures, which may be grazed until exhausted. cementing substance. Have a section I the central portion of the state would, i; .1 county to the Hillsborough line, which is includedin Raising Florida cattle on the ranges is a profitable THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERThis of this laid in the line of the heaviest i of 'course, be the better location-thfc! : ' the program of the good roads enthusiasts who business, and because in times past the low- traffic in the center of one of the grower of stock would realize that , are now in a campaign there for the big bond issue. priced three-year-old was produced at such a very squares, indicating that it will makea there would always be a market for I , t Then there is the road to St. Cloud as a part of the small cost the cattlemen did not care to put on the is the way it looks to a writer who has superb paving material. We were what he could produce-and there ,; ' fr new connecting link across the state from Kissimmee finish and secure the larger price ; but with the settlement traveled some, and watched for reasons why a town unable to get even an estimated cost could be thousands go into the business ,I '1 to Melbourne on the East Coast. A good passable of the country and the breaking up of the prospers. He says this about the town newspaper, of this brick but if they can meet O of "beef and pork" more or less ( ''t county road is now being built by the county convict vast ranges the lime approaches when the salvationof which we reprint for the benefit of our readers: prices of crcosoted wood blocks the extensively. As it is the grower is .. , ;' gang from St. Cloud to the Brevard county line. the cattle industry will lie in the growing of better "Stand by your town newspaper. If there is permanent quality of cypress as com- often handicapped by lack of a ready f there to join the road being built by that county.At cattle and getting the "velvet which is in the anything in your town worth talking about ten pared with pine would indicate thatin market--and fears to invest largelyin a meeting of prominent citizens this week it finish. chances to one your little. town paper had a handin this material we have a coVnpetitor the business lest he fall far and t was decided to begin a campaign for a bond issue Drovers who come from a distance to purchase putting it there and if there exists any unsightlyor for creosoted wood blocks, as the ef- flat. I of between $200.000 and $250.000 to build brick Florida live stock are unable to understand why theresidents unsavory nuisance, twenty chances to one it will fect upon the force proves to be very Jacksonville should by all means . roads from Kissimmee to the Polk county line and of this state should overlook so good abet stay there until your town editor sees it or smells itand similar, and the brick seems to stand have such an establi.hment-with a ; from Kissimmee to St. Cloud. The proposition has t as that presented in the twenty to one shot whichis wipes his pen on the town board's breeches. If the traffic splendidly.A company back of the proposition possessing :. ' been put before a large number of citizens since comprehended in handling range cattle two anybody beyond the walls of your little burg ever short stretch of marl from Kis- sufficient capital to do business t I' 6 that meeting and has met with almost universal ap months in order to get an even break with the learns that there is such a place as Peaceville. it will simmee north to the county line of right. Naturally the undertak- ',. proval. It is said that the St. Cloud people are enthusiastically grower who handles the animals three years. be through the town oracle. Orange county brought us to the new- ing need not be great at first but it in favor of voting bonds for the building It is not surprising that the buyers should be "Every village gels its money' worth in the ly finished brick road through Orange should have ample facilities for caring u.\' . ) of roads and a meeting is to be called there to surprised. Really can any one at. home offer a village newspaper. It's the wagon that carries all county to Orlando, with the ex- for all that came to it. It is a mon- I'f consider the proposition. < reasonable explanation of the situation? your good things to market. It ought' .t. be kept in pt-lon of about five miles, which is ey-losing proposition for the growersof #i These two roads make a total of between 20 and The Tampa Times commenting upon this. editorial good repair. In many cases it would pay to grease now under constructionbetweeh Pine 'Florida to ship their stock to the ! 23 miles of roadway. Under an act of the last legislature said: it. paint it.; keep its running gear -in shape and shelter Castle and the city limits. middle west" merely for the sake of 1'> The Associated Press dispatch published in The at the public --+- having it slaughtered and shipped S the county commissioners are allowed to assess expense. The commissioners of Osceola coun- r Times Wednesday, announced that the "Stand by local It's the guardian back to this state-when it would be r seven mills annually for hard-surfaced roads. on scarcity your newspaper. ty have subscribed for six hundred 'f! It is by this assessment that the funds will be secured and high price of beef cattle in South America has and defender of every interest, the forerunnerand three month subscriptions: to the two possible to produce, within a few ; to pay f.r the paving of the Orlando road. resulted in Argentine removing the interdict upon pioneer of every advance movement and the papers the Kissimmee Valley Gazette years, all the meats necessary to sup- i the importation of American cattle into that country, sturdy advocate of law and order. Take it away, and St. Cloud Tribune. They have port this entire population! It'( providing as a result of which the largest ranchers of the country and it would not be six monhts before the town found this the most effective adver- Growers of hogs in Florida are of- v 4 three or four miles of roadway could be built an- are now in America buying fine bulls and other would look as if it had been doped. Business would tising for the least expense and results ten discouraged because of the difficulty I ,-1: ; Dually. Building by this method the county would blooded cattle. On the same day the Bradentown drag, society would yawn and grass grow. betweenthe are so good that they have madeit of selling the swine. There are- : ,A r Journal published editorial in which Texas cobbles." small butchers to be sure, woo will 1 N 2 require some seven or eight years to build the roads an a annual.-Sarasota Times. 1 named. In the meantime OsceoFa county would suffer -I cattleman, engaged in buying cattle in south Florida -+- purchase pigs of small size; but the i ;: by comparison with the other counties and lose I laughs at the people of our section for not taking There has been a good deal of unfriendly generality of butchers inthe vicinity f t. her place among the foremost progressive section. advantage of their opportunities to breed fatten HERE'S A GOOD CODE. OF BUSINESS if not hostile legislation to of Jacksonville refuse, or did refuse &: ;of fhe'sUn; I and market the finest breeds of beef cattle, and who -. the newspapers in these latter years but a few years aback, to purchase "' $ : both at the national and hogs weighing above one hundred capital at and asked "What's the matter with folks ? ', | If [a bond issue of $250.000, is voted the mill-I you anyway One of our re.denbusinell man-hands us some of the state capitals.But fifty pounds "because they c\ The Times has been asking the foryears were so tat would need be increased The same question not to same'evenemiiin the following which he clipped from some magazineand hard t to handle and " ; we are glad that this hostilityis dispose of. And and the rapid increase of interest in tsock- ( assessment, whiCh would be providing that it is good code for business suggests a pretty not universaLFor the profit to the grower of hogs under the named three four miles of breeding, together with the demand for the establishment It comeswhen , ( plan only or to adopt in their everyday doings. ' of stockyards and houses in Tampa men instance, the county commissioners the 300-, 350-, or 400-pound ' packing 1 road a would the interest on the bonds reads . year pay : of Osceola county some mark is reached.. . T and provide a sinking fund which would retire the>> i indicates that the question will be answered ina I believe in the stuff I am handing out in the years The attempt to induce ago as an experiment subscribed for a the Installation ,i.lea' . most emphatic manner during the next few . ""r whole issue within ten or twelve And in the years. work I doing and in ability to results.I . years. South Floridians are indeed overlooking magnificent am my get Valley Gazette to be sent to intending' of a large packing-house( Jacksonville ,",I .. meantime Osceola county would have the roads immediately a I believe that honest stuff can be passed out to immigrants and the scheme worked Should result in such a 1 Ii\. opportunity for profit-making, and it is high propo. . and would the benefits therefrom dur- j methods.I . get honest by honest sition. men satisfactorily-It Not only will It so be time that they realized the fact and ceased to sleep. was productive of good fosj \. ; ing all ot that time. . I believe in working not weeping; in boosting such good results-that this year that Jacksonville but it Will be a boon for i That good roads bring benefits in increased not knocking; and in the pleasure of my job. body has put itself on record as hav- the entire slate. The movement should J '. travel, greater convenience to farmers increased EVERYBODY CAN HELP IN CITRUS FIGHT I believe that a man gets what he goes after and ing subscribed for six hundred copiesof be forwarded by every method possible $ " land values, etc., it is not necessary to explain. It ;- that one good deed done today is worth two deeds the Kissimmee Valley Gazette and -and its achievement, properly J ".;. is difficult nowadays to find a man who has not Everybody can held in stamping out the citrus tomorrow and that no man is down and out until six hundred copies of the St Cloud' heralded, would mean an incentive for become converted to the good roads idea and to canker that is threatening this state. he has lost faith in himself. Tribune.It hundreds of men to enter extensively r admit that one does not believe they are beneficialis Everybody MUST HELP if the industry is to be I believe in today and the work I am doing in is regarded as the best publicity into the stock industry.-Palm Beach y to place one in an embarrasing position among tomorrow and the work I hope to do. and l in .the sure investment that the county has ever Post. 5'w ones fellows. saved.There is not a reader of this paper but has a reward which the future holds. made. ,,rnrrrw.r..l_ '\. Good roads we must have, if we are to rank friend, or several of them in the North, and these I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, So far as we can remember Ocalaor ing which should place the county in ". among. the progressive counties of the state. We friends in the North would of course help their in good cheer, in friendship and honest competition. the county of Marion in all the pub- the front ranks of those counties in can not be classed as the one county in all central friend in the South, if advised how to do so. I believe there is something doing somewhere licity schemes that have been invested the state whcih believe in properly advertising - Florida which will not provide her share of the There is only one way anyone can help and thatis for every man ready to do it. I believe I am ready in-which include any number of their resources and opportunities " highway from Jacksonville to Tampa or her shareof by assisting in the campaign for Federal aid right now. outside publications-have never re- and progress to the people of the Western branch of the Dixie Highway together Let everyone, therefore, write to his friends in garded the home newspaper svs factors the world. As has been their custom with the connecting link to St. Cloud. Besides the North. Tell them plainly that the citrus fruit GAZETTE -a. in the up-building of the city or for several years, the commissioners this we need the hard-surfaced highway to St. industry of the South will disappear under the rav- PRAISES VALLEY the county and when the average business subscribed for COO copies each of the .r": j l " Cloud and to the Polk county line as a means of ages of this plague more contagious than smallpox, man has five dollars worth of Kissimmee Valley Gazette and the St i ii ' travel for our own people. more infectious than typhoid and to the citrus tree That even in other states the work that is being commercial printing or even less he Cloud Tribune to be sent to people in i Since we do need these roads, why wait for lets it out to competitive bidding.We other sections more deadly than tuberculosis I is to man unless done in a constructive way for the development of of the country who are ?I eight or ten years to get them when the same mill- Federal aid is obtained. Kissimmee and Osceola through the columnsof want to toss a bouquet of all interested in Flordia. These subscrip ; age will care for the bond issue to build them now Request the friend in the North to write a per- the Valley Gazette is county appreciated can be readily sorts of beautiful flowers at the feet tions ,are for a period of three months. as would provide them by the slower ? of the board of county commissioners The board also process sonal letter to his congressman. Just a brief request from the following letter: voted to advertise for M, Bonding is the modern method of securing im- that when the bill providing for Federal aid for seen Columbus Ga., Oct. 20 1915. of Osceola county. bids for printing 10,000 copies of a provements. In the more or less slangy phrase of Then again we notice that county booklet eradicating the citrus canker is presented in Congress The Gazette Kissimmee. Fla. nearly and subscribed for the : "Everybody's doing it." Surely all of Valley every town in Florida outside of in the , song i the member> will vote in favor of it. Dear Sirs Permit to our e.rnealappreci.tion space Tampa Tribune Year; s, us : express the counties of Florida whidl;. have bonded can not It will be your contribution to the great cause of kindly reference to Southeast Ocala has its ordinances printed in Book. This will undoubtedly give Oa- + be wrong. Osceola county As no bonded indebtedness that is pending, and a valuable one. Live Stock in your issue of last week. the local newspapers. They actually ceola county a great deal of very ef ; at present and if other countties which are all your look upon their home papers as fac- festive { California zeal to support Florida in its pleato The reads issue of with advertising, moaning mane i writer every your paper ready heavily bonded"can vote millions for road, Congress for Federal aid in the eradication of much interest. You certainly are doing a magnificent tors in promoting the growth of their new residents and buyers in thatf" j" ? we ought to be able to bond for $250.000 or less citrus canker is shown in the following extract froma work and unasual amount of it, for the de- respective communities. county.-Palatka Times-Herald. r r if it i is (found that a smaller amount will build the letter to D. C. Gillett from F. O. Wallschlager. velopment, of an city and section. The value of Ocala has two of the most enter- -p- i roads named your prising dailies, of any city of its size of the Citrus Protective of California secretary League The Gulfport this work hardly be estimated.If touring party found can to be found tit anywhere but ?, By all means let's have the roads and since they receive the9foot : at any time you would care to use any of but grass-shouldered road between bonding is the best way to get them let's bond. "The industry in California is deeply interestedin scant help where most other local Orlando . the cuts published in Southeast Lave Stock we receive and Kissimmee the. 1 . the fight that i is being waged in Florida to eradicate would be glad to send them to you. newspapers their most best of them all. There is not a duhti: t WHY NOT FATTEN OUR OWN CATTLE? the canker. We appreciate the seriousness of With best regards and best wishes we are, generous Ocala's support.ordinances about, the 9-foot brick road properly ' Xfa' are posted ; " the danger that threatens and I am sure our people SOUTHEAST LIVE STOCK. on built being all right. A 16-foot road'ra; . i ; telegraph but t During the present; :season thousands of cattle stand ready to be of such aid as they can in the By Walter J. Woodall. the local poles, rarely if ever in is nicer, and a 24 nicer yet; but the/1>-:jay M have been from Florida Texas. control of the disease." press. shipped to The board of cost in proportion; and the 9-foot road, - '. ,. Sounds like shipping coal to Newcastle" doesnJt: The people of this state and this community are the city council county comrryssionerg, is all right. Any man may see ,for:' . " it) appreciative. They do not forget their friends. Does advertising pay? Listen to this: The Curtis have nor the board of trade himself if he will take the trouble'.t,,' 'tae ; But according to recent figures there were: morecattle They remember tomorrow the favors( they receive Publishing Company announces new advertisingrates never hundred subscribed for a thousandor look over the state-and if he wM not; + even upon the ranges of Florida than upon those for the Ladies' Home Journ.I--$8.00; a line. a copies of the local take the trouble he should not intti today.All to be sent \i'y'; of any.other state Texas not excepted :This being. of which is suggested by the fact that the For a full inside page in the Ladies' Home Journal papers work of inducing abroad in the good mate that those who have done BO ; : :. '4k fact.'why, should they be shipped to Texas? people of the citrus belt in particular and the state they only ask 6000. for a second or third cover in lot with /settlers! to cast their are either liars or fools.-St., Petersburg '.!' . :,-. iti Jh*' reason is simple The Texas cattlemen asa, whole are 'asking their public officer and es- two colon only $1,000, for' the' third cover in threeor But. us.live in Times. ,I , . }save discovered that they ian buy Florida cattle peciary their Congressmen and Senators to help more colors $8,000 and for the fourth cover in merits we of hopes that some day -+-- '; ,} r: \ 'aDd ship them to Texas, .,where by two month feed- them to obtain Federal aid in stamping out the four colors 10000. For the Saturday Evening Vie will be more fully our local newspaper It does not matter In''? }:'"i.Jeatt. .. ,'. i \ ling they exactly double the value of the cattle. In citrus canker j Post a rate of $8.00 a line is announced or $5,000for appredated.ocalaBanner. whether you spell his 'name Nawgel I zN .. Other word I i'' they get: for'two:, ; month' LandJiD as If'this '''aid is obtained-.nd (it can be obtainedif a full page $6,000 for a second or third cover Nagle or "Naugle," he eertalnlTy.beata", , }knuch"iltM Florida cattlemen;get forthree, years;; the fkmftVl. !U !made! tulficietry: strong-th. peopleof in colors $7,500 for the fourth corer in colors $10- The board of county commissioners the Dutch in putting .the'dope: , 4) -S; i 'With, the .teee.tldAblopmeatof! ; forag:. 'crop ,Uu>,districrwill U.duly appreciative. .at th..PlOp' : for:/the 'center double page in black and $12,000) of Oseeola county last week arranged the Kissimmee Valley/np: Gasettav.:Orlando oa,. ,I',1.'. 0 tz* ;uuJemea'.LouJd.: M.tbVJight of day. tK IDOmeat.'f:'" .>: .. , : '. for. .the .center double page in two. colon. for three separate Item of adYert1at' Citicen. 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