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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
2
A northwest faction of the Democratic Party met at a St Paul banquet last week to discuss strategy. The session highlighted internal tensions as critics warned the party faces pressure from Wall Street and need for reform.
At a De Funiak Springs meeting the county commissioners of Jackson Washington Holmes Walton Santa Rosa and Escambia endorsed locating the Moultrie Pensacola highway as scouted by the committee. They pledge to start work soon and replace ferries with bridges on the route, with signatories from each county including Jesse Durden and J D Russ among others.
The section outlines acts on free school books for the poor, a uniform set of texts, a state laboratory, ballot marking rules, county commissioner compensation, juror meals, rape reporting privacy, attorney conduct in criminal cases, liquor sale advertising bans, county convict credits, extended municipal court jurisdiction, higher pay for circuit and county court workers, deputy sheriff case registration, formation of road districts with bonds, auto hire license taxes, hotel and lodging screening to prevent pests, and Governor Gilchrist’s veto of aopen saloon screen requirement.
Mrs. E. H. Harriman plans a university in memory of her late husband, noted railroad magnate. The institution, to be built at an unspecified site, aims to become a premier center for education and research.
In a country church a long meeting prompted a song and prayer time. One elderly man stood in the gallery corner and stated he was not ashamed to own Christ, loved Him above all, and would go to heaven if he lived, declaring his faith before the congregation.
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