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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1910
Page
4
A local saying notes that when a man leaves Washington county for a better place to live he is either woefully ignorant or too lazy to work. The remark reflects attitudes toward migration and self sufficiency.
A brief reflection on making small, consistent actions to improve world conditions. It emphasizes that progress is limited but still crucial and encourages steady small deeds.
Strong leadership in cities and towns aligns business interests with public welfare. When officials and residents unite for local economic health, every resident shares in the gains from improved commerce, jobs, and services.
Editorial urges citizens to prove patriotism through community service and civic duty. It emphasizes supporting town improvement and helping neighbors as a substitute for wartime sacrifice, praising everyday acts of loyalty.
A commentator argues that high prices stem from increased consumer demand beyond production. The note implies prices will adjust as supply and demand balance, using the simple image of a stone tossed upward that will fall unless it lodges in a tree.
The St Anrens Buoy editor Wm A Emmons turns 78 with nearly four score years and remains active, bustling to publish the weekly edition.
Interest in the Fair grows daily as exhibitors prepare to bring many items in. The county is noted for producing the best of everything grown in the state, except tropical fruits, promising a wide array of displays.
Early Florida prospectus proclaims Washington county will attract colonies build railways construct roads and dredge St Andrews Bay to allow world ships cargo access. It also envisions a canal from East Bay head to the Apalachicola river and an outlet to the sea for Chattahoochee valley residents, aiming for county leadership and new homes.
The excerpt argues work is a moral and economic value. Idleness harms character and distorts vision. Carl Hilty claims happiness comes from regular work that occupies mind and conscience, and that God did not intend man to be a drone or rely on others.
Column questions why liquor interests back local option. It argues democracy means broad state control and that local option lets license expand liberty for liquor sellers, not public freedom. References Palatka News and states like New York, Alabama, Illinois in the argument.
Cardinal Gibbons discusses temperance noting intemperance is the great curse of the laboring man. He says it has caused hunger and cold for children, led to evil associations, and ruined homes and lives more than strikes, wars, sickness, or death.
Wausau residents report visits from J J Barrow Sexton W L Tiller Vernon C A Grubbs Graceville and Dan Camp Chipley. Dr W E Coleman Vernon and Commissioner J T Hightower Vernon were in town for business. Z M Jones welcomed a new son while Rev W D Owens attended a funeral in Kingsville. Protracted meeting at Sodoms attended by Revs Grant Owen and McKeither yielded eleven church additions. Local merchants anticipate timber milling expansion by Alford Bros Co.
The Secretary of State gives notice that a general election will be held in Washington County on the eighth day of November 1910. Voters will elect representatives to the Supreme Court and House of Representatives, a tax collector, county treasurer, county assessor of taxes, and five county commissioners. Also to be chosen are three members of the county for some office.
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