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VOL XXVI NO 166 GAINESVILLE FLORIDA THRR8MY AUGUST 1 1909 TEN CENTS A WEEK
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GREAT COOPERATIVE
CONTEST IS CLOSED
Misses Goode Bryant and English Win On Face of
ReturnsContests Fled in Two Districts
Miss Addle Goode wins the diamond
ringMissHattie English wins the piano
In the Eastern and Southern SectionMiss Lucinda Bryant wins the pi-
ano in the Western and Northern Sec-
tionFollowingnext In order will be the
candidates In each section who will
receive a certificate for 100
from A H Harper Company ofwhile each and every candi-
date In the contest will receive a cer-
tificate for 25
Two contests were flied against thecount last night one by Miss EllaJolly on account of certain votes givenby the Eddlns Manufacturing Com-
pany and one by Miss Estelle Dealon account of certain votes Issued byCrawford Davis but while thesevotes are held up It does not effectthe result for Miss Goode has sum
dent number besides this to come outvictorious-
By far the most exciting contestthat was ever pulled off In Florida outside of Jacksonville Is the CoOper-
ative Contest whlcn came to a closein this city last night
For the past week the leaders havebeen exerting their every energy toprocure votes and the count last nightwas far beyond the expectations ofthe successful contestants for earlyin the day they were nil amassinglarge numbers to their already largestacks that were being held in re-
serve for the final countDuring late In the afternoon some
of the contestants practically gave uprace and pooled with other randl
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Most Intense Heat Prevails-
All Over South and WestMEMPHIS Aug IS The heat
wave which swept the country fromcoast to coast Monday is still rampantstud yesterday new records were
From all over the South andSouthwest conies reports of Intenseheat The cotton growers are rejoic-ing over the heat wave as they claim-
i Is rapidly destroying the bollweevil
From reports which reached herelast night Fort Worth Texas vnthe hottest city In the South andSouthwest The Government ther-mometer seat a nigh as 111while Instruments in the buslmw dis-trict us high n 12 ilw-
srt e Th mercury climbed ns lilplia lit dtRrtfos in many other Texasfltlf and at Dnnnlson It reached loii-
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To Feed His Dying Wife
New York Man Turns ThiefNKV YORK AUK lb William I
Ui cUt r ti man of 45 whoi l nfvB Uttr da i and had b en-
IrtvwH to ltpfirntlon by the need ofKU iyHB wife fr nourishing food
hi had been unablto to provldher was arrested charged with
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dates to win the coveted capitalprizes and had not this been thecase the result would have doubtlessbeen a different story for this morn
ingThemerchants as well as The Sun
came In for their share of the veryliberal business that was being givenout by the candidates yesterday andIt Is safe to state that In many In-
stances supplies have been purchasedfor the next year while a numbertook advantage of the contest for themeans of getting bills paid up someof them being In advance
The total vote cast yesterdaywon In the neighborhood of 40000000divided as follows City 11213780Southern and Eastern Section 12153240 while the Western and Northerncast a vote of 16165055
Following Is the result of tbe votespolled and counted by the committeelast night
Gainesville Central Section
Miss Addle Goode 13176955
Miss Estelle Beal 8140995Miss Margaret Ledbetter 1429890Miss Gertrude Harrod 219100Miss Nora Stalls 198985Miss Bessie Carver 107950Miss Mary Fernandez 72745
Miss Myra Swearingen 49445Miss Blanch Thompson 43965Miss Alice Schafer 33380Miss Aura M Lewis 34635Miss Mabel Williams 14545Sirs N W Taylor 13325Miss Eva Bauknight 11210Miss Annie Dell Taylor 8065Mss Grace Bullanl 6176
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of 105 was recorded and two prostra-tions were
Vegetation throughout the Shreve-port territory of Louisiana wilted
the scorching heat yesterday themaximum of 104 degrees being report-ed nt I oclock yesterday afternoon-All Tennessee Is in the irasp of thehot wave mind the weather bureauthermometer here yesterday recorded-a maximum temperature of W degreesat oclock A cooling breeze
late In the Rave promise ofrelief before morning
111 at Fort WorthFORT WORTH Tox Aug 18
With the weather liiirwnu thermome-ter roRlstorlnR in degrees from 21to yesterday afternoon null streetthermometers in tilt buxlnwwj districtrecording 120 degrees yesterday was
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ORLANDO
OAK HALES TODAYG-
AME WILL CALLED PROMPT-
LY AT 330 THIS AFTERNOON
Both Turns Are In Fine Shape and
the Finest Games of theSeason Premised
The Orlando baseball team will arrive In the city this morning at 745from Ocala where they have justfinished a series of three games
This strong combination of playerswill go up against Manager Davisboys at the ball park this afternoonand the very best exhibition of ballplaying that the Gainesville publichave seen this year wll bo shown todayThe
Oak Halls are all in line shapethey have worked Just enough to bein practice and what theywant to do and say they will do tothe fast lineup from South Floridawill be a plenty
Orlando has not only defeated Ocalabut also the swift Cejery City ladsand our people can rest assured thatone of the very best ball teams thatcan be found In the will playus In the three games
Talk the game tell your friendsabout it and see that they all go outand root for the home boys
The game will be called promptly-at 330 this afternoon so dont stayaway just because the weather
a little threatening for Manager Davis says they will surely play
Miss Ella Bailey G555Miss Curtis Pitts 3425Kiss Fannie Whiting 1411
Eastern and Southern DistrictMiss Hattie English Tacoma 881223Miss Ella Jolly Orange Ht877725rMitts Mabel McCredle Mcpy 1273100Miss Lorna McCredle Mcnopy l y8l5Miss Martle Cbamberllu Mica
nopy 0074Miss Wilma Maines Mnteocha 23S91SMiss Hostile Walts Hawthorn 232430
Miss Myrtle Hammond Haw-
thorn syriMiss Annie Lewis Hawthorn 7SCOC
Miss Cordelia Crown RockyPoint 72775
Miss Paul Zetrouer Rochelle S4s 3
Miss Vntidalla Staf Walilo 4r iS
Miss Iula Perry Rochelle 38210Miss AVerne Bobbin M cnopy 3255Miss Effle Tlson Enrlcton 293SMiss Jewel Godwin Hawthorn 240Miss Gertrude Smith Fair-
banks 15970Miss Mary Hall Orange Hts i8srMiss Georgia Snowden Hatchet
Creek 124Miss Mary lionise Atwaer
Waldo 723Miss Nellie Reeves Mlcanopy 4800Miss Emma Eutcnza Waldo 3340Miss Mamie Halley Waldo 20r
Western and Northern SectionMl Litrlnda Hryanl Bell i r-
MlHH liuttlc Tlogn C 5 2r si
Mini Gertrude Jutnii Hague 11 ItJliMiss VhlH Itarron UH1 l2MU
Annie KirklAnd Akchtm 7W33HC
Eva Powell Akichiia V UEllen Bevllle Arrodonilo 203410
MIa Rosa Lee Hives thighSprliiR 24S 2
Mr I Warn Hsu S rtiK 10SRS-
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Ml AKIIH Arnilondo fo7siMiss Kmnm William Trenton M77-Ml Katie Akin Arrwlowlo sSMfl
Mrs II II linker Hawthorn 13400J E Parker LaCnwaw ll21t
Miss Ada Pearce Newberry 70Miss Pearl MrUod Alacbua 3115Miss Lula Gay hull lflUMss Lliilo Smith Newberry 8
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VICTORY FOR PROHIS
IN SOUTH CAROLINAF-
ifteen Out of TwentyOne Counties Went Dry iiThree Are in DoubtTuesdays
CHARLESTON S C Aug 18 Theunofficial returns from the electionsheld In twentyone of thewet counties of South Carolina yes-
terday fur the purpose of allowing thevoters of each county to choose be-
ween prohibition and the county dlsitoUcury system indicate that the proatbitlonlst have won victories in fiteen of these Complete reurns from some precincts not report-d last night may change the result i
In two or three counties but theprobabilities are that prohibition hascarried In Abbeville Bamberg Harawell Berkeley Calhoun CelletonDorchester Fairfield Hampton Kershaw Lee Lexington OrangeburgSumter and Williamsburg countiesThe dispensary has won In AlkenCharleston and Richmond countiescud Is leading In Georgetown andHeaufort In Florence the vote istied but is claimed by prohi-
bitionists The election was withoutexcitement or special Incident In any
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county and a small vote was polledThe majorities for prohibition accord-Ing to the present returns which areIn most cases practically completerange from II IB Calhoun county to982 In Orangeburg county The larg-est jBwJorlty for the dispensaryIB Charleston county where It received 1525 votes against 305 for prohi-bition Onehalf of the State was al-
ready dry and the act under whichyesterdays election was held was acompromise measure adopted at thelast session of the Legislature to defeat a Mil providing for Statewideprohlbltloa The general belief Isthat tbe prohibitionists will againmove the passage of suck a law atthe next Legislature next JanuaryThe eJection yesterday was ea thequestion of voting In the dispensaryprohibition having beeR decreedsince VigaH last under the hill
for the election which permitted the conatlei then wet to voteback the dispensaries If they so de-sired ftaUAa
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Will Have Good OpeningTALLAHASSEE Fla Aug 18
The Florida State College for Wo-men In Its School of Liberal Artshas made some valuable additions toiu faculty This body alreadystrong In nn able corps of instructors
secured the services of Dr C EBody of South Carolina to fill thochair of Greek and Latin Dr B C
Boudurant the former professor Inthis department a gentleman so high-
ly esteemed for his scholarly attain-ments and Christian manhood Is Inill health nand cannot continue hiswork But the College Is exceedinglyfortunate in securing n gentleman ofsuch fine ability as Dr Boyd He isa graduate of Woofford College andafterward did graduate work at Vatsderbllt and at the University of Misourl and this year received the doc-
tors degree at the Inlvernlty of WItonsln after n years residence there-
In each of these noted universities hewon distinction in his research workDr lloyd tins also had a wide and suer ctisful experience ns a teacher ofClassics and comes with the reputa
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Prof A E ChrteUp new of NewYork but whose home Is In West Vir-ginia has been appointed to tho
of the Normal School and ProfcsKor of Education la the College ofLiberal Arts Dr Chrtfllp graduatedin the Pcabody Neraal CIn the readier Now YorkHe has studied in the University ofChicago and Is now completing thework of PhD degree In Columbra University H had a wideexperience and auttkcil success inteaching and In euperlntendingschools In MIxslsHlppl West Virginiaand Tennessee and the NormalSchool of Florida IB fortunate to se-
cure such nn excellent director-To the people of the State Dr
Conrail IB no stranger The history-of the changes of Dr Murphree to theState UnlverHlty and Dr Conrad tothe Florida State College for WomenIs now well known to the people of
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lent will bo entertained at lunch aftor which he will witness n barbecueMI the girls industrial school
At Charleston 8 C on NaremheYK-HIM President arriving at 515 p itt
hold a public reception at thecity hull and bo entertained at a
At lloiuton Ootolwr J3 thearriving at 7 10 HI anduntil 1030 a nu will make
a M eoh trait the balcony of nielintel and will b given a rldothrough the city and will reviewpro MM lon of aoliool ohlWfflo
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