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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

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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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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-

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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

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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-

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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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The Florida SiateCoHejje

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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tlon of a scholar and excellent

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

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