The DeFuniak Herald – February 19, 1914 – Article excerpts

Contributed by Emily Petroskey

 

Article Excerpts

  • All-The Year Schools (1)
    • Philander P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, believes closing the schools during the summer is a waste of billions of dollars and is a primitive and outdated practice kept alive by tradition
    • He believes that a true “continuance school” will be more of “a direct play time, with vocational culture, physical training, school gardens, directed reading, singing, folk dancing, …(illegible)… lively drills in spelling and mental arithmetic.  Courses of brief lectures on hygiene, civil government, current events and in many schools moving pictures will be used.”
    • Miami Metropolis Article
  • For Handicapped Women (1)
    • Great strides have been made in caring for people with physical handicaps, but attention needs to now be given to women who are handicapped by circumstance rather than physical disability.
    • Women who must support themselves due to extenuating circumstances struggle to find work, often because of age and lack of skill.
    • The Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston is an organization working to help women who have skills apply them to various jobs so they can make an independent living.
    • Youth’s Companion Article
  • Local Blurbs (2)
    • Hon. Bill Mapoles was in the Southeastern portion of the county the first of the week, Messrs. James A. McLean and P.A. Gillis in the northwest and James A. Clary in DeFuniak
    • Mr. & Mrs. Henry Henderson from the northern end of the county visited DeFuniak Monday and stopped by the Herald.  Henry changed the subject when asked about any political participation this year.
    • Mr. P.A. Gillis will be running for re-election as Tax Assessor, and has made a competent official and promises his best service
    • Mr. James A McLean will be running for Tax Collector, and has a record to recommend him.
    • Judge Porter of Grand Ridge was here Tuesday to attend the trustee’s meeting of Palmer College
    • A cement gutter is being built along the north side of Baldwin Avenue.  This is one of the many changes to DeFuniak’s streets in the past five years, and it is difficult for some to understand how people ever made it through the sand.
    • A band of wandering musicians playing an accordion, a bass guitar and an instrument similar to a fife passed through the first of the week.
    • The socialists of Walton county began campaigning in Laurel Hill last night.  State Organizer John A. Curry spoke, and will be in DeFuniak Monday night.  The Herald speculates their campaign will be aided by fake democrats who have been secretly sabotaging the Democratic party for years.  The Herald urges Democrats to register now.
    • Editor Mapoles of the Laurel Hill News and Editor Storrs of the DeFuniak Breeze are accusing each other of being the biggest liar.  The Herald editor shames them for their bickering and suggests they put it to a vote.
    • Chatauqua begins next Wednesday and everyone should attend to show their support for an institution that has greatly benefitted DeFuniak and West Florida.
  • Post Office Buildings (2)
    • Reprint of an editorial by George Fitch in the New Orleans Daily States, of interest to DeFuniak because a new post office is expected to be built soon.
    • Fitch believes the United States Government spends extravagant sums of money to build post offices around the country, and the finished building is never near as grand or practical as the apportionment sums would indicate.  The same amount spent on a private building would be a grand structure, but when spent building a post office often results in a “modest coop.”
    • The buildings come in different and often displeasing designs, but the one detail they have in common is their location in remote areas away from the business district.
  • Tax Deeds May Be Void (2)
    • A court case in the Supreme Court of Florida will decide whether or not tax deeds issued since 1907 are void because of technicalities.  The case specifically applies to Duval County, but the same errors have most likely been made in every county.
    • The court case in Duval declared that the tax sale was not properly advertised; County commissioners didn’t decide on a newspaper to print the tax list at the beginning of the year.  Also the court “held that five consecutive weeks meant not only a publication of five weeks but that there must intervene between the first date of publication and the day on which the lands are sold 35 days.
    • In this case the list was published 5 times but there were not 35 days intervening so the tax deed issued was void.
    • Miami Metropolis Article
  • Apportionment of Funds (3)
    • Made under Section 24, Chapter 4322 Laws of Florida 1895 shoing the amount of taxes charged to the Tax Collector of Walton County, Florida to be collected for the years of 1911, 1912, and 1913
  • Statement (3)
    • Statement of the condition of the Cawthon State Bank of DeFuniak Springs, FL at the close of business February 11th, 1914, as condensed from the Bank Examiner’s report
  • Church Directory (4)
    • Lists events and times for the Methodist Church, Baptist Church, Presbyterian Church, Universalist Church, and Episcopal Church
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