VOLUME 52, NUMBER 1

GERMANY’S PEACE TOMS TOGERMANY A DISMAL FAILURE

Allies are Determined That Any Propo-sition to be Considered Shall be Made

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•tLLOWANGES FOR fILLOCGURREKGES IH PETROGRADixmdon, Jan. 2.—lf Germany plan Americans is well known, and he is

[jfled a coup d’etat in offering her peace not deceiving anyone, despite his de-jjjferT$s to Germany, she failed dismal-!nials that he is influenced strongly

because the allies have determin-: by Germans. A£ a matter of fact. Le-

'■Jjll* that, if a peace offer is tendered, it * tiine, leader of the Bolshe.iki rule, isIpihall not be through Russia, but to the constantul guarded by two men who'

direct through a neutral govern-; speak German only.meat. And, alhough no one knows? The Russian Christmas, which iswhen peace will come, it Is certain; two weeks later than the yuletide of

5 that the German people are longing jth§ outside world, brings no peace tofor it more and more. The food ques-jthe people. Thep are hoping for it,

lotion is said to be helping to bring; although they are becoming less{?- things to a crisis in Berlin. The dif-j hopeful as their suspicions of the Ger-r ferences are so grave between the va- jmans grow. Russia is hungry and she

rious political parties that it is almost needs to have a free hand to eulti-impossible to reconcile them, andjvate her crops. There is no countrywhen parties squabble the people get . with more wealth of natural resouro-a chance to know what is going on ! es, "and none so handicapped in the

land improve of assert-; use of them.

the popular will. The embarrass !Bment of the Berlin government is NEW YEAR ON THE CAMBRAI■manifest and the position of von Wal-I FRONT RECORDS VICTORYBdow is precarious. FOR DETERMINED ALLIES■ In contradistinction to the German*Wattitude, the French people havej British troops on the Cambrai frontpshown a newr spiri of heroism. in-! passed the last day of the old year inI stead of having bread cards iutroduc-|a desperate and successful fight to(fed this week as planned, the people!break kdown German attacks. Pre-|of France have begun voluntary con-1 ceded by liquid fire the enemy at-I servation. Appreciable results are al-j tempted to rush the British positions

ready in evidence, and if things con-; on a front of 1200 yards around thetinue as at present, the issuance of! Wel6r Ridge, a commanding position

bread cards will not be necessary, j south of Marcoing.

The economic advantage possessed' The first rush brought the Germansby the powers of the entente over! into trenches on the ridge, but thetheir enemiese is incalculable. Ger-i British in a brilliant counter attackmany’s policy of “peaceful penetra ; threw the enemy out and restored thetion" left her dependent on foreign! Position. On the center and northernsources for the main supply of indis-jends of the attacking line British arpensable raw materials. Germany! tillery and rifle fire repulsed the Ger-had established an almost complete* mans completely. Elsewhere on themonopoly over many important met-; western front there has been only ar-als produced by'the British empire, jtillery duels.More than half the German imports: French troops on the Italian north-of tungsten ores so indispensable in! era front scored a brilliant stroke in

,the manufacture of steel came from jthe capture of important positions inthe British empire. If American stood, the Monte Tomba sector between thewith the allies in an economic block-! Piave and he Brenta. Besides the po-ade of Germany after the war, in or-'sitions the Freocr took from the ene-der to secure the allied war aims, the mv 1400 prisoners, sixty,machine guns|entire cotton trade of Germany could I and seven large guns,be held up, a the alias control the en-, GefmaD airmen continue their rairstire output of cotton fiber. jon Padua. As in the two revious

The Russians are not helping their'raids, the third attack caused few eas-cause any by their attitude toward uaities, but the incendiary bombs didAmericans in Petrograd, but as the; much damage to costly and historicBolsheviki is said to be growing- buildings and art objects. The facadeweaker ai*d weaker, the United States, in the cathedral cf Padua was blownEngland understand, is making due al-j down. Pope Benedict has protested tolowances for present occurrences. As the central powers against the raidsa whole the Rusian people are looking, over Padua adn Trevizo and asks.thaton America as a jjreat help m their' they be abstained from it in the fu-struggle. They regard the Bolsheviki; ture.with growing 'difffavor and are only

ft waiting for the separate peace as an MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERSI occasion for repudiating the Trotzky-1 Lenine factions. Tyotzky’s dislike of The annual meeting of the MarionI —A-.—-- . 1 ——-.c l '■ 1 ; County Fair Association stockholders,| * *T •* constitution, wilt berv j ;held Wednesday, January 9th, 1918, at

/ three p. m., at the board of trade*

r(*'V •r r nT'inr nna hrooms, Ocala, Fla.

’ AUI f ’‘K Ilf The important Issue to come beforeXlL'AriLu an.ilv llv ril this meeting for discussion and action,

l will be the question as to whether the

Bifair wil continue in the future, or bediscontinued. Let every stockholder,every farmer and every business man,who has the good of Marion county atheart, be present.

Article 8 of the constitution reads:•"Representatives of a majority of thestock issued shall constitute a quo-rum.- ’ Stockholders may be represent-

W. D. CARN, President., ,

.A. TWEEDY, Secretary. M-3tdwlt

{ When used with soft water'* ,e,TUtifies the skill i Miss Jeannette Rankin, our sole con

\ | grosswoman, has her own ideas abou.j the manner in which newspaper*

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| should be conducted. She says that| e *ch community should have a newsi paper board similar to a school board;[ then every article should be written

/riTARFi some responsible parson well

liKh know.n in the community, and signed;

V A every article approved £y the newspa-v v per hoard and the #s papers should

M be distributed free.A 1

THE OCALA BA:■ 3

: ■r ; •, >1 * ■THE NEWSPAPER—'WHAT IS IT BUT A MAP OF BUSY LITE. ITS FLUCTUATIONS AND VAST CONCERNS.

OCALA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 191'

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lands south of the road. He was then* ■ *isf*9l I* 9 1 f" *■* "11 * A ’

taken to Silver Springs, where the 111 rifL UHI • L Mfl #Lll I" L Dcaptain viewed the beautiful scenery* II M■■ UH|l| HR I■■ 113 llf P*l|— PC athrough the glass-bottom boat; thence Hll I ■ I I■ lIH II ||| |§ iback to Ocala, where he inspected the 8881 " * 11 ,BI Bl*B *

—.. i~j mil unni 111fO DDDiIPUTvidual opinion of being delighted J 1111 11 IU II I fl fl I" lifflllll f Hi ft Iwith the peculiar fiitness of the |f|ft|l fl 11 11 I flllL.Li Igrounds inspected for a convalescent lllllli 11111 l LllllbU ylEyyyVll

by “'are' B and Bam- finiMM R¥ FPfiPH ONsThe committee impressed the cap- Li Li 11 fl LJ 1 lit IUIK IHHH

tain that Congressman Sears had f W B * "< ■! Jacksonville, the gateway to the state.' in his district, with the ship buidlingyards, and camp Johnson; also the Austro-German Troops are Driven From

! aviation school at Miami. That Con- Srgressman Drane had the two aivation 1 rj 1 -_l_ \kTcamps at Arcadia, and the ship build-i tile OTI tuC VV CS*

,mg yards at Tampa, with a hope that: _ .

/ i n* ■; Tampa would be made a naval base, tern Dank or the Tiave. while Consrressmitn Kehoe had the■ navy yard and aviation school at Pen-: '

l=S£r=“*lMS SCORE FIRST VICIORY OF NEK TEASnition from thp war department for _

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Ocala was justiy entitled to the con-j adds ’ are causmg the German military Paris, jan . 2.-Six German airplanes

I valescent hospital ! authorities much anxiety, not only be- W ere put out of action yesterday by| ! cause of the interference with the £jje prench, it is announced officially.

c ocriAi mfltinc n- rn mt i supply of munitions, but also because Artillery fighting continues at variousf'rotAiiccinw-oe iof unrest in the districts where the points on the front, but no large in-

iLUlVlmloolUNtno ! ,explosions occur. fantry actions are reported.

Ocala. Fla.< Dec. 27, 1917. |* '

The board ot county commissioners PASSENGER TRAINS MUST GIVE Lodon, Jan. 2. Italian ‘rfqvopiiave'met pursuant to the call of the chair-1 WAY TO FREIGHT MOVEMENT won the first thej man, with Commsisioners Oarn, Davis, new year. 1 line froui

I Port and l.uffman present. Washington, Jan. I.—Orders went j Lake Garda KQ the Adriatic has b. enAdvertisement was ordered made; to eastern railroads today from Direct- j strengthened by the Italian success

; for bids for clearing right of way and or General McAdoo to celar up freight |in driving I the Austro-Germans from! hard surfacing road from Lake conn- ; congestion regardless of previous gov- the Zenson [ bridgehead on the westernty Sine to gate of Geo. De Vanity bids ernment priority regulations, passen- bank of/the Piave, which they bad

ito be submitted at February meeting, er schedules and any hampered j held siu/e mid-November.1918. practices under the old copetitive sys-| Whjje holding strong positions in

The Ocala National Bank of Ocala tem * and to P a? ©special attention to the region from Asiagoi presented agreement, with securities; the movement of coal and food. fcpbss the Brenta to the Piave, the| for $15,000, which weri approved by Lines of the west and south flank along the Piave is now; the board. The board!also approved notified that soon they might bejrjfled intact. The enemy has replied only' surety bend of said |anlt, given in on to furnish other : w Rb artillery to the French strodej United States Fidelity Guaranty Cos., equipment to help lightem ihe traffic| which gained valuable positions in

of Baltimore, to the an.'uint of $13,000, burden in the east, and a/committee of i tHe Monte Tomba region,on telegram from surety company that government officials whs created toj The weather apparently also is com-uli bond had been mailed.

*Vcjtlb., out a plan for diverting export . ins to the °f the hard pressedW. D. CARN, Chairman, 'freight south of New York.l ltalian arm*v. which has had little r-st

P H. NUGENT, Clerk. | coal actually were since AustroCerman drive beganStarted moving to New England to re-| late in october - Hea'T snow is fall-

i FEWER LUXURIES AND MORE iioVe the serious shortage here and lng on the Swiss-Italian and Swiss-FEDERAL BONDS TO WIN OUT priority orders were suspended for Austrian frontiers. Troop and other

roads east of the Mississippi and traiDS are beia held in theWashington, Jan. 1.-A New Year s norlh of the ohio riyers tQ the extent the snow and the food supply of the

jplea for war time economy to assist ne,.essarv t 0 clear up conges tion. | enemy troops on the Italian northernthe l nited States in financing itself ; J front has been shut off tepmorarily.

‘and the allies was issued last night by: not EVEN CHILLY tr: FLORIDA I • * •

'the federal reserve beard in the form} AS COMPARED WITH ALASKA * Peace Negotiations Broken Offiof a suggestion to banks to promote! [ London, Jan. 2.--Peace negotiations(thrift campaigns in their eommuni-j Dawson. Yukon Territory, Jan. I.—/**' Vest Litovsk have been broken offGes - • Eightv-six below zero is the record for T 1 Bolsheviki government owing

'Let the public realize,” says the this season for the recent cold which German attitude in regard to| statement, ” that it is more respecta- began several weeks ago. This was Poland and Lithuania, and theble in such war times as confront us at the mouth of Pelly river, 150 miles I my’s proposal that garrison.% be re*to be seen in old clothes than in new Up the Yukon river from here. Ati 1^11641 at Gfl>a. Riga and elsewhere,ones.” The bank3 are urged to teach White Horse, 72 below has been regis-i according to a telegram from the Pe-

,in their districts the meaning and the tered. trograd correspondent of the Dailynecessity of saving and its relation to Thermometers in Dawson have reg- ’ News appearing in a late edition ofthe successful financing of the war— istered between fifty and sixty degrees' that n '

!to tell the city merchant and the below for a month. Hospitals are ! *

;Counnv storekeeper that this is not crowded with pneumonia cases and MEET Qp STOCKHOLDERSj the time to buy and stock up. espe- many deaths have occurred. No fu-! Theii* Meeting of the W'<•

jdally with luxuries. (nerals are possible until the ‘ \ AgriculturalV; moderates. f .

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| MAKE A GOOD SOLD/London, Jan. I.—Allied air raids'ever Germany are awakening the peo-l Pensacola, Fla., Jan. I.—Ur!

i pie to a recognition of their rulers’ Sam s fighting forces probably will(mistaken air ruthlessness, according one man stronger as the result t_

•to the Amsterdam correspondent of . fall near here yesterday by Will(the Times. There is great nefvonsness M-orrell. Morrell, who had beer '

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j throughout Germany, especially in the and dumb for fifteen years, w: .

| more exposed parts, he says, owing tol^i9 way to town to fill out a que \

; the reported intention of the Ameri- naire when he stumbled and fellT(cans to invade Germany by air. The. s ltoch of JMe fall restored both fa*| object is discussed universally dhough Ges. Morrell continued his joura

I 1efforts are made to calm aq<Ady by judge’s office, where he fill .

declarations about .*'■* Vbluff.” jout the papers, and refused to c?The frequenL in muni-’ military exemption, although *

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CANTONMENT HI GAMPJOHNSTON NEARING ]

COMPLETIONJacksonville. Jan. 2.—The A. Bent-

ley & Sons Cos., of Toledo, Ohio, whoare constructing the cantonment atCamp Joseph E. Johnston, near Jack-sonville, have about 95 per cent, fin-ished their work.

The large amount of work done, thematerials used, and the absence of la-bor trouble speak volumes for themanagement.

Black Point, the s/te, was a beauti-ful park that was deeded to the stateof Florida for a state camp grounds,!and is mostly covered with a dense!growth of tropical trees. Great Jswamps had to be overcome and thejlands drained, and within a total of iforty-nine working days, we see a woa-jder city.

T*lie plans provided for 508 build-'lags, 40.016 feet of water line, 47,2691feet of sewer construction, 3 pumping!stations, 4 sturage tanks with a capac-ity of 400,000 gallons. 3 miles of!sandard guage railroad, 17 miles ofipole lines, 5 miles of streets andjroads, and 0 miles of fences.

Twenty-one million feet or lumber!was required, which was used at thejrate of 420,000 feet per day while con-!struction was at its height.

The largest number of men employ-

ed at any one time was 8445, which in-cluded carpenters, plumbers, electri-jcians. masons, laborers, cooks, wait-ers. sanitary forces, hospital and bunkjhouse employes, most of whom are|the heads of families.

There was paid in wages approxi-mately $1,623,000. Jacksonville had!been through a depression starting;with she outbreak of the war. butjsince work started at Camp Johnstonlhere is scarcely a vacant store or;house in the city.

FOODAHIM-!MIO! PIES m !

ROW IS EFFECT I'

Orlando, Fla., Jan. 2.—A1l users offeed, such as “shorts, standard mid-!dlings, mixed feeds, flour middlings,!bran,” etc., whiefy come under the!common term of mill feeds, are uow|protected as to price by a recent rul !ing cf the United States food adminis-tration, which went into effect bn the25th of December.

Focd Administrator Braxton Beach-am calls special attention to the peo-‘pie of Florida to this ruling, and wish-!es them to be sure that retail prices’charged are not unreasonable. The jaction of the food administration!should work a benefit in prices to the!consumer, as the mills have been!limited to a certain charge on feeds ofthe kind mentioned, and the limitationextends to the wholesale dealer andthe licensed retail dealer, so that nojextortionate charge can he made ormaintained.

OCALA AN IDEAL LOCATIONFOR CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL;

The inspector for the location of jthe convalescent hospital, in the per-:son of Capt. Brooks Price, came to!Ocala Monday night, and on Tuesday!morning the special committee of thejboard of trade, consisting cf Mayor J. JE. Chace, T. T. Munroe, W. D. Carn,;W. T. Gary and R. F. Rogers, took;Captain Price to the fair grounds,!where he carefully inspected all the!buildings and grounds; then to theihospital, where he viewed the beauti-Jful landscape; then out on the SilverSprings and Fort King roads, where ;he was very much impressed with thejtopography of the land, and the beau-tiful sites for the location of the hos-pital on the Thomas lands, north offaie Silver SprUga road, and the Gsrki