Sanford Today, Vol. 01, No. 01, July 17, 1926

University of Central Florida STARS Sanford Today Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 7-17-1926 Sanford Today, Vol. 01, No. 01, July 17, 1926 Sanford Today Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sanfordtoday University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sanford Today by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Sanford Today, "Sanford Today, Vol. 01, No. 01, July 17, 1926" (1926). Sanford Today. 2. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sanfordtoday/2 SANFORD PUBLIC LIBRX^Y SANFORD, FLORIDA SANFORD TODAY FOR SANFORD FOR SEMINOLE FOR FLORIDA VOLUME ONE SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926 NUMBER ONE woman's place is in the home. A ual nourishment, sustaining and palatable? wife's place is by her husband's What did you get out of it to take away A side. How would wise Judge Talk o' The Town with you for the days of the week? Honest- Solomon have decided the dispute to-earnest criticism; constructive criticism. State since that gentleman came here from between those two truthful contradictions Would the Sanford public care for that? North Carolina nine years ago. if the friends of an Old Testament couple, Would the Sanford preachers take kindly law partners, had laid the case before him? to it? Would it be surely an interesting, It is in our mind and now recurs to us, We don't know, but we hasten to congra possibly an important, feature weekly to to broach an experiment in the business of tulate Sanford and felicitate Mr. and Mrs. print? public print. Hear you. Perhaps never John G. Leonardy upon their formation of since the hands of time began to circle the You first, Dr. King: what says the pastor the firm Leonardy and Leonardy, Attor- face of events has the habit of criticism of First Baptist Church ? neys-at-Law. been more fashionable than now. If it's Ben F. Whitner Jr. smiles his quietly human, and of any common interest at all, Dollar Days and Community Sales Days affable attractively thoughtful smile and re criticize it! That is the spirit, and the range are proposed among the retail merchants of marks that bulb-culture promotion in Semi of its motivation runs from Uncle Henry's Sanford. This is part of an agitation for nole County seems to have borrowed a leaf synthetic offspring Leaping Lizzie all the the taking of steps toward keeping Sanford from the silent hyacinthe and to be quietly way to campaign expenditures in the Re custom at home and inducing outside cus growing. So is the gas account in the form publican primaries, though a rapid descent tom to enter our gates. Tardy though it er County Agent's hip-pocket memoranda- from the sublime to the ridiculous that may be, if this is an earnest thought on the par. book; and did we see him looking over new be. of Sanford merchants for discontinuance ot tires the other day? Satan finds no mis So then. But have you ever heard of a high-pricing in the stores of this communit; chief vet for that browned young man to periodical publishing as a regular feature a it will be met with level glances and hope do! criticism of the parson's Sunday sermon ? ful hearts by some thousands of permanent We haven't, and we long have been bound residents. And if actually carried into ef "The Izaac Walton League for the pre to the printing wheel. Why not do that ? fect it may result in the spending of more vention of seining, dynamiting, and trap What do you say, Dr. King? Not dusty- shopping money in Sanford stores and not ping of game and fish in Seminole County." dry higher criticism, not "smart" criticism, so much at filling stations for gas to take Colonel Knight, as boss of that admirable certainly not disputatious criticism—the Sanford women to certain nearby cities coalition what do you think of some of your Saints and common sense forbid! But whose shops offer the same goods at less. fellowmen anyway? Poor fish ? Poor fish ! simple friendly criticism, analysis, of the Also Sears-Roebuck and Montgomery-Ward The savage two-legged ones. sort of sermon your pastor, your neighbor's may in time discern a falling off in Sanford pastor, offered as meat and drink to j'ou trade. Sanford's brand-new City Directory (by when you came as the Church's guest to The foolest thing in the world is to fool Polk & Co.) makes the castiron statement his Sunday table. Was is good food, spirit yourself. Los Angeles merchants found that Sanford's population that out some years ago, is 13,461. Why people and changed their price- should be so darned dog tags. St. Petersburg is matic about some things is said to have made the a mystery to us. With same discovery quite that new house being built recently. Is it now San every day and new brides ford's turn? Perhaps. moving in and fulfilling their appointed destiny Sanford has an efficient fevery so-so often, we sh'd Police Department; good "hink a white-haired firm cops, a Chief who not only like Polk & Co. would is one of the youngest prefer to be a bit less police heads in the country diactic and definite. but one of the hardest working. He and his men We who write this do are entitled to a full share not belong to his church; of the credit for the fact possibly because we do not that in proportion to its happen to belong to any population and considering Church; but we none th' its location in a tourist less applaud the motion State, Sanford is astonish from the floor which be ingly free of "bad" crime. came the occasion for But, as Ambrose Bierce electing Dr. F. D. King would have remarked, —who modestly tells you there never was an amber to leave the "Dr." off— without its black beetle. to the presidency of the Why, if you please, is it so Florida Baptist Assembly. hard to get a pleasant re- We believe this is a better LATF RESIDENTS OF SEMINOLE COUNTY (Continued on Page Two) SANFORD TODAY SATURDAY "For Sanford — For Seminole — For Florida" $3,500 REWARD A curious thing, a near-tragedy in fin WORLD-WIDE NEWS SANFORD TODAY ance, happened in the neighboring city of Orlando this week if report be true. That DOVER, N. J.—Throughout the 24 The Weekly Magazine of Sanford and rep t is that the run on a substantial bank hours immediately succeeding the recent Seminole County there was started by an unsuccessful and blowing up of the Navy ammunition depot Published every Saturday at 115 S. Park Ave., disgruntled applicant for a loan who cir at Lake Denmark the nine girl operators culated a "tottering" report in revenge for Sanford, Florida, by comprising the staff of the telephone ex the bank's refusal to accomodate him. The HAYNES & RATLIFF change in Dover remained contiuously on bank is said to have offered a reward of Phone 340 duty, though the countryside rocked from $3500 for information leading to his pun Advertising Rates on Application time to time with shell explosions. ishment. "// You Read it in SANFORD TODAY—It BERLIN.—The interior of one of this Will Be So" Such a reward could be paid with a sense capital's oldest and most exclusive cafes of deep satisfaction and accepted with a was wrecked as the result of a monkey's Vol. 1 July 17, 1926 No. 1 feeling of honest pride. That could not pranks. The animal, escaped from a near be true of most rewards. by beer hall, invaded the cafe, and at JULY REFLECTIONS To start a false rumor against the sol tempts by. offended guests to capture it Marriage—the end and the beginning of vency of a bank is a dastardly community caused an uproar which brought the police secrets. crime. No basic element in life reacts more and firemen, and in the melee the place sensitively and speedily to suspicion's was all but demolished. The monkey was There are no useless yesterdays except whisper than deposits in bank. Like a not caught until it had drunk its fill of those we did not use. woman's reputation for chastity is a bank's stolen vodka. repute—something that cannot be talked WASHINGTON.—President Coolidge That one is past his prime who is past about without doing damage. Five minutes at his summer home in Paul Smith's, N. Y., his pride in the day's work. after the first whisper starts, the institution, has been notified that the Sugar Equaliza taken unaware, is fighting for its life in tion Board, organized in war time to pre There are those whose life has become a the grip of one of the most senseless hurri garret, full of useless yesterdays. vent profiteering in sugar and conserve an canes that sweep the human sea. adequate supply, would be dissolved now Fine clothes without fine bearing merely Times without number the phenomenon by his order. mark the wearer as his tailor's sandwich- has developed and future times without PARIS.—A grizzled chauffeur, veteran number it will continue to develop, two of the First Battle of the Marne, is to drive opposite types of respondents: the many a historic French taxicab through the streets Sublimely thanked is that artist who has who rush the front doors to frantically de of Philadelphia next September when the given happiness to such as do not under mand their deposits, and the few who rush American Legion meets in that city in an stand his art! to the side-door to increase their deposits nual convention.

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