Sanford Today, Vol. 01, No. 07, August 28, 1926

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Sanford Today
FOR   SANFORD
FOR   SEMINOLE
FOR   FLORIDA
SANFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
SANFORD, FLORIDA
Volume One
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28,  1926
Number Seven
WERE you, who now scan this,
among the readers of Sanford
Today who this week tried for
this Magazine's Five Dollar
Weekly Gold Prize? If you were not, you
missed the pleasure of taking part in a
popular contest, you missed the opportunity
of telling an entertaining story for publication, and you missed the chance of being
paid Five Dollars in Gold for a few minutes
of delightful   effort.
Did you miss all that?    Then don't miss
it again this coming week!   The Contest on
Pages   6   and   7   is   "on"   for   three   solid
months,   and   every   week   of   those   three
months a Gold Prize winner will be picked
and paid.   Is there any reason
why you should not be one of
those winners?   Turn  now to
Pages 6  and   7   and   read   this
week's winners' names.
Talk o' The Town
major topic of popular interest in Sanford.
This was disclosed in the gathering of the
views of business men on whether to go on
with the project now or consent to still
further delay, which are published elsewhere in these pages. It is regretted by
the Editor that a number of business men
whose opinions were sought were out of
the city or for other reasons could not be
reached. Not that the symposium as published represents anything less than a complete cross-section of the community sentiment,   but  that  every  additional  voice  in-
•OLD FRIENDS BESIDE THE LAKE'
creases the opportunity for obtaining fresh
viewpoints.
When you have done that,
read the brief, simple requirements for intering the Contest;
become a contestant then and
there, and—last but by no
means least—as you read the
Advertisements on those two
pages and search for the misspelled word which you must
locate in order to compete for
a prize, see if you do not discover in those Advertisements
something that will make you
exclaim to yourself, "There,
now, is something I need!"
This latter is not part of the
Contest game, but it may be
part of the game's profits to you
This week Sanford Today's readers welcome to these
pages an old-time friend and
neighbor, Longwood. Secretary
Loder of the Longwood Chamber of Commerce has undertaken to fill a column, or as
much space as events require,
with news and comment out
of that delightful place, in this
Magazine each week; and each
publication day, which as you
know is Saturday, enough
copies of,Sanford Today to
supply every Longwood home
and business-place will be sped
direct from the presses in Sanford to that town. For this
Magazine is what it says it
is—"For Sanford, For Seminole, For Florida."
The    Canal   continued
throughout the week to be the
One of the city's keenest business men
accompanied this comment with the request
that it be not credited to him by name:
''Opponents of immediate procedure have
set up an one objection that when the Legislature created the Upper St. Johns River
Navigation District and thereby established
the taxation for the Canal, it performed an
act unsanctioned by referendum—laid an
act of obligation upon the taxpayers to
which they had not voted their consent.
"It is perfectly true the Navigation District Act provided for no referendum. It
is also true the Act creating
the Charter of the City of Sanford, under which we now live
and progress, provided for no
referendum. Shall we then revolt from being taxed to maintain the municipal government
which the Charter set up ?
Shall we propose to revert to
the old, unsavory regime of
Council rule in order that a
valueless and meaningless technicality may be tenderly preserved ?"
OAK  AND  PALM  KEEP  COMPANY,  In  Seminole
Oh! we had almost forgot
to mention it! Instead of paying only one prize of Five
Dollars Gold in this first week
of the three-months Missspell-
ed-Word-Advertisement Contest, we are paying Ten Dollars Gold—tivo Five Dollar
prizes. But pray don't become
excited with anticipation; such
happenings rarely happen
twice—you know the old saying about lightning striking.
It is this way about:
To make doubly sure that
the first week of this locally
new sort of prize contest
should turn up a winner and
so get away to a flying popularity-start, we placed two instead of only the one misspelled words in one of the advertisements on the Contest
Pages; and sure enough, contestants spotted  them both!
So we are happy to announce the names of two winners of Fve Dollars Gold
apiece, instead of only one as
promised.
The two words that helped
the winners to win are "suite"
{Continued  on  Fage   Ten)