Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 6, 1911, Page 1

LAKELAND EVENIN Published in the Best Town in the Best Part‘of the Best WState. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOV. 6, 1911. G TELEGRAM with thanks and warm on for labors well per- Judge Whitney took oc- &is fnal remarks to thej to strongly approve of ndation looking to the t of a Criminal Court n this county. “It is im- ," sald Judge \hitney, “for rt work in this county with mse amount of business Defore the court for atten- have been spending from j'to ten hours a day in your %oom, presiding over your court ting the trial of cases as ‘a8 ‘possible, and have been ' gvery night until eleven i 'and sometimes until two, and sball have to leave this county . large number of criminal uatried and civil and chancery jofs uadisposed of, and there- _eargestly second your recom- for the establishment of court of record for this i’ Preseatment of the Grand "Pull Term of A, D. 1911. @ grand jury called and em- @iied for the Fall Term of the it C ‘of the Tenth Judicial oult and for Polk county, b Baving completed our la- {8 th1s aeesion by a thorough in- '60all matters coming be- , At the close of our ses-| this our general pre- ve examined the county jail same in fairly good condi- 73 ‘recommend that the county| appoint a suitable fn each voting precinct to public highways open and; the effort made by our commissioners in the equali- taxes and recommend that k'further iuto the matter. gecommend that the county 0 jemploy a detective to the sale of intoxicating "88 We see same is the cause ot of the crime committed. » M to the several of the ‘Peace to bind wit- ‘each @ape to appear as pre- the mumber of criminal g Ia our county which the Jurisdiction of the rt 80 great as to render for those accused to be y trlal, and we most d that this condi- wé look upon as incident, '¢mullllon and bus- county, be provided for i nt of a Criminal be dome. And it is our fa this way the labors Jury can be lessened, | ly cleared and the ne-! aow exists for keeplng‘ of witnesses in at-| court for long terms measure be obviated. of trying these cases at a less cost and in- ) 40 our people, and at B¢ time more fully observe k of our law by giving a _to the accused. g deslre to express our ‘Judge F. A. Whitney for extended us, also to States y J. B. Slagletary for his e courteous attention and valuable as- sistance rendered our body. W. T. Denham, foreman; Harry Heim, clerk; B. T. Heap, C. G. Fletcher, J. D. Moore, W. R. Clax- BON“ [l[CI'ON ton, J. E. McGraw, Phillip Hicks, —_— C. C. Gresham, R. E. Gandy, W. R.'Pmm TO COUNTY COM- Hutchinson, W. H. Chestnutt, J. (. Farrell, L. Glover, W. J. Davis, Har- MISSIONERS BY ATTORNEY ley Morse, G. W. Anderson, James Dossey. CITY COUNCIL ADJOURNS TO MEET TOMORROW EVENING The City Council, which was to have met last \Wednesday evening and which adjourned to meet Sat- urday evening on account of the lack of a quorum, met Saturday evening and adjourned until tomorrow (Tues- day) evening, owing to the fact that there was not a suflicient number present to constitute a quorum. Pro- viding that a quorum is raised to- morrow evening, the regular month- ly meeting will be held, at which time bills will be paid and all mat- ters of interest and importance dis- patched. Disgraceful Act of Vandalism At Lakeland School, Sometime between Kriday evening and this morning vandals entered the room of Miss Cora Griffin at the Lakeland school and maliciously de- stroyed everything they could place their hands on, the school room this morning presenting almost a com- plete wreck. All paraphernalia which Miss Grif- fin had accumulated since coming to Lakeland was entirely destroyed, the floor being strewn with the wreckage; chairs and tables had been overturned, and everything was in great disorder generally. Several handsome vases worth sever- al dollars each, were thrown on the floor and broken, in fact, everything that could be destroyed was given due attention by the marauders. Damage to the room is estimated at between $75.00 and $100.00, Officers are at work on the case, but as yet no clue has been ascer- tained as to the identity of the vandals. It is thought that the damage was done last night about 10 o'clock, as Mr. D, A. McRae, who lives near the school building, stat- ed this morning that he had heard/ a commotion in that vicinity last night' just before retiring but not thinking that Lakeland possessed such maliciously inclined individ- uals, he thought nothing of the dis- turbance. It is thought that en- trance to the room was gained by a rear door, which had evidently been left unlocked. DAUGHTERS TO CONVENE AT RICHMOND TOMORROW | fi.—\\'ilhih‘" their testimony was worth 10 yupate enough to hear this band Richmond, Va., Nov. over 700 delegates in attendance the Eighteenth annual Convention of the United Daughetrs of the Confeder- acy, will open here Tuesday evening. Representatives will be sent from 32 | states of the Union and the .\'alional’ ! Convention promises to be the most enthusiastic gathering of women of the Southland ever yet held. The convention will be formally opened Tuesday nigh't at the Acad- emy of Music, with addresses of wel- come by Governor Mann, of Virginia, Mayor D. C. Richardson, of Rich- mond, and high officials of the Vir- ginia division of the Daughters. Mrs. V. A. Faulkner McSherry: President-General of the Daughters, will respond to the addresses. Delegates will consider the ques- tion of erecting a home for the Confederate women and appoint a permanent relief committee. Bien- nial election of the president-gener- al will take place at the last business meeting, the minor officers being elected next year. BLANTON TODAY. Today Attorney J. K. Blanton, of the firm of Rodgers & Blanton, pre- sented to the County Commissioners the petition published in Saturday’'s issue of this paper, asking that an election be called within a certain special road district, including the Lakeland district and some territory in the Auburndale section, as speci- fied in said petition; said election to be on the question of bonding the district thus described for $225,000 ) for the purpose of building eighteen miles of vitrified brick highway. The Commissioners accepted the petition, but it will, as is customary lin such cases, have to lie over until the next regular monthly meeting before any defininte action is taken. At the end of that time, if there {8 no satisfactory reason for doing oth- erwise, an election will be called, to be held after the necessary adver- tisement has been published for thirty days. The Commissioners informally dis- cussed the proposition but there was no objection to it, and it is very probable that if jnvestigation shows the petition to have the required number of signers, and is in other respects regular, that it will be act- ed upon favorably. { PLANT CITY KILLING STILL A MYSTERY In Saturday's issue of The Tele- gram we gave an account of the killing at Plant City of John Aiken. It is rumored that he at one time lived in Lakeland, but this we have been unable to verify. The latest particulars in regard to the case are in this morning’s Tampa Tribune, which we produce: Who killed John Aiken at Pla i City is today as much a mystery as it was last Friday at 8 p. m., when the man was found unconscious at the back of the C. M. Sparkman sa- ‘ ! nt! loon in Plant City. Three hours later, never regaining l-onscinus-‘ ness, he died. Three physicians were unable to do anything for him. Then it was apparent that he had| been hit in the back of the head with blunt instrument. There is no justice of the peace at Plant ('lly,? so Justice T. L. James, of Tampa,' was summoned. He impaneled a { coroner’s jury, but this jury, with j[R'-prt-m-nlan\'t- R. R. Tomlin, of the | Florida Legislature as its foreman knew no more at the end of the in-, quest than was known before thel jury was impaneled. Two white men were arrested in order to assure them giving evidence,' | more than that of any one elge. The %jury brought in a verdict that | “Aiken came to his death from a 1|»low delivered from a blunt instru-| 'ment held by some one unknown to | the jury.” Officers continue hunting for o' clug but thus far no success has at- tended their efforts. Aiken was for-, ty vears-old and is only known to] have had two relatives. These are Luther Aiken.“ { resident of Tampa, and the other said to be employed at Bradley| Junction, ten miles from Plant City, ! on the Charlotte Harbor & A\'orthern‘ Railroad. | | i(wo nephews, one, Arcadia will ship some 250.000 boxes of oranges and grapefruit this/ season from the six packing houses| in operation now. Oranges in this section ripen earlier than those in more northern latitudes—conse- quently the packing and shipping l season is nmow fully open.—Arcldla' Champion. ! ! CITY ELECTIO H. D. BASSETT AND S, L. CLONTS WILL TRY STRENGTH AT THE CITY POLLS. Tomorrow a_;econd primary for Mayor of the City of Lakeland will be held, no candidate having ceived a re- majority of ail the votes cast in the first primary last Tues-! day. The election for (ouncilmen re- sulted in a decisive vote, and there will, therefore, be no second primary for these officials. Mr. 8. L. A, Clonts and Mr., H. D, Bassett were the two *“*high™ men in the first primary, and they are, therefore, the only contestants in to- morrow’ race. They are both popu- lar gentlemen, either of whom would make a good Mayor, and the race promises to be exceedingly close, Much interest is being manifested by the respective friends of the two candidates, though no mud-slinging has been indulged in, and no hard feeling engendered. The polling place will be at the ity Hall, BIG IMPROVEMENT FOR LAKE MIRROR WATER FRONT A realty deal, which augurs well for the further beautification of one of the most desirable residence sec- tions of the city, was consummated a day or two ago when the Sessoms property, located at the foot of Lem- on street and bordering on Lake Mir- ror, was purchased by the realty firm of John F. Cox and G. E. Col- man, the latter of Auburndale. This property, which consists of a small grove, will be cut up into a sub-division and lots will be placed on the market at once, The new owners contemplate mak- ing a number of marked improve- ments in this property, which when completed will be the first attempt ever made to beautify Lake Mirror's waterfront. They will build a pav- ed driveway along the lake front, this being a continunation of Lemon street, build a sea wall, and in oth- er ways make of this a very attrac- tive and desirable place of residence, When these improvements are un- der way we feel sure that it will only be a short time before Lake Mirror will have a paved driveway entirely around it. CREATORE'S FAMOUS BAND COMING TO LAKELAND The treat of the season, as far as musical attractions are concerned. will be Creatore and his band of fifty musicians which will appear at the Herron Theatre here on Novem- ber 24. Those who have been for- have already sent in their applica- tion for tickets and many others have been added to the list. Signor Creatore, as wusual, has been holding large audiences under his wonderful spell en route to Lakeland. From the reports re- ceived at times his audiences are all but moved to tears, roused by the tender sympathetic strains, while at other times they seem ready to slall'll on their feet and shout to relieve the| pent up something produced by the thrills from the wonderful crescen- dos which peal from his band. During one of the band’s long so- journs in New York the “Herald” | gave the following as part of a very lengthy notice: “Seldom has such enthusiasm been seen in a New York theatre. After the sextette from “Lucia,” the applause was deafening and the people climbed upon their chairs to cheer. The “Tannhauser” overture and several other numbers evoked equally exuberant signs of approval.” Al CONTRACT FOR BASSETT BUILDING SOON TO BE LET. | Noticing the item in a late issue of The Lakeland Evening Telegram, which reads that the H. D. Bassett E building has been let already to con- tractors, this statement was prema- ) ture, IoM“RRow Editor Evening Telegram: | The plans for this building are at this time under construction in my offices and will not be finished for a period of two or three weeks, and at that time they will be out for bids to all reputable local contrac- tors. | GUY PLATT JOHNSON, | Architect. Y The Sunford Herald by a publica- tion of statistics shows that celery is no longer king in the rich lands surrounding that prosperous little cit.y The best results last season came from several other crops than celery. Lecture on Sewerage at Inea_ter Tonight. Mr. ¢, F. Raymond, Sanitary En- gineer of Hartford, Conn., will ad- dress the citizens of Lakeland to- night at 7:30 o'clock at the Herron Theatre on the subject of sewerage, o matter in which every public-spir- ited citizen is interested, Mr. Raymond has spent years in this work and will be able to con- vey to his hearers some splendid ideas on this subject. Lakeland Is progressing in many lines and there is no improvement she needs more than a good sewerage system, How to get this system and what kind to put in, will be threshed out thorougily in Mr. Raymond's ad- dress this evening, and it is hoped he will be greeted by a large audience. Washington, Nov. 6. The weath- er Bureau has the following report on weather conditions in the United States, which shows that another cold wave will have the country in its grip within the next few days. In the United States the coming week will of pronounced weather changes. Disturbances that now cover the Rociky Mountains and British Cohimbia will advance slow- Iy eastward and be preceded by un- settled weailier, local raing and mild temperatures, the first half of the week in the Middle West and the Southern ard Eaustern States, “Rains are alto probable Monday in the north Pacitic be one and Tuesday States, “Following these disturbances the pressure will rise rapidly and decid- edly colder weather will overspread the Northwestern States Tuesday and Wednesday and advance east- ward over the Middle West Wednes- day and Thursday, and the Eastern States the latter part of the week. It is probable that this cold change will be attended by snows in the { Northern States.” RETURNED FROM THEIR | SUMMER OUTING Mr. €. G, Memminger went up to vew York a few days ago for the purpose of accompanying home Mrs Memminger and Miss Christine Mem- | minger who have been in that and] other Eastern cities for the post month. Prior to that time they, spent about three months most| pleasantly in Asheville and other re-| sorts in the mountains of North| Carolina, Mr. Memminger being fre- quently with them, as his business interests would allow. They had a pleasant summer, and not the least pleasant feature of their trip was { their return to their beautiful home here, one of the most elegant in Florida. HALE CASE ON TRIAL Jury Secured Saturday and Case Being Con- sidereilodw. The jury in the Ben Hale case was completed today, the two additional Jurymen having been secured. The completed list is as follows: Henry Tandy, R. H. Peeples, B. H, Gray, M. G. Merritt, ), K. Futch, Jesse Stevens, T. E. Hays, 8. F, Parker, J, A. Hicks——— Hancock,( of Kath- leen), A, 0. Graddy, and Mann Raul- erson, Testimony in this case tuken at the of bress, is being hour going to The following indictments have been returned by the grand jury during the last fow days of its labors: State vs. Samuel N, Powell, for unlawutlly taking and using the vehicle of another, Frank Jones, assault with inteat to commit murder of Julian Wil- liams. John Taylor, assault with intent to murder one John Reed. There were several other indict- ments returned which we are not at liberty to give on account of the fact that the ones indicted have not yet been apprehennded. A fow per- sons in jail and a few out on hond were not indicted because of the in- ability of the sheriff to get witnesses, The court spent all of Saturday in trying to get a jury in the Ben Hale case, and at the close of the day ten men had been accepted on the jury by both sides. These men will be required to stay here togeth- er under an officer. In selecting the jury, most of th: regular and special venire for this week were challenged for cause, and on Saturday afternoon a second spe- cial venire was summoned and ex- hausted. Most of the jurors on the special venire for the weeck were from Lakeland and vicinity, and on that account had heard all about the case, and having formed an opin- ion, were challenged and excused for cause. Then, too, quite a few ex- pressed themselves as opposed to capital punishment upon circom- stantial evidence, and for that rea- son were excused., This case will be very hard fought, Dayton & Dayton, of Dade City, rep- resent the defendant, and it appears from their questions addressed to jurors that they will rely on the plea of insanity, and if they can keep out Hales confession, on the slight circumstantial evidence connecting Hale with the crime. The State will be represented by State Attor- ney Sinzletary, assisted by Judge Boswell. The following men have been drawn to .:rve on the recular venire for the thivd week of court: Will Kinney, J. P, Combee, W. S, Clark, Johy Bishop, Bentley Lantz, E. G Gardner, Harvey N. Powell, Hamp- ton 11 Portner, W. P. Daugherty, T. A Goode, .. Morrison, A. H. Sloan, J. P. Costline, A. B. Godwin, ¢ K. MeMullen, J. W, Willis, D. L. Merck, and M. A. Dossey. A GOOD PROMOTER CAN'T ALWAYS IMPRESS A VOTER Col. T. J. L. Brown, the great fair promoter of Tampa, has announced that he will be in the race for con- gressman at large. He is a well- known man and may gain strength, but a man may be a fair promoter and still not take so well with the people when it comes to an import- ant office like a congressman.—Fort Myers Press. - —— . cenm—a—