Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 7, 1911, Page 1

Published in the Best .lown in the Best Part of the Best State. LAKELAND. FLORIDA, TXURSDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1911, NO. 31 o R oxte vy PROCEEDINGS OF |EXPLAINS SCHOOL | frran sevivss wcermos| SECOND MESSAGE (Rl morsine ot the ofite ot i one Rl hear Dr. Wm. D. Nowlin, who, since & o sSunday morning, has been conduct- vening Telegram to be used for the | MATTERS PERTAINING TO COUN- | YEN. COX SHOWS THAT LARGE|ing a revival mecting at the First|TAFT REVIEWS RELATIONS OF benefit of the family of Mr. Acree. TY'S EDUCATIONAL INTER- SUM WILL BE SAVED IN Baptist church. Dr. Nowlin pre- UNITED STATES WITH FOR- In the absence of a charitable or- sents the Truth in such an earnest ESTS DISPOSED OF INTERES' ganization, which could have super- n EIGN COUNTRIES manner and with eloquence seldom vised the expenditure of money col- PPOSITION T0 BOND ELECTION C0X3 1{1SSIONERS SEEM DISCLIN- ED TO GRANT CITIZENS' PETITION. [HEY SUGGEST PRIMARY (fical Proceedings of Monday's Meeting of County Com- missioners. Evening Telegram Bureau, lected for this family, this office Bartow, Fla., Dec. 6, 1911, called up Dr. Nowlin, members of | The Board of Public Instructiou whose church had been helping the |07 Polk County met in regular ses- sion with all members and the (County Superintendent present. The minutes of the regular meeting what money has been or will be do-|jor November and of the special nated, and purchase groceries and | mcetings of November 4th and 20th, clothing for the family. Mrs, R, R.|Were read and approved. The re- Sullivan, of the Methodist church, |0Vest from the Trustces of the . Lakeland High School to fix the called up this office and sl'm(-d that salary of the Eighth grade teacher y she would interest the lfll'lL?S of her at $70, instead 'of $65.00 because ‘nidden, Chairman, R. C. (Imt"t-h and they would visit the caid teacher held a Life First Grade 1A, J. Lewis, J. E. Bryant, | family 'Jll'd see what could be done was granted. The salary of the i ¢« The minutes of|in providing clothes for them. toactiar ‘af Clinal" sohoo): Wik made sting read and approved. Those who have contributed 19| §40, and that of the principal of attained by the average evangelist, - v that many have become interested in their spiritual welfare and are EXPMINS ARMY MOVE becoming Christians, e . Last nlta."!xl Dr. Nowlin took as his Declares That He Would Not Hesi- subject “Sin A Rough Road to Travel,” or “The Way of the Trans- tate to Send Troops into Mex- gressor is Hard.” This sermon was ico if Necessary. one of the best yet delivered by Dr. Nowlin, and was listened to with great interest by the congregation. The members are assisting the pas- tor by personal work, and many are being influenced to lead better lives. Twelve new members have been ad- ded to the church roll since the be- sinning of the revival, and this rumber will be appreciably increased before its close, Lditor Telegram: Yesterday the Board of Public In- struction of Polk County completed 4 deal with Chicago Bankers by which they borrow $30,000 at the rite of 5 per cent. per annum. The {nterest to be paid semi-annually. Common school warrants in the form of Bonds were issued payable in ten years. §5.000 with interest each year, family from time to time, and he appointed Mr. R, 0. Cresap to take (By Associated Press. Washington, D. ¢, Dee. 7. -In Lis sccond one-topic messas Congress during its three-day session. President Taft reviewed the rela- tions of the United States with for- cign nations, In it e pave the first official ~ oxplanaton ¢ the movement of 20,000 troop: to the v Board of County Com- wors of Polk County. _tow, Fla, Dec. 4, 1911 opened by Sheriff; present, I Yrs to Prin. ang Principal Run Interest I8y, §$5,000 10 § 7,500 2nd yr. 5,000 [ 7250 ard yr. o 5,000 N 7.000 4th yr. 5,000 T Sth yr. 5,000 4 6,500 Tu following application for | this cause so far are: primary department in Union Acad-[6th yr. 5,000 A 6,250 The meeting will probably con-|Mexican border, and urged the sen- sate persions approved; Mrs. G. W.|¢ p, VT S e $5.00 [emy was made $50 instead of §45. |Tth yr. 5000 1 6,000 [ tinue through next week, the ser-|&t¢ to ratify the general arbitration treaties with England and France, and the loan arrangements with Honduras and Nicarauga. He sug- gested legislation to strengthen world trade, and also informed Congress Griffin, Mrs. Alice L. Gary, &th yr. 5,000 3 9the vr. 5,000 2 1 10th yr - 5,000 vices being held at 10 o'clock each day and 7:15 at night. Plenty of seats have been provided and a cor- dial welcome awaits all who attend. J.N. Davis ..........iii 50| General E. M. Law, chairman of W H. B. Zimmerman .......... 1.00 | the board of trustees of special tax e collector reported $75 col- Sl district No. 7, came before the Board sted on polls and $329 on licenses. and presented a recommendation 'he collector was ordered credited lOYAl SUBJ[CIS trom his board for the appointment s the treasurer charged with re- of Mr. B. F. Holland to fill the va- cancy in the sub-district board caus- n[crlvr nul[ns ed by the resignation of Mr. J. R. ceipt No. 104 for tax of 1910 as fol- lows: General Fund $3.73, School $10.70, County Road, $3.00; F. & F. Wiggins. Mr. B. F. Holland was $0.75. Building $7.50, Special Road appointed to fill said vacancy. Upon 4300, Sub-school $4.50; total $33.00. KING GEORGE AND QUEEN MARY | the request of Gen. Law as chair- Also receipt No. 105 on assess- GIVEN CORDIAL RECEPTION man of trustees of sub-district No. went of 1911 as follows: General 7, Misses Rosalind Witherspoon and Fund Licenses $329.00, Taxes IN INDIA. Roberta Currie were appointed as $2.174.18; total $3,503.19. overflow teachers in Summerlin In- Also receipt No. 105 on assessment (By Assoclated Press.) stitute, subject to the disposition of o 1911 as follows: Delhi, India, Dec. 7.—India today|the principal, and their salaries were : 00; received her emperor and empress,|fixed at $50 for each. Gen. Law Engin A Eand) Licenses $329.00; |\ o' Goorge and Queen Mary, of|further acked in behalf of his board Taxes, $3,174.18; total $3,503.18. England, in the midst of a dazzling|that Miss Maud Schwahmeyer be School Fund—Polls, $76.00; Tax-|goiiing of jeweled native chieftains|appointed assistant to the principal ¢, $%.587.69; total $8,962.69. and picturesque- fighting. They|in the grammar school, which wae Road Fund, $3,174.17, F. & F.|were met there by tribesmen as well | granted. Fund, 31.269.67, Special Road Fund|ag by soldiers from home. No vio-| The board requested its attorney, $1.004 50, Sub-School $1,729.784 lence, against which special precau-|(ol, H. K. Oliphant, to examine the otal $20,343.99. tions had been tuken was shown. |regolutions sent by Farson, Son & receipt No. 106 on assess- e Ry Co., relative to the loan of $50,000 1 of 1910 as follows: TRYING To SECURE JURY Ly them to this board. After discus- Goorad fund $657.89, School fund TO TRY PACKERS' CASES|sing certain paragraphs of said res- §i7i0 10 Road fund, $526.32, F. & e olution, it was decided to defer ac- & F find §121.58, Building fund (By Associated Press.) tion until this board received the § 74 special road fund, $326.- Chicago, Ns, Dec. 7T.~Counscl|ywarpants claimed to be sent it by £5.000.00, for the case of the tea Chicagd|aexpress from Farson, Son & Co., on : : y packers on trial for violating thefyje night of Dec, 1, but which have e 'Iy:‘“” ‘:." Jall_“a'as:(\l:lngga]::t‘lll';: Sherman AntiTrust |-fl'“'- struggled | not yet heen received by this board. S 18, Township 30, Range today to obtain a jury. TI"'V '“f“' The matter of insurance brought 0w granted. cations are that only a few days will up by Mr. T. A. Goode was deferred © Bryant and W. D. Harp, be taken in so dving. ur til some future meeting. tiion for road from Socrum $50,000 $63,750 The difference of the these shows $12.750 interest paid in ten years on the loan, This $50,000 will be used to re- fund the outstanding common school warrants drawing 8 per cent inter- est per annum and creating a sink- fng fund to mect the annual pay- ment of $5,000 and interest as shown above. Now let us see what the common school fund™ will save by this deal: $50,000 at 8 per cent interest for ten years would be $4,000 interest. The same for ten years at § per cent interest as shown above would Yo 13,750. The difference is $25,- 250. From this take $1,500, cost of the deal, and we will have $24,750 saved in interest in ten years. We find the Special School Dis- tricts deeply in debt and their out- standing warrants drawing 8 per cent. We hope they will cooperate with us in reducing their indebted- ness. that pegotiations are under way con- Ar'[n M[N cerning the refusal of Russia to rec- ognize passports held by Amerlcans “lfi“[ of Jewish faith, Jxplaining the dispatch of troops to the border, he showed in a letter to Major General Wood, chief of McNAMARAS GIVEN THIRD DE- staff, that he would not hesitate to GREE, IN HOPE OF UN. |send them into Mexico if American EARTHING CONSPIRACY life and property should be in dan- ger, and if congress should so direct. (By Associated Press.) He suggested that a central cham- Lok Angeles Calif. Déc, T.-The ber of commerce be established to look after foreign commerce oppor- McNamara brothers, under sentence tunities, and advocated more laws of life imprisonment and fifteen| relative to advancement in diplo- years respectively, for dynamiting|matic and consular service, accord- outrages, today faced’ the vigorous|in® to merit rather than to political ordeal of being questioned by a|Preference. Special Prosecutor before the Federal TR grand jury, in connection with the ONLY ONE WHISKEY government's inquiry as to the al- CASE TRIED YESTERDAY leged traflicking in dynamite and misuse of the mails to promote de- Bartow, Dec. 6, 1911, struction of property in labor war- Most of the time of the County fare. The Jjurors are expected 0} eguy oday was taken up in the hear from the Me ras details of f iy or A, W. Gordon, a negro of an alleged country-wide conspiracy, , charged with the illegal and probably through this means sale of liquor in Angust last. The will be enabled to reach men higher In up. Pros BMCKM‘“‘ SIORY SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE lN lORIM[R (:ASE TO BE HELD AT GAINESVILLE Witnesses 'l'eitify That Mtempt Was Gainesville, Dee. 6. Among the features of sp I interest in the J. AL CON THREE NEGROES BURNED BY TENNESSEE MOB returned a verdict of not guilty. cutor Johnson was for the State and Judge Boswell for the defendant. Memphis, Dec, 6. -Two negroes and one negress were burned to death by a mob of white land tenants who object to the occupancy of land by colored people near Savannah, Tenn. yesterday, according to meager re- ports received here today. The three negroes were traveling The treasurer made his report and “AS ANYBO“Y the usual warrants were issued. The toard then adjourned to meet Wed- HERE SEEN REVES? [rxias. vec. & The Board met again today and teynolds, D. H. Bryant, E. Viller, et al, filed a petition for ad i Towns 27, p 23, i . whiit ;“:]::' i Lost Somewhere In U. §., with a the chairman and superintendent [to a gin with a load of seed cotton. Made to Hold “p Lorimer session of the Florida Annual Con- Thw m of O. H. Albritton 4 ety have spent most of the day in sign-| They were waylaid, held up and tied For $150,000. ference, which will meet in the First #ki'¢ piblic road beginning at the Mexican Revolution Concealed itg up the warrants whereby the[to a wagon load of cotton, it is said, ; - — ks Methodist chureh ofs this city, Dec, 0l o in See. 7, Township 32, About His Pemn last thing to be done by the School [and the mob after building a fire be- Washington, D. €. Dee (B 13-18, will be a series of meetings Ra 2% and running to Chicora S Board has been done to secure the|neath the wagon, stood guard until|George Gloss, witness before thefin the interesy of advanced Sunday (By Associated Press.) $50.000, the wagon was consumed, Lorimer investigating committee, | school work. The program for 1 oriff was ordered credited < amounting to $588.63. v Turner was appointed Recor- Morks and Brands at Bradley startled the members by testifying | these meetings is given below. that Frank Seems, a friends of br. Bulla and Dr. and Mrs, Hamill Charles A. White, who made the|are specialists in Sunday school mat- first alleged expose in the Lorimer|ters, and are among the foremost case, told him that he and White]of such workers in this country, were preparing a story to blackmail The program follows: Lorimer for $150.000. Magazines| First Session, Anniversary of 8. S. refused to buy, however, Board, 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, 13 San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 7.—Gen- 2 SR eral Bernardo Reyes, under indict- ment for fomenting a revolution in McNAMAm SAVS the United States against Mexico is y lost. All efforts of newspaper men woN I soljt‘l and authorities to locate him have proved futile. His family and friends “| refuse to divulge his whereabouts, MCcNAMARAS DID ALL DYNAMITING Burns Says Every Case Since 1906 L of E. L. Wirt as notary s approved, sureties, U. A Famous Dynamiter Declares He Will BuIE :’ d ::ml),“ \:)’:rt.uen"mi“ . RS Give No Information to Federal May Be Traced to Them and 1. Address by Dr. C. D. Bulla, R ,”,... ; 2 et ' INVENTS NEW MEANS . GARY GIVES PLANS Supt. Wesley Adult Bible Class De- Muiberry, for state pen OF COMMUNICATION Grand Jury Associates. rtment. Subject, “The Sunday FOR CORPORATION CONTROL 4us granted, 'ie matter of the petition of U Bevis, H. J. Drane, et al,, < ' have the territory there- bed constituted into a spe- and bridge district, it ‘< from a counter petition ¥ by voters and tax territory involved that “s of the citizens of said v greatly at variance and vishing to ascertain their bremises and to avoid - 4I¥ unnecessary cost in holding any elections at + of the county at large, '0 the voters within the Wits of the territory em- d petition the proprie- ug by some way the hool and Men.” (By Associated Press.) 2. Address by Dr. H. M. Hamill, Washington, D. ., Dec. 7. El-jSupt. Training Work. Subject, “The bert H. Gary, head of the United [ Advance S. Movement of Southern States s Corporation, returned | Methodism.™ here to appear before Senate Com-|Second Session—3:30 p. m., Thurs- mittee to suggest plans for corpora- day, 14th. tion control. 1. Round Table, Conducted by Dr. Hamill. Subject, “The Success- PER CAPITA CIRCULATION $34.54 ful Sunday School Pastor and Super- intendemt.” Washington, D, €, Dec. 6. The 2. Addr per capita cirenlation of money in|mentary Spec the United States i 1.145, accord- Third Session. Suhjecl: “M l'llg ing to a statement issued by the Lakeland about three months ago|treasury department today. The to- the Most of the Elementary from Illinois, and who has been altal amount of money in circulation Grades.” 3:30 p. m, Fri- sufferer of paralysis, died yesterday|on December 1 was $3.270,582.952 day, 15th. afternoon at the home of his daugh- 1. Address by Mrs. Hamill. Sub- Tampa, Dec. 6.—John F. Shea, a Tampa man, las the distinction of | [.08 Angeles, Calif., Dec. 7.——John being the inventor and patentee of|, McNamara, the self-confessed dy- what is said to be the only device in}pymiter, told Jailer Gallagher that existence with which it is possible ] pger no circumstances would he communicate with the outside world give information to the Federal from a submarine after it has gone|,rang jury investigating the alleged under water. It is designed so that|,.iion wide dynamite plot. it may be used in connection With] qrtje £, McManigal, arrested with wireless apparatus as an adjunct of | yames B, McNamara, was the first the recent invention of Mr. Shea| .. (ijled before the jury. and his brother, Dan, which will en- able the crew of any submarine ves- BAND REmM TOMGHT sel to communicate with vessels at RS, sea after the vessel has gone to the The Lakeland Band will have a Lottom. The number of the patemt|fy; rehearsal tonight at 7:30 to for Mr. Shea's invention iS}yrepare for the comcert to be given *1,009.800." at the opera house on the 14th. (By Associated Pre New York, Dec. 7. ery indus- trial dynamiting since 1906 may be traced to the McNamaras or their associates,” said Detective William J. Burns. Burns said that he considers the McNamara disclosure the greatest Llow that Socialism has ever sus- teined. (By Associated Press.) 8. ) by Mrs. Hamill, Ele- list DEATH OF MR. JNO. B. FITTS. Mr. John B. Fitts, who came to ¥is the s e T e - ter, Mrs. J. M. Wood, who lives in jert, “The Child and the Lesson.” Mm;im:‘l;"(;;’th& e‘t::: sm‘lnfi SImM[N ALABAMIANS ENDORSE the Griffin neighborhood. "RSMNS ASK 2. Round Table, Conducted by . largely held. LITTLETON FOR PRESIDENT| Mr. Fitts was 82 years of age at l'fl_? or mNfiR[SS Dr. Hamill. Subject, “Managing, %) * of the County Court MMMN Mm‘“ms the time of his death. He came to Training, Saving.” amounting to $1,040. (By Associated Press.) Florida in search of health but at Fourth Session. 3:30 p. m., Sunday 0 carry pistols were Washington, D. C., Dec. 7.—Oscar|his advanced age his weakened con- (By Associated Press.) Dec. 16th. '0 the following persons: B. (By Associated Press.) W. Underwood, Democratic House|dition was unable to withstand the| Washington, . €, Dec. 7.-An| 1. Address by Mrs. Hamill. Sub- E A. Beauchamp, Henry Chicago, Ills, Dec. 7.—Thirty-|leader, has been endorsed for the|inroads made by his long illness. appeal from the Persian people to|ject, “Training in Mission, Temper- The body was prepared for ship-|the United States to intervene in|ance and Other Service.” ment by the Gentry Undertaking Co.| their trouble with Russia, was read 2. Round Table , Conducted by and was sent to the old home of the|in the House today, and referred to|Dr. Hamill. Subject, “The Sunday deceased in Illinois at noon today. |committee. School Needs of Florida Methodism.” eight hundred striking shopmen of [ presidency by the Alabama delega- the Illinois Central railroad con-|tion to Congress. Underwood said demned the McNamaras and declar-|he appreciated the action, but that ed that they should be executed. he was not a candidate. Thomas G. Taylor, Jr. t of Tax Collector's ac- t.-ominued on page eight.) Matemey