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N Tami peditio? M home Mp. DB nz man with headquarters in B - poll € ar We (- come early before i in 1= of " I Mished guartered oak. Glass, a well l.akeland foday Miss from ¢ arts little tot the nraet nothing delights them a nice little cart for nice they have some I gone, ) +vour wife a china closet I want her to love you; some nice ones fn PN IXY, e Perry-Tharp-Berry Music Co. LAKELAND, FLORIDA. o1 «ht also get her a ' with the closet, we in quartered oak finish, h Lakeland Furniture & Hardware Co. s BN Rodrick went down to roday on a little shopping ex- r= . M. Boswell, who has been the family of Judge C. A. well and family, has returned or Holland, who is attending ‘och,” is expected home the 11 of next week to spend the .= holidays with his parents. is in Lakeland today attending to known | 8reat improvement in Lakeland every on § § Josephine Drane 1 to know that she re- thin a few days at Tallahassee to Lristmas holidays. the | greatly improved and remodeled, and 3| Mrs. Pocock and Mr. Schwab, form country home in the Hollingsworth | ing, and while he has been in ' a lnelghhorhood last week, has moved | mighty fine country its nothing like into the cottage of Mrs. J. F. Gracy | good old Lakeland. on West Lime street." Mr. G. E. Southard, Jr.,, who has T. G. Hunt, of Hillsdale, Michigan, | been engaged in business in Syra- is spending a few days in Lakeland |cuse, N. Y. has returned to Lake- looking over the country, and while |iand and will in the future be con- here is pleasantly located at the|nected in business with his father, Tremont hotel. Ll the Southard Contracting Company. Mrs. A. P. Connelley's host of |This company installs private and friends will learn with great regrei! municipal water works, air com- of her continued illness, and will all unite in wishing iier a rapid recov- ery.—Sanford Herald. tracts artesian wells, having a large business which extends over the en- tire State. Mr. Southard has many !friends in Lakeland all of whom are glad t osee him back and to know he is here to reside, Mr. E. Z. Jones, of Jacksonville, Lusiness. Mr. Jones says he sees EDISONIA time he comes. Mrs. J. R. Dickey and three sons, of Bristol, Va., are in Lakeland for a stay of considerable time and while here are located at the Tremont hotel. Presents Friday Night. Ancther of the “Mutt & Jefi" se- ries, showing how they spend a quiet day in the country. Op the same reel “The Meddling Parson,” 2 aelightful comedy., Two other good pictures, the titles of which will appear in tomorrow’s paper. Also a good show tonight. Some- thing to make you laugh. Mr. J. J. Mendenhall, who owns property on East Orange street, has just completed a pretty five-room bungalow, which he has built for iental purposes. As yet the house ihas not been leased but it probably, | | will be within a day or so, as houses of this character are greatly in de- WICKERSHAN'S REPORT ON CORPORATE CONTROL mand. Mrs. . W. Love, Mis. F. A L0) AsoUIRtediDre ) Grether, Mrs. George Lee and Mrs.| ‘Vashington, D. ¢, Dec. 14, L. Pursuing President Tait's recom- M. Futch spent yesterday pleasantly very in Tampa, having made the trip in Mrs. Futch's car. The day being ideal for motoring, the ladies report a most enjoyable day. mendation that an executive bureau Le created to supervise corportaions chartered under a federal incorpora- tion act, Attorney General Wie sham, in his annual report submitted 1o Congress today, suggests that the Rev. Smith Hardin spent a few hours in Lakeland this morning lookinfg after business matters, re- turning to his home in Tampa on the roon train. Rev. Hardin is just now recovering from a very critical ill- ness, his life having almost been de- ':-pnlr('d of at one time last week, and he is tRerefore unable to attend Con- ference at Gainesville. He is still quite weak, but is using all care and hopes to soon be enjoying his usual health. that dignity, even in the absence of the proposed federal , incorporation statute, Commer ind Lubor, the Attorney General u , should be brought in- 1o closer relation with his Depart- meut aud adds that it might well be “avdiled oi as the nucleus for an ad- ministrative board under whose su- pervision consolidations or mergers tor lawiul purgfoses might be form- ed.” In cutorcing the Sherman Anti- Trust Law, the Attorney Gen points out that the Department Justice and the courts are confront- ed by economic, rather than legal, problems when it comes to working out methods of disintegration after @& corporation has been declared an illegal combination, The Depart- ment enlisted the assistance of the Bureau of Corportaions in the disso- lution of the tobacco trust, and it would be ob great value to the lega branch of the government, Mr. Wickersham says, if the functions of the burecau should be so enlarged that it could be called upon ofticially 1o make report its conclusions with respect to plans for the voluntary or enforced disintegra- tion of monopolistic combinations, The attorney general reviews ‘lhn- Mr, G.+H. Alfield, who has been living in one of Mrs. Morrell's houses on New York aveuue,' has moved his family into their own new lLome corner of Orange street and Virginia avenue. This was formerly the Stroud property, but since pur- | chasing it, Mr. Alfield has had it it is now modern and up-to-date in every respect. Miller and Miss Schwab, Misses a party who recently arrived in Lake- land from Clay Center, Kansas, to make this their future home, having purch sed property of the United Land & Sales Co., which tract lies north of town in the neighborhood of Kathleen. While changine their place of residence, these newcomers will not change the name of their home town, as they will live at Clay Center, which is the new town now being built up by this land company north of Kathleen. The young iad- investigations and Irecord ol a year of intense activity | in federal prosecutions and point out that the Department of Justice Justice financially sustained itself as fes of the party are very charming the result of the .-unt.rihmiun of and attractive. $4,204.115 to the United States| SRS — Treasury n the shape of fines collect- | Scott Malsby, who has been away |t customes dutics recoveries, e | The expense of the Department, in- cinding the office of the attorney gen- from lLakeland for the past thrm»1 vears, has returned home and says| : S ala 11 of the district attorneys and i he is here to stay now as Lakeland ‘' | is certainly a good place to tie to. " stants throug "_”_' the country Since leaving here Scott has spent |8:srezated §3,223,993 : 'most of the time in Oregon where] 11 # vomprehensive resiew of the !he has been engaged in the laundry |“Wti-trust prosecutions, the \”"_ [Tusiness, He says he didn't know|''} ‘5"“‘.' i ‘vh"“‘ '3!’-." the 17 anti OOOOBONED Lakeland whep he got back on ;u--‘;]‘IIIT:“::»'IIII »";‘1".»“;.'1“‘.‘_“1 "_.,",:,I“‘h.h;‘ [angmented by 6 additional action “1y REASON o nts. Come J| | = .QO\ABL!.' OFFER, Cash or easy payme! “ N “The ‘power trust’ " the “night| " 2¢t pick of the stock and benefit of the prices as this |} dder” casen: Uslted States Steel nly last until we make room for our pianos. The ::' 5 TRE tton o ; ?h'n-‘. ed * of the factory goes with each piano and this is backed | orporation; cotton corner; alleg towing monopoly; beef packers; PERSONAL Guaran:ee, and our reputation as “The People Come in and look today. * a Square Deal.” W[ fecently incorporated the H. W. "ant City with our business and having the stock “hanies and a large recent factory shipment on hand we -five pianos that we have mot room for in our store. © =UiLg to sell them at ANY PRICE that will,get We cafinot afford to pay storage and extra insurance ‘% uesides having them become secord-hand, so we will not {while the 11 eriminal prosecutio H | funder the same statute Were increased | {by 25 more prosecutions during the | | | last fiscal year i Kight civil suits and a ymiilag rumber of criminal trials were Ihe reates ought to conclusion daring ths 3 I four of the civil prosecu- [tions judgments were rendered in | Piano se“sa. [ favor of the United States, while . ai three were lost and one was Lyear. jcontinued. Four convictions were se- [ tio“ 0f t"e nay ;lurr-d until the criminal clause of | {the statute during the year and four | in.’uws were either quashed or dis- | continued | Declaring that he appreciates that ]public interest in the Sherman Anti- | Trust Law was “even greater” than iix was at the date of his last report, the Attorney General set forth the iollowing cases as being prosecuted lor pending for final testlement: | | Cornett Music Co., of ; | of COST !Souvhorn Pacific merger; bituminous ombination; naval stores suit; lumber “trust;” paper combina- trans-Atlantic “trust”; combina- coal | vathtub “trust”; i milk wall | i sugar “trust’; hip pool, magazine “trust”; “trust”; steam choe machinery Mr. George.Warren, who sold his|count of the large amount -of -build- 1 Mr. G. E. Southard, as a member of |{ pressors, gas engines and also con-|{ 3 P DO OO0 IR SOEODOOVOVHHOFHCDOGIOTIOOOGOOCODDFONE POV SONOOOOVROOIVILGO0OVOOO000D g O LAKELAND, @o‘:»oc'c-xnf. SHOBEHOTOIOOOEOIT Bureau of Corporations be raised totion of coal roads e e e T e T e St L B QOO IOOMNOON 0 2 i elevator suit Oklalioma, and kindling Strust This branch of the Department of NORTH DAKOTA'S UNIQUE DIVORCE LAW Marvied women in North Dakota | own have everything their Their husbands have cannot way which must be respected. For u-: ample, it a4 woman sues for divorce ! in that state, her husband may claim | his | alimony as well tor support during the trial of the ca as money and has not been des to compel her to support and main- tain him. The effect of that decision may be to discour: tion in North Iy ta at least, The larvae of Lepjudoptera, ot caterpillars, almost all feed upon the | foliage of living plants. Many plant support several species of - caterpil- | 1t ix an evidence of design that | lars. the number of species of Lepidopera and of flowering plants is very nearly the same somewhere ahout in wood | vights eral The supreme court of North |HI‘\'0|1I" of [ Ho1ds that when a wonan has means | rted, her hus-| band. ir infirm or destitute, may sue | divoree litiga- | G. N. FUNK & COMPANY ARE 'WATCH SPECIALISTS ....Buy Watches where the stock is.large. The large increase in the sale of watches for the past month has more than ever convinced us that our goods and prices are right. We carry representative patterns of all standard American and Foreign makes. Watch sold to be an accurate and reliable time keeper. Some special Values at from $10.00 to $25.00. Come in today. Our Repair Department is coming mighty fine. We have beer advertising to repair watches that cthers have failed to make keep correct time. We sure have had a lot & ccme in and we are mighty busy with watch work just mow. But we are working nights now in order to get caught up. If your watch is troubling you. bring it in. We can take care of it very soon. "‘:i‘: .X. G. N.FUNK & COMPANY hkentucky Avenue, Opposite Park ® | i i 2,000 | Beetles are more numerous, but they } feed upon othe rinsects, and upou | i decaying vegetables and animal mat- ter.- - Exchange. Sword in Heart of a Tree. Embedded in the heart of a plank of wood taken from a raflway station platform at Oukley, Fifeshire, Scot- land, there hes been found a sword measuring over two feet long plank had been in use for at least fif- leen . The weapon, which was of an old-fashioned type, a short eross- heen picked np by the tree at on early Femininity Analyzed. “It a woman tock intinite pains to | reveal hersclf to a bushand or a lover | wonld think | as sutferine from some incurable | Just as she really is. he she mental discase. A fo our true naturcs in hysterical ont- breaks, fits of bitterncss and picion; but this involuntary frankness Is generally discounted by some subtle deceit.”- “The Dangzerous Age” by Karin Michaelis of us indicate sug Terriers Kept Busy. Three terriers recently killed 250 rats In half an hour when a wheat stack was being threshed at Bizhop's Stortford, England EDISONIA The Ploncer Picture Nouse OF LAKELAND PROGRAM TONIGHT WHAT A PENNYSWORTH DID. BILL FOLLOWS THE DOCTOR'S ORDERS (Lux) Double Comedy. OUT OF THE DARKNESS ((Reliance) Drama CASTLES IN THE AIR (Rex) Comedy FRIDAY NIGHT— { MUTT & JEFF They Spend a quiet day in the Couatry. ADMISSION ........... 10 cte, CHILDREN under 12,... | | i | 1 l i E | The | | piece forming the handle, was in good | preservation, and it is helieved had | | period of ite existence and encircled | | With the growth | 8 | | . 3 § | % OGO QOHOONICOIVICQNGOOIOOOOCOE " : . X QOOOOOQO000OO0! A Full Line of Dennison’s Seals LABELS, CHRISTMAS BOXES, TINSEL TWINE, GARLANDS, ETC. L J Toys and Holiday Goods of all Kinds P POVOCOOOOOOCCT VOOOVOOOLOVOOLSOOO0LOODLOCOOOOLO000 We guarantee every VUOUVOVOCOOOOOOOOOIOO00N z LOCCOO0V00000V00LOO00V0O00OCOOO0000 & P OGOOIPOMOCD HOOIOIOIOOIOOMDMPOIOHONOONE C O e R OGO IDISOIHITOII I GEIO FLORIDA (<o O For Christmas Packages - Our line of these goods will be more varied and prettier than ever this year. THE BOOK STORE 45 Seconds from the New Depot.” —GO TO— CENTRAL PHARMACY Hand Bags, Toilet Sets, Fine Candies, Christmas Stationery, Holly Boxes all sizes, Holly Wrapping Paper, Tags and Cards, all sizes. Lots of things for Christmas. See Our Lire before others 25 —~PHONE-— 25 Tweedell’s Is Headquarters for Everything in Groceries A FEW SPECIALS Sugar, 13 pounds R Swift's Premium Hams, per pound ...... Best Butter, per pound, ... Picnic Hams, per pound .. Mothers' Oats, per package Sk Heckers' Whole Wheat Flour, per bag Heckers' Graham Flour, per bag ... Heckers' Rye Flour, per bag. . ... 12 pound bag best Flour 24 pound bag, Fat Mackerel, each Irish Potatoes, per peck Baby Size Cream, 6 for Family size Cream, 3 for CALL 59 AND WE WILL BE GLAD TO SERVE YOU. E.G. TWEEDELL HOOC0000) L. W. FULGHUM Electrician beater in Flectrical Supplies HOUSE WIRING A SPECIALTY ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY GIVEN 153 POPOOCOCCOOVOC Rt e -2 . T - M IR I i d 'JA. ‘ 1 i3 1 i ti d iof . 4 [ 8 i K o g ! IR | & , l ‘ 1 e i id By BT CLREY